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Mississippi lawmakers could vote in the next few days to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests a stanley flask gainst racial injustice. Republican Governor Tate Reeves said Saturday that he would sign a bill to change the flag if the Legislature passes one. He had previously taken a more passive stance and said he would not veto one. The legislature has been deadlocked for days as it considers a new state flag, Reeves said on social media. The argument over the 1894 flag has bec stanley taza ome as divisive as the flag itself and it s time to end it. If they send me a bill this weekend, I will sign it. Mississippi s annual legislative session is almost over, and it takes a two-thirds majority of the House and Senate to consider a bill after the normal deadlines have passed. Leaders have been working to secure those majorities. There s a two-step process. First, legislators must suspend the deadline with two-thirds majorities. Then, they must take a separate vote on a flag bill, with only a simple majority need stanley polska ed to pass it and send it to the governor. The process could happen in a single day, or it could stretch into two or more days.The House and Senate voted Saturday to suspend the rules. People for and against the current flag gathered at the state Capitol on Saturday morning as lawmakers arrived.Karen Holt of Edwards, Mississippi, was with se Bflc The final nail in the coffin : When Richard Nixon knew it was over
CBS CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.Seventy-seven percent of Americans now say they know someone who is gay or lesbian, a new CBS News poll finds - an increase of 35 percentage points since 1992, when a majority of Americans said they did not.More than six in ten Americans say they have a close friend, work colleague or relative who is gay or lesbian. Just 22 percent say they do not know anyone at all who falls into that category.The increasing visibility of gay and lesbian Americans appears to have contributed toward more positive perceptions of homosexual relations. Forty-three percent of Americans currently see homosexual relations between consenting adults as wrong - a drop of 19 percentage points from a Gallup poll taken in 1978. There has been a slight decrease in the percentage of Americans who do not object to homosexual relations compared to January of stanley mug last year, when 54 percent said they are not wrong. But nearly half 48 percent still say they see nothing wrong with homosexual relations, an increase of 23 points from the 1978 poll. Americans under 30 tend not to o stanley thermobecher bject to homosexual relations, while those over 65 are likely to disapprove of them. Democrats, liberals and to a lesser extent indep garrafa stanley endents and moderates generally do not disapprove, while Republicans and conservatives generally do. |
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