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Students at Southern Oregon University (SOU) say they will cancel their blood drive this term because eligibility to donate discriminates against gay men. Students say that goes against the university's anti-discrimination policy and continues to label AIDS and HIV as a gay men's disease. David Adkins-Brown, SOU multicultural senator, said that is a misnomer that needs to be eradicated. "From my understanding, it's a rule they made up in the 1980s and people are not up to date," he said. Guidelines say males who have had homosexual encounters even once since 1977 are ineligible.

<p>Let me translate into "bigotspeak" what Sen. Rick Santorum meant when he compared gays to bigamists, polygamists and practitioners of incest and adultery.</p> <p>Translated: Hey, I place you in the same category as all those scummy people I just mentioned. Oh, and if you act on who you are, you're also a criminal.</p>

The homosexual is equal in God's eyes to the heterosexual. Parents must love their children, including the child who is homosexual. At the same time, a homosexual child must understand a loving parent's sadness over his or her inability to sexually love a person of the opposite sex.

Senator Rick Santorum, (R-PA) the third ranking Republican in the US Senate, is being criticized by gay groups for comments make during an AP interview. The comments that have the radical guys in fervor are his comments on homosexuality. Santorum stated: “' I have no problem with homosexuality - I have a problem with homosexual acts.''” The radical gays should be used to that comments. It has been the teaching of the Catholic Church for a very long time. Now all of a sudden when a Republican United States Senator utters the same remark there is a major problem with...

<p>Ithaca College plans to host a series of seven lectures and a film in April in celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness Month. All events are free and open to the public.</p> <p>A lecture titled "Queer Reading/Reading Queer: Introducing Queer Studies in the First-Year Composition classroom" is planned for noon Tuesday in 101 Textor Hall. Mary Beth O'Connor, assistant professor of writing, will give the lecture.</p>

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Thousands of people knowingly infect themselves with the HIV virus each year, according to Rolling Stone magazine -- a practice commonly known as "bug chasing" and cited by those who participate in it as the ultimate form of erotic fulfillment. Bug chasing is most commonly associated with homosexual men, Rolling Stone reports, and is propagated through a vast Internet network of websites and chat rooms where bug chasers can arrange sexual encounters with carriers of AIDS. This practice serves as a horrific expression of human sinfulness, Southern Baptist bioethicist Ben Mitchell says. However, believers ought not to be...

(AgapePress) - A Texas school district will permit a self-proclaimed lesbian student to start a so-called, "gay-straight club" at her Houston high school. The Klein Independent School District has settled a federal lawsuit in a deal that will allow the club to be established, and upholds a new district policy that requires written parental permission for students to participate. This action comes after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the district earlier this year on behalf of 17-year-old Marla Dukler. The ACLU argued Klein Independent School District's policy for extra-curricular clubs violated the First Amendment and...

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...

New HIV infections leaped by an unprecedented 44 percent in Palm Beach County, 30 percent in Broward County and 18 percent in Miami-Dade County last year, as South Florida's struggle with AIDS intensified. ... Health officials on Wednesday attributed the jump to a growing cavalier attitude toward unprotected sex. Some said they were perplexed about why the safe-sex message was not getting out. ... The virus is rising fastest among young gay men who may wrongly think new medications have brought AIDS under control and among black young adults who are spreading it through unprotected heterosexual sex, officials said. Since...

Homosexuals Angry at ConocoPhillipsA major oil company has removed "sexual orientation" from its nondiscrimination policy. Homosexual activists are up in arms because another major oil company, ConocoPhillips, has pulled back from a policy that homosexuals covet. Conoco included the words "sexual orientation" until it merged with Phillips Petroleum last year. The new company erased the language, according to Kelly Shackelford, head of the Plano, Texas-based Freedom Foundation. Conoco-Phillips is based in Houston."Just as a lot of conservatives and pro-family people complain when people go the wrong direction, ConocoPhillips needs to be congratulated and, in fact, more business done with...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An airline passenger who was told he couldn't take his ferret on an airplane is accused of beating the animal to death in an airport restroom. Police said the man had the ferret in a cooler on an American Airlines flight from New York. Flight attendants realized he had the animal and told him he could not take it on his next flight. He's accused of trying to flush the ferret down a toilet during a layover in St. Louis, then beating it to death. An airline...

BY TOM SHAW WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER This Valentine's Day at least six same-sex couples will walk into the Douglas County Clerk's Office seeking marriage licenses. The couples don't expect to get them. Their action will be part of a nationwide effort to push for legalizing same-sex unions. Only Vermont recognizes such unions. The action is being led by the Metropolitan Community Church, which the group says has more than 46,000 members in 22 countries. Same-sex couples will ask for marriage licenses in several states on Valentine's Day. The Douglas County couples will be led by the Rev. Barbara Sagat, pastor...

With infections that outsmart powerful antibiotics on the rise, doctors and public health officials have long worried that they might face an outbreak of resistant bacteria that threaten large numbers of people. Now they've found it -- in Los Angeles County. The large, painful skin infections started turning up early last fall among local gay men, then appeared with increasing frequency over the ensuing weeks and months. Although doctors found the symptoms alarming, it took a while to confirm a connection between these cases. Now they know they're facing an emerging epidemic of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or, more simply, staph....

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE JAN 21, 2003 17:59:25 ET XXXXX MAG: 25% OF NEW HIV-INFECTED GAY MEN SOUGHT OUT VIRUS, SAYS SAN FRAN HEALTH OFFICIAL New ROLLING STONE Managing Editor Ed Needham is set to hit complete controversy with a 4-page report: "Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+." Filed by Greg Freeman, the shock story claims some men with HIV are deliberately having unprotected sex with those who want to be infected! MORE "The men who want the virus are called 'bug chasers,' and the men who freely give them the virus are called 'gift...

Jan. 16, 2003, 6:45PM Supreme Court urged to kill Texas' sodomy law Associated Perss A gay rights group today filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the high court to overturn Texas' sodomy law in the case of two men charged with having sex inside a home in 1998. Lambda Legal, which represents the two men, and several other organizations have asked the Supreme Court to declare the state's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. "Some of the most diverse and respected voices in this country are lining up to tell the Supreme Court that these laws are contrary to American...

Efforts by campus cops to crack down on non-students who use public restrooms for random gay-sex encounters is being called homophobic by some folks in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) community, reports the Chronicle of High Education (subscription-only site). After a number of complaints, officials at Boston University cracked down and began arresting violators on charges of indecent exposure or lewd and lascivious behavior. Other campuses have seen similar crackdowns. But some gay students say persecuting participants in this so-called “tearoom” culture is discriminatory. "Heterosexual couples exploring sex on lovers' lane is romanticized, but same-sex sex is...

A part of the AIDS virus that was considered vulnerable to attack can camouflage itself by changing shapes, says a study that helps show why HIV is so hard to target and kill. HIV cripples the immune system by infecting and killing T-cells. It uses a protein structure on its surface called gp120 to gain entry to the cells. In 1998, scientists announced that they had figured out much about the structure of gp120 and hoped that finding a vulnerability in it could lead to vaccines against HIV. But finding gp120's weakness has remained elusive, in part because the protein...

Syphilis Among Gay, Bisexual Men on the Rise in NYC NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New York City health officials are concerned that, after declining steadily for 10 years, rates of syphilis in the city are rising, particularly among men who have sex with men. According to an article in the September 27th issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the number of cases of early-stage syphilis more than doubled in New York City, from 117 in 2000 to 282 in 2001. They are especially alarmed that a "high proportion" (48%) of syphilis cases were reported among HIV positive...