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Supreme Court hears custody dispute over adopted girl
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to decide who should raise a 3 1/2-year-old girl who was given up by her single mother: the South Carolina couple who adopted her at birth or her biological father, who invoked his rights as a...Tags: Lawyers, Adoption, Interior Policy, Justice and Rights, U.S. Congress
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Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him
It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Minority Groups, Defense of Marriage Act, Marriage, Anthony Kennedy
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Gun rights and corresponding responsibilities
For those who oppose commonsense gun safety legislation - including background checks and magazine limits - claiming it threatens their Second Amendment rights, I say gun rights come with responsibilities to protect citizens’ safety. Even...Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Safety of Citizens, Interior Policy
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The plight of the black zombie: 'SNL' takes on 'The Walking Dead'
Fans of “The Walking Dead” were thrilled last night when the show was parodied on “SNL.” In the sketch, Rick Grimes (played by Taran Killam) is traveling with his crew, including Nasim Pedrad as trigger-happy 12-year-old Carl who...
Tags: Voting, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il, Starbucks Corp., North Korea
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Three justices' concern over gay parenting surprises experts
WASHINGTON — During last week's Supreme Court arguments on gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia asserted that "there's considerable disagreement" among experts over whether "raising a child in a single-sex family is harmful or not." Two other...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), University of Cambridge, Minority Groups, Marriage, Gays and Lesbians
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Wrong about racism
One day, many years ago, I was working in my college bookstore when this guy walks in wearing a T-shirt. "White Power," it said. I was chatting with a friend, Cathy Duncan, and what happened next was as smooth as if we had rehearsed it. All at once,...
Tags: Voting, Lawyers, The Miami Herald, Minority Groups, Elections
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Audio delayed is audio denied -- high court should enter the 21st century and broadcast its arguments live
Change of SubjectFriday's print column I'm such a news geek that not only did I listen to both sets of the arguments on gay marriage this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, I was annoyed that the audio wasn't posted until several...... -
Aren't the Supremes ready for their close-up?
Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film. Websites and TV broadcasters played audio of...Tags: Media Industry, Ken Burns, Starbucks Corp., 60 Minutes (tv program), Gays and Lesbians
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As court deliberates, clergy, professor offer views on same-sex marriage
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comThe Rev. Rob Apgar-Taylor, pastor of Veritas United Church of Christ, lives in Hagerstown with his husband, but despite the state of Maryland voting to legalize same-sex marriage in November, he and his spouse still do not have access to any federal...Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Church and State Relations, Defense of Marriage Act, Minority Groups
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Audio delayed is audio denied
I'm such a news geek that not only did I listen to both sets of the arguments on gay marriage this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, I was annoyed that the audio wasn't posted until several hours after the fact. Previous generations of news geeks would...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Minority Groups
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Barack Obama, Lawyers, Elections, Defense of Marriage Act, Marriage
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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...Tags: Voting, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Defense of Marriage Act, Minority Groups, Elections
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