Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
I just stumbled across a story in today’s New York Daily News. The bottom line:
Even in “liberal” school systems like New York’s, teen-age students are being denied access to websites about gay and lesbian youth issues. And educators are failing to discipline antigay bullies, because of ambivalence, fear of job loss, or embarrassment from being [...]
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Filed under: Education/Youth
Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people.
The emphatically antifeminist Chambers borrows (strangely enough) from the same line of thought as profeminist Christian blogger Hugo Schwyzer, questioning Swaggart’s masculinity:
It never ceases to amaze me how insecure some men [...]
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Filed under: Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC, Hate Crimes/Free Speech, Scandals
Posted on September 28th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Does anyone else wonder whether the Democratic Party leadership might — through intent or apathy — be forfeiting the presidential election?
Kerry/Edwards have offered no details about his plans to:
repair the Bush foreign-policy catastrophe;
wage the war in Iraq differently;
improve our nonexistent port security;
prevent nuclear terrorism and proliferation;
utilize our European allies, who happen to have almost no [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2004 by Joe Kort
I Read You Loud and Queer!
by Joe Kort, MSW
Coming out is a very hard thing to do. National Coming Out Day is October 11, 2005. When you come out, or when you did, are you are turtle or a hailstorm? Coming out is a relational experience, in that to come out to other people, you [...]
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Filed under: Joe Kort
Posted on September 26th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Eugene Volokh (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars) challenges the myth that liberals are moral relativists while conservatives are paragons of moral absolutism.
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Filed under: Morality, Weblogs
Posted on September 26th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Some exgay political activists like Prof. Warren Throckmorton accuse the nation’s schools of promoting “homosexuality.” They imply, usually without evidence, that pro-tolerance advocacy in education comes from political activists, not from the struggling students, their parents, and a few concerned faculty. (Here are past examples at XGW of the exgay battle against tolerance in schools.)
A [...]
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Filed under: Education/Youth
Posted on September 24th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Speaking for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown scolds gay people today for wanting the same things that heterosexuals take for granted: marriages, kids, trustworthiness, jobs, scholarships, and notoriety on TV.
And she wags her finger at Atlanta activists for announcing a Boycott for Equality to achieve what Brown relabels “elitism.”
Brown rhetorically asks, “Are heterosexual persons really [...]
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Filed under: Exodus
Posted on September 23rd, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX has launched an exgay billboard on Interstate 64 near Richmond, Va.
The billboard, an enlarged and repurposed version of its 2003 Washington, D.C., subway ad, declares that “Ex-Gays prove that change is possible.”
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Filed under: Exgay Ads, PFOX
Posted on September 23rd, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Read Chuck Colson’s article at Christianity Today.
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Posted on September 23rd, 2004 by Mike Airhart
(Updated Oct. 18, 2004 to reflect Gary Glenn’s assignment of blame for uncorrected factual errors in the AgapePress article.)
From the religious-right propaganda service, AgapePress:
A Michigan pro-family activist says the single best way of preventing the spread of the virus that causes AIDS is to help get men to leave the lifestyle that accounts for most [...]
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Filed under: Health
