People on both sides of the Chick-fil-A debate seemed to agree that a Tucson man who made a viral video belittling a patient restaurant worker acted like a sanctimonious jerk, even his boss – make that ex-boss.

Adam Smith, who posted an online video of himself going through a Chick-fil-A drive-thru and ordering only the free water, was canned from his gig as chief financial officer of Vante, a Tucson medical manufacturing company, after the video made the rounds.

“Chick-fil-A is a hateful company,” Smith tells the employee. "I don’t know how you sleep at night,” Smith adds at another point. This is a horrible corporation with horrible values.”

After the employee, who never loses her composure, wishes Smith a nice day, he responds “I will. I just did something really good. I feel purposeful”...

A federal appeals court in San Francisco refused Tuesday to rehear a legal challenge to the state's same-sex marriage ban, sending the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made the decision, which was based on whether a majority of its active judges had agreed or refused to reconsider a ruling in February in which two of its member judges declared the ban unconstitutional.

President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.

In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters.

"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’

President Obama is expected to discuss his position on same-sex marriage during a hastily arranged interview at the White House Wednesday afternoon, a source close to the president told Fox News.

The source, who is a Democratic adviser outside the White House, said Obama during this interview is likely to go further than he has in the past on the controversial topic.

"He'll make some news," the source said. "He's not just going to talk about old ground ... and will not be rehashing" his old position...

North Carolinians voted to change the state constitution Tuesday to say that the only valid "domestic legal partnership" in the state is marriage between a man and a woman, according to the AP's projection. The amendment passed 61 to 39 percent with most counties reporting, making North Carolina the 29th state with a gay marriage ban in its constitution.

The state already outlawed gay marriage, but the constitutional amendment makes it more difficult for politicians to ever change the law. The amendment also means that a handful of North Carolina municipalities that extended benefits to the domestic partners of their employees will no longer be able to do so, since marriage is now the only valid legal partnership in the state.

With the ongoing debate over marriage definition in the courts and through popular referendums, as of 2012 North Carolina is the only state in the South lacking a marriage amendment to its state constitution.

Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi passed popular referendums along with seven other states in November 2004.

A Christian attorney says a California judge "did the wrong thing" in ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act in a case involving a lesbian federal employee.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of San Francisco has ruled that the federal government cannot deny healthcare benefits to the "wife" of Karen Golinski, a staff lawyer for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge White says the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional and discriminates against same-sex couples by not recognizing their unions. Assistant Attorney General Tony West argued for Golinski in the San Francisco court.

Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver agrees with Americans for Truth About Homosexuality's Peter LaBarbera that the arguments for the homosexual and against the federal traditional marriage law further enforces the administration's desire for support from the homosexual lobby...

An advocate for sound policy in the military says a recent decision by the Obama Justice Department goes against a congressional mandate to defend traditional marriage.

The New York Times recently reported that Attorney General Eric Holder backs equal benefits for so-called "gay" couples in the military, even though Congress has not sanctioned same-sex "marriage" for military personnel.

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Holder said the DOJ shared the view of plaintiffs in a Massachusetts lawsuit against "unconstitutional" statutes that block same-sex military spouses from receiving marriage benefits, including visitation rights at military hospitals, survivor benefits, and burial together at military cemeteries.

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedents when he declared in 2010 that Proposition 8 was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians.

It was unclear when gay marriages might resume in California. Lawyers for Proposition 8 sponsors and for the two couples who successfully sued to overturn the ban have repeatedly said they would consider appealing to a larger panel of the court and then the U.S. Supreme Court if they did not receive a favorable ruling from the 9th Circuit.

A pro-family activist says a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer's arguments against the Defense of Marriage Act further enforces the Obama administration's desire for support from the homosexual lobby.

Assistant Attorney General Tony West argued for lesbian federal employee Karen Golinski in a San Francisco court. West, a senior lawyer who heads the civil division of the Department of Justice, argued that the DOMA bars Golinski from obtaining health insurance for her "wife." The attorney's oral arguments are the first since the Obama administration announced it would no longer defend the marriage law...