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		<title>Movement to ban gay adoption: sacrificing the well-being of children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The case of two gay foster parents in Florida has created a dilemma for the courts: either they honor state law banning adoption by gay men and lesbians or honor their duty to rule in the best interests of the children.

And beyond Florida, some LGBT experts and advocates think that adoption could be the next major target—after marriage equality—for opponents of LGBT civil rights.<br/>
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		<title>D.C. marriage victory: Supreme Court and Congress still loom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In yet another important win for marriage equality, the District of Columbia’s highest court ruled July 15 that the city government acted lawfully when it rejected a local minister attempt to place a referendum before voters that sought to roll back equal marriage rights for gay couples in the nation’s capital.
The ruling leaves intact marriage [...]<br/>
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		<title>Gay issues continue to dominate as Senate committee recommends Kagan’s nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Both “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and same-sex marriage continued to be a prominent focus of the confirmation proceedings for Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday recommended the confirmation.<br/>
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		<title>ENDA prospects apparently gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is not on the agenda for Senate floor action for the next few weeks, prior to the August 9 recess. The Senate will take up work on as many as nine matters during the next month, but none of those are ENDA.<br/>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[While most people who are concerned about eliminating the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law are focused on a bill in Congress and a survey by the Pentagon, there is important action elsewhere—in a federal district court in Riverside, California.<br/>
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		<title>Two giant blows against DOMA</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In an enormous victory for same-sex marriage, a federal judge in Boston Thursday, July 8, ruled—in two separate lawsuits—that a critical part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.<br/>
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