Word: gayness
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...mood is leading to social tension in the city. Last September, men chanting "Allahu akbar" attacked people as they were leaving the city's first gay festival; several were badly beaten. Human-rights activists in Bosnia argue that the city's multiethnic tradition has been undermined not just by the war, but also by the 1995 U.S.-brokered Bosnian peace deal, which established two separate administrations, one for Croats and Muslims, the other for Serbs. Although no official census has been taken since 1991, Sarajevo presents an increasingly Muslim face to the world. Thousands of Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic...
NORM COLEMAN Supports offshore drilling, gun rights and a gay-marriage ban. Hinted at a federal appeal if he loses in Minnesota's Supreme Court...
...that would show which treatments and drugs work best (and, presumably, therefore are most worth paying for). Many of what turned out to be breakthrough AIDS drugs did not look that way when they were first tried, said Rebecca Fox, executive director of the National Coalition for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Health. "There needs to be time to show that these things are effective - especially for populations that aren't used to getting research funds...
...Obama also has some ammunition that Clinton never had: a new Gallup poll finds that most conservatives - 58% - now support openly gay people serving in uniform (nationally, 69% support the change; when Clinton assumed office, a Gallup poll found 53% of those polled opposed lifting the ban). Perhaps even more surprising, 58% of self-described Republicans, and 60% of weekly churchgoers, also support gay men and women serving openly in uniform. "While the Administration to date has not taken action on the issue," the polling firm reported last Friday, "the Gallup Poll data indicate that the public-opinion environment favors...
Read a story on the battle over gay marriage...