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Thursday, January 17, 2013

NewsWrap for the week ending January 12, 2013

SUMMARY

Parental Permission - Italy's Supreme Court declares that same-gender couples can raise children just as well as heterosexual couples …

First Bias Hit - an appeals court in Serbia becomes the first in the Balkan nation to punish someone for anti-gay discrimination …

Liquor License - the Court of Appeals in Cameroon frees two men after they'd served more than a year of five-year "homosexuality" prison sentences for, among other "offenses," drinking Bailey's Irish Cream …

Reproductive Rights - the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals overturns a 1972 law in Sweden that required involuntary sterilization in all gender reassignment surgeries …

Oyez Oyez - the U.S. Supreme Court announces that it will hear oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case on March 26th and on the DOMA case the following day …

If You Don't, You Can - the Church of England says that "out" gay men in celibate civil partnerships can now become bishops …

Faithful Servant, Well Done - the first openly-gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, New Hampshire's Gene Robinson, retires after almost a decade in that post …

Capital Equality Bells - the national seat of the Episcopal Church, the iconic National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., will soon begin hosting the weddings of lesbian & gay couples ….

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