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Teased to death
Growing up in my neighborhood, kids got teased, not bullied. Bullying happened, it was just called teasing. Often, it was called harmless teasing. I don’t know if the adults were being polite or they believed themselves and thought I was over sensitive. They sure didn’t stop it.
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Same-sex marriage ruling raises issues for Kansas, Missouri
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the nation, Kansas and Missouri legislators face debates next year over religious objections proposals and expanding their state’s anti-discrimination laws to protect gays and lesbians.
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Analysis: Marriage ruling opens fight within Arkansas GOP
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson was an unlikely foil for members of his own party who were outraged at the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down same-sex marriage bans nationwide. But now Hutchinson is facing pushback from conservatives who think the state should protect county clerks who don’t want to issue marriage licenses to gay couples…
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Columbus mayor to officiate gay weddings outside City Hall
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman was scheduled to officiate the marriages of 15 gay couples Saturday outside City Hall. Coleman’s office invited couples to submit their relationship stories to be picked for the occasion.
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Mayoral candidate faults church in firing of gay teacher
Jim Kenney says church officials should explain why teacher Margie Winters and her wife are threats to society. Winters lost her job last month as religious instruction director at suburban Waldron Mercy Academy after telling the school about her out-of-state marriage.
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Tennessee attorney general drops same-sex divorce case
On Friday, the office sent a brief to the Tennessee Court of Appeals making clear that it won’t stand in the way of Frederick Michael Borman and Larry Kevin Pyles-Borman getting a divorce.
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County clerk in East Texas resigns over gay marriage ruling
Rusk County Clerk Joyce Lewis-Kugle wrote that she could not in good conscience issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Maricopa County attorney sidesteps same-sex adoption fight
The decision by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to farm out the services he’s legally required to provide lets him avoid backtracking on a policy of denying those services to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on gay marriage.
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Bevin: Kentucky should stop issuing marriage licenses
Matt Bevin said in a news release the government should be out of the marriage business altogether, saying two consenting adults should not need to ask for permission to enter into a contractual relationship.
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Kentucky clerk says governor told him to issue licenses or resign
Casey Davis said he would go to jail before he resigned and vowed he would not issue any marriage licenses in Casey County after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages in all 50 states.
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American Samoa questions gay marriage validity in territory
American Samoa stands as the only U.S. territory to hold out against the recent Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage. But as the Pacific island’s attorney general reviews the decision, legal observers and gay rights advocates are saying it should go into effect immediately.
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Toledo judge takes over weddings after gay couple turned away
Toledo Municipal Judge Michelle Wagner says she doesn’t want to see a same-sex couple go before a judge who is not interested in conducting the ceremony. She said it is her privilege to perform those weddings.
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Gay rights leader, Kansas governor argue over marriage order
A prominent Kansas gay rights advocate on Thursday accused Republican Gov. Sam Brownback of trying to hinder same-sex couples, even as lawyers for the state said in a legal filing that Kansas has been prompt in complying with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage.
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Opinion: Judges can’t refuse to perform same-sex marriages
Nebraska judges and court officials cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriages unless they refuse to perform all marriages, according to a state judicial ethics group.
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Kentucky governor tells clerk to issue gay marriage licenses
Kentucky’s governor told a county clerk of court Thursday that he should either issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or resign.
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Biden celebrates same-sex marriage, says more to be done
NEW YORK –—As he praised a recent Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said more still needs to be done to protect LGBT Americans. Biden spoke at an event in Manhattan hosted by Freedom to Marry, a New York-based organization. He praised the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that same-sex […]
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Virginia school board defends transgender bathroom policy
The Gloucester County School Board defended its policy this week in court papers arguing that a lawsuit filed by 16-year-old Gavin Grimm should be dismissed.
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Kansas allows joint tax returns for gay couples
The disclosure of the policy change was made in a filing Thursday asking U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of gay and lesbian couples.
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2 Missouri judges stop marrying after gay marriage legalized
Associate circuit judges Larry Winfrey and Steve Jackson of the southern Missouri county of Laclede say they won’t be marrying anyone.
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US to make marriage benefits available to gay couples
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the government will make federal marriage benefits available to same-sex couples following a Supreme Court decision last month that legalized same-sex marriage.