Sometimes we don’t have to look too far to find the people who persecute members of the LGBTQ+ Community(s).


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Good news, everyone!

We're no longer the biggest threat" to the marriages of evangelical Christians. Apparently their marriages get screwed up plenty without us even in the picture!

...Thank you, Captain Obvious.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100922/ap_on_re_us/us_pastor_abuse_allegations

As a Christian author, gospel singer and leader of one of the nation's best-known black megachurches, Bishop Eddie Long finds a wide audience for messages such as ( Read more... )

How many times have we seen stories like this?

Two Georgia men have filed a lawsuit claiming that prominent Atlanta, Georgia, pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex ( Read more... )

There might not be a legislator in the country who wants to keep "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" on the books more than Sen. John McCain. Sure, a few years ago, back when he was a maverick, Sen. McCain said that he'd support lifting "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" once military leadership said it was time for the policy to go.

To hear Sen. McCain say it, he' ( Read more... )

George Rekers is a prominent anti-gay activist, a Baptist minister who is a co-founder of the Family Research Council, arguably America's most prominent anti-gay organization. Rekers is a former research fellow at Harvard and a Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina. He's also on the board of the National ( Read more... )

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60 year old Iris Robinson is a member of the British Parliament, as well as the Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly, as a member of the Democratic Unionist Party; her husband is Northern Ireland's first minister, the head of its government. Iris Robinson is an Evangelical Christian, and also an intense and obsessive homophobe, whose comments ( Read more... )

Much hay was made about the absurdly right-wing thesis that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell wrote twenty years ago, but just recently his opponent was found to have taken some very un-progressive views himself only ten years ago. In a campaign ad, no less. To quote:

NO SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS
I don't believe in discrimination, but ( Read more... )

Mike Duvall, a Republican California Assemblyman has resigned. He was recorded on audio and video tape at a committee hearing talking about the kinky sex he was having with two lobbyists. Duvall, who is married, is considered a family values Republican and had a perfect 100% score from the Capitol Resource Institute because he "voted time and ( Read more... )