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[Greg Gordon]

NEW CD at thiswayout.org: "FROM OUTLAWS TO IN-LAWS!"

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,426 - distributed 07/27/15
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(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
The U.S. Equality Act fights equality-phobias;
San Francisco Catholic schoolteachers seek "morality" dispensation;
The European Court of Human Rights rules for the legal recognition of
same-gender couples, gender identity rights advance in Italy and
Poland, Taipei pops the question to Taiwan's Constitutional Court,
it's the end of the rainbow in Riyadh, and more LGBT news!

- In "NewsWrap": The European Court of Human Rights decides for the first time that same-gender couples are entitled to some form of legal recognition… Italy's highest court rules and the lower house of the Polish parliament decides that a trans-person can change her/his legal gender without having reassignment surgery… Taiwan's capital city of Taipei petitions the island's high court to open civil marriage to same-gender couples… President Barack Obama pushes LGBT rights in Kenya and Ethiopia [with a sound bite from his joint press conference on July 25th with Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta]… a Saudi Arabian educator and his school apparently violate Islamic "anti-rainbow" ideology… and more LGBT  news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by MICHELLE-MARIE GILKESON and MICHAEL LEBEAU).

- Is a Catholic school a CATHOLIC school -- or a Catholic SCHOOL? The CALIFORNIA State Assembly is trying to sort that out. Pacifica's CHRISTOPHER MARTINEZ reports from SAN FRANCISCO.

- Now that marriage equality is the law of the land in the U.S., the movement is moving on up. "This Way Out's" LUCIA CHAPPELLE reports on the next big challenge as THE EQUALITY ACT is introduced in Congress (with comments by out RHODE ISLAND Democrat and the proposal's House sponsor DAVID CICILLINE; civil rights icon Rep. JOHN LEWIS of GEORGIA; out WISCONSIN Senator TAMMY BALDWIN; Vice President JOE BIDEN; and the bill's Senate sponsor, Democrat JEFF MERKLEY of OREGON, with MSNBC's RACHEL MADDOW).

- The religious right is in a tizzy about the introduction of the discrimination-banning Equality Act in the U.S. Congress. Always informative and entertaining commentator MATT BAUME's YouTube video chill-pill debunks some of the crazy claims about the supposedly catastrophic consequences of equality.
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