Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
- Following through on its commitment to advancing LGBT inclusion, the Episcopal Church approved a new liturgy for blessing same-sex unions last night, making it the largest U.S. church to do so.
- The priest who denied a lesbian woman communion at her mother’s funeral no longer works in the Washington, DC archdiocese.
- Maryland’s new marriage equality law will officially be challenged at the ballot.
- The one-man faux outrage factory that is the Florida Family Association has now set its sites on Marvel Comics for featuring a same-sex wedding in Astonishing X-Men.
- A Singapore student challenged the country’s condemnation of people who are gay and trans during a live television interview about education.
- An asteroid has been named after the late gay rights activist Frank Kameny, who was himself an astronomer that was forced out of the U.S. Army Map Service for being gay.
- The documentary This Is What Love In Action Looks Like, which profiles an ex-gay live-in facility that once ministered to teens, is now streaming on Netflix and is worth a watch.
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