http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/homosexuals/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:07:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417767/posts Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration says it has halted, at least temporarily, a policy change that would have forced people living as the opposite sex to get an amended birth certificate before applying to change their gender on their driver's license. The gay-rights group Equality Maryland said...the change would have put a financial burden on many people who are struggling financially. It would have taken effect Friday. The current policy demands only written confirmation from a physician or psychologist that the applicant is under supervision for a gender change. The decision doesn't affect a policy requiring people who have had transgender... Examiner, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417767/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:07:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415630/posts For research I'm doing into the facts about the effects of gay parents on children. I've heard so much about how there are absolutely no differences on kids when they've been brought up in a "Heather Has Two Mommies" kind of household, but I've seen very little, if any research. The URL I found above seems like a lot of puffery. I am not looking for opinions, but links and reports on any studies into this. If you have worked with this population, your insights would be welcomed. self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415630/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:52:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412509/posts   MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - A Memphis attorney has admitted to biting off part of a man's nose during a confrontation at a popular Midtown restaurant.According to a lawsuit filed by Greg Herbers, Mark Lambert bit off and swallowed part of his nose during a dispute last June at Dish on South Cooper Street.Lambert is a trial attorney with the Cochran Firm.      The incident at Dish began in the men's room when Herbers became annoyed because the urinal and stalls were occupied.Herbers says two men were together inside the same stall. He says Lambert carried on a conversation with... WMCTC / New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412509/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410029/posts A spokesman for the American Family Association says a Republican homosexual activist group doesn't belong at a popular conservative political conference in February. The homosexual activist group GOProud, an offshoot of the Log Cabin Republicans, boasts on its website that it will be a co-sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on February 18-20. Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, says taking part in CPAC "is one of the most important things [GOProud] will do all year," and affords the homosexual activist group "an incredible opportunity to deliver [its] message." GOProud advocates same-sex "marriage," a repeal of... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410029/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:17:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408761/posts LESBIANS in South Africa are being dragged off the street and raped to "correct" them, it has been claimed. ky News has found evidence of widespread abuse against the lesbian community, resulting in a new trend of so-called "corrective rape." In the the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town, a group of women said they live in fear for their lives. All of them claim to know someone who has been violently dragged off the street and raped because she had come out as a lesbian. " There is always that threat that you are going to... NewsCore http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408761/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:01:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408355/posts Why did the Parents’ Rights Coalition (now MassResistance) decide to tape the 2000 GLSEN-Boston workshop, AKA “Fistgate”? Below is then-director Scott Whiteman’s December 1999 testimony before the Massachusetts State Board of Education – just months before the March 2000 GLSEN event. State education officials ignored it as not credible. Read this testimony with the hindsight offered by our Fistgate audio tapes. Whiteman refers to BAGLY (Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth) – whose director was a founding member of the Governor’s Commission, a close working ally of Kevin Jennings, and has run the GLBT youth prom for decades.... massresistance.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408355/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:21:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406782/posts HOUSTON – The first openly gay person to be elected mayor of Houston says she hopes her victory in Saturday's election will change how the world views the city. Houston is the nation's fourth-largest city and the biggest to elect an openly gay mayor. Mayor-elect Annise Parker spoke Sunday at a press conference after defeating former city attorney Gene Locke with 53.6 percent of the vote in the hotly contested runoff election. Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406782/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:06:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404421/posts ALAMEDA, Calif. – The school board blinked. Under the duress of a lawsuit and threats of recall, the Alameda Board of Education has voted to phase out an elementary school curriculum it adopted in May to prevent anti-gay bullying. The so-called Lesson 9, which had become an opposition centerpiece in a national anti-gay marriage campaign, will be replaced by a more generic anti-bullying message. But the board's action Tuesday night did little to ease the tension between gay parents, who want their children protected, and parents who who think elementary school is too early to talk to students about gay... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404421/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401763/posts Here's a lesson plan similar to what "Safe Schools czar" Kevin Jennings might have used when he taught American history at Concord Academy. One of his GLSEN disciples, a teacher at the Harvard, Mass. high school, described her lesson plan in great detail at the 2001 GLSEN-Boston conference...... massresistance.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401763/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 01:26:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401717/posts A Vermont court ordered a Christian child taken away from her mother and given to a lesbian ex-partner, setting up, according to a lawyer for the Christian family, a dispute that the U.S. Supreme Court likely will have to resolve. Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, told WND the recent order from the Vermont judge that Lisa Miller turn over her young daughter, Isabella, to the lesbian ex-partner, Janet Jenkins, on New Year's Day is being appealed. In the interim, a separate court hearing on the dispute is scheduled to be heard in a Virginia court during this coming week.... WND via The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401717/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401365/posts GLSEN sponsors “Santa is Coming Out:” Join GLSEN December 8th, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. for a benefit evening of festivities and entertainment with Santa Claus Is Coming Out, an Off Broadway show written and performed by Jeffrey Solomon, and directed by Joe Brancato. Santa Claus Is Coming Out is a Santa story like you’ve never heard before. Developed at Penguin Rep Theatre, this mock-u-mentary follows Santa in his heartfelt struggle to reconcile his romantic relationship with Italian toy maker Giovanni Geppetto, and he better think of something fast because Christmas is just around the corner! Garnered to induce plenty of... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401365/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 05:03:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400702/posts A judge has attacked parents, suggesting they are bigots for seeking to opt-out their elementary-age children from a mandatory controversial pro-homosexual curriculum, according to a non-profit law firm. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400702/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 02:23:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398942/posts If Tiger Woods wants a quick exit from the world of scandal he's entered, he might as well start listening to the Internet's No. 1 gossip "gangstar," Perez Hilton. The self-proclaimed "Queen of All Media" is in New York this week, celebrating the release of "True Bloggywood Stories: The Glamorous Life of Beating, Cheating and Overdosing." Until now, this is a world that the 33-year-old golf superstar has avoided. But had the book come out a few weeks later, Hilton might have had to stop the presses so he could include Woods' controversial car crash alongside the scandals of Jon... Sphere http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398942/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:04:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386144/posts It never ceases to amaze me the degree to which liberals – the self-styled proponents of “tolerance” and “diversity”… the mind-numbingly sanctimonious arbiters of “hate” – consistently prove to be the most intolerant and hateful among us. But regrettably, since the recent passage of “Question 1” – the voter initiative that threw out counterfeit “gay marriage” in Maine – the level of hate-filled bile we’ve come to expect from the left has morphed from malicious to menacing. In the wake of the horrific act of Islamic domestic terrorism at Fort Hood Texas, it’s been learned that militant homosexual activists recently... TownHall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386144/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395924/posts EDITORIAL Christian Leaders' Stance On Civil Disobedience Is Dangerous Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox leaders are going too far when they declare they will break laws on abortion and same-sex marriage. November 28, 2009 Philosophers have argued for centuries over whether it is ever justifiable to break the law in the service of a higher cause. The question acquired a new complexity with the advent of societies such as the United States, in which laws were enacted by elected representatives and not decreed by a monarch or dictator. Few today would criticize civil rights activists, including the Rev. Martin Luther King... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395924/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:24:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396049/posts LOS ANGELES, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines by announcing he was becoming a woman, then returned to work as a man, has been found dead in a suspected suicide, the paper reported on Saturday. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396049/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:03:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393601/posts FILE- Archbishop of Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl walks with United States Chief Justice John Roberts after the Red Mass at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP photo) (CNSNews.com) – A longtime Washington, D.C., liberal Internet activist has founded a Web site that he says will collect accounts of homosexuals in the Catholic priesthood--accounts he will use to “encourage” them to change their views on homosexual marriage and other issues. “Outing” the priests--publicly revealing their homosexuality--is “not off the table,” Phil Attey, founder of the Web site ChurchOuting.com, told CNSNews.com. The site will also collect information on straight... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393601/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394052/posts Ban Lifted For Green-Card Applicants With HIV A two-decade-old rule kept those with the virus out of the U.S. Now such immigrants will be able to visit the country and apply for legal status. By Anna Gorman November 25, 2009 A stamp in Heidemarie Kremer's passport reveals her health status as HIV-positive. Because of the disease, Kremer -- a native of Germany -- has been barred from becoming a legal resident of the United States. She and her two children are fighting possible deportation, and their plans for the future are on hold. But that soon may change. This month,... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394052/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:33:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391902/posts Last June, District Attorney David Capeless of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, announced that he was dropping all charges against 44-year-old Bernard Baran, a man who has spent half his life behind bars on child molestation charges that the state no longer has the confidence to retry. Baran was convicted in January 1985 of molesting six children at a pre-kindergarten day care facility in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was released on bond in 2006 after an appeals court determined that his trial attorney had been incompetent and that the prosecution may have withheld key exculpatory evidence. Baran says that during his jail term... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391902/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:31:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391371/posts Ah the good old days. Do you remember when right was right and wrong was wrong? I sure do but it was a long time ago. Live Leak http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391371/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:31:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388062/posts A group called Love Honor Cherish launched an Internet-based effort today to collect enough signatures to place a measure repealing Prop. 8, the anti-gay marriage law, on the state ballot by next year. The signature-gathering drive will use social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter, organizers said in a statement. “We’re taking names,” said John Henning, who is heading the SignForEquality.com effort launched to collect the signatures. "People throughout California can now help us win marriage back by the simple act of signing and collecting signatures.” Prop. 8 was approved by California voters a year ago, reversing a California... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388062/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:55:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383647/posts By MIKE LEE mikelee@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH — The City Council voted 6-3 late Tuesday to expand its anti-discrimination ordinance to include transgender people, capping a marathon debate over a series of gay-rights proposals that were forwarded after a controversial inspection of a gay bar. A majority of council members spoke in favor of the proposal when it was introduced last week. The inspection at the Rainbow Lounge in June left a man injured and sparked protests in the city. Fort Worth officials appointed a task force to recommend ways to mend fences with the gay community shortly afterward. The vote... Fort Worth Star-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383647/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:05:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382556/posts It's time for a policy change in the American military. "Don't ask, don't tell" may have seemed like a good compromise in 1993 but makes no sense in a post 9/11 world where the average soldier worries far more about getting fragged by an al Qaeda sympathizer in their platoon than whether their bunkmate is a little light in their government issued boots. This report from ABC news should make your jaw drop: U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials... Ikeonic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382556/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:04:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381979/posts The normal routine of the League was interrupted Friday afternoon, when an anonymous caller called to say he owned guns and his next target was the former director of the League, Mike Heath (above). The death threat was apparently related to the recent win on Question 1, which revoked the right of homosexuals to be married in Maine. The caller said the following: “I am calling about Mr. Mike Heath, the Executive of your Christian Civic League of Maine. He thinks that gay people should have our rights revoked that we already have. Well I can tell him this... AFTAH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381979/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:27:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378796/posts I haven't heard this argument before by homosexuals but here it is: "Taxes have everything to do with "no taxation without representation." Why should homosexuals have to pay taxes if they are going to be treated as second class citizens? Why should their tax dollars go to the govt? But if you and I can have our benefits left to our spouses and get tax breaks for filing, then everyone in a domestic partnership should have that right. The govt should support all marriage or no marriage. It should represent all it's constituents. We can't just apply the ideals of... Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378796/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:10:30 GMT