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The Gift Takes A Hard Look at Contemporary Gay Culture, Where HIV is Sexy and Prevention is Passé On-screen, four men sit in a semicircle as part of their support group. They've allowed filmmaker Louise Hogarth and her camera crew in to observe them for her documentary The Gift. All the men are over 40, gay, and HIV+. They're not together merely to talk about living with HIV, but about living with cardiac conditions secondary to HIV medications. And when they talk about the image of HIV+ men in their San Francisco community, they wonder why it doesn't look like...

P>A report in the Melbourne Herald Sun says the man, onboard a flight from Melbourne to Launceston, Australia, was armed with two wooden stakes, an aerosol can and a yellow cigarette lighter. The would-be hijacker reportedly raced down the aisle of the plane "with his hands raised in the air" armed with the stakes, according to one witness. "There were people screaming and crying, and there was a real commotion going on," Derek Finlay, a Canadian paramedic who helped tackle the attacker, told the Australian paper. "There were large amounts of blood coming out of [chief flight attendant] Greg's head....

CNSNews.com) - Parental rights advocates in California are claiming victory for stalling an Assembly bill that would allow schools to survey students on topics like sex and religion without written parental permission. Although the legislation would simply require parents to "opt out" rather than "opt in" where the questionnaires are concerned, a pro-family group is warning that the bill opens the door for homosexual activists to leave their mark on students from kindergarten to high school. The bill's sponsor, the California Safe Schools Coalition, argues that it's needed to get a better sampling of students on a wide range of...

<p>Two decades ago, Ferndale was, well, just another suburb of Detroit.</p> <p>This week, lampposts in the city's downtown display rainbow pennants, crowning Ferndale's unlikely transformation to what many are calling the gay-friendliest city in Michigan.</p> <p>On June 1, the city will host Michigan's largest gay-pride gathering, marking the nationwide start of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Organizers hope Motor City Pride, in its third year in Ferndale, grows to 20,000 patrons from last year's 15,000.</p>

When former Sen. Robert Smith of New Hampshire lost his re-election bid last year, he turned to a Republican colleague, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, and urged the tough old ex-Marine to find a way to prosecute those who failed to rescue Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the Navy aviator who was shot down over Iraq during Gulf War I on Jan. 17, 1991. Roberts vowed he would. Roberts, now chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has quite a job ahead of him. He will need to filter through thousands of pages of intelligence documents that leave a...

The California Supreme Court is considering a request by a lesbian woman that could nullify thousands of adoptions by homosexual couples in the state. A pro-family group contends the parental-rights case exposes illegal policies of liberal judges, Gov. Gray Davis and his Department of Social Services. Gov. Gray Davis "Gray Davis made up his own law and pushed through gay adoptions behind the voters' backs," insisted Randy Thomasson, executive director of Campaign for California Families, a nonprofit family issues group. The case centers on "second-parent adoption," in which a birth mother's unmarried partner adopts the mother's child, usually conceived by...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Democrat-controlled California Assembly passed a bill today mandating fines of up to $150,000 against business owners – including Bible bookstores and nonprofit organizations such as the Boy Scouts – for refusing to hire cross-dressing and transsexual job applicants. After more than 45 minutes of debate, with a majority of speakers opposing the bill, AB 196 passed the Assembly by the narrowest of margins. The vote was 41 to 34, the bare minimum needed to advance the bill to the state Senate. All the "yes" votes on AB 196 were from Democrats. Voting "no" were 31 Republicans...

Without the fanfare of the ecstasy inebriated dropping dead before me or incandescent disco balls oscillating their goodbyes, I left my home of five years last week in the Chicago borough of Lakeview. It was my first home and I bought it at the not so tender age of 28. I doubled my investment and quintupled my knowledge of "Gay America" at the same time while I lived there. The demographic makeup of my former area, which is officially known of as "East Lakeview," is one of the gayest on the continent. Sometimes the neighborhood is called "Wrigleyville" due to...

Fistgate IV will be held again on March 15 to teach teenagers how to play with the sexual organs of other students.The first Fistgate was in 2000 and caused waves of protests from parents and others. It was exposed by the Parents Rights Coalition which taped part of the scandal so that people would finally understand what was happening, and by MassNews which reported it.The homosexual community has said that its agenda was badly damaged by the scandal. It was almost unable to find a location for the event in 2001, but Tufts University finally did let them use its...

An Organization with a "Passion" for Children On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, the daily routine of public schools and colleges across America will once again come to a halt as a minority of administrators and students demand America's approval and acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle. What should be more appropriately called the "Day of Disruption," the 8th annual "Day of Silence" will be sponsored by GLSEN, the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network. GLSEN is a "gay" activist organization which aggressively lobbies, intimidates and in some cases legally threatens America's public schools into teaching the acceptance and tolerance of the...

It's been four years now, and the District of Columbia caseworkers – no strangers to horrific stories of child abuse and neglect – still can't get over the incident. Two brothers – ages five and three – lay down for a nap in their mother's house. When she went in to awaken them, she found the boys engaged in oral sex. Further investigation revealed they'd learned this from a neighborhood man who often visited their home and cared for them when their mother was away. No prison sentence could be too long for this man. The damage he inflicted on...

The U.S. Supreme Court could soon grant homosexual activists their own "Roe v. Wade" decision, a constitutional guarantee that would undermine scores of laws that protect the traditional family, according to some opponents. At issue is a challenge to a Texas law barring "homosexual conduct," or sodomy, but some legal minds involved in the case believe the stakes are much higher. Tyron Garner and John Lawrence were arrested for violating Texas sodomy law. Attorneys for two men convicted of sodomy want the high court to expand the "right of privacy" used as the foundation of the controversial 1973 abortion decision,...

Most Christians who critique the Mormon view of God do so from a strictly biblical perspective. Christian apologists have correctly pointed out that Mormon theology conflicts with biblical doctrine in a number of important areas, including the nature of God, the plan of salvation, and the nature of man.1  Although the biblical approach should be the Christian's primary focus, Dr. Stephen E. Parrish and I have suggested another approach in several articles and books.2 This approach focuses on the philosophical rather than the biblical problems with the Mormon concept of God. In this article I will (1) compare and...

A Response to Mormon Views of the New Testament Canon Summary The Mormon church offers four reasons for rejecting the historic Christian position that the 27 New Testament books are the final installment of divine revelation. It claims that some of Jesus’ teachings were never recorded because of their sacred nature and have been lost; that soon after the time of the apostles, apostates removed some books or parts of books from the original New Testament writings; that other inspired books were rejected in the canonization process; and finally, that God continues to give new revelation through latter-day prophets. However,...

A Christian missionary organization claims to have obtained a top-secret Chinese government document directing a systematic campaign of persecution against Protestant and unregistered churches. The Voice of the Martyrs, a group founded by the late Richard Wurmbrand, says the directive – the first ever seen by the public – proves Beijing ordered a crackdown on churches in Hebei Province last fall. The document is a work plan order from the Public Security Bureau of Baoding to PSB sub-bureaus in all counties, cities and districts of Hebei Province, according to VOM. It instructs the bureaus to terminate "illegal Protestant activities." The...

Introduction: There are some who quote James 1:5 in a way that pulls it out of its intended context and changes the original intent. That is, if you lack wisdom, ask God. While it's perfectly fine to ask God for wisdom according to the context and orginal intent of the author, James 1:5 is not the verse to claim for general wisdom as it is specific to wisdom in trials. I believe the Bible teaches that when we ask for wisdom, we ask with a selfless heart and that in granting the wisdom God may be glorified. There are limits...

<p>ERNDALE, Mich. - One of Detroit's biggest developers has been advertising vacant lofts in local gay publications, taking a lesson from the economic rejuvenation of this nearby suburb and trying to lure gay residents to move into the city.</p> <p>''It's very true that Ferndale hit its stride because of the positive influence of gays,'' said David Farbman, president and chief executive of the Farbman Group, a real estate corporation that advertised the lofts. ''In order for Detroit to expedite what it can become, it has to have a strong gay community.''</p>

A public school board in Ontario, Canada, has drafted a policy proposal which bans the belief that male-female sexual relations are superior to homosexuality.The policy developed by the Bluewater District School Board would ban so-called "heterosexism," which the board defines as "the assumption that everyone is heterosexual." Among other things, the policy would forbid a school from insisting that prom dates are heterosexual.Brian Rushfeldt is executive director of the Canada Family Action Coalition. He says there is currently a strong push by homosexual activists in Canada, and the momentum is absolutely phenomenal."They now have most of the governments agreeing with...

Some day, as corporations that honor marriage and family are hounded out of business or prosecuted, it will be accurate to say: "This was brought to you by the executives of Anheuser-Busch, Kodak, ChevronTexaco, Wells Fargo, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and other corporations that promoted perversity for short-term gain." - Robert Knight, Culture and Family Institute 1/14/2003 The Culture and Family Institute reports five corporations are being honored this month in the pro-homosexual "OUT" magazine for their aggressive sponsorship of homosexuality, including funding homosexual political groups and transgender activism, promoting homosexuality in the schools and even underwriting "gay" rodeos....

There is no shame in believing a lie until you learn the truth.The success of so-called "gay rights" is an amazing triumph of clever deception over simple logic. When it comes to this issue, otherwise intelligent people routinely fall for arguments that just don't hold up under scrutiny. "Gay" sympathizers aren't necessarily more gullible than other people, they are simply tricked into accepting certain conclusions without first examining the underlying premises. He who defines the terms controls the debate -- and by extension, public opinion. On this issue the terms have been defined (in many cases invented) by the talented...