[OutVoice] SCOTUS acts+Florida follies+Ellen's retort+global news!

Greg Gordon greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 20 12:09:38 CST 2015


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Program #1,399 - distributed 01/19/15
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The U.S. Supreme Court accepts a marriage proposal, while lower
courts continue to grapple with the issue; a Mexicali gay couple
completes their months-long wedding march, Austria opens adoption
to same-gender couples, Ban Ki-moon slams India's throwback sex law,
Russian trans-folk are back in the driver's seat, plus more LGBT news;
and Jon Stewart and Ellen DeGeneres salute the stupid.

- In "NewsWrap": The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear a challenge to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld bans on civil marriage for same-gender couples in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, a federal judge orders Michigan to recognize the marriages of some 300 same-gender couples who tied the knot during a brief period of time when they could, a Kentucky judge grants a first-ever divorce to a lesbian couple, and a federal judge overturns South Dakota's ban… a gay couple who legally wed in England sues for recognition of the marriage in their native Northern Ireland, while a gay couple renews their efforts to marry in Mexicali, Baja California… Austria's highest court opens adoption to same-gender couples, even though they can't legally marry in the country… U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticizes India's Section 377, the law that forbids private consensual adult gay sex, during his visit to New Delhi, while an official in the Indian state of Goa draws jeers for proposing centers to make LGBT people "normal", Russian officials "clarify" an edict issued last week saying that all transgender people would be denied driver's licenses… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER GAAL & NATALIE PEOPLES) + UPDATE: that persistent Mexicali gay couple finally gets married!

- The United States Supreme Court on January 16th finally agreed to take on the issue of marriage equality. Pacifica Radio News reporter MARK MERICLE had the details; then, with the help of National Public Radio Legal Affairs correspondent NINA TOTENBERG, MSNBC news commentator RACHEL MADDOW put the Supreme Court decision to hear those marriage equality cases into perspective.

- As happy same-gender couples started marching down the aisle in yet another U.S. state (Florida), "Comedy Central" satirist JON STEWART marked the occasion on his "Daily Show" by throwing some rice at the newlyweds, and some shade at their detractors.

- And finally this week, a Christian columnist forced comedienne and TV talk show maven ELLEN DEGENERES to reveal her less-than-controversial "hidden agenda."
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