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		<title>Withers: Ten random thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Withers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it's a Monday, it must be ten random thoughts.]]></description>
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<p>1. I was not the reporter Beau Breedlove tried to get a <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/05/judge_denies_breedlove_request.html"><strong>stalking order</strong></a> against. I&#8217;m too lazy and disorganized for the job.</p>
<p>2. No disrespect to my colleague Ruby, but Adam Lambert&#8217;s <a href="http://www.365gay.com/blog/ruby-sachs-adam-lambert-is-gay-for-real-this-time/"><strong>sexuality</strong></a>? Meh.</p>
<p>3. If you get booted out of a gay bar, you should not try to get back in the same establishment 20 minutes later.</p>
<p>4. Number 3 is not advice I need to follow. I&#8217;m a low maintenance drunk. Ask my bartenders.</p>
<p>5. Don&#8217;t care how passionate you are about abortion, if you defend the <a href=" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/01tiller.html?_r=1&amp;hp"><strong>murder</strong></a> of a doctor in a church your loon status is set in stone.</p>
<p>6. If the news about Sade&#8217;s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/27/sade-release-album-nine-years"><strong>new album</strong></a> are untrue, I&#8217;m eating a gallon of butter pecan ice cream.</p>
<p>7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfOmCwp7PmI"><strong>Steak night</strong></a> baby!</p>
<p>8. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-28/the-warrior-prince/"><strong>Prince Harry</strong></a> is the king of New York City.</p>
<p>9. Because I loathe everything LA (the city, not the state), I&#8217;m going for Orlando in the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/lopresti/2009-05-31-lopo-column_N.htm"><strong>NBA Finals</strong></a>.</p>
<p>10. Need new shoes.</p>
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		<title>Orlando grants gay partner benefits to city workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Vanasco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The measure was unanimously accepted by the city council.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Orlando, Florida) The city of Orlando is granting health benefits to the same-sex partners of municipal workers.</p>
<p>The measure, proposed by Mayor Buddy Dyer, was unanimously accepted by city council Monday.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s the right thing to do,&#8221; said Dyer.</p>
<p>The move makes Orlando the first local government in Central Florida to provide the benefits, although about two dozen other cities in the state already provide similar benefits.</p>
<p>To join the plan, gay and lesbian employees will have to sign an affidavit swearing they are in a long-term, committed relationship.</p>
<p>Lesbian city commissioner Patty Sheehan said the change will not affect a large number of employees, but is still meaningful and to those workers&#8217; families who will benefit.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of life and death to them,&#8221; Sheehan said.</p>
<p>The change will cost the city an estimated $37,000; its health insurance costs are currently $33million.</p>
<p>It will not apply to unmarried heterosexual employees. Dyer said that opposite-sex couples have the legal option to marry, unlike gays.</p>
<p>A group fighting for an amendment to the state constitution accused the mayor of trying to influence the vote.</p>
<p>&#8220;It sounds like it is very strategically timed to interject himself into this amendment,&#8221; John Stemberger of Florida4Marriage said.</p>
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