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.
- The Tea Party’s “True the Vote” organization is training poll watchers to target transgender voters as people intending to commit voter fraud.
- Maryland pastor Luke Robinson claimed this weekend that Hurricane Sandy attacked New York City because Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) donated $250,000 to Maryland’s marriage equality campaign.
- The Rhode Island House will vote on the freedom to marry in January.
- The National Organization for Marriage’s primary spokes-victim, Damian Goddard, admitted on Twitter this weekend that he was not fired because Canada passed marriage equality.
- Texas state Sen. Dan Patrick (R) wants the state attorney general to issue an opinion against the legal validity of domestic partner benefits.
- The University of San Diego banned British theologian Tina Beattie from her fellowship because she “dissented publicly” against the Catholic Church’s position on same-sex marriage.
- A new survey shows that 75 percent of LGBT people in Italy have been discriminated against for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Malawi has suspended its anti-homosexuality laws and ordered policy not to arrest gay people.
- Gay Pakistanis are still struggling for acceptance in silence.
- Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has resigned from the St. Paul Pioneer Press after the newspaper passively defended the marriage inequality amendment. Here are some of his tweets about it.
- Lady Gaga wants to make sure all the Little Monsters in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington vote for marriage equality:
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