In Berlin, opposite the monument for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, there is another monument, just across the road, for the gays and lesbians killed in the Nazi-regime because of their sexual orientation. It is a granite cube incorporating a video screen showing a film of two guys kissing (the film is supposed to be changed [...]
First, I’d like to preface this by saying that I am a sixteen year old Junior in high school, and I came out in early 2007. I was raised Southern Baptist, and one of my earliest memories of homophobia within my own family was when I was around the age of 7. I remember quite [...]
Lately I’ve wondered what the world will be like when my two year old niece is my age. Just yesterday I was watching her chase bubbles around the back yard without a care in the world. She doesn’t know about discrimination yet, she thinks that money is just more paper she can color on, and [...]
2. Where do you get your information on politics. What issues are most important to you?
I get my info on politics from MANY sources…. which is the way to go, if you ask me… you get many different standpoints and can break it down to what YOU think really happened…
Issues that are important to me??? [...]
Like so many others, I was so deeply disappointed last week to learn that the Matthew Shepard Act had been dropped from the final version of the Defense Authorization Bill.
I clearly remember learning about the brutal hate crime that resulted in Matthew’s death. I was a year out of college, planning my wedding, and was [...]
This is the first post I wrote for my own blog. The first piece of writing of my own coming out story, the first time I acknowledged in print that this was my new reality. It was written a few months ago, and a lot has happened since then, but it still means a great [...]
My friends & family know me to be a person who “says it like it is.” This pic is me at a recent anti-war rally. I could have said “USA out of Iraq” or “Impeach” but the truth is this country has a painful history of going around killing brown people whenever it suits us. [...]
Dear Dr. Laura,
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God`s Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states [...]