[OutVoice] Alabama’s Moore+Sam on "Ellen"+Irish marriage+more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,403 - distributed 02/16/15
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Alabama's top judge stands in the wedding chapel doors;
Out Irish Senator Katherine Zappone urges a May referendum "yes" vote;
Janet Mason reviews marriage equality fact and fiction;
Single Sam and his "Lonely" quadruplets visit "Ellen";
Disinterest defeats a homophobic Slovakian referendum, there's no cure
for a fake disease in New Jersey, and more global LGBT news!

- In "NewsWrap": Regressive anti-LGBT proposals fail in a Slovakia referendum for lack of interest; Italy’s top court rules that the country’s constitution does not require opening civil marriage to same-gender couples, while the Tokyo district of Shibuya plans to offer “partnership certificates” to same-gender couples, which would be the first-ever recognition of those  couples in Japan… a New Jersey judge rules that businesses pushing “change therapy” to make gays and lesbians heterosexual are violating the state’s Consumer Fraud Act… Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown is set to become the first openly bisexual governor in the United States.. and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU and NATALIE PEOPLES).

- After the thank-you speeches and the after-parties, out U.K. crooner SAM SMITH woke his newborn Grammy quadruplets to celebrate with ELLEN DEGENERES.

- Marriage equality in real life drama and life-like fiction is at the center of two new books reviewed by "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON: "Redeeming the Dream" by David Boies and Ted Olson, and "All I Love and Know", a novel by Judith Frank.

- Lesbian and gay couples began civilly marrying in parts of the great state of ALABAMA on February 9th after the U.S. Supreme Court let a stay of District Judge Callie Granade's ruling overturning ‘Bama's ban expire. That prompted Alabama state SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE to stand in the proverbial wedding chapel doors, ordering local probate judges not to follow the federal edict. The ensuing chaos was chronicled by JON STEWART on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," attorney TED OLSON on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and law professor KENJI YOSHINO on MSNBC's "RACHEL MADDOW Show"; the last word this week goes to nondenominational ordained minister ANNE SUSAN DIPRIZIO about her arrest for "attempted marrying" (with intro music from "Sweet Home Alabama" by LYNYRD SKYNYRD)

- IRELAND's only openly lesbian senator and her partner have been engaged in the marriage equality struggle for more than a decade. Their Canadian wedding failed to win recognition in Dublin's High Court in 2006. SENATOR KATHERINE ZAPPONE issued this challenge in a video about the upcoming May referendum on the issue.
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