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Unitarian teens tour civil rights battlefields
The luggage kept cascading out the back of the two Dodge Grand Caravans as 10 teenagers from Orlando's University Unitarian Universalist Society prepared Monday for a five-day tour of civil-rights memorials and museums. Once everything was secured,...
Tags: Travel, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Trips and Vacations, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights
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Michigan's first gay couple, married by Odawa tribe, invited to White House
Staff Writer -- bhubbard@petoskeynews.com Twitter: @BrandonHubbardBOYNE CITY — It was a sprint down the aisle for Boyne City's Gene Barfield and Tim LaCroix to become the first same-sex couple to wed when the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians amended their definition of marriage. Now, it will be a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, George W. Bush, Justice and Rights, Gays and Lesbians
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Gay marriage vote may come to Michigan in 2016
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — With more than half of voters supporting a repeal of Michigan's gay marriage ban, advocates say it's not a matter of if — but when — same-sex marriage is legal in the state. How soon? Gay rights activists plan a...
Tags: Gay Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Justice and Rights
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A LOOK BACK
June 9, 1978: Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood. June 10, 1963: President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Career and Workplace, Environmental Issues, John Connally, Labor Legislation
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Smell of marijuana: Who needs a search warrant when police use their nose?
Who needs a search warrant when you've got a nose? It's a common phrase in South Florida arrest reports: the scent of marijuana wafting from a suspect's vehicle. And while the detail may seem amusing, it's actually a serious legal requirement that...Tags: Law Enforcement, Boca Raton, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Culture
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Chicago's gun registry on the ropes
Chicago's 3-year-old gun registry could go away as part of the concealed carry law state lawmakers recently passed, but few are publicly mourning the loss of a database once heralded as a key part of the city's gun control laws. The registry, put in...
Tags: Interior Policy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Pat Quinn, Chicago Mayor
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Voice of the People, Jun. 09
Pension debt Isn't it amazing and disturbing that the Illinois General Assembly could pass medical marijuana, concealed carry and a whole bunch of other bills, all while leaving unresolved the nearly $100-billion-dollar pension deficit? Pension reform...Tags: Interior Policy, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Michael Madigan, Public Officials
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My Word: Scouting sinking into cultural irrelevance
Fourteen years ago, I wrote a My Word column about a looming U.S. Supreme Court case involving Scouting and homosexuality. The court at that time supported Scouting's right to set and keep standards for leaders and boys. These standards existed for more...Tags: Winter Park, AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups
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Way past time to change tax code
During the early years of the Republic, Chief Justice John Marshall noted that, "The power to tax is the power to destroy." He might have added that it's also the power to manipulate behavior, punish political enemies and reward political friends. Indeed,...Tags: Tim Cook, Carl Levin, Chuck Schumer, Steve Jobs, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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What we think: Time for Boy Scouts to take next inclusive step
As the saying goes, you must crawl before you walk. It certainly applies to the Boy Scouts of America. It was a long crawl before the organization, prodded by surveys and votes, decided to consider officially joining the 21st century. Then, last week,...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Gays and Lesbians, Youth Organizations, Social Issues, Boy Scouts of America
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Letters: DNA collection done right
Re "Court goes too far on DNA," Editorial, June 4 The U.S. Supreme Court got it absolutely right in finding that it is constitutional for DNA to be collected at the time of arrest and checked against a national database of unsolved cases. The Times'...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Marriage and families
A steady trickle of responses taking issue with reader Lori Graham's letter opposed to same-sex marriage has been coming into The Times' mailbag since the letter was published May 31. It isn't atypical for us to run pieces taking Graham's position, and...Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Same-Sex Marriage, Family
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