NewsWrap for the week ending September 7, 2013

SUMMARY

Cue the Pipes - A civil marriage equality bill moves toward predicted passage in Scotland …

Poquito Mas - a gay couple in Chihuahua get a court-ordered marriage license …

Manhattan Marriage Project - a judge in New Mexico makes Los Alamos the eighth county in the U.S. state to offer marriage licenses  to same-gender couples …

Gaining on 'Em - one in three marriage licenses issued in Minnesota in August went to lesbian and gay couples …

Guard the Guardians - U.S. National Guard commanders in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana hinder the efforts of their married gay and lesbian enlistees to get equal military benefits …

Immersed in Bigotry - the Southern Baptist Convention bans their U.S. military chaplains from any action, including performing or attending the wedding of a same-gender couple, that "gives the appearance of accepting the homosexual lifestyle" …

Abandoned at the Altar -  the writers of GLAAD award-winning DC Comics' "Batwoman" quit after being told that "Kate Kane" (the lesbian caped crusader's real name) can't marry her police officer girlfriend "Maggie Sawyer," to whom she proposed in the February issue …

Super Sapphic Swimmer - why the sexual orientation of 64-year-old record-breaking Cuba to Florida long-distance lesbian swimmer Diana Nyad needs to be part of the story ….

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