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Nashville man pretends to be gay for a year to understand impact of gay label

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Nashville resident Timothy Kurek had long understood homosexuality to be sinful, but when a friend was rejected by her family for coming out, he sought to understand how gay people are treated in society through an unusual experiment.

After a full year in which he posed as gay to everyone in his life, he is now writing a book about how much he learned about anti-gay discrimination and stigma.

Today, Kurek explained to MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts that the book is not about what it’s like to be gay, but about how gay people are treated. He said the experience “altered my faith and challenged my beliefs,” apologizing for his past disapproval of homosexuality.

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Janice Daniels, mayor of Troy, MI, can’t stop putting her foot in her mouth

Janice Daniels, the mayor of Troy, MI, compared being gay to smoking cigarettes on a recent talk-show appearance, according to CBS Detroit.

Last December Daniels earned the ire of many—and finds herself facing a recall effort—after she posted on Facebook “I think I am going to throw away my I Love New York carrying bag now that queers can get married there.”

That little dig cost Daniels her job at the real-estate company Century 21, even though she claimed, “I know that as mayor, I represent all of the people in this city.” Organizers of the recall effort against Daniels submitted 9,300 signatures to the city’s Election Division this week. (They only needed 7,985.)

Not realizing she should’ve quit while she was behind, Daniels went on Charlie Langton’s morning talk show on Radio 1270 to “explain” herself.

“What I said while I was mayor … I was in a business meeting, I come from a business perspective … I said that I would bring a doctor into a meeting that would say that the homosexual lifestyle is dangerous,” Daniels said, adding, “Had I been with a group of smokers I might have said I would like to bring a doctor into this meeting to say that smoking is dangerous.”

When Langton asked Daniels if she thought being gay was “dangerous,” she replied “I think that doctors can make a case for it certainly,”but said she personally “had no opinion” on it.

Determined to make every faux pas in the book, Daniels even trotted out the “some of my best friends are gay” card. Well, her version of it, anyway:

“I am refinancing a home mortgage for a man who I would suspect could potentially be homosexual and we get along famously … In fact he brought papers into the office the other day and we actually grabbed each other’s arms and kind of stood together in solidarity because we’re refinancing his home loan …”

Wow – isn’t she swell?

Via Queerty

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Craigslist ad – buying my son “more nice things” if he chooses to be straight

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“I am selling my son’s MacBook Pro 15 inch.  He found out that there is going to be a new MacBook so I will be buying that for him.  I bought it last summer so it isn’t even a year old yet.  It is on pretty decent shape.  I am pretty firm on the price.”

“Just a footnote, I don’t want to get a ton of messages from you guys, saying that I am spoiling my son and turning him into an entitled monster.  There is a backstory that you aren’t even aware of.  My son was committing homosexual acts and got caught in the act.  We made a deal that if he chose to be straight that we  would buy him more nice things.  So don’t message me saying that I am a bad parent for spoiling him.  It’s quite the opposite, I am a good parent and I’m working with him to correct his problem.”

I checked the URL and the ad has been flagged and taken down.  Not sure if it was serious or not…

UPDATE: It now appears this “ad” is the work of a young man who apparently posts things on Craigslist to see what kind of “passionate” response the ads will bring.  More here.

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Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, equates being gay to adultery and alcoholism

The president of the Family Research Council slammed the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community once again, condemning Pride month while equating LGBT people with adulterers and alcoholics.

As Right Wing Watch reports, Tony Perkins filled in on the American Family Association’s radio network last week, and responded to one caller’s accusation that right-wing pundits were ignoring societal ills to instead focus primarily on promoting misconceptions about the LGBT community.

“The month of June is Gay Pride Month,” Perkins declares. He went on to note, “Now, I have not yet seen where they have declared Adultery Pride Month, I have not seen where they have declared the Drunkenness Pride Month,” before adding that “we’re not celebrating those other forms as a society, we’re not promoting [them] and teaching [them] as normal in our schools.”

Read more at the Huffington Post

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29% of Republicans believe school boards should be able to fire teachers for being gay

From The New Civil Rights Movement: 29% of Republicans — almost three out of every ten — believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay. 20% of Independents and 16% of Democrats agree, according to a vast new Pew Research Center Values Study.

Overall, 21% of Americans still believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.

Other demographic breakdowns:

24% of men and 19% of women believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.

30% of those 65 and older and 23% of those 50 – 64 believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.

27% of Hispanics, 24% of Blacks, and 20% of whites believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.

31% of those with a high school diploma or less believe that school boards should be able to fire teachers simply for being gay.

One the positive side, those numbers are about half of what they were a quarter-century ago.

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Two “JC Penney” gay dads on local Texas news

The two gay dads – I hate that I feel I need to clarify that, but it seems necessary for those not following this story – Cooper Smith and Todd Koch, who currently are featured in a JC Penney ad for Father’s Day, appeared on local Texas news to discuss the attention they’ve received plus the attacks by the anti-gay One Million Moms.

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Anti-gay One Million Moms packs up Facebook page

After the antigay group known as One Million Moms came under assault on Facebook for attacking the idea of a gay comic book character, OMM’s Facebook page went missing.

The New Civil Rights Movement reports that OMM’s page on the social media site disappeared, and a quick Facebook search confirms that news. The group, which has leveled attacks against companies like JCPenney for being pro-gay, recently pounced on DC Comics for introducing Green Lantern as a gay character. After their Facebook post on the issue received numerous pro-gay comments, OMM removed the post.

Apparently, OMM went a step further recently by deleting their entire Facebook page. The New Civil Rights Movement notes that the group sent out a Tweet yesterday that stated they will be offline for most of next week to attend “vacation bible school.”

OMM has nowhere near a million members and is part of the AFA, which is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Read more here.

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Kansas Pastor Curtis Knapp calls for government to round up and kill gays

The leader of the New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, pastor Curtis Knapp, told parishioners that the government should round up LGBT people and kill them, according to audio posted by the Good As You blog.

“‘Oh, so you’re saying we should go out and start killing them?'” the pastor asked rhetorically. “No, I’m saying the government should. They won’t, but they should.”

He later explained to CNN that gays have nothing to fear from him, although he did say he believed gays should be rounded up by the federal government and killed.

This comes on the heels of a call for LGBT concentration camps from pastor Charles Worley in North Carolina. That sermon followed one by another North Carolina pastor named Sean Harris, who laughed at the idea anyone could be transgender and suggested cracking the wrists of a son who acts effeminate — a statement he later claimed was some kind of joke.

Also making the rounds today is a cell phone video of a child being cheered on by his Indiana church while singing, “Ain’t no homo going to make it to heaven.”

The Human Rights Campaign quickly denounced the comments and the string of others like it, saying extremists were “hijacking” religion.

“These are extreme and brutal messages that do not represent the beliefs of most people of faith,” said Sharon Groves, HRC’s director of religion and faith. “People like Charles Worley and the parishioners of Apostolic Truth in Indiana are falsely perpetuating the word of God and stand to do real damage to religious institutions in the process.”
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