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    • Boy Scouts Face Setback in Supreme Court

      Posted by Billbar from Guardian UK

      Six years after the Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts could ban gay leaders, the group is fighting and losing legal battles with state and local governments over its discriminatory policies. The latest setback came Monday when the high court without comment refused to take a case out of Berkeley, Calif., in which a Scouts sailing group lost free use of a public marina because the Boy Scouts bar atheists and gays.

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    • Gay Indian prince out of closet, loses inheritance

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, who belongs to one of the country's richest royal families that ruled the former Rajpipla principality in the western state of Gujarat, has been disowned for "activities unacceptable to the society," one disinheritance notice placed by his parents in a newspaper said. Homosexuality is banned in India and punishable by up to 10 years in jail, but gay activists are trying to lift the veil of secrecy over the community in a country where public hugging or kissing even among heterosexuals invites angry stares, lewd comments and even beatings.

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    • Pentagon says homosexuality not a mental disorder

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      The Pentagon no longer deems homosexuality a mental disorder, officials said on Wednesday, although the reversal has no impact on U.S. policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military. After a 1996 Pentagon document placing homosexuality among a list of "certain mental disorders" came to light this month, the American Psychiatric Association and a handful of lawmakers asked the Defense Department to change its view.

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    • On the Homosexual Second Class Citizenship Amendment

      Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Buzzflash

      The Congress failed to pass the so-called “Federal Marriage Amendment” (most accurately named “The Homosexual Second Class Citizenship Amendment”). One interpretation of the Bush/Frist/Hastert strategy on this issue is that they a) need to find anything they can to distract the country from the failed Bush Presidency and the failed agenda of the RRR, and b) they need to feed red-meat to their far-right homophobic base, without which their party would simply not exist in its present form. These are both true observations. But in my view there is another even more central one. The supporters of the Amendment from their legal community know very well that without it, in the absence of a Supreme Court that has totally abandoned the literal reading of the Constitution (as have the False Strict Constructionist right-wingers on the Court), “gay marriage” will someday have to become the law of the land. This, for both religious and political reasons they are totally opposed to.

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