Boy Scouts open ranks to gay youth on Jan. 1

Boy Scouts open ranks to gay youth on Jan. 1
The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year’s Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications — ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades. 

Gay couple to exchange vows on Rose Parade float
A gay Los Angeles couple plans to exchange wedding vows on a flower-covered float trundling through Pasadena during the nationally televised Tournament of Roses Parade on Wednesday.  

Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban
A federal judge struck down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that marks a drastic shift toward gay marriage in a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it. 

Bible Belt Has Most Sinners, Research Suggests: How Sinful is Your State?
Kansas State University mapped the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ across America in 2009. “Pride, the ‘greatest’ and ‘root’ of all sins, was determined to be the aggregation of each sin,” the website explains.