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		<title>Texas Christians Upset About Pro-Gay Billboards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Billboards that quote passages from the Bible seemingly affirming homosexuality have appeared across the Texas interstate, and predictably so, it&#8217;s angered a number of Christians who&#8217;ve driven by them.
Christine Lutz was traveling down Interstate-30, just east of Fort Worth, when she came face to face with a billboard containing a pro-gay message. &#8220;I cringed. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-175" title="RuthNaomi" src="http://friendofdorothys.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/RuthNaomi.jpg" alt="RuthNaomi" hspace="10" vspace="5/" width="200" height="92" align="left" />Several Billboards that quote passages from the Bible seemingly affirming homosexuality <a href="http://cbs11tv.com/local/pro.gay.billboards.2.1171468.html">have appeared across the Texas interstate</a>, and predictably so, it&#8217;s angered a number of Christians who&#8217;ve driven by them.</p>
<blockquote><p>Christine Lutz was traveling down Interstate-30, just east of Fort Worth, when she came face to face with a billboard containing a pro-gay message. &#8220;I cringed. I was disgusted at the same time,&#8221; she said. The billboard angered Lutz so much, that she fired off a stern e-mail. &#8220;I said how dare you take the scriptures and twist it to fit your needs,&#8221; she recalled. There are four billboards with similar pro-gay messages along I-30 that have started a debate among Christians in North Texas. Rev. Jon Haack, with Promise Metropolitan Community Church, said, &#8220;If we go back to the gospel readings, we don&#8217;t find anything within those texts that discriminate or exclude against gay and lesbian people.</p>
<p>Gay and lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people are part of God&#8217;s creation too.&#8221; Rev. Haack is with one of five local churches sponsoring the billboards that advocate gay acceptance by all Christians. One billboard reads, &#8220;The early church welcomed a gay man.&#8221; Another one reads, &#8220;Jesus affirmed a gay couple.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>There are more examples at the <a href="http://www.wouldjesusdiscriminate.org/">group&#8217;s website</a>.  The Billboard are supposed to run for the rest of September.   Personally I would rather people stop believing in fairy tales and taking their cues from a book written by a bunch of men from the Bronz Age none of us will ever meet, but I suppose I&#8217;ll take the more tolerant brand of Christianity if I can get it.</p>
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		<title>Yellow Brick Links: Trans Woman Runs For Mayor In Idaho</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transgendered activist Melissa Sue Brown runs for Mayor of Nampa, Idaho, but many people aren&#8217;t convinced she has a chance in one of the most conservative communities in the nation.

FOXSexpert Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright debunks 8 sex myths about women, including my favorite &#8220;she always needs an emotional connection for sex&#8221;.
The infamous pastor Steve Anderson [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hJEvqZDBOF1s71J8RCmFSYDONIZA?size=l" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="348" height="261" align="right" /><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" />Transgendered activist Melissa Sue Brown <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8XRkzWCqYEl7jEr8Koq5C5Ip1kQD9AHAS380">runs for Mayor of Nampa, Idaho</a>, but many people aren&#8217;t convinced she has a chance in one of the most conservative communities in the nation.</p>
<p><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" /></p>
<p>FOXSexpert Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,546302,00.html">debunks 8 sex myths about women</a>, including my favorite &#8220;she always needs an emotional connection for sex&#8221;.</p>
<p><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" />The infamous pastor Steve Anderson (who admittedly is kind of cute) <a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/08/audio-this-culture-war-is-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-wants-to-execute-you.html">thinks America is controlled by homosexuals</a>.  He also claims that all homosexuals are pedophiles including Barney Frank.</p>
<p><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" />Desperate Housewives star Dana Delany <a href="http://www.thecreativecoalition.org/press/NYC_08-24-09.htm">became co-president of the Creative Coalition</a>.  It&#8217;s important to get as many woman as possible in positions dealing with funding for arts and entertainment.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef0120a53c9c3a970b-pi" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5/" width="179" height="236" align="left" /><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" />Fall Out Boy&#8217;s Pete Wentz has a guy who&#8217;s job is specifically to <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/towleroad/feed/~3/_NiEIEhoyR8/pete-wentz-has-a-man-on-hand-to-handle-his-underpants.html">pull up his pants during his shows</a>.  I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s plenty of men (and women) who&#8217;d do that job for free.</p>
<p><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" />Dan Savage, whom you might know from his famous blog or from his appearances on Real Time With Bill Maher, is <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/08/20/what-the-hell-am-i-doing-in-la">taping his own pilot for HBO</a> called &#8220;Savage Love&#8221;</p>
<p><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" />During a recent sit down with Donald Trump, late night <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vs8R63CZH0&amp;feature=player_embedded">talk show host David Letterman said</a> &#8220;anybody who wants to get married ought to be able to get married.&#8221;</p>
<p><img src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" align="left" />Conservative organization Focus on the Family has <a href="http://www.gazette.com/articles/today-61251-announce-focus.html">laid off a number of workers again</a>, after already having done so twice earlier this year.</p>
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		<title>Yellow Brick Links: Jewish Gays, Bullying Suicide, White House Easter</title>
		<link>http://friendofdorothys.net/2009/04/09/yellow-brick-links-jewish-gays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another tragic ending for a gay youth.  An 11 year old Massachusetts boy has killed himself after having been bullied with anti-gay slurs at school.  The school thought it&#8217;d be smart to force him to eat lunch with his bully.  Guess that worked out quite well.
What do you do when you&#8217;re an Orthodox Jew and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" /><a href="http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/mom_says_springfield_boy_11_wh.html?category=Deaths+category=Education+category=Springfield"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-48" title="large_ae-walker-hoover_cr" src="http://friendofdorothys.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/large_ae-walker-hoover_cr-300x268.jpg" alt="large_ae-walker-hoover_cr" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="285" height="255" align="right" /></a>Another tragic ending for a gay youth.  An 11 year old Massachusetts boy <a href="http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/mom_says_springfield_boy_11_wh.html?category=Deaths+category=Education+category=Springfield">has killed himself</a> after having been bullied with anti-gay slurs at school.  The school thought it&#8217;d be smart to force him to eat lunch with his bully.  Guess that worked out quite well.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" />What do you do when you&#8217;re an Orthodox Jew and an out homosexual?  Well for some young people, these two things are not at odds with each other.  The Jewish Exponent <a href="http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18615/">profiles some intriguing men and women</a> who are as proud of being gay as they are of being Jewish.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" />Miss Britney Spears <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20271319,00.html">reportedly walked off stage</a> during her Vancouver concert and kept the crowd waiting for 30 minutes before returning because too many people were smoking pot in the audience, which caused a &#8220;ventilation issue&#8221; with some of the crew members.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" />NPR&#8217;s Robert Kulrich<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/08/mens-underwear-sales-gree_n_184863.html"> has done some research that indicates the sales</a> of men&#8217;s underwear is a good thermometer for the state of the economy.  And according to recent figures, there&#8217;s been a steep drop in 2008, which obviously tells us what we already knew.  We&#8217;re fucked.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-49" title="vlcsnap-8953917" src="http://friendofdorothys.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/vlcsnap-8953917-300x225.jpg" alt="vlcsnap-8953917" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="300" height="225" align="left" /></p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" />Harvard Law student <a href="http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/politics/local_politics/Frank_pushing_for_financial_changes_040609">takes Barney Frank to task</a> on his role in the fledgling U.S. economy.  Frank was dismissive of the young man&#8217;s supposedly &#8220;loaded&#8221; question but the student went on <a href="http://www.queerty.com/rep-barney-frank-goes-on-the-defensive-against-a-student-20090409/">FOX News&#8217; Greta von Susternen&#8217;s program</a> to continue discussion of the issue.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" />A gang of men <a href="http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&amp;sc=&amp;sc2=news&amp;sc3=&amp;id=89477">robbed and attacked two gay men</a> on separate but consecutive occasions in Florida.  One of whom is currently in a coma, and the other suffered a head injury but was able to go home from the hospital not long after checking in.  Right now they are being investigated as robberies, not hate crimes.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://froggypic.com/image/04/263283899bc66d0e54029b163461e468.jpg" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="25" height="25" />For the first time the President<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iV-j42AJ8vJXBnWp6Aiqy60LfupAD97DTLFG1"> has invited LGBT families to the White House</a> to take place in the Easter Egg Roll, an event that&#8217;s taken place since 1878.  The tickets were distributed to various gay rights organizations, and they decided which families to invite to the event.</p>
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