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...Close behind, and perhaps more emotionally charged, is the same-sex marriage debate. Eight states are deciding on how to define marriage, whether to prohibit similar legal status, and in Colorado, create domestic partnerships. Kansas and Texas decided last year that marriage could only take place between a man and a woman. Earlier this year, Alabama passed a legislative referendum that prohibited the state from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, or even recognizing same-sex licenses issued in other states. In 2004, a total of 13 states passed same-sex marriage bans, and the ballot measures themselves were...
...challenge the 10 felonies already in the state constitution. That's because it is generally legal for states to disenfranchise felons - the U.S. Constitution says so. (OK, not in so many words, but that's how the Supreme Court reads section two of the 14th Amendment.) Forty-eight states prohibit current inmates from voting, 36 keep parolees from the polls, 31 exclude probationers, and only two - Vermont and Maine - allow inmates to vote, according to the Sentencing Project, a liberal advocacy group in Washington...
...detained al-Qaeda operatives made clear that information obtained through torture or physical abuse is rarely of any use. When the President announced he would review our policy on torture, that should have been a rather short review. The U.S. is a signatory to international treaties and agreements that prohibit the use of torture or inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and belligerents. If we lower our standards to the level of the enemy, we can expect the same treatment for our own prisoners of war. Raymond R. Mead Whetstone, Arizona, U.S. In order to have an intelligent discussion...
Mild uproar over tightened tailgate restrictions that prohibit any student from bringing alcohol onto Ohiri Field on Saturday has spurred students to seek other ways to make the historic weekend...
...Qaeda operatives made clear that information obtained through torture or physical abuse is rarely of any use. When the President announced he was going to review our policy on torture, that should have been a rather short review. The U.S. is a signatory to international treaties and agreements that prohibit the use of torture or inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and belligerents. If we lower our standards to the level of the enemy, we can expect the same treatment for our own prisoners of war. Raymond R. Mead Whetstone, Arizona...