Posted on December 30th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
From 365gay.com:
Finding that children are not harmed by living with gay or lesbian parents, an Arkansas court Wednesday struck down a state regulation that banned gay people and anyone living in a household with a gay adult from being foster parents in the state.
Circuit Court Judge Timothy Fox "found that being raised by gay parents […] Read more »
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Filed under: Parenting
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Liberals often fight for the academic freedom to study topics deemed taboo.
Now, CNN reports, some conservative students are battling for the academic freedom not to study books and topics, such as the Qur’an or peace studies, which they prejudge as "offensive," often without knowing anything about the topic.
Perhaps it is better to hate one’s enemy […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
John Aravosis, ImpossibleMike, and Big Muddy IMC comment on the latest Alan Keyes/Larry Klayman political fundraising scam:
A national shareholder campaign to force major employers to bar gay-straight employee groups and to deny benefits to gay workers and their families.
(Hat tip: James B.) Read more »
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Filed under: Discrimination
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
This is an "open draft" — meaning that I welcome input in creating the list of reasons why exgays should support civil unions. I’ll be out of town on vacation for a week, which means I might have time to help work on this — or I may be unable to access the Internet, in […] Read more »
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Filed under: Partnerships
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Dispatches from the Culture War continues to perceive dishonesty and outright brutality in the political religious right’s battle to split up some families where the gay parent appears to be the better, safer choice to raise the kids.
Who wudda thought a wife-murdering, daughter-molesting father is a better parent than a lesbian?
From Dispatches:
Dec. 28: Alliance Defense […] Read more »
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Filed under: Parenting
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
From Reuters:
Both gay and heterosexual men are equally likely to aspire to an
unattainable body type, or to harbor a distorted image of their actual
body, new research indicates.
This finding contradicts the conventional wisdom that gay men
have more "hang ups" about their appearance than straight men, study
author Dr. Armand Hausmann told Reuters Health.
This assumption stems from a […] Read more »
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Filed under: Science
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
65gay.com reported Dec. 28:
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer … has told the city it cannot include arguments countering the assertions made by conservative groups opposing same-sex marriage that gays can be cured and that children are better off with opposite-sex parents.
Among the documents submitted by the Alliance Defense Fund are statements by […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Partnerships
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
The journal Issues in Legal Scholarship published a full issue not too long ago on single-sex marriage.
Among the articles is "Nordic Bliss? Scandinavian Registered Partnerships and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate."
From the abstract:
The proponents of same-sex marriage have long argued that committed lesbian and gay couples should have the same legal options as committed straight […] Read more »
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Filed under: Partnerships
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Episcopal seminarian Bob Griffith comments on the divide between Christians who, like the fabled Pharisees, demand "right belief" and wage war against independent thinkers and feelers — and those who live out Christ’s mission to love thy neighbor. Read more »
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Filed under: Reform / Renewal
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Richard T. Cooper and Johanna Neuman of the LA Times profile the obsessively antigay religious-right outfit Concerned Women for America.
While it cites conservative critics of the CWFA’s ideological extremism and incivility, the article at no time balances its coverage with viewpoints outside the religious right. Read more »
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Filed under: CWFA
