Attack on LGBT people in Georgia
attack on LGBT people in Georgia. They are sitting on the bus and Clergymen and population of georgia are attacking.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcW6ZKuakbo&feature=youtube_gdata
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Ex-BYU Student Assaulted, Evicted After Coming Out
Ex-BYU Student Assaulted, Evicted After Coming Out
Andrew David White claims he was forcibly ejected from his apartment, after telling one of his roommates that he was attracted to men.
Daniel Reynolds
www.advocate.com/crime/2015/03/27/ex-byu-student-assaulted-evicted-after-coming-out
Country Radio Fulfills Own Stereotypes By Banning Straight Love Song For Being Too Gay
Country Radio Fulfills Own Stereotypes By Banning Straight Love Song For Being Too Gay
It would be one thing for us to be annoyed with country radio stations for banning an LGBT-themed song based on a bogus holier-than-thou attitude — we’ve seen that movie before, and the ending is so predictable.
But it’s another thing entirely for those stations to ban a straight country music song because they don’t quite understand the concept and think it’s gay.
Either way, it’s pretty ugly.
The song in question is “Girl Crush” sung by Little Big Town member Karen Fairchild, and the gist of it is a female longing to be a different girl so that she’d be the object of a man’s affection.
Apparently that’s too complex of a thought for some country music fans.
Here’s the chorus:
I want to taste her lips
Yeah, ’cause they taste like you
I want to drown myself
In a bottle of her perfume
I want her long blonde hair
I want her magic touch
Yeah, ’cause maybe then
You’d want me just as much
“You are just promoting the gay agenda on your station and I am changing the channel and never listening to you ever again!!” one idiot from Texas wrote in to say.
In a recent interview, the band was asked, “Is it frustrating to you that here is your song – that is one of the Top 10 sellers for weeks and weeks and weeks – and people on the radio are still afraid to play it because they think it’s a lesbian song?”
Fairchild responded, “Just the fact that we’re still discussing that, number one, there’s so many problems with that whole issue.”
Here’s the jam, which if were drunk and doing whippets all night, maybe we could mistake for a lesbian love song:
h/t: GayStarNews
Dan Tracer
Michigan Civil Rights Commission Endorses Model Local LGBT Non-Discrimination Ordinance
Michigan Civil Rights Commission Endorses Model Local LGBT Non-Discrimination Ordinance
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission endorsed a model local non-discrimination ordinance that covers sexual orientation and gender identity at a meeting held at the Holocaust Memorial Center on Monday reports the Daily Reporter. The ordinance states that no one should be denied “civil rights or be discriminated against,” on the basis of gender expression, identity and sexual orientation. The model also bars bias based on education, age, disability, race, sex, religion, weight, national origin, marriage or family status. Commission Chairman Arthur Horwitz stated that the ordinance is designed to provide a more cohesive anti-discrimination view for over 30 Michigan municipalities.
Said Horwitz:
“The concept of developing a model non-discrimination ordinance grew from the fact that more than 30 Michigan municipalities have non-discrimination ordinances that vary significantly in their structure, wording and scope… developed model language that municipalities could access if, in their own discretion, they decided they wanted a starting point for their own discussions and deliberations.”
In a January appearance before the commission, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder expressed hope that the GOP-controlled Michigan legislature would continue discussing a bill to add protections for gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people to the state civil rights law. However, House Speaker Kevin Cotter, a Midland Republican and American Family Association of Michigan leader, believes the measure is unnecessary saying that gay and gender identity laws are a “solution in search of a nonexistent problem,” and that they “have a history of themselves being discriminatory” in forcing people to choose between their morals or religious beliefs.
Anthony Costello
LGBT Intolerance Rant
LGBT Intolerance Rant
via YouTube Capture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVtMJNuk8qw&feature=youtube_gdata
Sweden Is Adding a Gender-Neutral Pronoun to Its Dictionary
Sweden Is Adding a Gender-Neutral Pronoun to Its Dictionary
‘Hen’ may be used to refer to someone whose gender is unknown.
Yezmin Villarreal
www.advocate.com/world/2015/03/27/sweden-adding-gender-neutral-pronoun-its-dictionary
Reflecting on Becoming the First Southern Baptist Minister to Marry a Same-Sex Couple
Reflecting on Becoming the First Southern Baptist Minister to Marry a Same-Sex Couple
Photo Courtesy Steve Babin
People ask me, “What was your thought process in deciding to officiate at the wedding of a same-sex couple?” My amused answer: “I didn’t have a thought process. I just said ‘yes’ to the invitation.”
My ministry primarily consists of advocating for the civil and human rights of illegal immigrants as well as “guest workers” who are in the US legally with a visa. My interest in LGBTQ issues usually happens where they intersect with immigration issues. For example, I am concerned about the particular needs of transgendered people seeking humanitarian aid, such as shelter in Mexico, when they cross borders illegally.
For several years the staff at my church and I have been discussing how we as a church will respond when one of our gay young adults asks to have a wedding in our sanctuary. Once, I suggested we should not be taking money from Chick-Fil-A because of President Dan Cathy’s politics.
That was about the extent of my active involvement with LGBTQ issues until I accepted the invitation to officiate at the wedding of Yashinari Effinger and Adrian Thomas in Huntsville, Alabama. The women are Baptists and wanted a Baptist minister to perform the ceremony. Held in Huntsvile’s Big Spring Park, it was the first same-sex wedding in Madison County and took place the day the ban was overturned in Alabama.
Although I had not been a strong ally, there are reasons why a straight, (formerly) Southern Baptist minister would officiate at a same-sex wedding. I say “formerly” because the day after I officiated at Effinger and Thomas’s wedding, the Madison Baptist Association, through which Weatherly Heights Baptist Church was affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC], began proceedings which ended in our church being “disfellowshipped”.
As I reflect on why my “yes” answer came so easily, it occurs to me that the basic reasons are two. First, my parents were Civil Rights Movement activists in the Deep South in the 1960s. They were outspoken opponents of segregation. I knew my family was right, but to be “out” as an integrationist was to risk the social death which lurked around every corner.
I recall, for example, November 22, 1963. I was taking a math test when someone on the intercom told us President John F. Kennedy has been assassinated. My class mates erupted in elated, foot-stomping cheers — “the nigger-lover is dead!” I remember thinking, “If they knew who I was would they wish me dead, too?”
Being in something of a closet throughout my teenaged years contributed to my empathy for others who cannot reveal who they are. I don’t mean to draw an exact parallel, but the closet I experienced was lonely and suffocating. No one should have to live there.
At that time, I could not imagine that segregation would ever end. Although the waters were stirring, from my perspective on that day there seemed to be no reason to hope.
The second reason my “yes” answer came so easily, I think, has to do with my orientation as a Christian “liberation theologian”. I have been influenced by Brazil’s Leonardo Boff, a Roman Catholic Franciscan, and Nicaragua’s Ernesto Cardenal, A Roman Catholic priest, among others.
They helped me make sense of such Christian concepts as “hope”. Boff once wrote that hope has to do with context — there has to be a reason for someone to believe that the future will be better than the present. In retrospect, I realize that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed after Kennedy’s assassination, provided a reason to hope the future would be better than the past I had experienced. By the same token, the overturns of the bans on same-sex marriage offer a reason for believing the future for LGBTQ persons will be better than the present.
Latin America’s liberation theologians perceive a need to create conditions that would offer hope. It has earned them a reputation for radicalness. Cardenal, for example, gained notoriety in the 1970s when he abandoned the principle of Christian non-violence (this links to an article I published about that). Openly supporting the Sandinista guerrillas, he joined them at the front, reading the Bible to encourage them in their effort to overthrow the brutal Somoza military dictatorship. He offered the guerrillas hope.
Among other things, Boff offered hope to Brazil when he published Nunca Mais [Never Again]. It reported the findings of an American Presbyterian minister, Jaime Wright. Wanting to settle accounts with those who tortured and “disappeared” his brother, at great personal risk Wright photocopied the records kept by the military dictatorship. Brazil’s military personnel had meticulously detailed their torture of thousands of presumed threats to Brazil’s national security state. By revealing horrendous truths, Wright and Boff offered Brazilians hope.
Cardenal, Boff, and other Latin American liberationists paid for their actions. When Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua, he brought Cardenal to tears by publicly wagging his finger at Cardenal as though he were a disobedient child. In response, the women of Managua shouted at the Pope to “talk to us about our disappeared children!” The Pope responded, “Silencio! [Silence!]”
The Vatican, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, forbade Boff to publish or speak for a period of years. All around the world, there was protests against the silencing of Boff, whose stature in Brazil was equal to that of Pele, the soccer player.
I cannot pretend to have done anything to equal the actions of Cardenal and Boff when I became the first Southern Baptist to officiate at a same-sex wedding. I can say, however, that one of the surprises for me was the emotional response of so many to my presence in Big Spring Park. They were not responding to me personally – they didn’t know me. They were responding to a representative of the church which had hurt them so badly. If I was able to offer them just a little hope, then being disfellowshipped will have been worth it.
Ellin Jimmerson
Rev. Dr. Ellin Jimmerson is an ordained Baptist minister in Huntsville, Alabama, has a Ph.D. In 20th century US history and a Masters of Theological Studies with a concentration in Latin American liberation theology. She is the writer and director of the award-winning migrant justice documentary, The Second Cooler, narrated by Martin Sheen. You can follow her on Twitter @EllinJimmerson, on her blog, and on Facebook at The Second Cooler Fan Page.
Arkansas Senate Passes Indiana-Style H.B. 1228, Gov Hutchinson Must Veto Discriminatory Bill
Arkansas Senate Passes Indiana-Style H.B. 1228, Gov Hutchinson Must Veto Discriminatory Bill
Anti-LGBT legislation bound for governor’s desk as the nation watches, tech sector condemns bill, and the lives of countless Arkansans hang in the balance
HRC.org
California Attorney General Kamala Harris Steps In To Block Monstrous 'Sodomite Suppression Act'
California Attorney General Kamala Harris Steps In To Block Monstrous 'Sodomite Suppression Act'
In late February Matt McLaughlin, a practicing attorney based in Huntington Beach, California, began collecting signatures and processing paperwork that would allow him to put up his “Sodomite Suppression Act” for a statewide referendum. The tone of the proposal language in McLaughlin’s proposed bill is like a cross between the rhetoric of a religious conservative and a draconian “Kill The Gays” bill.
“Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating-wickedness in our midst,” The proposal reads. “The People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.”
Unsurprisingly, there is a Change.org petition in place agitating for his disbarring.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is fighting back to keep the bill from ever making its way to a ballot vote. Though Harris is currently in the process of ramping up her bid for Barbara Boxer’s vacant Senate seat, she felt it her duty to stop the ridiculous law in its tracks before it was even fully formed.
“This proposal not only threatens public safety, it is patently unconstitutional, utterly reprehensible and has no place in a civil society,” Harris explained. “Today, I am filing an action for declaratory relief with the [Sacramento County Superior] Court seeking judicial authorization for relief from the duty to prepare and issue the title and summary for the ‘Sodomite Suppression Act.’ If the Court does not grant this relief, my office will be forced to issue a title and summary for a proposal that seeks to legalize discrimination and vigilantism.”
In accordance with California’s direct democracy style of legislating McLaughlin has had 180 days since February 26th to collect over 360,000 signatures in support of his bill. Though it’s highly unlikely that he would have ever been able to meet all of the requirements by his deadline, Harris’s move to attempt to block him entirely is admirable, if somewhat driven by her current Senatorial aspirations.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
LGBT: desafios e conquistas – Opinião Minas – parte 1
LGBT: desafios e conquistas – Opinião Minas – parte 1
27/03/15 – O Opinião Minas desta sexta vai falar sobre os direitos alcançados e os desafios ainda existentes para o movimento LGBT no Brasil. O programa aborda a repercussão do beijo gay…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5MFBXcKqak&feature=youtube_gdata
