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Mail Call: Free to Be Gay?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Our Sept. 17 cover story on gay rights led readers to share their nation's position on the issue. One wrote, "Israel's gays are protected under law as in Europe." Another opined, "The Western formula may be unfit for all." A third said, "When two adults commit to each other, that's their business."
A Premier Development Agency?
I am writing in response to the Sept. 17 Periscope piece "The New Bush Politics of Aid." Since taking office, George W. Bush has nearly tripled foreign-assistance investments, overseeing the largest increase in development assistance since the Marshall Plan of 1947. In his FY2008 budget request, the president increased assistance for the poorest countries by some 20 percent, including funding for HIV/AIDS, malaria, education and good governance. The administration's focus on poverty is not just about increas-ing funding but about using those funds wisely. The U.S. Agency for International Development is addressing the root causes of poverty, such as the lack of institutional capacity on the part of governments to meet the needs of their people. In so doing, we work to leverage taxpayer-funded development resources for maximum impact and return. We are fully committed to having USAID maintain a diverse and skilled work force and remaining the premier development agency for the United States and the world.
Henrietta Holsman Fore
Acting Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and Acting USAID Administrator
Washington, D.C.
Fighting for Global Gay Rights
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...It may be harder in America. Homosexuals there want to be obvious, recognised and protected. Their rallying call is "gay rights". They are demanding, and in some cases have already won, local statutes guaranteeing equal opportunity in housing and...
- United States: Maryland governor vetoes lesbian, gay rights bill.(North America)
- Magazine article from: off our backs Verma, Priya Douglas, Carol Anne Pleatman, Rachel Chapman, Annsley Manzano, Angelita Mantilla, Karla May 1, 2005 700+ words
ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich vetoed a bill on May 20 that would have given lesbians and gay men rights such as visiting partners in the hospital and making health care decisions for each other. The couples would have had to register with the state to get such rights. Ehrlich, who
- Nugent and Gramick (United States).(support of clergy members Robert Nugent and...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight April 1, 2000 700+ words
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- Pander gridlock alert: John Kerry, defending "gay rights" before a black...
- Magazine article from: National Review April 5, 2004 700+ words
* PANDER GRIDLOCK ALERT: John Kerry, defending "gay rights" before a black audience, explained that when "Mr...s gay, I think that's a matter of rights in the United States of America." James Byrd was dragged behind a truck...
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- Magazine article from: The Nation Minkowitz, Donna September 16, 2002 700+ words
...support the repeal of Miami's gay-rights law, they might have cast...Miami-Dade County's gay rights law was only passed in 1998...anti-Castro group in the United States. "I think [the gay rights law] is a good thing...
- A call to arms: it's no exaggeration to say that the Federal Marriage Amendment...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Sullivan, Andrew November 11, 2003 700+ words
...These words could change the direction of gay rights in this country forever: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man...to say this is the biggest assault on gay rights in U.S. history. It would write discrimination...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Porterfield, Elaine February 5, 2004 700+ words
...Canadian provinces to prominent debate about the issue in states such as Massachusetts and Ohio, gay rights have become a major issue in the United States - and that could help give the bill additional momentum in the Washington Legislature. Murray...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mail Call: Free to Be Gay?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)