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		<title>Questions in Officer’s Killing of C.E.O. in Newark</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Perez-Pena Returning to New Jersey for his 30th high school reunion, DeFarra Gaymon had the kind of life one would not mind describing to old friends: he was a C.E.O., married, father of four. But Mr. Gaymon, who was in the Chess Club, the French Club, the Italian Club and the student coalition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP judges back gay marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joshua Green Boston Globe July 15, 2010 LAST WEEK, a US District Court judge in Boston struck down a significant portion of the Defense of Marriage Act, ruling that the controversial 1996 federal law violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution by denying gay and lesbian couples the federal benefits afforded to straight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: DC Court Rules Against Foes of Marriage Equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Cole July 15th, 2010 Big victory for marriage equality in DC! Today the DC Court of Appeals ruled against foes of DC marriage equality who had wanted to put an initiative on the ballot to invalidate same-sex marriages entered into in the District. While Bishop Harry Jackson, a pastor in Maryland, has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>271 Gay Marriages in Mexico City Since March</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[source:Advocate.com Editors Some 271 same-sex couples have married in Mexico City since a new marriage law took effect in the capital in March. According to the Associated Press, the largest number of same-sex marriages took place in the first month of the new law. The overwhelming majority of those married were Mexican citizens, and slightly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DADT Troop Survey Made Public</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click on this link to see the survey. source: The Advocate.com]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial NY Times Published: July 9, 2010 For 14 years, as states, courts and many Americans began to change their minds on the subject, the federal government has clung to its official definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman. On Thursday, a federal judge in Massachusetts finally stood up and said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Topples U.S. Rejection of Gay Unions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ABBY GOODNOUGH and JOHN SCHWARTZ NYTimes BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts found Thursday that a law barring the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, ruling that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples. Judge Joseph L. Tauro of United States District Court in Boston sided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing department issues policy on LGBT discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Celeste Lavin, 365gay.com In keeping with the recent Obama Administration push to equalize policies among federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new policy to address LGBT housing discrimination. The policy clarifies that gender identity and expression discrimination is included under the gender discrimination provision of the Fair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Rules for Petition Disclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[source: Advocate.com (GETTY IMAGES) In a Thursday decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of disclosing the names of petitioners who called for a ballot measure that could have repealed an expanded domestic partnership rights law in Washington State last year. The 8-1 ruling, considered in the heated context of the nationwide marriage equality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maggie Gallagher ex-leader of NOM predicts defeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[source: nom website &#8220;Chuck Cooper is a heckuva lawyer. At stake in this case is the future of marriage in all 50 states, and he&#8217;s right that this attempt to shut down the debate by constitutionalizing gay marriage will backfire. Americans have a right to vote for marriage. Ted Olson doesn&#8217;t seem to understand the [...]]]></description>
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