Canyonwalker Stands Up- Again
I love it when people choose compassion and understanding over rules and selective interpretation of scripture. Ignorance in action “On Scott Lively of “Kill the Gays Bill” (In)Fame.” More Christian...
View ArticlePresbyterian Pastor Stops Preaching Against Gays
Excellent Story from Salon.com: A recent poll shows a huge shift in American attitudes toward gay marriage, from a 32 percent approval in 2004 to 53 percent today. I am one of those people who changed...
View ArticleBe F*
One man’s campaign to conquer the frigid Danish psyche is being heralded by the Copenhagen Post: Danes have a harder time opening up to others, according to Lars AP, who has started a nationwide...
View ArticleMy Mother’s Son
First, I want to thank everyone for the marvelous messages of support during the last week. Losing my mom was/is pretty rough. If you knew her at all, you knew she was a survivor, a character who...
View ArticleCatholics and Gays: Joel Connelly Calls Out The Church
The Seattle PI’s Joel Connelly has an illustrious history of commentary in Seattle. I’ve enjoyed him for years. But in Monday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he makes one of the best cases for the...
View ArticleCompassion For The Boy Who Cried “Wolf!”
So, I want to take a moment to respond to the faux gay-bashing incident that swept me (and the gay media) by storm yesterday. Yeah, I’m angry. I think this may have set things back a bit as far as...
View ArticlePresidential Proclamation for World AIDS Day 2012
WORLD AIDS DAY, 2012 - – – – – – - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On World AIDS Day, more than 30 years after the first cases of this tragic illness were reported, we...
View ArticleLight A Candle
My address at the AIDS Outreach Candlelight Vigil 2012: You may have heard the saying, “It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness” For more than 30 years we have been struggling to...
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