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- Today a federal judge in Michigan will hear a challenge to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, and may even rule from the bench before the day is over.
- While Democrats are whipping votes for marriage equality, Illinois Republicans are once again trying to advance a bill that would allow adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples.
- The Chairman of Minnesota College Republicans, Ryan Lyk, announced this week that he supports marriage equality and it’s time for the Republican party to get past the issue.
- A new poll shows increasing support for marriage equality in Texas, such that voters are almost evenly split on the question.
- Look at the despicable things said about homosexuality by the groups co-sponsoring the National Organization for Marriage’s “March for Marriage.”
- Conservative groups in Nebraska are considering suing the Lincoln City Council to force a referendum on nondiscrimination protections passed last year.
- Meet Steve Salbu of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business, the only openly gay dean at a top U.S. business school.
- Scotland’s Charity Regulator has affirmed its ruling that the Catholic charity St. Margaret’s Children and Family Care Society must cease its discrimination against same-sex couples in its adoption services or it will lose its charity status.
- Kristin Chenoweth says Jesus would be horrified by people who use their Christianity to justify their anti-gay beliefs.
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