-Warren Throckmorton counters the religious right’s reaction to the SPLC’s expanded list of anti-gay hate groups.
-New Delhi hosts its first pride parade since India decriminalized homosexuality.
-Apple Computer removes an anti-gay app from its library.
-The Pentagon’s report on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ finds little risk in allowing gay servicemembers to serve openly.
-Tony Perkins blasts the SPLC for adding the Family Research Council to its list of hate groups, then promptly turns around and proves the SPLC’s point.
-The Illinois legislature passes a civil unions bill.
-Hungary adopts a new constitution that bans same-sex marriage.
-Kenyan Prime Minster Raila Odinga claims a statement he made calling for the arrest of all gays was taken out of context.
-Judge Stephen Reinhart refuses a request by religious right advocates to recuse himself from the Prop 8 trial.
-The US military service chiefs testify that they would be comfortable with a repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” given adequate time to implement the change.
Professor Ken Zucker (who runs ‘gender repair clinics’) was due to give a keynote speech at the British Psychological Society’s meeting this week. Protests had been planned by the local Lesbian & Gay Foundation. No news yet of the outcome.
“Tony Perkins blasts the SPLC for adding the Family Research Council to its list of hate groups, then promptly turns around and proves the SPLC’s point.”
It’s not surprising that these are the folks who claim biological superiority based on junk science — they also claim spiritual superiority based on falsified bible interpretations.