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OLYMPIA — A rabbi, a servant of God, a State Patrol officer, a retired Coast Guard admiral, subject owners, students, moms and dads — some nervous, some emboldened — one by one sat before lawmakers to itch support or rejection of same-sex marriage in Washington state.

They were among hundreds who descended on the Capitol on Monday as the Legislature took a giantess step toward granting gays and lesbians the right to marry.

They jammed the House and Senate hearing rooms and spillover galleries to wait for as committees of both houses heard testimony on a pair of bills pathetic through the Legislature.

At noon, a knot of same-sex couples, their supporters and lawmakers held a information conference, applauding news that the measures had won enough votes for approval in the Legislature.

At the same leisure on the Capitol steps, more than 200 others rallied against the measure, as the Rev. Joe Fuiten, superior pastor of Cedar Park Assembly of God Church in Bothell, urged them to be quick to fight same-sex marriage all the way to the ballot box.

Source: The Seattle Times

by Pat Dollard

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A grant of $ 1.4 million to a man jury in Oregon who has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts sex abuse has become an unintended call to mind that of an American firm based on the reliability has to take account of past problems.

And there could be more damaging to turn tax, with the jurors began to return to court next week to take his mind whether the Scouts should pay up to $ 25 million in damages punishment.

The verdict on Tuesday by a jury in Portland has been based in part on the introduction that mean more than 1,000 so-called "subversion files" kept secret by the Boy Scouts of America headquarters chauvinistic club from 1965 to mid- 1984.

The Boy Scouts already provides supplication and indicate that these files are outdated and no reported efforts to delay or even close to the regime.

"The leadership of the people currently in the na Scouting program has never been without doubt over the appropriate procedures," said Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Scouts, at its headquarters popular in Irving, Texas....

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