Displaying items 85-96 of 4725
» View burbankleader.com items only
< Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-394
Next >
-
Baltimore Pride 2013 to feature mass wedding
In a year when Maryland's same-sex couples can, for the first time, legally marry, the organizers of Baltimore Pride 2013 decided some special celebrating was required. A landmark occasion, they reasoned, called for a landmark commemoration. So they...
Tags: Festive Events, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Human Rights, Druid Hill, Civil Rights
-
Dent cosponsors LGBT bullying bill, decries GOP for abortion bill
Call Washington BureauLehigh Valley Republican Rep. Charlie Dent signed his name to legislation this week to combat bullying at schools, which specifically includes the targeting of children based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Dent's support marks the...Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Health and Safety at School, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Charlie Dent
-
South Africa's path to marriage equality
I can't say, of course, how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the same-sex marriage cases before it. But I can talk about how South African courts grappled with the issue in 2005, after a case was brought by a lesbian couple who had been denied the...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Marriage, Nelson Mandela
-
Review: 'Married and Counting' takes gay marriage on the road
Perhaps more remarkable about the documentary "Married and Counting" than its enticing high concept — from December 2010 to April 2011, a gay male couple get legally married in every state that will let them — is how far same-sex marriage...Tags: Barack Obama, Entertainment, Marriage, Family, Defense of Marriage Act
-
IRS scrutiny of nonprofits is hardly an unusual practice
What the IRS did to the tea party movement was wrong. But isn't uncommon. Organizations, some of which receive federal, state and local government money, along with individual contributions generously donated by well-meaning supporters are always...Tags: Taxation, Politics, Social Issues, Barack Obama, Marriage
-
Sen. Sessions on immigration bill's broken promises
The so-called Gang of Eight immigration plan now being considered by the Senate fails to live up to every major promise made by its sponsors. Far from improving the immigration system, their 1,000-page proposal would exacerbate many of its flaws. It would...
Tags: Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), September 11, 2001 Attacks, International Law
-
Flare-wielding protester disrupts French Open
PARIS -- Open organizers defended their security arrangements after protesters, one letting off a flare and running on court, briefly interrupted the final between Rafael Nadal and fellow Spaniard David Ferrer on Sunday. A police source told Reuters...Tags: French Open, David Ferrer, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Sweden
-
Republican donors, RNC push in different directions
PARK CITY, Utah — After women, young voters and Latinos fled from the Republican Party in droves in 2012, some GOP leaders thought they had a chance to turn things around. They embarked on a "listening tour" and put out a report acknowledging that...Tags: Travel, Illegal Immigrants, CKE Restaurants Incorporated, Reince Priebus, Barack Obama
-
Lesbians gather with pride in West Hollywood
They said it loudly and repeatedly, and they wore stickers and clutched signs proclaiming it: lesbian. "Yes, I am!" hundreds of female voices chanted in a crowded West Hollywood park. "Yes, I am!" Lesbians, their supporters and friends gathered Friday...Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Gay Pride San Diego, Social Issues, Entertainment, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy Repeal (2010)
-
Circuit court clerk's failed cash grab
Magicians call it misdirection. When the audience is distracted looking one way, the "magic" happens. Sometimes, politics is no different. The focus on pensions, gun permits, gambling and same-sex marriage during the just-finished General Assembly...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Better Government Association, Trials, Politics
-
The benefits of immigration reform
As an economist, an immigrant and a scholar of the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy, I find that few pieces of legislation have engaged me more than the proposal for comprehensive immigration reform that the full Senate will take up this week....
Tags: University of California, Davis, Interior Policy, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Crime, Law and Justice
-
Quinn has a full desk of legislative decisions
— State lawmakers failed to pass pension reform, gambling expansion and gay marriage during the spring session, but they did send the governor bills to require video recording of interrogations of serious crimes and bar child sex offenders from...
Tags: Assault, Illinois Governor, Crime, Law and Justice, Sex Crimes, Arts and Culture
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 12, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jun 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 9, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jun 8, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 8, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 9, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jun 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 9, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Original site for Same-Sex Marriage topic gallery.