NewsWrap for the week ending September 21, 2013

SUMMARY

The Gospel Truth - Pope Francis shakes up Roman Catholics opining during a lengthy interview that the Church has been overly "obsessed" with abortion, contraception and marriage equality …

That's Amore - Italian Parliament kiss-in heralds passage of a bill to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the country's hate crime laws …

Labor of Love - U.S. Department of Labor makes a post-DOMA announcement that same-gender couples are now eligible to participate with their spouses in private employer-provided health care and pension benefits plans organized under federal law …

Both Sides of the Family - bipartisan bill introduced in Congress would extend family benefits to federal gay and lesbian workers and their domestic partners equal to those given ...

Not OK With Them - Oklahoma joins Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana to defy a post-DOMA Pentagon directive to enroll same-gender couples in National Guard benefits programs …

Native American Movement - California's Santa Ysabel Tribe brings the total of Native American tribes that marry lesbian and gay couples to six …

Nothing to See Here - new out writer for DC Comics' "Batwoman" franchise insists that his employer isn't anti-gay by rejecting the story line developed by his predecessors that had the lesbian superhero marrying her longtime gal pal detective Maggie Sawyer …

Fingers Crossed Behind Their Backs - Russia agrees in its generic version of the UN's traditional Olympics Truce that it won't discriminate, but refuses to be more specific …

Sick Young Imaginations - new Russian YouTube video warns that gays and lesbians want to adopt children so they can rape them and "satisfy their sexual desires" …

Soft Drink Gambit - former chess champion and Russian opposition figure Gary Kasparov suggests how things in Sochi could go even better with Coke ….

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