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Chick-fil-A ‘Tastes Like Hate’ vandal won’t be charged: D.A.

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TORRANCE, CA , August 31, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Manuel Castro may have accused Chick-fil-A of peddling hate, but police say they have determined that he wasn’t motivated by hate when he vandalized a Chick-fil-A restaurant earlier this month. Castro, a gay activist, had scrawled the words “Tastes Like Hate,” along with a cow holding a paintbrush, on the side of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Torrance, California, on “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” – an event organized to protest company CEO Dan Cathy’s stance in support of traditional marriage . “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” followed on the heels of Chick-fil-A “Appreciation Day,” on which hundreds of thousands of traditional marriage supporters had lined up, sometimes for several hours, to dine at Chick-fil-A as a show of their support for Cathy. Photos of Castro’s graffiti traveled far and wide in the media, becoming one of the most recognizable images from the kerfuffle. But police announced this week that Castro wou

Under Obama admin pressure, Cuba considers recognizing homosexual unions

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January 24, 2011 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - As the administration of President Barack Obama budgets hundreds of thousands of dollars to homosexual dissident groups in Cuba , the island’s communist government is looking at pass legislation normalizing gay unions. Mariela Castro , the daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro , told Cuba’s state-run press this week that homosexual unions are now “included in the legislative plan for 2012.” Mariela Castro “At this time, the proposal of a bill for the modification of the Family Code is being analyzed by specialists from the Ministry of Justice and by professionals affiliated with the National Union of Cuban Jurists,” Castro told Cuba Sí. During the interview, Castro referred specifically to the $300,000 budgeted by the U.S. State Department in 2011 to, “strengthen the inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) community” on the island. Castro accused the U.S. government of promoting “media campaigns to discredit the sp