Colorado coalition slams Senate candidate Buck
The fallout over Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck continues. Campaign for a Strong Colorado, One Colorado, the Matthew Shepard Foundation, the Center and several concerned Coloradans today condemned...
View ArticleFocus leader Jim Daly talks about gay bullying
Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, wrote an essay for CNN on gay bullying, a major topic in recent weeks. Read my Gazette story on the topic here. Below is a sampling: “If there is a...
View ArticleSurvey links gay bullying to religion
Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe conservative Christian messages saying homosexuality is a sin and abomination have added to the gay bullying problem, a study released Thursday has found....
View ArticleResearcher says children of gays more likely to become homosexual
A social scientist released a report last summer that continues to be controversial. Walter Schumm, a professor of family studies at Kansas State University, found in his study that children adopted...
View ArticleConservative ministries react to federal bullying intervention
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is moving toward intervening on gay bullying in schools. A letter went out to more than 15,000 schools last week saying gay bullying is...
View ArticleGLSEN leader: “To be against the Day of Silence is to be for gay bullying”
In my Gazette story you can read here, I write about Focus on the Family sponsoring the Day of Dialogue, a day students rebuke homosexuality as a lifestyle. Focus on the Family has created a website,...
View ArticleConservatives weigh in on Focus’ sponsorship of anti-gay observance
In my Monday story, I write about how Focus on the Family’s decision to sponsor a student-led anti-gay day has polarized conservatives. Last Thursday Focus announced it was picking up sponsorship of...
View ArticleBishop Robinson breaks silence with YouTube message
Click here to view the embedded video. Bishop Gene Robinson, whose consecration as an Episcopal Church bishop in 2003 ignited a furor within the denomination because he’s openly gay, announced...
View ArticleChristian groups on SPLC Hate Group list react by changing subject, scholar says
Warren Throckmorton, a Pennsylvania psychologist who founded the anti-bullying school program the Golden Rule, has written an interesting essay on the reaction by the Family Research Institute, in...
View ArticleArizona shootings, a wake-up call to faith leaders, too?
Jared Lee Loughner’s alleged shooting rampage in Arizona Saturday that has taken lives and critically injured Democrat Representative Gabriel Giffords has many calling for a re-assement of the...
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