Cross country.1 SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , CALIF. Orange County superior court judge David C. Velasquez ruled August 15 that the Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is a community of 85,000 Episcopalians in 147 congregations, 39 schools, and 18 major institutions, spanning all of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties, and part of Riverside County. could not confiscate To expropriate private property for public use without compensating the owner under the authority of the Police Power of the government. To seize property. When property is confiscated it is transferred from private to public use, usually for reasons such as the property of Newport Beach's St. James Church, which split from the national church over the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). . 2 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. Mayor Rocky Anderson announced August 23 that he would bypass the city council if necessary to extend health benefits to partners of all city employees, gay or straight. 3 CONWAY, ARK. Former Little Rock, Ark., radio station employees Phillip Beard and Christine Brown were sentenced August 18 to 24 hours of community service and fined $250 each after pleading guilty to distributing a gay porn video to a minor and criminal attempt, respectively, at a gay pride parade A gay pride parade or LGBT pride parade is part of a festival or ceremony held by the LGBT community of a city to commemorate the struggle for LGBT rights and pride. in Conway last year. 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS Gov. Rick Perry sent out 10,000 e-mails August 23 asking Texans to vote in November to put a same-sex marriage ban into the state constitution. In turn, an anti-amendment group sent 10,000 e-mails accusing Perry of attacking gays. 5 MILWAUKEE, WIS. The Milwaukee Gay Arts Center filed a claim against the city August 23, citing civil rights violations after police shut down the musical review Naked Boys Singing! The city said the center didn't have a permit for an all-nude show. 6 ATLANTA, CA. Before receiving a life sentence August 22. Eric Rudolph apologized for bombing the 1996 Atlanta Olympics but not for subsequent bombings that included an Atlanta gay nightclub. |
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