My belief the sancty of human life was supported by my own stggle to accept myself as a gay person.
Contents:
- PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE OF GAYS AND LESBIANS +
- WHY MORE AMERINS ARE PRO-LIFE—AND PRO GAY MARRIAGE
- IS “PRO-LIFE AND GAY” POSSIBLE?
- WHO IS KEV MAXEN? MEET NFL'S FIRST GAY MALE ACH
- GAY, PROUD AND PRO-LIFE
- GAY PRO-LIFE GROUP TO HAVE PRENCE AT PRI
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- GAY AND PRO-LIFE
PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE OF GAYS AND LESBIANS +
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I am also gay. My Catholic-spired belief the sancty of all human life has played a key role how I have gradually e to accept my sexualy, and acceptg my sexualy has turn strengthened my pro-life belief the sancty of human life was supported by my own stggle to accept myself as a gay person. I never wanted to be gay.
I remember my first thought after my first real kiss wh my first real girliend: “Thank God I’m not gay. My own experience leads me to thk that the youthful “Rad Trad” movement clus many young people like myself, people who are lookg to latch onto somethg that appears stable, betiful and belief the sancty of human life was supported by my own stggle to accept myself as a gay person.
WHY MORE AMERINS ARE PRO-LIFE—AND PRO GAY MARRIAGE
I accepted that I had been cursed wh some gay feelgs but thought that I uld ignore them and really lean to lovg a young woman as a iend and regnizg her objective bety.
When I started disverg that I am gay, horrified me. Jt as required heroic love and honty to live as an out gay person the 1950s, today requir heroic love and honty to wele a child if you are not a stable relatnship or are hopg to make the work is a siary here between the pro-life and L. Seeg people who were gay and loved God was important to me my journey.
Each of the people helped me unrstand that I uld accept the feelgs as part of my life rather than try to elimate still tak urage to accept one’s sexualy, there are now lns of exampl our church, fai and the broar world who ttify to the goodns of beg gay. The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians (PLAGAL) was anized 1990 Washgton, D.
IS “PRO-LIFE AND GAY” POSSIBLE?
Inially was lled "Gays Agast Abortn, " but changed early 1991 to the current name.
WHO IS KEV MAXEN? MEET NFL'S FIRST GAY MALE ACH
We have participated the annual January 22nd March for Life sce 1991, lol Pri events DC, Philalphia, and Boston, the 1993 March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Equal Rights, and a number of monstratns and untermonstratns.
PLAGAL publish a newsletter om time to time entled "PLAGAL Memorandum, " and several brochur prentg pro-life arguments to the lbian and gay muni. PLAGAL has submted numero articl and letters to the edor to lbian and gay prt media, some of which have actually been published. In addn, PLAGAL has received media attentn both straight and lbian and gay media at both natnal and a number of lol levels.
And are set to wrtle at No Peace Unrground’s Fear The Gay Agenda event on June 11.
GAY, PROUD AND PRO-LIFE
There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said.
By 50 to 48 percent, Amerins support gay marriage unr the law, wh pennt voters supportg 57 to 40 percent.
GAY PRO-LIFE GROUP TO HAVE PRENCE AT PRI
In 1996, when Gallup first began pollg on the qutn, Amerins overwhelmgly opposed gay marriage, 68 to 27 percent. The speed wh which many Amerins have changed their mds on this says a lot—about how many of have been fluenced by gay iends mted relatnships, longg for the validatn and acceptance that marriage impli. Over the urse of the last few years, many have e to feel that gay upl serve the same as the rt of .
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Standg up for the equaly of every human life means different thgs to different people—whether we are answerg a pollster's qutns on issu like abortn and gay marriage, or whether we are donatg ans or achg a sports team or drivg the Meals on Wheels van. Laye is among a small but vol mory of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Amerins who oppose abortn rights, seeg as an extensn of human rights advocy. In the opn of Laye, a self-scribed socialist, the abortn rights movement is “piggybackg” off the gay rights movement, which Laye said is “much more popular” (and the data agre).
Herb Geraghty, the group’s executive director and a board member of the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians, was “exced” to see what he lled a “monumental expansn of human rights protectns to a margalized group. The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians, which has about 180 active members, lled the cisn “a momento achievement for human rights.
-based nservative gay group Log Cab Republins, said same-sex marriage remas “safe and settled. Dpe celebratg the “victory for the unborn, ” Brown, who has led the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians for over two s, said she has mixed feelgs about the Dobbs cisn bee do not addrs the myriad problems that n drive people to seek abortns, such as poverty and a lack of accs to hog and affordable child re. Earlier the nventn, Peter Thiel, the founr of PayPal, gave a mostly pro-bs and foreign policy speech, but he received the loust applse when he gratuoly proffered: “I am proud to be gay.
GAY AND PRO-LIFE
But the homosexual stunts—both men and women—were a different story altogether.