Blogs Posts on "Homosexuality"

fired for “bad stuff” remark by walking on water on Nov 16, 2009A Brookstone manager in Boston was fired by the company for an allegedly anti-gay remark he made on a fellow co-worker. Mr. Peter Vadala claimed that a fellow employee kept mentioning her lesbian “fiancee” and hence “her homosexual...

More on Hate-Speech By Left and Right by The Church of Jesus Christ on Nov 15, 2009Last week, I posted on a right-wing attack on a left-wing blogger which I believe is really an attempt at controlling speech. I’ve read the comments, and like I have on other statements – much to the contrary of a comment left on the prev...

Gay days in the African bush by A View from Middle England by Arden Forester on Nov 14, 2009"There will come a time when they who kill you think they do God's Will". Sometimes this is killing the heart, sometimes its killing the body. It never results in killing the soul. How we lead our lives is complex indeed. The traditional Christian te...

The Clothes Make the (Heterosexual) Man by Sociology Eye on Nov 13, 2009Dress codes in schools have long been a source of intergenerational conflict, control, and increasingly obvious, a way to police gender norms and sexuality.  In an article that interrogates these instances of specific gender and sexuality “vio...

Deserved Protection by Drop My Dime on Nov 10, 2009October 28, 2009. The Federal Hate Crimes Act has now been extended to include attacks committed due to sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability. Forsome, like Matthew Shepard, this bill comes a little to late. However, there is no...

United Methodist Court Affirms Stance Against Homosexuality by The Church of Jesus Christ on Nov 9, 2009The United Methodist Church’s highest court recently reversed a resolution, passed by a regional group, that declares the denomination is divided on the issue of homosexuality. The Judicial Council said the legislation negates the body’s...

Joy Behar and guests discuss Carrie PreJean sex scandal by Loft 965 on Nov 8, 2009Seriously, it’s always the people who have something to hide who raise the religious and/or conservative flag. She made a name for herself championing bigotry and ignorance and behind the scenes she’s not practicing what she preaches at a...

Gay rights groups to protest religious parents’ meeting by The Church of Jesus Christ on Nov 7, 2009Several gay rights organizations have announced they plan to protest a Focus on the Family “Love Won Out” conference on homosexuality that will be held Saturday (Nov. 7), at this city’s Metropolitan Church of God. “They’...

Is the Fight for Gay Rights Over? by Religion Compass Exchanges on Nov 6, 2009Bishop John Shelby Spong is revered by those affiliated with progressive Christianity and scorned by conservatives. For years he has been an outspoken advocate for the cause of women, gays and lesbians, and people of color. Candace Chellew-Hodge co...

Modern Family by MacDoctor on Nov 6, 2009USA Today carries a fascinating article on child-rearing gay couples drawn from a newly published book by Abbie Goldberg, an assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The book is entitled Lesbian and Gay Parents and T...