NewsWrap for the week ending September 11, 2010

SUMMARY

Don't Ask the Constitution - Federal district court judge rules that "Don't Ask Don't Tell", the Pentagon policy forcing gay and lesbian service members to stay in the closet, violates the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution ...

Pro-Prop 8s Punched Again - California's Supreme Court rejects the challenge to a lower appeals court's dismissal of a lawsuit demanding that the Governor and Attorney General defend the state's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 at the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December ...

Judged Supreme - Colorado Governor Bill Ritter appoints Monica Marquez as the first Latina and "out" lesbian to the state Supreme Court ...

Greening Australia - with the support of three newly-elected independent MPs and the new marriage equality-supportive Green MP, Australia's ruling Labor Party maintains power following a virtual dead heat in the August 21st national elections with the right-of-center Liberal Party ...

NSW Adapts - New South Wales opens adoption to same-gender couples ...

Fostering Love - in what may be a first, a court in Victoria allows a partnered gay man in that state to adopt his foster son ...

Italian Equality - the joint synod of Italy's Protestant denominations, the Waldensians and Methodists, votes to allow local churches to bless same-gender couples ...

Bad Manners - conservative Christian MP in the Faroe Islands refuses to attend an official state dinner for Iceland's legally-married lesbian PM and her partner

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