[OutVoice] Nate Phelps dissects his 'phobic father Fred + music by Scandelle + global LGBT news

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Program #1,151 - distributed 4/19/10
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A Phelps son flees his father Fred to speak for sanity;
A top Catholic Cardinal's queer child sex abuse comments draw
criticism, a lesbian couple and an Argentine judge "try" marriage
rights, Obama's visitation order represents a small token of his
esteem, a 2010 Prop 8 repeal effort falls short, U.S. students use
silence to fight bias, and more global LGBT news
    
- In "NewsWrap": The Vatican's second-in-command blames the Church's child abuse sex scandal on gays, while Italy's high court rules against marriage equality... the first lesbian couple legally weds in Argentina, but the last of two gay male marriages is reportedly also annulled... U.S. President Barack Obama orders hospitals to recognize same-gender couples, while an effort to repeal California's Proposition 8 on the November 2010 ballot fails to gather enough signatures to qualify... hundreds of thousands of U.S. students observe the 15th annual National Day of Silence... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by MICHELE PLEASANT and JOHN TORRES).
    
- He's the son of a disbarred civil rights attorney turned familial cult leader who made the slogan GOD HATES FAGS infamous. It's no surprise that NATE PHELPS is the survivor of an abusive household, since his preacher father FRED has an international reputation for abusing gay, lesbian, bi, and trans people... not to mention his antipathy for Jews, Catholics, people with AIDS, Sweden, the American flag, Christmas, and U.S. soldiers killed in battle. Few of Fred Phelps' children have escaped the thrall of his WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH in TOPEKA, KANSAS. Nate Phelps, one of them who did, believes it's also important for him to share his story, as he did with "This Way Out" correspondent HEATHER KITCHING (from "Queer FM" on CiTR/Vancouver, B.C.) (with intro/outro music from "God Loves Me Too" performed by SCANDELLE) [www.natephelps.com]. **********************************************************
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