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Click here to view this media Cornel Rasor, who chairs the Idaho Republican Party's resolutions committee, says that he pushed for a resolution to void all local ordinances banning discrimination against LGBT people because he wants to be able to fire any gay man who "comes into work in a tutu." The Associated Press reported that a non-binding resolution passed Saturday at the party's Central Committee summer meeting in McCall calls for the state legislature to block anti-discrimination ordinances passed by at least five municipalities throughout the state. For seven years, the Republican-controlled Legislature has refused to add sexual orientation to the Idaho Human Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on race, religion and disability. So local governments like Coeur d'Alene, Sandpoint, Ketchum, Moscow and Boise have responded by passing their own ordinances protecting LGBT people. That's a trend that the Idaho Republican Party wants to stop before it spreads to more towns. "I’d hire a gay guy if I thought he was a good worker," Rasor explained at the party's summer meeting, according to The Spokesman-Review. "But if he comes into work in a tutu … he’s not producing what I want in my office." "If a guy has a particular predilection and keeps it to himself, that’s fine," he added. “But if he wants to use my business as a platform for his lifestyle, why should I have to subsidize that? And that’s what these anti-discrimination laws do.” The Spokesman-Review reported that the central committee approved the resolution with "little debate." The resolution states: "Resolved, that the Idaho Republican State Central Committee recommends that our legislators support Idaho’s current anti-discrimination laws and policies and enact a law that would make unenforceable any municipal ordinances that would seek to expand categories of prohibited discrimination beyond current state anti-discrimination laws and policies."

Des heurts ont éclaté dimanche soir entre la police anti-émeute et des manifestants hostiles au président Mohamed Morsi et la confrérie des Frères musulmans dont il est issu, devant le siège de la confrérie au Caire, selon des témoins.Les violences ont éclaté après que des centaines de manifestants se sont rassemblés pour protester contre l'agression par des membres des Frères musulmans de plusieurs militants qui taguaient les murs devant le siège de la confrérie samedi soir.A bord de leurs fourgons, les forces de sécurité ont poursuivi les manifestants qui jetaient des pierres et on lancé des bombes lacrymogènes pour les disperser.Les manifestants ont mis le feu à des pneus de voiture et des planches de bois au milieu de la route, et certains arbres aux alentours ont été incendiés.Samedi soir, un groupe de jeunes militants hostiles aux Frères musulmans avait été battu par des individus sortis du siège de la confrérie pour les empêcher de dessiner des graffitis sur les murs face au quartier-général du mouvement islamiste.Des journalistes et des photographes présents pour couvrir l'évènement ont également été battus, selon les médias locaux.Le secrétaire-général du syndicat des journalistes, Diaa Rachwane, a porté plainte dimanche matin contre le guide suprême de la confrérie, Mohamed Badie, et son adjoint, Khairat al-Chater, pour incitation à la violence contre les journalistes, selon des sources au sein du syndicat.Le parquet va ouvrir une enquête d'ici quelques heures, a-t-on appris de source judiciaire.Ces derniers mois, les rassemblements d'opposants ont régulièrement dégénéré en affrontements violents avec les forces de l'ordre.M. Morsi, élu en juin, est accusé par ses détracteurs d'avoir "trahi la révolution" et de ne pas réussir à faire face aux problèmes économiques du pays.More...

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Nurses and environmental activists from across the U.S. are joining hands this week to step up the message that there is still time to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline before it stops all of us.Join us for a march across the Golden Bate Bridge in San Francisco Thursday, June 20, beginning with a noon rally at Battery East, near the Golden Gate Bridge Pavilion at Fort Point adjacent to the Bridge. (More details here.)More...

I love reading about quantum physics. I have always thought that if you can learn how subatomic particles behave, you can learn anything. In the past three years, for an hour every day, I have read on this subject, including the many fascinating personalities involved in its study. One of the most intriguing is Richard Feynman (1918-1988), widely viewed as the top quantum physicist of his time. James Gleick's book on Feynman, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, is both incredibly informative and inspiring.Gleick outlines Feynman's career -- from his beginnings as a boy genius in math to receiving a Ph.D. at Princeton, from his work on the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb at Los Alamos in World War II to his many achievements afterwards. One of the highlights of the book is the famous question that Feynman posed to himself, slightly paraphrased, "If, through some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be lost, and only one sentence could be passed on to the following generations, what single statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?"More...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults are pioneers who bravely pushed open the doors to coming out. It is unconscionable that many of these leaders of social justice are forced to retreat into the closet as they age. The troubling reality is that the U.S. lacks a complete understanding of the LGBT senior community and is particularly unprepared for the needs of LGBT older adults at the intersection of multiple disadvantaged populations, such as LGBT seniors who are people of color, disabled, living with HIV/AIDS, undocumented immigrants or socioeconomically marginalized.Many LGBT seniors fear that the health-care system is judgmental and have experienced discriminatory care or lack access to culturally competent aging services. To address this crisis, the U.S. must adopt a new perspective that emphasizes health, rather than just health care. All sectors of society must come together with a renewed sense of social responsibility that focuses on social determinants of health -- a holistic view of everyday factors that impact the health, economic and social well-being of LGBT seniors.More...

La Merveille croit fermement que la LNH effectuera un retour à Québec.La capitale nationale est dépourvue d'une équipe du circuit Bettman depuis que les Nordiques ont déménagé à Denver en 1995, où ils ont été baptisés l'Avalanche du Colorado.Le légendaire Wayne Gretzky a déclaré mardi que Québec aura de nouveau une équipe de hockey professionnelle qui connaîtra autant de succès que les Jets de Winnipeg.La LNH a effectué un retour au Manitoba en 2011, après que les Thrashers d'Atlanta eurent été déplacés à Winnipeg et rabaptisés.Les Jets de Winnipeg ont d'abord séjourné pendant 15 saisons dans la ligue avant d'être déménagés à Phoenix, pour y devenir les Coyotes.More...

The journalism world reacted with stunned horror at the sudden death of Michael Hastings on Tuesday.Hastings, who was just 33 years old, was killed in a gruesome, fiery car crash in Los Angeles.More...

Put your paws where we can see them!This baby raccoon dog is the new police recruit patrolling the streets of Shanghai.More...