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• Anti-gay Republican congressmen oppose Uganda’s Kill Gays bill

  
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  Five Republican congressmen have sent a letter to President Museveni of Uganda asking him to oppose the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill: Chris Smith, Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, Trent Franks and Anh “Joseph” Cao. That’s good. They also felt compelled to inform Museveni that they endorse the Manhattan ...
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• My lunch date with Caleb Lee Brundidge

  
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  The last few weeks, media outlets have lit up over Uganda’s proposed “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” of 2009 . In case you have been living under a rock for the last month, here’s the Cliff’s Notes version: Ugandan legislators will soon vote on whether the government will execute HIV-positive men, imprison people ...
  3 days ago

• Your humble Grinch

  
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  I have been nominated for an award. I am among a small selection of gay individuals for whom a unique recognition is being considered. By Peter LaBarbera . LaBarbera, an anti-gay activist who runs the ironically named Americans for Truth About Homosexuality organization, has created the Gay Grinch of the Year ...
  3 days ago

• Two Anti-Gay BFF’s Mend Their Near-Falling Out

  
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  Matt Barber is patching things up with Peter LaBarbara over a statement by Barber posted on LaBarbera’s web site. It was a bit touchy there for a while, with Barber’s employer, the Liberty Counsel, getting involved with the dust-up. But now things are all smiles. It all began when Peter “Porno Pete” LaBarbera ...
  3 days ago

• Lou Engle’s TheCall Going To Uganda in 2010?

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 698
  Lou Engle at TheCall in Nashville, 2007 Bruce Wilson at Talk To Action has uncovered some very troubling information . Lou Engle, organizer of TheCall who believes that gays are possessed by demons , may be planning on taking his violence-laden rhetoric to Uganda in 2010. Wilson uncovered a couple of ...
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• Bill James’ lastest unusual statement

  
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  Bill James is the Mecklenburg County Commissioner who slurred the dead gay son of a fellow commissioner. In a follow up communication, James declared that North Caroline flaunts the US Supreme Court and refers to gay men “infesting” areas. From Q-Notes . James wrote: “Homosexual conduct is illegal in NC ...
  6 days ago

• State Department concerned about Uganda’s Kill Gays bill

  
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  Reuters : The United States is urging Uganda to stop a bill that would criminalize homosexuality, saying its passage could encourage other African countries to make similar moves, a top U.S. diplomat said on Friday. “We believe that this legislation is a violation of human rights,” Assistant Secretary of State ...
  6 days ago

• Scott Lively Denies Responsibility for Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill

  
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  NPR’s East Africa Correspondent Gwen Tompkins reports on NPR today : Scott Lively’s philosophies have been deeply internalized here among those who are proponents of the law, and for people who are listening to these public dialogues on homosexuality, they’re hearing Scott Lively’s words reiterated by ...
  6 days ago

• Ugandan Pastor Responds To Rick Warren’s Statement; Revives “Forced Therapy” Option

  
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  Martin Ssempa Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who had met several times with Saddleback pastor Rick Warren, is positively livid over Warren’s statement calling on Ugandan pastors to oppose the Anti-Homosexuality Bill . In a letter addressed to Warren (PDF: 88KB/4 pages) and obtained by Christianity Today , ...
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• K’zoo Churches: we can’t be seen with tolerant Christians

  
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  Some things are so spiteful and full of malice that I – as cynical as I can be – still am shocked. I shouldn’t be surprised that nastiness can raise its head, but it does shame me how often downright meanness comes trotting along waving the “Christian” label. Take as example a situation that is happening ...
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• NC county commissioner slurs dead son of fellow commissioner

  
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  Bill James is a member of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, serving as representative for the suburbs of Charlotte, NC. He considers himself a conservative Republican, attends an evangelical church, and sends his kids to a private Christian school. Bill James is also an insensitive jerk on a colossal ...
  1 week ago

• Houstonian Corner (V11-I52)

  
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  Parker & Green Win in Low Turn-Out Elections Only 17% of the registered voters, i.e. 155,312 voted, in a population of over 2 million, in the City of Houston Mayoral Run-Off Elections, to elect the termed-out City Controller Annise D. Parker, as the 61st Mayor of the Third Largest Metropolis of USA. Her ...
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• BBC: “Should Homosexuals Face Execution?”

  
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  Screen capture of the BBC web site, via Pink News (click to enlarge) It’s hard to imagine any reputable news outlet posing such a question, but that’s what the BBC asked in an online “Have Your Say” forum late yesterday. And to make matters worse, BBC’s editors have defended the decision . But in ...
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• “The Family” Opposes Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill

  
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  Jeff Sharlet, of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , wrote a guest post on Warren Throckmorton’s web site which updates his November appearance on NPR’s Fresh Air where he revealed ties between the secretive Evangelical movement known as “The Family” and Uganda’s ...
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• Hunting for ex-gays in Washington, D.C.

  
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  The recent votes by the city counsel of Washington, DC, to first recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages and now to offer marriage equality brought out plenty of anti-gay activists. And many loudly proclaimed the healing power of Christ to overcome the homosexual lifestyle. But among the many there in the chambers ...
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• David Bahati Is A Boy Scout — And Other Examples of Ugandans Talking About Gay People

  
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  A BTB reader from Uganda sent some fascinating clips from the independent Daily Monitor , saying “people are actually talking and thinking, so… that’s another positive development.” I hope he’s right. The items he sent give us some indication of the kind of talking and thinking that is taking place as a ...
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• Sen. DeMint Fears A Gay President

  
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  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), tea-bagger and right-wing GOP insurgent, has ripped Ronald Reagan’s “big tent” to shreds. He’s an ideological purist who will only tolerate fellow ideological purists, and thinks the Republican Party should purge those who aren’t as pure as he. He’s a huge supporter of states’ ...
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• If they really cared about Ocean Grove…

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 698
  Anti-gay activists may be on the verge of losing another argument… by winning it. Anti-marriage activism has no legitimate intellectual principle from which to argue. Appeals to tradition, religion, and “the children, the children” may sound compelling in an emotional TV ad, but they are simply cover for the ...
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• Santa Spotted Smooching a Man at Gay Paris Kiss-In

  
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  Several dozen Parisian activists held a kiss-in against homophobia for five minutes on rue Caumartin near the Printemps shopping center during the busy holiday shopping rush on Saturday afternoon. Santa Spotted Smooching a Man at Gay Paris Kiss-InTechnorati Tags: activists, gay, Homophobia, Santa
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• American Evangelical Connections: The Disciple Nations Alliance and Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill

  
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  Grove City College professor Warren Throckmorton and Gay City News have separately named the Disciple Nations Alliance as a possible connection to Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill through Stephen Langa, whose Family Life Network organized the March 5-7 anti-gay conference that kick started the latest anti-gay pogrom ...
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