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Gay marriage bill clears Minn. House committee source: SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle posted: 5/6/13 12:00:00 AM The second-to-last week of Minnesota's legislative session started Monday with attention growing around the definition of marriage, as the bill to open it up to same-sex couples headed into what could be a pivotal week at the Capitol. The House Ways and Means Committee gave its stamp to the bill after a brief hearing that focused only on its minor impact to the state general fund. Earlier, dozens of gay marriage opponents demonstrated outside the House chamber, while another House Democrat wh Josh Ritter protests Pa. college's gay policy source: Boston.com/The Boston Globe posted: 5/6/13 12:00:00 AM Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter says he won’t play a central Pennsylvania Christian college again unless it changes its policy against ‘‘homosexual behavior.’’ Ritter made the announcement on Facebook hours after playing a Friday night concert at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., southwest of Harrisburg. Messiah students and staff have to sign a ‘‘community covenant’’ promising to avoid homosexual behavior and premarital sex. Ritter calls the policy exclusionary and bigoted. He says he’s Activist punter Chris Kluwe says he has been released by Vikings source: The Washington Post posted: 5/6/13 12:00:00 AM The Vikings released punter Chris Kluwe on Monday, bringing an end to his colorful and outspoken eight-year stay in Minnesota. Kluwe announced the news on Twitter shortly after meeting with Vikings GM Rick Spielman, a move that had been expected ever since the team spent a fifth-round draft pick on punter Jeff Locke at the end of last month. Kluwe said he knew what was bound to happen as soon as he saw Locke come off the board and he was pleased to get his release earlier enough in the sum Changing Sex, and Changing Teams source: The New York Times posted: 5/6/13 12:00:00 AM Not so long ago, Toni Bias dreamed of playing in the W.N.B.A. But after starring on the girls’ junior varsity basketball team as a high school freshman, Toni came out as transgender last summer, began going by the name Tony and started transitioning to male. At the time, California had no policy governing transgender high school athletes. Already finding himself the target of bullies, who often taunt him with “he-she,” Tony feared he would have to endure even more abuse if he pushed to try Professor Apologizes for Remarks on Keynes source: The New York Times posted: 5/6/13 12:00:00 AM The Harvard professor and economics commentator Niall Ferguson issued “an unqualified apology” over the weekend for suggesting that John Maynard Keynes was indifferent to the long-term implications of his economic theories because Keynes was gay and had no children. Mr. Ferguson, who is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard, has been an outspoken critic of Keynesian economics, warning that high government deficits would hurt economic growth, rather than help it, as Keynesian Gay marriage bill to get Minn. House hearing source: SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle posted: 5/6/13 12:00:00 AM The bill to make same-sex marriage legal in Minnesota is getting a last-minute committee hearing in the Minnesota House. The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to review the legislation Monday. That's after a state analysis showed a small impact on Minnesota's general fund. The analysis by Minnesota's budget office predicts that if gay marriage becomes legal, 114 state employees would enroll in state benefits for their married partners. That would cost the state about $688,000 a y Caught in Methodism’s Split Over Same-Sex Marriage source: The New York Times posted: 5/5/13 12:00:00 AM It started out as a deeply personal act, that of a father officiating at the wedding of his son. But it was soon condemned as a public display of ecclesiastical disobedience, because the father, the Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Ogletree, is a minister in the United Methodist Church, which does not allow its clergy to perform same-sex weddings. Dr. Ogletree, 79, is now facing a possible canonical trial for his action, accused by several New York United Methodist ministers of violating church rules. Looking back at Glenn Burke in the wake of the Jason Collins announcement source: SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle posted: 5/5/13 12:00:00 AM Glenn Burke invented the high five. In the final game of the 1977 season, Dusty Baker hit a sixth-inning home run off J.R. Richard, giving the Dodgers four players with 30-plus homers. As the legend goes, Burke raised his hand and greeted Baker with what became known as a high five, with Baker returning the favor after Burke followed with a homer of his own. There’s a lot more to Burke’s story. Long before the latest Sports Illustrated in which Jason Collins told his story as the first male a Young gay athletes set tone for NBA coming out source: SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle posted: 5/4/13 12:00:00 AM You've probably never heard of Holly Peterson or Jonathan Jean-Pierre. One came out as a lesbian at age 15, when she was playing high school basketball. The other, a college rower, told his teammates last year that he's gay. There was little fanfare for either. There were no headlines as there were this past week when NBA player Jason Collins declared that he is gay, making him the first in a major U.S. men's professional sport to come out. Some are calling Collins a role model for this up Junior Italy minister removed after comment on gays source: Chicago Tribune posted: 5/4/13 12:00:00 AM A junior Italian equal opportunities minister was removed from her post on Saturday less than 24 hours after being sworn in to the new coalition government, after she said gays invited discrimination by "ghettoizing" themselves. The abrupt departure of Michaela Biancofiore to another ministry was a fresh reminder of just how delicate Prime Minister Enrico Letta's fledgling left-right coalition is. Gay rights groups protested on Friday after Biancofiore, a parliamentarian from former Prime |
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