Episcopal clergy in Washington, D.C. have been given the green light to preside at same-sex marriages.
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Episcopal Clergy Permitted to Wed Gay Couples in D.C.
Friday, March 12th, 2010Mayo Clinic Bridles at Medicare Payments
Monday, January 11th, 2010The Mayo Clinic, which has been praised by President Obama as an exemplar for the healthcare industry, will no longer accept new Medicare patients at a primary-care clinic in Glendale, AZ, a Phoenix suburb. While this office serves only a small portion of Mayo’s 526,000 patients in Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida, the organization says that the Glendale clinic is part of a 2-year pilot that will determine whether Mayo continues taking care of Medicare patients at other facilities. Meanwhile, the 3,000 Medicare patients who see family doctors at the Glendale office will have to pay nearly $2,000 a year out of pocket if they want to stay with their physicians.
Oil, fuel prices rise as dollar, temperatures fall
Monday, October 12th, 2009Energy prices rose Monday as an October chill across much of the U.S. sent thermometers plummeting along with the weakening U.S. currency.
Gay marriages expected to begin in Iowa April 24
Saturday, April 4th, 2009DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gay marriage, seemingly the province of the nation’s two coasts, is just weeks away from becoming a reality in the heartland and apparently it will be years before social conservatives have a chance to stop it.
Rapelay virtual rape game banned by Amazon
Saturday, February 14th, 2009Withdrawn from sale: Amazon.com has stopped selling RapeLay, in which players have to stalk and rape a family of women
A PC game that allows players to gang rape virtual women – and then force them to have an abortion – has been banned from Amazon.
Episcopal Priest Claims ‘Being Gay is Gift from God’
Monday, February 9th, 2009The Rev. Canon J. Edwin Bacon Jr. from Southern California has made it no secret that he supports gays and lesbians and same-sex marriage. But his recent pro-gay comments on the Oprah Winfrey show have stunned even the popular talk show host herself.
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California prepares to stop paying bills
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Come Feb. 1, tax refunds, welfare checks replaced with IOUs
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Report: More elderly Japanese turn to petty crime
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Beset by economic worries and loneliness, elderly Japanese are turning to petty crime in increasing numbers, the nation’s Justice Ministry reports.
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Wealthy gay men backed anti-Prop. 8 effort
Sunday, November 16th, 2008A handful of the nation’s wealthiest gay men pumped more than $4.5 million into the campaign against Prop. 8, part of a flood of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender money that accounted for more than half the $38 million raised in the unsuccessful effort to block the same-sex marriage ban in California.
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Sodom Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.
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