A 10-year-old Arkansas boy name Will Phillips has decided that he cannot in good conscience pledge allegiance to the flag as long as the country for which it stands refuses legal equality to its gay citizens.
That stand has brought Will anti-gay taunts in the lunch room, but admiration from around the gay community
The West Fork School District fifth grader clashed with a substitute teacher for his refusal to stand for the pledge, prompting a call to Will’s mother, Laura Phillips. When the principal acknowledged that Will has the right to refuse to say the pledge, Ms. Phillips asked that her son receive an apology--a request that the principal declined to honor.
Good on Will and his parents for having the guts to stick to their beliefs!
Read the Edge San Francisco story
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
'Gay' McDonald's prompts boycott
I never thought I'd side with McDonald's on any issue.
The American Family Association has launched a call for a boycott of McDonald's, including a website, BoyCott McDonald's. The boycott call stems from McDonald's refusal to condemn Vice President of Communications Richard Ellis’s election to the Board of Directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, as well as saying the fast-food giant has refused "to stay neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality."
McDonald's USA spokesman Bill Whitman says: "We stand by and support our people to live and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment."
In March, the association ended a two-year boycott of Ford after the automaker largely stopped advertising its Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles in the gay media. The association also has boycotted retailer Target for substituting "holiday" for "Christmas" in its advertising and the Walt Disney Co. for its "embrace of the homosexual lifestyle."
Read the World Daily News story.
The American Family Association has launched a call for a boycott of McDonald's, including a website, BoyCott McDonald's. The boycott call stems from McDonald's refusal to condemn Vice President of Communications Richard Ellis’s election to the Board of Directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, as well as saying the fast-food giant has refused "to stay neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality."
McDonald's USA spokesman Bill Whitman says: "We stand by and support our people to live and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment."
In March, the association ended a two-year boycott of Ford after the automaker largely stopped advertising its Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles in the gay media. The association also has boycotted retailer Target for substituting "holiday" for "Christmas" in its advertising and the Walt Disney Co. for its "embrace of the homosexual lifestyle."
Read the World Daily News story.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Gays reason for Earthquake: Israeli MP
Oh my!
An Israeli MP has blamed a bunch of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays.
"Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which (the Israeli parliament) Knesset gives legitimacy, to sodomy," said Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, who has suggested that the tremors could be stopped by repelling various "liberal" laws on homosexuality that have been passed by Knesset, in recent years.
Benizri, who in 1999, caused controversy by saying homosexuals are mentally ill, made his comments during a parliamentary debate on earthquake preparedness.
Stopping "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes," would represent a cost-effective method of preventing future earthquakes, he continued.
Read the www.telegraph.co.uk story.
An Israeli MP has blamed a bunch of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays.
"Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which (the Israeli parliament) Knesset gives legitimacy, to sodomy," said Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, who has suggested that the tremors could be stopped by repelling various "liberal" laws on homosexuality that have been passed by Knesset, in recent years.
Benizri, who in 1999, caused controversy by saying homosexuals are mentally ill, made his comments during a parliamentary debate on earthquake preparedness.
Stopping "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes," would represent a cost-effective method of preventing future earthquakes, he continued.
Read the www.telegraph.co.uk story.
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