Social Groups And Organizations

SAN FRANCISCO - The country's largest lawyers' group has backed a resolution calling on all state legislatures to let same-sex couples get married.

HARARE, Zimbabwe - A Zimbabwe court frees two employees of a gay organization after six days in jail on allegations of possessing indecent material and displaying a letter seen as insulting to President Robert Mugabe, an outspoken critic of homosexuality.

CHICAGO - The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues - six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. - Kip O'Neill is worried that peacocks will ruin her family's Christmas.