Posted on November 30th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Updated below. According to Christian Grantham at OutletRadio:
Cheryl Jacques, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign,
has been fired. According to sources that wish to remain anonymous,
HRC’s Board of Directors voted to replace Jacques with Hilary Rosen as
interim executive director. The vote took place in an emergency
conference call Monday night.
Read OutletRadio for the developing details. […] Read more »
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Posted on November 26th, 2004 by Joe Kort
How the Grinch Stole Marriage
by Mary Ann Horton, Lisa and Bill Koontz
(with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Every Gay down in Gayville liked Gay Marriage a lot……
But the Grinch, who lived just east of Gayville, did NOT!!
The Grinch hated happy Gays! The whole Marriage season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could […] Read more »
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Filed under: Joe Kort
Posted on November 24th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
From Kirk Talley’s e-mail newsletter today:
Sunday morning I sang in Kilgore, Texas at the First Bapt Church of Danville. Pastor Freeman Pierce invited me to share my testimony and sing. The church is a new church, only been established 9 weeks. Freeman shared with me before the service how the church was started and […] Read more »
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Filed under: Music
Posted on November 24th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
We’ve previously addressed PFOX’s undiplomatic statements against public officials who are skeptical of exgay ideology. In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., PFOX fought unsuccessfully for the inclusion of exgay propaganda with the school system’s proposed sex-education curriculum. The curriculum, sans PFOX literature, was approved unanimously for a test run by the school board.
The Washington […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, PFOX
Posted on November 24th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Lisa Miller and her partner, Janet Miller-Jenkins, exchanged vows in a civil union ceremony four years ago in Vermont. Through artificial insemination, Lisa conceived and gave birth to Isabella in Virginia in 2002.
In 2003, Lisa adopted an exgay sexual identity, took Isabella and fled to Virginia, where she found a judge willing to violate Vermont […] Read more »
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Filed under: Parenting
Posted on November 24th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
The Washington Post included an antigay "magazine" insert in last Friday’s edition of the newspaper. The insert was loaded with disputed statistics, some from discredited researchers, according to critics.
John Aravosis brings us up to date today (Nov. 24) — providing links to the insert and weak responses from the Post, and urging letters and phone […] Read more »
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Posted on November 23rd, 2004 by Joe Kort
“YOU BELONG TO ME”
The Truth about Sexual Abuse
By Joe Kort, MSW
This article’s title reflects the perpetrator’s belief, that the victim now belongs to him/her, to do with as he/she desires; that his or her sexual needs, wants and sexuality overrules those of the victim’s. The victim will spend a lifetime unconsciously reenacting their original sexual […] Read more »
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Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by Mike Airhart
CNN reports that the FBI knows of six homosexuals reportedly murdered in 2003 because of their sexual orientation. The 1,200 hate crimes committed due to sexual orientation amount to about one-seventh of the total for the year.
The FBI counts are no doubt artificially low for all demographics, due to underreporting by victims and poor […] Read more »
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Filed under: Hate Crimes/Free Speech
Posted on November 18th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Kevin Rector, a student at the University of Maryland, writes in an op-ed
about the bigotry of a university physics department staff member, Bill
Norwood, who sent out a mass e-mail to students and faculty who had listed themselves in an ad as "allies" of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. Rector ably disputes Norwood’s prejudices, up […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth
Posted on November 18th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Half-truth = whole truth? Exodus reprints Prof. Warren Throckmorton’s recent article of half-truths about the failure rate of exgay ministries. Exodus’ headline for Throckmorton’s article is "The Whole Truth."
Slapping the other cheek: The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd comments on the religious right’s angry-mob response to the re-election of George W. Bush.
Politics, hate […] Read more »
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