Social Issues

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President Obama makes a statement about his budget during a press conference at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Bahraini women demonstrate on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in the village of Duraz, Bahrain, outside the capital of Manama. Demonstrations broke out nationwide in response to calls on social media sites for major anti-government protests and were dispersed by riot police firing tear gas and chasing demonstrators. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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** FILE ** Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew discusses the White House budget on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Kato became a gay-rights activist after he was beaten up four times, arrested twice, fired from his teaching job and outed in the press. Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their families, friends and even landlords also could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. (Associated Press)

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Mourners pay their last respects during the funeral of David Kato, a Ugandan gay-rights activist, in Mukono, Uganda, last month. Activists were outraged over the death of Kato, an advocacy officer for the gay-rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda. His slaying comes after a year of stepped-up threats against gays in Uganda, where a controversial bill has proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts. (Associated Press)

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SUSPECT: Enock Nsubuga has confessed to killing gay-rights activist David Kato, Ugandan authorities say. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Glen Perkins delivers copies of the fiscal 2012 budget to the Senate Budget Committee hearing room in Washington on Feb. 14. (Bloomberg)

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Copies of President Obama's 2012 budget are delivered to the Senate Budget Committee, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew discusses the White House budget on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates talks about the Defense Department's proposed budget at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and the Senate Budget Committee's top Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, right, give the GOP response to President Obama's budget submission for Fiscal Year 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena activists burn greeting cards during a protest against Valentine's Day celebrations in Jammu, India, on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. Hard-line Hindu groups routinely protest against the perceived invasion of Western culture into India. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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Bahraini demonstrators run from tear gas on Monday as riot police disperse a protest in the village of Duraz, Bahrain, outside the capital of Manama. Demonstrations broke out nationwide in response to calls on social media sites for major anti-government protests and were dispersed by riot police firing tear gas and chasing demonstrators. (Associated Press)

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Copies of the U.S. government budget for fiscal 2012 are stacked up at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Death row inmate Roy Willard Blankenship claims Georgia's stockpile of a key lethal injection drug has expired, and he's asking a judge to halt an execution he says may cause him to die in excruciating pain. (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections)

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Willow Wimbush, left, and Nancy Harris, work on copies of the Appendix of the 2012 budget at the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington on Feb. 10, 2011. President Obama will send his 2012 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2010 file photo, TV personality Stephen Colbert, host of "The Colbert Report," testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law subcommittee hearing on Protecting America's Harvest. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A group of women hold a poster with a photo of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi behind bars during a protest in Milan, Italy, on Sunday. Thousands of women turned out in 200 Italian cities to denounce what they say is Mr. Berlusconi's debasing of women. Prosecutors want to try Mr. Berlusconi for allegedly paying a 17-year-old Moroccan girl for sex. Paying for prostitution with a minor is a crime in Italy. Mr. Berlusconi and the teenager have denied the allegation.