According to this report, the New York State Assembly will vote today, Tuesday, on proposed legislation to legalize gay marriage in the state.
New York Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, openly gay, is working tirelessly to campaign his fellow colleagues to support a bill put forth by Governor David A. Paterson to legalize gay marriage in the state, and in the process is giving a sort of master class in how the personal is the political.
Retired Wisconsin Roman Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland plans to donate all profits from his soon to be released memoir, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church, to the Catholic Community Foundation, a charitable foundation in the state. Weakland, who resigned in 2002 amid allegations he had paid from Church funds a former theology student from Marquette who had accused the Archbishop of date rape, has written the book, he says, to deal openly with his own sexuality and with his own failure and that of the Church to deal effectively with pedophile priests.
Rabbi Denise Eger was installed Monday night as the female president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, and Eger, one of the few religious leaders who worked tirelessly to campaign against Proposition 8, is prepared to react and respond to the decision expected to be delivered soon by the State Supreme Court, who are readying a ruling on legal challenges made to Proposition 8. Eger, who married her long time partner, attorney Karen Sitemen, in October, weeks before Proposition 8 passed, is one of eighteen-thousand same-sex couples in California married in the window of opportunity that had opened from June, 2008, to November 4th, 2008, and who remain unclear on whether they will be considered legally married if the voter amendment is not overturned by the Court. Eger, who considers herself an accidental activist, is a formidable ally for the LGBT community and beyond.
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