Does anyone else wonder whether the Democratic Party leadership might — through intent or apathy — be forfeiting the presidential election? Kerry/Edwards have offered no details about his plans to: repair the Bush foreign-policy catastrophe; wage the war in Iraq…
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I Read You Loud And Queer!
I Read You Loud and Queer! by Joe Kort, MSW Coming out is a very hard thing to do. National Coming Out Day is October 11, 2005. When you come out, or when you did, are you are turtle or…
Eugene Volokh (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars) challenges the myth that liberals are moral relativists while conservatives are paragons of moral absolutism.
Some exgay political activists like Prof. Warren Throckmorton accuse the nation’s schools of promoting “homosexuality.” They imply, usually without evidence, that pro-tolerance advocacy in education comes from political activists, not from the struggling students, their parents, and a few concerned…
Speaking for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown scolds gay people today for wanting the same things that heterosexuals take for granted: marriages, kids, trustworthiness, jobs, scholarships, and notoriety on TV. And she wags her finger at Atlanta activists for announcing…
PFOX Erects Exgay Billboard in Virginia
Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX has launched an exgay billboard on Interstate 64 near Richmond, Va. The billboard, an enlarged and repurposed version of its 2003 Washington, D.C., subway ad, declares that “Ex-Gays prove that change is possible.”
(Updated Oct. 18, 2004 to reflect Gary Glenn’s assignment of blame for uncorrected factual errors in the AgapePress article.) From the religious-right propaganda service, AgapePress: A Michigan pro-family activist says the single best way of preventing the spread of the…
Daniel A. Crane of Yeshiva University writes in Christianity Today that giving the government increased authority over marriage may seriously harm the family: “If the church not only abets but actively furthers the notion that marriage owes its legitimacy to…
Gay Bloggers Defend the Freedom to Discriminate
Gay libertarian bloggers Jason Kuznicki and Jonathan Rowe have been thoughtfully debating a constitutional freedom to discriminate.