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Vote on Gay Scouts Comes at Emotional Moment
Society & Culture  (tags: religion, gayrights, Boy Scouts, rights, news, politics, society, interesting, culture, children, americans, law, freedoms )

Cal
- 21 hours ago - news.yahoo.com
The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members.
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A Movie That You'Ll Want to Share on Mother's Day
Society & Culture  (tags: society, politics, mother's day, news )

Cal
- 12 days ago - play.simpletruths.com
Heart of a Mother celebrates Mother's Day, and the beauty of a mother's love, in an unforgettable way. You're going to love it, and you'll want to share it with every mother you know!
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The Economics of Mother's Day: By the Numbers
Society & Culture  (tags: society, politics, mother's day, news )

Cal
- 15 days ago - theweek.com
Americans are going to spend more than $2 billion showering their moms with flowers on Sunday
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: 60 Minutes Story Inspired Billion-Dollar Charity
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, interesting, humans, ethics, GoodNews, goodnews, philanthropy, world, society, politics, culture, news )

Cal
- 18 days ago - cbsnews.com
Inspired one Sunday night in 1986 by a 60 Minutes story of a millionaire who "adopted" a class in an inner city school, Paul Tudor Jones started a charity himself a couple years later.
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Fertilizer Plant Blast: Does Post-9/11 Secrecy Make Your Life Riskier?
Society & Culture  (tags: secrecy, politics, society, law, freedoms, news, environemt. rights, government )

Cal
- 19 days ago - csmonitor.com
Following the fertilizer plant blast, Texas cited terror concerns in withholding information on dangerous chemicals. Some say that secrecy deprives citizens of the ability to make decisions about their safety.
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Slaves to Our Stuff: A Creative Vision to Break Away From Consumer Culture's Destructive Grip
Society & Culture  (tags: culture, society, politics, economy, consumer culture, interesting, family, americans, world, rights, news )

Cal
- 23 days ago - alternet.org
Billy Talen, known as Reverend Billy, talks about his new book and says, "We need to be honest with ourselves about the danger we are all in with the natural world."
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Kurdish Men Dress in Drag to Support Gender Equality
Society & Culture  (tags: world, society, gayrights, Kurdistan, politics, news, interesting, culture, law, rights, women, freedoms, government )

Cal
- 25 days ago - globalpost.com
The campaign 'Kurd Men for Equality' is a response to an Iranian court's sentence for a man found guilty in a domestic dispute.
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Want More Gender Equality At Work? Go To An Emerging Market
Society & Culture  (tags: women's rights, freedoms, labor, equal pay for equal work, society, politics, culture, americans, government, rights, women, news, world, world )

Cal
- 31 days ago - npr.org
For the past decade more American women than men have earned undergraduate and Master's degrees; and in the past three years, they've outpaced men at the doctoral level, too.
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Boy Scouts of America Proposes Dropping Ban on Gay Kids--But Not Gay Adults
Society & Culture  (tags: religion, gayrights, Boy Scouts, rights, news, politics, society, interesting, culture, children, americans, law, freedoms )

Cal
- 33 days ago - motherjones.com
The Boy Scouts of America announced that it intends to end its ban on gay members, as long as its board approves the change. The organization would still, however, prohibit gay adults from serving as troop leaders or volunteers.
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New Zealand Lawmakers Approve Gay-Marriage Bill
Society & Culture  (tags: gayrights, politics, society, world, New Zealand, media, government, freedoms, rights, news, culture, ethics )

Cal
- 36 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's Parliament on Wednesday as the country became the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage
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NHL Announces Support For Gay Rights, Pledges To Fight Homophobia With New Initiative
Society & Culture  (tags: gayrights, sports, society, politics, NHL rights, news, GoodNews, government, goodnews, americans, culture )

Cal
- 42 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
The National Hockey League (NHL) has offered its support of gay rights with the announcement of a new partnership to combat homophobia in sports.
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RIP: Roger Ebert Dies at 70 After Battle With Cancer
Society & Culture  (tags: MOVIES ROGER EBERT, Roger Ebert, politics, movies, news, culture, obituary, society )

Cal
- 49 days ago - suntimes.com
Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago.
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60 MINUTES: The Lost Boys of Sudan: 12 Years Later
Society & Culture  (tags: children, politics, society, interesting, humans, ethics, americans, world, rights, news, GoodNews, goodnews )

Cal
- 53 days ago - cbsnews.com
Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys in a Kenyan refugee camp in 2001 after they had fled civil war in the Sudan. Some of the young men were relocated to the U.S. -- how are they doing now?
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Video: A Supreme Court Justice Takes Down An Anti-Gay-Marriage Argument In 1 Minute
Society & Culture  (tags: dishonesty, ethics, SupremeCourt, usa, freedoms, gayrights, politics, rights, sadness, safety, society, news, ethics, culture, americans )

JL
- 57 days ago - upworthy.com
During a Supreme Court hearing to determine whether Proposition 8 (marriage shall only be between one man and one woman) was constitutional, a number of anti-gay marriage arguments got spectacularly demolished Check out this quote from Justice Sotomayor
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