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• Australian Senate rejects gay marriage bill even ‘tho 60% of Aussies support it
• New Bill will allow British schools to teach that homosexuality is wrong
• France first country to delist Transgenderism as a mental illness
• Lithuanian law bans promotion of gay marriage & sexual relations between minors
• US congress renews PATRIOT Act, keeps abandoning civil rights
• US fesses up to potentially illegal spying, including peace groups and Planned Parenthood
• Texas stores blood samples of new born babies for massive DNA database
• Citibank closes bank account of gay social network, says content is “objectionable”
• Iceland’s new free speech laws for media after Swedish model pass first discussion
• US copyright lobby says using open source software makes you a pirate

After threatening to end its adoption and homeless services programs in Washington D.C. if the City Council approved gay marriage there, the catholic church’s charities unit is indeed dismantling its foster care program because they fear the city might somehow "force" the church to officiate gay unions and recognize same-sex partners of employees. However, maybe this has turned out for the best. The children, their families, and even the program’s semployees have found a new home — at the National Center for Children and Families, which is not affiliated with any religious institution. Which means these children will still have the services they very much need, without the intervention of a church that abandoned them to uphold discrimination and seeing how church institutions have sexually & physically abused thousands of kids it might be for the better.

• Papst befahl Bischöfen die systematische Vertuschung sexuellen Missbrauchs
• Amnesty International kritisiert CDU & FDP für Blockade von Diskriminierungsschutz
• Zensurgesetz tritt in Kraft, CDU & FDP ignorieren Petition von 134.000 Deutschen
• Rot-Rote Regierung in Berlin beschließt Programm gegen Homophobie
• Parlament schickt mehr Soldaten nach Afghanistan, gegen den Willen der Bevölkerung
• Zu links um Deutsch zu sein, Linksparteipolitkerin darf nicht eingebürgert werden

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What do you think of the current season of Skins? Do you miss Maxxie?

• FBI wants records kept of web sites visited for two years
• US Police wants backdoor to web users’ private data
• Sweden rather pays fine to EU than spying on its citizen
• Ex-gay therapy is getting funded by UK National Health Service
• Australian government websites hacked by Anonymous over censorship
• Britain tempts youth onto huge ID database with alcohol and games
• Gay animal rights group denied place in Sydney Mardi Gras
• South Carolina wants people to register before they overthrow the government

Lolicon mascot Pedobear has been dubbed the 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot by one factually challenged newspaper in Poland. Lesson: Don’t use Google Image Search to illustrate your articles.

• Absage an US-Schnüffler: SWIFT-Daten bleiben in Europa
• Neuer Ministerpräsident in BaWü ist Schwulen-Hasser
• FDP im freien Fall, Schwarz-Gelb unbeliebteste Koalition seit langem
• FDP findet, Pressefreiheit ist nur was für andere Staaten
• FDP bläht Verwaltngsapparat auf, der Vetternwirtschaft zuliebe
• Gericht findet Polizei darf Frau das Nasenbein brechen

As it turns out, the Australian Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that sexually explicit illustrations of children qualify as child pornography. Law enforcement agreed that Milner’s images fell into that category, and he eventually pleaded guilty to possession of child exploitation material and using the Internet to get it. As a result, he was sentenced to a year in jail, but was wholly suspended for five years with a $1,000 bond for good behavior. He is also registered as a sex offender. Milner’s sentencing seems harsh, but this is neither his first conviction nor is it the first time an Australian court has gone after someone for possessing Simpsons porn. As pointed out by the Queensland Times.

In another attempt to clean up the moral mess in the country of bush fires & baby stealing dingoes (and teenagers) the Australian government  has reportedly banned mainstream pornography from showing women with small breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia, and in spite of the fact this is a normal breast size for many adult women. The Australian Sex Party reports even Hustler has seen its publications refused publication, all thanks to the usual moral crusader “think of the children” arguments:

This is in response to a campaign led by Kids Free 2 B Kids and promoted by Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett in Senate Estimates late last year. Mainstream companies such as Larry Flint’s Hustler produce some of the publications that have been banned. These companies are regulated by the FBI to ensure that only adult performers are featured in their publications.

With small breasts now considered obscene, Australian adult rags are said to have suffered sharp increase in breast sizes. Presumably small breasted women taking photographs of themselves will now be guilty of creating simulated child pornography, to say nothing of the message this sends to women with modestly sized chests or those who favour them. Australia is also said to have banned pornographic depictions of female ejaculation, a normal orgasmic sexual response in many women, with censors branding it as “abhorrent”. It seems the UK and Australia are intent on regressing to Victorian standards of morality (although this time anyone criticising homosexuality may find themselves convicted of a hate crime), between them having now banned everything from BDSM to small breasts, even where participants are entirely imaginary.

Sources: Ars Technica & Sankaku Complex and, always relevant, Meanwhile in Australia