Scouts/Sports Souffle & Lammy's Equality Lesson

The Boy Scouts of America and the National Football League intersect (featuring Super Bowl Champion Raven Brendon Ayanbadejo; Minnesota Viking Chris Kluwe; former Eagle Scout Zach Wahls; Peter Sprigg and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ed Whalen).

Black MP Davd Lammy's "less than equal" lament helps launch U.K. marriage equality.

And in NewsWrap: Britain's House of Commons overwhelmingly approves a bill to open civil marriage to same-gender couples, French troops save two Mali men from execution for having gay sex, Uganda's Parliament reconsiders "Killing the Gays," football allies in Melbourne -- and a Mumbai fifth and Hyderabad first -- mark LGBT Pride, the rainbow flag flies over Cambridge's Guildhall, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 9, 2013

SUMMARY

Another Marriage Problem for Canterbury - Britain's House of Commons gives overwhelming approval in its second reading to the "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill" -- opposed by the new Archbishop of Canterbury …

Intervention Within Intervention - French troops save two Malian men from Islamic execution for homosexuality …

Recurring Nightmare - Uganda's infamous "Kill the Gays Bill" is back on the parliamentary agenda …

Unprepared - the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America unexpectedly postpones a decision on the proposed repeal of its policy banning openly gay scouts and troop leaders …

Fancy Footwork - Australian Football League pros proudly march for the first time in Melbourne's annual Pride parade …

Out in Hindi - in India an estimated two thousand people attend the fifth Queer Azaadi Mumbai Pride Parade, and as "The Hindu" reported, LGBT people "came out into the open" for Hyderabad's first …

History on Top of History - the rainbow flag flies during Britain's LGBT History Month over Cambridge Guildhall …

Royal Treatment - Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria is the surprise presenter of the "Gay of the Year Award" at a glitzy Stockholm gala ….

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