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April 25, 2013 - El Pais
El Pais: The Colombian Senate says no to gay marriage bill
After two vote delays and in the midst of an intense debate among lawmakers, who made use of legal and religious arguments, the Colombian Senate late Wednesday rejected a bill that would have legalized gay marriage.
April 22, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Protests against same-sex marriage bill intensify in France
On Tuesday afternoon, France is expected to become the 14th country to legalize marriage for all couples, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
April 20, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Voting soon on Michigan bill allowing refusal of health care on moral basis
For 35 years, Michigan law has protected health care providers who refuse to perform an abortion on moral or religious grounds.
April 19, 2013 - The Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News: Boy Scouts please few with proposal to partly rescind ban on gays
No one seemed satisfied Friday when the Boy Scouts of America proposed a historic policy change to allow openly gay youths as Scouts while simultaneously maintaining a ban on gay adult volunteers and paid staff.
April 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Cheers and Maori song as lawmakers make New Zealand 13th country to legalize gay marriage
The halls of Parliament echoed with a traditional Maori love song after lawmakers made New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage.
April 18, 2013 - The Seattle Times
Seattle Times: State’s case against florist fires up gay-marriage critics
The state attorney general’s surprising lawsuit against a small florist in Eastern Washington has energized gay-marriage opponents who all but disappeared after failing to defeat same-sex marriage in Washington last fall.
April 17, 2013 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: 9th Circuit hears arguments on therapy aimed at converting gays
A federal appeals court Wednesday grappled with whether a California ban on therapy to change a minor’s sexual orientation amounted to a restriction on free speech or mere regulation of a medical treatment.
April 16, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Ireland takes step toward gay marriage rights
Ireland, a famously conservative country with a government dominated by the center-right, has taken a step toward legalizing same-sex marriage, following several other Catholic nations into what some say is belated equality – and others claim is murky legal and moral territory.
April 15, 2013 - The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: East St. Louis pastors and mayor in First Amendment standoff
After the Rev. Anthony Vincent, the city’s director of emergency services, delivered an opening prayer, the City Council took up some standard issues — maintenance of a traffic light, filling in a pot hole.
April 15, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Online furor draws press to abortion doctor's trial
Through four weeks, prosecutors have laid out evidence against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion provider on trial on charges of killing seven viable fetuses by “snipping” their necks with scissors and of causing the death of a pregnant 41-year-old woman during a procedure.
April 13, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: For Evangelicals, a shift in views on immigration
In the pews of the First Baptist Church of Orlando, where thousands of evangelical Christians gather on Sundays to worship and sing, a change of heart is happening on the once toxic issue of immigration.
April 13, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: California lawmakers aim to ease abortion rules as some states tighten
A proposal to allow nurses and midwives to perform some abortions is advancing in California's Democratic legislature, a move supporters hope will influence the national debate on abortion even as other states are tightening the rules.
April 11, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Uruguay becomes 3rd country in Americas to legalize gay marriage after Canada and Argentina
Uruguayan lawmakers voted to legalize gay marriage, making the South American country the third in the Americas to do so.
April 11, 2013 - National Public Radio
NPR: Shop owner sued by state after denying flowers to gay couple
To Washington state now, where the state's attorney general is suing a florist for refusing to supply flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding. As NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Seattle, opponents of same-sex marriage are jumping to the florist's defense.
April 11, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Del. lawmakers propose bill that would legalize gay marriage, make it the 10th state to do so
Delaware lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state, with plans to have it signed into law by the end of June.
April 11, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: High office, low church
It is hard to imagine a prime minister doing such a thing now, and even then it seemed rather surprising. In May 1988 Margaret Thatcher went to the General Assembly of the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland and gave what would soon be called the Sermon on the Mound.
April 11, 2013 - Bloomberg News
Bloomberg: Boomers push doctor-assisted dying in end-of-life revolt
Claudia Burzichelli doesn’t want to die like her dad. Nine years ago, her father, already afflicted with Parkinson’s, killed himself with a gunshot to the head days after his release from a hospital where he had been treated for a heart attack.
April 10, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: We're not in Kansas any more
IF a judge sentences you to be stoned for adultery, you are probably not in Middle America.
April 09, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: California bill would eliminate tax breaks to punish Boy Scouts for excluding gays
California lawmakers are considering taking some tax exemptions away from youth groups that do not accept gay, transgender or atheist members — a move intended to pressure the Boy Scouts of America to lift its ban on gay Scouts and troop leaders.
April 06, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Risk for Obama in pursuing legal appeals after judge reverses morning-after pill limits
President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that battle in court comes with its own set of risks.
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