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Published 1/18/2009 by Colum Lynch at Wash Post Obama Administration
UNITED NATIONS -- After being shut out for eight years by the Bush White House, social progressives are pressing President-elect Barack Obama to transform the way the United States deals with matters of sex, marriage and religious values in the international arena.
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