WE have just learned of the death of James Kirkup, the British poet who was reluctantly catapulted to notoriety in the 1970s after his homosexual poem, The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name, landed Gay News and its editor, Denis Lemon, in the dock for “blasphemous” libel. Kirkup died at his home in Andorra [...]
Ted Haggard, 52, one of America’s most influential evangelists until allegations of gay sex and drugs brought about his spectacular downfall in 2006, is “still struggling with his sexuality”, according to a documentary that will be aired in the US on January 29, 2009. The leader of the National Association of Evangelicals until his fall [...]
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THE laughable notion that gay people can be turned “straight” is commonly held among a variety of crackpot Christian fundie groups, but our attention has just been drawn to the dotty and downright dangerous activities of a Jewish group called JONAH – “Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality”. Four years ago, this vile little outfit [...]
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NOW that Christian zealot Stephen “Stay a Virgin, Marry a Virgin” Green no longer has the chance of gaining fame as the man who dragged the BBC into the dock for blasphemy (see earlier post), whatever will the founder of the failed Christian Voice outfit do with his time? Well, according to the ever-watchful Mediawatchwatch, [...]
Continue reading about Stephen ‘Stay a Virgin, Marry a Virgin’ Green plans to “pray away the gay”
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
