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Rob Hill, state director of the Human Rights Campaign Mississippi, speaks on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, July 1 2016, as he and others celebrated Thursday's ruling of a federal judge who blocked a Mississippi law on religious objections to same-sex marriage moments before it was set to take effect Friday, ruling it unconstitutionally establishes preferred beliefs and creates unequal treatment for gay people. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Federal court blocks Mississippi religious-freedom law

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, June 26, 2015 file photo, Hinds County Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn, right, reads an order by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood that puts a hold on circuit clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples, including, from left, Duane Smith and Knol Aust, both of Jackson, Miss., and Laurin Locke and Tiffany Brosh, at the Hinds County Court House in Jackson, Miss. They were able to get married three days later. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi clerks can’t use religion to deny same-sex marriage licenses, judge rules

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

After Miss. prison fight, monitors call for change

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

6th person pleads guilty to attacks on blacks in Miss.

By Jack Elliott Jr. - Associated Press