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...that was just a dry run. Four years later, the RNC recruited some 50,000 Catholic team leaders to conduct parish-level outreach for Bush's reelection campaign; the volunteers were led on the ground by more than 75 field coordinators working for the party. Their efforts were supplemented by a group of outside organizations funded by leading conservative Catholics like Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza. One of these groups, Priests for Life, spent $1 million on television and newspaper ads in the last month of the campaign...
...company's code of conduct states that its products and services "contribute to the social progress and technological advancement of society." Asked whether supplying a government widely regarded as despotic with paper for its currency violated that code, the spokesman said Giesecke & Devrient did not involve itself in "political" issues. "The important point is that it's not up to us to rely on political considerations in supplying bank note paper," he said. "We only deliver to central banks, not regimes...
...plaintiffs. Florida's ban on adoption by gay couples, for instance, has stood. But the impact of Lawrence v. Texas will likely only grow, say the lawyers involved in the arguments five years ago. "What Lawrence really means is that it is no longer enough to simply disapprove of conduct for the majority to make it a crime," says Paul Smith, the attorney who had argued before the court urging it to strike down the sodomy statutes...
...apocalyptic back in 2005. "It is clear from this that the Court has taken sides in the culture war, departing from its role of assuring, as neutral observer, that the democratic rules of engagement are observed," he wrote. "Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive...
...future, lawmakers and courts alike will find it nearly impossible to justify criminal sanctions - just as Scalia warned. Of course, Scalia's wasn't the only one who spoke about gays that day. "The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. "Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government." And despite the loud fulminations of Scalia's minority opinion, it is Kennedy's words that count...