Social Issues

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A star of David is displayed on a door in the courtyard of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Portuguese Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos reacts during the parliamentary debate on his minority government's latest austerity package Wednesday, March 23 2011, at the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

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Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is taking care of business, dining in good company. (Image from Republican National Committee)

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Vice President Biden whispers sweet nothings to President Obama during the health care ceremony at the White House a year ago. (Associated Press)

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Union workers have staged daily rallies this month at the Statehouse in Indianapolis to protest bills they say are unfair to Indiana's union workers. Public employees across the country are feeling the budget squeeze as legislators try to take the knife to their health care and pensions. (Associated Press)

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Slovakian lawyers watches judges entering Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France. Europe's human rights court is hearing a Roma woman's case alleging that she was wrongly and forcibly sterilized by a state hospital in her native Slovakia because of her ethnicity. The European Court of Human Rights opened the hearing Tuesday in the eastern French city of Strasbourg regarding the complaint of the woman who was identified only as "V.C." against Slovakia's government. The court said the woman, who was born in 1980, was sterilized after giving birth in 2000 to her second child. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

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A Libyan rebel prays next to his gun on the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Monday. A former Libyan Foreign Ministry official said coalition forces need to take urgent action to protect the population in Ajdabiya. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama walks with the Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Alfredo Moreno (center right) and Gen. Marcos Gonzalez (center left) upon his arrival in Santiago, Chile, on March 21. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 18, 2011, file photo House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. An Italian news agency says that Pelosi was hospitalized briefly in Rome with a minor ailment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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** FILE ** Kody Brown hugs his wives, (from left) Robyn, Christine, Meri and Janelle. They appear on the reality series "Sister Wives" on TLC. "'Sister Wives' shows that polygamy is rather boring," said Brian Barnard, a Utah-based religious-freedom lawyer. (Associated Press)

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The U.S. Mint issued a commemorative coin to jump-start fundraising for the nonprofit Black Patriots Foundation featuring an image of Crispus Attucks. (U.S. Mint photograph)

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Charlotte Todd stands next to the dress she designed, and which was worn by Kate Middleton during a St Andrew's University charity fashion show in 2002, during a media event prior to its auction, in London, Wednesday, March, 16, 2011. The dress is expected to sell from between 8-10 thousand pounds (US $12,850-16,063, euro 9,200-11,500), when sold at auction Thursday. The photograph at rear shows Middleton wearing the dress at the charity fashion show.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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FILE - In this file photo made Dec. 8, 2009, a carton of Newport cigarettes are seen on display at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said Friday, March 18, 2011, the removal of menthol cigarettes from the U.S. market would benefit public health. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

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Exiled Tibetans light candles to honor the monk who set himself on fire in protest against China's government. (Associated Press)

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The black vinyl interior is just as the current owner remembered. (Bill O'Brien/The Washington Times)

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Raymond Clark III (right), a former animal research technician at Yale University, pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 17, 2011, to the murder and sexual assault of Yale graduate student Annie Le (left) in 2009. (AP Photo)

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Rep. Jackie Speier, California Democrat, talks with TV actress Lauren Potter (right) during a congressional briefing Wednesday on bullying children with special needs. Miss Potter has Down syndrome. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Congresswoman Cathy Morris Rodger (R-Wash.), left, thanks Isma'il Clayton, 13, who has Asperger's Syndrome, and Lauren Potter, an actress on the show Glee, who has Down Syndrome, for sharing their experiences and stories about being teased about being different during a Congressional briefing on the Bullying of Children with Special Needs on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. The congresswoman herself is the parent of a special needs child. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Lauren Potter, an actress on the show Glee, has a quiet conversation with Rep. Cathy Morris Rodger (R-Wash.) during a Congressional briefing on the Bullying of Children with Special Needs on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Ms. Potter, who has Down Syndrome, spoke about her experiences being teased when she was little and about being a positive role model now. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), (far left), answers questions during the Congressional briefing on Bullying of Children with Special Needs on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 while Isma'il Clayton, 13, who suffers from Asberger's Syndrome, Lauren Potter, an actress on the show "Glee" who has Down Syndrome, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who herself has a child with special needs, look on. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times