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Uh, sorry folks, but words mean things and science trumps feelings. Let's break this down. There are three sexual orientations: Straight, Gay, and Bi. If you have no attraction to members of the same sex, you're straight. If you have no attraction to members of the opposite sex, you're gay. If you have some attraction, some of the time, to members of both sexes, you're bi. If you have any degree of attraction to someone of the same sex as you, then you're Bi. You might be 1% Bi, you might choose to never act on your attraction (just as...

Quite literally front and center, marching down the main streets of Toronto, gay men and women will once again be flaunting their flesh and simulating their favorite behaviors, despite a city ordinance prohibiting public nudity. Wearisome are the displays of what passes for happiness in a dead world.
 A few people are upset about it. They are afraid that the august laws of Canada will be flouted, and that’s not a good thing for children to witness.  Sheepish people still jittery about the etiquette of legality, when you have shrugged away the laws of God, the common good, the welfare...

Rome was the scene of another gay pride paradeon Saturday. It was over-reported, as usual, the sympathies of journalists and editors having overmastered their professional objectivity. As usual, hatred and ridicule of the Church was a chief theme of the festivities, which the media treated with amused indulgence. By what may seem historical accident, as other defenders of Judeo-Christian morality fade into the inert secular background, the Catholic Church assumes a more prominent combatant role in the culture wars. There is no new belligerence on the Church's part; simply by standing pat and holding on to those moral truths she...

In response, millions of oppressed human beings can inflict extraordinary damage. As (homosexual) Americans finally grow tired of experiencing human rights violations, seeing family, friends, children, and themselves persecuted, they can simply start executing their oppressors - obliterating 8-10 million every 5 minutes until the oppressors are ended forever - over 100 million in a single hour. And no force on Earth can halt this retribution once unleashed. ...The profound grievances of tens of millions of Americans have never been redressed. In the past, this type of retailiation for human rights violations - to avenge centuries of persecution, suffering and...

Broward County schools' progressive policy on transgendered children will be tested by the admission to kindergarten this fall of a boy who believes that he's a girl. BY ROBERTO SANTIAGO rsantiago@MiamiHerald.com One little girl entering Broward County kindergarten this fall is actually a boy. Few will know this genetic truth, because the 5-year-old's parents and school administrators have agreed that it's in his best interest to blend in as a female. Mental health professionals have diagnosed Pat -- not his real name -- with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes that he or she is the opposite...

Nation of Islam leader the Rev. Louis Farrakhan is encouraging women and gay men to participate in the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March. “The makeup will be our people, whoever we are – male, female, gay, straight, White, dark rich, poor, ignorant, wise,” said Farrakhan Saturday during the sixth annual State of the Black Union symposium in Georgia. :: AD :: Keith Boykin of the National Black Justice Coalition – an organization of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people – was pleased by Farrakhan’s open invitation. “I remember in October 1995, there were about 200 of us...

Gay Consumers Strongly Favor Companies Known for Being 'Out' About Diversity Initiatives New Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive Survey Also Shows GLBT Consumers are More Comfortable When Approached by Openly GLBT Sales People ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct 11, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) consumers, more often than their non-gay counterparts, say that they choose to do business with companies they know exhibit a commitment toward diversity. GLBT consumers also said they respond positively to companies when they are served by representatives or salespersons who are openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. On the eve of National Coming...

It's a brave new world at your local Big Brothers Big Sisters office. As of this month, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) will require that all 500 of its local affiliates include active homosexuals as volunteers and mentors to children. Many parents who support Big Brothers Big Sisters may be surprised to learn that their child could soon be paired with a gay or lesbian mentor. In fact, parents whose children are enrolled in the organization's school-based programs will not even be told when their son or daughter is matched with a gay man or a lesbian woman....