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Idaho’s ‘Add the Words’ gay rights activists promised pro-bono legal help
BOISE, Idaho — Long before their arrests, activists seeking to add discrimination protections for gays and lesbians to Idaho’s Human Rights Act added lawyers: The 44 people facing misdemeanor trespass charges after Monday’s demonstration inside the Capitol’s Senate chambers have been promised pro-bono help.
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Vatican surveys find Catholics reject rules on morality, gay marriage
VATICAN CITY — Surveys commissioned by the Vatican have shown that the vast majority of Catholics in Germany and Switzerland reject church teaching on contraception, sexual morality, gay unions and divorce.
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AT&T becomes first U.S. corporation to condemn Russian anti-gay law
AT&T, a long-time sponsor of the U.S. Olympic Committee, on Tuesday became the first major U.S. corporation to make a public statement condemning anti-LGBT Russian law outlawing “homosexual propaganda.”
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Human Rights Watch video documents increased violence against LGBT Russians
NEW YORK — The advocacy group Human Rights Watch released a video Tuesday documenting the increased violence against LGBTQ Russians.
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Josh Duggar, failed Lt. Gov. candidate headline anti-gay rally outside Va. court
NORFOLK, Va. — Josh Duggar, the oldest of the Duggar children from TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” and E.W. Jackson, the failed candidate for Virginia Lt. Governor, headlined an anti-gay marriage rally in Norfolk on Tuesday while a federal judge heard arguments challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Judge hears arguments on whether Va. gay marriage ban should be struck down
NORFOLK, Va. — A federal judge in Norfolk, Va., on Tuesday told attorneys in a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s ban on same-sex couples marrying that she will render her decision “soon.”
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De Blasio to skip NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade over ban on gay pride signs
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he won’t be marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade because organizers refuse to allow participants to carry gay pride signs.
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Utah defends gay marriage ban: Marriage is ‘principally a child-centered institution’
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah state attorneys filed their opening argument to the federal appeals court reviewing the state’s same-sex marriage ban, saying the optimal environment for raising children is with a mother and father.
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Case challenging Va. same-sex marriage ban heard in federal court
NORFOLK, Va. — In a case that could give gay marriage its first foothold in the old Confederacy, a federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday on whether Virginia’s ban on gay marriage should be struck down – the position the state’s newly elected Democratic attorney general has endorsed, angering many Republican lawmakers.
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Calif. conversion therapy ban put on hold pending Supreme Court review
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, the controversial practice that aims to turn gay youths straight, will remain on hold while opponents of the ban ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn it.