1.   The legislation, hailed as the strongest civil rights protection for the disabled anywhere in the world, prohibited discrimination in employment, public accommodation, transport or telecommunications.

2.   Bradley has proposed extending civil rights protections to homosexuals and allowing gays to serve in the military.

3.   A federal appeals court last year upheld a Cincinnati ordinance that stripped homosexuals of civil rights protections in a case that is now on appeal to the Supreme Court.

4.   A platform panel voted Friday to add language opposing special civil rights protections for gays.

5.   Critics complain that the appeals court is increasingly conservative and bent on limiting civil rights protections established in previous decades.

6.   Disallowing such suits would weaken civil rights protection for many American workers.

7.   Eight states and the District of Columbia already classify homosexuals as a minority entitled to civil rights protections from discrimination.

8.   Eight states and the District of Columbia now classify homosexuals as a minority entitled to civil rights protections from discrimination.

9.   Granted, we have no federal civil rights protection as such.

10.   In Maine, voters will consider a measure that would prohibit civil rights protections for homosexuals.