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...book stays in line with Church teachings about the ban on birth control, but most of its content isn't the kind of things you learn in Sunday school. "Some people, when they hear about the holiness of married sex, immediately imagine that such sex has to be deprived of joy, frivolous play, fantasy and attractive positions," writes Father Knotz, who lives in a monastery of the Order of Friars outside Kraków in Stalowa Wola in southern Poland. "They think it has to be sad, like a traditional church hymn. But every act, caress or sexual position that...
...What They're Banning in Germany: On May 5, the German Constitutional Court upheld a ban on married people's combining already hyphenated names (or "chain names"), ruling that surnames with three or more parts "would quickly lose the effectiveness of their identifying purpose." The decision is less than shocking in a country where parents must seek approval from local authorities before they officially name their children...
...Exactly how they would [lift the ban] through national AIDS strategy, I don't know," says Nathan Schaefer, director of public policy at Gay Men's Health Crisis...
...brief ceremony was conducted by Judge Robert Hanson, whose 2007 ruling that the state's same-sex marriage ban treated gay and lesbian couples unequally under the law, landed the case in front of the Iowa Supreme Court. (Hanson's decision was in response to a lawsuit by six gay and lesbian couples denied marriages.) The teenagers each carried a calla lily. The couple shed a few tears and shared a laugh when the judge asked if they wanted to be referred to as "spouses" or "partners." (They went with "spouses.") An impromptu celebratory lunch followed at a brew...
...Read: "Russia Moves to Ban Criticism of WWII...