Before the passage of Proposition 8 in California that removed the State Constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, I was asked to officiate at a woman’s marriage to her partner of 10 years. Her mother and stepfather were there, as was her Great Aunt.
I know right out of the starting blocks that this article is going to offend a great many people, but I feel very strongly that many LGBT people are seriously sabotaging the cause for full and equal civil rights by referring to themselves by the
“Are you excited about Connecticut?” While waiting to enter a radio studio for an hour of give-and-take on hot political issues affecting the LGBT community, it was a question another panelist found central. It was certainly of interest to the program’s listeners. But, surprisingly, I
I don’t care if Barack Obama changes the name of Bush’s “White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives” to a “Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.” I think most of the thirty evangelical leaders he sat down with in a private downtown Chicago meeting
When 59-year-old Jim Adkisson stormed into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church on July 27 as an angry unemployed engineer, fatally shooting two adults, most of us were shocked. When 51-year-old Timothy Dale Johnson, fearing he’d been canned by Target, barged into the Arkansas Democratic Headquarters
“Gay men and lesbians are more likely to be left-handed than heterosexuals. The preference for left-handedness isn’t huge. But it’s distinct, and it might have a basis in human biology. “So says Richard Lippa, a veteran Cal State Fullerton psychologist who has been poring over
“ where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Corinthians 3:17) Perhaps the best, most generic definition of “fascism” was stated by Laura Dawn Lewis in a piece that I found on the Internet. She states: “The most notable characteristic of a fascist
“I am the Decider” (King George the Last) “To be, or not to be? That is the question.” (Prince Hamlet) “You will know the truth. And the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32) “I AM WHO I AM”…”Let my people go, so that they
Little noted in the history behind the California Supreme Court decision that gives the “right to marry” to same-sex couples are the bold steps taken over four decades by onetime Pentecostal minister Troy Perry in trying to establish legal and religious rights for gays and
Even those of us who were disappointed with Hillary Clinton’s campaign can agree with CBS News anchor, Katie Couric: “Like her or not, one of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life, particularly