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• Soulforce to 'shut down' church trial in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience | Trial near Seattle is "blatant hypocrisy" and an "act of spiritual violence" against all GLBT people (Press release)
  
  

Homosexuality and the United Nations:

• Spousal benefits for gays at U.N. challenged | A bloc of more than 50 Islamic states, backed by the Vatican, sought today to halt U.N. efforts to extend spousal benefits to partners of some gay employees (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Vatican, Muslims oppose gay benefits | Representatives of the Vatican and dozens of Islamic nations formally objected yesterday to a U.N. Secretariat decision to extend family benefits to some staffers in same-sex unions, raising the prospect of a General Assembly vote on the issue (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Islamic nations object to Annan directive (Associated Press)
  
  

Head of Christian Civic League of Maine suspended over "outing" legislators plan:

• Heath suspended for a month | Michael Heath must step down as head of the Christian Civic League of Maine for one month for his attempt to solicit information about which state lawmakers and officials might be homosexual (Portland Press Herald, Me.)
  
  
• Hunt for gay Maine legislators backfires (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Earlier: Heath enrages Augusta | Civic League head apologizes as political leaders denounce attempt to 'out' legislators (Portland Press Herald, Me.)
  
  
• Mainers pan plan to 'out' state leaders | While Michael Heath's apology made national news Thursday, his earlier proposal to "out" state leaders continued to stir local reaction (Portland Press Herald, Me.)
  
  
• Opponents agree: Heath's idea is a flop | National leaders in the debate over same-sex marriage glanced at Maine with dismay Wednesday as the leader of the state's Christian Civic League apologized for soliciting information about the sexual orientation of political leaders here (Portland Press Herald, Me.)
  
  
• Political buzz comes back to sting Heath | Like the drunk who awakes the next morning wondering how the heck this lamp shade got on his head, Heath finds his reputation in shambles (Bill Nemitz, Portland Press Herald, Me.)
  
  
• Flurry of e-mail to Heath on sexual orientation list not what he had in mind (Associated Press)
  
  
• League born of Prohibition | Gay rights became religious group's focus in 1980s (Kennebec Journal, Me.)
  
  
• 'Blacklist' could be Heath's downfall | I feel sorry for him (J.P. Devine, Kennebec Journal, Me.)
  
  

Christian ministry, porn director team up:

• Unlikely bedfellows in the crusade against pornography | Adult filmmaker helps a Christian group seeking to keep children away from explicit material (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Porn director, church make PSA for kids | Just because he makes his living directing pornographic films doesn't mean James DiGiorgio wants children watching them (Associated Press)
  
  
• Meet Pete, the porno puppet (XXXChurch.com)
  
  

California public school district refuses transsexual law:

• Beliefs imperil funding | Three of five on an O.C. school board reject a state gender definition on religious grounds (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Calif. board rejects discrimination code | A small California school district has refused to recognize a state law banning discrimination against transsexuals, a decision that could cost it millions of dollars in state and federal funding (Associated Press)
  
  
• Trustees ignore the public's trust | There's nothing particularly heroic about the Three Unwise Women of Westminster who seem to have forgotten that the only master they've been elected to serve is the electorate of a public school district (Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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