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– 1950’s Public Service Announcement Warning Boys against Gays – Gloria TV

Is the U.S. Government Promoting Homosexuality Overseas? – American Spectator
Clinton said the State Department is supporting efforts to advance homosexual rights around the world. “We celebrate the progress of advancing the rights of LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender] in our country, as we continue to advance the rights of all people around the world,”

George Washington Approved Soldier’s Dismissal for Attempt ‘To Commit Sodomy’ – CNS
“His Excellency the Commander in Chief [George Washington] approves the sentence and with Abhorrence and Detestation of such Infamous Crimes orders Lieutt. Enslin to be drummed out of Camp tomorrow morning by all the Drummers and Fifers in the Army never to return; The Drummers and Fifers to attend on the Grand Parade at Guard mounting for that Purpose.”

Homosexual Agenda Marches Steadily Forward – ADF
Recent and potential developments in the law make it clear that claiming a legal right to engage in homosexual behavior comes at the cost of religious freedom. These changes in the law will have a profound effect on religious freedom. The current Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Chai R. Feldblum.  When questioned about instances when religious liberty and homosexual “rights” conflict, she stated that she would have “a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.”

Sen. Scott Brown invites hardcore Mass. homosexual activist to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” repeal signing ceremony in D.C. – Mass Resistance
Lang is arguably the most vicious anti-family homosexual activist in Massachusetts. Back in 2005 over 170,000 people signed petitions to get the Marriage Amendment on the ballot in Massachusetts. Soon afterwards Tom Lang and his “husband” Alex Westerhoff set up a website called KnowThyNeighbor. There they posted the names and addresses of all the signers and invited people to contact them and confront them. As a result, many people who signed the marriage petition were harassed at their homes and at work.

‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ Changing to ‘Parent One,’ ‘Parent Two’ on Passport Applications
– Fox
The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. A statement on the State Department website noted: “These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.” Gay rights groups are applauding the decision.

Cardinal George Pell agrees to meet gay marriage campaigners
– The Australian
That is if they first declare that not all opposition to same-sex marriage is homophobic and discriminatory.

Bishop Cordileone named US bishops’ point man on same-sex marriage – Catholic Culture
A particularly active defender of Catholic teaching on marriage, Bishop Cordileone has been recognized as a leading force behind the 2008 passage of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that recognized marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

Deciding Not to Decide What Marriage Is by Kevin Staley-Joyce
– First Things
Arguments over same-sex marriage and other challenges to conjugal tradition have brought into stark relief our degraded ability to describe the realities of family and the marriage culture. Legal reformations of marriage such as no-fault divorce, for instance, have crippled discourse by redirecting the recognized purpose of marriage away from the family as a unit, and toward the accommodation of the desires of individual adults.