The Washington Post devotes a generous amount of space today to an in-depth profile of National Organization for Marriage leader Brian Brown. whom writer Monica Hesse describes as a “rational, mainstream, and sane” advocate for preserving the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

The Anchorage assembly took no action Tuesday to override the mayor’s veto of an LGBT rights ordinance, missing its first opportunity to reverse what appears increasingly likely to be the defeat of the measure, reports the Anchorage Daily News.

Marcello Lippi, the coach of the Italian national football team, said Wednesday that he would not select two players for his team if they were involved in a gay relationship, reports Agence France-Presse.

A Florida state attorney defended the state's ban on adoption by gays Wednesday by arguing that gay people as a group exhibit higher rates of domestic violence, psychiatric disorders, and breakups.