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Gay.com News Headlines The Gay.com/PlanetOut.com News channel is the most trusted and most widely read provider of online news for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities. The news offerings include daily headlines, commentary, week in review, press releases and in-depth packages that focus on the biggest GLBT news events around the world. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Happy the children? Not! Argentine prosecutors say Catholic priest Julio Grassi sexually abused three boys attending his "Happy the Children" Foundation for poor youth. Condom calling: Ring tone fights risky sex A cell phone ring tone that sings "Condom, condom!" has been launched to promote safe sex in India, where condoms carry a strong social stigma. Court: Doctors can't refuse gays Christian doctors who refused a lesbian fertility treatment have neither a free- speech right nor a religious exemption from California law, justices rule. Argentine gays get widow's-pension rights The measure, which grants pension rights to couples of five years' standing, is the first nationwide gay rights bill approved by the government. Britain's spy service seeks to hire gays After shunning them for decades over worries of blackmail, MI5 is now asking out gay and lesbian Brits to consider an career in espionage. Megachurch hosts Obama, McCain McCain says he'd leave marriage to the states unless a federal court ordered his home state to honor Massachusetts gay marriages; then he'd want a federal ban. Marriage foes seek to halt 1913 law's repeal "The gay lobby" made Massachusetts lawmakers open marriage to out-of-staters, says Brian Camenker in yet another bid to put equality to a popular vote. Slain teen's parents blame schools Dawn and Gregory King's legal claim says Oxnard schools should have stopped Larry from wearing feminine clothes in light of his "unique vulnerabilities." FBI found no dirt on gay rights governor Two months after Wisconsin Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus signed the country's first statewide gay rights bill, the FBI launched a probe that turned up empty. Ruling: Oregon partner law safe for now The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismisses anti-gays' efforts to put a challenge to Oregon's domestic-partner law on the November ballot. Copyright 1995-2008 GAY.COM INTERACTIVE SERVICES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.