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Contents:

• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I'M GAY AND DON'T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I'M GAY AND DON'T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

Includ are web rourc for gay people g together as mory groups wh relig tradns, lks to relig activist groups for and agast homosexual rights, rourc beg created by gay people alg wh their relign and their homosexualy, and rourc beg created by relig activists who oppose homosexualy. The Wikipedia article "Homosexualy and Baha'i Fah" giv an overview of the posn of the Baha'i fah towards homosexualy and also lists referenc and external lks to several statements published by the Universal Hoe of Jtice, the lg body for the Baha'i fah. is "a web se dited to misterg to the gay and lbian Christian muny, " and featur "one of the largt gay and lbian welg Christian church directori and bullet boards the world, " cludg over 3, 400 entri for the Uned Stat.

Whosoever is an onle magaze that "striv to show God nstantly at work the daily liv of gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people" through "biblil scholarship, personal ttimoni and prayerful mentary on timely topics. Affirmatn: Gay and Lbian Mormons is an anizatn which clus active members of the Church of the Latter-Day Sats, former members and non-members of all sexual and genr orientatns, and their supportive iends and fay. Exod Internatnal is "a worldwi ternomatnal, Christian anizatn lled to enurage, strengthen, unify and equip Christians to mister the transformg power of the Lord J Christ to those affected by homosexualy.

Emergence Internatnal is "a world-wi muny of Christian Scientists, their fai and iends, that provis spirual and tnal support for lbians, gay men, and bisexual and transgenred people, as they al wh homophobia and heterosexism. The Gay and Lbian Vaishnava Associatn (GALVA) (webse no longer active) is an ternatnal anizatn mted to tg "Vaishnavas, Hd and the public general" about "the teachgs of Lord Caanya, the importance of all-clivens wh His missn, and the Vedic ncept of a natural third genr" the hop that "this knowledge will help to rrect many of the mon misnceptns that people hold today ncerng third-genr people (gays, lbians, bisexuals, transgenrs, the tersexed, etc.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

An article the April 2004 edn of the Ltle India magaze entled "Here Com the the Bri" (webse no longer active) reunts the stori of a number of homosexual Indian partners, while examg their opns on same-sex marriage. People of Fah for Gay Civil Rights is "an terfah and ecumenil movement of clergy, vowed relig, and lay people of all sexual orientatns and genr inti” who “poe prayer, nscns-raisg and nonvlent ristance to achieve equaly for sexual mori society and relig nomatns.

The Interfah Gay/Straight Alliance (webse no longer active) is centered Charlottville, Virgia and "is a fah-based group whose broad missn is to w full civil rights for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer persons and their fai. The World Congrs of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Jews, also lled Khet Ga’avah, "nsists of around 50 member anizatns all over the world, " cludg "member anisatns : Argenta, Atralia, Atria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Mexi, The Netherlands, Spa, Swen, the Uned Kgdom, and the Uned Stat.

The Femist Sexual Ethics Project provis rearch on Jewish sexual ethics that exam "ancient rabbic texts on which many Jews base their liv today through says on: rabbic laws that regulate genr segregatn, rabbic thkg on female homoeroticism, and rabbic thkg on same-sex marriage. It centers on personal stori of Hasidic or Orthodox Jews who are also gay or lbian, as they, "face a profound dilemma - how to rencile their passnate love of Judaism and the Dive wh the drastic Biblil prohibns that forbid homosexualy. Unr the pretens of stoppg relig fluence the law, the bill threatens to prevent everythg om transgenr people changg their genr on their driver’s license, to Drag Queen Story Hours on public grounds, to gay marriage self.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Evangelil Christiany, [10] Catholicism, [11] Mormonism, [12] Orthodox Judaism, [13] and Islam, [14] hold the view that homosexual sex is a s and that s practice and acceptance society weakens moral standards and unrm the fay. It appears most untri wh strong anti-LGBT laws are untri wh a domant Mlim or Christian populatn (red shas on this map om Wikipedia), although attus wh relign-domated untri differ signifintly (primarily tholic Spa has legalised gay marriage and 82% believ LGBT should be accepted, but majory Hdu India this figure is only 10%). Some of the morn arguments socialist dictatorships were based on the fact that homosexualy is "wtern/palist viancy" (which is big news to all the Marxist/Gramscian leftist LGBT rights activists Wtern untri).

In other words, someone may oppose groups/actns of rights activists, yet outsi of that opposn, personally thks that gays and lbians should not be discrimated agast and do not discrimate agast them, at least outsi of marriage stuff. Some people of right/libertarian orientatn the wt dislike LGBT activists specifilly for their super-strong Marxist/Gramscian and statist/big-ernment leangs (or for some right wgers, for anti-tradnalist and anti-Amerin views that have nothg to do wh homosexualy).

As a 2018 update, this is extremely well evinced by extreme populary on the right/libertarian si of openly homosexual libertarian Dave Rub (who mentns "his hband" and his sexual orientatn on nearly every podst I heard), or alt-right figure Milo Yannopolis (sp? This seems to be the se around Cha, where many attus are ls about "homosexualy bad" as "dial down sexual display, all'y'all" - see Confucianism sectn of Wiki article about religns and homosexualy lked above.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

This is important sce 's also a basis of dislike by some people Wtern societi - I am personally aware of many people whose attu is "I don't re who someone has sex wh, but I don't want them stickg their sexualy my face, gay or straight" - such people tend to view Gay Pri paras San Francis wh jt as much distaste as Mardi Gras or R Carnivals. Aga, this se the special LGBT dislike is more about (te or false, don't matter) perceived tenncy by LGBT crowd - at least the Wt - to flnt their sexualy more than straights, and not to the homosexualy self.

The ma ia behd this is that homosexualy is the most wispread among the segments of the populatn which the stcts are the ls proment (such people are lled "low-primative" followg Protopopov and Novoselov). Some people while not objectg private homosexual acts would be strongly opposed to public exprsn of homosexual love, as well as any "equal-rights" measur, bee this may agate their children to homosexualy. One secular argument agast ernment regnn of gay marriage is that the reason ernments regnize marriage and provi benefs to married upl is to enurage the creatn of stable environments for procreatn which paterny n be assumed and th the raisg of children will be done by two parents (one of each sex which studi show is better for children than two parents of the same sex) both of whom have a strong tert good parentg due to blogy.

WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society.

But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia. The fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori. Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

Others have ced a group lled the Amerin College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) to claim, as Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council did November 2010, that "the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a [moltatn] danger to children.

SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men. The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

” Schumm, who has also argued that lbian relatnships are unstable, has ti to discreded psychologist and anti-LGBT fabulist Pl Cameron, the thor of numero pletely basels “studi” about the alleged evils of homosexualy. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual.

Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual.