Tag: homosexuality

Petrarca Meeting: Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences Last Thursday, I posted about meeting with PA State Rep Joe Petrarca, and he had four main concerns he expressed about PA HB 300. Today, I’d like to talk about his second concern- that bills sometimes have unintended

Onorato Voices Support for Fully Inclusive Countty Non-Discrimination Policy

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Preaching and Hate Crimes

Legislation that has been bogged down for a long time has been federal hate crimes legislation. And as with any battle for protection and rights, there is an argument being made that such laws would impact the religious community wrongfully.

Petrarca Meeting Follow-up

I posted this morning that I was headed to Vandergrift to meet with state rep Petrarca and some of his constituents, and wanted to write a follow up about the meeting. Meetings of this type are called lobbying your representative.

Babette Joseph’s Quote Clarified

I posted earlier about a conservative blog called A Right Turn. The link to at the bottom of this post. The post is interesting in that the writer claims that no one should be discriminated against only for being gay

The Gathering Storm is Called Justice

Grabbed this over at Joe.My.God.  The linked post describes a link to Frank Rich’s column in the NYT. The Rich column is really good, and this blog a good intro. Check it out! Joe. My. God.: Justice Is Gathering. If

A Masterpastor Sins

As nice as it seems to read that “no circumstance should any Christian attack the character of a person who claims to be homosexual,” the opinions expressed here are little different in content and not that different in tone. There

PepsiCo Opposes Resolution Regarding Donations to Homosexual Activist Groups

Here is thew short of it. The American Family Association is sponsoring a boycott of PepsiCo because the the board of PepsiCo opposes a shareholder resolution that wold require the company to provide more information concerning charitable gifts. This follows

Gay Marriage = Religious Freedom

This is a wonderful video that talks about gay marriage, but in doing so discusses in some detail 4 cases that are ofte used by the religious right to attack any form of legislation dealing with GLBTQ issues. All 4

Marriage: From Racial Protection to Equal Protection

This is a really good read about the comparison and contrasts between the ’67 Racial Protection Act and the current Marriage Equality movement. What I found most interesting reading it was the way Religion was used then, to oppose any