[OutVoice] US "gayxperts" to Uganda?+Dead Fred+NYC St Pats protest+more!

Greg Gordon greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 25 14:28:32 CDT 2014


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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Can U.S. science save Uganda from the sin of homophobia?
Some "grossest hits" of the infamous (and now late) Fred Phelps;
Green and lavender clash again in New York City;
Competing family factions face off in Taipei's Freedom Square,
Gibraltar rocks civil partnerships, Australia's largest "ex-gay" group
exits, an Idaho anti-bias advocate comes out of a closet, and more news

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 In "NewsWrap": Opponents and proponents of Taiwan marriage equality 
face off and occasionally scuffle at dueling rallies in Taipei's Freedom
 Square, while lawmakers in Gibraltar approve a civil partnerships bill 
for both heterosexual and same-gender couples, but a similar proposal 
dies in Romania's Chamber of Deputies… Australia's largest "pray the gay
 away" ministry, Living Waters, shuts down for lack of interest… 
chairman Mohammed Naseem of Birmingham Central Mosque, one of the 
largest in Europe, compares gay people to "compulsive murderers, 
gamblers and pedophiles", while infamous "God Hates Fags" preacher FRED 
PHELPS of Topeka, Kansas' fringe Westboro Baptist Church goes to his 
final reward [with a brief audio sample]… a U.S. federal judges makes 
Michigan the 14th consecutive state since last June's Supreme Court DOMA
 ruling to have its ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples 
declared unconstitutional… former Idaho lawmaker Nicole LeFavour 
literally comes out of a closet in the Senate chamber to protest the 
refusal of the Republican leadership to even consider protecting LGBT 
people in the state's anti-discrimination laws… and more LGBT news from 
around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and 
reported this week by ABBY DEES & WENZEL JONES).

- The world 
-- including Ireland -- has changed dramatically in the last twenty 
years. But the ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADES in Boston and NEW YORK CITY 
have remained discriminatorily the same since the first protests against
 the exclusion of LGBT marchers began in the early 1990s. But things 
heated up again this year with both Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and New 
York Mayor Bill de Blasio refusing to participate.  However a few 
dignitaries still lent their shoe leather to the traditional events. 
Boston's former Police Chief Bill Bratton now serves in New York, where 
he marched in uniform on St. Patrick's Day. It's probably no coincidence
 that law enforcement was on the minds of some of the people "This Way 
Out" correspondent KELLY COGSWELL spoke with as they demonstrated 
against the 5th Avenue festivities in the Big Apple (with brief intro 
music from "Monday Monday" by THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS).
[http://kellycogswell.com/]

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 The 84-year-old patriarch of the most notoriously anti-gay family in 
the United States – and perhaps the world – is dead.  According to 
online posts by relatives, the REVEREND FRED PHELPS, SENIOR of the 
infamously anti-gay WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH died in a TOPEKA, KANSAS 
area hospice from an undisclosed illness late in the evening of March 
19th – though an official Church media release called it "natural 
causes." "This Way Out's" GREG GORDON brings a bio, some comments by 
Topeka residents, and samples of Fred's inflammatory invectives (with 
intro music from "Onward Christian Soldiers" performed by ST. PATRICKS 
BRASS AND REED BAND KILKENNY, and transition music from "Whole Lotta 
Love" by LED ZEPELLIN).

- Can U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry 
"cure" UGANDAN PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI's homophobia? MSNBC's RACHEL 
MADDOW finds the prospect for a unique kind of diplomatic mission 
fascinating… and only fair, since, as Maddow points out, the critical 
conditions for LGBT people in Uganda began with the visits of 
professional U.S. homophobe SCOTT LIVELY (also features brief comments 
by President Musevini, and intro music from "Misunderstanding" by 
GENESIS).
[www.msnbc.com]
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