14 June 2010 Sometime this month, in many major cities around the United States and world, there will be a Pride celebration – a festival, music, dancing, parade or rally. Pride is celebrated as recognition of what happened in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City – a protest to bring awareness [...]
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Huffington Post on “8: The Mormon Proposition”
From ’8: The Mormon Proposition’ – Exclusive Clip Reveals Church Coerced Members to Raise Millions For Prop. 8 Campaign (VIDEO): The film will interest those who’ve wondered why the fight against gay marriage in California began to flourish or why California became the first state to take same-sex marriage rights away by changing its constitution. [...]
Orrin Hatch: “Gays and lesbians don’t pay tithing, their religion is politics.”
Speaking at Dixie State College in St. George on Tuesday 1 June 2010, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) remarked during an anti-Democrat/liberal speech that the GOP needs to organize like LGBT/SOGI rights activists. Says the HRC Religion and Faith Program Director Harry Knox: “Senator Hatch’s statement that gay people’s religion is politics is insulting and demeaning [...]
Dustin Lance Black on “gay Salt Lake”
From “Dustin Lance Black: Pillars of Salt,” wherein the Oscar winner recounts his exploration of Salt Lake City while visiting for the premier of 8: The Mormon Proposition at Sundance: “By the time the plane touched down in Salt Lake, I’d scrapped my plans to spend the weekend in a posh cabin up in Park [...]
for your consideration
Enjoy these assorted links. Without further comment, I think you’ll find them interesting. The end of the wicked old Mormons. Preying on the faithful: Though Mormons often victims, LDS Church skips fraud-prevention event. LDS Church shows off new ‘green’ meetinghouse. Don’t Look Gay: Why American Men Are Afraid of Intimacy with Each Other. Four St. [...]
Brendan Walsh of ScreenCrave on 8: The Mormon Proposition: “Though the political implications of this film are strong and many, the true achievement of this film is the way it humanizes the consequences of the matter at hand. It would take an especially imperceptive mind not to be struck by the fact that this religious [...]
The Messenger, Feb. 09
Good morning from snowy Washington! Nine Affirmation leaders have just spent five days at the 22nd annual Creating Change Conference in Dallas, Texas. They joined over 2,000 leaders from every major LGBT-interest group in the country, in intensive training sessions, business and program analysis, and sharing of ideas and best practices. Creating Change is often called a “transformational experience,” [...]