How Conservative Anti-Same Sex Marriage Alberta Premier Klein Inadvertently Became A Pioneer In Same Sex Adoption Rights, Anti-Almost Everything Wisconsin Governor Walker Fires Attorney Handling State Challenge To Domestic Partner Registry, German Male Bodybuilder Allegedly Love Of Mohandas Gandhi’s Life, Armie Hammer Plays A Prince, Ryan Phillippe, Josh Henderson

The Calgary Herald reports that inadvertently, while pushing back against the legalization of same sex marriage in Canada, Alberta Premiers Don Getty and Ralph Klein – Conservatives each - pioneered same sex adoption in the country, privatizing adoption in 1989 and creating regulations that require all private agencies to be licensed and all staff members to hold a university degree in social work, in effect creating a remarkably progressive industry that favours a policy of open adoptions.

The Associated Press reports that Republican Governor Scott Walker has fired the attorney who was representing the state in a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's domestic partner registry. The conservative group Wisconsin Family Action alleges the registry violates the state's ban on same sex marriage because it grants same-sex couples a number of legal rights. Former Governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat, had appointed attorney Lester Pines to defend the registry. Pines sent a letter to Dane County Circuit Judge Daniel Moeser on Tuesday saying Walker had terminated him. Pines declined to comment on why, saying those discussions took place while the state was still his client, but did say that "Gov. Walker is ideologically opposed to equal rights for gay and lesbian and transgendered people as is everyone in his administration as far as I can tell and they will be probably want to take steps to ensure that gay and lesbian and transgendered people do not have equal rights. Everything that Governor Walker is doing is ideological," adding "I don't see that his administration has any particular respect for the law per se." Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie declined to comment on why Pines was released, and added that the governor's office is working to appoint a new attorney.

The Wall Street Journal skims a biography of Mohandas Gandhi authored by Joseph Lelyveld and highlights a believable, but nonetheless bizarre assertion that the love of Gandhi’s life “was a German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach, for whom Gandhi left his wife in 1908. ‘Your portrait (the only one) stands on my mantelpiece in my bedroom,’ he wrote to Kallenbach. ‘The mantelpiece is opposite to the bed.’ For some reason, cotton wool and Vaseline were ‘a constant reminder’ of Kallenbach, which Mr. Lelyveld believes might relate to the enemas Gandhi gave himself, although there could be other, less generous, explanations. Gandhi wrote to Kallenbach about ‘how completely you have taken possession of my body. This is slavery with a vengeance.’ Gandhi nicknamed himself ‘Upper House’ and Kallenbach ‘Lower House,’ and he made Lower House promise not to ‘look lustfully upon any woman.’ The two then pledged ‘more love, and yet more love . . . such love as they hope the world has not yet seen.’”

Deadline.com reported – and Relative Media soon thereafter confirmed – that the oh-so-hot Armie Hammer is set to don tights and star in The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, a revisionist adult retelling of the fairy tale from director Tarsem Singh. Julia Roberts has already been cast in the role of the Queen.

Seen Thursday braving the spring rains Ryan Phillippe, smiling, still ridiculously sexy.

Spotted Saturday in Los Angeles, a smoking sexy Josh Henderson, accompanied by an unidentified male companion.