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Religious tensions play out in inaugural
There may be no clearer reflection of this moment in American religious life than the tensions surrounding prayers at President Barack Obama's inauguration. Efforts by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to bridge the conservative-liberal divide by...Tags: Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Belief and Faith, Minority Groups, Christian Orthodoxy
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Inauguration Day 2013
Inauguration Day 2013 Obama touches on immigration and other Florida issues If you listen carefully or read between the lines, President Obama’s inaugural address touched on immigration reform and a number of issues of special importance...Tags: John Morgan, Immigration, Ted Deutch, Minority Groups, Elections
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Obama begins new term with calls for unity, equality
President Barack Obama began his second term Monday by calling for an end to the rigid ideologies of modern politics but laying out a broad policy agenda more likely to stoke partisan confrontation than avoid it.
Looking out over hundreds of thousands of...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Conservation, U.S. Senate, Ecosystems, Kelly Clarkson
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Column: Oh, yesterday went suddenly
How fitting that Richard Blanco chose the sun. A 44-year-old poet raised in Miami, the first Cuban-American and the first openly gay person ever to deliver a presidential inauguration poem, he used the earth star to frame his composition, "One Today,"...Tags: The Miami Herald, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment Events, Greenwich Village, Minority Groups
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Gay rights supporters praise Obama's inaugural speech
L.A. NOWon the occasion of President Obama's second inauguration, his call for equality resonated from San Francisco's Castro District to West Hollywood.... -
Bell corruption trial: Questioning of prospective jurors to begin
L.A. NOWAttorneys in the case of six former Bell City Council members accused of corruption are to begin questioning prospective jurors.... -
The Hagel question
In choosing former Sen. Chuck Hagel as secretary of Defense, has President Obama made an "in your face" appointment, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) complains? Perhaps. Given criticism of Hagel by supporters of Israel and gay rights groups, his nomination...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Judaism, Leon Panetta, U.S. Military
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Rev. Louis Giglio bows out of giving Obama inaugural benediction
The Religion WorldThe Rev. Louie Giglio withdrew Jan. 10 from giving the benediction at Barack Obama's second inauguration after an anti-gay rights sermon he preached in the 1990s surfaced. Giglio did not apologize for the sermon, but said that battling gay rights is not a... -
Gay marriage: Scalia knew this day would come
In announcing Friday that it will hear two cases involving same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court did not include a statement from Justice Antonin Scalia saying “I told you so.” But the thought surely has crossed the conservative justice’s...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Same-Sex Marriage, Minority Groups
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Same-sex marriage meets the high court
On Nov. 6, for the first time in American history, a majority of voters in a state — indeed, in three states — approved same-sex marriage. On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to weigh in on the issue, granting review in cases challenging...
Tags: Racism, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Interior Policy, Abortion
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In Theory: Should secessionists succeed?
More than 750,000 Americans have signed a petition to let their states secede from the U.S.A. since the Nov. 6 election, including people from Alaska, Maryland, Texas, Iowa and Vermont. And many of them, or at least their leaders, are claiming they're...Tags: Dick Durbin, Abortion Issue, Abortion, Belief and Faith, Minority Groups
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U.S. could join global gay marriage trend if high court approves
A U.S. Supreme Court decision to review the constitutionality of laws restricting marriage to heterosexual couples has raised hopes among gays and lesbians in the United States that their right to marry might soon be legally recognized, allowing them to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, National Government, Labor Legislation, Justice System, Same-Sex Marriage
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