Social Issues

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Anti-abortion demonstrators rally at the annual March for Life on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, January 22, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

The Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., where records were reportedly falsified to mask the backlog of veterans waiting for appointments for needed medical care. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow)

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Woodrow Wilson High School principal Pete Cahall stunned his students Wednesday when he came out as gay during the school's LGBT pride event. (WJLA)

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Black employees at a Tennessee cotton gin, armed with several voice recordings, are accusing their white supervisor of constantly lobbing racial attacks against them, including a designated water fountain for "whites only" and threatening to hang them. (WREG)

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Brent Greer, of Bradenton, Fla., has painted his house like the American flag to protest his local government. (My Fox 13)

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George Takei speaks during an interview before a reception at U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy's official residence Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Tokyo. Takei said he needed courage and anger to come out as gay and to join the equal rights movement for sexual minorities in the U.S., and he hopes his Japanese counterparts will do the same to make their society more equal. Takei, 77, is in Japan to attend embassy-organized events marking Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month in the U.S. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, Pool)