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The cultural struggle over homosexuality is being fought in two arenas with quite different results. The first is the arena of public opinion, and here, thanks to generally favorable media attention, gays and lesbians are experiencing great success. The recent protest against Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family produced the usual lopsided media coverage. On one side were fetching photos and references to gays and lesbians; on the other was a series of hateful quotes uttered by the most ignorant "supporters" of Focus on the Family. This familiar formula isn't likely to change anytime soon, but there is another arena...

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the government Wednesday in an effort to obtain records involving Border Patrol arrests this summer in Southern California's inland areas, including Ontario. The ACLU said it filed the suit in federal court in Los Angeles because the U.S. Customs and Border Protection - which oversees Border Patrol agents - did not comply with its requests for information in July. More than 400 undocumented immigrants were arrested in June by the Mobile Patrol Group of the Temecula Border Patrol Station, including 79 in Ontario and 75 in Corona. "We think that the community's questions about...