In the first of two votes on allowing same-sex marriage in the nation's capital, the District of Columbia City Council has passed the bill 11 to 2.

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Errrrr, Let's Kind'a 'Edge' Toward "EQUALITY" in This The 21stCentury!

Oh, the Socially Accepted Games our gated-communities allow us to "play." Let us begin with: Which dark and dingy Floridian jail cell would Mr. Woods be held at this hour, had the weekend's roles been the other way around.

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Tomorrow Mark Sanders-Crook will be forced to surrender his scarlet dress uniform and ceremonial sword and spear to a Yeoman at the Tower of London.

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THE RAF is to fly its first all-woman combat helicopter crew into action in southern Afghanistan.

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Marriage - It's Just A Word

Here are three definitions of marriage. 1. Marriage: the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc.

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The area is under the control of the National Park Service and when, in the 1990s, a local resident applied to put up a Buddhist shrine near the cross he was refused permission.

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About 750 same- and opposite-sex couples so far have registered to receive their certificates, which guarantee them many of the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. Those rights include the ability to make health care decisions for each other, hold community prop …

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Has Gay Bashing Gone Straight!

Or a joke gone too far.....

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Despite concerns from some gay-rights activists that it's too early to revisit the issue, one group today pushed forward with plans for a 2010 ballot measure that would repeal Prop. 8 and allow gay marriage in California.

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I'm sure this is significant. I'm not sure why...

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This is a crying shame. For the love of a woman, who just happened to not be the same race as he is, got beaten almost to death. And there is no uproar. There are no pronouncements on high about the racial nature of this hate crime.

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Ben & Jerry have renamed Chubby Hubby to Hubby Hubby in honor of Same sex Marriage in Vermont Video from ABC News

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Atheists could attack galleries for showing religious art and witches could claim the right to use church halls under a draft EU equal rights law, the Roman Catholic church has warned.

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8/17/2009 - LAS VEGAS (AFNS) -- Beside a folded flag, a single flame burned atop the table of honor before dozens who gathered to honor fallen Tuskegee Airmen in a ceremony here Aug.

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Racial Profiling: Driving While Black In America

Imagine you're driving in Central New Jersey about 2 miles from your house in the center of downtown we're talking, Post Office, Library on main street, all within three blocks of each another.

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After more than 60 years together, Jimmy Carter has announced himself at odds with the Southern Baptist Church -- and he's decided it's time they go their separate ways.

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Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society, argues the former U.S. president Jimmy Carter.

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Former President Bill Clinton has come out in support of same-sex marriage.

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According to the U.S. Biblical scholar, Morton Smith, of Columbia University, a fragment of manuscript he found at the Mar Saba monastery near Jerusalem in 1958, showed that the full text of St.

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Her father, also a gondolier, has doubts about her participation in this historically male tradition: "I still think being a gondolier is a man's job, but I am sure that with experience Giorgia will be able to do it easily," he said.

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CNN -- Jesse Levey is a Republican activist who says he believes in family values, small government and his lesbian mothers' right to marry.

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AFTER nine centuries of keeping women on dry land, Venice has broken with tradition by approving its first female gondolier.

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The Author writes: "So, a full week after the now infamous Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)defense brief, I feel our president has once again slapped me in the face.

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New York State voters have shifted their support for the first time to a slim majority backing a law to allow same-sex couples to marry, Quinnipiac University said in a poll released on Tuesday.

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Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd wrote an op-ed Sunday in which he changed his stance from supporting civil unions to supporting full marriage equality for same-sex couples.

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