 Rediff | Out of 'Milk,' Perhaps a Little Human Kindness Toward Gay Rights Washington Post, United States Did anyone really see it, outside of people who already knew its material or already approved of its elegiac message of gay rights? Or is it just another one of Oscar night's eat-your-veggies movies -- a biopic heaped with film critics' accolades and ... Milk: Hollywood Does Gay History Q & A: Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant Pour Out Their Hearts about Milk Film Evokes Memories for Milk’s Relatives |
 On Top Magazine | Utah lawmaker's gay comments cost him chairmanship The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) â€" A Utah state senator on Friday was kicked off a judicial committee he chaired after he drew criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims in an interview aired this week. Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, ... Buttars: 'I don't have anything to apologize for' Utah Senator Buttars Reprimanded Over Anti-Gay Remarks Buttars' Anti-Gay Comments Offend Lawmaker |
 Times Online | Anti-gay protesters banned from Britain United Press International 20 (UPI) -- Two US anti-gay preachers have been banned from entering England, officials said. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who belong to the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, were planning to come to Britain to protest outside a ... Anti-gay Kan. church says it's banned from Britain Anti-gay preachers banned from UK Anti-gay American cleric banned from UK for inciting hatred |
 Gay Wired | All 5 LGBT bills die in Utah 365Gay.com It was the fifth defeat for a group of bills called the Common Ground Initiative that would have expanded LGBT civil rights in Utah. Tuesday, legislation to include gays in job and housing protections was defeated and bills to allow for joint support ... No Common Ground in Utah Groups debate Common Ground What’s Up, Utah? |
 Stopping The Hate | Funding woes still plaguing LGBT festivals Philadelphia Gay News, PA by Jen Colletta As Mayor Nutter prepares to unfurl a new round of budget cuts, the local LGBT community is still realizing the full scope of the November budget reductions. Although it received little attention from the mainstream media, ... Study: Campus lacks support for LGBT community First Licensed LGBT Adoption Agency in US Declares Bankruptcy Being Excluded- Changing Racism, Transphobia In the LGBT Community |
RI LGBT Networking Bay Windows, MA What should the Pride committee do if Melissa Etheridge, the people’s choice for celebrity Pride marshal, can’t participate? She better do it to avoid a JP Block Party Massacre! Hold out hope she’ll send hottie wife Tammy Lynn Michaels as a substitute. ... |
 News14.com | 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 Groups with different messages on homosexuality converge in Charlotte |
Utah Lawmaker’s Anti-Gay Diatribe Draws Criticism EDGE Boston, MA by Kilian Melloy Chris Buttars, an anti-gay Utah state senator who claims to have personally derailed all GLBT-friendly legislation in that state for the past eight years, has drawn heavy criticism for comments he made during an interview for a ... |
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. ... |
Here's news that should surprise absolutely no one: Children raised by loving lesbian and gay parents fare just as well as children brought up by heterosexual couples.In a widely circulated article from Tuesday's Chicago Tribune, reporter Bonnie Miller Rubin talks to sociologists, researchers, statisticians and others who have reached the unmistakable conclusion that, despite the controversy that still surrounds same-sex families in some parts of America, what's in the best interest of the child is a loving household . . . regardless of the gender of the parents involved.
"Sociologists Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz published an analysis in 2001 in the American Sociological Review of 21 studies of children raised by homosexual parents and found that, overall, they were no more likely to suffer from psychological problems than kids raised in conventional homes," Rubin reports.
"There was a very strong consensus that kids turned out about the same," Stacey said.
The study and other research, the Tribune points out, undermine the rhetoric of campaigns in states like Arkansas, where voters approved a ban on adoption during the November elections. And the consequences, they report, are far-reaching.
"At least 4 million U.S. children have one or both parents who identify themselves as homosexual, said Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law," the paper reports.
"The bottom line is that within the research community there are no empirical studies demonstrating adverse effects, said Stacey, who is now at New York University."
"We know that a parent's sexual orientation is not a significant factor. A good parent is a good parent, . . . and parents who get along and are consistent in their child-rearing . . . have better outcomes than those who don't."
And common sense prevails . . . at least in the pages of the Tribune.
To read Rubin's full report, including interviews with the children of lesbian and gay parents, visit The Chicago Tribune online.
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.
Earlier today, Republican Utah state senator Chris Buttars was kicked off a judicial committee he chaired after drawing criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims earlier this week. Buttars, also stated that gay activists are “probably the greatest threat to America going down.” The Human Rights Campaign, stated more than 15,000 e-mails had been sent to [...]
Jim Doyle, Wisconsin’s Governor included a plan for domestic partnerships in his budget plan he unveiled earlier this week. The Democrat’s domestic partnership proposal would extend limited protections to LGBT couples including hospital visitation, medical decisions and the right to inherit property, pensions and benefits. During his first term in 2003, the governor vetoed a bill that [...]
So, you’ve heard by now about the four San Diego firefighters that won a little over $34,000 in a lawsuit for being “forced” to ride a fire truck in the 2007 San Diego gay pride parade. This because they were subjected to “lewd acts”. Well, those over on the right are claiming a big ole “V” [...]
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