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    Remembering the September 11, 2001 attacks

    September 12, 2019
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    Unification: Rise of the Thunderblade

    May 8, 2019
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Same-sex marriage rights under attack again in Tennessee

By David W. Shelton On February 17, 2019 · Add Comment · In Gay Marriage, Gay Rights
The Tennessee legislature will consider a new bill that would nullify all existing same-sex marriages and deny new licenses for gay couples in Tennessee.
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GLAAD poll finds LGBTQ support slipping

By David W. Shelton On January 28, 2018 · Add Comment · In Gay Rights, General Commentaries
A new poll from GLAAD shows that LGBTQ support has slipped, but the devil is in the details. What can we learn from this poll and how can we see the big picture?
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James Franco Movie, ‘I am Michael’ ‘True Ex-Gay” NOT Ex-Gay

By Jerry Reiter On February 26, 2017 · 80 Comments · In Ex-Gay Fraud, Gay Rights, Movie Reviews
Guest writer Jerry Reiter reviews the film "I Am Michael," and dives into the question of just how much the film criticizes the ex-gay movement.
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Legislators, leave your gay neighbors alone

By David W. Shelton On January 25, 2016 · Add Comment · In Gay Marriage, Gay Rights
Same-sex couples have the right to legally marry in Tennessee. This statement is also true in all of the other 49 states in the union. Naturally, the backlash has become a tour-de-force of anti-gay rhetoric and misinformation with the very clear goal of stripping gay couples of the dignity and respect they have as lawfully [...]
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The Only Choice for Gays is Integrity

By David W. Shelton On June 17, 2015 · Add Comment · In Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, General Commentaries
Anti-gay rhetoric insists that being gay is a choice, but the reality is that the only choice for LGBT people is the choice of whether or not to be honest with themselves and everyone around them.
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Christians: Stop letting hate control the conversation on LGBT equality!

By David W. Shelton On April 24, 2015 · 15 Comments · In Christianity, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, General Commentaries
Anti-gay activists have brought the level of hate toward the LGBT community to a staggering new level. How should we respond? And should Christians continue to let a collective voice of hate speak for them? I say no.
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Dignity and Respect for LGBTs: A bigot’s greatest fear

By David W. Shelton On March 28, 2015 · 3 Comments · In Gay Marriage, Gay Rights
Marriage equality, or what many people call “gay marriage,” is going to become a nationwide reality by this June. Every single legal analyst that understands the 14th Amendment knows this. It’s a simple matter of equal treatment under the law. Civil marriage for same-sex couples is not a religious matter, so states are required to [...]
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TN Senate kills “Turn the Gays Away” Bill in Committee

By David W. Shelton On February 18, 2014 · Add Comment · In Gay Rights, News
Claiming that the "Turn the Gays Away" bill was not designed to allow businesses to discriminate against gay people, Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) asked his colleague, Senator Mike Bell (R-Meigs County) to refer SB2566 to subcommittee. The bill is effectively dead.
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Sincere Religious Beliefs as an Excuse to Discriminate?

By David W. Shelton On February 13, 2014 · 1 Comment · In Gay Rights, General Commentaries, Hate Groups, Politics
For years, anti-gay politicians and religious impersonators have been warning their followers that the gays want to put preachers in jail and that LGBT equality will allow the gays to fully and legally intimidate, bully, and discriminate against Christians. A new flurry of bills throughout the country has tipped their cards to the rest of us — and the reality of their goals is nothing short of horrifying. While these professional bigots do all they can to convince us that the gays are the danger, they’re working hard to put the gays in jail, and give legal blessing to anti- gay discrimination.
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Vandals strike Chick-Fil-A with Pro-Gay Graffiti

By David W. Shelton On January 16, 2014 · Add Comment · In Gay Rights, General Commentaries
Cookeville, Tennessee isn't known for being overly supportive for the LGBT community, which may be part of what drove one LGBT supporter to tag a local Chick-Fil-A store with the message, "GOD (Loves) Fags & Chicken." It was spray-painted on the side of their restaurant a few days ago. It's not the first time this has happened, either.
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Another Comparison of Gays to Terrorists

By David W. Shelton On January 14, 2014 · Add Comment · In Gay Rights, Hate Groups
Mat Staver and Matt Barber, both of Liberty Counsel, really don't like gay people. They haven't found an anti-gay law they didn't like, and they love to throw around words like "homofascist" when talking about pro-LGBT groups like GLAAD. When Phil Robertson made his veiled comparison of gays to terrorists during his GQ interview last month, most of us were appalled that he would say such stupid things around a microphone.
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It is NOT a choice. Here’s why it matters.

By David W. Shelton On January 12, 2014 · 3 Comments · In Ex-Gay Fraud, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, General Commentaries
The discussion over LGBT rights and equality is rife with emotion, debated with passion, and unfortunately, peppered with misinformation. Many of the discussions from those opposed to LGBT equality use words like “lifestyle,” “behavior,” and my favorite, “sodomy.” Of course, there’s the even more religious sounding variation — sodomite. We talk about issues like marriage, the workplace, and even walking down the street holding hands. Through it all, an astonishing discussions, arguments, and debates are based on the single greatest myth: that sexual orientation is a choice.
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The Folly of the Right Wing Rage Machine

By David W. Shelton On January 6, 2014 · 4 Comments · In Gay Rights, General Commentaries, podcast
Quick. Think of a public figure who made statements about homosexuality outside of his regular job and was dismissed from his job as a result. Now imagine the right wing outrage that came as a direct result of this dismissal. First Amendment! Censorship! If you were thinking of Phil Robertson, you assume correctly that the rage was instantaneous. If you were thinking of the slightly more recent article written by former Minnesota Vikings kicker Chris Kluwe, well, his outspokenness was on the opposite side, so we get crickets from the right wing.
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What the Duck? Why the Right Wing has Totally Quacked

By David W. Shelton On December 21, 2013 · 33 Comments · In Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, General Commentaries, Hate Groups, podcast
Yes, we are all tired of the Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty “controversy.” My own posts on Facebook on the topic drew fever-pitched debates and even resulted in one person un-friending me because I insisted that it has nothing to do with “Freedom of speech.” Once I stopped reading and rolling my eyes at the ridiculous comments on the whole ducking issue, I realized that if this was the front line of today’s culture war, then it was nothing more than a distraction of where the real battles were being fought.
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Gay Cakes and the Exploding Heads of Buttercream Bigotry

By Rev. M. Vernon Hunt On December 13, 2013 · 15 Comments · In Gay Rights, Hate Groups
Guest writer Rev. M. Vernon Hunt obliterates NOM president Brian Brown's statement that baking a cake as a business service is somehow a form of religious artistic expression.
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Religious Liberty Does Not Trump Individual Rights, Part 2

By David W. Shelton On December 7, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Gay Rights, General Commentaries, Hate Groups, podcast
Early last year, I discussed the emerging debate over religious liberty versus LGBT equality. Sadly, the debate has only gotten more fever pitched due to the incessant drumbeat of hateful bigots like Matt Barber, Peter Labarbera, Bryan Fischer, and a myriad of other anti-gay blowhards. The fruit of their vitriol has started to bear; this time in the case of a Colorado bakery called Masterpiece Cakeshop.
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