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Christian Group: School Lunch With a Stranger Promotes ’Gay Agenda’

By Jason St. Amand | Thursday Oct 18, 2012
A conservative Christian group is attacking a national program that aims to prevent bullying by getting students to sit with different classmates at lunch. The group claims that a cheerleader meeting a special-needs student promotes the ’gay agenda.’

Member of Panel to Appoint Anglican Head Challenged Over ’Gays Can Change’ Stance

By Jason St. Amand | Tuesday Apr 10, 2012
Glynn Harrison, a member of the Church of England’s committee that will recommend a new Archbishop of Canterbury and the church’s head, has adamantly maintained that he believes gays can change their sexual orientation.

Macy’s Criticized By Anti-Gay Group For Gay-Friendly Catalog

By Jason St. Amand | Thursday Feb 2, 2012
An anti-gay group is criticizing Macy’s for allowing an image of two grooms as a wedding cake to apper to be placed in their catalog. But the department-store chain is not backing down

Religious School to Employees: Swear You’re Not Gay, Or Else

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Nov 4, 2011
A religious university in Georgia has told its staff that anyone who refuses to sign documents attesting to their heterosexuality will face termination.

Gay Man Describes ’Conversion Therapy’ Torture

By Kilian Melloy | Wednesday Oct 12, 2011
A gay man has come forward to describe the torture that he endured as part of a program of so-called "reparative therapy," including psychological and emotional abuse, electrocution, and being burned and frozen in the name of a cure for being gay.

Westboro Announcement of Jobs Funeral Picket Made Via iPhone

By Kilian Melloy | Thursday Oct 6, 2011
The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church says it congregation plans to picket the funeral of Steve Jobs, the man behind now-standard communications technologies such as the personal computer and the iPad. The announcement was made using an iPhone.

Gay Pushback Over Charity Program Benefitting Anti-LGBT Groups

By Kilian Melloy | Wednesday Sep 28, 2011
Many of America’s biggest companies are overtly gay-friendly. But some of those companies are also much more discreetly supportive of anti-gay groups that target LGBT individuals and their families for legislative attack.

NOM’s ’New’ Mission: Protect Christians from Gay Thugs

By Kilian Melloy | Tuesday Sep 27, 2011
NOM’s new mission: Fend off gay thugs who would otherwise victimize innocent Christians. NOM’s new group: the "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance," or MADA. But these new things arise from an anti-gay myth NOM has been cultivating for years.

’Terror’ Threat Against British Equality Leader Results in Suspended Sentence

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Sep 9, 2011
A man who swore a "campaign of terror" against a British equality leader and vowed to "put a bullet in [his] head" has pleaded guilty to having made a threat against the life of his victim.

School’s Christian Choir Tosses Gay Member, Faces Scrutiny

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Sep 2, 2011
A Christian choir at the University of North Carolina has expelled a gay member, ostensible for his "views on homosexuality." Administrators will determine whether the expulsion violated university policy.