The 700 Club spotlights the journey of one exgay man, Phillip Tucker. Can a single man’s anecdotes substantiate the exgay political movement’s stereotypes about same-sex-attracted individuals? Tucker tells the television program’s audience that his gay civil union was loveless, but…
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In his column for Jan. 5, 2005, gay activist/author Wayne Besen examines the possible reasons why gay couples in nearly all of America remain afraid to hold hands or show affection in public. In Besen’s view, the rationalizations of the…
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From 365gay.com: Finding that children are not harmed by living with gay or lesbian parents, an Arkansas court Wednesday struck down a state regulation that banned gay people and anyone living in a household with a gay adult from being…
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The Academic Freedom — to Be Ignorant?
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Liberals often fight for the academic freedom to study topics deemed taboo. Now, CNN reports, some conservative students are battling for the academic freedom not to study books and topics, such as the Qur’an or peace studies, which they prejudge…
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John Aravosis, ImpossibleMike, and Big Muddy IMC comment on the latest Alan Keyes/Larry Klayman political fundraising scam: A national shareholder campaign to force major employers to bar gay-straight employee groups and to deny benefits to gay workers and their families….
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Reasons Why Exgays Should Support Civil Unions
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This is an "open draft" — meaning that I welcome input in creating the list of reasons why exgays should support civil unions. I’ll be out of town on vacation for a week, which means I might have time to…
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Dispatches from the Culture War continues to perceive dishonesty and outright brutality in the political religious right’s battle to split up some families where the gay parent appears to be the better, safer choice to raise the kids. Who wudda…
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From Reuters: Both gay and heterosexual men are equally likely to aspire to an unattainable body type, or to harbor a distorted image of their actual body, new research indicates. This finding contradicts the conventional wisdom that gay men have…
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65gay.com reported Dec. 28: San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer … has told the city it cannot include arguments countering the assertions made by conservative groups opposing same-sex marriage that gays can be cured and that children are…
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The journal Issues in Legal Scholarship published a full issue not too long ago on single-sex marriage. Among the articles is "Nordic Bliss? Scandinavian Registered Partnerships and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate." From the abstract: The proponents of same-sex marriage have…