Social Issues

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**FILE** Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley delivers his speech before the state's general assembly during his State of the State address in Annapolis on Jan. 30, 2013. (Associated Press)

**FILE** Opponents of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, demonstrate Jan. 30, 2013, in Albany, N.Y., as they sit in the audience as Dr. Nirav Shah, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, testifies before a joint budget hearing on health and Medicaid. (Associated Press)

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Young people participate in an anti-gay-bullying candlelight vigil at the Center Project in Columbia, Mo., on Oct. 20, 2010, to commemorate the recent deaths of gay teens. (AP Photo/The Columbia Daily Tribune, Joshua A. Bickel, File)

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**FILE** Defense Secretary Leon Panetta listens during a news conference at the Pentagon on Jan. 24, 2013, where he announced he is lifting a ban on women serving in combat. (Associated Press)

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Scoutmaster Ann Perrone poses for a photograph, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Drexel Hill, Pa. The Boy Scouts of America's proposed move away from its no-gays membership policy has outraged some longtime admirers, gratified many critics and raised intriguing questions about the iconic organization's future. Perrone said she's spent the past 13 years fighting the ban by writing letters, speaking out and wearing gay-rights rainbow symbols. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Del. Charles Poindexter (R-Patrick) looks over details of a house subcommittee recommendations on funding school security measures included in the House budget bill during a Sunday legislative session in Richmond, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Joe Mahoney)

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**FILE** President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius leave the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 10, 2012, after the president announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (Associated Press)