Word: gay
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...Supreme Court may have to decide just what type of organization the Boy Scouts is. In what could turn out to be a landmark ruling on gay rights, New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the organization, as a "place of public accommodation," is forbidden from discriminating against homosexuals. This decision stands in direct contrast to the California bench?s 1998 ruling that defined the Scouts as a private organization, which therefore had a right to exclude gays. Although the High Court declined to hear an appeal on the California ruling, the conflicting interpretations may persuade the justices to hear...
...broad-based membership and partnerships with police and fire departments and other public entities rendered it a "place of public accommodation" ? legally on a par with, say, a restaurant ? and therefore bound by the state?s anti-discrimination laws. "The New Jersey ruling is an important victory for the gay rights movement," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "The ?place of public accommodation? concept dates from the Civil Rights era when courts ruled against Southern institutions that claimed it was their private choice to exclude black people. The logic of the Boy Scouts? position means that they would also reserve...
...clatter of emergency: a Coast Guard helicopter flutters low from Tashmoo to Gay Head, scanning the water for something that may have fallen. We watch from the beach in the summer morning. We stand among dark boulders, taller than we, that came to rest here 20,000 years ago when the glacier melted and retreated north. The waves in Vineyard Sound have a lazy heave, sweet whitecaps in the distance...
...friend has summered here all her long life. She remarks (the memory coming alive in her eyes as fresh as yesterday) that in the spring of 1932, after the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, a tipster told the family that the child would be found, alive, on a boat off Gay Head. Our friend watched from this shore as Charles Lindbergh flew relentlessly back and forth in his small plane over exactly these waters, searching for that boat. Our friend mimes Lindbergh's fierce, focused anguish, peering at the waves: "Where's that baby? Where's that baby...
LARRY HINES Openly gay Libertarian candidate, California Resume: Self-educated, legal secretary, dancer Relevant experience: U.S. Marine Corps Platform: Privatize education, withdrawal of U.S. from...