Remember Tyler Chase Harper and anti-gay T-Shirts? Harper is the blond teen ADF model/activist-in-training who sued the Poway School District because they wouldn’t let him wear an anti-gay T-shirt to school two days in a row. We’ve told you about…
Hate Crimes – Free Speech
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On Jan. 16, the national ex-gay umbrella network Exodus International declared its opposition to the inclusion of sexual orientation in federal hate-crime laws. Exodus President Alan Chambers cited the Philadelphia-based antigay protest group Repent America as an example of Christians…
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Last December a broad coalition of anti gay organizations ran this newspaper ad featuring “ex-gays” in opposition to hate crimes legislation. The ad failed to identify what it called “former homosexuals” but those of us familiar with ex-gay groups immediately…
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“Its statements routinely outrage gay-rights activists. But two commentaries posted online in recent months by members of NARTH’s scientific advisory committee have raised concerns among its closest allies as well.” –Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, October 15, 2006…
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This past weekend in El Paso, three young men kidnapped a gay teen, tied him up, and beat him all night. the attackers told the man “they were going to scare him straight.” Some might consider it extreme to blame…
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Anti-Gay “Love” Seems More Like Hate
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Anti-gay activist often claim to “love the sinner, hate the sin”. A recent example is Guy Adams of Renew America who (in the midst of a string of evil and false accusations) said on Stacy Harp’s podcast …we don’t hate…
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Anti-Gay T-Shirt Update
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As discussed before, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that anti-gay activists do not have a constitutional right to go into the classroom with anti-gay religious messages on their clothes. The Court found that gay students have the…
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James Dobson of Focus on the Family unfavorably compares the love and faith of gay couples to the slave trade. Meanwhile, Dobson’s unholy culture-war allies vigilantes have recently begun burning crosses on the lawns of gay, black and interracial homes…
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The exgay network Exodus International on July 1 joined other religious-rightists in parroting a political scandal over an ordinary schoolyard fight that occurred May 17 in Lexington, Mass. The campaign’s premise was that the local community’s gay-tolerant parents incited their…
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Last week I received a rather bizarre email from a woman identifying herself as Carrie informing me DesertStream.org (an exgay ministry) had shut down their online forum “because of all of the posts being made by pro gay advocates.” The…