WASHINGTON — Days after President Lyndon B. Johnson’s election to his first full term, an administration official asked a subordinate to explain the policy on firing gays. In particular, he wondered whether someone with a history of gay liaisons could, through years of marriage, be “rehabilitated” into a trustworthy civil servant.

A federal judge struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday, the latest judicial victory for gays and lesbians seeking to marry whomever they want.

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I’m too young to have experienced first-hand the “red-baiting” tactics of the House Un-American Activities Commission and of its offshoot, the Army-McCarthy hearings, but when I learned how a university in South Carolina reacted to the booking of an artistic performance, I responded as attorney Joseph Welch did in 1954 to the cruel, anti-communist hounding by Sen.

Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban became the latest to be declared unconstitutional Tuesday when a federal judge handed another victory to gay and lesbian couples. That extended a unanimous streak of rulings across the country over the last year.

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Paul Masvidal has played in some of America’s most intense heavy metal bands for more than 20 years. Visit his Echo Park home, however, and it’s clear he’s finally found peace.

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