Tag: #SameSexMarriage
Restaurant Cancels Same-Sex Wedding Dinner
Madison’s Café in O’Fallon, Missouri (screen capture)A same-sex couple in Missouri were surprised when the restaurant they had booked for their wedding rehearsal dinner cancelled the reservation upon learning their sexual orientation.
Kendall Brown and Mindy Rackley are getting married on June 15, and had planned on holding their rehearsal dinner on June 13 at Madison’s Café.
Newsweek reports that the couple chose the restaurant because it had been Rackley’s father’s favorite place...
Mayor Pete Will Not ‘Repent’ For Loving His Husband
Mayor Pete Buttigieg during Q&A at 92nd Street Y in NYC (screen capture)Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg was asked by the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart during a Q&A at New York City’s 92nd Street Y Wednesday evening about homophobic comments leveled at the openly gay mayor by Vice President Mike Pence and evangelist Franklin Graham.
Buttigieg has been very open about his personal faith as an Episcopalian, as well as the hypocrisy he sees in religion-based attacks on him.
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Alabama Public TV Refuses To Air ‘Arthur’ Gay Wedding
Mr. Ratburn and boyfriend Patrick get married on PBS’s ‘Arthur’ (image via PBS)Instinct recently reported that a character on the long-running PBS children’s show, Arthur, was getting married to his male partner. In an episode titled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone,” it turns out that Arthur’s stern yet forgiving 3rd grade teacher is gay, and marries his boyfriend, Patrick. The storyline was celebrated by LGBTQ advocacy groups like GLAAD: When we...