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The first full week of classes is ending, and football season is beginning. Is everyone else looking forward to a sweltering 12:21 p.m. kickoff Saturday? On the serious, Gators, remember to stay hydrated — no one likes that sloppy friend stumbling around with heat exhaustion.
Whew, it has not been a good year for Florida fraternities.
“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead,” Martin Luther King Jr. said to hundreds of thousands who joined the March on Washington on an August morning in 1963. “We cannot turn back.”
Houses of worship in the United States — from churches and temples to mosques and synagogues — are considered tax-exempt entities by the federal government. This week, the writer behind Slate’s financial blog, Matthew Yglesias, argued that exempting churches from taxes is counterproductive.
The first thing Chastity Rose did when he came to Gainesville for college was find the nearest gay bar.
DOMA is dead, and some locals are celebrating.
California Proposition 8 is an amendment to the California state constitution that prohibited the state from recognizing same-sex marriages. The proposition, only four lines total when originally submitted to the state in 2007, consisted of a title and one line of text copied from a defeated proposition from 2000: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
Edith Windsor is a widower who had to pay $363,000 in federal estate taxes after her wife died because the law prohibited gay couples from the same federal benefits and exemptions as straight ones. That law, the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, was enacted in September 1996 by then-President Bill Clinton. Among other parts, Section 3 put into writing and enforced federal — not state — non-recognition of same-sex marriages for federal benefit purposes but had no direct effect on individual states’ laws. President Barack Obama announced in February 2011, after Windsor was filed, he had directed the Department of Justice to stop enforcing Section 3 of DOMA.
Summer A is finally almost over. But with NSA surveillance, turmoil in Turkey and the “Game of Thrones” season finale, it seems like the whole world is in an uproar! As always, we’re here to call the spades “spades” and hand out our...
When two UF fraternity members wore blackface to a party in the fall of 2012, they sparked a campuswide discussion about racism. Sadly, some students strayed from this thoughtful dialogue by pushing for the university to ban blackface on campus.
Earlier this year, Congress passed the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 and the Farmer Assurance Provision. This provision was slipped into the larger bill and passed unbeknown to many of the members of Congress. It protects producers of genetically modified organisms from any harm in court, regardless of health risks associated with them.
Getting fired on the basis of identity may be a thing of the past. Federal law prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, religion and ethnicity.
The current Supreme Court debate over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 has captivated the hearts and minds of the American people, and strident voices on both sides of the issue have been making themselves known more boldly than ever before. So often I find that, as a Christian, I am expected to be a steadfast opponent of marriage equality, and it’s because of this that people are often surprised to learn nothing could be further from the truth.
Controversy concerning Section 735 of the Agricultural Appropriations Bill, also known as the Monsanto Protection Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama, has been somewhat overlooked during the Supreme Court of the United States’ review of the Defense of Marriage Act. However, environmentalists are no less hesitant to espouse their anti-science, interventionist stance concerning genetically modified organisms, also known as GMOs.
Another name has been added to the list of senators who signed a petition asking the Supreme Court to declare the law that prohibits gay marriage unconstitutional.
College basketball has issues, but Monday’s national championship game showed everything that is right with the sport.
The UF Supreme Court ruled the Student Body president may fire members at his or her own discretion under the Student Body Constitution.
Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on two marriage equality laws: the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. Decisions will not be released for several weeks, but the cases show the direction our country is heading.
On Tuesday, a fellow columnist wrote an open letter to Bill O’Reilly (a more apt title would have been “Are you there, Bill? It’s me, Erik.”) criticizing him for not defending traditional marriage. He posited that although Christians believe we should love and accept everyone, it’s OK to also believe that traditional marriage is between only a man and a woman.
Do you follow college basketball at all? Because this is probably your most favorite and most hated time of the year, we’re assuming.
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