Also: advocacy groups gear up for the Christmas shopping season with politics and compassion.

Conservatives are licking their wounds from fights over abortion funding, health care reform, a gay-rights nominee, embryonic stem cell research, and Uganda's anti-gay law.

Groups say executive order is not enough, and will campaign against the Michigan Democrat they had promised to support.

The killing of activists on a ship to Gaza reignites debate over support for Israel and its policies.

The oil spill is the top major issue for some political groups, while other groups fought the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.

Political activists choose their battles as conservatives oppose the Supreme Court nominee and progressives respond, yet again, to the FoxNews host.

Family groups emphasized government debt and the economy as family issues this week. Plus, Christian leaders offered unanimous denunciations of church's planned Qur'an burning.

Is it enough to say bullying gays is wrong?

Activists spend millions in final push in expectation of major election results.

Activists celebrate victories in Congress and in many statehouses.

Health and Human Services ruled last week that insurance plans must provide contraception with no copayment.

Obama says support for same-sex marriage is consistent with his faith.

A court in New Mexico says no. We map the arguments.

Romney's remarks at a fundraiser don't square with what he told faith leaders last week.

Legal group says marriage case was not "adequately defended," noting Alliance Defense Fund presented only two witnesses at trial.

New analysis suggests that evangelicals remained unmoved in their support for Republicans, while a few other religious groups shifted.