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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

Outside the Planned Parenthood offices on 16th Street Northwest, representatives of pro-life groups, including Lila Rose, founder of Live Action [in pink skirt and black jacket], protest taxpayer support for the giant reproductive health services organization. (Photo by The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Pro-life groups protest government funded abortions

With three weeks to go before the midterm elections, representatives of pro-life groups gathered outside a Planned Parenthood office to denounce the abortion-providing giant and urge people to vote "for life."

October 14, 2014
FILE- In this Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, plaintiff in the Bostic v. Rainey case, Tony London, waves to the crowd as he and his partner, Tim Bostic, right, leave Federal Court after a hearing on Virginia's ban on gay marriage in Norfolk, Va. Virginia's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, July 28, 2014 in a decision that could overturn similar prohibitions in the Carolinas and West Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

West Virginia drops fight against gay marriage

West Virginia officials on Thursday cleared the way for marriages of same-sex couples after the state's top law enforcement officer said his office will no longer fight the matter in court.

October 9, 2014
The Supreme Court (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Supreme Court denies gay marriage appeals

The Supreme Court made history Monday, with a nondecision that effectively moved the country much closer to the day when legal gay marriage is the law of the land.

October 6, 2014

Number of unwed Americans reaches record high

The share of Americans who have never walked down the aisle has reached a record high — and may produce the largest group of lifelong singles in the nation's history, the Pew Research Center says in a new report on marriage trends in the United States.

September 23, 2014
American Red Cross worker Scott Moore prepares to draw blood from Apollo High School student Hanna Pierskalla during a blood drive at the school in St. Cloud, Minn., Wednesday, March 20, 2014. The annual drive is organized by the Apollo Student Union. The number of 16-year-old blood donors in Minnesota has risen steadily since state law was changed in 2008 to allow their participation. Teens are a key demographic in blood donations, Minnesota Red Cross communications program manager Sue Thesenga said. "Twenty percent of our blood donations come to us from high school and college students in the academic year," she said. The number of participating 16-year-olds in Minnesota has grown from 3,700 donors in the 2009 fiscal year to 5,000 during the 2013 fiscal year. Thesenga estimates that 16-year-olds can now give blood with parental consent in 45 states. When the law was passed in Minnesota in 2008, that number was closer to 25. (AP Photo/The St. Cloud Times, Dave Schwarz) NO SALES

Pressure grows to let gay men donate blood

The nation's blood supply could see a significant increase if long-standing donor policies barring gay and bisexual men were eliminated, a new study says.

September 23, 2014
FILE - In this June 25, 2014 file photo Bart Peterson, left, and Pete McNamara are married by Marion County Clerk Beth White in Indianapolis after a federal judge struck down a state ban on same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage bans in both Indiana and Wisconsin were overturned in June and then appealed by the attorneys generals of both states. A U.S. appeals court in Chicago ruled Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 that gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana violate the U.S. Constitution — thereby bumping the number of states where gay marriage will be legal from 19 to 21. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Gay marriage support dips in latest survey

After a steady surge in popularity in recent years, public support for gay marriage fell in September, with fully half of the population now saying homosexual behavior "is a sin," a study said Monday.

September 22, 2014
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates addresses the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting on Friday, May 23, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn., after being selected as the organization's new president. Gates is taking over one of the nation's largest youth organizations as it fights a membership decline and debates its policy toward gays. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

In interview, Gates gives no signs of changes on gays in Scouting

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, now national president of the Boy Scouts of America, says he took the job because "the country needs scouting now more than ever," but gave no sign he plans to reopen the group's divisive debates over the role of gays in Scouting.

September 16, 2014