A man in Arlington, VA who runs his own video duplication service has a company policy that he reserves the right not to duplicate any videos that violate his "Christian and ethical values." Unfortunately, such a policy violates Arlington County's anti-discrimination law, and when a woman wanted to duplicate some gay-themed videos (not porn, as far as we can tell) and he would not copy them, she complained to the Human Rights Commission and he was ordered to provide the service. Now he is suing the officials on the Commission on the grounds that Virginia state law does not allow for sexual orientation to be added to anti-discrimination laws.

We think that Christian video duplicators could be a phenomenon. Recently we were in a rural town in central Florida where we had to have some videos duplicated, and we found the one place in town where we could have it done, which was in a little shed behind this family's house. We pulled into their driveway behind their van covered with "Bush/Cheney 2004" stickers and walked inside. Immediately the woman helping us (who was very sweet) began talking about "my church this, my church that," perhaps sensing we could use a little bit of help from Jesus to straighten us out on our path. Fortunately our videos had no gay kissing or anything in them or we perhaps could have ended up in a similar situation as the woman in Virginia.

Christian businessman ordered to duplicate gay video sues [Washington Blade]

•The American Red Cross is considering the possibility that maybe not all gays are infected with HIV from that one time they had anal sex back in 1985, and are consequently in favor of lifting the government's lifetime ban on blood donation for gay and bisexual men. [Advocate]

• What makes us gay or straight? Was it the leather pants our grandma bought us when we were six? There are scientists trying to figure it all out, and right now in the rhetorical battle of nature vs. nurture, nature seems to be winning. [CBS News via 429 News]

• Straight high school student Brandon Flyte has allegedly been expelled from his high school for surprise-airing his gay-themed student film Brokeback High for his marine biology class. Word is still out on whether the film involved whales or dolphins. [Towleroad]

• The Meretz political party is the first in Israel to endorse gay marriage. Their catchiest slogan borrows from the Jewish marriage song: "the voice of groom and groom," and "the voice of bride and bride." [365 Gay]

• Virginia's constitution could be amended to ban gay marriage this November, thanks to a ballot measure made possible by (phony) Democratic governor Tim Kaine. [Washington Blade]