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 as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
- Child star and fringe creationist Kirk Cameron told Piers Morgan that homosexuality is “unnatrual” as well as “detrimental and ultimately destructive” to society. GLAAD launched a campaign to tell him to grow up, but Morgan has said Cameron was “brave” to stick to his beliefs.
- Jonathan Capehart follows through on his argument that blacks and gays share a common struggle for civil rights.
- The Charlotte Observer has come out against North Carolina’s Amendment One, calling it “unwise and unnecessary.”
- The Anoka-Hennepin School Board may soon settle in the bullying lawsuit filed by six students.
- Idaho’s LGBT non-discrimination protections may get a second a chance.
- The Veterans Health Administration will now ensure that transgender veterans have medical records that reflect their self-identified gender.
- New York City has opened the nation’s first LGBT senior center.
- Protesters occupied New York City’s LGBT Community Center on Saturday over its refusal to let groups that organize around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict use its space.
- New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan is calling upon Catholics to be “very active, very informed, and very involved in politics,” adding in the same speech that he doesn’t “recall a right to marriage.”
- Cardinal Keith O’Brien, head of the Catholic Church of Scotland, called same-sex marriage a “grotesque subversion” of marriage.
- Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko thinks it is “better to be a dictator than gay.”
- A gay-friendly church in Dallas helped save a gay-friendly church in Minnesota from extinction.
- Meet bisexual rapper Imani the Misfit.
- Brian and Patrick Burke have launched the “You Can Play” project to combat homophobia in professional hockey:
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