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The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project expressed "extreme concern" on Friday over claims that evidence was being fabricated to discredit a witness before the Jali Commission of Inquiry into prison maladministration. Commission evidence leader Graham Barlow on Thursday named former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock and Pretoria local prison head Nico Baloyi in this alleged plot. "If true, it is contemptible that the forces of apartheid are attempting to influence a democratic process established to protect the rights of the poorest of the poor," the equality project said in a statement. It urged President Thabo Mbeki, Correctional Services Minister Ben...

On ABC's This Week with George Stephonopoulous, the top US Bishop, Gregory Wilton, was totally unwilling to condemn homosexual priests. George S. gave him multiple opportunities to say what is obvious: that Church laxity as to homosexual priests and seminaries and priest-cliques of gay priests and bishops, have all conspired to result in [A] the child abuse and teenaged boy sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in the past 30-35 years; and [B] the Church hierarchy's impotent response to the surfacing of this abuse--namely shuffling priests from place to place where they retain the Church's bona fides in order to pounce...

I have never been keen on singling out a particular group to be ostracized because of something over which they have no control. Racism fits this description. You’re white or you’re black, yellow or brown. You’re Hispanic or you’re Latino, Chicano, whatever. And, of course, there’s the old reliable bias against Jews. Catholics catch a bit of this and just about any church-going Protestant. It is equally idiotic to lump all women or men into a single category. So I approach the issue of sexual preference with some trepidation because, throughout history, homosexuals have always been regarded as an aberration...

To the uninformed, homosexuality is as common as heterosexual behavior. At least, you might think that if you based your decision on the promotion of homosexuality in the American mainstream. In reality, though, based on the most recent statistics, only about 2.8. percent of men and 1.4 percent of women in the U.S. identify themselves as homosexual – facts acknowledged by pro-homosexual groups in the recent U.S. Supreme Court case which struck down a Texas law banning sodomy. Why, then, do so many people in the media, in politics, and in government – pardon the expression – bend over for...

Commit a hate crime in Canada! Go to http://www.cafeshops.com/canadaright and buy some materials. LAW OF THE LAND Bible verses regarded as hate literature Court rules Scripture exposed homosexuals to ridicule -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 18, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Certain passages of the Bible can be construed as hate literature if placed in a particular context, according to a Canadian provincial court. The Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatchewan upheld a 2001 ruling by the province's human rights tribunal that fined a man for submitting a newspaper ad that included citations of four Bible verses...

DiversityInc's "Top Companies for GLBT (gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender) Employees" list This list was compiled by answering these questions: Does the company offer same-sex domestic-partner benefits? Does the company have a non-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation? Does the company actively recruit GLBT employees? Does the company advertise in gay media? DiversityInc. also looked at the Corporate Equality Index compiled by the Washington, government and corporate organizations.DiversityInc's Top Companies for GLBT Employees 1. JPMorgan Chase 2. Ford (tie) 2. Merck (tie) 2. Verizon (tie) 3. Northeast Utilities Service Co. 4. KPMG 5. Aetna 6. Fannie Mae (tie) 6. PricewaterhouseCoopers (tie) 7. Wells Fargo...

It’s looking mighty weird at the front lines of America’s sexual revolution, and the picture’s that much murkier given the so-called “news” media’s utterly distorted spin on it. Exhibit A: Abortion. Would you be surprised if I told you abortion is growing increasingly unpopular, and the country is moving – no, running -- from a woman’s right to choose death for her unborn child? Soon the House and Senate will agree to a partial-birth abortion ban package and send it to the White House for President Bush’s signature. Undoubtedly there are GOP strategists chewing their nails with angst over...

(Editor's Note: The following article contains descriptions of actual and simulated homosexual activity during the "Gay Days" events, that some readers may find offensive.) Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - The decision by one of President Bush's conservative judicial nominees not to take his children to the Walt Disney World Resort during an unofficial homosexual gathering held there annually is under fire by one liberal Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) challenged Alabama Attorney General William H. "Bill" Pryor about his decision during Pryor's June 11 confirmation hearing before the committee. "News accounts also report that you even...

Woman convicted in beating death Posted on Sat, May. 10, 2003 By Judy Lin The Associated Press HOLLIDAYSBURG - A woman convicted in the baseball-bat beating death of another woman was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, despite a prosecutor's arguments that she deserved death because the killing amounted to torture. The Blair County jury deliberated less than an hour before returning with the sentence for Marie Louis Seilhamer, 21. Seilhamer's attorneys got the leniency they argued for, saying the defendant had no criminal record, was only 19 when the killing occurred and, most importantly, was under the influence...

Rochester, NY - A Greece man, who was fired a few days ago from Eastman Kodak, said giving his opinion in an e-mail lead to his termination. Kodak's diversity group sent out an e-mail asking employees to "be supportive" of colleagues who choose to come out on Gay and Lesbian Coming-Out Day. Rolf Szabo replied to the memo telling the company not to send him this type of information and that he found it "disgusting and offensive." "I said it and I meant it. I'm not going to take it back," Szabo said. Although Szabo does not condone the gay...