Three students may face charges over teenager's suicide - PinkNews.co.uk

Seeded on Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:29 PM EDT (PinkNews)

Three students may be charged with a hate crime related to the suicide of 14 year Jamey Rodemeyer Jamey: “I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. What do I have to do so people will listen to me?”

suicide, gay, bullying, hate-crime, bisexual, it-gets-better

The little girl in a white dress that flew ... the day God fell from my grace

Fri Jul 8, 2011 5:35 PM EDT

I was in the fourth grade, 9 or 10 years old at the time. My younger cousin, she was born on my 4th birthday, was going with me to Sunday School for the very first time.

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religion, faith, belief, disbelief, fall-from-grace

Boehner spends $500K in defense of DOMA possible ethics violation

Seeded on Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:55 AM EDT (Advocate.com)

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics alleges that Boehner directed payment of $500,000 to the law firm selected to defend DOMA and that not only is that more money than the federal government has to spend, it’s also illegal.

marriage, gay, politics, doma

Real Life "Happy Feet"

Seeded on Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:02 PM EST (Late Show: Katy Perry - "Hot N Cold" - Bing Videos)

animals, not-news

Headline Mash-up Challenge

Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:06 PM EST

Your challenge, take a headline and a popular song or musical and create a mash-up. It does not have to be the entire song just a verse or two will be sufficient.

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odd-news, satire

Prop. 8 ruling ignores precedent, evidence and common sense

Seeded on Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:34 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, says Judge Walker's ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger is indefensible

gay-marriage, politics, same-sex-marriage, polotics, prop-8

The Top Ten Outed Right-Wing Homophobes

Seeded on Thu May 6, 2010 5:08 PM EDT (Miami New Times)

Unless you've spent the last 48 hours holed up in a French B&B humping the homosexuality right out of your rent-a-boy, you've probably heard about Miami New Times' exposé of gay-bashing evangelist George Alan Rekers' European tryst with a male prostitute.

gay, sex, us-news, homosexual, right-wing, prostitute

Chilean Earthquake Moves Earth's Axis and Your Day Just Got a Little Shorter

Seeded on Tue Mar 2, 2010 10:54 AM EST (AOL News)

Apart from claiming the lives of hundreds of people and wreaking enormous property damage, Chile's massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth's overall mass, scientists from NASA say.

earthquake, news, science, geology, plate-tectonics

US researchers find evidence that homosexuality linked to genetics Dec 2008

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 12:50 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

As more stiudies are conducted the more scientists are concurring that there must be some genetic factor in determining sexuality.

gay-marriage, gay, science, genetics, homosexual, same-sex, sexuality, heterosexual

God is all in the head

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 9:28 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Scientists study the brain and religious belief

science

The 600 Year Tradition Behind Same-Sex Unions

Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:35 PM EDT (George Mason University's History News Network)

As the debate heats up once again on same-sex marriage and preserving the traditional marriage. Here is historical evidence that these unions were once sanctioned and accepted by society and the church.

history, marriage, homosexual, same-sex

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