Homophobia

On Amazon.com I found an exciting new novel.  G. Roger Denson's VOICE OF FORCE.  In essence it asks the simple questions: Has increased awareness of sexuality and difference truly helped us live more harmonious lives?  Or has it merely compelled people to mask the prejudice they inherit from traditions and institutions beneath a civilized veneer?    Increasing tolerance may have softened the fault lines of social prejudice, but Denson suggests that when a public tragedy draws out the voices of discontent, we learn just how deeply homophobia still shapes and enforces everyday life in even the most liberal of enclaves.   In chronicling the alleged ... Read Full Story

FEAR AND LOATHING OF HOMOSEXUALS AND HOMOSEXUALITY MUST BE SOMETHING OF AN UNHEALTHY OBSESSION, AND THEN SOME, among the greater conservative community. Including the "news portals" online perverting the Fourth Estate to serve the Greater Conservative Agenda, contending that such homophobia is actually "healthy" and @ once "Christian." Case in point: ConWebWatch's documentation of how WorldNetDaily holds homosexuals and homosexuality to contempt and ridicule as "threats to morals, decency and common sense:" As a conservative website, WorldNetDaily has been by definition generally opposed to homosexuals. As WND shifted its focus from being mostly an anti-Clinton site at its founding in 1997 to pushing a ... Read Full Story

It seems that the right and the evangelical right have opted-out of the debate process. Instead they have adopted the catch phrase made famous by First Lady Nancy Regan's Drug Free America campaign and it's "Just Say No!" mantra. Doesn't matter what kind of drug it is. It's drugs so just say no! - It doesn't matter what kind of legislation it is. It's from the "Democrat" party so just say no! In the case of "Hate Crime Legislation" religious bigots are well aware that the expansion of hate-crime law is to include violence intended to intimidate lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people. Yet ... Read Full Story

I am sick. A sickness that is not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious, a sickness of the mind. You see, I am a homosexual. A person who demands an intimate relationship with... [ Click to read more .] Read Full Story

High school students from Ballenas Secondary School in Parksville shared with us their video "Think Before You Speak". We had to share.It is great to see students engaged in this dialogue. Here is what they said in their email to us:As high school students, we see the effects of homophobia on a daily basis. Students have began to underestimate the power of their words, as they continue to throw Read Full Story