Tag Archives: Don’t Ask (I’m Telling)

Last week’s column: Showing Our Strength

Yeah, I forgot to post it. With all this Equality Ride stuff, I’ve just been way too busy. Here it is, as published on Tuesday, March 13, 2007:
Showing our strength
HRC Carolinas dinner shines bright
by Matt Hill Comer, Don’t Ask (I’m Telling)
Issue date: 3/13/07 Section: Opinions
No amount of protest could stop it. No amount of outcry [...]

Column: Looking for our candidate

My column from this week’s Carolinian at UNCG:
Looking for our candidate
2008 stances on LGBT issues not yet clear
by Matt Hill Comer, Don’t Ask (I’m Telling)
Issue date: 2/13/07 Section: Opinions
The 2008 presidential election is certainly starting up. By the time the election rolls around in November of that year, we are all going to be so [...]

Got Children? You’d better if you want to marry

My column from this week’s issue of The Carolinian at UNCG (their site hasn’t been updated yet, so I can’t give you the link to the published version online, although from what I’ve read in the paper version nothing was changed and no edits were made to what I submitted).
A lot of talk about this [...]

Updates: “The Matt Hill Comer problem”

Quick updates on “The Matt Hill Comer problem” and what has seemed to become an internet, campus and community controversy…
Good friend and fellow blogger Pam Spaulding saw fit to post about the column on her site, along with her always wonderful, never lacking commentary. Thanks to the commenters there.
My friend and fellow Equality Rider, Cylest, [...]

This week’s column: Like puberty all over again

This week has unofficially been announced as “Let’s All Bash Matt Hill Comer Week,” but I still got to insert my two cents…
My column from this week’s issue of The Carolinian (UNCG):
It’s like puberty all over again
by Matt Hill Comer, Don’t Ask (I’m Telling)
Issue date: 1/23/07 Section: Opinions
Nonviolence: I have written about this topic in [...]

“The Matt Hill Comer problem” & a tearless Greensboro

All in one issue… all in one fell swoop. Two guest columns this week in The Carolinian, one focused on the evil of homosexuality, the other in response to one of my previous columns.
The first, written by a former member of the UNCG College Republicans states that I am a person “prostituted to a cause [...]

This week’s column: Tears for Greensboro

Here’s my opinions column from this week’s Carolinian (UNCG):
Tears for Greensboro
Have we lost the vision of nonviolent change?
by Matt Hill Comer, Don’t Ask (I’m Telling)
Issue date: 1/16/07 Section: Opinions
“Nonviolent resistance … avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.”
That is [...]

Column: A Mind Stayed on Equality

This week’s column, the first issue of Spring 2007, from The Carolinian (UNCG):
A mind stayed on equality
A journey into God’s boundless love and grace
by Matt Hill Comer, Don’t Ask, (I’m Telling)
Issue date: 1/9/07 Section: Opinions
Who knew spending six days pent up with 60 gay (and straight allied) college students in a small Austin, Texas hotel [...]

Column: Close Encounters of the Ex-Gay Kind

Here’s this week’s column from The Carolinian (UNCG). Click here for past posts on Ignite Student Outreach.
Close encounters of the ex-gay kind
Ex-gay group targets youth & student ministry leaders
Matt Hill Comer, Don’t Ask (I’m Telling)
Posted: 12/5/06
Not long ago, I opened my email inbox to find a promotional invitation from a group called Ignite Student Outreach. [...]

Ex-gay Ignite Student Outreach: ‘No comment’

As an opinions columnist, I don’t have to be un-biased. I don’t have to present both sides. I don’t even have to seek out the opinion of the other side or even give them a chance to state their position at all. That is the nature of opinions writing. I can be as biased as [...]