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Whether you believe in their "cause" or not, these people are criminals. That is why the Supreme Court unanimously decided to uphold the anti-trust laws against Operations Rescue...
...both afunding organizations as well as an activemovement for women," Ching says. "Personally, Ithink women's right s issues are still hanging inresponsibility to uphold a strong [feminist]presence on campus...
...brought home to the current generation of African-American college students that they have a deep moral obligation to uphold the humanistic civil rights tradition that is at the basis of that great freedom movement that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave fervor to and sacrificed his precious life...
Anyone who doubts that words have consequences ought to talk to the feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon. Certainly her words have had consequences. When Canada's Supreme Court decided to uphold the nation's toughened obscenity laws two years ago, they were moved in large part by MacKinnon's argument that pornography prompts men to a whole panoply of crimes against women, from gender discrimination to outright rape...
These benefits come courtesy of the courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which wants to extend the protections under the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to obese people. Last week a federal appeals court ruled unanimously to uphold an order that required the state of Rhode Island to pay $100,000 in damages to a 320-lb. woman for not hiring her, and then ordered that she be hired as an attendant at a mental retardation facility. "Obesity may, in appropriate circumstances, constitute a disability," the EEOC said in its amicus brief...