What would Jackie Walker say?
Last night was a very emotional one for the family of former Fulton and UT football standout Jackie Walker, who was finally inducted into the local sports hall of fame. Walker is acknowledged to be one of the greatest football talents the state has ever produced, but he was also openly gay - he died [...]
Read More..>>Elizabeth Dole baffles with this one
What in the world is she thinking?
Elizabeth Dole is trying to name an AIDS/HIV relief bill after the recently departed former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms.
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1987 described AIDS prevention literature as “so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1988 vigorously opposed the [...]
The risks of political auto-correct
From the PFTAW “Rightwingwatch.com site:
In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they [...]
Were you aware that the antichrist will be gay and at least “partly Jewish?”
Check out these remarks from John Hagee, the Christian minister who, until recently when McCain rejected his support, was a key McCain ally in courting the religious right. Interestingly, Sen. Joe Lieberman continues to support Hagee.
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Don’t blame the media
Well, it looks like plans for a controversial GLBT/clothing optional resort in Roane County are dead, and the developer is saying “media explotation” played a part in killing the deal.
WBIR reporter Anthony Welsch, who covered the story, posts on his blog this morning that the developer may be looking for fault in the wrong place:
I [...]
“Nudist colony now open to all, but opposition builds to allowing Knox Countians”
More funny from KnoxBlab satirist. He’s on a roll today!
Nudist colony now open to all, but opposition builds to allowing Knox Countians
From APB reports. KINGSTON, Tenn. - First pitched on the Internet as a planned nudist colony for Knox County Government types, the Web site for the proposed Rosebud Lodge near here had changed drastically [...]
Read More..>>Out at the Park visits Dollywood
Press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ryan Salyer, Executive Director
OUT at the Park
Phone: 615-618-8735
Website: www.outatthepark.com
OUT at the Park proudly presents, OUT at the Park 2008
PIGEON FORGE, TN – April 17, 2008 – OUT at the Park is proud to announce that this year’s event will celebrate its 6th anniversary. We were originally known as [...]
The increasingly notorious Roane County “gay campground”
WBIR reporter Anthony Welsch shares the latest on his blog:
Just got off the phone with Mike Farmer… Roane County’s Mayor.
We talked for a bit about the proposed campground just across the Clinch River from Kingston. He sounded like he’s tired of talking to people on the telephone about. Can’t blame him I guess! [...]
NIMBY movement afoot on the “alternative livestyle lodge”
The Roane County newspaper is reporting growing opposition to plans for a resort targeted at gay folks:
A quiet rumble. That’s the way zoning officer Kay Christopher described the public firestorm that’s starting to brew over a plan to bring an adult resort to Roane County.
“You know it’s about to hit,” Christopher said.
Christopher said her office [...]
Was Jesus intolerant?
The conversation continues regarding my own comments on Knox County schools allowing the Franklin Graham Festival organizers access to students during school hours.
Today, David Oatney weighs in:
As a Catholic, it is a fair assessment to say that Franklin Graham and I wouldn’t see eye-to-eye theologically, but when Graham said that abortion is a murder and [...]
Read More..>>What kind of character are the schools building, anyway?
Charles Maldonado takes a closer look at the controversy I blogged about last week, in which folks from the Franklin Graham Festival were allowed to come into Knox County schools to build some character.
But in the same issue of Metro Pulse is a front-page feature on what it’s like to be a gay student attending [...]
About that pregnant dude…
Perhaps you’ve been following the recent news coverage (including an Oprah appearance) by the post-sex-change man who is now pregnant.
Well, Dr. Jim West takes issue with the issue:
Thomas Beatie isn’t, genetically, a male. Hence, ‘he’ isn’t having a baby- she is. Maleness or femaleness isn’t determined by what’s hacked off or sewn on, it’s [...]
Read More..>>More evidence that gay witches are running Tennessee’s public schools
Rep. Stacey Campfield points to a KNS article as evidence (at least I think this is what he’s saying) that his recent attempt to make a law banning teachers from mentioning homosexuality was needed.
The article is about a parent in Oak Ridge’s complaint that an online encyclopedia called BrainPOP offered to elementary school [...]
A spirited conversation on Campfield’s Big Idea
There’s a heated debate going on right here over the merits of Stacey Campfield’s now-dead legislation that would have prohibited teachers from talking about homosexuality in schools.
Go join the discussion.
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UPDATED: Straight-men-only workout hours
UPDATED: Hobbs clarifies that he was engaging in satire with his post, which wasn’t clear to me
Bill Hobbs blogs about what he calls “soft bigotry” at Harvard:
Harvard University has announced that it will close its gyms to openly gay men at certain hours each day so that straight men who are uncomfortable around gays can [...]
He doesn’t want any of that PFLAG “morality” in the schools
Ned Williams says he doesn’t want Tennessee schoolkids hearing about morality from PFLAG:
It appears the message that various non-heterosexual phenomena are normal is already being covered (or encouraged) for K-2nd teachers . . . so it looks like any bogeyman-mongering accusations are inaccurate.
But I noticed that the PFLAG materials are couched in terms of “making [...]
But a “civil union” shower just doesn’t have the same ring to it
Whither marriage? That’s the question The Crone is asking this morning:
It’s not so much the definition of marriage that is so important for groups arguing for or against same-sex marriage. Instead, this question posed by Justice Moreno is important:
California has a domestic partnership law that gives gay and lesbian couples nearly all of the legal [...]
