James Franco’s kiss with Sean Penn in Harvey Milk biopic Milk left him feeling uncomfortable – because his co-star wanted to act out a full-on love scene.

Franco, who plays San Francisco

politician Milk’s gay lover Scott Smith in the Gus Van Sant film, knew he’d have to pucker-up with Penn – but was shocked when the director told him the Colors actor wanted to take it further.

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Post Chronicle

Pittsburgh Presbytery, which has a history of opposing gay ordination, has rejected a proposal intended to close a loophole that supporters believed could open the presbytery to openly gay pastors.

Officials of the presbytery don’t believe Thursday’s 125-54 vote signals a change in the presbytery’s views. They say commissioners found it too similar to a 2006 presbytery rule that church courts struck down.

The proposal from Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Oakland, was intended to counter a decision by this summer’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to allow the ordination of candidates who express “a departure from an ordination standard in matters of belief or practice.” The most controversial standard requires pastors to abstain from sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The Bellefield proposal required candidates to reply “yes” when asked if they upheld the “essential tenets of the Reformed faith” — which include beliefs about marriage.

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