Good deeds rewarded; financial dog paddle; and the fox’s final word
As generous as he is camera shy, Mike Thoreson dropped by the Hanna Boys Center campus Tuesday to see his donation — $70,000 for laptops, one for every student – at work. The donation came about when Bob Figone, a Hanna boardmember, happened to recently run into Thoreson, a younger man on whom Bob had been a positive influence many years earlier, in San Francisco. The two had gotten to know each …

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Van Hollen: Gay marriage isn't a fundamental right
MILWAUKEE (AP) –Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause doesn’t cover sexual orientation the same way it does gender discrimination and there’s no fundamental right for gay couples to marry.

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GLAAD: Movies don't represent LGBT community well – CNN

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GLAAD: Movies don’t represent LGBT community well CNN (CNN) — Although the general public may be embracing the LGBT community more these days, it doesn’t look like Hollywood is keeping up. That’s the message of GLAAD’s 2014 Studio Responsibility Index, which charts the “quantity, quality and diversity of …

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Gay Group Attacks First Amendment
NEW YORK, July 23, 2014 /Standard Newswire/ — Bill Donohue comments on the Human Rights Campaign: The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is ill-named: it is a gay rights group that often disrespects the human rights of those with whom it disagrees. Its latest …

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Fighting the religious right exacts a toll: How LGBT groups got secretly divided – Salon

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Fighting the religious right exacts a toll: How LGBT groups got secretly divided Salon To the relief of LGBT-rights supporters — and the dismay of some conservative religious groups — companies with religious owners seeking contracts with the feds are not exempted. For gay-rights advocates, it’s an initial win in what will be a … and more »

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UK will warn anti-gay nations: ‘You need to change’
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will tell the world that the UK will bring up gay rights in every meeting and press governments around the world to change their homophobic laws The UK government will deliver a stark warning to homophobic nations in the …

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