Social Issues

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Anti-gay marriage demonstrators face riot police, not seen, while tear-gas canisters smoke during clashes in Paris, France, Sunday, May 26, 2013. Tens of thousands of people protested against France's new gay marriage law in central Paris on Sunday. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

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Riot police stop Orthodox protesters who are trying to stop Ukraine's first gay pride demonstration in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

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**FILE** Activists of a gay flash mob throw balloons into the air marking International Day Against Homophobia in Kiev on May 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** David and Barbara Green, co-founders of Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., are asking a federal appeals court in Denver on Thursday, May 23, 2013, for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires the company to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argues that businesses, and not just religious groups, should be allowed to seek exemptions from that part of the health law if it violates their religious beliefs. (AP Photo/Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.)