Pinksixty News FRIDAY 16 MARCH 2012
Channel: Colin Fallesen
Date: 2012-03-16

One of Mexico's foremost advocates for trans rights was found brutally murdered this week. Agnes Torres' body was found in front of her home, in Puebla, Mexico and is the sixth LGBT murder in the region this year.

The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, has argued in the Times newspaper that marriage should be for everybody. She said, "don't believe the State should perpetuate discrimination and prejudice."

The Christian captain of Australia's national rugby union squad has also spoken out in favour of gay marriage. David Pocock said, "Jesus was on the side of the marginalised and the oppressed... So as a Christian I can't just stand in silence.... My faith necessitates that I advocate for it.'

Gay lawyer, Michael Fitzgerald has been approved by the US senate to become the country's 4th, lifetime tenured judge. Fitzgerald was nominated by President Obama passed with an overwhelming majority of 91 to 6.

And finally, Kathleen Turner stars in new movie, The Perfect Family. She plays a woman who is awarded Catholic Woman of the Year and has to try and conceal her real family's alcoholism, divorce and her pregnant lesbian daughter. The trailer is available on YouTube.