Behind the news: A new Mormon stand on gays?

It looked like a : the same church that helped defeat in California standing with -rights on an anti- law in its .

On , after a series of between local -rights and in , the Church of

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Update: Obama disses marriage law as Justice defends it

(Washington) insisted Monday he still wants to scrap what he calls a discriminatory federal law, even as his administration angered rights by defending it in court.

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California Equality: Wait til 2012 to attack gay marriage ban

(San Francisco) California rights are at over when to ask voters to repeal the state’s same- ban, with one of the largest saying it needs until 2012 to put together a winning campaign and two others saying they plan go to the next year.

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Homosexuals dispel myth of “progressive”

Each year in , from the end of June through August, and rights’ celebrate the “ - named after a bar on Christopher Street in New York, where fought back against police in 1969.

in the German known as “Christopher Street Day” join other around the world who take to the streets to demonstrate and demand greater .

Some of those would include expanded . In , civil , for instance, have been permitted among same- since 2001, but full marriages are not. therefore do not enjoy the same rights as married when it comes to taxes, retirement, benefits, or law.

For more on and rights and the community in , click on the links below, or listen to this week’s “Living in ” program to hear a more personal account of a .

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Gay Men Kissing Ousted From Chico’s Tacos in Texas

The Chico’s Tacos restaurant chain in Texas doesn’t like eating their fast- and the police agree reasoning, that a business can refuse service to anyone it wants, despite the city’s anti- ordinance.

When briefly kissed at the popular taco chain, , and ignorance of the law came out in , beginning with the ’ hurling anti- slurs at the men and ending with the Police ordering the men to leave the restaurant or a “ conduct” .

The incident has garnered and the taco chain a growing movement by rights to the restaurant, with planned at the restaurant’s multiple locations.

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Gays Step Up Efforts to Reverse Gay-as-Godless Stereotype

A groundbreaking about the lives of gay Americans that the Barna Group put out last week got surprisingly little attention. In my latest &; Country column for U.S. News Weekly, I tied the Barna ’s fascinating portrait of to the rights movement’s recent efforts to ratchet up and messaging. Much of the work is aimed at reversing the -as-Godless .

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Though he was raised in the , Harry Knox knew he couldn’t become a minister in his because it doesn’t ordain openly . He enrolled in a of the more liberal but was eventually denied anyway. “My whole as an is an accidental ministry,” says Knox, 48, who now works at the Campaign, the nation’s largest rights group. “I would rather be a local pastor.”

Instead, since 2005, Knox has built ’s “ and program,” which works to combat the of the , , , and community as antireligious. “For far too long, organizations did not put religious at the of our efforts,” Knox says. “That’s a we’re making less often now.”

Those religious may be more plentiful than most Americans think. A out last week shows that most Americans pretty robust lives. While 72 percent of straight American describe their as “very important” in their lives, so do 60 percent of and . Almost as many, 58 percent, say they’ve made a personal and ongoing commitment to Christ.

And though they are much less likely than straights to share the beliefs of born-again —which comes as no , since most in the born-again condemn —the Barna found that 27 percent of do hold those beliefs. “Many in the Christian community assume there’s this significant between and in terms of beliefs and activities,” says , the country’s top on , who supervised the . “While there are statistically significant differences, it’s the narrow size of the that’s most surprising.”

The unleashed a torrent of hate , mostly from believers furious with Barna’s : that many are -believing . But more and more rights organizations are joining in stepping up efforts to highlight the beliefs of many Americans, largely through religious programs. And some religious and are to welcome and .

rights say that the 2004 election, when voters in 11 states passed bans that were heavily promoted through , was a wake-up call. To help counter the image of the battle as a fight between and religious Americans, , the National and , and other national rights quickly hired religious staff.

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India Decriminalizes Gay Sex

n what many are calling “’s ”, the New on Thursday decriminalized intercourse between consenting , by striking down of the Indian . This law labels to be an “unnatural offense”, punishable with up to ten years in prison.

Drafted in 1860, this Colonial- law was brought into effect by the British, and was in line with similar anti- passed in England at the time. In the past , rights and have strived hard to abrogate , calling it “inhuman”, and as the Naz Foundation, which filed the to 377 in 2001 argued, a violation of to privacy and .

No Rain on Their Parade

In its ruling today, the affirmed that claim, saying that violated basic . The same court, however, had dismissed a similar in 2001. It is clear that this latest ruling is a of increased by rights and high profiled supporters like and Former , along with a more .

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Victory for Gay Rights in Sight

rights are understandably up in arms over recent missteps and continuing by the administration on issues important to the , , and () community. A brief, filed by ’s in a case challenging the which prohibits recognition of same- , was out of line in between and . ’s foot-dragging on reversing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prevents and from serving openly in the military, is especially confounding as the U.S. continues to engage in two wars.

Still, 40 years after rioting at the Inn in sparked the rights movement; full for is finally in sight.

with on these issues should be balanced with other actions he has taken recently such as declaring June as , , and Month and extending some (albeit not all) benefits to who are . There are smaller victories as well.

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Gay activists shrug at Obama benefits move

’s first official overture to the and community, granting a of benefits to same- partners of Wednesday, did little to quiet rights who want him to push for repeal of the Defense of .

reiterated at a ceremony his “long-standing commitment” to try to overturn the law, which bars of same- marriages.

But the memorandum he signed Wednesday was a far cry from the on the 1996 law, which denies federal benefits to same- partners, or the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on in the military that the candidate talked about.

The memorandum aims at the fringes of anti- by the , leaving open the question of if or when the will move against the underlying federal laws.

Under the new rule, of will be eligible for long-term care , and employees may use their to take care of ailing partners or non-biological, non-adopted children.

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Referendum to D.C.’s recognition of same-sex marriages rejected

(Washington, D.C.) rights celebrated yesterday as the D.C. and rejected an attempted on whether Washington should recognize same- marriages performed elsewhere, the reports.

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