NewsWrap for the week ending February 21, 2015

SUMMARY

Long Betrothal - Finland's president signs a marriage equality bill into law that won't take effect until 2017   

A Day in May - Ireland's Prime Minister sets the date for the national marriage equality referendum for May 22nd …

Moore Arguments - some Alabama probate judges are still refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples …

Breaking With Convention - a second Tokyo district hints at offering partnership certificates to lesbian and gay pairs, and Japan's Prime Minister tells parliament that the constitution doesn't permit marriage equality …

Yours, Mine, But Not Theirs - Colombia's highest court allows same-gender couples to adopt their partner's biological offspring, but refuses to open adoption to lesbian and gay couples more generally …

Time Warped - two men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana are arrested for "crimes against nature," even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional in 2003 …

First, A Pig Flies - a Wyoming Republican is ejected from a state House committee for trying to amend an LGBT anti-bias bill with an effective date of "when hell freezes over" …

Notrump Ruling - a Washington state judge rules that religious belief does not give a business open to the public a license to discriminate against gays and lesbians …

Bouncing Baby Bias - after "much prayer," a Detroit, Michigan pediatrician refuses to treat the 6-day-old baby daughter of a lesbian couple  ….

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