[OutVoice] "Respectful" DOMA debate + other global LGBT news + more!

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,217 - distributed 7/25/11
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
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(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
A U.S. Senate committee hears a "respectful" debate on LGBT families;
Don't Ask's final countdown begins, Ghanaian clerics call on their
government to hunt homosexuals, Jamaica's top cop denounces an anti-gay
accusation, Lithuania attacks bias in advertising, India is embarrassed
by its Health head's homophobia, and more global LGBT news;
plus a pioneering environmentalist is saluted in a "Rainbow Minute"
  
  
- In "NewsWrap": The ability of the armed forces to deal with Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is certified, beginning a countdown that will end – as will that discriminatory U.S. military policy –- on September 20th, but the LGBT Log Cabin Republicans press their lawsuit against DADT to confirm its unconstitutionality... the first legislative step is taken on the fabled "Gay Agenda's" next repeal target as the Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony on a bill to overturn DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act... on the heels of Muslim and Christian clerical condemnation of homosexuality, a Ghanaian government minister calls for the arrest of anyone suspected of engaging in private adult consensual gay sex... in a rare official disavowal of homophobia in what many consider the most anti-queer country in the Caribbean, Jamaica's top cop, Commissioner Owen Ellington, publicly chastises a subordinate for blaming young gay men for national lottery scams, while Lithuania's parliament bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in advertising, but India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad takes heat for "backward and ignorant" comments about homosexuality and AIDS... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU and BEN CARON).
  
- Trailblazing environmental activist RACHEL CARSON ("Silent Spring") is celebrated in a "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR and BRIAN BURNS at the studios of WRIR-FM in Richmond, Va. and read by JANICE BROWNE).
  
- The U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE held its first hearing July 20th on a bill to repeal the so-called DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, or DOMA, a 1996 law that bans federal recognition of gay and lesbian couples -- even those who have legally wed where it's sanctioned. MATT LASLO covered the hearings for "Free Speech Radio News" (includes testimony by gay 77-year-old California widower RON WALLEN; Senator DIANNE FEINSTEIN; Congressmen JEROLD NADLER, STEVE KING and JOHN LEWIS; and THOMAS MINNERY of the rightwing group Focus On The Family. SENATOR AL FRANKEN challenged Minnery's testimony in one of the more engaging exchanges during the hearing; and news commentator LAWRENCE O'DONNELL discussed that testimony with JENNIFER CHRISLER, Executive Director of the Family Equality Council, on his MSNBC program "The Last Word" (with additional comments by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman PATRICK LEAHY).
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