-The city of Phoenix, AZ launches a domestic partner registry.
-Jonathan Rowe examines one of the religious right’s ‘secular’ arguments against homosexuality.
-The Hawaii House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill.
-The son of megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes is arrested for indecent exposure.
-A Michigan television station refuses to air the American Family Association’s latest anti-gay propaganda piece.
I’m from Grand Rapids, MI originally, where WOOD-TV was planning on airing the American Family Association’s propaganda. It was only until WOOD-TV received many emails from organizations such as the HRC that they first put off airing the program and finally pulled the plug all together.
I’m not surprised by this, since western Michigan is ultra-conservative beyond imagination. I remember when I was in high school (in the mid-90s) one kid in my class came out of the closest, only to disappear two weeks later. My bet is that his parents sent him off to conversion therapy. So I stayed in the closet until college.