XGW Digest: December 12, 2009
-Pepsi issues an apology for its sponsorship of an anti-gay musician’s concert in Uganda.
-The Economist takes a look at where gay couples live in the United States.
-A group of Minnesota Quakers announces that it will not issue any more marriage licenses until the state makes marriage available to everyone.
-Another anti-gay politician is caught in a sex scandal.
-John Corvino warns against overusing the word “bigot.”
-Bruce Springsteen speaks out in support of marriage equality.
-Equality Florida Palm Beach County hosts a workshop concurrent with Soulforce’s anti-heterosexism conference.
-A group of progressive Christians drafts The Affirmation Declaration in response to the Manhattan Declaration.
-The Evangelical Alliance Ireland endorses that country’s civil partnership bill.
-The New Jersey state senate postpones a vote on gay marriage.
-Religious right activist Bob Emrich circulates an editorial defending Uganda’s proposed anti-gay law.
-Austria’s parliament passes a civil unions bill.
From his (Corvino) 365gay.com entry from a year ago:
Personally, I’d also like to add that Charles Manson was recently released from prison. He and I regularly debate the concept of “lies” vs “truth,” and we went to lunch the other day. He had the Cobb salad, and I had the…