Picketers target Tampa TV outlet for airing anti-gay program
Nearly 100 people picketed in front of WFLA News Channel 8 on Wednesday, opposing the station’s decision to run a religious paid program they say contained hate speech against gays and lesbians.
The one-hour program, “Speechless: Silencing Christians,” aired on June 27, the same day as the St. Pete Pride parade.
“It was a slap in the face of the gay pride movement,” R. Zeke Fread, the director of Pride Tampa Bay, said at Wednesday’s protest. “It was an hourlong attack on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.”
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Ward 8 Democrats Act Ahead of D.C. Council Legislation
The District’s same-sex marriage debate continued yesterday in the basement of a library in Ward 8, the predominantly African American community that council member Marion Barry invoked in justifying his recent vote against a bill to recognize gay marriages performed outside of the city.
But yesterday, gay rights advocates declared victory in a key battle to set the tone for the issue when the Ward 8 Democrats voted 21 to 11 to support the legalization of same-sex marriage, in preparation for legislation expected to be introduced in the D.C. Council this year.
The Ward 8 vote came after almost two hours of discussion about religion, referendums and civil rights among the crowd of about 100 people at the Washington Highlands Library on Atlantic Avenue SW.
Barry, who was scheduled to speak for the opposition, did not attend. Sandy Allen, a former council member and president of the Ward 8 Democrats, said Barry told her he had a doctor’s appointment.
More than a week ago, Barry drew ire and praise when he was the lone dissenter in a 12 to 1 vote to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions. Barry, a civil rights icon and a longtime supporter of gay rights, said his vote represented the feelings of the predominantly black Ward 8 and, in a broader sense, most black people in the District.
Local gay rights advocates say there is some credence to Barry’s argument. A 2006 poll by a local group advocating same-sex marriage shows strongest opposition among black residents. Some of those sentiments were on display at yesterday’s Ward 8 discussion.
“We are not homophobic. We are not hatemongers. We love everybody,” said the Rev. Patrick J. Walker, chairman of a new task force of ministers opposed to gay marriage. The task force is part of the Missionary Baptist Ministers’ Conference in the region, which pressed Barry to vote against the same-sex marriage recognition legislation.
“It’s our position that this is an issue that should go before the people. Thirteen people . . . should not set the moral compass of this city,” Walker said, referring to the members of the council. He is the pastor of New Macedonia Baptist Church in Southeast.
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Two executed in Saudi Arabia for male rape
Two Saudi men were publicly beheaded on December 26th after being found guilty of rape.
The official SPA news agency said Nasser al-Harby and Majid al-Sibeiy had gone into the bedroom where the unnamed victim slept.
They beat him, tied him up and raped him.
100 people were executed by Saudi Arabia in 2008.
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Berlin Memorial To Gay Victims Of Nazis Vandalized
Berlin’s memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months.
Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably with a stone.
The window allows visitors to see inside the concrete memorial and view a video of a same-sex couple kissing
The memorial in Berlin’s Tiergarten park was inaugurated in May and suffered similar damage to the same window in August.
A protest held after that attack to denounce intolerance and homophobia drew more than 100 people including Berlin’s openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit.
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