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	<title>GayPatriot &#187; Gay Marriage</title>
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		<title>No, you don&#8217;t need a state sanction to get married</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/no-you-dont-need-state-sanction-to-get-married/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/no-you-dont-need-state-sanction-to-get-married/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long before civil governments granted marriage licenses, men and women had been getting married for generations.  Most had their unions sanctified in a church or other religious institution. Yet, too many advocates of gay marriage whine that, until the state acts, they can&#8217;t married.  Hogwash.  No, most states still won&#8217;t recognize their unions as marriages, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Washington State recognizes same-sex marriages the right way</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/washington-state-recognizes-same-sex-marriages-the-right-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/washington-state-recognizes-same-sex-marriages-the-right-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Washington State House passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriages, following the action last week of the state Senate.  Governor Christine Gregoire &#8220;is expected to sign the measure into law next week.&#8221; This is exactly how states should go about recognizing same-sex relationships, with elected legislators deciding the matter.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why marriage matters</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/why-marriage-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/why-marriage-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s overturning Prop 8 yesterday as unconstitutional, it is important to take a step back from the overheated rhetoric in the debate on state recognition of same-sex marriage &#8212; a debate which alas has offered more heat than light &#8212; and attempt to offer that light, to illuminate the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>80</slash:comments>
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		<title>9th Circuit declares Prop 8 Unconstitutional</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/9th-circuit-declares-prop-8-unconstitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/9th-circuit-declares-prop-8-unconstitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the decision. Decision is by Judge Stephen Reinhardt who is &#8220;one of the most-reversed judges before the Supreme Court&#8220;. He just handed the Republicans a campaign issue.  They can make the case that unelected judges should not be resolving issues which the constitution entrusted to legislators &#8212; and the people themselves. UPDATE:  I apologize [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Prop 8 Decision Expected Today</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/prop-8-decision-expected-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/prop-8-decision-expected-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just caught this on Memeorandum: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s public information office expects a ruling on Tuesday, Feb. 7 by 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern Time in the Perry v. Brown case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. &#8220;Regardless of how the 9th Circuit rules,&#8221; writes Howard Mintz in the San [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Huntsman&#8217;s solid statement on civil unions</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/01/08/huntsmans-solid-statement-on-civil-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/01/08/huntsmans-solid-statement-on-civil-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the candidates in Saturday night’s ABC News /Yahoo!/WMUR-TV New Hampshire Republican primary debate, Jon Huntsman offered the best (and most coherent) statement on state recognition of same-sex relationships: Well, personally, I think civil unions are fair. I support them. I think there’s such a thing as equality under the law. I’m a married [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>No, the Republicans didn&#8217;t hate on gays last night</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/01/08/no-the-republicans-did-not-hate-on-gays-last-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/01/08/no-the-republicans-did-not-hate-on-gays-last-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Based on the commentary of some of my left-of-center gay friends on Facebook last night, the Republican presidential candidates engaged in a hatefest against gay people. I did not watch the debate. I am back in my hometown of Cincinnati and preferred to spend the evening with my brother. Then, this morning, after spending time [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newt Gingrich and Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/12/21/newt-gingrich-and-gay-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/12/21/newt-gingrich-and-gay-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just because I criticized various media outlets &#8212; and others &#8212; who misrepresented Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich&#8217;s exchange with a gay Iowa Democrat (who, by his own logic, should be a big supporter of former Vice President Dick Cheney) does not mean I support the candidate. Although I have impressed with how the former [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putting Newt&#8217;s response to a gay Iowan in context</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/12/21/putting-newts-response-to-a-gay-iowan-in-context/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/12/21/putting-newts-response-to-a-gay-iowan-in-context/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misrepresenting Conservatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A reader alerted me to an article contending that GOP presidential candidate &#8220;Newt Gingrich told a gay man and longtime resident of Oskaloosa[, Iowa] here today that he should vote for President Obama.&#8221;  According to Memeorandum, the story is generating quite the buzz in the blogosphere. Only problem is that the spin of the Democrat [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>CA Supreme Court:  Prop 8 backers have standing</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/11/17/ca-supreme-court-prop-8-backers-have-standing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/11/17/ca-supreme-court-prop-8-backers-have-standing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I voted against Proposition 8 in 2008 and believe that voters should overturn it, I think the state Supreme Court got this one right: The sponsors of ballot propositions can step in to defend their initiatives from legal challenges if the governor and attorney general refuse to do so, California&#8217;s highest court said Thursday [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Equality California&#8217;s new leader stepping down on Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/10/11/equality-californias-new-leader-stepping-down-on-friday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/10/11/equality-californias-new-leader-stepping-down-on-friday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just learned from Michael Petrelis&#8216;s blog (and confirmed via the Sacramento Bee/Associated Press) that Equality California&#8217;s (EqCA) new Executive Director Roland Palencia will be stepping down later this week: The leader of California&#8217;s largest gay rights group is leaving his post after only a few months on the job. Equality California announced Monday that Executive [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tea Party favorite in Congress is okay with civil unions</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/10/07/tea-party-favorite-in-congress-is-okay-with-civil-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/10/07/tea-party-favorite-in-congress-is-okay-with-civil-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New American Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noble Republicans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always fascinating to see how liberals perceive conservatives.  They tend to define us not by our ideas or our most accomplished or eloquent leaders, but by the fringe extremists who cling onto our movement hoping to mean some meaning there. Yesterday on his eponymous CNN show, Piers Morgan suggested that Tea Party folk harbor [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should a teacher be fired for opposing same-sex marriage?</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/19/should-a-teacher-be-fired-for-opposing-same-sex-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/19/should-a-teacher-be-fired-for-opposing-same-sex-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism Run Amok]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Morrissey doesn&#8217;t think so: Do teachers in public-school systems have a “special ethics” code that prevents them from publicly speaking on policy issues?  Lake County Schools in Florida suspended Jerry Buell, a high-school teacher with a reportedly impeccable record for 22 years, for posting his opposition to New York’s new gay-marriage law, and will start [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>The gay left&#8217;s Orwellian notion of freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/12/the-gay-lefts-orwellian-notion-of-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/12/the-gay-lefts-orwellian-notion-of-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is perhaps serendipitous that shortly after completing Joseph J. Ellis&#8216;s American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, I started Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch&#8217;s The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What&#8217;s Wrong with America.  Let me just say I recommend both books, the latter more than the former.  Each book considers the defining words of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;‘Anti-Gay’ or ‘Anti-Gay Marriage’?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/12/%e2%80%98anti-gay%e2%80%99-or-%e2%80%98anti-gay-marriage%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/12/%e2%80%98anti-gay%e2%80%99-or-%e2%80%98anti-gay-marriage%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misrepresenting Conservatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I will shed no tears the day Rick Santorum removes himself from contention for the Republican presidential nomination.  But, his candidacy, quixotic though it may be, has at least done one thing:  helped expose a flawed assumption the media have made in the ongoing debate on gay marriage. Yesterday, in (on?) National Review&#8217;s Corner, this MSNBC [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/12/%e2%80%98anti-gay%e2%80%99-or-%e2%80%98anti-gay-marriage%e2%80%99/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lesbians more likely to wed than gay men</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/01/lesbians-more-likely-to-wed-than-gay-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/08/01/lesbians-more-likely-to-wed-than-gay-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbians Trapped in Men's Bodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Difference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Men,&#8221; writes David K. Li in the New York Post, &#8220;have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the altar &#8211; whether they&#8217;re straight or gay.&#8221; While several studies have suggested that there are more gay men than lesbians, there have been more lesbian marriages than gay (male) ones by a margin of 3-to-2.  Since [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The compulsion to label &amp; belittle gay marriage opponents</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/07/22/the-compulsion-to-label-belittle-gay-marriage-opponents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/07/22/the-compulsion-to-label-belittle-gay-marriage-opponents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[112th Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most depressing thing about the debate on gay marriage is the dedication of gay marriage advocates to demonizing those who oppose state-recognition of same-sex marriages.  With their childish &#8220;No H8&#8243; campaign, they contend that people oppose their view because they hate gay people. No, there are, I grant, some folks who oppose state [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why didn&#8217;t Obama back this* when Democrats had majorities in both Houses of Congress?</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/07/20/why-didnt-he-back-this-bill-when-democrats-had-majorities-in-both-houses-of-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/07/20/why-didnt-he-back-this-bill-when-democrats-had-majorities-in-both-houses-of-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama and Gay Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama Supports Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act: President Obama is throwing his support behind the Respect for Marriage Act &#8211; the bill to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage even for couples married under state law. Why didn&#8217;t he make any effort to repeal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudy:  GOP should stick to economic issues</title>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/07/17/rudy-gop-should-stick-to-economic-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2011/07/17/rudy-gop-should-stick-to-economic-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani, my guy for 2008, reminds Republicans where our focus should be: &#8220;I think the Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people&#8217;s bedrooms and let these things [e.g., gay marriage] get decided by states,&#8221; Giuliani said Sunday on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;d be a much more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RI recognizes same-sex civil unions; equality activists upset</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. Daniel Blatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a vote of 21 to 16, the Rhode Island Senate approved a measure to grant . . . legal rights to same-sex partners &#8220;without the historical and religious meaning associated with the word marriage,&#8221; a statement from the Rhode Island General Assembly said. &#8220;We have made great progress in our goal of providing increased [...]]]></description>
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