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		<title>Prop 8 appeal heading to full circuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Attorneys defending California’s same-sex marriage ban are filing a petition today (February 21), seeking full 9th Circuit review of an appeals panel ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.<br/>
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		<title>Maryland House passes marriage bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor@keennewsservice.com (Lisa Keen)</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Maryland House of Delegates passed a marriage equality bill Friday evening with a bare minimum of 71 votes to 67. But it did so under the threat of a referendum, and it did so just hours after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie followed through on his promise to veto a marriage equality bill passed by that state’s legislature on Thursday.<br/>
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		<title>NJ Assembly clears marriage; veto pending; Maryland poised</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor@keennewsservice.com (Lisa Keen)</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Everyone knows Republican Governor Chris Christie has vowed to veto to the marriage equality bill in New Jersey, but the state Assembly passed it anyway on Thursday, and by a vote of 42 to 33. That’s not enough to overturn Christie’s veto, but the legislative victory—coming just three days after Washington Governor Chris Gregoire signed a marriage equality bill there—pumps an impressive momentum.<br/>
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		<title>Komen controversy rattles LGBT community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor@keennewsservice.com (Lisa Keen)</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As the dust settles on the flashfire controversy over a decision by the nation’s largest organization fighting breast cancer to withdraw grants from the nation’s largest provider of services regarding reproduction, the LGBT community is taking stock of the damage and the potential damage.<br/>
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		<title>Washington governor signs marriage bill; NJ Senate advances one</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor@keennewsservice.com (Lisa Keen)</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a sometimes emotional ceremony Monday morning (February 13), Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed the freshly passed marriage equality bill, telling a crowded gathering at the State House, saying that it means same-sex couples “will no longer be separate but equal” in Washington but simply equal.

The ceremony took place just hours after the New Jersey Senate voted 24 to 16 to pass a marriage equality law there. The New Jersey bill now goes to the Assembly, which is expected to pass...<br/>
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		<title>Small LGBT dinner, big bucks for Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[About 40 gay and lesbian supporters of President Obama’s re-election raised almost $1.5 million at a private fundraiser in Washington, D.C., Thursday night (February 9).

            The event was co-hosted by the Chicago Cubs' openly gay co-owner, former Ambassador James Hormel, and several other high-profile gay funders.<br/>
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		<title>Washington takes big leap, but effort to repeal looms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor@keennewsservice.com (Lisa Keen)</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington Governor Chris Gregoire issued a statement following Wednesday night’s historic vote in the state House, saying the 55 to 43 vote to pass the marriage equality bill there tells the nation “that Washington state will no longer deny our citizens the opportunity to marry the person they love.”<br/>
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		<title>Santorum re-emerges with a sweep</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor@keennewsservice.com (Lisa Keen)</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The one Republican presidential candidate who gay Republicans most love to hate scored three victories on the campaign trail Tuesday, reviving his struggling, longshot bid for the party nomination.<br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Calling Proposition 8 “remarkably similar” to Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2 in 1992, a divided federal appeals court panel in San Francisco ruled Tuesday (February 7) that California’s same-sex marriage ban violates the federal constitution.<br/>
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		<title>Federal appeals court says Prop 8 unconstitutional, says no to vacate</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, said a divided federal appeals court panel in San Francisco Tuesday (February 7).<br/>
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