LDS take new tack on Argentina’s gay-marriage push
By Peggy Fletcher Stack
The Salt Lake Tribune

As Argentina moves closer to allowing gay marriage, the LDS Church is reminding members where the faith stands on the issue with a letter that may be significant not so much for what it says as for what it doesn’t say.
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The funny thing is, we are sometimes not that far from these irrational fears and attitudes in this country.

Police arrest five ‘gay’ Kenyans

(BBC) – Police in Mtwapa, just north of the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa, say they have arrested five men whom they accuse of being homosexuals.

District officer George Matandura said two of the men had been found with wedding rings, attempting to get married, in Kikambala beach resort.

The other three men were handed to the police by members of the public; two of them had reportedly been beaten.
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Right-wing pundit Bill Kristol is refuted on his stance on the President’s proposal to finally repeal the ridiculous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in this article in The Economist.

My friend Mike sent me this post from Saint Louis along with the comment, “Nah, we don’t need marriage. Civil unions are good enough.”

When Highway Patrol Cpl. Dennis Engelhard was killed in a Christmas Day traffic accident near Eureka, the agency described him as single with no children.

Gov. Jay Nixon called on Missourians to pray for Engelhard’s family, who “lost a beloved son and brother.”

Neither statement tells the whole story.

Engelhard, hit by a car that lost control in the snow, was gay. He left behind a partner of nearly 15 years who was not mentioned in his obituary or official information released by the Highway Patrol, although members of the agency knew about his sexual orientation.

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