[OutVoice] Wikileaker update+Obama+the US Congress+more LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,301 - distributed 03/04/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
The possible consequences of Bradley Manning's truth;
President Barack Obama's Prop 8 Supreme Court brief embraces equality;
An inclusive domestic violence law finally clears the U.S. Congress;
A marriage equality proposal flops in Finland and it's 3 "civil
partnership" tries and you're out in Poland, but bills advancing
marriage rites progress in the U.K. and New Zealand, and more LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": A marriage equality proposal dies in a Finnish 
parliamentary committee, and three different bills creating civil 
partnerships for same-gender couples in Poland each fail to survive a 
first legislative reading... the UK's most senior Roman Catholic cleric,
 "Bigot of the Year" Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigns amidst charges of 
sexual improprieties with several male priests, but marriage equality 
measures, each with strong religious exemptions, pass committee muster 
in both British and New Zealand parliaments... Russia's Foreign Minister
 defends his country's proposed bill to ban "homosexual propaganda", but
 Canada's Supreme Court rules that the inflammatory anti-gay fliers of a
 "cured by religion" street preacher constitute hate speech... and more 
LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by 
STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by PAMELA BROOKS and MICHAEL 
LEBEAU).

- The VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT passed in the U.S. House of 
Representatives on February 28th, after unprecedented opposition to the 
nearly 20-year-old law's reauthorization. At issue were Republican 
objections to its protections for LGBT people, undocumented women, and 
Native Americans. ALICE OLLSTEIN reported from Capitol Hill that day for
 "Free Speech Radio News" (with comments by Arizona Democratic 
CONGRESSWOMAN ANN KIRKPATRICK, Rape Abuse Incest National Network 
founder SCOTT BERKOWITZ, and Wisconsin Democratic CONGRESSWOMAN GWEN 
MOORE).

- As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in cases 
involving both CALIFORNIA's PROPOSITION 8 and the federal Defense of 
Marriage Act, or DOMA, the Obama Administration announced February 28th 
that it would file a friend-of-the-court brief regarding the California 
case. The President had already asked the high court to overturn DOMA, 
but he explained at a news conference why he decided to weigh in on the 
issues specific to Proposition 8.

- It had been more than a thousand days since the world last heard from 
one of its best-known whistle-blowers when U.S. ARMY PRIVATE BRADLEY 
MANNING testified at his court martial proceedings on February 28th. For
 the first time the young, gay soldier got to speak openly about why he 
passed more secret government documents to Wikileaks than had ever been 
leaked in history. Manning did plead guilty to some of the charges 
against him, but still faces the most serious allegations. DORIAN MERINA
 of "Free Speech Radio News" sorted it all out with KEVIN GOSZTOLA, 
co-author of "Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning", 
who's been covering the case for Firedoglake.
[www.fsrn.org]
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