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Monday Watercooler: Arizona massacre

James Withers — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:31:03 +0000

Reactions to assassination attempt. It would be tempting to get all political over the assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords; however, I’m not going to go down that road. What made(...)

Monday Watercooler: Pride parades begin and one good reason to watch the World Cup

James Withers — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:07:49 +0000

Yuma mayor issues faux apology. Al Krieger, the mayor of Yuma, Arizona, offered a feeble retraction. After mocking gay soldiers at a Memorial Day celebration, the mayor gave the following mea(...)

Monday Watercooler: Elton John sings at Rush Limbaugh’s fourth wedding

James Withers — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:42:48 +0000

Family Research Council doesn’t want you dead. They do want you to be less gay. After it came out that the Family Research Council paid lobbyists good money to block any House or Senate(...)

Lesbian couple weds in Portugal’s 1st gay marriage

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:00:01 +0000

(Lisbon, Portugal) A lesbian couple wed Monday in Portugal’s first same-sex ceremony since the predominantly Catholic country introduced a law allowing gay marriage last month.

Teresa Pires and(...)

Withers: Civil ceremonies now available in New York City; real thing in Portugal

James Withers — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:21:34 +0000

This is funny. And sad. Gay marriage does not exist in New York; however, when gay couples head to the Big Apple’s City Hall to register as domestic couples they soon will get the same ceremony(...)

Portugal gets gay marriage

Jennifer Vanasco — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:46:18 +0000

(Lisbon, Portugal) Portugal’s conservative president announced Monday he is reluctantly ratifying a law allowing gay marriage, making the predominantly Catholic country the sixth in Europe to(...)

Pope calls abortion, gay marriage insidious threat

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:30:45 +0000

(Fatima, Portugal) Pope Benedict XVI has called abortion and same-sex marriage two of the most “insidious and dangerous” threats facing the world today.

Benedict made the comments Thursday to(...)

Portugal Parliament votes to permit gay marriage

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:37:21 +0000

(Lisbon, Portugal) Portugal’s Parliament has passed a bill allowing gay marriage in the mostly Roman Catholic country.

The Socialist government’s bill won the support of all left-of-center(...)

Portuguese govt may permit gay marriage

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:43:45 +0000

(Lisbon, Portugal) Portugal’s Socialist government has drawn up a proposal that would make Portugal the sixth European country to allow gay marriage.

The law is almost certain to pass, as the(...)

Portugal’s high court keeps gay marriage ban

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:00:40 +0000

(Lisbon, Portugal) Portugal’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the country’s ban on gay marriage, rejecting a challenge by two lesbians who are seeking to wed.

The court said its five(...)