NewsWrap for the week ending May 23, 2015
SUMMARY
Big Yes - Voters in Ireland make it the first country in the world to establish marriage equality through a popular vote …
Heavens Opened - the Church of Scotland moves toward welcoming legally-married gay ministers, while the United Protestant Church of France approves blessing same-gender marriages …
Be Prepared - Boy Scouts of America national president Robert Gates urges the organization to lift its ban on openly gay adult leaders and volunteers …
Curing Quackery - Oregon’s openly bisexual Governor Kate Brown makes her state the third in the country to ban so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, while minority Democrats in the U.S. House introduce a bill to ban such “therapy” for all ages as fraud under federal law …
Betting Against Bullies - Nevada’s Republican Governor Brian Sandoval signs an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying bill …
Calculated Hate - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal bids for the far-right vote in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination by issuing an executive order allowing religious-based bias only hours after the state legislature rejects such a measure …
Second Down - after failing to make professional teams in St. Louis and Dallas, Missouri college defensive standout Michael Sam, the first out gay football player in the NFL, heads north to the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes …
Labels: bisexual, Boy Scouts of America, Christianity, conversion therapy, France, gay, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Ireland, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Scotland, transgender, transsexual
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