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A leading gay rights group says married gay service members should have the same rights as straight couples once President Obama ends the military's ban on open homosexuality in the ranks.

Equal treatment of legally married gays has emerged as an issue in the debate in Congress, as some Republicans are asking whether the military will deny housing and medical benefits to gay spouses and potentially create morale and readiness problems.

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With the news that Citibank screens some of its clients for “objectionable content” — and applies that screening process to gay-themed businesses — many LGBT business people and Citi customers are probably wondering where their business is truly welcome.

Luckily, Jeremy Quitner of The Advocate has a great run-down of banking programs designed to cater to the needs of LGBT clients — and, specifically, to the special needs of same-sex couples.

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An attempt by state Rep. Chris Hagenow, R-Windsor Heights, to exclude same-sex couples from a domestic violence bill is drawing outrage from the state’s largest gay-rights organization.

The Des Moines Register reported Wednesday afternoon that Hagenow attempted to amend Senate File 2357, which prohibits a person subject to a protective order or who was convicted of domestic violence from possessing a gun. His amendment essentially would define marriage as between one man and one woman using a portion of Iowa law that the Iowa Supreme Court struck down t last year when it legalized same-sex marriage.

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While it may be difficult to imagine anyone confusing a small historic town of roughly 10,000 people in Wisconsin with the city of Cedar Rapids, metro population of at least 250,000, it appears Sarah Palin has made the leap.

In her book “Going Rogue,” the former Alaskan governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee describes an unforgetable idyllic setting of a “quaint town square” at a campaign stop just after the Republican National Convention — and then impossibly attributes the memory to Cedar Rapids, which was only three months removed from the worst flood it its history.

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