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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

Thomas Rabe, right, places a wedding ring on Robert Coffman's finger during a marriage ceremony at City Hall in Baltimore, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Rhode Island legalizes gay marriage

Rhode Island became the 10th state to legalize gay marriage Thursday, capping a campaign to bring same-sex nuptials to all of New England.

May 2, 2013
**FILE** A crowd prays at an anti-abortion rally at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on April 17, 2013. Organizers say the rally was held to thank North Dakota lawmakers and Gov. Jack Dalrymple for passing measures this session that give the state the strictest abortion laws in the U.S. (Associated Press)

Videos, court fight fuel surging debate on abortion

New undercover videos of abortion professionals explaining late-term abortions, coupled with states passing strict abortion laws and a horror-show abortion criminal case, are keeping abortion at the top of the news — an unexpected development after the nation re-elected its most vocal pro-choice president.

April 29, 2013

Federal funds sought to fight gonorrhea ‘superbug’

Alarms are being sounded on Capitol Hill about the emerging problem of an untreatable gonorrhea "superbug," and tens of millions of dollars are being sought to prepare for an expected outbreak in the U.S.

April 25, 2013
Scouts and Scout leaders wave to the reviewing stand during the Boy Scout Association Grand Centennial Parade along Constitution Avenue in Washington on Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Peter Cihelka)

Pressure builds from both sides as Boy Scouts weigh gay policy

A draft resolution for a proposed membership policy, to be released by Boy Scouts of America officials publicly by Monday, will be voted on by some 1,400 delegates of the BSA National Council at a three-day meeting in Grapevine, Texas, starting May 22.

April 18, 2013
** FILE ** In this June 5, 2012, file photo, gay marriage supporter Bob Sodervick holds a flag outside the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

Law on sex orientation therapy for youths heads to court

A first-of-its-kind California law is going to court this week, when a panel of judges will hear testimony about whether mental health professionals have the right to talk with young clients about reducing their homosexual attractions or the state has the right to outlaw such "dangerous quackery."

April 15, 2013

‘War on women’ could loom large in 2016

Americans who grew weary of the "war on women" meme in the 2012 election may want to take a deep breath: The issue may loom even larger in 2016, an influential social critic told a Capitol Hill symposium.

April 14, 2013
** FILE ** North Dakota state Sen. Margaret Sitte, a Republican, speaks in favor of HB1305, one of two anti-abortion bills, during floor debate at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary)

Abortion bills at state level reveal pro-life split

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, a growing number of abortion foes say they are tired of waiting. Exposing a rift in the pro-life camp, Republican-dominated state governments in Arkansas and North Dakota have pressed forward with legislation imposing the nation's toughest restrictions on abortion, all but inviting a courtroom confrontation taking on the 1973 Supreme Court decision.

April 1, 2013
Kevin Coyne of Washington holds flags in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on March 27, 2013. The U.S. Supreme Court, in the second day of gay marriage cases, turned to a constitutional challenge to the federal law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court justices question DOMA’s range, consider effect act has in states

The federal government has a "powerful interest" in a single, uniform definition of marriage, even if it excludes gay unions that are legal in individual states, the lawyer defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act said Wednesday as the Supreme Court concluded two days of landmark arguments on gay marriage.

March 27, 2013