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Romney Abolishes Gay Youth Commission

by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff, July 21 2006

(Boston, Massachusetts) Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney issued an executive order Friday abolishing the state's 14-year old governor's commission on gay and lesbian youth.

The moves comes after a long protracted battle with legislators over the commission. Continue

Settlement Reached In Gay High School Suit

by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff, July 6, 2006

(New York City) Both sides are declaring victory in a lawsuit that threatened to close New York City's Harvey Milk High School. The suit was filed in 2003, shortly after the school for LGBT students was opened, by a religious group and New York state Conservatives.

The New York Hispanic Clergy Association and by Liberty Counsel, a Florida based legal group that provides lawyers to fight for conservative Christian issues accused the city of violating its own equal rights law and promoting segregation by creating a school solely for LGBT students. Continue

Christians protest outside an H-E-B over chain's donation to Pridefest

By Tracy Idell Hamilton, Express-News (San Antonio, Texas), June 17, 2006

More than 100 people joined Christian radio talk show host Adam McManus on Friday evening to picket a busy H-E-B grocery store waving brightly colored signs at passing commuters with phrases like "H-E-B pushes the homosexual agenda," and "H-E-B promotes sodomy." Continue

Macy's removes pride display over antigay complaints

The Advocate.com, June 8, 2006

A display acknowledging Boston's gay pride week was removed from a Macy's department store window after an antigay group complained it was offensive, the Associated Press reports. The display at the downtown Boston store featured two male mannequins, with one wearing a gay pride rainbow flag around his waist, next to a list of several planned Boston Pride Week events. Continue

Two-thirds of gay students face harassment: report

Survey shows little change in school climate since ’03

By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Washington Blade, April 28, 2006

According to a new survey 1,732 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, almost two-thirds of those surveyed said they were verbally harassed because of their sexual orientation. About half reported they were harassed for their gender identity. More than a third of those surveyed suffered anti-gay physical harassment and 25 percent experienced anti-transgender physical harassment, the survey found. Click here for the report

Bay State Activist Blasts Governor's Promotion of Homosexual Youth Event

Jim Brown, Agape Press, May 11, 2006

"Pro-family" groups are attacking Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's support "Youth Pride," a large gathering of LGBT individuals and their allies, for "promoting teenage sexuality." Click here

SAMHSA LGBT Health Web Site Removed by Feds After Family Research Council Lodges Complaint

By Stefen Styrsky, San Francisco Bay Times, March 16, 2006

"On Jan. 21 a Web site containing information about LGBT health run by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) was abruptly taken down by the federal agency that oversees the group. Critics say the action was taken because of complaints the Department of Heath and Human Services received from the conservative Family Research Council about the site." Continue...

Kids Books About Gay Families Placed On Restricted List

by 365Gay.com, March 16, 2006

A law requiring libraries to restrict access to children's books on gay topics passed the Oklahoma legislature 60-33 on March 15. Libraries that don't comply may lose funding. Click here for the report.

Bill Would Force Libraries To Restrict Books With Gay Themes

by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff, March 9, 2006

(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) A state legislative committee has passed to the full Oklahoma House a bill that would withhold state money from public libraries if they don't move books with gay themes and on sexuality out of children's areas. The state library association president opposes it. Click here for the report.

Second Annual Day of Truth Hailed as Celebration of Free Expression

By Jim Brown, Agape Press, February 27, 2006

"Christian students are being encouraged to counter the promotion of the homosexual agenda in public schools by celebrating the second annual 'Day of Truth.' The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) established the observance in response to the national 'Day of Silence,' an event sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to protest discrimination and harassment experienced by homosexuals. Click here for the article.

Bush names homophobe to federal AIDS council

Advocate.com, March 10, 2006

"President Bush has named five new appointees to the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, one of whom is an antigay Baptist minister with no experience in the AIDS arena and two others who have deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

"One of the appointees is a Philadelphia minister, the Reverend Herbert Lusk, head of the Greater Exodus Baptist Church and a former Philadelphia Eagles football player. Lusk, who publicly endorsed George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, has lobbied for a federal amendment restricting marriage to heterosexual couples as a member of the board of advisers for the antigay group Alliance for Marriage, opposes adoptions by gay men and lesbians, and pushes for abstinence-only sex education programs." Click here for the report.

See also: Lusk has received "faith-based" funding from the Bush administration and this winter hosted a "Justice Sunday" telethon, where religious right leaders made intimidating statements aimed at federal judges. (Click here)

Kentucky: Conservatives Refuse To Accept Judge's Ruling On Gay-Straight Group

by The Associated Press, 365Gay.com, March 16, 2006

A religious-right legal group, the Alliance Defense Fund, is appealing a federal judge's decision that a student may not "opt out" of mandatory anti-harassment training in his school district. Click here for the report.

Families Sue to Opt Their Kids Out of School-Mandated Pro-Homosexual Seminar

Jim Brown, Agape Press February 28, 2006

"A federal judge has prohibited students from opting out of mandatory pro-homosexual diversity training in one Kentucky school system. District Judge David Bunning says students in Boyd County Schools have no religious or free-speech right to opt out of a yearly seminar aimed at preventing anti-homosexual harassment. The diversity training for staff members and middle school and high school students is the result of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of a Gay-Straight Alliance Club that is now permitted to meet on campus. Kevin Theriot with the Alliance Defense Fund is representing three families that have filed a lawsuit challenging the mandatory diversity training." Click here to read more.

School clubs: Debate boils up

Gay senator tangles with morals enforcer

By Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, February 23, 2006

"A Senate debate over a bill restricting school clubs spiraled into an argument over the morality of homosexuals and if such people were born gay or choose that orientation.

"West Jordan Republican Rep. Chris Buttars is clear about the intent behind SB97. He wants to give school districts the ability to ban Gay-Straight Alliances without fearing a lawsuit. His bill would require the state to fight any such court challenge." Click here to read the report.

Wyoming Pharmacy Board Drops Plan To Let Druggists Refuse AIDS Meds To Gays

365gay.com, January 12, 2006

"(Jackson, Wyoming) The Wyoming Pharmacy Board has tabled a controversial proposal that would have given pharmacists the authority not to fill prescriptions based on their personal beliefs." Click here to read more.

The Corporate Curtain

How companies are using views on homosexuality to punish their Christian employees.

By Robert H. Knight, Concerned Woman for America, December 29, 2005

"America's corporations are under increasing pressure not only to accommodate homosexuality but to celebrate it and to punish employees who object.

"Over the past two decades, hundreds of companies have adopted varying degrees of homosexual activism in their official policies. As a result, a growing number of Christians have been disciplined or fired for resisting the trend. Click here for the article.

IRD Exposes Pro-Homosexual Group's Plan to Invade White House Event

By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker, Agape Press, January 20, 2006

"(AgapePress) - A spokesman for a Protestant renewal organization warns that homosexual activists are planning to crash a traditional Easter event at the White House this year. Mark Tooley with the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) says the pro-homosexual religious group Soulforce and the Family Pride Coalition are teaming up in an effort to fill the White House lawn with as many "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families" as possible at the annual Easter Egg Roll on April 17." Click here for the report.

Conference Trains Gay Leaders

Seattle event a how-to session on running for office

Focus on the Family, November 21, 2005

Anti-gay organization "covers" conference of elected officials from afar. Venomously. Click here to read the article.

Straight men's contest planned

By Lori Stabile, The Republican, Massachusetts, December 17, 2005

Holland - Pastor Thomas J. Crouse is looking for a few good heterosexual men.

Crouse, pastor of Holland Congregational Church, is not running a dating service. He is sponsoring a "Mr. Heterosexual" contest, where contestants will tear Oprah magazines, play "Name that Potato Chip" blindfolded, discuss the best use of duct tape and display a talent. Click here to read the report.

Pastor Forced to Foot Bill for 'Police Protection' During Pro-Family Rally

Pro-Homosexual Demonstrators Joined by Mayor, Other City Leaders

By Allie Martin and Jody Brown, Agape Press, March 7, 2006

"A pro-family activist says it's outrageous that a pastor was charged thousands of dollars for a police detail to protect those attending a Christian event from homosexual activists who were demonstrating outside.

"Last month Tom Crouse, a pastor in Worcester, Massachusetts, held a pro-family, Christian event that focused on God's design of heterosexuality and featured a "Mr. Heterosexual" contest. However, various homosexual groups attempted to force the event to be cancelled. When those efforts failed, about 100 pro-homosexual activists congregated in the streets outside the facility where the event was held. Click here for the article.

We're Not in Kansas Anymore--Or Maybe We Are

Family Research Council, Washington Update, October 24, 2005

The Family Research Council's email update criticized the Kansas Supreme Court's striking down a law that provided harsher penalties for minors engaging in homosexual sex than in heterosexual sex. Click here to read the comment.