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'SILENCING CHRISTIANS' PAID PROGRAM DRAWS PROTEST CALLS, E-MAILS
by: tbo.com, OIA Newswire
TAMPA - A flood of telephone calls and e-mails cascaded into WFLA News Channel 8 on Saturday afternoon and night over the airing of "Silencing Christians," a religious paid program that some say contained open hate speech against gays and lesbians.
Before the hourlong program ended at 8 p.m., the station had logged hundreds of telephone calls and more than 1,000 e-mails, all protesting the broadcast.
Read more: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/27/silencing-christians-paid-program-draws-protest-ca/ Full Story. [6/29/09]
CITY OF MIAMI IGNORES MARRIAGE PROTECTION AMENDMENT AND PASSES DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS
The City of Miami Commission voted 5 to 0 to adopt a Domestic Partnership Ordinance this morning, becoming the third municipality in Miami-Dade County to do so. Commissioners Angel Gonzalez, Marc Sarnoff, Joe M. Sanchez, Tomas P. Regalado and Michelle Spence-Jones voted in favor of the Ordinance. The new Ordinance will allow the City of Miami to offer health benefits to the declared domestic partners and their children of city employees in the same manner as the city offers such benefits to spouses of married heterosexual employees. > Full Story. [6/15/09]
NGLTF APPLAUDS MIAMI COMMISSION’S UNANIMOUS PASSAGE OF DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP ORDINANCE
WASHINGTON, June 11 - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force responded today to the City of Miami Commission's passage of a domestic partnership ordinance. Commissioners voted 5-0 to allow domestic partners the same health care and insurance benefits as married couples. Similar votes have also passed in Miami Beach and North Miami.
Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force > Full Story. [6/12/09]
FREE FILM AT COMPASS TO HONOR STONEWALL AT 40
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, Downtown Loft Studios in joint sponsorship with Compass, Inc. will offer a free screening of the award-winning documentary, Amancio... Two Faces on a Tombstone on Friday, June 19 at 8 p.m. at the Compass Community Center at 201 N Dixie Highway - two blocks north of City Hall.
"We are pleased to participate with Compass at this most important anniversary celebration," said Bruce Presley, Compass supporter and president of Downtown Loft Studio, the production company. We are also happy that Elaine Noble, the first openly gay elected official in the United States, will be in attendance for the weekend. It's hard to believe that after 40 years of struggle for equality, young gay people like Amancio are still being brutally murdered but it's encouraging to know there are avenging angels like (film protagonist) Michael Baughman, and more politicians like Noble to help our progress." > Full Story. [6/10/09]
STONEWALL LIBRARY & ARCHIVES ANNOUNCES EXHIBITION EXPLORING THE 1969 STONEWALL RIOTS
STONEWALL -- The word has become a touchstone of the gay rights movement, our Bastille, our Bunker Hill, our Lincoln Memorial. In a new exhibition premiering June 3, 2009, at the Broward Main Library, Stonewall Library & Archives looks at the who, the what, and the where of the Stonewall Riots, in an attempt to understand why those three hot New York City nights in June 1969 became a catalytic moment in the long struggle for gay and lesbian rights. > Full Story. [5/20/09]
COURT OF APPEALS HOLDS THAT FLORIDA MUST HONOR SECOND- PARENT ADOPTIONS BY SAME-SEX COUPLES
(Sarasota, Florida, May 13, 2009) - Today, the Florida Court of Appeals
unanimously reversed a lower court ruling and held that Florida must give full
faith and credit to adoptions granted to same-sex couples by other states,
holding that Lara Embry, the plaintiff in the case, "must be given the same
rights as any other adoptive parent in Florida." The court based its decision
on the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the federal constitution and a Florida
statute requiring Florida to honor adoption decrees from other states. Noting
that "there are no public policy exceptions to the full faith and credit which is
due to judgments entered in another state," the court concluded
that "regardless of whether the trial court believed that the Washington
adoption violated a clearly established public policy in Florida, it was improper
for the trial court to refuse to give the Washington judgment full faith and
credit." A concurring opinion further noted that Embry's "same-sex
relationship with [the other parent] is irrelevant for the purpose of enforcing
her rights and obligations as an adoptive parent." > Full Story. [5/13/09]
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