Championship for the first time in franchise history, advancing to the Super Bowl. They suffered a disappointing loss to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII. In December 2001 Arthur Blank, the cofounder of Home Depot, purchased the franchise.The truth is that our ability to marry is being decided at the ballot box, in state legislatures, in the courts, and finally now, in the Supreme Court. While we know that we must win more states and continue to grow public support for marriage equality, it is likely that we will have to persuade Congress or the Supreme Court to end marriage discrimination. Today, because of the socalled Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government discriminates against married same sex couples by not granting them the federal benefits and protections that are granted to married oppositesex couples.

In 2009, Maryland passed a SWAT transparency law. It requires every police agency in the state with a SWAT team to provide data twice per year on the