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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: Minority Groups, Politics, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Barack Obama
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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: Politics, Justice and Rights, Leon Panetta, U.S. Military, Civil Rights
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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: Justice and Rights, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anglicanism, Elections, Christianity
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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: Joe Biden, Justice and Rights, Environmental Issues, Martin Luther King Day, Global Warming
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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: Weather, C-SPAN (tv network), Alternative Energy, Barbara A. Mikulski, Martin Luther King Day
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The Scouts and gays
Over the past 103 years, America's churches have built the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) into the nation's most successful youth group — which makes it remarkable that the BSA stands ready to let gays join Scouting, thus publicly renouncing the wishes...
Tags: Human Interest, Education, Justice and Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, Media Industry
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California lawmakers call for Navy ship to be named after Harvey Milk
PolitiCalState lawmakers have no power to name U.S. Navy ships, but that didn't discourage the state Senate from a long, passionate debate over a proposal to name a vessel after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.... -
Fitting allies: Timeline on fashion industry's support for gay rights
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita's Tie the Knot bow ties are not the first product to emerge from the intersection of fashion and the marriage movement. Here's a brief timeline of other recent occasions when the fashion industry showed its support...
Tags: Target, Justice and Rights, Calvin Klein Collection, Marriage, Manhattan (New York City)
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Election shows country is changing, gay marriage advocates say
Same-sex marriage advocates are reveling in their four victories at the ballot box after 32 straight defeats, calling the results in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington on Tuesday a sea change for the gay rights movement. “When the history...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Marriage, Discrimination, Elections, Family
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Gay marriage wins in U.S. mirror global advances
World NowSupporters of same-sex marriage appear to have scored narrow victories in all four U.S. states where the issue was on the ballot Tuesday, reflecting a change in public views on marriage equality for gay couples that pollsters have been tracking for more... -
Hot indie-pop band fun. talks music, career before East Stroudsburg show
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGShows by hot indie-pop band fun. are legendary for their intensity -- such as one in April at Philadelphia at which guitarist Jack Antonoff was so entranced in his playing that he tumbled off stage. fun., from left: Andrew Dost,...... -
Gay marriage in California awaits U.S. Supreme Court review
L.A. NOWAs voters in three more states cast ballots to allow gay marriage in last week's election, some California gay marriage activists have grown impatient at seeing gains elsewhere while the question remains in legal limbo here....
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