Archive for July, 2005
Monday, July 25th, 2005
According to an article on Express Gay News, the Reverend Jerry Falwell (pictured left), founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University, has endorsed the forcing of gay teenagers into "reparative therapy" at centers such as Refuge in Memphis, Tennessee. The Refuge center is run by Love in Action, an ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
I read a letter to the editor in the July 19, 2005 issue of The Winston-Salem Journal and I just had to respond to it. Below you can read the original July 19th letter and my response which was published in the Journal today, July 25, 2005.
"HERITAGE" July 19, 2005
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Sunday, July 24th, 2005
As most of my friends and acquaintances know, I am a staunch Democrat... I have been ever since I became politically aware and active. Living in Winston-Salem and being in a relatively conservative high school, I thought I was a "liberal." As I went off to college though and found ...
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
On Saturday, the Reverend Jerry Falwell spoke at the 2005 Exodus Conference at the Lifeway Ridgecrest Conference Center, which is owned by the Southern Baptist Convention. I wrote an entry on the conference previously, Western NC Mountains become hotbed of debate concerning gays and religion
The article concerning the ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
According to an article on 365gay.com, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to condemn the execution of two gay teenagers in Iran.
On Thursday, July 21, news about the two teenagers, one 18 and the other said to be 16 or 17, came to light. ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
According to an article on Yahoo! News (article) a judge has blocked a same-sex marriage citing the country's constitution.
According to the article:
The head of Spain's supreme court, Francisco Jose Hernando, commented on the judge's move, saying, "if the colleague in Denia thinks that the new law regulating homosexual marriages contains ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
According to an article in the Washington Blade Online (article), Zach Stark (pictured left), a gay 16 year old from Bartlett, Tennessee, will be released soon from Refuge, an ex-gay camp for adolescents run by Love in Action, a group affiliated with Exodus International. He has been in the camp ...
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
According to an article on Mirror.co.uk (article), two students have killed themselves inthe last few weeks. The cause has been blamed on bullying.
The first student, 16 year old Karl, was raped by a 23 year old man. He told his secret to a "friend," who then proceeded to tell ...
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
An op-ed piece in The Detroit News points out a serious flaw in America's conservative movement to "protect and defend the family." The radical conservatives might be wanting to protect the family, but it seems they are nothing but willing to destroy families, too... well, families with gays included anyway.
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
According to an article on 365gay.com (article), The Reverend Troy Perry, Moderator of the Metropolitan Community Church, a gay and gay friendly Christian denomination, and founder of the first ever MCC Church in Los Angeles in 1968 has announced that he will step down from the position at the church's ...
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