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. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
- PFAW’s Right Wing Watch points out that religious right talking points like to disregard mainstream medical organizations while trumpeting smaller Christian-specific organizations with anti-gay points of view.
- MSNBC also seems to think anti-gay zealots are the best people to turn to for feedback about Rick Perry, according to Equality Matters.
- Christine O’Donnell walked out on her interview with Piers Morgan last night because he was asking her about the religious anti-gay parts of her book and not the anti-Obama parts of her book:
- A new anti-marriage equality website in Maryland features resources for pastors about how to influence policy without compromising their churches’ tax-exempt status.
- Virginia’s Board of Social Services has unanimously decided to extend the time for public comment on whether state-licensed groups should be able to discriminate against same-sex couples in adoption and foster care services
- North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) was challenged on his support for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage at a townhall when a woman named Lauren Brannon asked, “Can you explain to us why you are squandering taxpayer resources on this hateful legislation?”
- The National Center for Lesbian Rights will be helping Jennifer Tobits fight against her late wife’s parents to be executor of her wife’s estate.
- A past “teacher of the year” in Lake County, Florida posted on his Facebook that New York’s passage of marriage equality made him “almost throw up.” Jerry Buell has been taken out of the classroom and assigned administrative work pending an ethical investigation of his comments.
- A one-night-only Broadway play based on the Proposition 8 trial, penned by Dustin Lance Black, will feature Anthony Edwards, Morgan Freeman, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Rob Reiner, Yeardley Smith, and Marisa Tomei.
- Rev. Dr. Dennis W. Wiley makes the case that LGBT equality is not just a “white” issue.
- Lawmakers in the Ukraine want to make it illegal to “promote” homosexuality, suggesting it’s a matter of protecting children’s rights.
- Yesterday’s Tell Me More on NPR featured a segment on “the art of planning gay weddings.”
- Linda Hogan claimed yesterday in an interview that Hulk Hogan and Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake have “engaged in homosexuality.”
- Whoever you are, and regardless of whether you like Glee, take three minutes and please read this blog post.
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