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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gay-rights activists plan to rally in Indianapolis this Final Four weekend to call for an Indiana law that specifically bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The event follows widespread criticism over an Indiana religious rights law that critics said could allow discrimination against gays. Lawmakers modified the law.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz are among 57 Republicans in Congress who are calling on the Supreme Court to uphold state bans on same-sex marriage. The congressional Republicans said in a brief filed at the high court Friday that the justices should not impose "a federally mandated redefinition of the ancient institution of marriage" nationwide. Same-sex couples can marry in 37 states.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Seven San Francisco police officers accused of sending racist and homophobic text messages have been suspended, and the police chief is recommending that they be fired. The chief says six others will face disciplinary action. Authorities say the texts targeting blacks, Mexicans, Filipinos and gay men were sent between 2011 and 2012. Chief Greg Suhr calls the texts "despicable" and says those who sent them "clearly fall below the minimum standards required to be a police officer."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed a lease in a Brooklyn, New York, building for what is expected to house her presidential campaign headquarters. A person familiar with the plans says Clinton has signed the lease for two floors in an office in New York's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. Clinton is expected to announce her presidential campaign in the coming weeks. The decision to sign the lease likely sets off a 15-day period in which presidential candidates are required to make their intentions known.
NEW YORK (AP) — Officials in New York say an apartment house where only high-paying tenants can use the gym may be illegally discriminating. The company that owns the building on Manhattan's Upper West Side says the gym was just added last year but is off limits to rent-stabilized tenants.
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