NewsWrap for the week ending December 8, 2012

SUMMARY

Wedding Win - Mexico's Supreme Court overturns a law in the state of Oaxaca that defined marriage as exclusively heterosexual …

Supreme Showdown - U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review both California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 and one of several eligible cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) …

Separating Church and State - county judge rejects a request by church groups and a right-wing "family" group to intervene in a lawsuit challenging Illinois' ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Al-ki Is Now - longtime lesbian couple becomes the first to get a marriage license in the state of Washington at the stroke of midnight on December 6th, the first hour that they became available to same-gender couples …

Taking "Dirigo" Seriously - Portland plans to be the first city in Maine to issue licenses to and perform weddings of gay and lesbian couples when that state's marriage equality law takes effect at midnight on December 29th …

Choosing the Harder Right - lesbian West Point graduate marries her longtime partner in the U.S. Military Academy's iconic Cadet Chapel, becoming the first same-gender couple to wed there since the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and the advent of marriage equality in the state of New York …

Jet Set - gay male couple becomes the first to have their wedding celebrated in the pages of "Jet," the venerable biweekly magazine aimed primarily at African-American readers …

Crossing A Great Divide - family court judge in Israel approves the first divorce of a Canadian-married gay couple whose legal union had been recognized by order of Israel's High Court of Justice …

At the Helm - the iconic Hikaru Sulu beams down to the mythical comic book town of Riverdale ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted December 11th.