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Gays, Parenting, and Religion, a 2014 Remix
In case you missed it, check out some of the interesting stories worth reading, or re-reading, from 2014. It’s been an honor to write for the Good Men Project this year. Of course, I’m not only a...
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Are Evangelical Christian Parents Killing Their LGBT Kids?
Transgender teen, Leelah Alcorn, blamed her parents for her suicide. What can we learn from this tragedy? — Last week another transgender teen, Leelah Alcorn, took her life because, she said, her...
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Why this LGBT Advocate Supports TLC’s “My Husband’s Not Gay.”
It’s time we had an honest discussion about sexual orientation and religion. — If Housewives and Kardashians represent the rest of us, we should be ashamed of ourselves. We’re a nation with too much...
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Religious Freedoms or Bad Medicine?
Does our right to religious freedom include the endangerment of our LGBT youth? — Earlier this year, Pastor Jamie Coots of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Kentucky was bitten...
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Honey, Your Husband’s Definitely Gay!
A post-review of TLC’s My Husband’s Not Gay —— Last week I defended TLC’s right to air the show My Husband’s Not Gay, and I stand by my words. Namely, sexuality is complicated and fluid, and at least...
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Is My Gay Agenda Anti-Christian?
A former evangelical minister turned LGBT advocate comes clean about his motives. —— This week I was accused of having it out for Christians. In fact the person said that all she seems to find from me...
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Former Conservative Insider Speaks on State Proposed Bans of Reparative...
As the former policy analyst for Family Research Council, Yvette Schneider shares her perspective on religious freedoms and reparative therapy. —— When I was in my twenties, I was told I couldn’t be...
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Can You Really Change Your Sexual Orientation?
A new booklet says sexual orientation can be changed and offers “proof.” Yesterday, I stood in front of a display of weight loss pills. I’ve never taken weight loss pills before. But I’m older. Last...
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God(s), Same-Sex Marriage, and the Colossal Joke
Warren Blumenfeld looks at how differently people within the same religion view homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Is God sending mixed messages? —— Since the Supreme Court of the United States...
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Dear Closeted Gay Christian Teen
Growing up gay in the Christian faith leaves some teens feeling isolated and fearful. Advice from someone who’s been there. —— I still remember the cold chills that ran down my spine when it finally...
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Gay and Muslim in America
Embed from Getty Images How one man navigates his Muslim faith and sexual orientation. —— Jareem sat across the table from me at a café in Davis, California, the first time we met. It was early fall...
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Growing up Jewish and Gay
Embed from Getty Images A man shares his story of coming to terms with his sexuality and conservative faith. —— Paul was born into a Jewish family in the South at a pivotal time in history. It was...
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About that Email that Said ‘Gay Men Are Full of Disease’
Embed from Getty Images Internet trolls and religious zealots are alive and well, full of prejudice, ignorance, and discrimination, proving there is more work to do. —— I’ve gotten in the habit of...
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Is Your Religion Based in Fear?
Most of us don’t think about the ideologies that drive us, but how we behave because of them is telling. —— Last week I published the article Why I Stopped Teaching My Kids to Believe in God and then...
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Former Ex-Gay Leaders Alliance (FELA) Denounce GOP Platform Supporting...
UNITED STATES – The Former Ex-Gay Leader Alliance (FELA), a coalition of former leaders and founders of conversion/ex-gay therapy, denounce the recent decision by the Republican Party’s Platform...
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The Choir Singer Dedicating His Song to Fellow Members of the Trans Community
I was quite a butch girl, and now I’m quite a camp guy. 00:05 But I’m quite happy with that, 00:06 because that’s who I am. 00:09 CHORAL SINGING 00:15 Both my parents are ordained Church of England...
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Gay Man Reconciles His Spirituality With His Sexuality
Hi, my name is Nick Donias. 00:06 I’m from Fort Worth, Texas. 00:07 Growing up in Texas, I was the youngest of four children and we grew up in what people 00:12 call the bad part of town. 00:15 And I...
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Can God Help Me Stop Being Sexually Attracted to Other Men?
— Hello, Dr. Olson, I am a thirty-year–old man who only recently realized that I am gay. I come from a very, very conservative Christian background, so every sense of being attracted to other boys was...
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What It’s Like to Be Gay and Mormon
people around me would say things about 00:01 gay people that I don’t think they would 00:03 have said if they’d known that I was 00:05 internalizing things in the way they 00:06 were 00:07 there was...
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