[OutVoice] Out top cop fired for being+mainstream news musings+more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,361 - distributed 04/28/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A fired lesbian police chief has friends in town but no ENDA;
Modern musings on mainstream news;
Same-gender couples win rights in Mexico and Alaska, North Korea
dismisses a U.N. human rights report because its author is a "career
homosexual", Brunei stalls on death by stoning, the Boy Scouts
excommunicate a church for supporting its gay scoutmaster, more news

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 In "NewsWrap": Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of 39 same-gender 
couples seeking civil marriage in the state of Oaxaca, while Alaska's 
Supreme Court orders limited property tax equality for such couples… 
North Korea's official news agency condemns a U.N. report critical of 
human rights abuses in the insulated Asian nation by calling lead 
investigator, openly gay former Australian High Court Justice Michael 
Kirby, "a disgusting old lecher”… Brunei delays enforcing –- but perhaps
 not for long -- a new penal code that punishes consensual adult gay sex
 with death by stoning, while the Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court
 announces that the "curative petition" filed by opponents of the 
country's law banning "unnatural sex" will be heard by a five-judge 
panel headed by 3 of the bench's most senior justices… the Boy Scouts of
 America revokes the charter of Seattle, Washington-area Rainier Beach 
United Methodist Church because the congregation and its pastor refuse 
to fire openly gay scoutmaster Geoff McGrath… draft guidelines from the 
Ugandan government reportedly suggest that the recently-enacted 
"Anti-Homosexuality Law" requires healthcare workers –- including those 
at HIV/AIDS clinics -- to report all gay clients to the police… and more
 LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by 
GREG GORDON, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and MICHELLE-MARIE 
GILKESON).

- There ought to be a law against what happened to out
 LATTA, SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE CHIEF CRYSTAL MOORE. Despite her spotless 
20-year career, Moore was suddenly fired by MAYOR EARL BULLARD on April 
15th. MSNBC's ARI MELBER talked with Moore on "The Last Word”.

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Not all that long ago, a story about LGBT issues would never be covered 
by the mainstream media without being "balanced" by representatives from
 the state of homophobia. Times have changed -- and a confrontation 
between ABC-TV News Commentator COKIE ROBERTS and religious right 
leaders FRANKLIN GRAHAM (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association), RUSSELL
 MOORE (Southern Baptist Convention) and RALPH REED (Faith and Freedom 
Coalition) on the subjects of marriage equality and parenting by 
same-gender couples provided a fine example. The panel on the U.S. 
network's Sunday morning news show "This Week" was moderated by MARTHA 
RADDATZ.

– Nowadays, out journalists are bringing their own 
perspective to mainstream news. For example, MSNBC's RACHEL MADDOW 
compared and contrasted two seemingly contradictory U.S. stories that 
broke on the same day last week.
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