Washington Post: Child molesters in Church are gay
Washington Post: Child molesters in Church are gay
Video: Rentboy dance party!
I’m sure this won’t surprise you, but George Rekers, the anti-gay advocate caught with a male “escort” is indeed gay – at least according to the escort, says the Miami New-Times.
“It’s a situation where he’s going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual,” Jo-vanni Roman, known as Lucien, told the New-Times. “In all honestly [sic], he should disassociate himself from these [antigay] groups.”
Roman said that he was hired to give Rekers daily rub downs in the nude.
Why is all of this important? Because Rekers – Baptist minister, psychology professor, has a “long, long record” of anti-gay work, doing research on why gays shouldn’t be able to adopt or marry (Washington Post [1] for the PDF).
Stephen Colbert had a great bit about all of this – see below for his in-studio, rentboy dance party:
The Colbert Report [2]
Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Alpha Dog of the Week – George Rekers [3]
www.colbertnation.com [4]
Colbert Report Full Episodes [5]
Political Humor [6]
Fox News [7]
[1] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/the_family_research_council_co.html
[2] http://www.colbertnation.com
[3] http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/308752/may-05-2010/alpha-dog-of-the-week—george-rekers
[4] http://www.colbertnation.com/
[5] http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/
[6] http://www.indecisionforever.com
[7] http://www.colbertnation.com/video/tag/Fox+News
CNN: Is there a need for a gay cure?
In a controversial segment [1] aired Tuesday, news anchor Kyra Phillips explores the question of whether there is a need to cure homosexuality.
Rep. Bonnie Lowenthal, the California assemblywoman advocating for the repeal of a law requiring health professionals to seek a cure for gays, debated the issue with ex-gay Richard Cohen. Interesting fact: Neither guest is gay.
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Lowenthal mentions the law was created at a time when homosexuality was officially a mental disorder. “It has been on the books for 60 years and is quite useless and rather offensive to many, including myself,” she said on CNN.
Cohen is the author of “Coming Out Straight” and claims to be a psychotherapist. He was expelled from the American Counseling Association in 2002 for what the Washington Post [3]called “multiple ethics violations.”
Cohen argues that California’s existing law seeking to cure homosexuals actually is a good thing because it forces studies of sexual predators which he sites as a reason people go gay.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHgJbjIXw8g&feature=player_embedded
[2] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/news-gay-cure-top.jpg
[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/15/AR2005081501063.html
1 in 7 gay men in D.C. are HIV+
About one in seven gay men in Washington, D.C., are HIV positive. That staggering figure was released last week by the D.C. HIV/AIDS Administration [1], according to a story by The Washington Post [2].
In a study of 500 gay men in the city, more than 40 percent of the participants were unaware of their diagnosis prior to the study. One in three men reported they didn’t know the status of their last partner.
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“This is a wake-up call,” gay D.C. Council member David A. Catania told the Washington Post. “It’s time for my generation to assume greater responsibility for themselves and their partners. Just because we escaped the epidemic of the 1980s doesn’t mean we are immune.”
Last year, the city distributed more 3.5 million condoms and tested 95,000 people for HIV.
While the figures for HIV among gay men in D.C. are high – almost five times higher than the rate of HIV among adults and teens across the city – figures in other cities are higher. In San Francisco, 24 percent of gay men are HIV positive; in New York it’s 25 percent and in Baltimore, an astounding 40 percent.
[1] http://doh.dc.gov/doh/cwp/view,a,1371,q,573205,dohNav_GID,1802.asp
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032503730.html
[3] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/news-hiv-testing-top.jpg
Neff: Gay news through the looking glass
Perhaps you’ve heard of the new fad at churches, fight nights — heavyweight bouts intended to bring more young people into the house of the Lord.
But have you heard of porn night at a church?
In mid-February, Uganda pastor Martin Ssempa hosted a porn show at a church service in Kampala to rally support for a bill that elevates homosexuality to a capital offense punishable, in some cases, by death.
Several hundred people watched Ssempa’s pornographic slideshow about gay sex. The Guardian newspaper quoted Ssempa as saying that he wanted people to know “about what homosexuals do” because “in Africa, what you do in your bedroom affects our clan, it affects our tribe, it affects our nation.”
Porn at church.
I began waiting for word that at a subsequent Bible study class Ssempa led the men in the group in a circle jerk to prove some point. As I scanned headlines for notice of such a news report, I came across a few other stories — closer to home — of interest:
• The Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander reported that the newspaper received a flood of complaints, including some subscription cancelations, after publishing a page one photograph of two men kissing the day the District of Columbia first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
One reader wrote The Post an e-mail: “That kind of stuff makes normal people want to throw up. People have kids who are being exposed to this crap. I will be glad when your rag goes out of business. Real men marry women.”
• Florida state Rep. Stephen Precourt recently introduced legislation to provide tax incentives to lure filmmakers to the Sunshine State.
Precourt, however, wants to apply a restriction — the incentives would only go for entertainment industry projects with “family friendly” themes that do not contain sex, nudity, smoking, profanity or LGBT characters.
Precourt said he wanted Florida to be known for making “Disney movies for kids and all that stuff.”
• The school board in Itawamba County, Miss., canceled a high school senior prom rather than allow a lesbian couple to attend.
The board’s statement said the April 2 dance was canceled “due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events.”
The local mayor said, “I think the community as a whole is probably in support of the school district.”
Wouldn’t you like to give some folks a shove through the looking-glass into a wonderland where everyone gets mushy over the lesbian kiss, gets hot over the gay-sex scene and goes “yuck” and “ick” when a man and woman embrace?
In that wonderland, 99.9 percent of romance stories on TV, in film and on the bookshelves would be about LGBT people and Janis Joplin wouldn’t have pretended the Bobbie McGee she was singing about was a dude.
Down with straight supremacy.
Down with this attitude that everyone, gay and straight, wants to sit through 120-minutes of Hollywood dribble about the boy who romances the girl or the girl who tricks the boy, but only gays find gay-themed movies relevant or entertaining.
Down with this attitude that gay and lesbian youth must sit in the bleachers and cheer on their hetero peers as they dance away their senior prom.
Down with this attitude that a same-sex kiss is acceptable only when it’s played for comedy, and that we all should swoon over the deeply romantic gesture of a man and a woman exchanging tongue.
And down with this ridiculous attitude that gay porn proves a case for sentencing gays to death. I mean really, what would a presumably straight congregation think about watching “Deep Throat” during a church service?
At one point during his pornographic slide presentation, Ssempa pointed out to his church audience, “This one is eating another man’s anus.”
I’m pretty sure that if I looked hard enough, I could find an image of a man and a woman engaged in this act.
In fact, before I go on, I’ll search Google to see.…
I’m back, yes, I can find such images — no shortage of them.
You know what? I didn’t enjoy looking at those images — probably even straight supremacists would say “ick” or “yuck” at the photos. I wouldn’t want to see those images during a church service, but an act worthy of a death sentence?
Porn at church.
We don’t need to tumble through the looking-glass or into wonderland to encounter a mad hatter.
Virginia AG seeks to cut gays from higher ed discrimination policies
Virgina’s attorney general sent a letter to state colleges and universities asking officials to end policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, The Washington Post reported.
Ken Cuccinelli II, a Republican, wrote that it is up to the discretion of the General Assembly to offer protections to gay and lesbian state …
Catholic Charities cuts off benefits for employees’ spouses
Catholic Charities, a Washington, D.C.-based social services agency, appears to be continuing its tantrum over the impending start of same-sex marriages in the district.
On Monday, the agency announced to employees that they would no longer be eligible to receive benefits covering legally married spouses, according to The Washington Post. The …
Yes to gay marriage means no social services, Catholic Church warns
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is threatening the district with suspending their social services programs if the city doesn’t change a proposed equal marriage law, the Washington Post reports.
The bill requires religious organizations to obey city laws forbidding discrimination against gay men and lesbians, though they would not have to …
WaPo addresses gay criticism
The Washington Post’s ombudsperson responded to criticism of his paper’s puff piece on NOM.
Virginia gov candidate wrote anti-gay masters thesis
(Richmond, Va) Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor said Monday he no longer believes his argument in a graduate thesis written 20 years ago that discrimination against gays and other groups is acceptable for the benefit of straight, married couples.
Bob McDonnell’s research paper, first reported Sunday by The Washington Post, shakes …
