======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" copy/paste into your browser: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20050314.rm or click on the PlanetOut link at www.thiswayout.org [our current show is usually up by Wednesday nights US Pacific Time each week] or check thiswayout.org for a list of our 150+ local broadcast station affiliates ======================================== THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #885, distributed 3/14/05 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) A Supreme lawsuit tests Washington's state ban on marriage equality; Canadian Liberals show gay & lesbian matrimony some love, Israeli couples attempt to import wedding rights, the Netherlands considers foreign adoption rights for same-gender couples, divorce equality is clarified in some locales but remains hazy in others, and other global GLBT news; plus singer/songwriter Mark Mercer dances us into his "Chapel of Love" FEEDS MONDAY MARCH 14 from 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A72.7 and TUESDAY MARCH 15 from 15:00-15:29 ET on Pacifica's KU satellite = Also available via mono or stereo mp3 files at www.radio4all.net = and postal-mailed on audiocassette to non-satellite/non-wired stations and to individual subscribers -------- AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS ------- ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! => RUNDOWN <= Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": Canada's ruling Liberal Party for the first time officially endorses national marriage equality legislation, while four gay Israeli couples marry in Toronto with the intention of fighting for legal recognition of them back home; legislation is pending in the Netherlands to remove the last difference between heterosexual and same gender marriage there -- the right to adopt a child from outside the country -- while the Dutch dependency Caribbean island of Aruba refuses to recognize the marriage of a Netherlands lesbian pair but is prepared to adjudicate divorces of same gender couples; mean while, a Brazil family court judge issues that country's first legal divorce of a same gender couple; Dutch government statistics reveal that about 8% of all marriages there are by gay & lesbian couples, with a divorce rate of about the same, while differences in county record-keeping make same gender couple divorce rate figures unavailable in Massachusetts, the only U.S. state to legally sanction marriages of lesbian & gay couples, and Canadian couples continue to await an overhaul of federal divorce laws there, contrasted with the U.S. state of California, where this year's upgrade of registered partnerships includes legal avenues for their dissolution; legislation to exclude gays & lesbians from marriage advances in the U.S. states of Alabama and New Mexico, but in Hawai'i bills to ban employment and housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity gain overwhelming passage in the state House but have yet to reach the Senate floor; in Greece, the quasi-governmental National Commission for Human Rights endorses legal recognition of same gender partnerships, but the powerful Greek Orthodox Church strongly opposes any legal recognition of queer couples; a sharply divided Norwegian Parliament appoints an anti-gay conservative to head the state Lutheran Church, while the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT advocacy group in the U.S., selects political action committee veteran Joe Solmonese as its new leader following the post-November elections resignation of Cheryl Jacques; and the U.S. National Football League rejects the purchase of a team jersey bearing the last name of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots' defensive back Randall Gay -- among a list of 1,100 words it bans that also includes "Jesus Christ" (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to Graham Underhill, Rex Wockner, Martin Rice, and Greg Gordon, and reported this week by RICK WATTS & CINDY FRIEDMAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:25 SEGMENT #2 - Promo for "TWO" special program CDs + CD subscriptions + alt ernabid.com online benefit auction (voiced by LUCIA CHAPPELLE) . . . . 1:10 SEGMENT #3 - As the U.S. Congress and many state legislatures work to cancel any constitutional grounds for marriage equality, the issue has risen to the pinnacle of another state's judicial system. The scene was the Temple of Justice in Olympia, WASHINGTON this week, and BEN TABOR of "The Community Report" on KAOS-FM witnessed the action inside and outside the courtroom (his report includes comments from an anti-marriage equality rally held outside the court hearing by Bothell, Washington REVEREND JOSEPH FUITEN and JACINTA TEGMAN, Executive Director of the Edmonds, Washington-based Christian organization Sound the Alarm; SARAH DALLELIO, a lesbian activist who was among the counter-protestors; Quaker "peacekeeper" DENE STEELE; BRENDA BOWER, a member of one of the lesbian & gay plaintiff couples; DAREN CARNELL, one of the attorneys representing the state of Washington; PATRICIA NOVOTNY, one of the attorneys representing the couples; Attorney PAUL LAWRENCE of the Washington American Civil Liberties Union; and partnered disabled openly lesbian former U.S. Marine JULIA SHERIDAN) . . . . . . . . . 9:30 SEGMENT #4 - Openly gay singer/songwriter MARK MERCER dances us into the "CHAPEL OF LOVE," from his album "Nothing Like It" . . . . . . . . 5:25 [www.markmercermusic.com] Closing Credits/continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29:00 ===================================== * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," A SUPREME LAWSUIT TESTS WASHINGTON'S STATE BAN ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY... IN OTHER NEWS, CANADIAN LIBERALS SHOW GAY & LESBIAN MATRIMONY SOME LOVE, ISRAELI COUPLES ATTEMPT TO IMPORT WEDDING RIGHTS, THE NETHERLANDS CONSIDERS FOREIGN ADOPTION RIGHTS FOR SAME-GENDER COUPLES, DIVORCE EQUALITY IS CLARIFIED IN SOME LOCALES BUT REMAINS HAZY IN OTHERS, AND GREECE GETS HUMAN RIGHTS ADVICE ON LESBIAN AND GAY PARTNERSHIPS... PLUS, SINGER/SONGWRITER MARK MERCER DANCES US INTO HIS "CHAPEL OF LOVE". ALL THAT -- AND MORE THIS WEEK -- WHEN YOU TUNE IN TO "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. 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