NewsWrap for the week ending Sept. 3, 2011

SUMMARY

Til Dogma Do Us Part - Mexican Presbyterians break with their more progressive U.S. counterparts over the latter's move to ordain partnered openly lesbian and gay clergy, while equally-disaffected conservative U.S. Presbyterians meet in Minnesota to discuss a breakaway branch ...

Outside the Box - Britain's leading advocacy group, Stonewall, plans to evangelize for equality overseas ...

You Oughtta Be in Pictures - anti- and pro-Proposition 8 lawyers battle in a U.S. District Court over the release of videotapes of the proceedings of last year's landmark trial that concluded with a judgment calling California's voter-approved marriage equality-banning measure unconstitutional ...

Shadow of Doubt - a mistrial is declared in the murder trial of now-17-year-old Brandon McInerney, whom everyone acknowledges, at age 14, shot and killed his gender-variant 15-year-old classmate Lawrence King, when the jury can't unanimously agree on a first- or second-degree murder or manslaughter conviction ...

For Freedom of Choi-ce - the federal court case against gay former U.S. Army Lieutenant Dan Choi for failing to unchain himself from the White House fence in a protest of Don't Ask Don't Tell last November gets a 10-day delay after the prosecution objects to the presiding judge's decision to allow Choi's defense team to present evidence of "vindictive prosecution" by the government ...

Finer Point - Log Cabin Republicans tells a federal appeals court why its judges need to uphold a lower court ruling declaring the soon-to-be-repealed anti-gay military ban unconstitutional ...

At Ease - some 100 formerly closeted personnel will come out on the day of repeal in the September 20th issue of "OutServe," a new magazine for lesbian and gay service members to be distributed on U.S. Army and Air Force bases ...

And in the End - tacky shots of his derriere on a website for gay sex seekers come back to bite Puerto Rico anti-gay Republican Senator Roberto Arango in the ass ...

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