Word: unionism
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...following the end of the cold war, one nation did not share in the festivities. Russia lost more than an empire - it lost its stature as a superpower. Indeed, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." During the cold war, Russia would celebrate Victory Day each year on May 9 by holding a parade to honor its triumph over the invading forces of Nazi Germany. Eager to flaunt its modern might, Moscow would showcase its intercontinental ballistic missiles, tanks would rumble past the Kremlin...
...just one, upholding constitutional rights and creating equality throughout the state. The California Supreme Court cited both the constitutional right to marry and the right to equal protection under the law as reasons for expanding the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. Although California civil unions previously provided same-sex couples with similar legal benefits to marriage, using different terminology to distinguish between same and different-sex couples clearly violated equal protection laws. We applaud the Court for recognizing this violation, and for choosing to address it. Some criticize the Court for overruling California?...
...foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution,” McCain protests, brandishing his American Conservative Union lifetime rating of 83 percent, compared to eight percent for Sen. Barack Obama. Still, conservatives charge insubordination: The maverick pulls his punches with his Democratic opponents, yet pummels his Republican allies. To win the Right’s trust, he must fight for it, not against...
...same substantive legal benefits and privileges… [as] a married couple.” Same-sex couples already have the same hospital visitation and inheritance rights as opposite-sex couples. The right in question here is simply a matter of nomenclature: the right for one’s union to be called a “marriage” by the state...
...cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people at the school, Heather's mother, Ardena Gillman, decided more serious action was called for. She talked to the local branch of the American Civil Liberties union, which pursued the case on the grounds that Gillman's First Amendment rights were being violated. This week, in a two-day trial that resulted in a rare, immediate ruling from the federal bench, Gillman won her suit against the Holmes County school district...