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by Harold C. Jones
An Illinois judge as ruled that a gay marriage can
proceed in spite of a constitutionally-mandated wait time.
US District Court Judge Thomas Durkin has ordered
the Cook County, Illinois, clerk to issue an expedited marriage license to
Chicago lesbian couple Vernita Gray and Patricia Ewert as Gray is terminally
ill. (Capital Fax.)
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In the Oy Vey! file the Oregon Family Council has
local Jewish folks hopping mad over their characterization of gay marriage
supporters as ‘Neo-Nazis.’
“Teresa
Harke, a spokeswoman for the [Oregon Family Council] made the remarks while
explaining the rationale for a proposed ballot measure from the group that
would allow businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings if
they had religious objections.”
"Would
you expect a Jewish bakery to serve a neo-Nazi who wanted a cake with a
swastika on it?" Harke said in an interview with The Oregonian. (Now
there, she almost has a point. Swastikas per
se aren’t illegal in the U.S. although they are in some European
countries.) > (via The Stranger.)
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Croatia
to vote on same sex marriage and gay rights. Sounds like a carefully-worded
question and much controversy, with political considerations and international
aspirations running hard up against pretty evenly-divided religious
considerations.
“Croatians will head to the polls
on Dec. 1 to vote on whether to define marriage in the country’s
constitution as “a union of man and woman.” The referendum was sponsored
by the Catholic group U Ime Obitelji (In the Name of the Family), which
delivered 740,000 signatures to place the matter on the ballot. Croatia’s
political leadership has come out against the referendum with the
President, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs all saying they would
vote “no.” Although support for the amendment is strong from the Catholic
Bishops Conference, the Croatian Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Jewish
Community of Zagreb, among others, have publickly oviced opposition. Polling has
shown a slight majority Croatians expressing support for the referendum.” > (HRC
Blog.)
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New
Jersey becomes 14th state to recognize gay marriage.
“Some
couples in New Jersey had waited decades. At the stroke of midnight the moment
arrived as New Jersey became the the 14th state to legalize gay marriage. The
celebrations came three days after the state Supreme Court rejected Gov. Chris
Christie's request to delay the start of the nuptials while he appealed a lower
court's ruling on same-sex marriage.” > (MyFOXNY.)
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Nigerian
student uses science
to prove gay marriage is wrong.
“UPDATE: The University of Lagos has
since issued a statement distancing itself from Amalaha. Read the statement here.”
“A
student in Nigeria is claiming he can prove gay marriage is wrong through
science - and his scientific "breakthrough" is backed by his
university. Chibuihem Amalaha, who has won awards in his country for reporting
on energy science and featured on various national television stations, says he
used a magnet experiment to prove homosexuality is improper. Amalaha says his groundbreaking
experiments show the north and south poles of two magnets are attracted to each
other while same poles repel each other. He concludes this “means that man
cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not
attract a woman because they are the same. That is how I used physics to prove
gay marriage wrong." > (HuffPo Students.)
I
haven’t seen anything that brilliant in a quite a while! Good for you, young
man.
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(Have
we got time? Time for one more, ladies and gentlemen.)
Being gay in the
DPRK. Study suggests North Koreans only
learn about homosexuality after leaving the country. Now this is one great
story, it really is. It’s a good thing poor old Ji Min didn’t get sucked in, eh?
“Ji
Min, like nearly all other young North Korean men, took part in regular
compulsory military training. Once a year, professionals from the cities such
as him were drafted and sent off to do military service for about two weeks. Working
with Ji Min was another young man of marriageable age, who the army had given
the task of distributing food, rations and other necessities to the soldiers –
a job which could make one quite popular with your fellow soldiers.
Furthermore, on the job they were exposed to many unmarried girls, and ‘some of
them were really pretty,’ Ji Min recalled. But Ji Min’s friend was not
interested in the girls – he was more interested in Ji Min.” > (NKNEWS Org.)
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