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Obama for Odinga

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Rick Perry condemns and judges gay Christians while pandering to the violent right wing Christian groups such as Robertson and Dobson

We should have fun, cause no harm and leave people better than we found them.... more

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Teen Pleads Guilty to Killing Gay Teen | Sentenced to 21 Years

Los Angeles Times... . In plea deal, youth gets 21 years for killing gay teen... more

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PolitiChicks: Gays, Muslims & Gay Muslims (Ep 1)

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Kim Kardashian VS Gays (PHOTO)

Kim Kardashian made $17 million dollars off her wedding and divorced 72 days... more

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Conan O'Brien Officiates Gay Wedding of Scott Cronick and David Gorshein (VIDEO)

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Conservative Christian Radio Host Warns Parents Over Gay Hospital Workers

(CBS) Do gay doctors pose a threat to hospitalized kids? Linda Harvey apparently thinks so. On a recent broadcast, the conservative Christian radio host urged parents to "think long and hard" about whether kids should be cared for by hospital workers who "proclaim a homosexual lifestyle."

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To make her point, Harvey offered isteners a scenario: "Let's say your 11-year-old has broken her leg rather badly and needs to be in the hospital a few days. Which would you prefer - a nurse who's proud of her lesbianism, who has rainbow identifiers on her work clothing, or a nurse who does not?"

Just who is Linda Harvey? She's a Columbus, Ohio-based former executive of Ohio State University Hospitals and the founder of a "Christian pro-family organization" called Mission:America, according to the organization's website.

On the Oct. 18 broadcast, Harvey acknowledged that gay health-care workers can be competent and might be the best bet in a medical emergency. But she urged parents to pick a pediatrician very carefully. In addition, she said parents should consider writing a letter to the pediatrician saying that if a child must be hospitalized, then he/she will not be treated by gay workers.

"For routine in-hospital care where contact with your child would be required," she continued, "your values should be respected."

But the values expressed in Harvey's comments didn't get a lot of respect from some medical experts.

"Sexual orientation, gender identity and other personal characteristics do not determine a healthcare provider's competence," Dr. Desi Bailey, president of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, told CBS News in an email. She cited a 2005 Gallup poll that found that 78% of Americans believe lesbians and gay men should be hired as doctors.

As for rainbow pins, Dr. Bailey said they help foster a welcoming environment for healthcare workers, adding, "A welcoming environment improves the quality of healthcare for all patients."

What does the medical establishment have to say?

"The American Medical Association has zero tolerance for discrimination in any form," the association's president, Dr. Peter W. Carmel, told CBS News in an email. "Respecting the diversity of patients and the physicians who care for them is a fundamental value of the medical profession."(CBS) Do gay doctors pose a threat to hospitalized kids? Linda Harvey apparently... more

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Rick Santorum Bemoans Gay Soldiers Who 'Shower With People'

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American Islamic Sharia Law Muslims Want To Kill Or Imprison Homosexuals (VIDEO)

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A Gay Grandson to an Evangelical Empire

The day of reckoning was set in 2002. Randy Roberts Potts stood in the kitchen as everything was waking up. He finally felt a spreading definition, a pulling value as though he had remembered what he needed for the first time in all his 27 years on mortal earth.

“I’m gay. I’m gay. I’m gay,” he realized.

Ten years later, Potts sits in front of an emotional crowd — many of them Oral Roberts University alumni — inside the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center’s Liberty Education Forum to speak about his perspective on faith and sexuality. He shakes his head, smiles a honeydew grin that belies memories big enough to break through stained-glass windows, and then begins sharing them. Potts continues to measure his former self — the closeted grandchild of televangelist Oral Roberts — against the one we see on stage: A proud, openly gay man.

“It was a very slow process,” he told the crowd. “It took a lot of years of therapy and learning to be OK with myself on a lot of levels, not just sexually.”

Now Potts wants to share his story of growing up on the Roberts compound under the banner of evangelical royalty, coming out, and his personal faith journey with audiences throughout the United States. This weekend he served as grand marshal for the AIDS Walk in Oklahoma, returning to the home state of his grandfather’s spiritual kingdom.

Randy’s grandfather, Oral Roberts, remained one of the most well-known and controversial leaders inside the American Pentecostal movement until his death in December 2009.

“I was not close to my grandfather, even though my family lived about 20 yards away on the Roberts compound in Tulsa,” he said.

Oral Roberts pioneered TV evangelism, conducted more than 300 crusades on six continents, and founded Oral Roberts University and the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association —a holy empire that was worth more than half-a-billion-dollars. He would also achieve worldwide notoriety after he claimed that God “would take him home” unless his followers raised $8 million in cash.

“I was 12 years old then, and, in the world I was living in, this wasn’t as unusual as you might expect,” Potts said. “There was a rhyme and reason to everything in God’s world. If you had a question, the Bible always had the answer.”

In 1982, uncle Ronnie — heir to the Oral Roberts throne — committed suicide six months after he came out to Troy Perry, founder of the first gay-friendly congregation in Los Angeles.

“Growing up, I didn’t know my uncle was gay, but I always wanted to be like him,” Potts said. “I feel like my life has mirrored his. Every time my mother mentioned him I noted two things: one, that she had loved him more than she had ever loved anybody else; and two, that the memory of his [gay] path brought more pain to her than any other memory.The day of reckoning was set in 2002. Randy Roberts Potts stood in the kitchen as... more

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Republicans finally honest about what they think of our troops

During a GOP candidate event in Florida, a former Iraq war veteran asked a question... more

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Crowd Boos Gay Soldier's Question At GOP Debate In Orlando (VIDEO)

Idiots... homophobic crowd boos gay soldier at GOP debate in Orlando, Florida. A gay... more

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Whoa! Watch Bristol Palin And A Gay Dude Go At It At Some Bar After He Calls Her Mom Sarah Palin A Whore (VIDEO)

Bristol Palin gets in a heated argument with a gay dude at a bar. Calling her mother,... more

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Family Research Council calls military gays a pool of tainted HIV blood

Christian group FRC is not happy that gays are now legalized in the military. They are... more

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Gay Soldier Finally Comes Out Tells Dad He's Gay (VIDEO)

21-year old, Randy Phillips, under his handle “AreYouSurprised,” calls his... more

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Military accepts gays and won't delay repeal of DADT | - Changing The Planet -

I have a profoundly new respect for the military. No game playing, no hidden agenda.... more

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Redneck Insights: Punch

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Michael Irvin is Backing The Gays

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GOP Governor: Stopping Discrimination Is Bad for Business

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Bachmann Won't Say Whether Clinics Try to Convert Gays

Rep. Michele Bachmann claims it would be immoral to say whether her husband's clinics perform so-called reparative therapy on gay people.

"Those matters are protected by patient-client confidentiality," her campaign staff said in a statement issued to ABC's Nightline, which reported on the issue Monday night. "The Bachmanns are in no position ethically, legally, or morally to discuss specific courses of treatment concerning the clinic's patients."

Asked by ABC News during a campaign stop about whether the clinics use reparative therapy, Bachmann offered a boilerplate answer on the importance of creating jobs and said only, "I'm running for the presidency of the United States."

In the past the Bachmanns haven't taken such a hard line on whether it's OK to discuss the menu of treatment available at their clinics. Marcus Bachmann told a Minnesota newspaper in 2005, "If someone is interested in talking to us about their homosexuality, we are open to talking about that. But if someone comes in a homosexual and they want to stay homosexual, I don't have a problem with that."

He was defending his practice after giving a presentation called “The Truth About the Homosexual Agenda" to a group of Minnesota pastors.

But now the Bachmanns are faced with the result of a hidden camera investigation by Truth Wins Out, an activist group that combats "ex-gay" claims. In his account of what it was like to pose as a man "struggling with homosexuality," John Becker describes being told “it’s possible to be totally free" of same-sex attraction. “It’s happened! It really has happened to people,” the counselor on the tape reportedly says. Portions of the videos aired for the first time on Monday night as part of the ABC News report.

The Bachmann & Associates website lists its range of therapeutic services in broad strokes, including "anger management" and "marriage counseling," and counselors there claim to specialize in things like "men’s and women’s issues" and "shame."Rep. Michele Bachmann claims it would be immoral to say whether her husband's... more

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