But religious groups remain largely exempt from state bans, and for adults, conversion “counseling,” even in accredited mental health care settings, is still legal in all 50 states. The scene (if you will) is
It seems likely that not only lesbians and gays, but also other sexual and gender minor- ities can benefit from increasingly gender-neutral rules of family law. It would be good if there would be research on the impact of the growing legal recognition of same-sex relationships on people ...
And here’s a great example: demanding that the President of United States not to come to Pittsburgh in the aftermath of Saturday’s horrific synagogue kiliings. Okay, I get it. But Jesus. That gesture will make those leaning right hate Dems and progressives even more. Pittsburgh pols and ...
In each of those circumstances, we can understand the negativity drawn to homosexuality. However, another passage in scripture states “Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is ...
child molesters and serial murders. Television also serves as a soapbox upon which politicians stand to talk about the needs of the "African-American" community, the "Hispanic" community, the needs of "women," "gays," the "disabled," the "elderly," and so on until the community is so ...
How can we be so hypocritical? We damn a man (or woman) for being homosexual, and we ignore the uncounted living examples, those forsaken progeny, of all those sordid affairs. At least the gays and lesbians haven’t contributed to this legacy of shame. ...
Herpes can also infect the mouth through oral sex. Likewise, Tim LaHaye explains in his book,The Unhappy Gays,that other venereal diseases can infect the mouth: One doctor said, "There's a near epidemic of syphilis and gonorrhea--in the throat," and he went on to point out that most ...
A perfect example of this today is the reaction to Operation Jade Helm, a military training exercise that had been held many times prior to this year in various Southern and Western states. This year however a number of citizens came to believe that this was either a precursor to the Federa...
In America, this is an age of uncertainty. In its economy, foreign policy and social structure, the United States is between worlds--in a limbo where old rules no longer apply and new ones have not yet been written. The future is arriving before we are ready to bury the past, and the...
The states introduced compulsory voting between 1915 and 1942. Although it is often argued that voting itself is already optional because of the use of secret ballots (Gray 2012:592; Lever 2010:898), in Australia, marking a ballot paper and putting it in the ballot box is not optional (...