NewsWrap for the week ending Dec. 4 , 2010

SUMMARY

Just Kidding - Kenya's Prime Minister creates panic by calling for the mass arrests of gays and lesbians, then says that was not what he meant, while Human Rights Watch warns of escalating violence against sexual minorities in Senegal ...

Pride & Prejudice - more than 2,000 people celebrate Pride in Delhi, but counter-protesters attack the first legal Russian Pride march in St. Petersburg ...

Rubber Soul - Pope Benedict XVI says using a condom is less sinful than infecting a sexual partner with HIV, but doesn't change his position that gays and lesbians are "intrinsically disordered" ...

Don't Quack Don't Tell - Arizona's John McCain leads other Republicans in their continuing opposition to repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings, while the Pentagon's top brass all testify that Congressional repeal could be implemented with no significant problems, but while a few Republican Senators now voice support for repeal, all 42 GOP Senators refuse to consider any other legislation in the lame duck days of the current Congressional session until government funding and tax cut issues are resolved ...

One Small Step - Illinois legislature approves a civil unions bill that Governor Pat Quinn is expected to sign ...

One Giant Leap - big GOP victories in November's state legislature elections in Minnesota signal unlikely progress on a marriage equality bill there, and a possible effort to overturn New Hampshire's existing marriage equality law ...

Hawkeye Hardline - Iowa's Senate leader says he won't allow a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment to overturn his state's marriage quality law ...

Judge Not - Prop 8 supporters challenge one of the three judges named to hear the Ninth Circuit appeal case scheduled for December 6th to recuse himself because of potential bias, but he refuses ...

Final Tally - Kamala Harris is named the winner of the critical razor-thin race for California Attorney General, insuring that the state will not re-enter the case to defend Prop 8

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