I just found a fascinating website. It’s called “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Alumni of Bob Jones University.” It’s little explanatory subheading is “Because’ we’re here too.” In case you’re not from the U.S. or simply not in the know, Bob Jones University is probably the most fundamentalist of all fundamentalist colleges. The school didn’t [Read More...]
Dear Libby, I know a person in a club I’m part of who genuinely believes in anti-equality messages. So far he hasn’t dropped Leviticus on me, but he has offered up Genesis 2:24. There’s a whole lot of “I didn’t make the laws and I wasn’t consulted on them” as excuses for his homophobia. Is [Read More...]
One thing I find extremely interesting is that while support for gay marriage is increasing, support for women’s right to choose is not. Here are two graphs to compare. One shows support for and opposition to abortion, and the other shows support for and opposition to gay marriage. Both cover the same period, from 1996 to [Read More...]
I’ve written recently about conservative arguments that having abortions causes post traumatic stress disorder and ruins women’s lives, and that being gay means leading a destructive “lifestyle” that elevates your risk of suicide and depression. In each case I’ve pointed to self-fulfilling prophesies – if you can convince women having abortions that they are murdering [Read More...]
Many of you may already have read this piece on Rolling Stone about the rash of suicides in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District. In a nutshell, the districts “no homo promo” policy has resulted in a very negative school atmosphere for gay teens, a half a dozen of whom have taken their lives in response. The [Read More...]
I didn’t meet a gay person growing up. “Homosexuals” were talked about in tones of disgust and sorrow, and we children knew that it was wrong for “men to kiss men” and “women to kiss women,” and that the Bible condemned homosexuality, but it was all in the abstract. It was about those depraved people [Read More...]
Today I read this Romney quote on Blag Hag: “At the time the Constitution was written marriage was between a man and a woman and I don’t believe the Supreme Court has changed that.” Ah, the whole original intent argument. I grew up on that. Any constitutional question should be referred to the “original intent” [Read More...]
Growing up, I believed that I belonged to the most discriminated against group in the United States, not because I wore skirts or because I was homeschooled, but simply because I was a Bible believing Christian. I believed that our rights were being eroded year by year, that government crackdowns on religion were just around [Read More...]
Today I watched “The Bible Told Me So,” a documentary about religion and homophobia. Two things struck me especially. The first was the section where Chrissy Gephart came out to her father, Dick Gephart, and the second was the absolute damage done to young gay and lesbians by religious homophobia and organizations like Focus on [Read More...]
Earlier today I came upon an excerpt from lawyer Rena Lindevaldsen’s new book, Only One Mommy. In it, Lindevaldsen explains how people become gay. “For men with temperaments that predispose them to same-sex attractions, two key factors are (i) the lack of a strong father-son bond, and (ii) same-sex abuse as a child. For women, [Read More...]
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