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POPSSix Months in Hell, with the Heaven-Bound This Polish exchange student, who writes of his six months with a fundamentalist host family in Greensboro, NC was not gay(as far as I know) but can you imagine what those six months might have been like if he was (and made the mistake of telling his host family)? Wel, maybe he'd have gotten lucky and they would have just kicked him out.
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POPSHelping Make More Ted Haggards And if the Ohio Bishop doesn't quite get the point across, how about a Methodist minister who was once married to a gay man for 15 years before the marriage fell apart, and whose able to look at her own situation and see the role religion played in creating a situation that caused her, her husband, her children, their friends and family to suffer. How is this better than creating a reality in which same-sex orientation is accepted, and same-sex couples are encouraged towards commitment and fidelity? How many fewer broken families, and hearts, would there be? Or is it easier to just keep creating people like Ted Haggard and then condemn them when they inevitably fail at denying who they are?
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POPSHome and Family I've known about COLAGE since we first started talking about becoming parents, and I'm glad that it will be there for our kids. But reading this letter from a COLAGEr to the COLAGE community makes me even more grateful that COLAGE exists. It sounds like the kind of community I hope our kids become a part of. I can't really add anything to the letter. Just go read it, and know the kids are alright. They really are
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POPSPro-Life is Anti-Gay It's encouraging that Democratic Sen-elect Bob Casey wants to pass hate crime legislation that includes LGBT people. It's also telling that the folks at Agape Press think that anyone who wants a works where LGBT people aren't targeted for violence and murder because they're LGBT people cannot possibly be pro-life. Maybe they'd be more comfortable in the Islamic republic of Iran, where homosexuals are hanged before cheering crowds.