Archive for the ‘Anti-LGBT’ Category
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Citizenlink.org, the website of the anti-gay Focus on the Family's political action group, posted a press release Friday from California's Yes on 8 campaign.
Through the entire thing, the Yes on 8 folks and Focus on the Family ignore every reality in our nation, politically, legally, socially. They conveniently paint a ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Politics, Religion, United States, Western U.S. | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Radical Right leader Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship Ministries has said the fight over California marriage equality and Proposition 8 is Armageddon:
"If sexual freedom is the ultimate liberty, then you have to rewrite the Bill of Rights," Chuck Colson, founder of the Prison Fellowship Ministries, says on a Yes on ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
From a beautiful commentary (h/t DQN):
When people say they are tolerating you, it's probably an indication they don't like you very much, but they're forced to deal with you for one reason or another.
So when during the vice presidential debate earlier this month Republican candidate Sarah Palin said she would ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Politics, Republican Party, United States | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Updated 6:00 p.m. EST, 10/14/2008
The first thing I thought... "They're kidding right?"
Evidently, twisting the Grace and Love of God in order to inflict pain and shame on gay and lesbian youth isn't the only think ex-gay advocates like Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is good at. It ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Ex-gay, Politics, United States | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
From The LA Times:
The food fight is over.
Nearly a month ago, opponents of Proposition 8 -- which would amend the state Constitution to ban gay marriage -- started a "soft boycott" of Bolthouse Farms, among the largest producers of fresh-cut carrots in the world and the maker of juices and ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Politics, United States, Western U.S. | No Comments »
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Famed singer and conservative talking head Pat Boone has written a curious commentary at the rabidly anti-gay "news" website WND.com. In the "exclusive commentary," entitled, "Are you ready for a gay America?", Boone laments the loss of what he sees as his traditional America and the forthcoming "breakdown of society," ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Boy Scouts, Civil Rights, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Politics, Religion, Sexuality | 4 Comments »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
My attention was drawn to an article from a Kansas TV station this morning while browsing The Washington Blade's website. A teen in a small town of about 800 people was severely beaten inside his home by a classmate who had heard rumors he was gay. The rumor was false. ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Hate Crimes, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, United States | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Yeah... a once Raleigh native told Washington, D.C.'s Metroweekly magazine that he felt safer in Raleigh, as well as in Boston:
At the same time, Mark Hayes, another local gay man, was finding himself similarly fed up. While Perry is a Washington native, Hayes came to the District about five years ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Hate Crimes, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, United States | No Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
The Winston-Salem Journal, my lovely hometown newspaper, published a great column by John Railey. Interviewing an African-American minister, Railey's column delves into just some of the multitude of issues that make stopping HIV/AIDS difficult in black communities and in the black church:
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Health, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States, Winston-Salem | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
The Charlotte Observer today published a front-pager on the new book edited by Mitchell Gold, featuring 40 stories of gay and lesbian people's ordeals growing up gay in America and their experiences in the church.
"CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, LGBT, Media, North Carolina, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 5 Comments »
