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A leading Orlando gay activist applauds a new policy adopted by the Orlando Sentinel. Debbie Simmons says the paper will start listing gay partnerships in what will no longer be the marriage announcements page."It's Celebration Pages now, that's what they're going to call it. They're going to list heterosexual and homosexual unions together in the same section of the paper." Simmons who is also pushing for inclusion of sexual preference in the city's anti discrimination ordinance, says the new policy doesn't dilute the status of heterosexual marriage. "To be recognized in the newspaper so that they could let their friends...

<p>When Rudy Rodriguez talks about the kind of splash he and his cousin Mike Vasquez hope to make in the world of NASCAR, he isn't talking about a little rock-skipping ripple.</p> <p>We're talking a Ricky Martin, Shakira and Enrique Iglesias cannonball kind of impact here.</p>

In an Eyewitness News exclusive, KYW has obtained an FBI terror alert on Friday, warning of a potential nerve gas attack against American subway systems. On Thursday, the FBI issued the alert to state and local law enforcement officials – its an internal warning to cops around the nation, cautioning that al-Qaida supporters in the United States may use nerve gas to poison subway systems in New York, Washington D.C. and other major cities before or during the fourth of July. The alert states that "this activity is allegedly intended to bring America to its knees on its Independence Day."...

The government will file three lawsuits against Florida counties alleging voting rights violations resulting from the bitterly disputed 2000 presidential election, a Justice Department official said Tuesday.TWO OTHER LAWSUITS also will be filed, in Missouri and Tennessee, by the department’s civil rights division, Assistant Attorney General Ralph Boyd told the Senate Judiciary Committee. The lawsuits will allege disparate treatment of minority voters, improper purging of voter rolls, “motor voter” registration violations and failure to provide access to disabled voters, Boyd said. Other charges, he said, include failing to allow voters with limited proficiency in English to have assistance at the...

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Because We Say So That's It. All Of It. Ain't No More.Perhaps society’s answer to some things should simply be “No. Because we say so.” I think that a culture should at times assert its collective will, impose the communal understanding of right and wrong, and not apologize. “Some things,” a people should say to the moral undercurrents welling from below, “you will not inflict on us.”But we have forgotten, irreversibly I suspect, the virtues of “Because we say so.”A question: Do you want young children, or yourself, to be exposed to grotesque scatology on television, to explicit copulation (“Daddy, ...

I received the following letter by e-mail. It was originally sent to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. It concerns the unreasonable laws and regulations passed in Florida (specifically, Brevard County) to "protect" the manatee - or sea cow as some of you may know it. However, the author uses the manatee issue to address the bigger problems of wacko environmentalism, animal rights, and government that steps beyond it's constitutinoal bounds. It's a GREAT read! To the Honorable Chairman and Members of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.The following comments are offered in support of the imposition of ...

Judge throws out award in Pizza Hut bias suit Panel wanted family to get $1.25 million FLORIDA TODAY Wires ORLANDO - A judge threw out a jury's decision Friday that Pizza Hut of America Inc. should pay $1.25 million to a black family for allowing a worker to send a receipt containing a racist slur to their home during a pizza delivery. The six-member jury found that the company intentionally discriminated against Eugenia Gray, her mother Peggy Watson, and her stepfather, Lorenzo Watson, when a pizza delivered to their home in August 1998 contained the words &quot;Stupid Nigger&quot; on ...