Social Issues

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Wisconsin Supreme Court justices meet in the court chamber in Madison, Wis. on Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The court, in a unanimous ruling Wednesday, upheld the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)

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First lady Michelle Obama jumps rope Wednesday with students in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" initiative aims to increase awareness and decrease the rate of obesity. (Associated Press)

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In this June 8, 2010, file photo, Elaine Jesmer of Los Angeles holds a sign during a protest against BP PLC organized by Moveon.org outside an ARCO gas station in Los Angeles. Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline. As more Americans shun BP gasoline as a form of protest over the Gulf oil spill, station owners are insisting BP do more to help them convince motorists that such boycotts mostly hurt independently owned businesses, not the British oil giant. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

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Anne, a child with Down syndrome, draws during a meeting in Paris on April 11, 2001, of the Collective Against Handiphobia, a French advocacy and support group for parents of children born with birth defects. AP PHOTO ERIC FEFERBERG

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Election officials prepare a polling station in a village just outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyzstan's central government pledged to help ethnic Uzbeks vote in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, encouraging participation by a minority group that has supported the interim administration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Election officials prepare a polling station in a village just outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyzstan's central government pledged to help ethnic Uzbeks vote in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, encouraging participation by a minority group that has supported the interim administration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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A burned out police jeep lies on a road as a reminder of the local people's protests against "land grab" for building factories in Nandigram, India. (Sujoy Dhar/Special to The Washington Times)

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House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-OH, speaks during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 24, 2010. Behind him from left are Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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People march during a protest on the Old-Port in Marseille, southern France, on Thursday June 24, 2010. Many French trains stood still, schoolchildren played instead of studied and post offices were shuttered as workers nationwide went on strike Thursday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 200 marches and protests are planned for several cities over a broad reform to the money-losing pension system, part of efforts around Europe to cut back on growing public debts. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, displays his budget box outside his official residence at 11 Downing St. in central London on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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From left: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare President and Chief Executive Officer, former Connecticut Rep. Barbara Kennelly, discuss benefits and questions about the Affordable Care Act and Medicare at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The White House released the "patients bill of rights" on Tuesday, June 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Dodge County Election Commisioner Fred Mytty holds the unofficial results to a special election held Monday June 21, 2010, in Fremont, Neb. The election was for a proposal to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants.(AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

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An absentee father "leaves a hole in a child's life," President Obama says Monday in Anacostia while announcing a mentoring program for fathers, including job training and violence prevention, and initiatives to help ex-offenders return to parenting. (Associated Press)

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Ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz jointly dismantle a street barricade on the border of Uzbek district in the southern city of Osh, Saturday, June 19, 2010. Some 4,500 refugees have returned to Kyrgyzstan from neighboring Uzbekistan in the past few days, the Kyrgyz Border Service said in its press release on Saturday, according to reports by Itar-Tass. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva, right, speaks to a wounded ethnic Kyrgyz citizen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Alchiyev, pool)