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The Christmas House will premiere on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, November 22nd.

It features a storyline in which a gay couple tries to adopt their first child.

A spokesman said of the channel,

Our movies are rooted in warmth and positivity,

meaningful connections, family gatherings, and seasonal traditions. A winning formula we hope

will bring our millions of viewers much-needed levity and holiday cheer at the end of a tough year.

The Hallmark Channel, like other media outlets, is in business to make a profit. Its executives

clearly believe that a movie featuring a gay couple will be popular and thus profitable.

In other words, their announcement says more about us than it says about them.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state today in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.

She will be the first woman to do so, and the first

Jew as well. As a female and a Jew, she faced enormous obstacles growing up, a sign of the

times. Her mother graduated from high school when she was only 15. Instead of furthering her education,

she was forced to get a job as a garment worker to pay for

her brother's education at Cornell University. Ruth's mother was diagnosed with cancer when Ruth was 13

and died four years later. Ruth had been selected to speak at her high school graduation, but stayed

home with her father to grieve her mother's

death. In Senate testimony at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Ginsburg called her mother,

the bravest, strongest person I have known. She added, I pray that I may be all that she would

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