Source: San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , Los Angeles Times , PPIC press release CA Prop. 8 A new survey by a well-respected polling group in California shows an even closer divide on same-sex marriage than was revealed in the Nov. 5 vote for Proposition 8. The poll showed that religion along with education and income, rather than race, were the key differences among those who voted for or against Prop. 8. Voters without a college degree (62%) were far more likely than college graduates (43%) to vote yes. Those who identified themselves as evangelical Christians (85%) were far more...
Source: Deseret News , Salt Lake Tribune , Leonard Link Salt Lake police are investigating a possible hate crime after a man was attacked while waiting for a cab outside of a gym that caters mainly to gay men. A 50-year-old man had left 14th Street Gym near downtown just after 12:30 am Wednesday and called a cab to pick him up. While waiting for the cab, another man approached the victim from behind, swore at him, used a slur related to sexual orientation, then hit him in the head with a bottle, said Salt Lake police detective Dennis McGowan, according to Deseret News . The attacker ran off. Police...
Source: Christian Science Monitor , New York Times , BBC , Wall Street Journal Quincy, Ill. -- The long-running but slow rending to the "Anglican Communion" -- a loose confederation of national churches that trace their heritage to the Church of England -- got another tug today, when conservatives in the US and Canada formed a rival Anglican province in North America. On Wednesday, a network of dissident clerics, parishes, and dioceses from the United States and Canada unveiled a draft constitution in Quincy, Ill. for what they say will be a unified entity that they hope will be recognized...
:: An executive at Cincinnati Christian University is the latest in a long string of victims of morals stings that found the man in a position that compromises his stated beliefs. The school's chief financial officer was arrested Saturday during a sex sting at a park , and accused of "sexual imposition" after he responded to a no-doubt beckoning undercover officer, got into the cop's car, and touched "his genitals" (whether said genitals belong to the cop or the CFO is unclear from from the report). The CFO...
Source: Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle Sacramento -- The gay and lesbian caucus of California's legislature and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg Tuesday introduced a resolutions in both the Senate and Assembly opposing Proposition 8. While the resolutions have no force of law, they would put the state's lawmakers on record in support of legal arguments, made by gay rights activists and officials from San Francisco and several other cities, that the measure was a revision of the state Constitution and not a simple amendment. The resolutions say Prop. 8 changes...
Source: BBC , Voice of America International media watchdog groups are calling for the release of an Iraqi journalist was jailed for writing a story about homosexuality which prosecutors said violated a public decency law. Adel Hussein was sentenced last week to a six months in by a court in Irbil, in the country's northern Kurdish region. Hussein was charged with for violating public decency laws by writing an article for Hawlati , an independent weekly which detailed the physical effects of gay sex, according to BBC. Two groups campaigning for Hussein's release -- Reporters Without Borders...