• "The object of California's establishment of the legal relationship of domestic partnership is to grant committed same-sex couples rights equivalent to those accorded a married couple. but Proposition 8, by depriving same-sex couples of the right to marry, denies them the dignity, respect, and stature accorded similarly situated opposite-sex couples under state law, " the court brief said.

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  • Their college-educated sisters fare better, but are still affected by the sex imbalance.

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  • The illness could be spread by sex and kissing but not by casual contact.

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  • This case poses a considerable risk of enriching undeserving class members and counsel, but depriving thousands of women actually injured by sex discrimination of their just due.

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  • C. by sex scandals not involving them but rather their political opponents.

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  • That made it possible for plaintiffs to sue employers not just for being singled out and victimised because of their sex, but simply for being offended by other employees' behaviour.

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  • The Supervisor of LUSH at the VOA refugee camp, Boakai Kandakai, told me he was shocked by the sex for food report, but maintained that none of his employees on the field have ever been involved in such.

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  • But one woman, who scrapes a living by selling sex aids and whose peasant family back in the northern province of Shanxi saves all it can to help her with her medical expenses, says dialysis in a hospital costs more than four times as much as their do-it-yourself method.

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  • Excellent was defined not by the number of times someone had sex but the emotional and physical satisfaction of the experience.

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  • Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has pointed out additional problems for same-sex couples caused not by tax rules but rather by IRS procedures.

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  • The couple were engaged by Christmas Eve that year, but argued over their sex life and only once attempted sex as Mr Hunnisett had trouble becoming aroused.

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  • But it said a review should be conducted by Northern Ireland Sex Offender Strategic Management Committee on social care agencies of the inter-relations between MASRAM and child protection arrangements.

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  • Yes, Qantas might be discriminating against men by making them appear to be sex offenders but, when they get their seating policy right, a disproportionate number of women are finding themselves seated next to unaccompanied children on flights.

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  • They were not sophisticated teenage girls, not by Western standards, but there had been no mystery about sex and procreation for them since soon after they had entered puberty.

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  • The court should vacate the decision striking down Proposition 8, leaving in place the original district-court order that prompted the case by allowing two same-sex couples to marry, but depriving Hollingsworth of precedential effect.

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  • Known in France as the PACS, or pacte civil de solidarite, the civil union agreement can be entered into by same-sex or straight couples and confers many but not all of the rights of marriage.

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  • Myriad cases have come before the courts concerning not just counselling or civil partnerships but such issues as the placing of children for adoption by same-sex parents and the turning away of gay couples from guesthouses.

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  • But by the time she was 13, the men had forced her into sex in guest houses and hotel rooms.

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  • Called on by the Justices to explain why Texas could criminalize gay sex but allow same-sex adoptions, Rosenthal had no response.

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  • No one is surprised when he becomes close to the ill-tempered wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), and no one is much surprised, or bothered, when Bernie, exhausted by her demands on him (everything, we assume, but sex), shoots her four times in the back with a .22 rifle normally used for killing armadillos.

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  • The cause of this condition is unknown, but it is thought that it might be caused by elevated levels of the female sex hormone oestrogen.

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  • During a boozy, pansexual evening at another house, Ben and Andrew conceive a crazy plan: they will contribute to a porno festival by having sex on camera not just two straight guys but best buddies.

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  • They told me they would like to start a family but worry about both of them getting custody, since Mississippi bans adoption by same-sex parents.

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  • And the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, opposes gay marriage but supports civil partnerships, which he says have addressed the injustices faced by same-sex couples.

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  • Young Cairene women are as elegant and as sex-obsessed as their New York counterparts but their every action is monitored by bullying, protective brothers and nosy doormen.

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  • And there was no mention of legalising gay marriage, which will please some Conservative backbenchers who have criticised it as a distraction from fixing the economy, but the Home Office said it remained committed to introducing same-sex civil marriage "by the end of this Parliament" and a consultation was "still ongoing".

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  • He admitted same-sex marriage, opposed by some of his MPs and activists, was divisive but said he was proud the new law had been passed by MPs.

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  • That is the essence of the arguments we've heard presented by members of Congress and the Judiciary Committee, but underlying the pending Clinton impeachment is neither sex nor lying nor perjury, but American history itself.

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  • But we turned to another Bush who could restore dignity to an office that had been sullied by a petty sex scandal.

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