NewsWrap for the week ending September 4, 2010

SUMMARY

Green-Labor Kiss - The marriage equality-supportive minority Australian Green Party reportedly allies itself with Labor's efforts to form a new government following inconclusive national elections ...

TAS Imports Rights - Tasmania's parliament recognizes the marriages or civil unions of same-gender couples legally contracted anywhere else in the world ...

Propping Up 8 - California appeals court rejects the motion of a right-wing legal group to force state officials to defend Proposition 8 at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

No D-I-V-O-R-C-E - Texas appeals court upholds the state's ban on same-gender marriage in rejecting a Massachusetts-married gay man's divorce petition ...

Fidel Apologizes - former Cuban President Fidel Castro blames himself for the round-up and labor camp internment of gay men by his revolutionary government in the 1960s and early 70s ...

Anglican Angst - African Anglican bishops press the Communion's titular leader Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to resolve the festering schism over the inclusion of LGBT people in church life ...

Lutheran Split - splinter group opposed to last year's decision by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to welcome partnered gay clergy forms the rival North American Lutheran Church ...

Double Decision - Napa, California Presbyterian Church court both rebukes and praises Rev. Jane Spahr for officiating at the marriages of several lesbian and gay couples in California during the brief time in 2008 when they were legal ...

What Good? - New Zealand's Charitable Commission rejects the application of the Kiwi affiliate of the so-called "ex-gay" group Exodus International because it offers no "public benefit"

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