NewsWrap for the week ending March 29, 2014

SUMMARY

Inaugural Processions - Lesbian and gay couples begin civilly marrying in England and Wales …

DOMA Adobo - a lesbian couple who live in Puerto Rico but legally wed in Massachusetts files suit to require the U.S. territory to legally recognize the marriage …

Great Lakes Status - a U.S. appeals court extends the stay of a lower court ruling striking down Michigan's law banning civil marriage for same gender couples while state officials appeal it, and while U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the federal government will recognize the more than 300 couples who legally wed during the brief hours it was available to them, but Governor Rick Snyder says the state won't until there's a final legal resolution …

Celtic Confusion - a group of students in a flashmob celebration of St. Patrick's Day in the Siberian city of Irkutsk are assaulted by homophobic thugs thinking it was a gay event …

Russian Expansion - Russia-like "no promo homo" laws are pending in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan -- with harsher penalties for violators than the Russian version -- and are being considered in Lithuania and Ukraine …

Abolish the Gays - activists in Uganda report on the increasingly dire situation for sexual minorities in the East African country, while preachers begin a series of "abolish homosexuality" marches …

Bad Company - a proposal appears headed for passage in Ethiopia that would group consensual adult same-gender sex in the nation's Pardon and Amnesty Law with rape, human trafficking and terrorism …

Learned Behavior - a "religious freedom" bill to "protect" Tennessee students from anti-LGBT bias charges is headed to the governor's desk, with opponents calling it a "license to discriminate" …

Change for the Better - Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is expected to sign into law a bill to protect transgender people in the state from discrimination …

'Til Death Do Us Join? - fringe opponents of marriage equality in the U.K. warn of apocalyptic consequences of marriage equality that include a resurrected Jesus being forced to marry a man and gay people digging up corpse on "National Necrophilia Day" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted April 1, 2014.