NewsWrap for the week ending April 21, 2012

SUMMARY

Pride 2, Cops 0 - Budapest Metropolitan Court overrules last week's police ban on the planned July 7th Pride parade in the Hungarian capital city …

Never Saw It, Get Rid of It - report by Russia's state-owned news agency about proposed legislation to ban so-called "gay propaganda" reveals that 94 percent of survey respondents say they've never been exposed to it, but 86 percent approve of a ban on positive portrayals of same-gender relationships …

Coerced Confession - U.K. man sentenced to 3 years in prison in Dubai last week for having public gay sex tells the Scottish Sun that in reality "it was just a kiss and a cuddle" and that he plans to appeal …

Queer Child Left Behind - Saudi Arabia bans what it calls "gays and tom-boys" from attending government schools and universities …

Hush Up, Bad - "Don't say gay" bill in the U.S. state of Tennessee to ban any discussion of human sexuality in elementary and middle schools other than heterosexuality wins narrow approval in a House committee, while a similar measure is introduced in the Missouri legislature …

Hush Up, Good - 17th annual National Day of Silence against anti-LGBT bullying is observed on more than 8,000 U.S. school campuses …

Mazel Tov - Israel's Conservative Jewish movement decides to open its rabbinical seminary to gay and lesbian students …

Sisters of Perpetual Revolution - Vatican demands reform of a leading organization of U.S. nuns whose "radical feminist themes" challenge Church doctrine …

Not Sheepish - outspoken anti-equality Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, who's charged with spurring those reforms, is rebuffed by six Seattle parishes who reject his call to participate in signature gathering efforts to qualify a petition for the November ballot to repeal the state's recently-enacted law opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Chapter and Verse - veteran Anglican priest Paul Oestreicher is sure to upset conservative Christians of all denominations by writing in Britain's Guardian newspaper that Jesus and his disciple John were "what we today call gay" ….

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