Love Embraces All

Pams House blend  Nov 03 09

Focus on the Family is coming to Birmingham this weekend for what may very well be its last "Love Won Out" conference ever.  Seems claiming gay and lesbian people can be "cured" isn't as lucrative as it once was, and their funding is drying up, so they figure they'll come to the south for one last hurrah.

We didn't sit quietly by the last time they were here, and we won't this time either.  If you oppose the bigotry that tells LGBT people they must deny who they are, join us for these counter-events (press release here - PDF format):

Wayne Besen, author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003), former spokesperson for HRC and founder of Truth Wins Out, will be speaking at Alumni Auditorium at Hill University Center 1400 University Blvd. Full story...

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