Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Sharron Angle believes the clergy should be allowed to endorse candidates from the pulpit and opposes laws allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children, according to a questionnaire obtained by The Associated Press.

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The document provides a window into Angle’s social and moral views, which would place her among Congress’ most conservative members at a time of ongoing culture wars over gay rights, abortion and the boundaries between religion and government.

Among her positions, outlined in answers to 36 yes-or-no questions, Angle would oppose making sexual orientation a protected minority in civil rights laws.

Read Angle’s complete questionnaire here (PDF).

Angle is the Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat in Nevada held by the current Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.

She supports a federal marriage amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and believes that single-income households are the best way to raise a family.

In a June 2010 radio interview, Angle who opposes abortion including in cases of rape or incest, stated that she had counseled young girls in “very at risk, difficult pregnancies” to consider other alternatives, by which they had been able to make “a lemon situation into lemonade.”

Men may now join the ranks of Nevada’s brothel prostitutes, after a unanimous decision Friday to amend the state’s health codes in order for men to legally work as prostitutes, reports the Las Vegas Sun.

Men were previously barred in Nevada from the oldest profession because codes specified that prostitutes must undergo “cervical” testing for sexually transmitted diseases, which ruled out men.

But the Nevada State Board of Health agreed unanimously to add language to health codes so male sex workers could be tested for infectious diseases.

Bobbi Davis, owner of the Shady Lady Ranch, a small brothel near Beatty, made the first-ever request to have urethral exams included in the health guidelines. That allows male sex workers to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.

Davis wants to add male prostitutes to her stable of sex workers, and said the men could start working at her five-bed brothel starting in the new year. The male prostitutes will decide for themselves whether to accept male or female clients, or both.

Long time lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Owners Association, and former Assemblies of God Minister, George Flint, compared this change to the “Pearl Harbor” of the sex industry.

Flint says he’s concerned that male prostitutes will ruin the relatively clean record Nevada brothels have had with the transmission of HIV from prostitutes to clients.

Nevada is the only U.S. state to allow some legal prostitution; in most of its rural counties brothels are legalized but heavily regulated. Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas (and in Clark County which contains its metropolitan area), and is also illegal outside the licensed brothels.

In El Paso, city council members approved the measure in a 7 to 1 vote on Tuesday. Councilman Carl Robinson voted against the measure, saying it would violate the state’s ban on gay marriage.

The action created a stir in the Texas city, with dozens of citizens coming forward to condemn the city’s actions during the public comments portion of city council meetings, saying they opposed the measure on religious grounds. (Pictured, protesters outside El Paso city hall earlier this month.)

Councilwoman Susie Byrd scorned one citizen when he attempted to compare being gay to pedophilia, “One of the gentleman compared homosexuality to pedophilia, and that is just false, and I am absolutely not going to stand for that, ” she said.

Last month, the city came under fire from LGBT rights groups across the country when two men refused to leave a Mexican restaurant because they were kissing. Police officers took no action and told the men they could be cited for their “unlawful behavior.” The police department called the threat of citation as a rookie mistake.

In Reno this week, the council voted to extend benefits to domestic partners of city employees who are registered under the state’s new domestic partnership law, which takes effect October 1.

Reno is the first municipality in Nevada to offer its employees who are registered as domestic partners the same health benefits as people who are married.

Earlier this week, the Nevada secretary of state’s office began accepting domestic partner applications from both gay and straight couples in a month-long pre-registration period to accelerate the process when the new law takes effect.

Secretary of State Ross Miller announced the month-long pre-registration period last week, saying it will help accelerate the process when the law becomes effective October 1.

The law was approved by the 2009 Legislature over the veto of Gov. Jim Gibbons. It extends rights similar to those held by married couple, including community property and debt and the right to seek financial support after a breakup. The law does not require employers to provide insurance coverage to partners of employees.

To be eligible, couples must be older than 18, not be related by blood, share a common residence at least part-time, not be married to or in a partnership with anyone else and declare that they are in an “intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring.”