Tag: gays
What's The Medical Prognosis - Gay For Life Or Not?
MayorBob.
Posted to SciTech on Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 07:36:43 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Almost a decade has passed since when being gay was considered a mental disease. But, even though the psychiatric community has agreed there's nothing basically wrong with being gay, it's still not sure about the best way to treat gays seeking psychological counseling. Now, a task force from the American Psychological Association (APA) will begin conducting a review on its policy of how best to treat homosexuals.
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`Treating You With Respect And Honesty' -- Unless You're Gay
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 11:15:35 AM EST. RSS.
In the United States, if you own a business you do not have the right to refuse to serve certain classes of people. You can't say "open to whites only" or "no Jews allowed." But, as a landscaping service in Houston, Texas found out, not only can they say "we don't serve gays," it's boosted their bottomline.
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GOP Seeks Pink Purge; First Order Of Business - Burn Down The Log Cabin
MayorBob.
Posted to Politics on Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 02:28:31 AM EST. RSS.
In the English language we have these things known as oxymorons. You know, like "jumbo shrimp" or "government efficiency" - essentially two words, when joined together in a term, which make you scratch your head. In the world of politics one such oxymoron is "Gay Republicans" or as they're more familiarly called as a group, Log Cabin Republicans. These are loyal members of the GOP who happen to be gay. They belong to a political party which makes it a key political policy to fight against gay marriage, attaches moral qualifiers as a condition for receipt of money to fight AIDS, and cozies up to fundamentalist Christian groups. Now fundamentalist Christian groups are calling for a housecleaning of all those nasty gays through a "pink purge" of the GOP, trying to make the "big tent" just a bit smaller at the end of the day.
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