I don’t know how many times Ted Haggard has to do something so insane. He just keeps pushing the envelope to new extremes. He and his wife will be the subject of a two-art episode of “Divorce Court” the first two days of April (h/t PageOneQ):
Disgraced American pastor Ted Haggard says he wanted his wife [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Mar 25
Ted Haggard: Broke and crazy as hell
Mar 23
Two-day agenda
The next two days will prove to be very busy, indeed.
I’m headed to Raleigh today to hunt down some gay-owned business and retail owners for an upcoming article. I’ll break away this evening for some drinks with old college friends. Tomorrow is EqualityNC’s Day of Action at the N.C. Legislature. Photos and more will be [...]
Mar 22
AFA and OneNewsNow contradicting itself?
On March 15, the radically anti-gay American Family Association-backed OneNewsNow.com reports that abstinence-only education is working (past post):
“The teen pregnancy rate has dropped by a third since abstinence education was started,” he points out, “and the teen abortion rate has been cut in half.”
Seven days later, it isn’t working as thought and more of it [...]
Mar 21
Blasts from my past: Winston-Salem, R.J. Reynolds & HRC
The March 21 print issue of Q-Notes‘ feature piece is “Stamp of Approval.” A researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is calling into question the perfect 100 rating of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Reynolds American, Inc. (corporate parent of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) in the Human Right’s Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.
The researcher says [...]
Mar 19
On N.C. sex ed, AFA-run ‘news’ site sheep break with the flock
All is not calm on the American Family Association front. Their “news” website, OneNewsNow.com, published a “story” (read: horrible piece of journalism) on the issue of comprehensive or abstinence-only sex education in North Carolina.
While the writer, Charlie Butts, gives plenty of speaking time for the N.C. Policy Research Council’s Jere Royall (nice guy, by the [...]
Mar 18
D.C.’s HIV blame game
Two D.C. bloggers are battling it out over the new HIV number released for Washington, D.C. Three percent of the total population there is now living with HIV.
Black Informant says the cause is risky sexual behavior among the gay and lesbian community. The Washington City Paper’s Sexist blogger says the cause is more complex than [...]
Mar 15
Not all newspapers going bust
NPR’s “On the Media” interviewed the editor of El Diario La Prensa, a New York City-based Hispanic and Latino community newspaper.
It seems not all papers are going under. Editor Alberto Vourvoulias says his paper has been among the fastest growing newspapers in the past two of three years.
A lot of great insights in the interview. [...]
