(AP) — Weeks after scoring a publicity coup with a 30-second Super Bowl ad featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, conservative Christian group Focus on the Family is at the center of another marketing tug-of-war – this time involving the major governing body of college sports. The National...

CHICAGO — When federal officials studied housing discrimination based on race, the setup was simple: They sent in testers of different backgrounds and gauged how landlords and real estate agents treated people of color compared with whites. As the government prepares a first-ever study of housing discrimination...

An 11-year-old boy says that he was harassed and humiliated at school for having long hair. The boy, who lives in Milford, Ohio, in the greater Cincinnati area, says the bullying he endured included being forced to wear his hair in pigtails and being taunted with girls’ names. What shocked his mother...

This Thursday, as the Senate Armed Services Committee meets again to hear testimony on repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, it is vital that citizens flood the Senate with phone calls demanding the law be repealed NOW! Capitol Hill Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Senate Contact List: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Our...

Just after Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on “don’t ask, don’t tell,” Sen. Carl Levin told reporters that he had not ruled out pushing for full congressional repeal of the law in 2010 but added that he thought placing a moratorium on discharges was “a more likely prospect.” “I...

TIRANA – Albania’s new anti-discrimination law defends gays and minorities and meets European Union standards, its sponsors said on Friday, but warned that homophobia is rife and winning over the public will be slow. Albanian rights groups and the Alliance against the Discrimination of the...

MOHAWK, N.Y. (AP) – The bullying by classmates and taunts of “homo” only got worse after Jacob began dyeing his hair and wearing eyeliner in eighth grade. One student scrawled “I hope you die” on his shoe, he said; another drew a pocket knife on him. Jacob’s grades...

(AP) — Utah lawmakers will not consider a law that would ban discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the workplace and in housing, and will instead spend the next year studying the issue, key lawmakers said Friday. In exchange, opponents of gay-rights legislation will drop any effort to...

President Obama vowed in the State of the Union Wednesday night to end “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that prohibits people who are openly gay from serving in the military. Since it was passed in 1993, thousands of gay service members have been kicked out. But the president...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – A Baltimore County delegate urged state lawmakers Thursday to prohibit Maryland from recognizing gay marriages authorized by other states or countries. Del. Emmett C. Burns Jr. told House Judiciary Committee members that Maryland must act quickly because Washington, D.C.’s...