Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s 8:45 AM round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but let us know what you’re checking out too.
- The California Supreme Court will hear arguments on the question of standing in the Prop 8 case on September 6th. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has asked the California court to consider the question of whether the proponents of Proposition 8 can continue to defend the measure given that the governor and attorney general have abandoned it.
- A judge has ordered that Paul Clement must respond to two of the key questions posed by Edie Windsor’s lawyers in her lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act.
- A study finds that LGBT Latinas in Chicago face disturbing rates of violence and discrimination.
- The FAMiLY LEADER claims it has raised an “unprecedented” amount of money in recent weeks, but won’t say how much.
- Equality Matters considers how important the question of marriage equality will be in the 2012 election.
- Marylands Senate President, Thomas V. Mike Miller (D), who opposes marriage equality, expects that a bill to create it will pass in next year’s session.
- Over objections from religious groups, 3000 people marched in Jerusalem’s Pride Parade.
- The town of Berea, KY is weighing the question of whether to become the first rural community in Kentucky to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- The Central American nation of Belize is having its own debate over same-sex marriage.
- A Mexican bishop is under investigation by the Vatican for supporting a group with pro-LGBT positions.
- Disney’s “Fairy Tale Weddings” has perhaps its first wedding of a same-sex couple.
- Today’s editorial cartoon from the Dallas Voice pokes fun at California’s FAIR Education Act:
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