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After barely two months in office, Virginia’s attorney general seems to have determined that his state’s legal policies are not controversial enough. How else to explain his decision to send a letter to Virginia universities and colleges instructing them to ban protections on gay rights? In the document, Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II advised that, “The law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity...
...Commonwealth attorney pointed out that many places of higher education prevent their staff and students from carrying concealed weapons on the premises, even though this rule does not apply in the rest of Virginia. By singling out this specific legal point at this specific time, Cuccinelli’s letter seems suspiciously discriminatory itself...
When names and an apology weren't given, the anger shifted to pandemonium. "Zionist!" a man yelled as the meeting broke up. A letter submitted to TIME by the council accused TIME, along with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz and the American news website Global Post, of fomenting "irritation, division, unrest and instability in Sinai" and of "creating a gap between the people of Sinai and the government...
...after he was transferred to Munich to undergo therapy. As Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Ratzinger approved the transfer from Essen to Munich and the decision to give Father H. housing in the Munich diocese to undertake therapy. "A Jesuit father in Essen sent me a letter telling me about Father H.'s pedophilia and the priest then approached me directly," says Dr. Huth. The psychiatrist says Father H. initially didn't want any therapy, and he lacked self-awareness, refusing to acknowledge what he did was wrong. "Father H. was a pedophile - there's no doubt about...
...assuage House members' concerns that Senate Democrats could too easily give up the fight, leaders in the chamber are lobbying for one of two scenarios: for at least 50 Senate Democrats to sign a letter pledging to vote in support of the House package, or for 50 Democratic Senators to co-sponsor the House package...