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News (USA)
Reactions mixed over proposal to name Navy vessel after Harvey Milk
The proposal to name a U.S. Navy vessel after Harvey Milk is drawing mixed reactions in San Francisco, where the slain gay rights leader served as a city supervisor.
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News (USA)
Former deputy sues California agency; says he was fired because he is gay
MERCED, Calif — Ricardo Olguin is suing the Merced, Calif., County Sheriff’s Department for sexual harassment, claiming he was fired in 2011 because he is gay.
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News (USA)
Billy Graham urges North Carolina voters to ban marriage equality
Famed televangelist Rev. Billy Graham on Wednesday urged North Carolina voters to support an amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage,
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News (USA)
Transgender woman pleads guilty to lesser charge in murder case
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A transgender woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the killing of a man who witnesses claimed incited the attack using racist and transphobic slurs.
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News (USA)
Bullied gay teen faces expulsion after firing stun gun provided by his mom
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — An Indiana gay teen on Wednesday faced a private school district review board, an effort to expel him after he discharged a stun gun on school property to discourage an attack by school bullies.
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News (USA)
‘One Million’ moms target JC Penney again, this time over lesbians in catalog
The group “One Million Moms” — and its 46,000 members — is once again taking aim at retailer JC Penney, this time for featuring a lesbian couple in its Spring catalog.
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Life
Matt Barber: ‘LGBT agenda and constitutional rights cannot exist in harmony’
Yesterday on Faith and Freedom, Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber railed against—what else?—LGBT equality, warning of a “tyranny of sexually deviant rights” that will overthrow the Constitution. Barber, who previously said that the push for equal rights is part of an attempt “to impose a globalist, communist structure” and put conservatives “behind bars,” asserted that the “LGBT agenda and Constitutional rights cannot exist in harmony.”
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News (USA)
Missouri GOP lawmaker comes out while denouncing ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
JEFFRSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republican state lawmaker, Zachary Wyatt on Wednesday publicly came out to his colleagues during a press conference asking for the withdrawal of Missouri’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill.”
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News (USA)
NC pastor who advocated violence against gay kids: ‘I was misquoted’
North Carolina preacher Sean Harris, the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C., who is heard in an audio clip telling his congregation that, should their children show any signs of “homosexual” behavior, it is their responsibility to use violence as a corrective measure to prevent that child from being gay or lesbian, now say he was misquoted and just joking.
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News (USA)
Lincoln, Neb., lawmakers support Fairness Ordinance for LGBT citizens
LINCOLN, Neb. — City council member Carl Eskridge on Monday introduced the Lincoln, Neb., “Fairness Ordinance,” a measure that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s non-discrimination law.
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News (USA)
Romney foreign policy spokesman resigns amid anti-gay attacks
WASHINGTON — Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman who was hired two weeks ago by Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign to run the candidate’s foreign policy messages, has resigned in the wake of relentless critiques, most of which was personal, by anti-gay right wing conservatives.
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Life
NC pastor: ‘crack limp wrists’ of girlish boys, reign in your ‘butch’ daughters
It’s okay to “beat the gay” out of children, says North Carolina Baptist preacher Sean Harris, who advised his congregation that should their children show any signs of “homosexual” behavior, then it is their responsibility to use violence as a corrective measure to prevent that child from being gay or lesbian.
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News (USA)
D.C. city council gives preliminary approval of anti-bullying bill
The D.C. City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an anti-bullying bill on first reading, with Council members expected to approve the measure in a final vote at their next session later this month.
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Commentary
Gay and Christian? You’re not alone.
When I left home in the fall of 2008 and started school at Harvard, I was amazed at how much openness and support there was for LGBT students on campus, mainly because it was worlds apart from the conservative Christian church in Kansas that I’d come from. Back home, gay issues were never discussed, every family and every wedding was heterosexual, and the few people who eventually came out waited until they had moved far away. The message was largely unspoken, yet crystal clear: If you don’t fit into a heterosexual identity, you aren’t welcome…
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Life
Bryan Fischer: It’s ‘perfectly appropriate to discriminate’ against homosexuality
On his radio program yesterday, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer quoted Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to argue in favor of discrimination against gays.
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News (USA)
No vote on Tennessee’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill; measure dead this session
NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, will not be put to a final vote needed for passage in the Tennessee state House, according to the bill’s sponsor.
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News (USA)
Montana candidate for U.S. Congress airs marriage equality campaign ad
MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Congressional Candidate Dave Strohmaier, who is running as a progressive Democrat Montana’s single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, has released his first political commercial, a groundbreaking campaign ad that endorses marriage equality.
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News (USA)
Friends say murder of transgender woman in Oakland was a hate crime
OAKLAND, Calif. — A transgender woman was shot to death in downtown Oakland, Calif., over the weekend, and friend believe her killing was a hate crime.
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Life
London mayor Boris Johnson plans to unveil LGBT manifesto
LONDON — Boris Johnson, the incumbent Mayor of London, this week reaffirmed his support of marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, and said he will release an LGBT manifesto ahead of London’s elections later this week, reported Pink News UK.
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Commentary
Dan Savage and the truth about homosexuality and the Bible
People get bullied because of who they are: how they look and act, what they say and do. … The people who walked out during Dan’s talk were not separated from their peers by anyone. They were content to do that themselves. They were not frightened or cowed. They were offended. … And they were pleased to show their intolerance of Dan’s words by protesting against them in the manner they did. Theirs was not an act born of suffering.