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Saloth family
Saloth family (Loth family), the family of Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), Khmer Rouge ruler of Democratic Kampuchea 1975-1979: prosperous Kampong Thom peasants with royal-palace ties, siblings Saloth Nhep, Seng, Chhay, Roeung, Suong, and nephew Saloth Ban, ECCC witness.
Salvatore Cordileone
Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born 1956, San Diego) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco since 2012, former USCCB marriage-defense chairman, Proposition 8 fundraiser, and 2026 appointee to the Vatican's Apostolic Signatura.
Salwan Momika
Salwan Momika, Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam activist known for 2023 Quran burnings in Stockholm with Salwan Najem; deported in 2024, charged with hate speech, shot dead in Södertälje in January 2025.
Sam Brinton
Sam Brinton (Samuel Otis Brinton, born 1987) is an American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist, first openly genderfluid DOE official, fired in December 2022 after airport luggage theft charges; known for anti-conversion therapy advocacy.
Sam Childers
Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American missionary and author who founded Angels of East Africa, an orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, for children affected by the LRA; his armed-rescue claims are disputed by the SPLA.
Same-sex adoption in the United States
Same-sex adoption in the United States, also called LGBT or gay adoption, is legal nationwide for married couples after Obergefell (2015) and the 2017 Supreme Court ruling, though religious-exemption laws and second-parent adoption restrictions persist in some states.
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also called marriage equality or gay marriage, is legally recognized marriage between same-sex couples, first national law in the Netherlands April 1, 2001, now legal in 39 countries and a US constitutional right since Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).
Same-sex marriage debate in literature
The same-sex marriage debate in literature is the body of essays, books, and law review articles arguing for and against same-sex marriage, chiefly from 1989 onward.
Same-sex marriage in Bermuda
Same-sex marriage in Bermuda: legal May 2017 to June 2018, then banned by the Domestic Partnership Act 2018, upheld by the Privy Council in 2022; domestic partnerships and pre-2022 marriages remain recognized.
Same-sex marriage in Canada
Same-sex marriage in Canada has been legal nationwide since the Civil Marriage Act (Bill C-38), royal assent July 20, 2005, making Canada the fourth country after the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain; provincial court rulings under the Charter began in Ontario in 2003.
Same-sex marriage in Mexico
Same-sex marriage (matrimonio igualitario) in Mexico: legal in all 32 states since Tamaulipas's October 2022 vote, starting with Mexico City in December 2009, upheld and extended by Supreme Court rulings in 2010, 2012 and 2015.
Same-sex marriage in Taiwan
Same-sex marriage in Taiwan, legalized 24 May 2019 under the Act implementing Constitutional Court Interpretation No. 748, made Taiwan the first in Asia; extended to cross-national couples (2023), adoption (2023), and cross-strait couples (2024).
Same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands
Same-sex marriage is not legal in the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, but the Civil Partnership Law 2020 gives same-sex couples unions with rights equivalent to marriage.
Same-sex marriage in the United States
Same-sex marriage in the United States, also called marriage equality, is legal nationwide since Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), after Hawaii's 1993 ruling, state and federal DOMAs, Massachusetts (2003), and Windsor (2013).
Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States
Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States is governed by each tribe's own laws; at least fourteen tribes allow it, since the 2015 Obergefell ruling does not bind tribes.
Same-sex relationship
Same-sex relationship: romantic partnerships between two people of the same sex, also called gay or lesbian relationships. Legal in nearly 40 countries as marriage; research shows similar stability, quality, and child outcomes to different-sex couples.
Sandwich generation
Sandwich generation: middle-aged adults simultaneously caring for aging parents and their own children; term coined in the 1980s for Baby Boomers; about a quarter of U.S. adults now qualify per Pew.
Saptapadi (सप्तपदी)
Saptapadi (सप्तपदी), the seven steps before the sacred fire, is the completing rite of the Hindu wedding; under Section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 the marriage binds at the seventh step, though not mandatory for all Hindu marriages.
Sarah Knox Davis
Sarah Knox Taylor Davis (1814–1835), daughter of future president Zachary Taylor, was the first wife of Jefferson Davis, dying of fever three months after their marriage.
Sarah Ransome
Sarah Ransome, South African-born Epstein and Maxwell survivor, sued in 2017 (settled 2018), testified at Maxwell's 2022 sentencing, and wrote the 2021 memoir Silenced No More; her 2016 sex-tape emails are disputed.
Saroo Brierley
Saroo Brierley (Saroo Munshi Khan), Indian-born Australian lost at age 5 on a train near Khandwa in 1986, adopted in Tasmania, and reunited with his mother in 2012 after locating his hometown via Google Earth; memoir A Long Way Home inspired the film Lion.
Sati (सती) (practice)
Sati (सती) is the Hindu funeral practice of burning or burying a widow with her husband's body; prohibited by Bentinck's Regulation XVII in 1829 and criminalized, with its glorification, by India's Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987.
Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार)
Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार), born 1936 in Rajasthan, is an Indian-British former Jain monk, peace pilgrim, and ecological educator. He walked 8,000 miles for nuclear disarmament, edited Resurgence for 43 years, and co-founded Schumacher College in Devon.
Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह)
Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह), coined by Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa in 1906, is his method of nonviolent resistance, 'holding firm to truth' or truth-force, built on satya, ahimsa, and self-suffering, and distinct from passive resistance and duragraha.
Savage Love
Savage Love is Dan Savage's weekly sex and relationship advice column, launched in 1991 in Seattle's The Stranger, syndicated worldwide, known for the 'Hey Faggot' opener, coinages like pegging and monogamish, and the Savage Lovecast podcast.
Savannah Gankiewicz
Savannah Mari Gankiewicz (born 1995) is an American pageant titleholder, Miss Hawaii USA 2023 and Miss USA 2023 by succession after Noelia Voigt's May 2024 resignation; fifth Hawaiian Miss USA, first from Maui in over 20 years.
Scandal
Scandal: a public moral conflict in which a widely publicized norm violation becomes a matter of public concern, with media, historical, and digital dynamics distinguished by publicity, denunciation, and sanction.
Scapegoating
Scapegoating means holding an individual or group unfairly responsible for a misfortune or another's wrongdoing, from the Leviticus 16 ritual goat, and drives prejudice, pogroms, and witch-hunts.
School bullying
School bullying is repeated, unwanted aggressive behavior among school-aged children involving a power imbalance, occurring physically, verbally, relationally, or online. It affects over 30% of students globally, and school-based prevention programs reduce perpetration by roughly 18-19% and victimization by 15-16%.
Scotty Bowers
Scotty Bowers, also known as George Albert Bowers, was an American former U.S. Marine and Hollywood gas station attendant who arranged liaisons for stars from the 1940s.