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.
- In Maine, the Bangor City Council unanimously endorsed a resolution in support of Question 1, the marriage equality referendum.
- An anonymous poll by ESPN: The Magazine of 62 pro athletes showed that 59 percent support marriage equality. Of those polled, players in the National Hockey League were most supportive of same-sex marriage, while Major League Baseball players were the least supportive.
- Even though the head of the national organization disavowed the ad, the Broward Log Cabin Republicans are defending their anti-Obama attack. The newspaper advertisement prominently featured a picture of slain Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya last month.
- Bill Maher, in his “New Rules” segment, notes that the anti-LGBT Focus on the Family’s predictions have been almost entirely wrong.
- An Alabama appeals court rejected a Mobile woman’s attempt to legally adopt her son (whose legal guardian is currently her partner), even though the couple is legally married in California.
- In a Minnesota op/ed, former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman makes the “conservative case for same-sex marriage.”
- The student government at Elon University in North Carolina has voted to recommend Chick-fil-A be forced off campus, due to the company’s anti-LGBT record.
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