Corrected to indicate that the former boyfriend was erroneously described as “ex-gay lover.” From Gay Celebrity News, a story about former celebrity Pete Burns: The cross dressing former front man of 1980s band Dead or Alive appeared in court yesterday…
Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right
AlterNet on July 7 reprinted Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right, published in June by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. James Dobson ranks No. 2. (Blame Pat Robertson.) The top power brokers are indexed, along…
Exgay NEA Activist Turns Out to Be Anti-NEA
Corrected to reflect Jeralee Smith’s exgay identity. Exgay activist Jeralee Smith formed the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus in early 2004, ostensibly to educate teachers and administrators about exgays. But just two years later, she is calling upon Christian teachers not…
Who’s Secular Now? Take the Quiz
From Talk To Action: Test your knowledge! Here are ten quotes from a pool of 20 well-known Democrats and Republicans, and leaders of the religious right and the nascent religious left. Can you figure out who said what? Take the…
James Dobson of Focus on the Family unfavorably compares the love and faith of gay couples to the slave trade. Meanwhile, Dobson’s unholy culture-war allies vigilantes have recently begun burning crosses on the lawns of gay, black and interracial homes…
The exgay network Exodus International on July 1 joined other religious-rightists in parroting a political scandal over an ordinary schoolyard fight that occurred May 17 in Lexington, Mass. The campaign’s premise was that the local community’s gay-tolerant parents incited their…
Repent America, as we’ve noted many, many times, is a Philadelphia-area group that illegally commandeers town council meetings, storms gay-friendly entertainment festivals, shouts down authorized speakers with megaphones in order to incite chaos, and gives a favorable nod to a…
In their CNN to-and-fro last week, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson wagged his finger at the media for not demonizing and ostracizing homosexuals — while the Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese summarized the Gay Agenda: But I would be…
An article about sex offenders in today’s Washington Post cites an unspecified Danish study which found a recidivism rate of 80 percent among sex offenders who have molested children. According to the study, this likelihood of repeat offenses dropped to…
Open Forum: Best D.C. Casual Restaurants
Interested in D.C.-area restaurants? Check out the comments below….