Religious Left

Star Parker is an extremely anti-gay black 'christian' women who recently wrote an article about the immorality of homosexuality. She seems to feel being a black christian gives her license to attack others based on her personal beliefs. Of course she would probably be the first to protest if others attacked blacks based on personal beliefs. She also recently lost an election for a congressional seat. I guess the people in her district are well aware of her biased and bigoted beliefs. But such failures are devastating for people like Star Parker because they really do believe they are on the right side. Perhaps they are a little confused because the term 'right' is used to describe their mindset. Yes, I think Star Parker is a little confused. Maybe this will help clear it up a little. Star, there is a huge difference between right (as in left and right) and right (as in right and wrong). I always find it quite interesting when black people rally about what the ...

Here are a few Internet links where you will see that it is highly doubtful there is a living person on the face of this earth that has not committed an abomination. You will also see most people continue to commit these abominations with regularity. Research links: 1 .. 2 .. 3 In other words, according to the bible we are all abominable sinners. I'm gay, why is my abomination worse than your abomination? www.QueerPublicRadio.com a 24/7 LGBTQIA Licensed Independent Internet Radio Station. Visit, Listen, Support and become involved.

Religion has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to gay marriage. Interestingly they claim exposing elementary children to books like “King and King” is inappropriate. It’s not that the book has explicit sexual connotations. It’s that the book shows two men who love each other and [gasp] illustrates the two kiss. They will suggest any teaching about relationships to elemen tary children is inappropriate. But they won’t complain about heterosexual based books which do the same thing! Let’s not stop there folks! I would think there are many children whose parents are not religious. Maybe we should stop all teachings about Christmas and Easter. After all, these are religious holidays. Religious holidays not supported by all. I’m sure there are many childrens books which endorse heterosexual relationships. Even if they only do so indirectly. How many childrens books show a man and woman (mother and father) in the book? How many childrens books mention heterosexual marri...

By John Canalis, Staff Writer Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California LONG BEACH - Rick McArdle, a self-proclaimed "street evangelist," disagrees that Proposition 8 would tread on the civil rights of same-sex couples. The member of Parkcrest Community Church in East Long Beach supports the Nov. 4 ballot measure that would ban gay marriage by amending the state Constitution. Just as they interpret Scriptures differently, Long Beach-area churches are not uniformly supportive of Proposition 8. "God loves all people, and we think all relationships of committed love between people are good," said the Rev. Jerald Stinson of First Congregational Church in downtown Long Beach. "We have, for many years, done gay weddings, just without the license, and blessed those relationships." Stinson said about 40 percent of his 500 members are gay, and that the church has taken a strong No-on-8 stance. full article

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Rev. Jody Hice fired a verbal volley Sunday in a battle that he believes will return the United States to its American Revolutionary roots. From his pulpit at Bethlehem First Baptist Church outside of Atlanta, he urged his congregation to vote for Sen. John McCain and to not vote for Sen. Barack Obama. He based his recommendations on McCain’s opposition to abortion and gay marriage and Obama’s support of those issues, Hice told the Barrow County church packed with about 400 listeners. full article

Pink News UK A leading British academic has spoken out after his work into homosexuality and depression was presented as proof that gay people are mentally disordered. Fundamentalist Christian news sources LifeSite and OneNewsNow published an article which claimed research by Michael King, University College London's Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry, proves lesbians, gays and bisexuals experience depression because homosexuality itself is a mental disorder. "LifeSite News and OneNewsNow have misinterpreted our review," he said. "Evidence from around the world identifies the main stressors leading to mental distress in gay and lesbian people as discrimination, prejudice, bullying in schools and colleges, and the consequent need for many LGB people to keep their homosexual identity secret, even from their families. "Discrimination on the grounds of sexuality is even more devastating than other forms of discrimination such as racism, as it reaches right into fa...

By Michael McNutt, Capitol Bureau NewsOK.com Ron Marlett thought about running against state Rep. Sally Kern before her anti-gay comments were aired on the Internet. Those comments convinced him to do so. "The homosexual agenda is destroying this nation; it's just a fact,” Kern said in the YouTube clip. "I've yet to knock a door where people have said, ‘Ron, we're worried to death about the gay agenda,'” Marlett said. "I've not knocked one door where anyone has said that, so her views seem to be way out of touch with what most people think.” Ron's website full article

By Tony Grew Pinks News UK The European Parliament's Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights has condemned the violence at the Sarajevo Queer Festival yesterday as "cowardly behaviour." Michael Cashman Labour MEP for the West Midlands, said that Bosnia-Herzegovina must prove that it respects the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people if it is to stand a chance of becoming a member of the EU. full article

By GayNZ.com Daily News Staff The organisers of Bosnia's first-ever gay pride festival have cancelled all their planned events this week, following attacks at the opening ceremony at which eight people were injured. Around 70 young men, some shouting "God is greatest" in Arabic, dragged festival-goers from their cars and attacked them and others on the streets of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo on Wednesday. full article

B92 News Dozens of hooligans tried to stop the first exhibition of homosexual culture in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They threw rocks at the Sarajevo Art Academy building during the opening of the event. The police was able to push back the rioters. The hooligans, some with their faces covered, and other with long beards, were yelling insults at the festival participants and shouting, “Allahu Akbar!” full article

by Glenis Green Courier Mail, Australia GYMPIE gun lobbyist and former councillor Ron Owen has been ordered to pay a group of lesbians $12,500 in an Anti-Discrimination Tribunal decision. He has been told he must also also issue a public statement acknowledging he offended the town's homosexual community. The tribunal ruled he is entitled to express his homophobic views, but he went too far with the bumper sticker: "Gay Rights? Under God's law the only rights gays have is the right to die." Mr Owen was also ordered to publish a statement in the Gympie Times within 45 days stating that the tribunal had found he contravened the Anti-Discrimination Act by displaying a bumper sticker on a vehicle, publishing a report to the Cooloola Shire Council, making a comment in an interview broadcast on television and publishing a letter on a website - all of which incited hatred, serious contempt for or severe ridicule of homosexuals. He also has to acknowledge his conduct was un...

Once again the End Bigotry in Venango County blog provides us with an enlightened article. A leading bishop against the inclusion of lesbian and gay people in the U.S. Episcopal Church has been defrocked. The vote on Thursday by the church’s leaders removed Bishop Robert Duncan, head of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, from ordained ministry.

365gay Newscenter Staff (Miami, Florida) Moderate religious leaders from across Florida are speaking out against a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would ban same-sex marriage and could be used to deny benefits to co-habitating non-married couples - both straight and gay. Dozens of pastors and rabbis met in meetings in six areas statewide this week to denounce the proposed amendment, saying they will tell their congregations to vote against it in November. full article

Many, I dare say the majority, of religious folks would deny federal hate crime laws to assist in protecting the GLBT community from bias crime against them. In fact, over at the Christian Law Association website you can find a radio broadcast saying Christians should always oppose hate crime laws. I’ve also heard Black folks say GLBT folks shouldn’t have hate crime protection. Since the members of both communities currently enjoy hate crime protection it seems a bit foul of them to deny others the very protection they themselves possess. When we were children we considered this type of individual selfish. For adults to act this way is beyond selfish and borders on hypocrisy! According to Merriam-Webster: Hypocrisy – 1: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially: the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion 2: an act or instance of hypocrisy

by Jack Hafferkamp EDGE Great Lakes Regional Editor After a slow start, the campaign against demagogic homophobe James Dobson’s induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame appears to be gaining steam as word spreads and time counts down to the induction awards dinner in Chicago planned for Saturday, November 8, 2008. While Dobson is not the only right wing radio star in the hall’s history - Rush Limbaugh was inducted in 1993 - the argument with Dobson is that he is a special case whose hate speech is beyond acceptability in a civil society. Dobson is the power behind Focus on the Family, a daily syndicated fundamentalist radio show that claims 4000 stations internationally. His over-the-top anti-gay outbursts on the radio, in lectures and books have created a backlash charge initially led by Truth Wins Out’s executive director, Wayne Besen, but which is now spreading. One difference between this year’s election process and that previously in place has been jumped on by anti-Dobson c...

by Mindy Boggs The Huntsville Times We cannot simply dismiss the recent Knoxville Unitarian church shooting with "There's another lunatic among us, and you just never know, so let's beef up security in the parking lot." No, we need to do much more than that. We need to examine "public opinion" and the people and institutions who "shape" that opinion. You do not have to be "crazy," or the town lunatic, to commit murder, as this man did. You just have to believe strongly enough about something. When someone places all responsibility for society's ills (or their personal ills), as they define them, on a group of people who share a different ethnic background, religion, or political beliefs, one may come to hate this group so much, it triggers the desire to commit a crime and "sacrifice" oneself, along with the "guilty" ones. Generalizing, stereotyping, blaming can lead to ideological fanaticism. When we hear it, read ...

by Rachel Charman Pinks News UK The deputy leader of Barking and Dagenham council has been cautioned by police after using homophobic language. Senior Labour councillor Liam Smith is said to have said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat dyke' and 'go back to the farmyard', reports the Evening Standard. Mr. Smith was cautioned by police after the matter was investigated as a hate crime. He was ordered write a letter of apology to Mrs. Connelly. Mrs. Connelly, however, told 24News.com that this apology was 'not worth the paper it's written on'. 'If he wanted to apologise he would have apologised the following day. 'This was only because the police said if he didn't sign the caution he would go to court.' full article As a side note, a commenter stated " Had senior Labour councillor Liam Smith said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat nigger' and 'go back to where you came from'he...

by Stuart MacDonald UK Times Online Sir Ian McKellen and Simon Callow accuse leading Catholic of homophobia Sir Ian McKellen and Simon Callow, Britain’s most prominent gay film actors, have launched an outspoken attack on Bishop Joseph Devine, the second most senior figure in the Scottish Catholic church, accusing him of preaching “homophobia” from the pulpit. McKellen and Callow strongly criticised a speech made by Devine earlier this year, in which he singled out the decision to award McKellen an honour from the Queen as an example of the dangers of the increasing power of the gay lobby. During his speech at St Aloysius college in Glasgow, Devine said: “In this new year’s honours list, actor Ian McKellen was honoured for his work on behalf of homosexuals. A century ago Oscar Wilde was locked up and put in jail.” Callow said senior religious figures could not accept the changing attitudes in society towards gay relationships. “The bishop is in my view a profoundly ignorant and stupid...

by Patrick O'Neill Independent Weekly The Barack Obama campaign opened its downtown Raleigh headquarters July 22 to much fanfare, but just around the corner the same night, the Obama celebration was outdrawn almost 3-to-1 by Jesus. A "campaign stop" of the Jesus for President book tour was led by evangelical progressives Shane Claiborne, 33, and Chris Haw, 26, whose book, Jesus For President, was published this spring by Zondervan. The new movement represents one of the most exciting shifts among Christian evangelicals. The Raleigh gathering at First Baptist Church on Wilmington Street, the 19th stop on a 21-city, 10,000-mile veggie-fueled bus tour, drew a crowd of mostly 20-somethings. Mixed in were old-guard progressive Christians, many affiliated with the N.C. Council of Churches. Claiborne said he offers "a refreshing message for post-Religious Right America," adding some young evangelicals are turning away from the often harsh and unloving messages—such as ...

by Will Moredock The Charleston City Newspaper When Jim Adkisson walked into a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 27 and opened fire with a 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun, he said he did it because he was angry at "liberals." Among the Americans who called themselves Unitarians were Thomas Jefferson, John and John Quincy Adams, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Adlai Stevenson. There are too many hate-mongers in the pulpits and on the airwaves in America, telling people like Jim Adkisson that the source of their pain is liberals or blacks or homosexuals. (He probably found all three at the Tennessee Valley UU Church on July 27.) So when we hand out responsibility for this tragedy, let's not forget Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Pat Robertson. Without the culture of hate they have been brewing over the last 20 years, this could not have happened. full article