NewsWrap for the week ending February 15, 2014

SUMMARY

Science Fiction - The Ugandan government announces the signature of President Yoweri Museveni on the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" after lawmakers with medical backgrounds from his ruling political party assure him that it's a "social behavior" and not a genetic predisposition …

Saved Again - El Salvador lawmakers reject a constitutional amendment defining civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual …

Justice Deployed - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder orders his Justice Department to defend all the rights, responsibilities and benefits of marriage currently available to legally married same-gender couples …

Several Shoes Dropping - a U.S. federal court overturns Virginia's constitutional ban on marriage equality, Nevada's Attorney General decides that defending her state's ban in a federal appeals court is a losing proposition, a federal court in Kentucky rules that that state's law banning the recognition of same-gender couples legally married elsewhere violates the U.S. Constitution, and a Kentucky gay couple files suit demanding marriage equality within the state …

Tie Game - the Wyoming House of Representatives soundly defeats a marriage equality proposal but also votes down a separate bill to ban legal recognition of same-gender couples legally hitched elsewhere …

Word Count - Indiana lawmakers stumble over language in a proposed constitutional amendment defining civil marriage in the state as the union of one man and one woman …

Bias Bailout - the Kansas state House approves a bill to allow businesses and government agencies to deny service to same-gender couples based on "their sincerely held religious beliefs" -- described by opponents as a "license to discriminate" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted February 18, 2014.