Apple has again rejected an anti-gay app, the makers of the Manhattan Declaration posting to its website December 23rd “We received notice from Apple last evening regarding their rejection of our resubmission of the Manhattan Declaration iPhone/iPad app to the Apple App Store. This is an appalling response from Apple. Nearly 500,000 Christians have signed the Manhattan Declaration including representatives from many major Protestant denominations, leading Catholic Bishops and leaders of the Orthodox Church. Apple is telling us that the apps' content is considered ‘likely to expose a group to harm’ and ‘to be objectionable and potentially harmful to others.’ Inasmuch as the Manhattan Declaration simply reaffirms the moral teachings of our Christian faith on the sanctity of human life, marriage and sexual morality, and religious freedom and the rights of conscience, Apple's statement amounts to the charge that our faith is ‘potentially harmful to others.’”
Allentown, Pennsylvania is set to soon become the first municipality in the Lehigh Valley to offer complete medical benefits to the partners of same sex employees either active or retired, report the Morning Call. Under the proposed domestic partnership bill currently before council, partners of gay employees would be eligible for health benefits so long as the couple can demonstrate that they cohabitate and are jointly responsible for household finances.
Gawker reports that Reichen Lehmkuhl, who defines vapid queen, is angry that Dan Avery, one of the editors of New York’s Next Magazine, in naming Logo’s The A-List one of the worst shows of 2010, called him a “vapid queen.” What’s worse, Lehmkuhl accuses Avery of employing “bullying words.”
TV Guide reports that Glee's Chris Colfer hints his character Kurt Hummel and that of cute Blaine, played by the equally cute Darren Criss, will move their relationship from platonic to romantic on the February 8th Valentine’s Day episode when the two sing Robin Thicke’s “When I Get You Alone” outside a snowy GAP store, which actually sounds, um, awful.
British serial drama Coronation Street is going to host its first gay wedding, the Sun reporting that male midwife Marcus Dent, played by Charlie Condou, and is to return in 2011 to take a civil partnership with former boyfriend Sean Tully, played by Anthony Cotton. According to an insider “Brining back Charlie is seen as a big platform for him and in particular Anthony who is well liked and admired by the boss. When Marcus turns up in Weatherfield in the spring he is desperate to rekindle his romance. But having hurt him once, Sean is apprehensive until Marcus offers him commitment, with the future storyline leading to Corrie’s first same sex marriage.” Coronation Street was created fifty years ago by openly gay writer Tony Warren.
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