The filmmaker Roger Ross Williams reveals how money donated by American evangelicals helps to finance a violent antigay movement in Uganda.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/01/22/opinion/100000002020130/gospel-of-intolerance.html?hp
The Texas law that guarantees admission into a public university for students who graduate in the top ten percent of their high school class “lives up to some of the expectations of its proponents,” but there is little evidence that the law leads to notable increases in diversity.
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As colleges continue to review — and tally — the thousands of applications that have poured into their admission offices this school year, a demographic milestone has cropped up in California.
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ATLANTA — As the nation works its way through the debate over vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public education funding, a quieter battle over homosexuality, religious education and school tax money is under way in Georgia.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/education/georgia-backed-scholarships-benefit-schools-barring-gays.html?ref=education
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Backed by two conservative groups, Stanford Law School has opened the nation’s only clinic devoted to religious liberty, an indication both of where the church-state debate has moved and of the growth in hands-on legal education.
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WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama ceremonially opened his second term on Monday with an assertive Inaugural Address that offered a robust articulation of modern liberalism in America, arguing that “preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”
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His call to give gay people equality ‘under the law’ intensifies supporters’ optimism that the White House will argue for same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court.
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The president calls for action on climate change and equal rights for gays, but offers few specifics. Those may be outlined in next month’s State of the Union address.
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Doctors are having difficulty making a prognosis on Violet Ellen Phillips, a 67-year-old homeless woman set on fire while she slept on a bus bench in Van Nuys.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless-fire-20130120,0,3061779.story
Police are searching for two men in their mid-20s who allegedly shouted anti-gay slurs and threatened a UCLA student with a knife near the campus early Friday morning, authorities said.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/ucla-police-search-for-suspects-in-alleged-hate-crime.html