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365Gay.Com

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Federal Court Halts Oregon Gay Partner Registry

by The Associated Press
Posted: December 28, 2007 - 8:00 pm ET

(Portland, Oregon) A federal judge on Friday placed on hold a state domesticpartnership law that was set to take effect Jan. 1, pending a Februaryhearing.

The law would give some spousal rights to same-sex couples.

Opponents asked U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman to intercede after theOregon secretary of state's office ruled in October that they had failed tocollect enough valid signatures on a referendum to block the law.

The Oregon measure covers benefits related to inheritance rights,child-rearing and custody, joint state tax filings, joint health, auto andhomeowners insurance policies, visitation rights at hospitals and others. Itdoes not affect federal benefits for married couples, including SocialSecurity and joint filing of federal tax returns.

After the Legislature approved the domestic partnership law this year, gayrights opponents launched an effort to collect enough signatures to suspendthe law and place it on the November 2008 ballot for a statewide vote.

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New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-britain-honours.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Kylie Minogue Honored By Queen Elizabeth

By REUTERS
December 28, 2007
Filed at 7:04 p.m. ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Kylie Minogue, the Australian singer and actress who hasbattled breast cancer, was honored by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Saturday,with other awards given to sportsmen, entertainers and businessmen.

Minogue, a former soap star who became one of the world's most famousrecording artists, becomes an Officer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE) in the traditional New Year's honors list.

Minogue, famous for hits from "I Should Be So Lucky" to "Can't Get You OutOf My Head," was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2005 and went throughsurgery and chemotherapy before returning to the stage late last year.

She has sold some 40 million albums around the world, and 12 million viewerstuned this week in to see her star in a special Christmas episode of Britishtelevision series "Doctor Who."

Sir Ian McKellen, a top Shakespearean actor who gained worldwide fame withfilm roles such as the wizard Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy,was made a Companion of Honour under Britain's ancient and complex system ofhonorary titles.

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Activist urges evangelicals to fight AIDS
'It's not a sin to be sick,' author Kay Warren tells conservative Christians

(AP) | Dec 28, 2:34 PM

The matter-of-fact display on prostitution was startling enough. Then, alarge remote-controlled condom floated above the conference hall.

Kay Warren, wife of pastor Rick Warren, wondered what she had gotten herselfinto.

It was her first International AIDS Conference, in 2004 in Thailand. Justtwo years earlier, an article on how HIV was devastating African familiesled Kay Warren to take up the cause when very few conservative Christianleaders were doing so. She chronicles her journey into activism in her newbook "Dangerous Surrender," which is a plea for Bible-believers to join thefight.

"I think there are some people who won't get past the first few chapters.It's not a light read," said Warren, whose husband wrote themultimillion-selling "The Purpose Driven Life." "For some people, it willcome at the right time for them."

It was only a few years ago that evangelicals began tentatively puttingtheir energies into combating the infection. Many conservative Christiansconsidered the illness a punishment from God - for same-gender sex,prostitution and drug use. AIDS activism also inevitably meant working withgay leaders whom evangelicals had been battling on the issue of same-sexmarriage.

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Chicago Sun-Times

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/716770,CST-NWS-assault28.article

Alleged gay advance cited in rape
CICERO | Male suspect accused of sodomizing man with broomstick

BY ERIC HERMAN Criminal Courts Reporter eherman@suntimes.com
December 28, 2007

A Cicero man angry about an alleged homosexual advance raped the man heclaimed propositioned him, and then sodomized him with a broomstick,officials said.

Felipe Rivera, 43, is charged with a hate crime as well as aggravatedcriminal sexual assault and other offenses, said a spokesman for the CookCounty state's attorney's office. If convicted, he could face more than 30years in prison, a source said.

According to a spokesman for Cicero police, Rivera and the victimencountered each other at a party Friday night in the 1200 block of South50th Avenue.

"Mr. Rivera got upset apparently because he believed the victim, No. 1,didn't respond to a female and then, No. 2, somehow winked at him -- madewhat he perceived as a sexual advance," said Cicero police spokesman DanProft.

30 years possible
Rivera then punched the victim in the face, Proft said, and was asked toleave the party. He allegedly waited outside for the victim. According toRivera, the victim, 37, then propositioned Rivera for a sex act -- a claimthe victim denies, Proft said.

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The Atlantic

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/12/dissent-of-th-5.html

The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan

Is it really so puzzling why lower middle class people go to church but havehigher rates of abortion, illegitimacy, and divorce? Very often people wholack a quality are the ones who obsess ostentatiously about it. Thatapplies, not just to family virtue, but to many other traits -- intellect,culture, beauty, class, professional achievement. People who insecure aboutpossessing a quality compensate by displaying conspicuous signs that theyhave it.

A paralegal, for example, anxious about her class, will carry a Guccihandbag to try to show that she is rich and fashionable. An aristocrat,living on inherited money earned four generations ago, is more confident andwears a favorite five year old jacket when she walks outside in the snow.The same pattern applies to family virtue.

A liberal who lives in Boston and has been married to the same woman fortwenty years has no need to proclaim his virtue; it is evident in his ownlife. The man from Alabama who has divorced and fathered a child out ofwedlock is acutely conscious of his lack of virtue and is nervous about theimpression it will give to other people. He covers his soiled family lifewith the clean blanket of churchgoing and vocal participation in groupsdevoted to conservative causes.

But why does this lead to opposition to gay marriage, when gay marriagepromotes the virtues of fidelity and stability? I strongly support gaymarriage and believe that it promotes family virtue. But if we are tryingto explain (but not excuse) why the churchgoing divorcees oppose it, theanswer is that they see homosexuality, married or not, as non-traditional.The churchgoing divorcees are not asserting their family virtue, logicallyconceived, but their family virtue as traditionally defined. It is thetraditional definition of family virtue that prevails in the communitieswhere the churchgoing divorcees are trying to ingratiate themselves, as away to compensate for and cover their fractured family lives. And while anargument can be made that gay marriage is compatible with tradition, gaymarriage is not the same as that tradition, which has historically beenbitterly bigoted and hostile towards homosexuality.



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Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
Kenneth.Sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu
kenslist@groups.queernet.org

12/28/07 4:42 PM
Subject: Web Site - Going out of Business Jan. 1

Message to the e-mail distribution listof the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Caucusof the American Political Science Association:
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Folks,

If you haven't visited the privately-run website
http://www.actwin.com/eatonohio/gay/GAY.htm you might want to. Forwhatever reason, the owner, Bill Meyer, has put a tremendous amountof effort into compiling political data on GLBT politics in the US,Canada, the UK, Australia, and other parts of the world (includingthings like the voting records of state legislators, Congressmen, andBritish parliamentarians on GLBT bills. He has announced that he istaking the site down on January 1, 2008. I e-mailed him and heindicated that he is fine with anyone who wants to copy his pages oreven possibly take them over in order to continue publishing them.

Anyway, I thought some of you might like to visit the site andpossibly make copies of the pages for your own research purposes.

Happy New Year.
Charles W. Gossett, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Political Science Department
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona



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Ford Motor Company offers sex change benefits

From American Family Association
December 28, 2007

The December 18 edition of The Advocate, a magazinefor homosexuals, featured the transgender issue.A transgender is a person appearing or attemptingto be a member of the opposite sex, as a transsexualor habitual cross-dresser. The Advocate article showednumerous pictures of people who had sex operations tochange from male to female, and vice-versus(I'll spare you the details).

Ford Motor Company placed a full page ad for itsVolvo brand in the publication.

Ford offers medical benefits to help payexpenses of those who choose to undergo sexchange operations. Ford pays for mental healthcounseling, hormone therapy, medical visits, andshort-term disability after surgical proceduresfor employees who desire to change their sex.

Click Here http://www.afa.net/fordreportcard.htmand scroll down to see Ford's reportcard on how it spends profits to help support homosexuality.

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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
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http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=11199

'How many more gay murders until you get involved?'
Gay American Heroes Foundation to launch

by Celene Adams, News and Features Editor
Published Thursday, 27-Dec-2007 in issue 1044

They could be snapshots of you, your brother, your son, your sister.

Let's hope they never are.

Because all the eager, young, wholesome faces smiling from the Gay AmericanHeroes Foundation's Web site are the faces of GLBT victims of "hate crimesmotivated by sexual orientation bias" - although "murder" is the term ScottHall, founder of the Gay American Heroes Foundation (GAHF), prefers.

"How many more gay murders until you get involved?" GAHF's home pagechallenges. Hall will put the question to us all at the Winter PartyFestival in South Beach this February, when he and GAHF's 12 advisory boardmembers officially launch the foundation.

Inspired to create it last March 14, after two men beat Ryan Skipper, 25, ofPolk County, Fla., "beyond recognition," stabbed him 20 times and slit histhroat before dumping him on the side of a road, Hall said the foundationhas since raised $25,000 to boost awareness of hate crimes against GLBTpeople.

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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/28/content_7328148.htm

Uruguayan president signs law legalizing gay couples

MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) - Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez onThursday signed a law that legalizes civil unions for homosexual couples,which is the first nationwide law of its kind in Latin America.

Under the new law which is to take effect on Jan. 1, 2008, gay andstraight couples will be eligible for civil unions after living together forfive years and will have rights similar to those granted to married coupleson such matters as inheritance, pensions and child custody.

The bill was passed by the congress on Dec. 18, after heated debate.

The law was proposed by the ruling Broad Front Party, who described itas a "democratizing" measure that will protect people's life options.

But the opposition National Party opposed the bill, with the party'sdeputy chief Alvaro Alonso arguing that it "creates an institution that runsparallel to a marriage, competing with it even though it is second rate."

Currently gay marriage remains illegal in Uruguay. In Latin America,civil unions between homosexuals are legally recognized in several places,including the Mexican capital Mexico City, the Brazilian state of Rio Grandedo Sul, and Argentina's Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz and Rio Negro.



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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,2232741,00.html

Priest sued over seminar 'curing' homosexuality

Mike Elkin in Madrid
Friday December 28, 2007
The Guardian

A Spanish clergyman is to be investigated after complaints that he isholding seminars which aim to "rehabilitate homosexuals". Protestantminister Marcos Zapata, head of an organisation running youth centres fortroubled children in Galicia, prompted the row after reports surfaced of arecent seminar he led entitled "How to Raise Heterosexual Children".

According to a journalist who attended the seminar, Zapata likenedhomosexuality to alcoholism and called it an illness, but said healing waspossible through family therapy. In his family, he said, he reinforcesmasculine roles by watching professional wrestling with his two sons. Zapataalso advised the audience to "hug your sons as much as you can, because ifyou don't, perhaps another man will".

Yesterday the Galician regional government said it would investigate Zapatato make sure the youth centres his organisation runs do not employ "any typeof proselytising or homophobic attitudes" when dealing with minors.Spain's gay and lesbian groups are planning legal action.

"After so many legal victories in this country, and for the first timepeople are talking openly about homosexuality in schools, we have to dealwith fundamentalist groups which take us back to the Franco dictatorship,"said Toni Poveda, the president of the National Federation of Lesbians,Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals. "And of course we are going to try to stopthis from happening. Sexual orientation is innate and there's no way tochange it."

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945456/posts

Dubai and rape: French youth tells his story

Thanassis Cambanis
International Herald Tribune
Posted on 12/28/2007 8:27:07 PM PST by ChesireKat

Alexandre Robert, a French 15-year-old gang raped in Dubai

They drove Alex past his house and into a dark patch of desert, between arow of new villas and a power plant, took away his cellphone, threatened himwith a knife and a club and told him they would kill his family members ifhe ever reported them.

Then, Alex says, they stripped off his pants and one by one sodomized him inthe back seat of the car. They dumped Alex on the side of the road acrossfrom one of Dubai's luxury hotel towers.

The authorities not only discouraged Alex from pressing charges, he says;they have left open the possibility of charging Alex with criminalhomosexual activity, and neglected to inform him or his parents that one ofhis attackers had tested HIV positive while in prison four years earlier.

Most infuriating to Alex and his mother, Veronique Robert, they said, thepolice inaccurately informed French diplomats on Aug. 15, a month after theassault, that the three attackers were disease-free. Only at the end ofAugust did the family learn that the 36-year-old assailant was HIV positive.The case file contains a positive HIV test for the convict dated March 26,2003.

"They lied to us," Robert said. "Now the Damocles sword of AIDS hangs overAlex."

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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
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http://www.sovo.com/2007/12-28/view/cartoons/7933.cfm

The Year in Cartoons



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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
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http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/122907/opl_229762360.shtml

Romney: Not running for pastor

The Florida Times-Union
December 29, 2007

I have a confession. I am a Southern Baptist, and I support Mitt Romney forpresident.

You may wonder how this nice Southern Baptist girl could want a Mormon inthe White House.

Our religions do not have the same interpretation of the New Testament -something sacred to all Christians. Pundits and many Christian leaders callit "Mitt Romney's Evangelical problem."

I say we Baptists should get over that debate and throw our support stronglybehind Romney as the best candidate to promote our values.

Statistics show that Romney's religion could be a big problem for him, since30 percent of the Republican Party's base consists of EvangelicalChristians. Polls show that one-third of Christians will not support apresidential candidate who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints.

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Atlanta

http://www.sovo.com/2007/12-28/news/localnews/7914.cfm

Church to hold free gay financial planning seminar
Seminar highlights unique needs of gay singles, families

By MATT SCHAFER
Dec. 28, 2007

In an attempt to help the gay singles and couples address unique financialand family planning issues, the First Metropolitan Community Church willhost a financial planning seminar Sunday, Jan. 6.

Cerise Hall, director of compassionate ministries for First MCC, saidwatching friends lose life partners was hard enough, but watching personaltragedies magnify because no one thought to plan for disaster was almostworse.

"I've found through my experience that when disaster comes, often times weare not prepared," Hall said. "I do know a couple of people where one of thepartners was dying of AIDS, and it came down to continuing life support ornot, and after a couple months the parents came in and totally took thatdecision away from the partner."

When Dennis Scully, a financial consultant with 30 years experience, offeredto help plan a gay financial seminar, Hall jumped at the chance. On Jan. 6,Scully and attorney Jane Morrison will address a number of issues includingcreating and dissolving joint ownership agreements, use of estate planningtools, and investing based on personal values.

"These are topics that typically don't get brought up, especially inrelationships where one partner is blessed with wealth and the other is not," Scully said. "This is a conversation that needs to take place, andneeds to place when one partner isn't stressed by the loss of a job orsomething else."

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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
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http://www.echelonmagazine.com/read_gq.htm

THE G QUOTIENT: Why Gay Executives are Excelling as Leaders . . . And WhatEvery Manager Needs to Know

According to USC Business Professor Kirk Snyder, "Gay male leaders aresucceeding where many are failing in today's business world. Their employeesare happier, their companies are thriving, and they are proving to beshining examples of how to lead the 21st century workforce-acrossindustries."

The sensational claims in THE G QUOTIENT: Why Gay Executives are Excellingas Leaders . . . And What Every Manager Needs to Know (Jossey-Bass/A WileyImprint, June 2006, $24.95/Cloth) by Kirk Snyder are bound to becontroversial. While they may seem like just another foray into the culturewars, Snyder's conclusions come from five years of incontrovertibleresearch, and makes clear that leaders who don't keep up with this new styleof management will be left behind.

THE G QUOTIENT describes, through anecdotes, interviews, and research, howthe current workforce is the most unsatisfied-as well as the mostknowledgeable, diverse, and empowered-in recent history. While his researchmade clear that gay men are succeeding with this new workforce, Snyderneeded to find out why. He argues that gay male leaders have a uniqueworldview, garnered from navigating through life with an unclear ideologyabout marriage, family, children and grandchildren. As a minority, andthrough the process of coming out, they are more likely to be open,appreciative of diversity, adaptable, and intuitive in theworkplace-qualities that were shown to make employees more productive andcompanies more profitable. Combined with recent social trends made clear bythe success of Brokeback Mountain, with roots in the Stonewall riots anddecades-long grassroots activism, the time is ripe for them to make the sameinroads into the business world that women made decades ago.

The term "G Quotient" represents seven leadership principles that explainwhy the organizations and working units under the management of white-collargay males are more harmonious, more interconnected, and more successful.They include: Inclusion, Creativity, Adaptability, Connection,Communication, Intuition, and Collaboration. Snyder found that straight men,straight women and lesbians who shared these qualities that gay male leadershad in abundance were meeting with the same successes in the business world.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Evangelical_video_Cadets_pressured_to_be_1221.html

Evangelical video shows cadets pressured to be missionaries

12/21/2007 @ 4:24 pm
Filed by Katie Baker

A video made by Campus Crusade for Christ, a Christian ministry group, showsAir Force Academy cadets being pressured to participate in religiousactivities and become "government paid missionaries when they leave."

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation(MRFF), which released the video this week, says the video is "absolutelyout of control."

"You cannot engage the U.S. government to propel your religion," saidWeinstein.

The video, filmed in the summer of 2002, opens with tranquil shots of"Colorado's most frequently visited man-made attraction." The unnamednarrator describes the chapel in detail, which "resembles a formation offighter jets shooting into the sky."

While the narrator says that students receive a "well-rounded education" atthe Academy, the video focuses mainly on how stressful the environment isand not so subtly suggests that cadets can find solace in religion.

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Gay & Lesbian Leadership
SmartBrier
http://www.smartbrief.com/index.jsp

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Oregon's domestic-partnership, anti-bias protections to be law
The Rev. Don Frueh and his partner, Robert Barzler, are among the Oregoncouples expected to register their domestic partnerships when the state'snew law takes effect in January. A second law prohibiting discriminationagainst LGBT people also will become effective that day. Opponents arethreatening to try to repeal both measures by putting them on the Novemberballot, according to this article. Statesman Journal (Ore.) (freeregistration) (12/26)

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Court: Gay rights must become law in Nepal
Nepal must enact laws ensuring gay rights and strike current discriminatorymeasures, according to a ruling by its Supreme Court. The ruling was inresponse to a petition by four gay-rights groups, a court spokesman said.
The country currently prohibits homosexuality, and it wasn't clear whetherthe decision would nullify that law. Advocate.com/Associated Press (12/28)Other News

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Spanish officials investigate whether clergymen's remarks were hate speech
365Gay.com (12/28)

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Nation's capital gets go-ahead for needle-exchange programAdvocate.com/Associated Press (12/28)

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Attend Harvard this summer!
Are you an openly LGBT elected or appointed official or senior-levelcommunity leader? Consider building your leadership skills as a Gay &Lesbian Leadership Institute Harvard Fellow. Since 2001, GLLI has grantedscholarships to select LGBT leaders to attend the Senior Executives in Stateand Local Government program at Harvard University's Kennedy School ofGovernment. The 2008 program will take place June 8-27 and July 6-25. Thedeadline to apply for the GLLI Fellowship is March 28, 2008. Click here tolearn more or apply.

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Blogger's picks for year's biggest LGBT stories
The debate over whether to include transgender workers in the EmploymentNon-Discrimination Act tops blogger Bil Browning's list of the 10 biggestLGBT stories of the year. Read more at The Bilerico Project.
Southwest Airlines still chasing rainbows with gay marketing

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Blogger Emil Steiner thinks Southwest Airlines is trying a little too hardto be a friend of Dorothy with its LGBT travel section. "Far from a slick adcampaign, Southwest's hackneyed jargon instead [smacks] of a nervousheterosexual trying too hard to prove he's not homophobic," Steiner writes.
The Washington Post (12/27)



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To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News

Information, news, and discussion about the legal recognition of same-sexcouples and their families, including marriages, domestic partnerships,civil unions, adoptions, foster children and similar issues.

http://samesexmarriage.typepad.com/weblog/

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I am a gay man in NYC. My partner Rusty and I have been together for 8years. I use the term "partner" because, here in New York, we are notallowed to marry. That may change if we can ever get the Republicans out ofpower in the State Senate, but for now, it is the reality.I often see itasked, however -- and this, by persons whom I know to be well-meaning andsupportive of recognition of same-sex relationships -- why it is necessaryto push or "marriage". Why, it is said, aren't civil unions, or domesticpartnerships, or some other arrangement sufficient? Why must we antagonizepeople by pressing for full entry into the institution of marriage?I couldanswer this is many ways. We could talk about the inherent repugnance of"separate-but-equal." We could talk about the absurdity of creating newlegal institutions just for the purpose of marking same-sex relationships asdifferent. But today, I'd like to talk about the actual, real-world,practical issues. As a court decision of yesterday demonstrates, the denialof same-sex marriage rights affects our lives in real ways.

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Conservatives in Maryland and Washington state are learning that the battleabout "gay marriage" is far from over, despite court rulings in their favorin the past 18 months. In both states homosexual leaders are hoping theirrespective legislatures will do what the courts would not do -- legalize"marriage" for same-sex couples. Both courts said the issue was for thelegislative branch, and not the judicial branch, to decide. Dan Furmansky,executive director of the homosexual activist group Equality Maryland, toldThe Gazette news service in Maryland he is working to get moderate andconservative Democrats on board supporting "gay marriage." Maryland andWashington have Democratic-controlled legislatures and Democratic governors.

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Michael in Norfolk points out an article about Obama's latest statement onDOMA. In an interview with the Bay Area Reporter Monday, December 17, TobiasWolff, a gay man who's chair of the national LGBT policy committee for theObama campaign, called the Illinois senator a "fighter" who will stand byhis principles.Wolff, 37, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania,also noted that while he disagrees with Obama on the issue of same-sexmarriage, he nonetheless believes that Obama is the better candidate. Obama,as well as the other leading Democratic candidates, support civil unions.
Wolff supports marriage equality. But Wolff drew a distinction with Obama'sand Clinton's position on the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Obamasupports repeal of all DOMA, while Clinton is on record supporting repeal ofonly part of the legislation. President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law,as well as the anti-gay "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy thatprohibits gays and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces.At theLogo presidential forum in August, Clinton said that she would repealSection 3 of DOMA, which states that, for federal purposes, "marriage" canmean only marriage between a man and a woman, thus it essentially deniessame-sex couples more than 1,100 federal benefits enjoyed by marriedheterosexual couples. Section 2, however, says that states do not have torecognize same-sex relationships, and Clinton has not gone so far as tosupport repeal of that provision.

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"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doingan about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man whoturns back soonest is the most progressive." --- C. S. Lewis
For some personally, 2007 has been a happy year. For others, it has notbeen. Illness, divorce, job loss, sub-prime mortgages -- all these and morelap away at the sandcastles we construct. But after God has given us yearsfilled with gifts, how can we be angry? --- Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chiefof World magazine.Confidence in the divine-human person of Jesus is the oneweapon against which neither the error, nor the evil, nor the force of theworld can prevail. --- From "The Letters of John" by John R. W. Stott.Theincarnation was a historical and unrepeatable event with permanentconsequences. Reigning at God's right hand today is the man Christ Jesus,still human as well as divine, though now his humanity has been glorified.Having assumed our human nature, he has never discarded it, and he neverwill. -- From "Understanding the Bible" Scripture Union



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365Gay.com

http://www.365gay.com/

Go to the website, above, for the following articles:

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Spain Investigates Clergymen Over Homophobia Claims
(Madrid) Two Spanish clergymen - one a Protestant evangelist, the other aRoman Catholic bishop - are under attack for alleged homophobia.

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Attorneys Seek To Avoid Death Penalty In Gay Murder Case
(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) Attorneys for one of two men charged in thekilling of a man who ran a gay porn company say they will seek to have thedeath penalty removed if their client is convicted.



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National Gay News

http://nationalgaynews.com/

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Health Group Gets Grant to Fight Crystal Meth
The Gay Men's Health Crisis in Chelsea has received a $300,000 federal grantto educate at-risk populations about the dangers of crystal meth. The druglowers inhibitions and increases the sex drive, a dangerous combination whenit comes to preventing HIV infection. In fact, recent national studies bypublic health officials found that crystal meth users were twice as likelyto be infected with HIV as non-users.

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GLBT Leader Predicts Small Gains in 2008
As the presidential election year arrives, so does a heated race for theMissouri Governor's mansion. PROMO, the statewide gay, lesbian, bisexual andtransgender (GLBT) advocacy group has taken stock of 2007 and is preparingfor the coming year filled with electoral work and lobbying to cultivate amore progressive Jefferson City.


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