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a legal argument for marriage equality
16 hours ago ago from The Outspoken Liberal
In 2006, the New Jersey Supreme Court Case Lewis v. Harris brings up several key arguments about the institution of marriage and what role the government should play. The Plaintiffs in the case are seven same-sex couples in long-term relationships who seek the remedies of the right to marry and all the legal benefits that come with marriage. Ultimately the Court told the legislature that they had to pass same-sex marriage or an equivalent ...
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7 hours ago ago from The Living Consequences | Exploring the Legacy of Slavery and Race in the United States
Tue 17 Feb, 2009 Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has re-introduced his slavery-era disclosure law, An Act Relative to the History of Slavery in the Commonwealth . Rushing's bill would require companies doing business with the state to research and report their connections to slavery (and those of any predecessor companies) prior to 1889. The secretary of state, in turn, would use this information to publish a ...
Related contentGreatest prevalence of same-sex spouses is in Massachusetts, Vermont and . . . Utah?
9 hours ago ago from LGBT FYI
A new report based on U.S. Census data shows that Utah ranks fourth, behind Massachusetts, Vermont and Hawaii for the number of married same-sex couples per thousand households. That's just for couples who identified themselves as in the 2008 American Community Survey, according to the report from UCLA's Williams Institute. Many Utahns did trek to California in 2008 during the brief window that gay marriage was legal there, but the ...
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The couple who crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner may be subpoenaed to appear before a House committee looking into the security breach.
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14 hours ago ago from Edge of Brooklyn: Brooklyn, Sports, Media, Politics.
Yesterday, the Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey State Senate voted7-6 in favor of marriage equality, allowing for the bill to move forward to the full Senate to vote this coming Thursday. New Jersey already has a civil unions law for same-sex couples, and many wonder why this is not good enough. These couples are getting their equal rights, while not trampling on the definition of marriage, right? Wrong. Civil unions are essentially a ...
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