NewsWrap for the week ending May 14, 2011

SUMMARY

Kill Bill Vol. 3 - Uganda's parliament adjourns without considering the infamous "Kill The Gays" bill, but its sponsor, David Bahati, vows to revive it in the next parliamentary session ...

Answered Prayer - after 33 years of debate and deliberation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) opens its clergy to partnered gays and lesbians ...

The Congressional Front - the Armed Services Committee of the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives attaches three amendments to the annual Defense Authorization Bill in an effort to at least slow down repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which one LGBT military advocate calls "a shameful and embarrassing waste of time" ...

The Judicial Front - the gay advocacy group Log Cabin Republicans asks a federal appeals court to lift its hold on a lower court order to abolish Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the Obama administration fights the ACLU's lawsuit challenging the Pentagon policy that gives gay men and lesbians honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell only half of the separation pay other honorably discharged veterans receive ...

Beneficial Decision - the European Court of Justice rules that gays and lesbians in legal civil unions or registered partnerships in E.U. member states are entitled to the same pension benefits as their heterosexually married colleagues ...

True Hate - LGBT advocates in Taiwan file a slander lawsuit against the Union for True Love, charging the right wing group with spreading inflammatory falsehoods about the Ministry of Education's proposal to include discussion of sexual orientation and family diversity in elementary and junior high school curricula

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