[OutVoice] A progressive preacher, a heartless homophobe+much more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,339 - distributed 11/25/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
God's love loses in a U.S. Methodist court and a homophobe's heart;
From a 50s purge in Florida to "Purple Hands" in San Francisco;
Hallmark gets a holiday "greeting" from "The Daily Show";
An initial marriage equality vote puts Scotland on the high road,
Senegal frees lesbians arrested for kissing, a court says Jamaican
broadcasters are not required to promote tolerance, and more LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": A bill to open civil marriage to same-gender couples 
advances in the Scottish Parliament, while Illinois Governor Pat Quinn 
signs his state's marriage equality bill on Abraham Lincoln's desk… four
 of the 5 Senegalese women arrested at a Dakar restaurant and charged 
with kissing in public are freed for insufficient evidence… patrons at 
Moscow’s leading gay nightspot are shot at and gassed, while thugs 
injure two in a violent assault at an HIV/STD clinic in St. Petersburg, 
but a bomb threat fails to stop the opening of that city’s 6th annual 
Side by Side LGBT Film Festival… Jamaica’s Constitutional Court upholds 
broadcasters’ right to refuse to air a paid LGBT public service 
announcement promoting "Love and Respect" [hear the audio track]… and 
more global LGBT news (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, 
and reported this week by SARAH SWEENEY and RICK WATTS).

- By the
 power not yet vested in him either by his state of Pennsylvania or his 
church, Zion United Methodist Church's REV. FRANK SCHAEFER pronounced 
his gay son and his partner married -- and for a wedding gift the 
denomination gave the proud pastor a 30-day suspension. Unless Rev. 
Schaefer agrees to stop advocating for marriage equality, his 
credentials could be permanently revoked.  Schaefer responded to the 
action somewhat defiantly at a press conference.

- Globe-trotting
 homophobic crusader SCOTT LIVELY offered his perspective on what’s been
 going on in RUSSIA lately during a recent conversation with LINDA 
HARVEY on her far right "Mission America" radio program. As Right Wing 
Watch first reported, Lively bragged about how instrumental he was in 
the passage of the Russian law banning the public dissemination of 
so-called "gay propaganda" to minors. He also doesn’t like LGBT people 
claiming the rainbow. And Lively told host Harvey that escalating 
anti-gay hate crimes in Russia since the June passage of that "no promo 
homo" law have not been heterosexual.

- Our "Queer Life and 
Literature" commentator JANET MASON looks at a fictional account of the 
very real intersection of civil rights and LGBT equality in U.S. history
 through the pages of "THE SIN WARRIORS" by JULIAN E. FARRIS [Lethe 
Press].
[amusejanetmason.com]

- SAN FRANCISCO's day of the 
"PURPLE HANDS" is recounted in this "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD 
PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia, and read by 
MEGAN McEACHIN).

- Global greeting card giant HALLMARK caused a 
fuss earlier this month when it unveiled one of its annual keepsake 
Christmas tree ornaments, a festive sweater with a few words quoting a 
well-known holiday carol -- but it wasn't "gay" apparel. The Kansas 
City, Missouri-based company doesn't make a card for stumbles like this,
 but it did issue an apology. Always on top of breaking news in their 
now-and-again "GayWatch" segment, Comedy Central's "THE DAILY SHOW WITH 
JON STEWART" provided this penetrating report (we added the "Oh my!" tag
 by George Takei and generic Santa sounds).
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