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		<title>About Those Facebook Privacy Settings&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2012-01/about-those-facebook-privacy-settings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allie Bohm, ACLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So,  you&#8217;ve done it all right.  You&#8217;ve  meticulously chosen your Facebook privacy  settings so that only your closest friends can see the most personal information about  you.  No one else has access.  Or so you think.
Turns  out, it&#8217;...]]></description>
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		<title>Court Says No to Using Religion to Discriminate</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-12/court-says-no-to-using-religion-to-discriminate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Block, LGBT Project</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, a federal court of appeals issued an important decision, setting limits on the right to use religion to discriminate.&#160;The case concerned Jennifer Keeton, a student enrolled in a graduate school counseling program who told her faculty ...]]></description>
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		<title>My Name Is Ceara Sturgis, and I Am Not a Troublemaker</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-12/my-name-is-ceara-sturgis-and-i-am-not-a-troublemaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ceara Sturgis</dc:creator>
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When graduating senior  Ceara Sturgis chose to wear a tuxedo for her senior yearbook photo, rather than  the drape typically reserved for girls, her school responded by excluding her  entirely from the senior portrait section of the yearbook. The ACLU...]]></description>
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		<title>DOMA Repeal Vote Represents a Critical Shift</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-11/doma-repeal-vote-represents-a-critical-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Thompson, Washington Legislative Office</dc:creator>
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On Thursday morning, the  Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines (10-8) in support of the  Respect for Marriage Act (S. 598), legislation that would fully repeal the  discriminatory and unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Unsu...]]></description>
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		<title>VICTORY! Senate Committee Votes to Repeal DOMA</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-11/victory-senate-committee-votes-to-repeal-doma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-11/victory-senate-committee-votes-to-repeal-doma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Thompson, Washington Legislative Office</dc:creator>
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Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Respect for Marriage Act by a vote of 10-8! We'll have more soon.
Read our release: &#34;Senate Committee Passes Repeal to Discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act&#34; &#62;&#62;]]></description>
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		<title>Trauma Compounded: The Plight of LGBT Immigration Detainees</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-10/trauma-compounded-the-plight-of-lgbt-immigration-detainees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-10/trauma-compounded-the-plight-of-lgbt-immigration-detainees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Thompson, Washington Legislative Office</dc:creator>
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The Department of Homeland Security assumes that mass detention is the key to immigration enforcement. But in fact, our detention system locks up thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions of...]]></description>
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		<title>Making It Better in the NFL</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-09/making-it-better-in-the-nfl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Thompson, Washington Legislative Office</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And here football fans thought, at least from our  perspective, that one of the most important things the new NFL collective  bargaining agreement (CBA) between team owners and players did was end the  lockout and remove the ominous cloud of a possible...]]></description>
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		<title>The Demise of DADT</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-09/the-demise-of-dadt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Thompson, Washington Legislative Office</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today  marks the official end of the discriminatory policy known as &#34;Don't  Ask, Don't Tell.&#34;  For nearly 18  years, DADT forced lesbian, gay and bisexual service members to painstakingly  hide their true selves, as well as their partners and...]]></description>
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		<title>Wear That Dress or Else!</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-09/wear-that-dress-or-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-09/wear-that-dress-or-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Esseks, LGBT Project</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ceara Sturgis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s  basically what a high school principal told Ceara  Sturgis at the start of her senior year &#8212; you&#8217;ve got to wear a &#8220;drape,&#8221; or  scoop-necked covering that looks like the top of a dress, in the yearbook  photo.  Cear...]]></description>
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		<title>Potential Relief for Same-Sex Couples Facing the Threat of Deportation</title>
		<link>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-08/potential-relief-for-same-sex-couples-facing-the-threat-of-deportation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.libertyvoice.net/2011-08/potential-relief-for-same-sex-couples-facing-the-threat-of-deportation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Thompson, Washington Legislative Office</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several months, there has been a  steady drum beat of devastating news stories involving same-sex, binational  couples facing the threat of deportation, including the recent example of a gay  California couple in which one partner, the pr...]]></description>
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