An estimated 1200 protesters gathered today
outside the North Carolina church of Pastor Charles "Put Gays In
Concentration Camps" Worley. Unlike fellow NC Pastor Sean "Beat Gay
Kids" Harris, Worley has refused to apologize for his message. The Hickory Daily Record reports:The protestors came out in force to bring a message of love and acceptance. Their signs bore bold statements like, “Jesus had 2 dads and he turned out just fine.” And “I am a gay, moral, conservative Christian.” Sheriff’s deputies and Newton police officers kept the peace as the protestors stood by the side of the road and cheered every time a car drove past and honked in approval. A vocal group of more than 50 counter-protestors were on hand to support Worley and his church. They too had signs with slogans like, “Sodomites are vile, unnatural and worthy of death. Romans 1:21-32.” And “Gay pride is why Sodom got fried.” The protest’s organizer explained her goals for the event. “Hopefully our protest today will send a message that we, as a community, as a state and as a country, will not stand in the background in silent acceptance,” said Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate member Laura Tipton. “This protest has grown beyond Pastor Worley. I hope his congregation sees that we are gathering in love. Their messages are wrong, and we will not accept them.”
I'm
going to try and remember to post one of these every Friday until November. The
interactive
version with the latest polling data can be found at Huffington Post.
Updated site: LGBT Americans For Obama.Dr. Spitzer, who just turned 80, has acknowledged that his survey was deeply flawed. In a letter to the editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, which had published his study, he said he had no way of knowing whether the patients who said they had changed were deceiving themselves, lying or reporting accurately. He apologized for making “unproven claims” about reparative therapy and for any harm he may have caused to anyone who “wasted time and energy” undergoing the therapy. Critics have noted that the people interviewed were nominated by centers that were performing the therapy and that there was no control group and no clear definition of what counted as therapy. There is also some evidence that reparative therapy can lead to depression or suicidal thoughts and behavior. It is absurd, potentially harmful, pseudopsychiatry. It should have been rejected long ago.
The
body breaks, things change, life ends. Only when impermanence is fully
apprehended do we really have the chance to serve, to give without
bargaining.
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When we are fully expressed from moment to moment, we are transparent.
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Dan Savage has set the time and place for the one-on-one debate that NOM's Brian Brown challenged him to earlier this month. Per this week's Savage Love podcast, Dan has invited Brown and his wife to a dinner at his Seattle home with Dan and his husband, where New York Times
columnist Mark Oppenheimer, who has previously interviewed both
parties, has agreed to moderate the discussion. I've just spoken to Dan
by phone and he tells me that the event will be filmed with the
tentative plan to upload the debate to YouTube "in its entirety and
without edits." The exact date is not yet known, but Savage suggested
some time in June. Stand by for Brian Brown's reaction to the
invitation.
