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Gay marriage vote may come to Michigan in 2016
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — With more than half of voters supporting a repeal of Michigan's gay marriage ban, advocates say it's not a matter of if — but when — same-sex marriage is legal in the state. How soon? Gay rights activists plan a...
Tags: Gay Rights, Social Issues, Politics, Elections, Justice System
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Melanie Jemma Chadwick: What would Jesus say about gay Scouts?
A few months ago, my teenage son, who is not a Boy Scout, told me that a boy had been expelled from the local troop because he was gay. My heart went out to that boy. Now the Boy Scouts are in the news because they decided to allow gay boys to join...Tags: Social Issues, Emmaus, Mertztown, Values, Social Organizations
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Bad signs on immigration
Even as the Senate takes up the issue of immigration reform this week, Republicans are increasingly giving indications that the effort isn't likely to go very far. First, it was Sen. Marco Rubio's dance around the issue — repeatedly speaking out...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Social Issues, Rick Perry, Steve King, Medicaid
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Civil rights case is obstacle for Obama's Labor Department pick
WASHINGTON — It began with an odd civil rights claim, one that now threatens to derail the confirmation of President Obama's civil rights chief to lead the Labor Department. White landlords had sued the city of St. Paul, Minn., for aggressively...Tags: Mortgages, Career and Workplace, Social Issues, Lamar Alexander, Elections
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Letters to the Editor - June 10
Immigration reform is a historic opportunity To the editor: The Senate is poised to consider an immigration reform bill that would create a comprehensive but fair pathway to citizenship for the approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants now...Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Labor Legislation, Migration, Career and Workplace, Illegal Immigrants
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Anne Arundel's longtime top prosecutor closes the case
He's come out on top in six contested elections as a Democrat in an increasingly conservative county, and has withstood criticism that he's both too soft and too tough, appeased minorities and disappointed minorities, said too little and said too much....
Tags: Social Issues, Prosecution, Juvenile Delinquency, Elections, Politics
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Anaheim again balks at putting council districts on ballot
It's been nearly a year since officials in Anaheim -- pressured by anger and violent street protests over ethnic divisions in Orange County's largest city -- first floated a ballot measure that would alter the structure of City Council elections in an...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Elections, Politics, Voting, Local Elections
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Major League Soccer kicks up anti-discrimination efforts with new partnership
The Baltimore SunNow that Major League Soccer has its first openly gay player, the league is launching a new effort to tackle anti-gay attitudes and encourage inclusion in its ranks. Through a partnership with the You Can Play Project, a nonprofit dedicated to...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, National Hockey League, Soccer, Major League Soccer
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Russian lawmakers move to keep information on homosexuality from kids
MOSCOW – Despite opposition from human rights activists, Russia’s lower house of parliament Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban providing children with information on homosexuality. The lower house, or State Duma, voted...Tags: Punishment, Human Rights Watch, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Politics
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California readies for possible return of gay marriage
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Planning a party for thousands of people would be a challenge under the best of circumstances. Now imagine trying to pull off such a gathering without knowing what day it should happen or if there even will be cause for...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Social Issues, Ceremonies, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Justice System
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Children raised by gay parents come of age in Maryland
This year's Baltimore Pride is the first since marriage equality was passed in the state, but far from the first for Marylanders who grew up with gay parents. A recent study released by the Williams Institute, a think tank at the UCLA School of Law,...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, 2010 Census, Marriage, University of California, Los Angeles, Annapolis
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NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...
Tags: Ron Paul, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Terrorism, Tea Party Movement
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