[OutVoice] Girl Scouts from Hell+Gay GOP optimism+global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,335 - distributed 10/28/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A cookie boycott targets ungodly Girl Scouts of America;
Will Republicans follow as Christie capitulates to inevitable equality?
Russia's child removal plan is pulled for "revisions", Podgorica police
protect Pride from protestors, an A.C.T. marriage measure and his
sister's engagement put pressure on Aussie P.M. Abbott, resistant
French mayors are ordered to marry same-gender couples, and more news!

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 In "NewsWrap": Proposed legislation in Russia to remove children from 
the homes of their gay or lesbian parents is withdrawn, but not 
forgotten… violent attacks by right-wing extremists on the first-ever 
Pride march in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica end with several 
injuries and multiple arrests… the federal government challenges the 
latest effort to enact marriage equality in the Australian Capital 
Territory, anti-equality Aussie P.M. Tony Abbott's out lesbian sister 
announces her engagement, and lawmakers consider marriage equality bills
 in the Australian states of New South Wales and Tasmania…  France's 
Constitutional Council -- the country's highest court -– rules that 
mayors opposed to marriage equality cannot refuse to officiate at 
weddings of same-gender couples… out U.S. figure skating champion Johnny
 Weir retires from competition, but not from LGBT rights advocacy –- 
including sharp criticism of Russia's so-called "no promo homo law" --  
when he serves as a figure skating analyst for the NBC TV Network's 
coverage of the February 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian seaside 
city of Sochi… and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG
 GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by SARAH 
SWEENEY & GREG GORDON).

- Just hours after NEW JERSEY's first
 same-gender wedding bells rang, GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE, touted as a 
likely Republican presidential candidate, decided to stop beating his 
head against the marriage equality wall. Christie's political calculus, 
however, did not escape the critical eye of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (with 
intro music from the New Jersey State Song, sound from Senator-elect 
CORY BOOKER marrying a gay couple, and comments by JEFF COOK-McCORMAC, 
senior advisor to the 
American Unity Fund, which lobbies Republican 
politicians to support LGBT rights).
[msnbc.com]

- They may be
 adorable little girls in cute outfits carrying satchels of sugary 
treats – but conservative Christian broadcasters KEVIN SWANSON and DAVE 
BUEHNER [on "Generations with Vision Radio"] gained online infamy this 
week with dire warnings about the nefarious GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA and 
its trademark fund raising campaign (with intro music from "Leaping 
Lesbians" by SUE FINK).
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