North Carolina’s voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage, joining 29 other states and the rest of the South.

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North Carolina Votes on Same-Sex Marriage Amendment

North Carolina voters approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, dealing a setback to a gay rights movement that has enjoyed significant momentum in recent years. With less than a third of the returns tallied, the measure had enough support to pass, according to the Associated Press. It strengthens a same-sex marriage ban already on the books in North Carolina, which until Tuesday had been the only state in the Southeast that had not taken the step of incorporating the ban into its constitution. Read full article > >

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Amendment would ban gay marriage.

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Bill Clinton Opposes N.C. Law

State votes on constitutional amendment next week.

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A government official at the center of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference claimed his Fifth Amendment rights as he declined to testify before a House panel.

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GSA official takes 5th Amendment

The SNP says it will propose a Budget amendment at Westminster which will freeze future rises in fuel duty.

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DOES THE Second Amendment protect an individual right to carry a gun outside the home? Last week, a federal judge in Maryland concluded that it does and in the process struck down a Maryland licensing provision for carrying concealed weapons in public. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: The right of protection

The House of Lords backs an amendment to the government’s health bill aimed at assuaging Liberal democrat concerns over a growth of competition within the NHS.

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Peers accept concessions on NHS

The Senate Thursday rejected an effort to vastly expand conscience exemptions to the Obama administration’s new birth control coverage rule, even as Republican presidential contenders continued to tussle over the issue. Read full article > >

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Birth control exemption bill, the ‘Blunt amendment,’ killed in Senate

The director of the National Park Service said Tuesday that U.S. Park Police will “very soon” begin enforcing a no-camping law at McPherson Square but that the Occupy D.C. movement has a prevailing First Amendment right to continue its vigil there. Read full article > >

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Park Service says it will begin enforcing ‘no-camping’ law for Occupy D.C. protesters at McPherson Square

The Supreme Court ruled for the first time Wednesday that federal discrimination laws do not protect employees of religious organizations who perform “ministerial” duties. The court ruled unanimously that the First Amendment’s protection of the free exercise of religion dictates the organizations “be free to choose those who will guide it on its way.” Read full article > >

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Supreme Court: Discrimination laws do not protect certain employees of religious groups

WINDHAM, N.H. It isn’t every day that political candidates are asked whether the 10th Amendment allows states to nullify federal laws, but that was precisely the question Rick Santorum faced at a forum here a few days ago organized by a libertarian-leaning group. To his credit, Santorum did not pander to the nullifier. “We had a Civil War about nullification,” Santorum said with a smile. “I’m not sure I want to go there.” Read full article > >

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GOP candidates in circular firing squad

The beer is good, but the 12-ounce can is a real hoot. Collaborators Shaun O’Sullivan and Nico Freccia of 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco and Jamie Floyd of Ninkasi Brewing Co . in Eugene, Ore., have photo-shopped their faces unto the famous picture of Churchill , Roosevelt and Stalin seated at the Yalta Conference in 1945. The side of the can is designed to resemble a 1940s-era newspaper with a banner headline screaming, Allies Win the War! (which happens to be the name of the beer). Read full article > >

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Allies Win the War!: A beer for the greater good?

To avoid lengthy treaty amendment process.

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Euro Zone May Change Budget Rules

Abortion rights supporters cheering over the defeat of the “personhood” amendment in Mississippi tend to see last week’s vote as a clear-cut setback for those who disagree with them on this hottest of hot-button issues. “The pro-choicers won handily,” Amanda Marcotte wrote in Slate . “I wonder if the Mississippi ‘personhood’ and Ohio union votes reflect an electoral shift in a more progressive direction,” tweeted New York Times columnist Nick Kristof . “Here was overreach by the right-to-life movement,” wrote Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne . Read full article > >

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Personhood amendment shows that ‘pro-life’ not a monolith, even on Roe v. Wade