Focus on the Family founder James Dobson will end his radio career at the end of February, the group announced Friday. Last February, Dobson stepped down as chairman of the anti-gay group he founded in 1977 but remained the group’s primary radio voice. Unfortunately, there appears to be no shortage of divisive figures who [...] Full story...
The British Commonwealth’s Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has called on the Commonwealth’s Heads of Government to condemn, during their meeting this weekend, the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill and to take urgent action to repeal existing homophobic laws across the Commonwealth.
The United Reformed Church of the United Kingdom said Wednesday that it is “appalled” at the “draconian measures” in Uganda’s proposed antigay death penalty.
As Uganda continues to move toward passage of a death penalty against that nation’s LGBT and HIV-positive citizens, Canadian minister of state for foreign affairs Peter Kent said earlier this week that “Our position is that the proposed Uganda law is reprehensible, vile and hateful and it’s appalling that such legislation would be brought to [.
Reported by AP via Edge yesterday:
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has acknowledged in court papers that it documented 32 accusations of sexual abuse of children by priests associated with a parish here over 40 years.
Via Andrew Sullivan… Patsy McGarry, writing in The Irish Times about the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church, finds something absolutely fascinating in the Dublin Archdiocese report…
One of the most fascinating discoveries in the Dublin Archdiocese report was that of the concept of “mental reservation” which allows clerics mislead people without believing they [.
Next time a Roman Catholic cleric tries to degrade loving same-sex relationships, stop him mid-sentence and say:
“The Roman Catholic Church has no moral authority to oppose loving gay relationships.
Today’s New York Times tells the gruesome story of Ahmet Yildiz, a gay student in Istanbul, gunned down by his own father, who had gone mad after he discovered Ahmet was gay.
Our friend Mike Tidmus reports on his blog about an ad campaign by the American Humanist Association.
Terry Gross and Fresh Air broke this story yesterday, with an interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of “The Family.
(Weekly Column)
Earlier this week, extremists within the Republican Party proposed a 10-point checklist of principles that GOP candidates would have to sign if they expect to receive Party support.
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