The Gay News

The attorney general up 'round Maryland way is considering whether the state can recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Now, Maryland's antiquated law defines marriage as a one-man-one-woman union, but the state also has a long-standing tradition of at least acknowledging couples married elsewhere.

Attorney General Doug Gansler's office is expected to issue an opinion in the coming weeks, but is not commenting while the research is being done. Gansler supports gay marriage, while Governor Martin O'Malley wants the state to adopt civil unions.

C'mon fellas, don't you see one is equality and one is separate but equal?

Of course, the Repugs are already circling their wagons, ready for a fight if Maryland decides to end discrimination.
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In England, the Charity Tribunal has ruled that Catholic adoption charities which refuse to serve gay couples are breaking the law. Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) had wanted to take advantage of a clause which allows charities to discriminate by amending its charitable objectives.

Yes, it said "allows charities to discriminate."

Catholic Care says it had a right to follow church teachings and refuse to consider gay couples. Don't follow the teachings that talk about loving thy neighbor as thyself, or do unto others, follow the teachings that say we hate gays.

But the Charity Tribunal decided that the adoption agency must either take on gay couples or be forced to close.

A spokesman for the diocese said: "As the charities cannot provide unrestricted services without being in breach of their obligations to act in accordance with the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, it seems likely that the charities will need to close their adoption services and a flagship service of the charities will be lost."

So, you'd rather close an adoption agency than allow children to be adopted? Cut off your nose while you're at it, I guess.

Other Catholic adoption agencies have chosen to abide by new discrimination regulations and accept gay couples, although some have closed. Catholic agencies were given a two-year window in which to comply with the new rules, which ran out in December 2008.

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Now that President Obama has nominated John McHugh to be the next Secretary of the Army, it actually looks like "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is close to an end.

Close.

McHugh, a Republican, has publicly stated that the military needs to review DADT. And while no official comment was released either McHugh or Obama, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed that McHugh feels DADT needs to be repealed.

Sooner, rather than later, please, before one more gay man or woman loses their job.