Across the nation.Cook Country, Ill. Dozens of same-sex couples in Chicago lined up to sign a new domestic-partner registry on October 2. The registry affords no legal protections, but its establishment was hailed as a symbolic victory. Washington, D.C. The U.S. Senate on September 25 confirmed Michael Mosman to a U.S. district judgeship in Portland, Ore. In 1986, Mosman urged Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell to uphold Georgia's antigay sodomy sodomy n. anal copulation by a man inserting his penis in the anus either of another man or a woman. If accomplished by force, without consent, or with someone incapable of consent, sodomy is a felony in all states in the same way that rape is. Homosexual (male to male) sodomy between consenting adults has also been found a felony, but increasingly is either decriminalized or seldom prosecuted. law. This May he assured gay advocates that he now supports equal rights. Concord, N.C. The Baptist Convention of North Carolina expelled the 101-year-old McGill Baptist Church for accepting two gay men as members and later baptizing them. Boca Raton, Fla. The Royal Colonial Apartments on September 30 reached a $75,000 settlement with a gay couple after the complex was sued for refusing to rent them an apartment because of their sexual orientation. |
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