America. Clintons adviser agay rights paints a white house deeply and passionately engaged on policy, forced to sign it or reveal himself a supporter of gay marriage at a time when most americans found that idea repelling. Many advisers in the white house were afraid if clinton vetoed doma he would lose to dole in 96. Clinton signed doma into law with no joy. It is recalled, there are no pictures of this occasion, no pens that were saved. Of course, doma had a more negative impact on gay families than anticipated. By playing defense he kept us from getting worse on gay rights and preserved his place in the white house so we could have other accomplishments like a hate crime statute that included gays in an executive order. If American History has been a slow march toward expanding history, that march has not always been straight. Obama wouldnt have been in position to repeal dont ask, dont tell. I suspect clinton did the best he could though he lost some battles, he still helped the Ga
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After months of anticipation, Joseph V. Labolito walked into the Charles Library on Nov. 13 for the grand opening of its fall exhibit. The exhibit explores decades of photographs that Labolito, a senior photographer at Temple University for the last 27 years, and fellow photographer Jim MacMillan shot during some of the most pivotal periods of Philadelphia’s history, and for
A new study finds that young people who have been injured by firearms are more prone to psychiatric diagnoses and developing a substance use disorder than kids who have not been shot and their families also suffer long-term ill effects.
"My therapy is helping people," says Oronde McClain, who was struck in the head by a stray bullet when he was 10. "I have to wake up and save somebody every day."