Lesbian Couple in Wyo. Denied Communion

Leah Vader and Lynne Huskinson, a lesbian couple who got married in Canada last August, sent a letter recently to their state legislator decrying a Wyoming bill that would deny recognition of same-sex marriages. The lawmaker read the letter on the floor of the Legislature.

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POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Answer for Mary Cheney

John Edwards defended his decision to mention the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's openly gay daughter in a 2004 debate, rejecting Mary Cheney's criticism in a newly released book.

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Lesbians are better at raising children than conventional couples, a senior member of the Government's parenting academy has said.

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They had far more money and volunteers, and geography was on their side, given that New England has been more accepting of same-sex marriage than any other region of the country.

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Destiny in Alice, a 25-minute co-production by the ABC and CAAMA, says the town became a "haven" for lesbians after several hundred women marched on the Pine Gap intelligence base in 1983.

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A mythical Swedish town where men are barred from entering and women turn to homosexuality has piqued the interest of several Chinese media outlets.

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After all of the money that the Pentagon has spent on developing our cyber warfare capabilities, maybe they have overlooked a really cheap way to crash our enemy's systems:

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Now, the president's engaging in some more outreach to gay activists. He'll be giving the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner this weekend.

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THE SCHOOL ISSUE: JUNIOR HIGH Coming Out in Middle School By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS Published: September 23, 2009

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LDS general authority Bruce C.

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Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings and civil unions, according to the first U.S. census figures released on same-sex marriages

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Karl Touhey, 40, repeatedly made "derogatory comments" about Muslims, obese people, homosexuals and women he found unattractive, while working for South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust, former colleague Edward Wiltshire said.

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Chinese lesbians are signing onto an online petition asking for the right to donate blood, which is denied them by a society worried about AIDS, state media said Tuesday.

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A number of fundamentalist Christian churches in Great Britain are thought to be performing exorcisms on gays and lesbians to cure them of homosexuality.

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Reported hate crimes committed against individuals because of their sexual orientation increased in 2007 to 1,265, the highest level in five years.

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The wheels of change turn slowly, but this is proof that they do turn.

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The bishops of the Episcopal Church voted at the church's convention on Monday to open "any ordained ministry" to gay men and lesbians, a move that could effectively undermine a moratorium on ordaining gay bishops that the church passed at its last convention three years ag …

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Why it is not a sin to believe Gays are born that way

Many in the religious communities reject outright the notion that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people could be born that way. The reluctance to believe this, is bound up in the religious Doctrine of Free Will.

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According to the U.S. Biblical scholar, Morton Smith, of Columbia University, a fragment of manuscript he found at the Mar Saba monastery near Jerusalem in 1958, showed that the full text of St.

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Author Michael Aubrey Sarvis reports in the Huffington Post: Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998.

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"For the first time in history, a majority of Americans favor gay marriage. An April 2009 ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 49% of Americans favor legalizing gay marriage. 46% are opposed.

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[My article - still relevant]... published August 30, 2006 on the Canadian website: Equal Marriage for Same-sex Couples. -- Title: "America: A Symbol of Hypocrisy & Injustice? There is Room at the Marriage Table for All of Us"...by Bud Evans

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Orville Lloyd Douglas writes: "..I believe the problem with LGBT rights in the United States is (that) the focus is too much from a Eurocentric context. The so called "gay leaders" in the American media are white gays and lesbians.

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According to the article: "Activity within the brain's amygdala—an almond-shaped structure inside each brain hemisphere that is associated with processing and storing emotions—were compared between homosexuals and heterosexuals of both genders...

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Michael Rowe (Award-winning journalist and author of "Other Men's Sons" - Posted: June 29, 2009 04:58 AM) writes: ..." how much more moving would it have been ...to meet the president who had suspended Don't Ask, Don't Tell with a phone call to the Pentagon ordering them to immed …

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All "Hate Crimes" Are Not Equal

According to The Associated Press (06.25.2009 3:04pm EDT -- Washington) Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress to pass a new hate crimes law so the government could prosecute cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender or disability.

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Paradise Lost and Nothing Gained

(Lessons Learned -- The Real Plague on Society is Bigotry) by "Bud" E. Lewis Evans

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