Having already helped remove harassment-free zones from a northwestern Pennsylvania high school, the American Family Association is battling to silence a Gay-Straight Alliance that has formed at the school. In April, allies of the AFA cornered and taunted a student…
Concerned Women: Daily Propaganda
Concerned Women for America has issued its daily selection of propaganda. The headlines below are verbatim from CWA; the summaries are mine. In Their Own Words: Homosexual Activists Redefine Marriage And FamilyCWA presents misquotes of countercultural gay leftists as if…
The July-August 2003 issue of the AARP Bulletin reports about financial troubles at the antigay Traditional Values Coalition. According to the article, “Christian Crusaders? Or Not? Fledgling Group Purports to Represent ‘Christian Seniors,’” a new TVC front group called the…
Lee Bockhorn, associate editor at The Weekly Standard, summarizes the predicament of the anti-gay-marriage movement: In the upcoming battle, defenders of marriage must find a public voice–someone (probably, though not necessarily, a politician) who isn’t afraid to suffer the disdain…
Response to Jeff Jacoby on Gay Marriage
More old news here (I promise, I’m almost caught up). Jeff Jacoby argued July 3 in The Boston Globe that 40 percent of Vermont gay civil unions involved a partner who had previously been heterosexually married. He concluded that stigmatizing…
Pat Robertson’s Bad Supreme Court History
Useful for future reference: Last week, Linda Campbell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted historical and mathematical inaccuracies in Pat Robertson’s “prayer offensive” against the Supreme Court. In other words, the man can’t count or remember. The Supreme Court ruling,…
Public Gay Sex in the Hamptons
A small number of presumably wealthy gays in the Hamptons are complaining after a crackdown by police and neighbors against public sex on the beaches. But there is no indication that the local laws are being applied unfairly. Now, some…
Concerned Women for America profiles Valerie Pegues’ victory over “lesbianism.” To be lesbian means to be attracted to women. But Pegues says she was always attracted to men, and while growing up, she never had any thoughts of being intimate…
Support for Marriage Amendment Stalling?
There has a been a rapid public diversification of conservative views on gay marriage. Religious Right Rethinks Strategy as Agenda Stalls By Mark O’Keefe Religion News Service …A growing sense of frustration is enveloping the leadership of the political movement…
Ex-Gay Watch reader Jayelle Wiggins lives in Orlando, operates her own blog, and dialogues with ex-gays in various venues. Here’s her thoughtful and respectful commentary on the flyovers.