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Gay/Lesbian

Corduroy Stone Ex Gay Therapy Finally Recognized As Harmful

Actually, the parents have consented in many cases, not the child or teen. We need to stop torturing teens and work to bring down teen suicide rates by offering acceptance instead of ridicule.  (Saturday Dec 19 | post #24)

Gay/Lesbian

The 3 Michigan Churches Who Are Quitting the Homeless Because A...

You can't blame the gays for the churches abandoning the poor, that's plain stupidity. If the churches no longer want to act charitably they should loose their 501c3 non-profit tax status.  (Saturday Dec 19 | post #56)

Gay/Lesbian

Feds again nix health care for gay worker's wife

Health care benefits are pay, equal pay for equal work, plain and simple the feds need to drop this and give the insurance.  (Saturday Dec 19 | post #14)

Gay/Lesbian

DC Mom Files Complaint Against Lesbian Teacher for Corrupting C...

This woman needs to learn that telling the truth is better than lying. Just like the parent is lying saying that her daughter's innocence had been taken by having a teacher tell her class that she is marrying someone she loves.  (Saturday Dec 19 | post #33)

US Politics

Lesbian nominee approved by Senate committee despite pro-family...

How does who someone sleeps with have an effect on their ability to do their job, it doesn't.  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #347)

Gay/Lesbian

Could Your Child Be Gay? What is and isn't known about kids' se...

I really wish parents would think this through. Even my "enlightened " sister waited till she found gay porn on her son's computer before she told him I was gay. He didn't come out till several years after that incident. By the reports of a parent that lived in the neighborhood they knew my nephew was gay many, many years before he came out. He struggled greatly with his sexuality and his religious beliefs and I feel he really didn't need to go through that pain. I feel partly to blame for agreeing to a "don't ask, don't tell" position with her kids, I was also trying to protect my ailing parents, when I believe that being honest with oneself and others is the best policy.  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #41)

Gay/Lesbian

Christian group vs. Hastings - court to decide

You can shove your group, just don't make tax payers pay for it. It is bad enough that we support churches with tax breaks and student aid goes to private colleges.  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #72)

Religion

What Divides Catholics and Protestants?

Does it matter they both believe they have an invisible friend in the sky that floats down from the clouds with mutant humans with wings?  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #30062)

Roman Catholic Church

Nobel winner slams Bible as 'handbook of bad morals'

You idiot christianity did its greatest expansion in the 20th century.  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #2868)

Healthcare Law

Lieberman May Torpedo Health Care Reform

And what exactly in the 6 years of Republican control (eight if you consider all the Bush years) did they get done, NOTHING Republicans are DO NOTHINGS, I'm surprised they can get out of their chairs they are so lazy!  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #115)

Gay/Lesbian

Rep Woolsey Calls For IRS Investigation of The Roman Catholic C...

HRC is a PAC and therefore do not get benefits of 501c3 tax status. But churches are not really charities either as they do not have to prove their adherence to their mission statement in the same way real charitable organizations do. Many churches are no better than a social organization and do not deserve 501c3 status.  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #401)

Gay/Lesbian

DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage

"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" became more available, as it should for all the citizens of the U.S.A.  (Wednesday Dec 16 | post #7)

US Politics

Lesbian nominee approved by Senate committee despite pro-family...

In a recognized marriage insurance would be available from either parent, not just the "biological parent". For example when my brother-in-law's bank shut down (no fault of his) my sister was able to expand her hours at her job and insure the family. With gay families even if an employer provide spousal benefits for gay partners, often it is a second single person policy instead of a family policy and if the partner carries a child the child would be considered unrelated.  (Monday Dec 14 | post #251)

Healthcare Law

Lieberman balks at health care plan

Lieberman should loose all privileges of his seniority, starting with any chairmanships as he has left the democratic party.  (Monday Dec 14 | post #86)