Michigan doesn't formally recognize gay relationships
LANSING, Mich. (AP) | Feb. 21 at 5:31 PM Feb. 21 at 5:31 PM
Michigan courts can oversee a custody dispute between lesbian parents who adopted in Illinois even though Michigan doesn't formally recognize gay relationships, the state Court of Appeals said Friday.
The court ruled 2-1 that the U.S. Constitution requires state courts to recognize Diane Giancaspro and Lisa Congleton as adoptive parents. It reversed a trial judge who said Michigan's 2004 voter-approved gay marriage ban kept her from enforcing the women's parental rights.
"The only relevant consideration in this matter is each individual party's established relationship as an adoptive parent with the children, not their relationship with each other," Judges Alton Davis and Stephen ...
Buttars compared gay activists to 'radical Muslims'
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) | Feb. 21 at 5:23 PM Feb. 21 at 5:23 PM
A Utah state senator on Friday was kicked off a judicial committee he chaired after he drew criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims in an interview aired this week.
Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, also told former local television reporter Reed Cowan, an openly gay documentary producer who now works at a Miami station, that gay activists are "probably the greatest threat to America going down."
The comments drew calls for Buttars' resignation in Utah and elsewhere. The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, said that by Friday more than 15,000 e-mails had been sent to ...
Nick Shalosky won school board seat in penniless campaign
By REBECCA ARMENDARIZ, Washington Blade | Feb. 21 at 5:17 PM Feb. 21 at 5:17 PM
A 21-year-old college student has come out as the first openly gay elected official in South Carolina.
Nick Shalosky, a political science major at the College of Charleston, discussed his being gay on the national stage for the first time this week after winning a seat last year on the Charleston County District Constituent School Board.
Shalosky, who was open about his sexual orientation during his campaign, came out nationally this week through an opinion piece he wrote for The Bilerico Project about how online social networking tools aided his campaign.
In an interview this week with the Blade, Shalosky said he didn?t specifically seek to succeed where congressional cand ...
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