 Washington Times | Lutheran task force recommends recognition of gay unions Chicago Tribune, United States If approved, the measures would change current church policy that allows ordination of gay clergy, but requires them to be celibate. In the report, the task force proposed a four-step process that outlines a possible path for change, starting with ... Lutherans weigh making gay clergy a local decision Out of no consensus, a compromise on gay clergy ELCA weighs gay clergy issue |
 United Press International | Hoover investigated rumors that Valenti was gay The Associated Press Valenti, who died in April 2007, was a special assistant and confidant to President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 when J. Edgar Hoover's FBI investigated rumors that he was gay, the Washington Post reported Thursday, based on agency files obtained through the ... Valenti's Sexuality Was Topic For FBI Jack Valenti, Gay Blade? Jack Valenti Once on FBI's 10 Most Probably Gay List |
 KAUZ | Firefighters in gay pride parade were sexually harassed, jury says Los Angeles Times, CA By Tony Perry Reporting from San Diego -- A Superior Court jury Tuesday found that four male firefighters were sexually harassed while driving a fire truck in the 2007 gay pride parade and were entitled to a combined $34300 in damages from the city. ... Firefighters forced to participate in ‘gay pride’ parade win lawsuit California firefighters win sexual harrasment suit over gay pride ... Jury: SD firefighters were harassed in gay parade |
 Stopping The Hate | First Licensed LGBT Adoption Agency in US Declares Bankruptcy Queerty, NY The service provides group homes for approximately 40 LGBT teens as well as transitional living for 25 more. Most have suffered from abuse and neglect. Staffers at GLASS are furious and are planning to go to the courts to keep the GLASS' doors open. ... Being Excluded- Changing Racism, Transphobia In the LGBT Community Gay and Lesbian Community Still Traveling 11 Not-To-Be-Missed Gay and Lesbian Events in Philly put an Extra ... |
Study: Campus lacks support for LGBT community TCU Daily Skiff, TX Representatives of the TCU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community expressed a lack of unity within the gay population in addition to the broader campus, according to a study on the support of LGBT students within the university. ... |
Easy Confirmation Expected for LGBT Friend Elena Kagan Lez Get Real, District of Columbia Often called the “10th Supreme Court justice†for its powerful position in directing the cases that are heard before the court, Kagan would be the first woman confirmed to this position that among others has been held by William Howard Taft, ... |
 WNCT | Pro, "Ex" Gay Spiritual Events Converge in Charlotte, NC EDGE Boston, MA 19 article in the Charlotte Observer notes that no fewer than events in Charlotte are aligning to draw attention to that city with regard to GLBT issues. First off, two very different religious events are coinciding. One promises gays that they can be ... Love Won Out Coverage Gay groups agitated over conference Gay Group Plans Ex-Gay Protest In Charlotte |
Cupid’s Back Raises Funds for GLBT Historical Society San Francisco Bay Times, CA By Dennis McMillan The 3rd annual Valentine’s Day Party to benefit the GLBT Historical Society (GLBTHS) was held at Lime bistro in the heart (get it?) of the Castro on Feb. 13 to a sold-out, packed house of pre-V-day celebrants. ... |
Glasgow gets District 18 endorsement from GLBT group The Tennessean, TN by Michael Cass David Glasgow, a candidate for the District 18 Metro Council seat, picked up an endorsement from the Tennessee Equality Project’s political action committee this week. The Tennessee Equality Project’s political action committee endorses ... |
Check out the audio clip posted over at Pam's House Blend featuring the rants of Utah's anti-gay Senator Chris Buttars...It seems like such a shame, especially in light of Utah's Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr's recent coming out in support of civil unions for LGBT people.
Here are some choice excerpts from the audio clips:
To me, homosexuality will always be a sexual perversion. And you say that around here now and everybody goes nuts! But I don't care.
They say, I'm born that way. There's some truth to that, in that some people are born with an attraction to alcohol. One drink and you're gone.
Their number one goal is just to proselyte youth. That's why I threw them out of the schools, I said it's not a friendship club, that's a recruiting station.
They're mean! They want to talk about being nice - they're the meanest buggers I ever seen. It's just like the Muslims. Muslims are good people and their religion is anti-war. But it's been taken over by the radical side. And the gays are totally taken over by the radical side. You don't see the gay out there saying, Let's not do this. Let's not do this, gang. You seem 'em marching around with signs and everything else.
I believe the whole thing is immoral. And I believe you're moving towards - you see, if you say to me, quit shoving your morals down my throat, Butters, my answer back is you know my morals, what's yours? What is the morals of a gay person? You can't answer that. Because anything goes! So now you're moving towards a society that has no morals. There's never been a nation survived that's done that.
I believe that you will destroy the foundation of American society, because I believe the cornerstone of it is a man and a woman, the family. In my mind, it's the beginning of the end. Oh it's worse than that. Sure, Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide. You can't tell me that something that was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah's not going on wholesale right now, and to a large degree by [? unintelligible] the gay community. ... The underbelly is they do not want equality, they want superiority. ... They say we want to be treated just equal. They don't. And I believe that they're internally they're probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of. Yep, the radical gay movement.
It is such an unacceptable shame to hear words like this spoken in the halls of legislation in 2009. Following in the steps of Sally Kern, Utah's Sen. Buttars also claimed that the gay-rights movement is "probably the greatest threat to America... It's the beginning of the end. Oh, it's worse than that. Sure. Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide."
Read more about Sen. Buttar's anti-gay rants at Pam's House Blend.
"Some rights are so fundamental in our federal and state Constitution, we don't allow them to be changed by a simple majority vote,"So said California Assemblyman Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) when a legislative committee yesterday endorsed legal efforts to overturn California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The California Supreme Court is expected to begin hearing arguments in March over the legality of Proposition 8.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle today, "After hearing conflicting and often emotional testimony about who deserves the last say on the marriage question, the Assembly Judiciary Committee voted 7-3 in favor of a resolution stating that citizens lacked the authority to put the gay marriage ban directly to voters."
The California Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for March 5 on a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn Proposition 8. The suits say the ballot measure was improperly enacted and is itself unconstitutional because it singles out a minority group for discrimination. Keep reading the PFLAG National Blog for updates in March on the court proceedings.
Lifetime's critically acclaimed film Prayers for Bobby, starring Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver, is now available for download from iTunes.The film, which tells the emotional, true story of PFLAG mom Mary Griffith, and her amazing journey following the suicide of her son, is available as a digital download for use with video iPods and other digital video players.
(While many PFLAGers have inquired about a DVD release of the film, Lifetime no longer releases projects on DVD, instead making films available in digital format soon after their television premiere.)
To download Prayers, visit iTunes online today.
Tyson Beckford, 38, is an American model with a wonderful blend Black-Jamaican and Afro-Asian blood…I often wonder to myself how much men like Tyson have to work out in order to achieve and maintain such an admirable figure. What kind of diet do they adhere to? Would I ever catch them at a fast food [...]
Fred Phelps, and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper have been banned from entering the UK as they planned to protest the staging of “The Laramie Project”, a play about the death of Matthew Shepard, that is going to be put on in Hampshire. However, the dynamic “anti-gay” duo, who are known for there US protest of gay [...ay [...]
Four anti-gay San Diego fire fighters who suffer from homophobia including Alex Kane, Chad Allison, Capt. John Ghiotto and Capt. Jason Hewitt, allegedly were subject to sexually based conduct and lewd comments as they rode on a fire truck during the San Diego Pride Parade in July 2007. A jury delivered a ruling in their favor [...]
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