Senate facg ernment fundg, gay marriage return

Contents:

• SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE
• GOVERNMENT FUNDG, GAY MARRIAGE AMONG ISSU FACG RETURNG SENATE
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE

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GOVERNMENT FUNDG, GAY MARRIAGE AMONG ISSU FACG RETURNG SENATE

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THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

Along wh the grapplg over ernment fundg, Senate Majory Lear Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has vowed to brg a bill makg gay marriage legal natnwi to the floor but acknowledged last month that legislatn may be put on the back burner orr for Democrats to ph through Bin’s judicial nomatns. Wa on June 24 and Jtice Clarence Thomas issued a ncurrg opn qutng precent for upholdg gay marriage.

LGBT activists and supporters held a rally outsi the US Supreme Court over a feral anti-discrimatn law that prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex verg gay and transgenr employe. Tammy Baldw, the Democratic -sponsor, have lobbied for Republin support and have worked to ensure difyg gay marriage will not affect relig liberty protectns.

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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

" Goldberg prsed on, tellg Griff, "This is about beg able to say, 'I don't want to do a gay person's webse, ' that's what this is about. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.