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An influential U.S. school district is shutting down the ability of parents to give feedback on controversial policies such as its gender identity policy, concerned parents are saying.  The Fairfax County School Board (FCSB), serving one of the busiest suburbs of Washington D.C. , is in the process of introducing  new restrictions  for parents making comments during board meetings.   Among the restrictions parents have expressed concern about are rules that commenters may only speak about what the board allows on its agenda, banning anyone from speaking except the few who have previously signed up, and disallowing commenters from sharing speaking time. Ever since the FCSB ushered in a transgender policy allowing boys in the girls’ toilets, changing rooms, and showers in 2015, over 100 parents have barraged board meetings with criticism of the policy.  Comments include not only concern about the policy itself, but that it was enacted quickly ...

Kentucky's only Democratic congressman did not eat the ham on Thursday. As Gov. Matt Bevin and U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul arrived at the annual Kentucky Country Ham Breakfast, Rep. John Yarmuth demonstrated outside with a small group of gay rights activists. They targeted the Kentucky Farm Bureau's highest-profile event to protest the organization's conservative stands on social issues including same-sex marriage and abortion. The Farm Bureau is "on the wrong side" of history and the law with its stand opposing same-sex marriage, argued Yarmuth, a five-term congressman from Louisville. "My entire complaint with them is, why do you get involved in these emotional social issues that have no relation to farming and that alienate people who would otherwise be supportive of your agricultural agenda?" he said. The Farm Bureau is one of the state's most influential lobbying organizations, with nearly 470,000 members. A mix of pork, politica...