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Paste your docume(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama issued a statement on Saturday indicating that he and First Lady Michelle Obama would commemorate this Sunday as "the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia." In the statement, the preisdent said he is working to "address the specific needs of transgender persons." Here is the president's statement : Michelle and I join our fellow Americans and others around the world in commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia tomorrow, May 17. We take this opportunity to reaffirm that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are human rights, to celebrate the dignity...

<p>A dozen Bay Area Muslims gathered at the French Consulate in San Francisco at noon Tuesday to protest France's proposed ban on religiously mandated head scarves, or hijabs, and other religious symbols in public schools.</p> <p>The protesters, mostly women wearing hijabs, waited outside the consulate to show their support as a representative of the Northern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NCA) presented a letter of opposition to Olivier Arribe, the deputy consul general.</p>