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Mont. Board of Regents expands anti-discrimination policy
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana’s state Board of Regents has voted to broaden the university system’s anti-discrimination policy to require campuses to ensure there’s no discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
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ACLU files suit in Mont. seeking benefits for same-sex couples
HELENA, Mont. — A civil-rights organization has filed a new lawsuit against the state in an attempt to win for gay couples the same benefits that married couples have.
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Montana governor signs bill to strike down obsolete sodomy law
HELENA, Mont. — An obsolete law deeming gay sex as deviant — akin to bestiality — was stricken from Montana code Thursday, prompting gay rights activists to say they hope that full legal equality may be close at hand.
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Montana governor Steve Bullock to sign bill decriminalizing gay sex
HELENA, Mont. — Gov. Steve Bullock will sign into law a bill that decriminalizes gay sex 16 years after the Montana Supreme Court ruled the law criminalizing gay sex unconstitutional, and ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws nationwide.
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Bill to decriminalize gay sex in Montana hailed on passing
HELENA, Mont. — The woman who led the court battle to strike down a Montana law that made gay sex illegal knows that having the unconstitutional law struck from the books is a symbolic act.
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Mont. House endorses measure to decriminalize gay sex
HELENA, Mont. — The Montana state House on Tuesday endorsed a bill that would repeal an obsolete state law criminalizing gay sex a day after voting to bypass the committee that tabled the measure.
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Mont. state House advances bill to repeal obsolete law that criminalizes gay sex
HELENA, Mont. — The Montana House is moving forward with a measure that would repeal an obsolete state law that criminalizes gay sex, despite a committee’s decision to table it.
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Jon Tester: Another U.S. Senator previously opposed to gay marriage reverses course
HELENA, Mont. — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana who has previously opposed same-sex marriage, says he now supports marriage equality for gays and lesbian couples.
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Montana state House committee hears bill to decriminalize gay sex
HELENA, Mont. — A House panel heard a measure Friday that would remove an obsolete Montana law that criminalizes gay sex by labeling it a deviate sexual behavior on par with bestiality.
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Montana state Senate moves to strike obsolete law that criminalizes gay sex
The Montana Senate is backing a measure to strike an obsolete state law that criminalizes gay sex. Senate Bill 107 repeals an anti-gay law the courts ruled unconstitutional in 1997.