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Half Of Americans Say They'd Support An Openly-Gay President

Submitted by ONE Community on March 30, 2010 - 1:31pm
Fifty percent of Americans say they'd support having an openly gay President of the United States, a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll shows. Forty-four percent would be opposed to having a gay president in office. The poll asked respondents how they'd feel about having openly gay contenders in a variety of positions, including Supreme Court Justice, Secretary of State, Commissioner of baseball and Super Bowl quarterback.
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Gay US diplomats to receive equal benefits

Submitted by ONE Community on May 25, 2009 - 8:45pm
By MATTHEW LEE – May 23, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that gay American diplomats will be given benefits similar to those that their heterosexual counterparts enjoy, U.S. officials said Saturday. In a notice to be sent soon to State Department employees, Clinton says regulations that denied same-sex couples and their families the same rights and privileges that straight diplomats enjoyed are "unfair and must end," as they harm U.S. diplomacy. Read on.
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