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Gay Musical for Thanksgiving - Oh The Horror!

Submitted by David Hart on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 18:37

FalsettosThe right have their undies in a knot because a high school is performing the award-winning play, Falsettos. Falsettos is a musical set in New York City in 1979. Marvin, his son Jason, his psychiatrist Mendel and his male lover Whizzer are Four Jews In A Room Bitching  Marvin steps forward to explain his situation: He has left his wife, [Read more ...]

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Tea Party Activism and The Religious Right

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 17:01
I have to take issue with Andrew Sullivan's assertion that the Tea Party movement is "Christianist" at its core. By "Christianist," Sullivan means essentially the Religious Right and the idea that the Religious Right's anti-gay, anti-choice political agenda has played a central in Tea Party activism is ludicrous.  When the movement began last year, the "TEA" in Tea Party stood for "Taxed Enough Already" and was aimed at the bailouts and stimulus measures put in place in an attempt to stabilize our economy. At first, the Religious Right more or less watched from the sidelines as the fiscal ...

Candidates for RI gov promise gay marriage support

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 15:39
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Three candidates running for Rhode Island governor are promising to sign a gay marriage bill...

Opposition to gays serving openly in the military has ‘declined sharply’ amongst servicemembers.

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 15:22
After Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen’s declaration that he believes it is time to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the Military Times has released a poll of 3,000 active-duty troops showing that opposition to gay men and women serving openly in the military “has fallen sharply from nearly two-thirds (65 percent) in 2004 to about half (51 percent) today.” According to the poll, among the servicemembers’ concerns were “how to effectively implement new policies for sharing close quarters and living facilities with openly gay members.” Polls of the American public consistently ...

GOP lawmakers want to exclude gay students from anti-bullying bill

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 15:15
A pair of Republican state legislators has introduced a bill that would remove protections for gay, lesbian and transgender students from an anti-bullying law passed in 2007. State Reps. Jason Schultz, R-Schleswig, and Matt Windschitl, R-Missouri Valley, sponsored the legislation to remove sexual orientation and gender identity as definitions used for purposes of protecting students in public and nonpublic schools from harassment and bullying. Schultz told NBC affiliate WHO-TV that the rationale behind the move is to force a vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, ...

'Kick it Out' director defends anti-homophobia film

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:19
‘Kick it Out’, the body responsible for tackling homophobia and racism in football, has responded to the FA’s decision to postpone the showing of a short film aimed at tackling homophobia.

Harrisburg rally set to support gay marriage

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:13
HARRISBURG -- Proponents of same-sex marriage will hold a news conference, rally and march here this afternoon, led by the sponsor of a bill that would permit gays and lesbians marry, state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery.

Repealing Military Ban Could Boost Gay-Rights Movement

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:11
Check out the UI News Bureau story here by blog editor Sara Benson. In the story, I mention that there is a possible parallel between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement and that repealing DADT could the...

Steve Phillips, finished with same sex addiction clinic as Tiger Woods, opens up on intern affair

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:42
A high-profile sports figure who cheated repeatedly on his wife has been sprung from a sex addiction therapy clinic - and we're not talking Tiger Woods.

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Deutsch Say Tebow Ad Starts Down 'Slippery Slope'; Compares it to Gay-Dating Spot

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:28
Even though, the day after it aired on the Super Bowl broadcast, the consensus on the Focus on the Family advertisement featuring former Florida quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was that it wasn't as bad as the left had feared, at least one person that isn't going to let it go. On MSNBC's Feb. 8 "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough made the point that the TV spot played during the Feb. 7 game was inoffensive and painted the opponents of it as being upset about nothing. "One other thing too, talking about the soft touch - Focus on the Family's ad with Tim Tebow was soft, it ...

US bishops leader warns: gay-friendly group not in line with Church teaching

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:40
The president of the US bishops' conference has issued a reminder that New Ways Ministry, a Maryland-based group that works with homosexuals and lesbians, "has no approval or recognition ...

Focus on Your Marriage During National Marriage Week

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:40
Pro-family and faith-based organizations across the United States marked the start of National Marriage Week on Sunday to draw special attention on the need to strengthen marriage and the ways to do it.

billyworldchangernews66: Churches ponder ELCA split

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:06
Nebraska and Iowa are feeling the fallout from a decision by the nation's largest Lutheran denomination to allow noncelibate gay clergy and church leaders, as well as recognition of same-sex couples. Thanksgiving...

Obama’s gay “religious” advisor trying to hurt the Pope and the Catholic Church using condoms

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 09:05
By Kevin “Coach” Collins Democrats like to say “A fish rots from the head down.” Where are they now that Harry Knox, a militant homosexual advisor to Obama, has once again attacked the Catholic Church? Knox, Obama’s Faith Based Advisor, has renewed his attack on Pope Benedict XVI charging he is trying to use the name of Jesus to hurt people by stating that condoms increase the spread of AIDS in Africa; as if they don’t. Just another Gay activist willing to lie To the pseudo religious Left condoms are a sacrament they’ll go to war to defend. In the “oh so suave and sophisticated” world ...

The Wrong Gay Line

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 07:08
Wilford Brimley, the folksy and appealing character actor, did a series of commercials a few years back for a brand of oatmeal, the signature line of which was, "It's the right thing to do." I don't know if eating oatmeal is the right thing to do; it's certainly an uninteresting thing to do. But I know Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is wrong when he claims that allowing openly homosexual men and women to serve in the U.S. military is "the right thing to do." Putting gays and lesbians in the barracks and ships' sleeping compartments, ...

eHarmony caves

Submitted by NewsSystem on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 04:00
Internet dating firm agrees to settle lawsuit filed over refusal to allow same-sex matches

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NY Times on NJ Marriage Equality

Submitted by GayNewsService.com on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 17:46

RingsDoing the right thing — promptly enacting legislation discarding inadequate civil unions in favor of full marriage equality for same-sex couples — requires no gargantuan amount of courage or risk-taking on the part of rank-and-file New Jersey legislators or their leaders. … The chance that approving marriage equality would provoke a mass voter revolt seems remote. [Read more ...]

C Street "Family" Linked to Ugandan Oppression of Gays

Submitted by David Hart on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 16:16

C St HouseThe Family is the secretive fundamentalist Christian group with a house on C Street where conservative Christian lawmakers live and pray. The group has attempted to shield Mark Sanford and John Ensign from scrutiny. The C Street house is actually owned by a Family front group, "Youth With a Mission." YWAM is a global Christian evangelical organization founded in 1960 which, declares YWAM, is "currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000." [Read more ...]

The "War on Thanksgiving?"

Submitted by GayNewsService.com on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 00:54

TurkeyThis gem is from Christian Newswire: [Read more ...]

Archbishop Wuerl Continues His Shakedown [Video]

Submitted by David Hart on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 00:36

Archbishop WuerlThere has to come a point when Wuerl (the Archbishop of Washington) realizes that he keeps contradicting himself. It wasn't terribly bright to threaten the DC City Council to begin with. Now, about all that he is accomplishing is to make himself even more irrelevant as he tries, in vain, to kill marriage equality or, in the alternative, to get the Council to sanction the church's employment discrimination. [Read more ...]

Liberty Counsel Can Kiss My Ass

Submitted by David Hart on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 00:15

Adam LambertIt seems that the prudes as Liberty Counsel have filed a complaint with the FCC (PDF) against ABC over the performance of Adam Lambert. In their letter, signed by Anita Staver, they use the word "homosexual" four times. The implication is that gay sexual innuendo is sufficient to warrant a complaint. Actually, the basis of the complaint is the gay suggestiveness of the act.

In point of fact, Lambert did nothing more erotic than countless performers – male and female – have done with their dancers and musicians of the opposite sex. Nevertheless, the holier-than-thou schmucks [Read more ...]

Have a "Courageous Conversation" With Friends and Family this Thanksgiving

Submitted by GayNewsService.com on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 15:00

Courage Conversations Via Marta Evry, Courage Campaign — I want to tell you about a heartfelt conversation I recently had with a family member who opposed marriage equality. I hope it will motivate you to have one of your own with someone you care about this holiday season.

I'm a straight ally, a community organizer, and a volunteer photographer for Camp Courage. As I learned at Camp Courage, the best way to build momentum for marriage equality is by having personal conversations. [Read more ...]

For $67.43 Randall Terry Delivers Convulsions

Submitted by David Hart on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:26

Randall TerryIt seems that every irrational right wing whack job has a scam scheme these days to FedEx, fax or phone every member of congress. Usually, these things are priced at several times the cost of providing the "service." Any congressional staffer will tell you that duplicate letters, emails or faxes are treated as one. [Read more ...]

Top God Tube Video Questions Christian Vitriol

Submitted by David Hart on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 15:51

This is one of the most watched videos on GodTube (now Tangle). I am serving this video stream locally to avoid some of the bandwidth and other issues associated with Tangle. Floodgate Productions informs me that they are uploading this to YouTube shortly.

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