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.
- Friday’s Washington Post looked at the way Democrats are increasingly embracing marriage equality.
- Bullying in schools is leading more parents to turn to the courts for intervention.
- The National Organization for Marriage and the American Family Association think the pro-gay Outserve magazine will undermine unit cohesion when it’s distributed on bases after Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is repealed.
- The Baltimore branch of the NAACP has joined the coalition of organizations advocating for marriage equality in Maryland.
- Rev. Rodger McDaniel explains why marriage equality would be good for Wyoming.
- A new study out of Britain shows that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are far more likely to be alone without children or familial support in old age.
- Truth Wins Out protested the Love Won Out ex-gay conference this weekend, which had a record-low attendance of 450 people.
- Details from Wikileaks reveal more about Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” bill, including that the Vatican lobbied against it but Uganda’s First Lady Janet Museveni was “ultimately behind” it, in spite of the President’s attempts to sideline the bill.
- Ecuador has closed 30 ex-gay clinics following allegations of torture and abuse from former patients.
- Malawi’s Anglican Bishop, James Tengatenga, has made it clear that the country’s church “remains totally against homosexuality” despite supportive statements made by Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Cardinal Keith O’Brien is concerned that the Scottish Government might “demolish a universally recognized human right” if it legalizes same-sex marriage. Bishop of Paisley Philip Tartaglia has said marriage equality would be “an act of cultural vandalism.”
- FIFA will investigate homophobia in women’s soccer by launching “an immediate probe” into homophobic statements made by Nigerian Coach Eucharia Uche.
- Queerty highlights seven TV episodes that help parents react to their kids’ coming out.
- VIDEO: Students in the Gay-Straight Alliance at Hosford Middle School in Portland, OR were “Born This Way”:
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