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Jeb Bush's recent remarks on gay marriage reveal that he thinks fundamental rights ought to be subject to majority opinion, writes Leonard Pitts Jr. -
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- Workers who come in contact with gays they don't wish to serve for religious reasons need to change jobs
- A former Baltimore police officer who went to prison for his role in a towing scandal has lost his quest to get his job back, according to a ruling from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
- This was a year in which TIME Magazine put transgender actress Laverne Cox on its cover above the headline, "The Transgender Tipping Point," and the Maryland General Assembly passed a bill banning discrimination against transgender citizens in employment, housing and public accommodations.
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- Member belongs to same Delta Gamma chapter as author of last year's infamous viral emails
- Pursuit of a program to involuntarily medicate, treat mentally ill would require legislative approval
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- Johns Hopkins Home Care Group acquired a minority ownership stake in Klingensmith Healthcare, a supplier of respiratory and home medical equipment in Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network bought a controlling interest in Klingensmith.
- As the Baltimore Police Department seeks to eliminate a wide gulf of community distrust, officers are undergoing training to address racial biases they may harbor against residents.
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- With weekend visits from Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan, Baltimore turns eyes to Ferguson.
- Several companies in Maryland scored high marks for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the Human Rights Campaign's annual Corporate Equality Index, released this week.
- There was a time that Maryland's congressional delegation included as many women as men. . Remarkably, in 1984, Maryland voters elected women to half of the state's seats in Congress: Reps. Helen Bentley, Beverly Byron, Marjorie Holt and Barbara Mikulski. Yes, In the election of 2014, exactly thirty years later, our Congressional delegation is not as gender balanced as it once was. While many able men serve in elected office, Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Rep. Donna Edwards are the only women
- Health officials in Maryland are moving to provide transition-related healthcare coverage for the first time to low-income transgender residents who receive Medicaid in the state.
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- In cities and municipalities in Maryland and across the U.S., the legal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens are improving. Across the globe, perceptions of gay and lesbian people are getting better, too.
- First Transgender Day of Remembrance held in Carroll County will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Westminster.
- High school students in Maryland who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender constantly hear derogatory remarks and are often verbally, physically and sexually harassed and assaulted by their classmates. Fewer than half report the abuse.
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- The firing of a black deputy fire chief at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport earlier this year was racially motivated and illegal, and must be reversed, a state administrative law judge has ruled.
- Giovanna "Gigi" Guarnieri, a Reservoir High School student, had a (very large) hand in organizing a school-wide celebration for the International Day of the Girl. This event took place in the school atrium during lunch times, which allowed all of the students to attend and participate. Gigi said that the goal of the day was "educate and get people involved in advocating and educating on women's rights and gender equality."
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- Out of the darkness, the lighted images appeared like visions above a vacant lot in Reservoir Hill: saxophonists and jazz pianists, hip-hop artists and poets.
- Both Equality Maryland and Heather Mizuer are urging LGBT voters to turn out on Tuesday to vote for Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown to become the state's next governor.
- Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Maryland on Thursday to praise the record of the O'Malley administration and urge young voters to turn out for Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown.
- WASHINGTON -- Maryland jurisdictions with a large share of minority voters are more likely to also have a higher rate of provisional ballots cast on Election Day, according to a report Wednesday by the Center for American Progress.
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- Thomas E. Perez, a candidate for U.S. Attorney General, was endorsed Tuesday for the top law enforcement job by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
- The University of Maryland Baltimore has received a $750,000 grant to develop a program for middle school children in the university's low-income West Baltimore neighborhood with hopes of cultivating their interest in cancer research and care.
- Voter ID laws not only don't target minorities, they have no effect on turnout either
