Word: genderism
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Students chose Rawlins and Price despite the poorer finishes for their "running-mates," because the voters heard the candidates debate, read the interviews and chose for themselves which pair of personalities and visions would best lead the council. The tickets billed gender, racial and house diversity, but this concern was addressed in the results without electing a ticket--Adams resident Rawlins and Pforzheimer denizen Price provide the same representative diversity as well as different agendas...
...Parish and First Church graciously offered the use of their churches. Along with the refusal of Rev. Gomes was that of the Episcopal Divinity School, which stated that it had not developed a policy on same-sex union ceremonies and therefore was not allowing any couples, regardless of the gender of the participants, from outside of the Divinity School to use the chapel...
...that's precisely what he got by reshuffling familiar faces. The faithful U.N. ambassador Madeleine Albright emerged as the nation's first ever female Secretary of State, smashing through Washington's gender ceiling. Retiring Republican Senator William Cohen was asked to head the Pentagon; the President's old pal Samuel Berger was elevated from No. 2 at the National Security Council (NSC) to No. 1, while loyal but not intimate friend Anthony Lake was switched from that...
...couples went to court, claiming sex discrimination. In 1993 the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting one individual from marrying another on account of his or her gender would violate the Hawaii state constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the laws, unless the government could prove that the state had some compelling, legitimate reason to ban same-sex marriage...
...marry in Hawaii won't have a broad impact on the mainland for some time to come. The state supreme court's decision has no binding effect as a precedent in other states, though gays elsewhere could invoke the persuasiveness of its reasoning. Other states remain free to set gender-based restrictions on marriage because the U.S. Supreme Court has never decided whether the Federal Constitution bans such restrictions. (The high courts of several states have ruled that it does...