What are your thoughts on the week that was within the LGBT community?
From the denial of same-sex couples attempting to obtain marriage licenses, to a local pastor withdrawing from President Barack Obama's inauguration program over past views expressed on "ex-gay" therapy, the LGBT community was in the news all week long.
It was a newsworthy week for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community in and around Midtown. On Monday, five same-sex couples tried to obtain marriage licenses at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur in a campaign designed to draw attention to Georgia's laws prohibiting marriage between people of the same gender. One after the other, five couples stepped up to the counter of the DeKalb Probate Court office and said they wanted marriage licenses. Reporters were on hand to document the five couples' efforts, having been alerted by We Do, an effort of the Campaign for Southern Equality. After the couples were turned down, they walked out of the courthouse to be greeted with cheers from an estimated 75 supporters waiting …
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