XGW Digest: March 21, 2009
-The Nigerian government considers a bill to further toughen its anti-gay laws.
-Former senator Rick Santorum refuses to debate with Andrew Sullivan on the issue of gay marriage.
-The Minnesota Family Council tries to get an amendment banning all forms of same-sex unions on the 2010 ballot.
-The Rev. Irene Monroe examines the “Down Low” culture inside the African-American church.
-Tennessee State Rep. Tracey Campfield reintroduces a bill that would ban teachers from making any reference to homosexuality in the classroom.
-Via Jonathan Rauch, acceptance of homosexuality is up to 56% among Christians in mainline denominations according to a recent Pew survey.
-The myth of “gay affluence,” which has been used by politically active ex-gays at Exodus to “prove” that gays don’t need equal rights protections under the law, is debunked once again.
-Californians Against Hate exposes National Organization for Marriage as a Mormon front group that hid its LDS connections with the agenda to pass Prop 8.
-Liberty Council’s Mat Staver says gay parents should be denied custody rights in order to protect marriage.
According to that law:
Where are the Exodus executives when you need them to represent an “alternative view” now?
don’t the folks in American see the stupendous irony?
The claims that a minister who REFUSED marry gay couples would be persecuted helped to pass Prop. 8. In spite of the fact that no such things have EVER happened in America, even in the state of Massachussetts.
However, the real prosecutions of gay friendly clergy even in America are in evidence. Remember Rev. Jimmy Creech?
How about that teacher in OK who was fired for showing the film “The Laramie Project” to her students?
Claims of persecution by our opposition are asinine and cowardly in the face of who it really happens to. They REALLY don’t have any idea what it’s really like, nor do they have the stuff to confront it if it happens to others either.