First on the Malawi Gay Marriage case where two persons were sentenced and later pardoned by the president of the country under intense international pressure. Now BBC reports that one of the two has moved in with a woman. IT needs to be mentioned here that of the two one was a 'kothi' type person, an effeminate gay man, while the other was 'the man'. And it is no surprise that it is the 'The Man' who has now found a woman. Read the full news at the URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10273459.stm Meanwhile more jurisdictions are celebrating and or allowing gay marriage, with the first such marriage of a lesbian couple taking place in Portugal recently. Read the full news at the URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10256943.stm And in California, Final Arguements have been heard in their legal challenge to Proposition-8, a constitutional referendum that overturned gay marriage in California and which led to a lot of confusion about the status of those who got married before the Prop-8 etc etc. Read more about it at the URLs: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704463504575300873161624334.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop And Iceland passed a gay marriage law unanimously in its parliament. Read the URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65A3V020100611 Meanwhile there are some due diligence matters that are also raising its head about gay marriage, and we hear that the Mormon Church had raised funds to oppose gay marriage and support Prop-8 in California. But they failed to report it. So now they have been fined for this oversight. Read more at the URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20007269-503544.html And finally in some places, may be there is a bit of gay marriage fatigue setting in. Other issues are taking precedence over this issue in the public discourse. Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/politics/08iowa.html Best regards to all, Aditya Bondyopadhyay
