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<p>HARTFORD — The legislature’s Judiciary Committee decisively rejected a bill to grant same-sex couples legal recognition Wednesday, but supporters said they remain optimistic that such a measure will pass eventually.</p> <p>"This is something new," Anne Stanback, president of Love Makes a Family. "It’s not something that’s going to happen overnight, but it’s going to happen."</p>

Remaining "outmoded" State laws invalidating deviant sexual behavior and premarital sex continue to be overturned by state and federal courts. Just recently a Southern State Supreme Court overturned a law prohibiting premarital sex, and a Texas law barring deviant sex will come before the US Supreme Court. Modern society assumes that the elmination of these laws is the path to a free and fair society, but is it? With the new morals has come a wealth of terminated pregnancies, children confused into believing they were born into the wrong sex body, an epidemic of deadly sexually transmitted diseases, rampant pornography,...

 

Ritter: On the Anti-War PathBy Julia GorinFrontPageMagazine.com | January 29, 2003 It's funny how soliciting sex from an underage girl can be the difference between Iraq having nuclear capability and not having nuclear capability.Just ask former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. In 1997, before Ritter was arrested for soliciting sex from a police officer posing as a teenager, Saddam Hussein indeed had been furtively building a nuclear arsenal, according to Ritter. But in 2002, a year after Ritter acquired a dirty little secret of his own, Hussein suddenly became beyond suspicion.Ritter has said that the timing "stinks," and lamented that...

The sex, drugs and paedophilia scandal in the heart of the US Catholic Church has brought the Boston archdiocese to the edge of ruin, reports Julian Coman Leo Inzaghi, the manager of the Caffe dello Sport in Boston's Italian district, stopped reading the local newspapers last week. As a practising Catholic and a father, he found their contents too shocking. "My wife telephoned me and said, 'Have you seen what the Church knew about Father Nyhan?' It turned out that the priest at the private school where we sent our daughter was transferred there after being accused of molesting two...

JERUSALEM - For the first time, a declared homosexual is about to become a member of Israel's parliament, and except for predictable outrage from Orthodox Jewish legislators, the prospect has attracted little attention. Gay activists say this reflects growing acceptance of homosexuality in Israeli society. Uzi Even, a professor at Tel Aviv University and a veteran gay rights activist, will replace Amnon Rubinstein, who is retiring from the parliament, representing the dovish, secular Meretz party. Even is to take his seat when the parliament reconvenes after its summer recess in November. Lawmaker Nissim Zeev of Shas, the largest Orthodox Jewish...

ATLANTA, Georgia - The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously agreed to let stand a ruling from the Georgia Court of Appeals that concluded that a Vermont civil union is not the equivalent of marriage, and even if a civil union were marriage, it may not be recognized as marriage in Georgia. The decision also upheld the Georgia Defense of Marriage Act, which limits marriage to one man and one woman. The case is known as Burns v. Burns. The case was successfully defended on behalf of the former husband, Darian Burns, through his attorney Mathew D. Staver, President and General Counsel...

An ultrasound picture sits next to a constantly ringing phone on the reception desk of the Planet Salon that just opened in Beaumont Centre. The photo is a clue that something possibly unique is about to happen to the men who own the salon, domestic partners Thomas Dysarz and Michael Meehan. The men expect to become parents in late August, when a Caesarean section is scheduled. Meehan, 36, is the biological father. The mother is a 23-year-old surrogate who agreed to help Meehan and Dysarz have a baby through in-vitro fertilization. But then something happened that nobody expected -- and...

If you were in Dallas last week, you got a front-row seat to the Gravest Show on Earth. The circus could be summed up like this: "Pulling the Frock over the Public's Eyes." Priests who gathered for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops performed magic as they tackled the growing church sex-abuse scandal. The bishops pulled out smoke. They whipped out mirrors. They came up with a plan that bans from active ministry any priest who abuses a child, or has done so in the past. The plan -- approved 239-13 -- calls for priests to be removed from public...