News of the past week…
Yesterday I went to Ann Arbor to listen to Frank Schaefer speak. He is the pastor who was defrocked last fall. My report is posted to my brother blog.
David Mixner is delighted about three great things that happened yesterday.
* Same-sex marriages in Arkansas.
* Conchita Wurst, a gender-defying singer from Austria, won the Eurovision! contest (much to the horror of eastern European countries).
* Michael Sam was drafted by the St. Louis Rams to be the first openly gay player in the National Football League. He was chosen 249th out of (I think) 256, but he was still chosen.
A campaign was started in Michigan to get a repeal of the state's same-sex marriage ban on the ballot for 2016. This is in case the legal challenges fail.
Amy Sandler and Niki Quasney are a lesbian couple in Indiana. Quasney is terminally ill and they sued the state so that Amy would be listed as the spouse when Quasney dies. A federal judge agreed, though saying his ruling applies to only this one couple. A ruling on the state ban on same-sex marriage may come later.
As we've come to expect, a stay was requested and an appeal filed with the 7th District Court. The stay was requested because the state doesn't want to raise false hopes in other same-sex couples. That last bit was denounced as a "shameful display of cruelty."
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