Archive for October, 2005
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
From In Newsweekly
By James A. Lopata, October 27, 2005
An open letter to Love Won attendees:
The New England GLBT community welcomes all Love Won Out participants to Boston, Mass., the shining City on a Hill where our forebears settled in order to know and worship a God freely, according to their ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
According to an article on pinknews.co.uk, the Bishop of London has refused to ban the Bishop of New Hampshire from attending a Church of England service.
The Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, received a letter from the London Diocesan Evangelical Fellowship, which urging him to ban the Rt Rev ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
Gay Briefs
Thursday, October 27, 2005
relish staff report
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Triad Takeover Night, a new community event, will begin Friday.
It's a social mixer for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. A series of e-mails announce the time and place where a "takeover" is going to happen. The first ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
A Column by Deb Price
The Detroit News
Monday, October 24, 2005
http://www.detnews.com/2005/editorial/0510/24/A09-358448.htm
Leslie Thompson recalls waking up to wave after wave of painful emotions -- disbelief, anger, fear -- last Nov. 3, the morning after Michigan voters passed a state constitutional ban on gay marriage.
In 10 other states, gay Americans awoke in ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
According to an article on 365gay.com News, the President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Spokane Bishop William Skylstad, has blasted the Vatican and their new witch hunt on gays within the Church.
Bishop Skylstad said that "witch hunts and gay bashing have no place in the church." He went ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
I found these two letters very interesting. The first appeared in The Carolinian, the UNCG newspaper, on October 18, 2005 and the response to that letter appeared in the October 25, 2005 issue.
It basically boils down to this: First, one ignorant, prejudiced and biased lesbian (yes gay people can be ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
According to an article WTAE-TV 4 (thepittsburghchannel.com), a Duquesne University sophomore has been punished under the university's code after he made anti-gay remarks, including calling gays "sub-human."
The remarks were originally made on Facebook, an online directory and community forum-type website for college students. His remarks soon spread over the internet ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
From the Raleigh News & Observer:
By TERENCE HUNT, AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
SUSAN PAYNTER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
They're from God and they're here to help you by heading to Seattle this week with a whole new take on the meaning of scaring teenagers straight.
Groundswell -- a so-called "ex-gay" ministry from Florida that targets teenagers -- insists it speaks to kids "kindly ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gays a force in council races
Orientation not big issue, candidates say
By ERNIE SUGGS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/26/05
In a strongly worded letter to Georgia Equality criticizing the group's recent political endorsements, Keisha Sean Waites called the state's largest and most influential gay rights organization "defunct, impotent and ...
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