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mocrats -- have been lobbying the federal 
government for years for the authority to collect sales taxes from online 
sales.The issue is getting bigger for states as more people make purchases 
online. Last year, Internet sales in the U.S. totaled $226 billion, up 
nearly 16 percent from the previous year, according to Commerce Department 
estimates.The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that states 
lost $23 billion last year because they couldn't collect taxes on out-of-state 
sales. Daugaard estimates that South Dakota loses $48 million to $58 million 
a year, important revenue for a state that doesn't have an income 
tax.The main opposition in the Senate is coming from three states that 
have no sales taxes: New Hampshire, Montana and Oregon. Delaware doesn't 
have a sales tax, either, but both Delaware senators have voted to 
advance the bill."We don't like the idea of other states auditing our 
businesses," said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. "They don't like the idea of 
being subject to both bureaucrats and potential legal action."The Associated 
Press contributed to this report.
 he says he never wanted to hear 
someone say, "Oh, THAT'S why he wrestles."In fact, though more gay and 
lesbian athletes are coming out in college, gay male professional athletes 
in major sports have waited to do so until they have left 
their sport, one of the more recent being Robbie Rogers, an American 
soccer player who played professionally in England. There have been reports 
that gay male athletes who are currently playing may be on the 
verge of going public.But women have already done so with little backlash.U.S. 
soccer star Megan Rapinoe, for instance, came out right before she played 
in last year's Olympics. WNBA star Seimone Augustus and the league's No. 
1 draft pick, Brittney Griner, are some of the more recent female 
athletes to follow suit.In Hollywood in recent years, both openly gay men 
and lesbians have had successful careers. And when it comes to television 
and movies, it appears there are more high-profile gay male characters.Still, 
while many see the two dads on the "Modern Family" sitcom as 
groundbreaking, others have a sense that the societal discomfort with gay 
men as parents is at the root of many of the jokes."A 
good portion of that is for comedic effect," says Don Todd, a 
32-year-old father in a two-dad family in Orange, Calif. He doesn't think 
most people would think it was as funny if the characters were 
two moms.Herek, the researcher at UC-Davis, has, in fact, found in surveys 
that heterosexuals think lesbians

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