Source: Los Angeles Times , GLAAD blog STOCKTON -- After enduring criticism for weeks, John McCain broke Thursday with two controversial televangelists whose endorsements he once trumpeted in a bid to win support from religious conservatives. At a late-afternoon rally in Stockton, McCain said he rejected the endorsement of John Hagee after learning of a recording in which the San Antonio pastor portrayed Adolf Hitler as being sent by God to force Jews "to come back to the land of Israel." McCain said he had not been aware of the comments -- which were made in a sermon in the late 1990s. Full story...
Source: Deseret News , Salt Lake Tribune , Leonard Link Salt Lake police are investigating a possible hate crime after a man was attacked while waiting for a cab outside of a gym that caters mainly to gay men.
Source: Christian Science Monitor , New York Times , BBC , Wall Street Journal Quincy, Ill. -- The long-running but slow rending to the "Anglican Communion" -- a loose confederation of national churches that trace their heritage to the Church of England -- got another tug today, when conservatives in the US and Canada formed a rival Anglican province in North America.
:: An executive at Cincinnati Christian University is the latest in a long string of victims of morals stings that found the man in a position that compromises his stated beliefs.
Source: Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle Sacramento -- The gay and lesbian caucus of California's legislature and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg Tuesday introduced a resolutions in both the Senate and Assembly opposing Proposition 8.
Source: BBC , Voice of America International media watchdog groups are calling for the release of an Iraqi journalist was jailed for writing a story about homosexuality which prosecutors said violated a public decency law.
Source: Playbill , Los Angeles Times Proposition 8 gets star-studded treatment in a web video conceived and written by Hairspray Tony winner Marc Shaiman who also plays the piano in the three-minute satire staged as though it were an awkward community theater production.
Source: Thaindian News , Daily News & Analysis , Indian Express NEW DELHI -- An extended legal debate over an Indian statute that makes gay sex illegal took a new twist this week as lawyers for the government's ruling coalition argued that Delhi High Court, which has been hearing a challenge to the statute, has no authority to overturn it.
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer , Toledo Blade A former University of Toledo employment administrator who was fired after writing a column about employment rules for a local publication is suing the university.
Source: Reuters , Times (London) , Catholic News Service Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette , Blogging for Michigan , Pride Source KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- City commissioners are scheduled to vote tonight whether to implement an ordinance that would ban discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.
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