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Judge rules same-sex couple must be repaid after denial of benefits

A judge ruled Wednesday an assistant federal public defender's spouse must be compensated for health care benefits withheld since July 2008 because the couple are gay.

Goldman Representative Says Jesus Embraced Greed

"The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest," Goldman's Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul's Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London's financial district.

Teabaggers Try To Flush Graham Out Of GOP; Graham Responds: If You Don't Like Moderates, You Can Leave

Excerpt: "" Now, after voting to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and expressing a willingness to build a compromise approach to clean energy legislation, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appears to be the new target of tea party activists.

10 Year Old Student Refuses to Say Pledge.

Their son told them last weekend he had decided to no longer stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at school because he didn't believe there is liberty and justice for all, especially when it comes to gay rights.

Schwarzenegger signs gay rights bills {{one of them recognition of same-sex marriages from out of state}}

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed two gay rights bills, one honoring late activist Harvey Milk and another recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Dick Armey Uses Language of Incitement to Sow Hate for Obama

From spin to lies to partisan hyperbole, the perverse evolution of the present-day Republican public discourse is not just poisonous to the party and it's moral character, it's also toxic to our democratic process and now has planted the conceptual seeds of extremist violence …

Gay Air Force Pilot 'outed' by false rape accusation - cleared of charge, but dismissed from service

Fehrenbach, stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base, was in a Catch-22. To clear himself of the claim he'd raped a man, Fehrenbach could tell police his side of the story. But admitting he'd had consensual sex could get him kicked out of the Air Force he loved after 18 years.

California bill would recognize same-sex marriages from other states

A proposed law to recognize a growing number of same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries is winding its way through California's Legislature.

Palin Popularity Plunging in Polls

Sarah Palin is no longer the most popular governor in the country. That title now belongs to Connecticut Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. Rell has a 70% approval rating (4.10.09). Connecticut has seven times the population of Alaska.

Silicon Valley grows latest Calif. political class

Silicon Valley, the nation's center of high-tech innovation, is exporting a new kind of product — frustrated former CEOs leaping from the boardroom to politics with promises to return economic luster to the Golden State.

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