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By Mike Airhart on Oct 7th, 2005
Good As You provided a heads-up Oct. 6 that Concerned Women for America spokesman Robert Knight was to appear on CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW program that evening, to condemn the trend of youths identifying themselves as same-sex-attracted at earlier ages. But a transcript for the program suggests that the gay-youth segment may have been pre-empted […]
By Daniel Gonzales on Oct 3rd, 2005
Concerned Women For America are concerned about pro-gay quotes printed on Starbucks coffee cups. We figured some anti-gay quotes aught be suggested to take it’s place. PFOX president Richard Cohen recently had a meltdown following a TV appearance versus Wayne Besen and made this sort of bizarre statement. I think it goes nicely on a […]
By Timothy Kincaid on Sep 29th, 2005
Concerned Woman, Dennis Lynch, has issued an article declaring that Father Mychal Judge was definitely not gay. Judge was the priest who died on 9/11/01 in service to victims of the terrorist attack and the firefighters that were attempting to rescue them and who became known as a hero. Lynch bases the bold assertion on […]
By Daniel Gonzales on Aug 24th, 2005
Kodak wants to make transgender employees comfortable by giving them their own bathroom. Mara Keisling is with the National Center for Transgender Equality. She commends Kodak for helping America get over its fears. “For some reason Americans don’t like to be in bathrooms with people who are different than them. And we always get past […]
By Daniel Gonzales on May 24th, 2005
I apologize for the high number of off-topic posts this last 48 hours but I felt we could use a new thread on which to discuss this nonsense about “one-sex marriage.” With a simple Google I found Concerned Women For America have made use of this new term(*). Here I’ll get it started; The term […]
By Mike Airhart on Dec 29th, 2004
Richard T. Cooper and Johanna Neuman of the LA Times profile the obsessively antigay religious-right outfit Concerned Women for America. While it cites conservative critics of the CWFA’s ideological extremism and incivility, the article at no time balances its coverage with viewpoints outside the religious right.
By Mike Airhart on Nov 12th, 2004
I mentioned briefly here that Focus on the Family has been orchestrating a national smear campaign against legendary sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey — and against the new movie Kinsey. The Focus campaign appears to be bearing fruit: Protests are ready for launch against theaters that dare to show the film, according to 365gay.com. The […]
By Mike Airhart on Jun 3rd, 2004
In a May 29 essay at the WorldNetDaily web site, reprinted four days later at Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight blasts a newly proposed federal hate crimes measure that enjoys bipartisan support.
By Mike Airhart on Apr 1st, 2004
The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., reports today on an ex-gay rally at the state Capitol, sponsored by Concerned Women for America and Peter LaBarbera’s group, the Illinois Family Institute. Stephen Bennett said: “I’ve had both worlds, I’ve been in love with a man and with a woman,” Bennett said. “I was not born gay. […]
By Mike Airhart on Mar 24th, 2004
Jeanne D’Arc of Body and Soul remembers Archbishop Romero, who was an outspoken advocate for El Salvador’s population. He risked (and lost) his life defending human dignity and justice at a time when thousands of liberal Salvadorans were being slaughtered by an anticommunist Salvadoran government receiving heavy military and financial support from the U.S. government […]