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...peace. The civil right to marriage is much more than an abstract ethical concept, though it can easily be justified by ethical principles; it is also a very real quality of life issue, one that simple compassion if not a devotion to fairness would demand be made equal...
After decades of struggle, activists for gay and lesbian civil rights finally have solid results. Over the past year, at least two historical roadblocks to equality were rightly knocked down—even as the nation’s most narrow-minded did their best to erect new ones. May 17 surely marked a happy ending for those who support equal rights, when hundreds of same-sex couples wed across Massachusetts. Cambridge, too, can claim a spot in the history books when it became the first city in the state, and thus the nation, to serve up marriage licenses...
...legally prevented from wedding those they love simply because they love people of the same sex, one lesson remained clear: the courts should be commended for affirming the rights of all citizens, but we have a long way to go as a nation before we are all truly equal...
...wrote the voting rights statute, which sort of created equal voting rights in the United States; he argued Buckley v. Valeo, which set the rules for campaign finance,” said Heymann...
...Under equal scrutiny from the USADA is Jones' boyfriend, Montgomery. "[He is] getting smeared by rumor and innuendo," says his lawyer, Cristina Arguedas, who objects to the USADA's unprecedented threat to bar an athlete from competition without an admission of drug taking or a urine sample that tested positive for illegal substances. "He's never had a dirty drug test in his life." As of last week, the USADA hadn't contacted Montgomery...