NewsWrap for the week ending March 22, 2014

SUMMARY

Family Feud - Opponents and proponents of Taiwan marriage equality face off and occasionally scuffle at dueling rallies in Taipei's Freedom Square …

Civilized Proposals - lawmakers in Gibraltar approve a civil partnerships bill for both heterosexual and same-gender couples, but a similar proposal dies in Romania's Chamber of Deputies …

Sales Dried Up - Australia's largest "pray the gay away" ministry, Living Waters, shuts down for lack of interest …

No Peace - chairman Mohammed Naseem of Birmingham Central Mosque, one of the largest in Europe, compares gay people to "compulsive murderers, gamblers and pedophiles" …

Heaven Help Him - infamous "God Hates Fags" preacher Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kansas' fringe Westboro Baptist Church goes to his final reward …

Drip, Drip - a U.S. federal judges makes Michigan the 14th consecutive state since last June's Supreme Court DOMA ruling to have its ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples declared unconstitutional …

Slow Motion - a federal judge extends a stay of his ruling ordering Kentucky to recognize the marriages of lesbian and gay couples legally performed in other jurisdictions pending the state's appeal …

Why Wait? - another federal judge rejects Tennessee's request to delay its recognition of three plaintiff same-gender couples who married elsewhere while the state appeals her ruling declaring that refusal to be unconstitutional …

Cloakroom Disobedience - former Idaho lawmaker Nicole LeFavour literally comes out of a closet in the Senate chamber to protest the refusal of the Republican leadership to even consider protecting LGBT people in the state's anti-discrimination laws ….

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