Responses to ABC’s 20/20 program revising history in the case of Matthew Shepard: Chris Matthew Sciabarra: God hates fags… But Shepard’s killers don’tChris Bull: Antigay slayings that have been ignoredColoradoan: Shepard’s killers piece pandered to audience GLAAD Q&A Jon Rowe:…
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Focus/Family Honors Group Accused of Felonies
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Michael Marcavage and his antigay Repent America group await a Dec. 14 hearing on several felony and misdemeanor charges related to their raid against OutFest, a Philadelphia gay street festival. Marcavage has not drawn headlines recently in the Philadelphia newspapers…
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CNN reports that the FBI knows of six homosexuals reportedly murdered in 2003 because of their sexual orientation. The 1,200 hate crimes committed due to sexual orientation amount to about one-seventh of the total for the year. The FBI counts…
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On October 10, 11 antigay activists affiliated with Repent America, a pro-exgay religious group, were arrested for disrupting a gay-pride festival in Philadelphia. AgapePress and religious-right legal outfits accuse the city of Philadelphia of "continually denying [antigay group leader Michael…
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Exgay Leader Comments on Swaggart Death Threat
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After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people. The emphatically antifeminist Chambers borrows (strangely enough) from the same line of thought as profeminist…
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Attack on Antigay Preacher: Focus Twists Facts
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Focus on the Family, which opposes unfettered free speech for gay-tolerant viewpoints, digs up a 2001 incident in Britain, in which an antigay street preacher was assaulted and arrested. Focus views the arrest and conviction of the preacher as proof…
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Groups Cook the Books on Gay Domestic Violence
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In March 2001, Gary Glenn of the American Family Association of Michigan declared that upwards of 50 percent of gay relationships are beset by domestic violence — and that, each year, 650,000 incidents of same-sex domestic violence occur. In order…
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Rev. Carol Anne Lawler writes in The Charlotte Observer: To the Rev. Philip "Flip" Benham: Who died and left you God? Benham’s group, Operation Save America, is holding rallies this week in front of abortion clinics, churches and mosques to…
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