[OutVoice] UK marriage equality+BSA & NFL changes+more LGBT news

Greg Gordon greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 12 13:23:46 CST 2013


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Program #1,298 - distributed 02/11/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
The Boy Scouts of American and the National Football League intersect;
A Black MP's "less than equal" lament launches U.K. marriage equality;
French troops save two Mali men from execution for having gay sex,
Uganda's Parliament reconsiders "Killing the Gays", football allies in
Melbourne and a Mumbai fifth and Hyderabad first mark LGBT Pride,
the rainbow flag flies over Cambridge's Guildhall, and more LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Britain's House of Commons gives overwhelming approval 
in its second reading to the "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill" -- 
opposed by the new Archbishop of Canterbury -- while French troops save 
two Malian men from Islamic execution for homosexuality, but Uganda's 
infamous "Kill the Gays Bill" is back on the parliamentary agenda... the
 National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America unexpectedly 
postpones a decision on the proposed repeal of its policy banning openly
 gay scouts and troop leaders... Australian Football League pros proudly
 march for the first time in Melbourne's annual Pride parade, while in 
India an estimated two thousand people attend the fifth Queer Azaadi 
Mumbai Pride Parade, and as "The Hindu" reported, LGBT people "came out 
into the open" for Hyderabad's first... the rainbow flag flies during 
Britain's LGBT History Month over Cambridge Guildhall... and more LGBT 
news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE 
PRIDE, and reported this week by PAMELA BROOKS and WENZEL JONES).

- Six long hours of debate in BRITAIN's House of Commons preceded the 
overwhelming victory of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill on February
 5th. No one gave a more impassioned argument for LGBT civil rights than
 black Labour M.P. DAVID LAMMY (excerpts produced by LUCIA CHAPPELLE).

- A NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Super Bowl champ used his bully pulpit this
 week to push for LGBT equality. It was the same week that the BOY 
SCOUTS OF AMERICA was expected to announce a change in its ban on openly
 gay scouts and troop leaders. That now won’t happen until May. And not 
so long ago, mainstream media reporters felt duty-bound to include the 
comments of at least one homophobe in any discussion of LGBT issues for 
what they called “balance”. But they’re now sharply challenging those 
comments – something they rarely did in the past. The unexpected 
intersection of the Boy Scouts of America and the National Football 
League this week was also marked by the continuing emergence of 
eloquently vocal “allies”. For example, and again just this week: CNN 
anchor CAROL COSTELLO grills Family Research Council Senior Fellow for 
Policy Studies PETER SPRIGG; (Out) CNN anchor DON LEMON talks with Super
 Bowl Champion Raven BRENDON AYANBADEJO; (Out) MSNBC anchor THOMAS 
ROBERTS chats with Minnesota Vikings kicker CHRIS KLUWE; former Eagle 
Scout and 2-Iowa-moms-raised ZACH WAHLS debates Ethics and Public Policy
 Center President ED WHALEN about the Boy Scouts with CNN anchor RANDI 
KAYE; CNN anchor SOLEDAD O'BRIEN challenges Family Research Council 
President TONY PERKINS; and BRENDON AYANBADEJO returns with a final word
 sponsored by the Respect for Marriage Coalition.
[www.cnn.com; www.msnbc.com; www.athleteally.org; www.respectformarriage.org
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