The legislation, which would allow same-sex couples most of the legal rights of heterosexual couples, is approved by a subcommittee in the conservative state’s House.
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The organization’s national board will discuss a proposal to retreat from its longtime prohibition and allow local groups to decide.
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In the wake of yet another sex abuse arrest in the Los Angeles Unified School District, former state Sen. Martha Escutia came to a Wilmington elementary school Monday to call for an LAUSD investigation into what she believes is a pattern of such abuse against Latino youth by teachers in low-income areas.
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The Boy Scouts of America, with its traditions of youth in uniform and the character-building virtues of honor, has always looked back to an older, more structured image of America, when gay and lesbian people were invisible and silent. It was a view reaffirmed in Scout policy as recently
VICCO, Ky. — In a former pool hall that is now the municipal building for a coal smudge of a place in eastern Kentucky called Vicco, population 335, the January meeting of the City Commission came to order. Commissioners and guests settled into patio chairs, bought at a discount and arranged around a long conference
Last week the Education Department issued new guidelines for elementary and secondary schools related to their treatment of disabled athletes. The department advised schools to make “reasonable modifications” to accommodate certain students, as long as those changes don’t fundamentally alter the way sports are played.
Jose de la Trinidad of Culver City was shot seven times that November night, all from behind, according to his autopsy report.
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VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California Christian school is suing two former teachers who had threatened a lawsuit over the school’s practice of demanding proof of faith from its employees.
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Lawyers defending the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Prop. 8 argue that marriage should be limited to opposite-sex unions because they alone can ‘produce unplanned and unintended offspring.’
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Ending a controversy that highlighted the unequal treatment of gay spouses in the military, an officers’ spouse club at Ft. Bragg, N.C., has offered full membership to the lesbian spouse of a U.S. Army officer.
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