We won t back down
WASHINGTON Rainbow flags fluttered above the crowds near the White House as tens of thousands of gay rights supporters rallied to demand that President Barack Obama keep his promises to end discrimination against gays and also let them serve openly...
 4.1K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 930.0 Are we ready for post-racial society?
In its widely anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano the New Haven firefighters case a majority of the Supreme Court evaded a significant opportunity to seriously question the constitutionality of the long familiar affirmative-action claims ...
4.1K - Jul. 14, 2009; scored 791.0 Passport rules change for gay couples
BOSTON (AP) - Gay couples traveling overseas can now show passports that feature their married names, letting them take advantage of a little-noticed revision to State Department regulations that critics had feared would undermine the federal Defense...
4.3K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 861.0 Government files harassment suit against nursery
PORTLAND - A government lawsuit claims a Molalla nursery allowed female employees to be raped or sexually harassed then retaliated against them and male co-workers after they complained. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the l...
3.2K - Jun. 19, 2009; scored 479.0 Former editor settles suit
Former World Editor Kathy Erickson has settled her lawsuit with the newspaper s owners. In a press release Thursday, Erickson said she had resolved her sex discrimination suit against Lee Enterprises and its local subsidiary, Southwestern Oregon Publ...
1.2K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 756.0 Arkansas Senate panel rejects resolution on ERA
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A new proposal to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment has failed in Arkansas, 27 years after a federal deadline to accept the anti-discrimination measure. The Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs voted 4-...
1.0K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 618.0 Obama faces thorny religious questions
Welcome to the church-state battlefield, President Obama. Consider this hypothetical landmine: Would it be discrimination for a Christian AIDS hospice to refuse to hire a worker who believes AIDS is a sign of God s wrath? Ponder these scenarios. Can ...
4.9K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 861.0 The labor battle
President Barack Obama s choice of a bill strongly backed by labor for his first public signing ceremony sent a clear message: Democrats are back in power, and their friends will be rewarded. This bill the so-called Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, wh...
3.2K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 791.0 House approves pay equity measure
WASHINGTON (AP) Energized by the prospects of a pro-labor president, House Democrats marked the first week of the new Congress Friday by pushing through two bills to help workers, particularly women, who are victims of pay discrimination. Unlike Pr...
4.2K - Jan. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 Church to stop signing marriage licenses
ASHLAND (AP) The clergy at one Ashland church are refusing to sign marriage licenses until same-sex couples can legally tie the knot. The Rev. Pam Shepherd and three retired clergy members who attend the Congregational United Church of Christ still...
0.7K - Jan. 6, 2009; scored 479.0 Now is the time for creative thinking
Lawmakers busy drafting the big jobs bill for President Obama s signature early next year need to stay focused on two things fairness and creativity to think beyond the kind of traditional public-works program President-elect Obama has talked abo...
4.6K - Dec. 16, 2008; scored 479.0 There s a long legal road ahead for gay marriage
The California Supreme Court s decision to hear argument as an original matter in three of the lawsuits challenging the adoption of Proposition 8 means the issue of gay marriage will soon be back in the courts. With one Justice voting not to hear t...
5.2K - Dec. 2, 2008; scored 479.0 | 
