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Cheryl Wetzstein

cwetzstein@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.
Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.
Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.
She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman speaks during a Law Day ceremony at the Court of Appeals in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Backlash grows at N.Y. ruling on viewing of child porn

In the wake of a New York court ruling that says it's not illegal to "merely" view online child pornography, child advocates are urging Internet-savvy federal prosecutors to take over these kinds of cases as two state lawmakers rush to fix the law.

May 13, 2012
President Obama is pictured on a monitor in the White House briefing room in Washington on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, during an interview with ABC News in which he said he supports gay marriage. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama lauded, hammered for gay-marriage stance

Gay-rights and traditional-values groups reacted swiftly Wednesday to President Obama's open support for gay marriage, which came hours after North Carolina citizens voted in a landslide to block such nuptials.

May 9, 2012
Rep. Sandy Adams, Florida Republican, is the lead author of a bill to renew the nation's domestic-violence prevention law. A House panel passed the bill during a daylong session Tuesday despite the objections of Democrats. (Associated Press)

Domestic-violence law advanced by House panel

A House panel passed a bill Tuesday to renew the nation's domestic-violence prevention law over objections of Democrats who said it didn't go far enough to protect certain groups and rolled back protections for others.

May 8, 2012
A substantial number of people wait in line outside the Durham County Board of Elections building Saturday in Durham, N.C. They turned out for the last day of early voting for or against the proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in North Carolina. (Associated Press)

North Carolina voting on gay marriage

Opponents of North Carolina's marriage amendment are aiming to pull out a surprise victory Tuesday, while supporters are fighting to ensure that their state joins the rest of the South in saying that only marriages between one man and one woman are legally valid.

May 6, 2012
California state Sen. Ted W. Lieu (Associated Press)

Ban urged on therapy to convert gays

California groups that support parental rights and therapies to help people escape unwanted same-sex attractions are fighting a first-of-its-kind California bill that would ban such sessions for teens and children, and discourage them for adults.

May 3, 2012
"It's not about who gets the credit; it's about who gets help," said Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, urging GOP colleagues to support the Violence Against Women Act. (Associated Press)

Senate OKs renewal of anti-violence law

The Senate on Thursday handily passed a bill to renew the federal government's main program to prevent domestic violence, but many Republicans declined to support it because they said it was loaded up with too many new provisions that were unneeded or unconstitutional.

April 26, 2012
"Violence knows no bounds," says Rep. Kristi L. Noem, South Dakota Republican, during a news briefing Wednesday with 11 other GOP women lawmakers. (Associated Press)

GOP wants to keep politics out of domestic-violence bill

House Republicans said Wednesday that they intend to swiftly pass a domestic-violence law and remove the issue from election-year politicizing, though the Democrat-led Senate is prepared to vote on a different bill on the issue Thursday.

April 25, 2012
Republican opposition to reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in its current form will "absolutely" be used against them as a campaign issue, according to (from left) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, of California, and Sen. Patty Murray, of Washington, all Democrats. (Associated Press)

Clash over bill to protect women

The Senate is poised to take up this week a bill addressing domestic violence, but past bipartisan support for reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has frayed and two Republican lawmakers are preparing their own alternative measure.

April 22, 2012
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Lawmaker backs Catholic bishops

The author of the nation's laws to protect human-trafficking victims said Wednesday he supports Catholic bishops in their efforts to overturn a federal judge's ruling and correct what they view as an "abuse of power" by the Obama administration.

April 18, 2012

Dueling reasons for the falling teen birthrate

The good news that U.S. teen birthrates are continuing to fall has resurrected the debate about how much credit for the trend should go to contraception and how much to abstinence.

April 15, 2012
Archbishop-designate William E. Lori is the head of the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. (Associated Press)

Bishops plea against obeying ‘unjust laws’

A panel of the nation's Catholic bishops said Thursday that their flock "must have the courage not to obey unjust laws" and called for Catholic political leaders, clergy and laity to pray, fast and speak out for religious liberty during a two-week period that ends on Independence Day.

April 12, 2012
**FILE** Jannily Conejo, 2 months, is fed by her mother at the teen pregnancy program offered at the Upper Cordoza Clinic. (The Washington Times)

Plunging birthrate of U.S. teens ‘amazing’

In 16 states, teen birthrates tumbled by at least 20 percent in recent years, the federal government said in a report. Large declines such as these helped push the nation's teen birthrate to a new low in 2010.

April 10, 2012
Mary Bonauto, an attorney for GLAD, addresses reporters Wednesday after a hearing at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Lawyers for the gay group contend that a federal law that denies benefits to married gay couples is discriminatory. (Associated Press)

Appeals court hears case for gay marriage

A three-judge federal appellate court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a 1996 federal law that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman - thus denies marital benefits to gay couples married under state law - is constitutional.

April 4, 2012
** FILE ** Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, speaks at a rally for opponents of same-sex marriage in Augusta, Maine, in August 2010. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Papers reveal plans of foes of gay marriage

Gay-rights groups are trumpeting the disclosure of internal strategic and financial documents written three years ago by their most formidable opponent in the gay-marriage battle.

March 27, 2012