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NCAA Pulls Focus Ad

Focus on the Family lost another one this week, when the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) removed a banner ad from their website. Although the ad was fairly benign, with a father holding his son and saying  "All I want for my son is for him to grow up knowing how to do the right […]

Clay Aiken Speaks For Gay Rights

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than a year after disclosing he is gay, Clay Aiken is speaking before a gay-rights event in his hometown. Aiken will deliver a speech about gay rights this weekend at the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas gala in Raleigh, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday. Actress Meredith Baxter, who

DON’T ASK DON’T TELL DON’T MOVE DON’T LISTEN DON’T SEE

  It’s difficult for the truth to be victorious these days. The truth can present itself, stand tall and proud and provide stacks of evidentiary support, but as far as turning the tide in order to bring about evolution in government, truth doesn’t appear to be a deciding factor. Aside from same sex marriage and

Prop 8 Repeal Signature Campaign Struggling

According to John Henning, executive director of Love Honor Cherish, the signature gathering efforts underway to get a measure on the ballot in 2010 to repeal California’s Prop 8 is struggling to meet their goals. Signature gathering began in mid November of last year. In order to qualify for a ballot measure, signatures must be

Time To Stop Mandating Cure For Homosexuality?

Among new legislation introduced this week in California is Assembly Bill 2199. Apparently, for the last 43 years there has been a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code which requires the Dept Of Mental Health to "plan, conduct and cause to be conducted scientific research into the causes and cures of sexual deviation,

Lawmakers to press military on fate of gay ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers this week will press the military’s top uniformed officers for the first time on whether they think repealing "don’t ask, don’t tell" makes sense or would be too disruptive. The testimony from each of the service chiefs on Capitol Hill will be crucial to the debate in Congress on whether to

Civil Rights Only If You’re “Natural”

Ryan Sorba is a member of the California Young Americans For Freedom, a group formed in the 1960’s, upholding the US Constitution as the foundation of the nation, only to now have mutated into a group of young conservatives who strive to deny chosen minority groups their access to equal rights. You know, the kind

School Issued Laptop Webcams Spying On Kids At Home

As laptops become more common in schools, the technology available to those computers may pose threats you’d never think of. What about the faculty of a school which issues laptops to their students then using the technology available to watch the students at home, without their knowledge. Just how far are we going in this

Massachusetts Goes After DOMA

  BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman interferes with her state’s right to regulate the institution. Coakley’s office filed a lawsuit in July challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In papers filed late Thursday, Coakley asks

Valor on Valentine’s day

That intense heavy silence like at a wedding when the vows are being read was evident on Valentine’s day at the County Court’s office. The onlookers leaned in and attuned themselves to the tone and emotional truth as each person declared their love for the other. County officials and policemen bowed their heads respectfully. Some