Monday, October 27, 2008

GLBT News Headlines (T5T-6)

Tom Campbell, a Republican and former five-term U.S. Congressman, makes the case :

Republicans believe deeply that government should be limited. Government has no business making distinctions between people based on their personal lives. That's why, as a Californian and a Republican who has held elective office at the federal and state levels, I will be voting No on Proposition 8.

The Yes on Prop 8 battle has enlisted children as its new weapon and some parents are incensed.

Images from a same-sex wedding held two weeks ago at San Francisco City Hall are now being used by gay marriage opponents in the latest commercial for Proposition 8.

The parents of two children featured in a Yes on Prop 8 video have written two letters to Yes on Prop 8, asking Proposition 8 to voluntarily drop their kids' images from that new television ad.

The Rev Martin Dudley caused outrage when he held a marriage ceremony complete with traditional vows and the exchange of rings for two homosexual priests.

The Rev Martin Dudley caused outrage when he held a marriage ceremony complete with traditional vows and the exchange of rings for two homosexual priests. His actions were condemned by both Archbishops who said they caused "great concern" while one of the men he blessed resigned his clergy licence in the furore. The Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, also warned Dr Dudley that the ceremony he carried out in the 12th century St Bartholomew-the-Great, which featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral, may have caused him to have broken his oath of obedience. MORE

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