Aug

18

New Anti-Gay Religious Organization Says Sexual Relationships Belong to Married Heterosexuals

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On GayWallet.com this afternoon, I saw an ad for The Lighthouse Covenant, the newest anti-gay religious organization (like we needed another one, right?). I thought it was strange that the ad was running on a gay web site, so I clicked it. Here’s what I found:

If you affirm the following, you are welcome to partner with us:

We covenant to teach a high view of Scripture. We trust the Bible as the only final authority for all aspects of life.

We affirm an aggressive, positive stance on kingdom expansion and congregational growth.

We choose to advance the use of all spiritual gifts through unleashing the priesthood of all believers.

We teach and practice that a full sexual relationship belongs exclusively within the biblical boundaries of a publicly committed marriage between one man and one woman.

We believe that mission and ministry is best accomplished within the context of congregations. Facilitating that mission and ministry should be the central focus of all expressions of the church.

I was so tempted to encourage GayWallet.com members to click on that ad just to blow the organization’s daily Adwords budget, but I opted to block the site instead. After blocking the site, I went back to see if they’re much of a threat. They’re not – at least not right now. It looks like a fairly new organization designed specifically to encourage its members to stand against gay rights issues. They made a rather lame (and confusing attempt) to justify point 4 in their mission statement:

Why do you make #4 a point? The rest sounds so missional. This sounds legalistic.

Answer: Every generation has its defining issue. In 1860, you had to say were you stand on slavery. Someday the sexuality issue will go away and there will be another defining issue. Clarity on the defining issue of the day frees a group up to do other things. Un-clarity leads to yet another round of discussion and lack of focus, therefore, on mission. It is ironic but true that clarity on divisive issues leads to less focus on them.

Anybody else confused with all that babble?

Perhaps The Lighthouse Convenant wants to take over as the new, younger generation of those old folks in the anti-gay religious organization AFA.

Aug

14

Lesbian Singer, Songwriter Suzanne Sheridan on SistersTalk Radio

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Tonight on SistersTalk Radio, we interviewed Suzanne Sheridan.

Suzanne is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who loves connecting with people through music. She has won honors in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and has sung jingles for Pepsi, Hardees, Hasbro, Texaco and others. She co-wrote the cult hit “90 Pound Suburban Housewife, Drivin’ in her SUV” with her life partner, Rozanne. She performs in theaters, churches, hospitals and clubs and has fronted several rock n’ roll bands in CT. Suzanne’s solo performances of her original songs have been heard in New York, Paris, England and Ireland. Suzanne teaches voice, guitar and YOUCANSING workshops. Fueled by the Unitarian spiritual connection, this group and this music, she is honored to be affiliated with Exit 43.

Hear Suzanne discuss:

*Her band Exit 43 (described as a spiritual band)
*Where the name Exit 43 came from
*Winning honors in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest
*Doing jingles for Pepsi, Hardees, Hasbro, Texaco
*Her coming out story
*Why some Christians in her family refused to attend her same-sex commitment ceremony
*The song she co-wrote “90 Pound Suburban Housewife, Drivin’ Her SUV”
*Her photography work

Download the podcast now.

Show sponsors: GayTravelPros.com and GayWallet.com

Aug

14

Christian Publication World Magazine Lies About APA’s Statement on Gay Reparative Therapy

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GayWallet.com member OneMoreLesbian sent me an email this morning asking if I’d seen the latest article in Christian publication World Magazine. Imagine my surprise when I read the following lie (in bold type):

The American Psychological Association just published a report on whether therapists can make this change happen. In examining change therapy, which claims that people with homosexual desires can switch to heterosexual desires, the report says there is insufficient evidence that the therapies work.

But it also found that while people are unlikely to change their desires, they can change their identity and behavior. People who underwent change therapy sometimes reported that they learned to tolerate same-sex attraction, even if they didn’t act on it. Some eventually identified as heterosexuals and had heterosexual relationships. The APA also said that therapists can help people choose to live in a way that affirms their religious beliefs.

Liar, liar, your fuckin’ pants are on fire!

Here’s the section of the APA’s report that World Magazine took out of context:

“At most, certain studies suggested that some individuals learned how to ignore or not act on their homosexual attractions. Yet, these studies did not indicate for whom this was possible, how long it lasted or its long-term mental health effects. Also, this result was much less likely to be true for people who started out only attracted to people of the same sex.”

Not once does that statement claim that homosexuals could change their orientation, nor does it state that homosexuals learned to “tolerate” opposite-sex attraction.

A closer review shows that World Magazine didn’t bother to link to the original APA report so their readers can fact-check their asses. And why is that?

A recent article on EdgeBoston.com reports that anti-gay organization Focus on the Family is selling off its “Love Won Out” conferences – conferences designed to push gay reparative therapy. Focus on the Family fell on hard financial times and the organization is selling off a program that isn’t making a lot of money – in fact, it’s costing them a lot of money. World Magazine is spewin’ their lies to help Focus on the Family find a buyer for a gay reparative therapy program they know damn well doesn’t work.

Aug

12

Anti-Gay Group Focus on the Family Needs Help, Begs For Spare Change

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Anti-gay religious organization Focus on the Family is having financial problems. EdgeBoston.com reports:

A “serious budget shortfall” at Focus on the Family has prompted the anti-gay Christian group to issue a special fundraising plea, and contributed to a decision to cede control of its contentious “Love Won Out” conferences about homosexuality to another religious organization, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Focus on the Family, founded by child psychologist James Dobson, is on pace to fall $6 million short of a $138 million budget for the fiscal year that began last October, spokesman Gary Schneeberger said.

It seems Focus on the Family has been too busy fuckin’ with the gays that they’ve created a situation that makes it difficult to focus on their own damn family. Last fall, Focus on the Family had to eliminate 200 jobs – jobs that fed and clothed 200 heterosexual “christian” families.

In February, ColoradoIndependent.com reported:

Focus on the Family gave $727,250 in cash and services to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 campaign in California, according to records released by the California secretary of state, including a $100,000 check in late October, just days before the evangelical media empire announced it planned to lay off nearly 20 percent of its employees.

And if that wasn’t enough wasted cash . . .

Altogether, donations supporting Proposition 8 from Focus on the Family, one of its major benefactors and an offshoot lobbying organization totaled more than $1.251 million — just shy of the $1.275 million contributed by ProtectMarriage.com’s largest donor, the Knights of Columbus, the Connecticut-based political arm of the Catholic Church. In addition to $727,250 reported by Focus on the Family, major backer and board member Elsa Prince, the billionaire heiress of Holland, Mich., donated $450,000 to ProtectMarriage.com in two cash chunks and the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, a Christian-right lobbying organization spun off from Focus on the Family and founded in part by Prince’s foundation, chipped in $74,400.

If a mother spends almost $2million on campaigns designed to fuck with the gay family next door – $500,000 of which went to help ban gay marriage – then comes begging you for money to help feed her own family, how would feel about that mother?

Aug

4

AAA Makes It to Anti-Gay Organization’s Shit List

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The American Automobile Association (AAA) has started recognizing families consisting of same-sex partners as a real family (imagine that!) and that move has the anti-gay organization AFA fired up – again. AAA has stated that the company will provide the same membership and discounts for gay married couples as they do for straight married couples.

Equality Florida is asking everyone to send a letter of support to AAA thanking them for their support. The AFA is asking its anti-gay followers to write AAA and ask them to “reverse their policy recognizing homosexual couples as if they were ‘married’ for purposes of AAA Family Memberships.”

Someone help me understand how AAA’s decision is hurting married heterosexual couples. I think I’m a fairly intelligent person but I’ll need your help with that one.

Aug

2

Lesbian Comedian Dana Goldberg on SistersTalk Radio

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Tonight on SistersTalk Radio, we interviewed lesbian comedian Dana Goldberg.

Dana has performed at numerous festivals including “We’re Funny That Way Comedy Festival” in Toronto, Canada, “The Lesbian and Gay Comedy Festival” in Dearborn, Michigan, “The Comedy Festival” in Las Vegas, Nevada, and “The Fringe Festival” in Edinburgh, Scotland. Goldberg also performs for mainstream crowds across the country in comedy clubs such as The Tempe Improv, Caroline’s on Broadway, Bonkerz Comedy Club, The Comedy Cellar in NYC, and Catch a Rising Star. You can learn more about Dana visit www.danagoldberg.com.

Hear Dana discuss:

*Winning her high school talent show with a comedy routine
*Her first performance as a comedian – she performed in front of 650+ lesbians!
*Curve Magazine naming her one of the top 5 hottest lesbian comedians
*Her very first nationally televised comedy special
*Being A Jewish lesbian
*Her coming out story
*Advice for new comedians
*Upcoming projects

You’ll also hear me tell Dana she has a really nice ass. We had a very fun chat! Download the podcast now.

Jul

29

Anti-Gay Group Says Home Depot Wants to Make Your Kids Gay

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According to the anti-gay news site OneNewsNow (owned and operated by anti-gay organization AFA), Home Depot wants to turn your children into the homosexuals of the future:

Home Depot is helping to introduce children to the homosexual lifestyle.

The Nashville Gay Pride website notes that Home Depot contributed more than $5,000 to help finance the 2009 festival. The retailer also participated by conducting children’s craft workshops at a special booth set up for them. The company has sponsored similar children’s venues at pro-homosexual events in Atlanta, Kansas City, Durham, Portland, and San Diego.

Matt Barber [who looks like a closet-case himself] of Liberty Counsel tells OneNewsNow the home improvement store is facilitating the exposure of children to sinful behavior.

I’m guessing the folks over at AFA haven’t heard the age-old “Homo Depot” jokes yet. If they had, they would already know that Home Depot has been makin’ people (women in particular!) gay for a very long time. Ha!

The logic these anti-gay people use is laughable. Let’s try to follow it . . .

1. Home Depot sponsors a gay pride event and sets up children crafts booth
2. Children visit this booth and associate arts and crafts with homosexuality
3. Said children suddenly decide they want to be homosexuals

Hmmm . . . Ok.

If that scenario is true, then this scenario would be true as well:

1. Christians go door-to-door talking to known homosexuals
2. Said homosexuals associate Christianity with heterosexuality
3. Said homosexuals suddenly decide they want to be heterosexuals

We all know that association with a homosexual does not turn one into a homosexual, just as association with heterosexuals does not turn one into a heterosexual.

Jul

21

Is a Missing Gay Man Connected to Religious Extreme Ex-Gay Therapists?

Filed Under Bitch Slap, Gays, Lesbians, Religion, WTF? | 4 Comments

I just saw a link on Facebook pointing to a story about a missing gay man from Arkansas who vanished after his family supposedly manipulated him into going into ex-gay therapy:

Bryce Faulkner is a bright young pre-med student who, like many in college, was totally dependent upon his parents for survival. His car, his cell phone, his education, even his job was all connected to his parents purse strings. Bryce was making plans to come out to his parents, but before he had the opportunity to carry out these plans, his mother found his email password and discovered communications between he and his lover Travis Of Green Bay, Wisconsin. . . . In order to manipulate Bryce into accepting “treatment” for his homosexuality, they took away everything and left him the choice of becoming homeless and destitute or going into therapy. As anyone can imagine, this wasn’t much of a choice. Being in the closet in a small town left him no one to speak to or to seek help to get him through the transition from the closet and into the light of day. His family took away every resource he had and left him with no phone to call for help, a car to drive to any help that might be out there and no money to even take a bus to Wisconsin to be with his lover. The program he is going into is a 14 month program, one of the most severe and intense of these kinds of programs.

According to the Help Save Bryce Faulkner web site, Bryce has been missing 36 days.

This story isn’t new. In 2005, a Tennessee gay teen named Zach claimed he was being sent to a religious bootcamp against his will. Zach claimed he was being abused and he chronicled his experiences there on his MySpace page. Weeks later, an investigation cleared the religious camp of all wrongdoing stating the Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services found no evidence of child abuse at the religious bootcamp.

It’s not uncommon for extremely religious families to threaten to disown a gay family member – unless he or she seeks religious counseling they hope will cure their loved one of the supposed gay disease. I don’t understand that line of thinking. Even if I weren’t a lesbian, I can’t imagine disowning my child – for any reason. It’s a blessing to see groups and web sites like PFLAG, Gay Family Support and OutProud.org. But, there are too many anti-gay religious groups feeding on insecure and scared-of-going-to-Hell parents who believe it’s best to bully their children into heterosexual submission.

Jul

2

New Anti-Gay Group Will Use Colored Folks and Spicks to Pick on the Gays

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Yesterday I posted information about a new anti-gay religious group forming a new coalition designed to fight abortion, same-sex marriage and the general decline of American morality. The group is called Freedom Federation:

A new federation of two dozen conservative Christian groups announced plans today to work together to strategize around moral values they feel are under attack across the country.

“We are not wed to a particular partisan candidate or party,” said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and an organizer of the Freedom Federation. “We are wed to core shared values.”

Those values include opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and pornography and support for religious freedom, limited government and the right to own firearms.

Ok, I don’t get it. The name of the organization is Freedom Federation? Whose freedom are they fighting for? White, heterosexual, Christian males?

I find it almost comical that the Freedom Federation plans to use the colored folks and the spicks – well, those who are dumb enough to help them – to force white, heterosexual, Christian male values on taxpaying American citizens who don’t agree with their platform:

Representatives from the various groups, which include ethnic, women’s and youth organizations, said the federation will represent a more inclusive approach to addressing public policy.

. . .

“The stereotypical media-exacerbated image of the angry white evangelical will be replaced by an evangelical movement that will reconcile uncompromised values of compassion, truth with mercy, and righteousness with justice,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

That’s not a stereotype. Evangelicals are indeed angry white men – and the angry white women who love them.

Yesterday, I called to speak with someone at the newly formed Freedom Federation. Mathew Staver, founder of the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, left me a message today. He asked that I speak with Tessa Sturgill when I called back. Within minutes I had Tessa on the phone. She refused to answer any questions, claiming she didn’t want to give me false information. Honestly though, she seemed really confused and completely unprepared to deal with media inquiries. If this is any indication of the organization’s power (so far), I’d say the gays can kick the Freedom Federation’s ass up and down every block in Boystown Chicago.

Jun

30

Anti-Gay Religious Groups to Announce New Coalition

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Reuters reports:

Today at 1:30pm eastern time, The Freedom Federation, a group of anti-gay religious organizations will announce a new movement:

The Freedom Federation is a new and unique federation of some of the largest multi-ethnic and transgenerational faith-based organizations in the country committed to plan, strategize, and work together on common interests within the Judeo-Christian tradition to mobilize their grassroots constituencies and to communicate faith and values to the religious, social, cultural, and policymaking institutions.

(bold emphasis is mine)

Who’s involved?

— American Association of Christian Counselors
— American Family Association
— Americans for Prosperity
— Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND)
— Campaign for Working Families
— Catholic Online
— Concerned Women for America
— Conservative Action Project
— Eagle Forum
— Exodus International
— Faith and Action
— Family Research Council
— High Impact Leadership
— Liberty Alliance Action
— Liberty Counsel
— Liberty University
— Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN)
— Marc Nuttle
— Morning Star Ministries
— National Clergy Council
— National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
— Renewing American Leadership
— Strang Communications
— Teen Mania
— The Call to Action
— Traditional Values Coalition
— Vision America

This sounds a lot like a modern day Holy War – the Christians against the gays.

More details to come.

ht: Ex-Gay Watch

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