Group: Gay bias killings highest since 1999

The number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people killed in bias-motivated incidents increased by 28 percent in 2008 compared to a year ago, according to a national coalition of advocacy groups.

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Right-Wing Local Talk-Radio Host in N.H. Loses Show Over Blatantly Anti-Gay Slur

Laconia Radio Station Fires Host Doug Lambert for Hurling the Six-Letter F-Bomb at Chairman of Granite State's Democratic Party -- Who is Gay -- and Denouncing Him as a 'Reprobate;' Conservative Also Loses His Newspaper Column

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The police agent that is handling this case said on a public televised statement that 'people who lead this type of lifestyle need to be aware that this will happen'. As If the boy murdered Jorge Steven Lopez was asking to get killed..."

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In an interview with former Miss California Carrie Prejean published Friday, Vincent defended her stance against gay marriage by saying she has many gay friends:

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The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism — a surprise move designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.

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Two city employees were fired Friday and 11 others disciplined, accused of sending or receiving pornographic, racist, anti-gay or otherwise inappropriate e-mails on their work computers.

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Which America do you live in?

I was watching an old episode of Boston Legal tonight. I've only just recently discovered it, and I find I'm growing rather fond of it. I'm into season 3 on the DVD collections.

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Prop 8 foes urged not to rush in it's attempt to repeal ruling...

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Scott Lively has made a ministry career that spans two decades and three continents, in part by preaching that the Nazi Third Reich was helmed and orchestrated by gay men.

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excerpt: ""He said he was breaking away from the Episcopal Church because the church was too pro-gay. In fact, it now appears he left in order to hide his embezzlement of somewhere between $300,000 and $400,000.""

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11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hanged himself Monday after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother's weekly pleas to the school to address the problem.

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Karl and Judy Schowengerdt of the Iowa "Family" Policy Center talk about how they are politicizing their son's death of AIDS for personal/political gain. A death that was likely caused by the depression and un-safe activities that their un-loving lifestyle promoted.

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Jaheem Herrera, a fifth-grader at Dunaire Elementary School in the Atlanta area, hanged himself in his room after enduring extreme daily bullying that included antigay taunts. His 10-year-old sister discovered his body.

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"There's a storm gathering." A minute-long TV spot by a group called the National Organization for Marriage is already spawning YouTube parodies of its grave, Terminator-esque warning about gay marriage destroying the American Way of Life.

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Last night, I attended a workshop about "homosexual activism in the public schools." The meeting took place at a church and it was sponsored by the Illinois Family Institute, a conservative group. About 80 people were packed into a tiny room. My observations:

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The Casper City Council did not violate the First Amendment when it allowed a Ten Commandments statue in Monument Plaza but did not permit a statue from an anti-homosexual pastor, according to a Wednesday U.S. Supreme Court ruling

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And my reaction to young AIDS deaths is exactly as I react to the deaths of folks like Jeremy Lusk, Jim O'Brien, Steve Irwin, and Dale Earnhardt. It's tragic. Folks do well to know of the risks they take or otherwise to minimize those risks.

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Two American hate preachers have been banned from entering the UK where they planned to picket a play by a gay youth group, the Home Office said today.

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#3: Being gay is against the natural order of things; it is against evolution; if everyone were gay humanity would end.

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#2: If you let gays marry, then you will have to allow polygamous, incestuous or inter-species marriage.

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Some anti-gay statements/ideas make me huff in frustration, but because they seem — on the very face of it — silly, I huff and move on.

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A landmark summit of Black clergy took place in Atlanta on January 20-21 to strategize about fighting against anti-gay discrimination in African American churches.

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Minnesota Teen Challenge is a Pentecostal drug and alcohol abuse treatment program, one of George W. Bush's beloved faith-based initiatives that purports to help teenagers overcome dependency.

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New York Times Editorial "A Lynching in Brooklyn The murder of José Sucuzhañay, an Ecuadorean immigrant who died over the weekend at a hospital in Queens, has thrown a harsh light onto a savage, hate-inspired crime that should sicken us all.".....

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There are about 170,000 Ecuadoreans in New York. Economic crises in Ecuador have fed this wave of immigration. One Ecuadorean Jose O. Sucuzhañay was a model immigrant. He held down a number of jobs, including one at a pizzeria.

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