Second opinions."After years of keeping his personal life private, the Mississippi-bred, Southern Baptist-reared [Lance] Bass, 27, is publicly revealing what he first shared with his friends, then his shocked family.... He is in a 'very stable' relationship with model-actor-Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl Reichen Lehmkuhl, (born Richard Allen Lehmkuhl on December 26, 1973), is an American former reality show winner, male model, and actor. He is arguably best known as a winner of the fourth season of the reality game show The Amazing Race , 32, and is developing an Odd Couple--inspired sitcom pilot with [Joey] Fatone in which his character will be gay.... 'I'm not ashamed ....' he explains.... 'I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.'" --As reported on People.aol.com, July 26 "I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it's a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed. I think it is a transgression against God's law.... We make choices all the time ... good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one's genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist, or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac klep·to·ma·ni·a n. An obsessive impulse to steal regardless of economic need. [Greek kleptein, to steal + -mania. . Do I think that they can be changed? Yes." --Ohio gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell in The Columbus Dispatch, July 23 "The highest courts of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Georgia last week moved in the opposite direction of history and justice on same-sex marriage Noun 1. same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" couple, twosome, duet, duo - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable .... [T]here's still hope that California's supreme court will take a more enlightened view of the issue when it next hears a challenge to heterosexual monopoly on civil marriage.... It took the Supreme Court until 1967--1967!--to strike down odiously racist anti-miscegenation laws Anti-miscegenation laws (also known as miscegenation laws) were laws that banned interracial marriage and sometimes also interracial sex. In the United States, interracial marriage, cohabitation and sex have since 1863 been termed "miscegenation". . Someday we'll look back on the anti--gay-marriage hysteria with the same revulsion." --From a Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). editorial, July 10 |
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