"I will be leaving the choir at the top of the year because 80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than I do." -- female choir member of the DC-based Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church in an e-mail to Bishop Alfred Owens Jr. She then proceeded to out more than 100 church members by sending the names to a Yahoo church group.
If you need any further evidence of the pathology of homophobia in the black church, here is something that will make your blood boil.
Continue reading "Ugliness in DC black Baptist church - outing email campaign by homophobic choir member". Full story...
Granted, this is pure conjecture on my part, but I'm not a big believer in coincidences. If any Atlanta readers have the inside scoop, let me know.
On this Thanksgiving Day's Eve, it's delightful to note that at least one openly lesbian couple and one openly gay couple attended President Obama's state dinner for the prime minister of India last night.
I posted the other day that Adam Lambert's performance was actually kind of boring, nothing new, not really shocking.
Awhile back, I wrote a piece at my home blog, OpenLeft.com, looking at the map of results in Maine, and noted the results in small towns where we lost badly.
If you are coming to New York City during the holidays and you want to see a show - book some tickets to The 39 Steps.
There are just so many divergent communities and interests waving the "LGBT" banner, ones that I personally have no reason to defend, interests that simply don't line up at all with my own, and people whose priorities are just far too different from my own for us to work together in one movement.
If you must know more, visit go-girl.com. via Yahoo news
An Open Letter to Chairman George Miller of the House Committee on Education and Labor, where the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is stalled while awaiting markup.
"Those people talk like TV channels I don't watch."
This was by far my favorite line in the movie Precious produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.
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