[OutVoice] Ambush at the 7th Circuit + more global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,379 - distributed 09/01/14
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A U.S. appeals court scoffs at bad breeder behavior-based inequality;
Ecuador engages civil unions, Utah's marriage case climbs the Supreme
Court ladder, Switzerland, Italy and Colombia each adopt rights for
same-gender parents, Berlin's out mayor opts out, lipstick lesbians
wear beauty queen crowns in Spain and Ireland,
and more LGBT news from around the world

-
 In "NewsWrap": Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announces the advent 
of civil unions for lesbian and gay couples, while equality-seeking 
plaintiffs in the challenge to Utah's ban on civil marriage for 
same-gender couples join state Attorney General Sean Reyes in asking the
 U.S. Supreme Court to review the case, while a 3-judge panel of the 7th
 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing challenges to Indiana's and 
Wisconsin's bans batters state lawyers with logic [with a brief sound 
snippet]… coupled same-gender parents win adoption rights in 
Switzerland, Italy and Colombia… Berlin, Germany's long-serving out 
Mayor Klaus Wowereit announces that he'll step down in December, while 
two-time Miss Universe entry from Spain Patricia Yurena Rodríguez comes 
out on Instagram, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Maria Walsh, the 
reigning Rose of Tralee, "a global celebration of Irish culture", comes 
out in an interview with the "Irish Sun" – which could make things a bit
 sticky for New York City's Ancient Order of Hibernians… and more global
 LGBT news (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON and reported
 this week by WENZEL JONES & CAROLE MEYERS).

- Children were 
at the heart of the arguments about marriage equality in hearings on 
August 26th at the CHICAGO-based 7th U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. 
Attorneys for Indiana and Wisconsin each defended his state's ban on 
civil marriage for same-gender couples as necessary to the promotion of 
responsible procreation. Lawyers for the plaintiff couples stressed the 
inequities faced by the children of same-gender couples because their 
parents are denied civil marriage. But everyone's been talking about how
 the 3-judge panel, led by Ronald Reagan appointee RICHARD POSNOR, 
pulverized every argument to maintain their civil marriage bans that the
 state attorneys offered. These excerpts from the INDIANA hearing also 
feature Posner's fellow 7th Circuit Judges ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS, a Bill 
Clinton appointee; and DAVID HAMILTON, an Obama appointee. The victim of
 their legal rending was INDIANA SOLICITOR GENERAL THOMAS FISCHER. 
"Buzzfeed's" CHRIS GEIDNER and Freedom to Marry's EVAN WOLFSON (each 
interviewed by guest host Jonathan Capehart on the August 30th edition 
of MSNBC's "Up with Steve Kornacki") provide some brief analysis [also 
includes intro/outro music from "Love Is All It Takes (To Make A 
Family)" by ROMANOVSKY & PHILLIPS]. 
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