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  • What You Hear About Gays in Russia Is 'Largely False,' Expert Says

    11/23/2013 7:59:28 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 11/23/2013 | Napp Nazworth
    WASHINGTON – Reports of the Russian government abusing its gay citizens are based upon false propaganda by gay rights groups in the United States, Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, claimed at a Nov. 15 symposium hosted by The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society. "Please understand what's really going on in Russia and cast aside all of the propaganda that you hear in the United States and elsewhere. It's just not true," Ruse urged. He was the main speaker at the symposium, "Family Policy Lessons From Other Lands: What Should America Learn?" and...
  • Was Life Really Terrible For Gay Men in the Bad Old Days?

    11/11/2013 8:09:48 AM PST · by ComtedeMaistre · 41 replies
    The story of the first gay Bishop of the American Episcopal Church, Gene Robinson, is fascinating. His parents were poor, ignorant, redneck, tobacco farmers, who were fundamentalist Christians. Robinson was a gay child raised in the Bible Belt state of Kentucky, where he was taught hateful religious right doctrines that the definition of marriage is one man joined to one woman, and that no other form of sexual behavior was permitted. Robinson's hillbilly redneck parents also required their child to attend Sunday School, where he had a perfect attendance record for 13 years. In these Christian religious schools, he was...
  • Many homosexuals hope to leave Russia

    11/08/2013 12:15:49 PM PST · by klpt · 54 replies
    Deutsche Welle ^ | 08.11.2013 | Anna Peters
    Germany has granted a young doctor asylum due to his sexual orientation, after he faced persecution and social exclusion in Russia. Thanks to a recent EU ruling, other gays and lesbians will likely to follow. Pavel is gay. He is open about his sexuality, a fact which used to continuously cause outrage in Russia. "It is very unpleasant to be living in a society that thinks you are sick and backward, and where you can be fired from work just for being gay," he said. "At any moment, someone can chop your head off," that's how he described the fear...
  • Senate Approves Gay Rights Bill

    11/07/2013 1:27:46 PM PST · by lbryce · 139 replies
    Washington Post ^ | November 7, 2013 | Ed O'Keefe
    The Senate passed historic gay rights legislation Thursday to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the workplace, another victory for the gay rights movement that has been gaining favor in the courts and electoral politics. Senators voted 64 to 32 to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The vote marked the first time lawmakers had approved legislation to advance gay rights since repealing the military’s ban on gay men and lesbians in uniform in late 2010 and came two days after Illinois became the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Just four months ago the U.S. Supreme...
  • VIPs join T-shirt protest of Russia's anti-gay law

    11/04/2013 9:57:30 AM PST · by klpt · 40 replies
    ABC News ^ | November 4, 2013 | ABC News
    <p>NEW YORK (AP) Actors Jonah Hill, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kristen Bell are among a batch of celebrities donning Russian-language "Love Conquers Hate" T-shirts to show support for gays in Russia alarmed by a new law banning pro-gay "propaganda."</p> <p>It's part of an initiative launched Monday by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. gay-rights group.</p>
  • Tom Ridge Pushes Back On Gay Issues In GOP With Plea For “Practical” Tolerance

    10/24/2013 12:53:44 PM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 40 replies
    buzzfeed.com ^ | October 23, 2013 | Chris Geidner
    WASHINGTON — As the federal government continues to face fallout from the shutdown that came to an end last week, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, the first Homeland Security secretary, is pointing the Republican Party in a different direction on Wednesday night. Speaking to the LGBT group, Log Cabin Republicans, at the group’s Spirit of Lincoln Dinner, Ridge told BuzzFeed he is bringing a message not just of inclusion on the group’s issues but that he plans to give a more broad address, urging the party to take a path that could be fairly characterized as the anti-Tea Party approach....
  • NYT reporter: Obama admin “most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered”

    10/06/2013 5:27:41 AM PDT · by ilovesarah2012 · 57 replies
    hotair.com ^ | October 5, 2013 | ED MORRISSEY
    Remember when the media rushed to talk about transparency in the Barack Obama “Hope and Change” era? Good times, good times. Leonard Downie, who once worked as the executive editor of the Washington Post and wrote a novel about Washington corruption and the Iraq War, finds a bigger and non-fictional problem in the successor to George W. Bush. Downie gives the Post a preview of his report from the Committee to Protect Journalists which outlines the Obama war on reporters and their sources: “A memo went out from the chief of staff a year ago to White House employees and...
  • Obama welcomes Pope Francis' remarks on gays, abortion

    10/02/2013 6:38:56 PM PDT · by delchiante · 56 replies
    reuters ^ | Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Peter Cooney)
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed Pope Francis' recent remarks that the Catholic Church must shake off an obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuals, saying the pontiff was showing incredible humility. "I tell you, I have been hugely impressed with the pope's pronouncements," Obama said in a CNBC interview.
  • Russian parents group asks Putin to cancel Elton John concert: media

    09/25/2013 12:19:58 AM PDT · by cunning_fish · 15 replies
    Reuters ^ | September 24, 2013 | Thomas Grove
    (Reuters) - A Russian parents' committee has asked President Vladimir Putin to cancel a planned concert by gay musician Elton John, saying he intended to violate a ban on "homosexual propaganda". In an open letter to Putin, the local parents' group in central Ural region was reported by media as saying: "The singer intends to come out in support of local sodomites and break the current Russian law, directed at protecting children." Critics say the law banning gay "propaganda" among minors - which has prompted calls for a boycott of Russia's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics - is discriminatory,...
  • With Gays and Blacks, We Have Gone to the Opposite Extreme

    09/23/2013 4:23:55 PM PDT · by Enza Ferreri · 11 replies
    Enza Ferreri Blog ^ | 23 September 2013 | Enza Ferreri
    The problem is that people don’t seem to be able to find the right middle. There was a time when homosexuals were wrongly persecuted, when they couldn't even be open about their homosexuality, and that certainly was a bad state of affairs. Luckily we have gone past it and that’s fine. But people are so afraid that we could go back to that time that any criticism of homosexuality is taken as a sign of "anti-gay" discrimination: this is the opposite extreme, in which the persecution and discrimination are actually at the expense of those who disagree with the...
  • US Navy sexual assault reports rise 50%

    09/12/2013 3:50:52 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 22 replies
    BBC ^ | September 11, 2013
    The number of sexual assaults reported to the US Navy rose dramatically over the last year, officials have said. The Navy puts the rise down to sailors' growing comfort reporting incidents of sexual assault and to their belief that authorities will take action. The Navy says about 1,100 assaults were reported in the year ending this month, an increase of 50% from 726 last year.
  • Craig James out at Fox Sports Southwest after one appearance (because of his comment about gays?)

    09/04/2013 7:36:17 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 20 replies
    Sports Illustrated ^ | Richard Deitsch
    The Craig James era at Fox Sports Southwest will be a short one. SI.com has learned that the veteran broadcaster will no longer appear on the network. Fox Sports executives were not happy with the hire by the regional network, according to sources, and the hire had not been fully vetted at the highest levels of Fox Sports management. A formal agreement had not been finalized, even though James appeared on FSS on Saturday night. "Craig James will not be making any further appearances on Fox Sports Southwest's football coverage this season," said a Fox Sports spokesperson, when asked for...
  • Putin should meet very officially with Sarah Palin.

    09/02/2013 10:38:40 PM PDT · by American Dream 246 · 43 replies
    American Dream 246 | 9/2/13 | American Dream 246
    I hope Putin will arrest obama for meeting with gays in Russia - that will violate the russian anti gay propaganda law. But well, it may not be very diplomatic so who is the most conservative - most America loving, most Christian and pro-life politician in America? Sarah Palin. Putin should set up a very official meeting with her - even a press conference with her with international press - in front of the whole world - just to show the world who is the real shadow president. The little thing in the White House is nothing - just playing...
  • Santa Fe clerk ordered to give gay marriage licenses

    08/23/2013 8:48:01 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 16 replies
    KRQE TV News 13 Albuquerque ^ | August 23, 2013 | KRQE/AP
    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico district judge has ordered the Santa Fe County clerk to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, just two days after a another county clerk in the state decided to start issuing gay marriage licenses. The order mandates that Santa Fe County Clerk Geraldine Salazar issue the marriage licenses or appear in court to tell the judge why that shouldn't happen.
  • Putin Bad; Islamists — Hey, No Problem!

    08/17/2013 8:38:42 AM PDT · by cunning_fish · 18 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | August 16, 2013 | Rod Dreher
    ‘What,” Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani was asked, “is [Islam’s] judgment on sodomy and lesbianism?” “Forbidden,” he curtly pronounced. “Those involved in the act should be punished. In fact, sodomites should be killed in the worst manner possible.” So what does Barack Obama have to say about that? Cynically mounting his high horse last week in the cozy confines of Jay Leno’s late-night TV comedy program — a venue popular with his ill-informed admirers, one where hypocrisy won’t be noticed, much less challenged — the president declaimed, “I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender...
  • ABC hires gay activist to write 8-hour miniseries about the history of the ‘gay rights’ movement

    08/16/2013 9:15:39 AM PDT · by Mozilla · 44 replies
    Life Site News ^ | Aug 14, 2013 | Kirsten Andersen
    ABC plans to air an 8-hour miniseries about the history of homosexual activism, penned by a prominent homosexual political activist. Homosexual writer and director Dustin Lance Black will write the miniseries. Its timeline will reportedly begin with the 1969 Stonewall Riots, in which a police raid on a gay bar resulted in several nights of violent demonstrations by homosexuals in New York City. The miniseries is expected to air sometime just before the holiday season. Gay activist Dustin Lance Black will pen the 8-hour miniseries. Black, 39, has been active in the homosexual advocacy movement since the beginning of his...
  • Pelosi: Russia's anti-gay laws ‘outrageous’ (Is this idiot still in charge of something?)

    08/14/2013 3:31:05 PM PDT · by Libloather · 26 replies
    The Hill ^ | 8/14/13 | Jonathan Easley
    Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday blasted Russia’s anti-gay crackdown ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics. In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning propaganda of “non-traditional sexual relations” and said the country will fine those holding gay pride rallies. The laws extend to athletes planning to participate in the Winter Games in Sochi. Nancy Pelosi ✔ @NancyPelosi Russia's decision to criminalize equality is outrageous—worst prejudices shouldn't threaten world's best athletes at #Sochi2014. 9:45 AM - 14 Aug 2013 150 Retweets 37 favorites At a press conference last week, Obama said he was “offended” by the laws, but...
  • Airmen Punished for Objecting to Gay Marriage

    08/14/2013 2:22:16 PM PDT · by ducttape45 · 90 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/14/2013 | Todd Starnes
    A 19-year veteran of the Air Force said he was relieved of his duties after he disagreed with his openly gay commander when she wanted to severely punish an instructor who had expressed religious objections to homosexuality. “I was relieved of my position because I don’t agree with my commander’s position on gay marriage,” Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk told Fox News. “We’ve been told that if you publicly say that homosexuality is wrong, you are in violation of Air Force policy.”
  • Russia's treatment of gays comparable to Nazi Germany?

    08/07/2013 2:37:05 PM PDT · by NKP_Vet · 28 replies
    http://www.gopusas.com ^ | August 7, 2013
    In a broad-ranging interview on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama addressed Russia's recently passed anti-gay laws by saying he has "no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them."
  • Why Russia Turned Against The Gays

    08/02/2013 2:37:51 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Buzz Feed ^ | 08/02/2013 | Miriam Elder
    Three months before Russia’s parliament unanimously passed a federal law banning the propaganda of “non-traditional relationships” — that is, same-sex ones — the bill’s sponsor went on the country’s most respected interview show to explain her reasoning. “Analyzing all the circumstances, and the particularity of territorial Russia and her survival…I came to the conclusion that if today we want to resolve the demographic crisis, we need to, excuse me, tighten the belt on certain moral values and information, so that giving birth and raising children become fully valued,” lawmaker Yelena Mizulina told Vladimir Posner, Russia’s Charlie Rose. Mizulina heads the...