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...This equal treatment of foreign applicants has attracted many students to Harvard who otherwise would not have been accepted because of their financial needs, Harvard officials said...
...ordinance in Boston last year, to abandon its cruel and inhumane crusade to deny benefits to the partners of gay city employees. Granting health care benefits to individuals in same-sex partnerships does not undermine the sanctity of traditional marriages, but rather demonstrates a city's commitment to providing equal, and much needed, benefits to all of its employees. It is deplorable that an out-of-state group would attempt to systematically undermine the laudable initiatives of forward-thinking city councils...
Cambridge was the first city in Massachusetts and the 19th in the nation to extend healthcare benefits to the domestic partners of its city employees. This commitment to equality and justice should be fully supported, not undercut by state statues. While there may be some hope in an appeal of the recent ruling, equal rights for homosexuals will not be secure until Massachusetts state law is changed. A full-fledged effort to do so must begin...
...initiative, a pre-emptive strike against legal measures that would force Nebraska to recognize gay marriages if legalized in another state, shows how far conservatives are willing to go to deny gays and lesbians equal protection under...
...issue wasn't whether gay and lesbians should adopt children or receive legal protection from discrimination in the workplace. This wasn't the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, hate crimes or even separate but equal civil unions. It wasn't even about Nebraska. Rather it was the possibility that another state might legalize gay marriage, and that in due course Nebraska would be forced to recognize the requisite civil rights and legal prerogatives associated with marriage licenses from that state...