NewsWrap for the week ending July 10, 2010

SUMMARY:

Asylum Ordered - The U.K. Supreme Court orders asylum for a gay Iranian and a gay Cameroonian, overturning an appeals court ruling that said the men would not be persecuted in their home countries if they concealed their sexual orientation ...

DOMA Unconstitutional - The U.S. District Court in Boston rules in two cases, one brought by lesbigay couples legally married in Massachusetts and the other by the state's Attorney General, that a key section of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, violates both the 5th and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution ...

HI Civil Unions Vetoed - Hawai'i's Republican Governor Linda Lingle vetoes a civil unions bill that would have given same-gender couples virtually all the rights of marriage in the state except the name ...

Gay Cleric Twice-Trashed - Openly gay partnered-but-celibate cleric Jeffrey John is blocked for the second time from becoming a Church of England bishop ...

Ordination Yes, Marriage Maybe - The annual meeting of the Presbyterian Church USA recommends the ordination of non-celibate gays but decides that blessing legally married same-gender couples requires further study ...

No Marriage in Argentina - An Argentine Senate committee recommends the rejection of a marriage equality bill ...

Ireland's Partnerships Pending - A civil partnerships bill easily passes in the second house of the Irish parliament and awaits a presidential signature ...

PM Siguroardottir Weds - Iceland's openly lesbian Prime Minister Johanna Siguroardottir marries her longtime partner on the first day that the nation's new marriage equality law comes into force ....

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted July 12th.