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...adds that opponents of same-sex marriage face a greater challenge in Massachusetts than in more conservative states. But at the same time, Mineau says, “we’re not that different than Oregon,” referring to that state??s approval last year of a same-sex marriage...
...York Times’ John Burns visited Iraq before the war and concluded of Saddam’s state: “The terror is self-compounding, with the state??s power reinforced by stories that relatives of the victims pale to tell—of fingernail-extracting, eye-gouging, genital-shocking and bucket-drowning. Secret police rape prisoners’ wives and daughters to force confessions and denunciations. There are assassinations, in Iraq and abroad, and, ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads, and the pistol shots to the head.” According to the Documental Centre...
Some of the students involved were invited to testify at a meeting of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Election Laws as it debates a bill which incorporates an independent redistricting commission for the state??a move similar to group’s recommendation...
...combining the issue of civil same-sex marriage into the parallel religious debate. Religious denominations around the world have struggled with the question of same-sex marriage—the Anglican Church in Canada has nearly split over the issue—and just as it is not the state??s place to interfere with these religions’ decisions to recognize (or not to recognize) same-sex marriage, it is not religion’s place to interfere with states’ decisions on the same question...
Natural resources are far from the only arena in which the Peruvian state has near-absolute jurisdiction. The state??s massive power, combined with the dearth of democratic institutions, has generated a crisis of political legitimacy in Peru and other Latin American countries, often manifesting itself in the form of violence or paralyzing demonstrations...