Numbers Crunch: Marriage Equality

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Numbers Crunch: Marriage Equality
Though it’s the first year of marriage equality across America, the U.S. is not the first to reach this milestone.
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Numbers Crunch: Marriage Equality

Though it’s the first year of marriage equality across America, the U.S. is not the first to reach this milestone.

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Numbers Crunch: Marriage Equality

Though it’s the first year of marriage equality across America, the U.S. is not the first to reach this milestone.

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The measure would bar federally funded civics and history programs from promoting what the bill calls “gender ideology” and “discriminatory equity ideology.”

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