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Oregon woman says she’s being targeted because she’s gay
RAINIER, Ore. — A woman in Rainier, Ore., says she is being targeted by vandals and a new property manager because of her sexual orientation. Melanie Powell said she has been living at the same mobile home park for 25 years without any issues, but in the last few months, she says the new property manager has been out to get her, issuing her notice after notice.
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Marriage News Watch: 7th Circuit recap, NOM not giving up in Oregon
Anti-gay attorneys took a beating before the Seventh Circuit last week, trying and failing to defend marriage bans before a panel of hostile judges. Now all eyes are on the Supreme Court to see which cases they’ll take up in their fall session. There’s another major marriage argument coming up in a few days. And the National Organization for Marriage still isn’t …
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Court: NOM lacks standing to appeal Oregon same-sex marriage ruling
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal appeals court has dismissed the National Organization for Marriage’s effort to appeal an Oregon court ruling that allows same sex marriage.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision on Wednesday.
Several same-sex couples sued the state of Oregon last year arguing the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
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Attorneys in Ore. same-sex marriage case awarded legal fees
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge has approved more than $133,000 in legal fees to one group of lawyers in Oregon’s gay marriage case. The money goes to three Portland lawyers who filed the first lawsuit challenging Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Oregon Medicaid to extend coverage to gender dysphoria treatments
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon’s Medicaid program will soon pay for gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy and other treatments for transgender patients, becoming on Thursday the third state besides the District of Columbia to extend coverage to gender dysphoria treatments.
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Ore. couple sues cab company, driver for being ditched on interstate
PORTLAND, Ore. — A lesbian couple who were left on the side of a freeway last summer by taxi cab driver who disliked the couple’s display of affection, has filed a lawsuit against the driver and his former employer. In a suit filed last week, Kate Neal and Shanako Devoll say cab driver Ahmed Egal intentionally caused them emotional distress and held …
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Immigrant rights group loses Catholic funds over gay marriage affiliation
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Catholic organization has decided to cut off long-standing funding to a Portland, Oregon, immigrant rights group over its affiliation with an organization that supports same-sex marriage. Voz Workers’ Rights Education lost a $75,000 grant in June from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. The group is the anti-poverty program of …
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Christian university gets religious exemption to deny transgender student housing
NEWBERG, Ore. — The U.S. Department of Education has granted a Christian university a religious exemption from federal anti-discrimination laws after a transgender student filed a discrimination complaint because the school would not allowing him to live in the men’s dormitories. George Fox University obtained the exemption in its effort to deny the student …
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U.S. Supreme Court refuses to put same-sex marriage on hold in Oregon
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to halt a federal judge’s order declaring Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. The court issued an order Wednesday declining to block any new same-sex unions in the state while a federal appeals court considers whether an anti-gay marriage group can intervene in the case.
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Oregon officials urge Supreme Court to deny NOM’s request for stay
Arguing that there is no way the U.S. Supreme Court is going to rule on the constitutionality of state bans on same-sex marriage when only a private group is defending such a law, Oregon state officials and a group of same-sex couples urged the Court on Monday not to grant a private association’s request to stop those couples from marrying in that state.