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- Rule Invites Cameras Into Civil Cases (Today) 19 Dec 2009 09:18 GMT
... month's hearing over a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban. The move was announced Thursday ... Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, along with two territories. (The Second and ...
- Threats to religious liberty in 2009, mountains and molehills 19 Dec 2009 08:18 GMT
... on both sides battled it out over same-sex marriage, one side winning in Maine and ... Last month, similar incidents took place in Oregon and North Carolina. In fact, not a month went ...
- Americans Split on Same-Sex Marriage 18 Dec 2009 05:16 GMT
... States are almost evenly divided on whether same-sex marriage should be allowed in their country, ... local governments in the states of California, Oregon, New Mexico and New York. In May ... decision, effectively allowing full marriage rights to homosexual partners. In November 2008, 52.5 per cent of ...
- Letter to Editor 18 Dec 2009 02:58 GMT
... battle were not used. Jim Welsh Nehalem, Oregon Can someone explain why the Catholic church ... the Cardinal's view. It's not just about homosexuals, it's about everyone. Sin is Sin, and ... an orange. Calling a relationship of two same-sex people a "marriage", when that relationship cannot ...
- Rule Invites Cameras Into Federal Civil Cases 18 Dec 2009 20:26 GMT
... a limited basis in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii, along with ... Vaughn Walker, who is presiding over the same-sex marriage case. Judge Walker has raised the ...
- Inside the First Amendment: Threats to religious freedom persist here and abroad 18 Dec 2009 11:33 GMT
... on both sides battled it out over same-sex marriage, one side winning in Maine and ... Last month, similar incidents took place in Oregon and North Carolina. In fact, not a month went ...
- D.C. City Council votes to legalize gay marriage 15 Dec 2009 21:44 GMT
... POLITICS & ELECTIONS Oregon and national election and politics news from The ... Oregonian D.C. City Council votes to legalize gay marriage WASHINGTON -- The Washington, D.C., City Council ... and Vermont in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. They will be able to wed ...
- Although not of his own doing, John Minnis entered Oregon politics on the coattails of controversy. Minnis was appointed to Oregon's District ... 14 Dec 2009 06:33 GMT
... of his own doing, John Minnis entered Oregon politics on the coattails of controversy. Minnis ... revoke a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation. He decried Deitz' fundraising as being ... fundraising as being inordinately from gay- and lesbian-based organizations. “It does bug me,” Monnes Anderson ...
- Lesbian mayor for Houston, Texas 14 Dec 2009 01:13 GMT
... to appoint an openly-gay mayor. On Saturday, lesbian candidate Annise Parker (pictured) won the city’s local ... that have elected openly-gay mayors include Portland, Oregon; Providence, Rhode Island; and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Internationally, ...
- Ranting that Jennings "believes in teaching homosexuality techniques," Rush claims it's evidence of health reform sex ed "agenda" 14 Dec 2009 19:31 GMT
... doing all of this is preparation for homosexual techniques? It is not a bad idea. ... does it? In my Junior High, in Oregon, in 1975, My teacher showed us a ...
- More than Missionary 17 Dec 2009 04:33 GMT
... in his faith, left home, moved to Oregon, and quit the Church. But Mormons kept ... happen—but I don't think it'll happen until gay marriage is legal on a federal level." "I ... know when I figured out the words 'homosexual' and 'gay,'" says Jason Giles, the soft-spoken ...
- Deb Price: A decade of wonderful progress for gay couples 14 Dec 2009 11:55 GMT
... (2005), New Jersey (2007), New Mexico (2003), Oregon (2008) and Washington state (2006). Gay-only protections became ... states this decade joined Alaska in shoving gay marriage bans into their constitutions. In California, that ... into their constitutions. In California, that meant gay marriages stopped after the November 2008 elections. One ...
- Houston biggest US city to elect openly gay mayor 13 Dec 2009 18:03 GMT
... runoff. Several other U.S. cities, including Portland, Oregon, Providence, Rhode Island, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have ... made their state the sixth to allow gay marriage. In November, Maine voters repealed the Legislature's ... Locke and sent out mailers condemning Parker's "homosexual behavior." Locke, 61, a former city attorney ...
- The tyranny of the majority 17 Dec 2009 16:59 GMT
... should be kept in coops to banning gays from marrying. The latter two initiatives happened ... remarked recently. The court had previously ruled gay marriage legal, but was obliged to uphold the voters’ ... democracy, such as its neighbours Arizona and Oregon (which has had more initiatives than even California), ...
- Texas city elects its first openly gay mayor 14 Dec 2009 01:37 GMT
... such as Providence, Rhode Island, and Portland, Oregon, have picked openly gay mayors. Houston is the ... rejected a referendum to offer benefits to same-sex partners of city workers. Also, the city ... the city sits in a state where gay marriage is against the law. "Houston is a ...
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