tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101815052010-05-13T07:32:01.850-04:00WayneBesen.com is one of the fastest-growing liberal blogs in the nation. Each day, Wayne Besen touches on hot button issues, with a GLBT-twist, offering wit and wisdom - and you always know where he stands. Besen, a well-known author and activist, takes on the far right and pulls no punches. He is a four-star General in the culture wars and is leading the charge to fight back against the right wing! If you dislike Jerry Falwell, you'll love this blog.Wayne Besenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15192706148737021956noreply@blogger.comBlogger1993125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10181505.post-36896348047280123952010-04-22T11:02:00.002-04:002010-04-22T11:10:52.278-04:00

Weekly ColumnLast week, I spent two days in Lynchburg, Va., to observe a major Religious Right conference, "The Awakening", which featured many of their biggest stars. The symposium revealed the decline of anti-gay focus and showed that it was no longer the far right's number one priority. The obsession with all things gay was nudged aside by an intense hatred of Barack Obama, which was closely

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Weekly ColumnIt is generally understood that today's youth are more supportive of equality for gay and lesbian people. Faced with losing the next generation, fundamentalists are ferociously scrambling to capture the minds of youth through homeschooling and the subversion of public education. By sequestering students at home or creating public schools where the only drink served in the cafeteria

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(Weekly Column)John McCain (R-AZ) is defending his U.S. Senate seat against a challenge from ultra-conservative radio host J.D. Hayworth. (Yes, the same Hayworth who was a very large recipient of money and gifts--like sports skyboxes--from the shamed lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to the New York Times) While voters may find McCain's name on the ballot, the man is utterly unrecognizable,

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Last week, Truth Wins Out's Evan Hurst reported that House Minority Leader John Boehner joined right wing Catholics to attack the Human Right's Campaign's Harry Knox as an "anti-Catholic bigot" and called on him to resign from President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.Why?They were allegedly upset that Knox correctly stated that the Pope is hurting people in

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(Moses, pictured left, is a gay Ugandan seeking asylum in the U.S. who had to hide his face at today's press conference. He feared persecution and even violence if his identity were known.) Religious Leaders Urge America's Leaders to Speak Out Against Event’'s Connection to Abhorrent Ugandan "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Key religious leaders held a press conference this morning

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Dear Friend: We are about to embark on a historic mission to stop persecution of LGBT people in Uganda and we want you to be a key part of our vision. (www.AmericanPrayerHour.org) Uganda's parliament is now debating what has become known as the "Kill the Gays Bill." David Bahati, a member of the secretive fundamentalist group The Family, sponsored the draconian legislation. On February 4, he will

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Media Contact: Wayne Bessen, American Prayer Hour CoordinatorPhone: 917-691-5118 E-Mail: wbesen@truthwinsout.orgMulti-City Prayer Hour Offers Alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast Whose Leaders Have Apparent Ties to Uganda's Draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill What: On Tuesday, February 2, 2010 key religious leaders will hold a press conference to announce the formation of The American

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In a dramatic move, University of Florida's legendary football coach, Urban Meyer, abruptly quit the sport on Christmas Day. His decision came after a hospitalization for chest pains and a realization that he had nearly worked himself to death building a championship team. Meyer's prodigious work habits included neglecting his family and e-mailing recruits in church. "I'm a person of faith and

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A nice holiday gift from the Cross Eyed Iguanas. Gotta love it. They really got the essence of Peter LaBarbera.

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A spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections announced Monday that the department was reviewing its affiliation with the controversial ex-gay ministry Corduroy Stone of Lansing. "The department's position is that when you are ministering to a group or even an individual that the content of that not be defamatory or derogatory," said John Cordell, a department spokesman. "We have shut

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In the past week, Truth Wins Out has been dealing with twin tragedies caused, in part, by Exodus International, the nation's largest "pray away the gay" ministry. The first train wreck is Uganda's proposed "Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009". This legislation would lead to the imprisonment and murder of LGBT Ugandans. It would jail anyone accused of "promoting" homosexuality and imprison friends and

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(Weekly Column)A February 2008 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 16 percent of America's 225 million adults are unaffiliated with any religion. According to the report, "When 'childhood religion' is compared against 'current religion,' the unaffiliated show a net increase of 8.8 percentage points, compared to a 7.5 point loss among Catholics, for example, or a 2.6

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Under the leadership of James Dobson, Focus on the Family was infamous for distorting the work of researchers, earning it the nickname, "Focus on the Fallacies".Then, the organization was labeled, "Focus on the Foolishness" after Dobson suggested that Sponge Bob was gay. (Yes, the cartoon sponge that lived in a pineapple under the sea) We must also remember, "Focus on the Fairytale", the name

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Next time a Roman Catholic cleric tries to degrade loving same-sex relationships, stop him mid-sentence and say: "The Roman Catholic Church has no moral authority to oppose loving gay relationships." Keep repeating this until the hypocrite walks away, head bowed in shame. As far as I know, there has never been a huge, multi-decade scandal of gay activists molesting children. No GLBT community

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World leaders and members of Congress should skip the National Prayer Breakfast, February 4th, in protest of The Family's (aka The Fellowship) direct role in promoting a bill that would lead to severe human rights abuses against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Uganda.The National Prayer Breakfast is giving legitimacy to those who promote barbarism in the name of the Bible. I

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(Weekly Column)Earlier this week, extremists within the Republican Party proposed a 10-point checklist of principles that GOP candidates would have to sign if they expect to receive Party support. Like a deranged "Social Issues Santa", the enforcers of doctrine are descending in their sleighs to slay Republicans who are naughty and not considered nice.According to their puritanical plan,

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(Weekly Column)It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of liberalism, modernity and basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Rome has eagerly jumped with both feet into America's culture wars and is working on a global scale to punish or purge ideological

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Truth Wins Out founder and Executive Director Wayne Besen was honored in the November issue of Instinct Magazine as a "Leading Man." He was joined by several other GLBT advocates and attended a party in New York City on Thursday evening to celebrate the achievement. "I was delighted to be recognized by one of my favorite magazines alongside several GLBT advocates that I greatly admire," said

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