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The NFL is set to celebrate the LGBTQ community’s “National Coming Out Day” during its Sunday Night Football broadcast this weekend. The campaign, labeled “It Takes All Of Us,” will feature a 30-second video starring openly gay or bisexual NFL players including Ryan O’Callaghan, Jeff Rohrer, R.K. Russell, and Wade Davis. The ad encourages gays to come out and be proud of their sexual proclivities, according to CNN. The video starts with the aforementioned players saying, “To all current players who are thinking of coming out, when you are ready, so are we.” The ad then segues to other players...

Shepard Smith, a Fox News anchor since 1996, revealed last week that he had no intention of opening up about his sexuality the way he did during an April speech at his alma mater.Speaking at a conference, Smith was tapped to talk on a panel titled “It Starts With MEek,” one that was meant to promote inclusivity and diversity. According to a report made by the Clarion-Ledger, Smith changed his speech at the last minute to reflect the crux of the conversation and decided to tell his own story of inclusivity and diversity.“It wasn’t until seven, or eight, or nine...

Religious groups in Taiwan are calling for a boycott of McDonald’s after the fast food giant premiered a commercial they say promotes “gay issues." The minute-and-a-half ad features a boy coming out to his father by writing, “I like boys” on a McCafe coffee cup and sliding it across the table.

If you need proof that same-sex “marriage” is about more than “love,” look no further than Montgomery County, Maryland. There, parents are dealing with the fallout of the state’s redefinition of marriage with a sweeping new sex education curriculum. Moms and dads, who were already fighting an uphill battle on the content of the lessons, are now coping with the news that homosexuality will be woven throughout — shattering families’ fragile hold on parents’ rights. Yesterday, the Montgomery County School Board took up the issue in a debate over the district’s health curriculum. Not surprisingly, there were calls for an...

When the intensely private Rep. Mike Michaud laid bare his private life and announced he’s gay, one openly gay congressman joked that the Maine Democrat had never registered on his “gaydar.” As he prepares to return to Capitol Hill this week as the seventh openly gay member of the U.S. House, Michaud said the decision to come out this week was a positive experience that drew support from fellow congressmen and hundreds of constituents—even if it was political nastiness that prompted his announcement. … Michaud, who’s engaged in a three-way race for governor, used an op-ed provided to two newspapers...

When I think of organizations that have worked long and hard to undermine the religious heritage of this great nation of ours – especially in the minds of our children – few can match the records of the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. Truth be told, their records are so bad that if the Second Coming were to occur in a public classroom today, the former would insist that a cadre of psychologists swarm in on the community to undo the damage to children, teachers and family before the school could open again, while the latter...

LOS ANGELES - George Takei, best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in "Star Trek," came out as homosexual in the current issue of a magazine covering the Los Angeles gay and lesbian community. Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart in "Equus," helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality. Takei described the character as a "very contained but turbulently frustrated man." The play opened Wednesday at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles, the same day that Frontiers magazine featured a story on Takei's coming out. The...

The Rainbow Community Awareness Project of Knoxville, a local group supporting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, announced plans Tuesday for its "Come Out Knoxville" celebration. The celebration, which includes activities stretching over two weeks starting Oct. 6, coincides with a similar national event. Gary Elgin, director of Rainbow Community Awareness Project, said this year's events mark the largest celebration ever in Knoxville. "This is the very first time that we have taken this amount of days to celebrate," he said. "It's the first time we have taken it to this level, and we are extremely excited. "This is...

Well, well, well! While the United States is engaged in combat against terrorists in Iraq, our ubiquitous Hanoi Jane can't seem to get a handle on attaining maximum attention from her most recent book tour promoting herself. Please don't question that statement; what else could she have possibly wanted to do when she entitled her book: "My Life So Far"? Gee, I certainly wanted an update, didn't you? And then today we hear . . . "I've decided I'm coming out," says Miss Fonda. She went on to say, "I can't go into detail except to say that it's going...

Philly Pride seeks court order to prevent 'Outfest' evangelism

<p>Small-town police chiefs normally don't spend much time in the spotlight, but Suisun City's Ron Forsythe has gotten more than his share lately.</p> <p>Although credited with buffing up the tarnished reputation of a city plagued by crime, he recently has seen his department's morale plummet.</p>

It is the year 2020 eighteen years into the future. The middle east is adorned with democratic republics, and much is better in the world. Charles Barkley is in his second term as President, and Bill O’Reilly is in his umpteenth year as the Factor Man. The crisp scentfulness of autumn leaves is in the air and it is America’s day of thanks, Thanksgiving. All is well at the O’Reilly home, and to top it off Bill’s 21 year old daughter will be coming home in the afternoon from Yale for the holiday festivities. She will be bringing home a...

PARENTS BEWARE "SEXPERT" SICKOS REACHING YOUR CHILDREN VIA LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL SANCTIONED "YOUTH SUMMITS!" Here is yet another threat source of medically inaccurate, dishonest and negligent sex ed disinfo being given to school children in both high and middle school grades, courtesy of regional "youth summits." These events are local public school principal & school superintendent sanctioned, often without local Public School Board awareness, at which hundreds of public school children at a time, as young as 13 (7th grade) are shipped off during school hours to be subjected to "sexpert" speakers and workshops. Parents often recieve permission slips that...

Rosie O' Donnell's (book) makes reference to her partner of four years, Kelli Carpenter, but she says her book is not about her sexuality. 'I know people have been selling it as my love life,' but it's not.' O' Donnell has three adopted children -Parker, 6 Chelsea, 4 and Blake, 2-and she says she is in a committed, long-term life typerelationshipStill she's been much more candid in recent months about her private thoughts. Lately, she's been talking about Angelina Jolie.'I dream about her all the time and it's not like..adolescent boy-lust thing at all, she says.' 'There's something she represents...