Lesbians Asked To Leave Waterloo Ontario Cafe For Kissing, Buffalo’s First Domestic Partnership Registers, Iowa Governor Chet Culver Commends Legislators For Not Amending Constitution To Ban Gay Marriage, Iowa Family Policy Again Asks Whether Sodomy Worse Than Smoking, Mormon Boys Gone Bad, A Winking Johnny Weir Talks About Evan Lysacek’s “Girlfriend”

According to a report from The Cord, the Wilfred Laurier University student paper, undergraduate Jenny Kirby and her girlfriend were asked to leave a coffee house in Waterloo, Ontario, after the two exchanged a kiss. The story, as always, has two sides: Kirby’s and the owner of the Cafe 1842 in the Huether Hotel Sonia Adlys, who insists that the couple’s public display of affection was beyond the pale.

A new law creating a domestic partnership registry came into effect Wednesday in Buffalo, New York, and Kitty Lambert and partner Cheryle Rudd became the first to obtain a certificate. Lambert is the president of Outspoken for Equality, an area gay advocacy group, and she said that the certificate is more a symbolic gesture instead of a significant one. In fact, Lambert and Bruce Kogan, of Stonewall Democrats of Western New York, were passing out crumbs from a crumb cake today at City Hall, Lambert insisting that the registry is merely “crumbs.” “We want marriage,” she said, “we want the whole wedding cake. We want the whole experience. We want all the protections. This is a small piece.”

In Iowa, Governor Chet Culver Wednesday commended the Legislature controlled by the Democrats for refusing to initiate a process to amend the state constitution to declare that civil marriage in Iowa is defined as that only existing between one man and one woman. “We stood firm for the civil rights of every Iowan by saying loudly and clearly that any and all efforts to add discriminatory amendments to our state constitution have no place in our state constitution,” said Culver. The Governor, who is on record as personally believing that marriage should be between a man and woman, added that “regardless of our personal views, we have the line that needs to be drawn between the executive branch and the judicial branch and I think Iowans are ready to move on and accept that unanimous decision. I think the overwhelming majority of Iowans do not want to amend our constitution in such a way that’s discriminatory. I think that’s the bottom line. I think Iowans want to move forward and the Supreme Court has spoken loudly and clearly and I think it’s time to move on.”

Meanwhile the anti-gay group Iowan Family Policy Center, who earlier in March claimed that homosexual activity was “more dangerous for individuals who engage in it than is smoking,” and who demanded that state legislators pass a constitutional amendment overturning the state’s gay marriage law, has again drawn an analogy that suggests that homosexuality is a far more dangerous public health issue than is second-hand smoking. “So, the question remains – Why has Iowa has outlawed smoking in public, and now texting while driving, in an effort to improve public health and safety while continuing to sanction self destructive sexual behaviour? What’s worse, smoking or sodomy? According to the numbers, it’s not even close,” writes the group in a blog post titled What’s Worse - Smoking or Sodomy?

I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help visiting Mormonboyz.com. (Very NSFW)

Johnny Weir appeared on Chelsea Lately last night, with Chelsea Handler, naturally, and intimated that his rival Evan Lysacek is not nearly as an adamant heterosexual as one might think – a not very well kept secret.