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...stubborn piece of colonial baggage and may have added momentum to a broader regional movement for gay rights. "This is a huge step forward," says Anjali Gopalan, director of the Naz Foundation India Trust, an advocacy group based in New Delhi that successfully brought a public interest petition to overturn India's anti-sodomy law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. "We can now take the next step forward for the community in securing our rights...
JAMES PIETRANGELO II, a former Army officer who was dismissed for being openly gay, blasting President Obama for failing to uphold his campaign pledge to overturn the policy...
...Empathy": Claiming that Sotomayor "ignored a host of pressing constitutional issues" when deciding against the plaintiffs in the New Haven, Conn., case is a gross misrepresentation of reality. In fact, the judges went along with current, established constitutional law intended to prevent discriminatory criteria. An appeals court should not overturn Supreme Court rulings lightly. It would have been judicial activism to ignore precedent and decide in the plaintiffs' favor. Cinny Wong, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...positive foreigners, another priority for the gay and lesbian community. In his office on June 17, Obama announced his support of a Senate bill that would give domestic-partner rights for health insurance and other benefits to all federal employees. He also promised again to "work with Congress" to overturn the Defense of Marriage...
...bell. It was she who ruled in 1999 that a law-school graduate with a learning disability was entitled to extra time to take a bar exam. More recently, she forbade the Environmental Protection Agency to use a cost-benefit analysis in antipollution enforcement (her ruling was later overturned). But the real fight over her confirmation will focus on her role in a case about tests for promotion within the New Haven, Conn., fire department. Although the tests were designed to be race-neutral, the pass rate for blacks was half that for whites. So New Haven threw...