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...conservative, religious groups sued Cambridge this week over its ordinance that extends rights and benefits usually reserved for family members to gay and lesbian partners of city workers...
...which is paid out to political groups. The suit was brought by a group of conservative Christian students at the University of Wisconsin who found it downright un-American that they were forced to pay an annual $331 student activity fee that empowers some causes they abhor, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Campus Center and the Students of National Organization for Women (which supports abortion rights). The students' lawyers likened the fee to the "compelled speech" the Court outlawed last year in a ruling that banned labor unions from requiring fees for their PACs. But this was different, the Court...
...time that gay rights and equality are recognized it's a step in the right direction," said Anna M. Baldwin '00, a co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA), "But there are larger battles that have to be fought...
...California, which had granted its gay and lesbian citizens an extensive array of domestic partnership rights, voters early this month approved a measure re-emphasizing existing state law that holds marriage to be between a man and a woman...
Such promotion of marriage and domesticity does not sit well with many in Harvard's gay, lesbian and bisexual community...