Word: repeal
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Calling the policy “discriminatory,” Murphy said he was “privileged to be leading the fight” to repeal the measure, first enacted...
...congressman also discussed his efforts to repeal the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gay servicemen...
Only a few weeks ago, the passage of Maine’s Question 1 overturned recent state legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry. Prior to the repeal, Maine had been one of only five states to legally recognize marriage between same-sex couples. The vast majority of states have Defense of Marriage Acts—limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples—on the books. Given that the right to marry is still withheld from many individuals because of their sexual orientation, Phillips had good cause to question the existence of “liberty and justice...
...march itself was predictable. It was a farrago of left-wing rhetoric (anticorporate, proimmigrant, etc.) and respectfully anti-Obama rhetoric. "Easter egg rolls on the White House lawn are nice, but enactment of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act are more important," thundered New York City union official Stuart Appelbaum, who was referring to Obama's invitation earlier this year to at least one lesbian couple to bring their kids to the White House's Easter event...
...saying, are a harbinger of worse things to come. The brutal display of force unfolded in the middle of a Saturday afternoon in central Kuala Lumpur as protesters marched to Istana Negara palace to ask King Mizan Zainal Abidin - whose role in Malaysia today is largely ceremonial - to repeal the ISA law. The law, under which detained persons can be held without trial for years under the act, was first enacted in 1948 to use against communist insurgents, but has always been abused. In September 2008, the ISA was resurrected to temporarily arrest a young journalist, a popular lawmaker...