Jim Schneider took to the microphone to host this mid-week news round-up edition of Crosstalk. Stories included: --The Vatican flag will be raised at the United Nations for the first time on Friday ahead of the Pope's address. --President Obama nominates Eric Fanning to be the first homosexual to be Secretary of the United States Army. In contrast, George Washington approved the dismissal of a soldier for attempting to commit sodomy. --In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father from his Afghanistan bunk that he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. At night he could hear them screaming but they were not allowed to do anything about it and told to look the other way because it's their culture. --State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said that the administration would welcome Saudi Arabia's appointment to a leadership position at the U.N. Human Rights Council saying that the U.S. and the kingdom were close allies. --The Alabama Supreme Court has refused to recognize an adoption granted to a lesbian woman in 2007 by a Georgia court. --An Oregon judge who will not officiate at homosexual weddings is fighting to keep his job. --The ACLU is bringing a lawsuit against Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis because they claim she has altered the marriage certificates.