Following the Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors announcement that they were reconsidering the ban on gay Scouts and Scout leaders, the Family Research Council (FRC), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a hate group, has launched an email campaign urging people to phone members of the BSA board of directors and…
Battling it out this year at Superbowl XLVII are the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, Feb. 3 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The Superbowl is easily the most watched sporting event of the year. It attracts not only football fans, but even non fans due to the spectacular nature of…
http://youtu.be/JUbypkydE68 Repeating a message he’s been telling the media for years, actor Rupert Everett talks to BBC’s Hardtalk and says that he would not advise any gay actor to come out of the closet because they will be discriminated against in Hollywood. The interviewer, however, points out openly gay actor Matt Bomer and suggests that…
(CNN) — In the face of withering criticism over a sermon he apparently delivered on homosexuality in the 1990s, the Rev. Louie Giglio has withdrawn from giving the benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. Giglio informed inauguration officials Thursday morning of his decision to withdraw from the ceremony, an inauguration official told CNN. “I am…
Anti-gay deputy court clerks in St Mary’s County, Md., will stop performing marriages when same-sex marriage becomes legal in the state next week. Pink News reported that Joan Williams, clerk of the St Mary’s Circuit Court, told the Washington Examiner that some of her employees are opposed to equal marriage for religious reasons. As a result…
(CNN) – A Cameroon appeals court upheld a sentence against a man convicted of homosexuality for texting his male friend to say, “I’m very much in love with you.” Roger Mbede, a university student, was arrested in March last year after the man who received the message tipped off authorities, Human Rights Watch said. A…
(CNN) – As the nation’s top court prepares to tackle the contentious issue of same-sex marriage, one of its most conservative justices defended past writings linking bans on homosexual sodomy to bans on sex with animals and murder. Speaking at Princeton Monday, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said his previous comments, made in multiple Supreme Court…
(CNN) – Lawmakers in Uganda are preparing to vote on a new anti-homosexuality bill that proposes tough jail sentences for consensual same-sex behavior. Homosexual acts are already illegal in the East African nation, where most gays and lesbians face physical attacks and are treated as social outcasts, but the new bill proposes harsher penalties. Uganda‘s…
WASHINGTON – The nation’s leading anti-gay group, The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), saw a steep decline in the amount of money it raised in 2011 – dropping to $6.2 million from the $9.1 million it raised the previous year. Just two donors were responsible for funding 75 percent of the anti-gay group – the…
KAMPALA, Uganda – The speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has promised to speed up the debate on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Kadaga made the statement as she addressed religious leaders and journalists at Entebbe International Airport last week. She stated, “They said I should stop the debate on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill but I assured…
