The Morning Pride: December 23, 2013
 

The Morning Pride: December 23, 2013
Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us k**w what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.

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- Same-*** marriages will resume this morning in Utah, though Judge Robert Shelby will hold a hearing at 9:00 AM to consider imposing a stay.

- Republican lawmakers in New Mexico are **w considering a constitutional amendment banning same-*** marriage to overrule the state Supreme Court’s ruling for marriage equality.

- Clerk Donna Carpenter and Deputy Clerk Janet Collins of Roosevelt County, New Mexico quit their jobs to avoid being associated with same-*** marriages.

- The Navajo Nation has clarified that same-*** marriage is still banned within the tribe, despite the change for New Mexico.

- Republicans in **rth Carolina are turning to the anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom for extra help defending the state’s constitutional amendment banning all same-*** unions against a lawsuit.

- The CDC has clarified that its National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program will cover eligible transgender patients.

- The Washington, DC City Council unanimously passed a bill to support the needs of LGBT homeless youth.

- The Methodist pastor who was defrocked for officiating his own son’s same-*** marriage has been offered a job in California, though it would **t include clerical status.

- The Privacy for All Students coalition that is challenging California’s protections for transgender students has **w sued the state claiming that **t all counties were counting signatures they collected toward a referendum, even though they turned in some of those signatures late.

- In response to the Duck Dynasty controversy, openly gay Houston, Texas Mayor Annise Parker said, “What some redneck wingnut has to say about the GLBT community is completely irrelevant.”

- Geraldo Rivera doesn’t believe that “cocksucking faggot” is an anti-gay slur.

- Cuba has reportedly passed a law banning employment discrimination based on ***ual orientation (protections the U.S. still doesn’t have nationwide).

- Scotland’s Equal Opportunities Commission has rejected amendments to the marriage equality referendum that would have allowed religious organizations to discriminate against same-*** couples.

- The Indian government has asked its Supreme Court to review its recent decision reinstating the colonial-era sodomy law.

- Gay activist Dmitri Isakov has been fined about $120 under Russia’s “gay propaganda” law for holding up a sign that read, “Being gay and loving gays is **rmal. Beating gays and killing gays is criminal,” making him the third person punished under the law.

- Fort Bragg has hosted its first same-*** commitment ceremony, between Maj. Daniel Toven and his partner Johnathan Taylor:


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