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Generation by Generation, Where Voters Stand on Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on 03/27/2013 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | Politics | RelationshipsAs the U.S. Supreme Court took up two seminal cases on same-sex marriage, the media speculated about whether the justices were in step with public opinion. But what is the public’s opinion? When you look at the issue by generation, there’s a wide divide. More members of Generation X (born 1965-1980) and Millennials (born after 1980) favor marriage equality than oppose it, according to a Pew Research Center poll in March. Not so for the Silent Generation (born 1928-1945) or boomers …

VA Grants Burial Rights for Same-Sex Oregon Couple

Posted on 02/15/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Home & Family | PoliticsBy Steven Dubois of The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to allow the same-sex spouse of a member of the military to be buried in a U.S. national cemetery. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki used his discretionary authority to allow the burial of Nancy Lynchild’s ashes, the agency said Thursday. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who called Shinseki last month to lobby for the action, said the Oregon couple will become the first …

Jeanne Manford: She Raised the Flag for Tolerance

Posted on 01/10/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyBack in the early 1970s, when being gay was still widely considered both a mental illness and a crime, Jeanne Manford got a phone call late one night in Queens, N.Y. It was a police officer, who informed her that her son Morty, a student at Columbia University, had been arrested. “And you know,” the officer told her in an ominous tone, “he’s homosexual.” The response from Manford, a normally soft-spoken schoolteacher, was blunt. “I know that,” she said. “Why …