Social Issues

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In this May 21, 2014, photo, a youth holds a soccer ball topped by a plastic rat as he participates in a protest against the public money spent on the World Cup near his home in the Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Organized by Rio de Paz, protesters say the money spent on the international soccer tournament should have been used to improve schools, health care and security in shantytowns. The plastic rat represents the poor sanitation in Brazil's poor neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

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Medically retired Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter will be awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama on June 19. (Associated Press)

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Milwaukee Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun, right, speaks with manager Ron Roenicke during batting practice before a baseball game Miami Marlins in Miami, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Braun has been out of the lineup because of a flare-up of an oblique strain that put him on the disable list earlier in the season. (AP Photo/Joe Skipper)

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FILE- In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, an inmate, on suicide watch, is escorted by correctional officers at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran, Calif. Two members of the Council On Mentally Ill Offenders, an obscure council within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the council can't meet its obligations because it has lacked an executive director for more than two years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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FILE- In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, an inmate waits for his appointment in a holding room at new mental health treatment unit at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif. Two members of the Council On Mentally Ill Offenders, an obscure council within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the council can not meet its obligations because it has lacked an executive director for more than two years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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FILE - In this April 21, 2014 file photo, Northbrook, Ill., Mayor Sandy Frum, right, accompanied by several mayors and village presidents from across Illinois, speaks during a news conference calling for state lawmakers to overhaul local pension systems for police and fire departments in Chicago. The state's legislators will return to the Capitol for their final week of the spring session on May 26, with many key issues unsettled. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

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FILE- In this Aug. 24, 2013 file photo, Stephanie Petelos, chairman of the College Republican Federation of Alabama, talks with a supporter during a meeting of the Alabama GOP Executive Committee in Montgomery, Ala. Petelos and other young Republicans are increasingly at odds with party leadership when it comes to social issues like gay marriage and legalizing marijuana. That is why a group like the Tampa Bay Young Republicans recently invited huge Democratic Party donor John Morgan to talk to the group about his effort to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. (AP Photo/Phillip Rawls, File)

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In this March 25, 2014, photo provided by Lauren Matthews, Tampa Bay Young Republicans executive director Lacey Wickline interviews personal injury lawyer John Morgan about his campaign to legalize medical marijuana during the group’s monthly meeting in Tampa, Fla. Young Republicans are increasingly at odds with party leadership when it comes to social issues like gay marriage and legalizing marijuana. (AP Photo/Lauren Matthews)