Conservative Austria Legalizes Civil Unions

Beginning in 2010, gay and lesbian families in the conservative country Austria will be able to enter into civil unions--although the new status they will enjoy falls short: there are 37 specific rights and protections that heterosexual married couples will enjoy that will be denied to same-sex couples, including artificial insemination services and adoption rights.
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Signer of Manhattan Declaration wanted to jail gays and lesbians

crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

 By now we have all heard about the Manhattan Declaration put out by various religious right figures and groups urging, among other things, non-cooperation with laws that in any way recognize same sex couples.
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Christian Leaders Issue Proclamation Declaring Unity Against Gays Rights

A coalition of leaders from numerous Christian denominations have issued The Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto declaring the intent to disobey any laws that force them to recognize same-sex marriages.
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Court must pay gay employee for ‘unjustified’ denial of partner benefits, judge rules

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the government must pay for the extra cost of insuring the spouse of a federal worker who was denied federal worker’s insurance benefits because the married couple is gay, Metropolitan News reports.
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NY court: Married gay couples entitled to benefits

New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to some government benefits provided to same-sex couples legally married elsewhere and now living in New York.
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What will President Obama do about that pesky federal Prop 8 suit?

While the federal Proposition 8 lawsuit continues its battle in federal court, leaders in the LGBT community are casting a suspicious eye on the White House, asking whether or not our 'fierce advocate' up there is going to come to our aide when thousands of same-sex couples in California most need him.
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Poll: Most in NJ Favor Marriage

More adult New Jersey residents favor marriage equality than oppose it, according to a new poll released Thursday morning.
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D.C.: ChurchOuting.org - site takes on hypocrisy in Catholic Church

Now this is interesting...when the church gets wind of this, there will probably be an eruption.

For Immediate ReleaseWednesday, November 17, 2009Contact:  Phil AtteyPhone: 202.
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NY high court upholds benefits, but shies away from considering marriage equality

New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected two challenges filed by a Christian legal advocacy group that sought to deny legal recognition of marriages granted to same-sex couples by other other states or countries.
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Partner Ceremonies Start Thursday for Some Aussies

Starting Thursday, same-sex couples in the Australian Capital Territory, or ACT, will be able to participate in civil partnership ceremonies.
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NY Court Upholds Marriage Recognition

Today the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund lost their challenge to New York's recognition of same-sex marriages performed outside the state.
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Item: Austria to allow ceremony-less same-sex civil unions

   ::: Austria's government agreed Tuesday to a new law that allows civil partnerships for gay and lesbian couples, but bars them from holding ceremonies to celebrate their unions at a registry office.
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PRESS RELEASE: The Repeal of Kentucky's Same-Sex Marriage Ban

From Kentucky Equality Federation, Marriage Equality Kentucky, and Kentucky Equality PAC.

Kentucky Equality Federation applauds legislation pre-filed by Representative Mary Lou Marzian (BR 93) to place the issue of same-sex marriage or civil unions back in the hands of Kentucky citizens.
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Item: Argentine gay couple to be married on Dec 1

     ::: Alejandro Freyre, 39, and Jose Maria Di Bello, 41, will get married December 1 in the same Buenos Aires registry office where the couple was refused a marriage license in April, AFP reports.
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Queer the Census!

As it stands the 2010 census will not include a question about sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Site Lauches To Out DC Priests

Washington DC activist and JMG reader Phil Attey has launched ChurchOuting.org, a site intended to publicize the names of Catholic priests who are socially out but professionally closeted.
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Lesbian and Gay Parents Are Not Better--and That's Okay

Everyone's been asking the question. The New York Times: "Are Same-Sex Couples Better Parents?" The Advocate: "Gay Parents Better than Straight?" SF Gate: "Are same-sex couples better parents?" The Dallas Voice: "Do gays and lesbians make better parents?"

All were talking about the research in Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle, by Dr.
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Of Flesh and Blood We're Made

Does this mean if we'd just called them human rights instead of gay then we'd still be able to marry in California and Rhode Island?The Associated Press reports:The District of Columbia Board of Ethics and Elections said a measure that would ban same-sex marriages cannot go on the city’s ballot.
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I Still Do: Gay Marriage Proponents Gear Up for 2010, Voters Weary

Homosexuals, start your engines. The petition that "reinstates (the) right of same-sex couples to marry" has kicked off and the Love Honor Cherish campaign, among others spearheading the effort, has until April to enlist nearly one million signatures before a.
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'Companionate' advocates: Our forebears in 'attacking traditional marriage'

Now it's marriage equality for same-sex couples. But back in the late 20's, it was another concept that was threatening to rock "traditional marriage" from its moorings.
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