The heinous act of setting a homeless woman on fire on a Van Nuys bus stop may bring needed attention to the fact that the homeless are targets of abuse and violence more often than people would think.
Read more in the San Fernando Valley Sun: http://www.sanfernandosun.com/sanfernsun/news/8877-state-has-terrible-record-regarding-homeless-abuse-
A federal judge in Washington state has rebuffed a race and national origin discrimination suit by an economics instructor who was denied tenure at Spokane Falls Community College.
Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/article/50405/
White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043 as the United States will for the first time become a majority of minority groups, the Census Bureau projects.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-whites-to-lose-majority-status-by-2043-the-census-projects-20121212,0,3964623.story
The government’s plan to legalize same-sex marriages before a general election in 2015 took an unexpected turn on Tuesday with an announcement that the Church of England, England’s most populous faith, will be forbidden by the new law from marrying same-sex partners, while other religious groups that favor the change, including Quakers, Unitarians and liberal
Patrick Henry College has never claimed to be a gay-friendly campus, but could a gay student even exist at the evangelical Christian institution? Michael P. Farris, the Virginia College’s chancellor, has his doubts.
Read in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Evangelical-Colleges-Chief/136299/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Pasadena church stands firm in its decision to host the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which it has worked with for more than a decade, and it is right to do so.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-1213-mpac-all-saints-20121213,0,2714413.story
His arguments in gay rights cases betray an animosity toward homosexuals.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-scalia-20121213,0,4551912.story
Last week the University of Iowa added an optional question to its application for undergraduate admission: “Do you identify with the LGBTQ Community?” The university has also given applicants a third gender option, allowing prospective undergraduates and graduate students to identify themselves as “transgender” instead of “male” or “female.”
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had quite different opinions about the lockbox seized by the police from her home in Pensacola. She insisted she had no idea that a former boyfriend had hidden it in her attic. Judge Vinson considered the lockbox, containing a half-kilogram of cocaine, to be evidence of
Confronted by a gay student at Princeton University, Justice Antonin Scalia defended his past writings comparing laws against homosexuality to those prohibiting bestiality and murder, saying he was arguing that many laws are based on society’s moral feelings.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-scalia-laws-homosexuality-murder-20121211,0,2870681.story?fb_ref=fb_widget