A question for the buy - bull thu «mpers out there... if your «god» sees
being gay as a travesty, then WEHY does your «god» allow it to begin with?
It's why there are now thousands of gay churches, gay clergy and pastors, rabbis and nuns that are saying
being gay as we know and understand it today is not a sin.
@Ray: The fact that you refer to
being gay as a «lifestyle» seems to infer that you think it's a choice.
It's also why there are 1000's of churches marrying gays and stating
being gay as we know it today is not a sin.
Bob, the problem with your argument is that it's not just the APA that has declared
being gay as normal.
- LIE, there are thousands gay churches and gay clergy who welcome gay couples into their flocks and know that
being gay as we know and understand it today is not a sin, only prejudice bigot don't want to understand this.
Perhpas
being gay as well as Atheist gives me a slightly different perspective on this.
There are thousands of gay churches and gay clergy and others that now state
being gay as we know and understand it today is not a sin.
Being gay as we know and understand it today is not condemned in your bible.
Freedom of expression is allowing you and anyone to stand up in public places and denounce
being gay as terrible for mankind.
Even if, as Steve and others have suggested, the Bible condemns «Being Gay,» could we really say that Christ would have acted toward those who
were gay as he does in the cartoon?
Based on the «Vatican» actions, it's ok to
be gay as long as you are raping little boys.
Seeing as people have
been gay as long as our human history, I doubt your Jesus has done anything especially since the science today proves otherwise.
It is fact that many of these women have very Severe Mental Issues and
are Gay as well since they really Hate us men for No Reason at all when we really Didn't do anything Wrong for us to get Cursed at from the beginning.
Suggesting that Judd Nelson
is gay as a French holiday is only mildly wittier than suggesting the same of clearly gay Tom Cruise.
Not exact matches
Tim Cook, who
as CEO of Apple
is the most prominent openly
gay corporate official in America, published an Op - Ed in The Washington Post describing laws like Indiana's
as «very dangerous.»
To put it simply, if you have a
gay employee who will now
be recognized
as married in your state, every form that employee has filled out that has a check box for «married or single» needs to
be reviewed and probably updated.
The U.S. men's team has some strong medal hopes, but most Olympics watchers have
been paying more attention to Adam Rippon,
as he
is the first openly
gay American athlete to qualify to compete at the Winter Olympics.
Valleywag, the gossip blog that wrote articles about Thiel — including one that outed him publicly
as being gay — has already ceased to exist.
One of the stories that bothered Thiel most, Silicon Valley insiders say,
was the one that outed him publicly
as being gay in 2007.
I
'm a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA), the
Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA), and I've served for several years
as a judge for the Critics Award at the New York Television Festival.
«Feeding people's «likes» into an algorithm, information hidden in the lists of favorites predicted whether someone
was white or African American with 95 % accuracy, whether they
were a
gay male with 88 % accuracy, and even identified participants
as a Democrat or Republican with 85 % accuracy.
And perhaps not surprisingly, Cook, who
is gay, has
been particularly visible on LBGTQ rights issues, coming forward to denounce Indiana and Arkansas state laws that
were viewed
as discriminatory.
They took into account how many new members of the LGBT community moved into each city in 2015,
as well
as how many «winks»
were sent between
gay and lesbian matches.
Even
as the families of 49 victims prepare to bury their loved ones, it
's still unclear what confluence of factors led a 29 - year - old Muslim born in New York to open fire in a
gay nightclub where he may have
been a frequent patron.
With celebrity declarations of gayness — such
as CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's recent admission — now
being greeted with little more than a shrug by most viewers,
being gay finally seems to
be beginning to lose its stigma with the general cookie - consuming public.
«
Gay Voice,» a Chinese - language LGBT non-profit magazine, said on social media that homosexuality
is just
as normal and should not
be treated differently.
But none of those publications care much about the technology industry and its masters — and certainly none of them has ever delved into Thiel's personal life,
as Gawker - owned Valleywag did in 2007 when it published a claim that Thiel
is gay.
Other athletes have come out
as part of the LGBTQ community after their Olympic careers, but this
is first time that American athletes who
are competing in the winter games
are openly
gay.
According to a 2014 survey by the NCTE and the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about one - fifth of all transgender adults
are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice
as likely
as others to serve in the military, The Washington Post reported.
Thiel has admitted he funded the lawsuit over the tape
as part of what The New York Times referred to
as a «secret war» on Gawker, which in 2007 ran a post stating Thiel
was gay.
When Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the world, came out
as gay on Thursday, it sent a pretty powerful message to business owners around the globe: Openness and inclusion of diversity
are key drivers of innovation and productivity.
The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he
is gay,
as well
as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids
were getting bullied in school, kids
were getting discriminated against, kids
were even
being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.
He
is Ireland's youngest - ever prime minister
as well
as its first openly -
gay leader and the first Irish premier of Indian descent.
Hurdles: Generating sufficient capital and distribution to create a mainstream national brand, while avoiding
being pigeonholed
as the «
gay» beer
Market research reveals that
gay men and lesbians drink about 30 % more beer than average and that they
're nearly twice
as likely to choose a light beer.
That case
was financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who blamed for outing him
as a
gay man in 2007.
As a white female, it would
be inappropriate and ignorant for me to use my voice speak out against minority social movements like the Black Lives Matter movement, the
Gay Liberation movement, or Latino Social movements.
The men
were told to look at the images for
as long
as necessary to make their judgments, and longer time spent looking specifically at the faces and bodies of the
gay male couples
was taken by the researchers
as another sign of attraction to men.
Lehman
is gay, and his company has
been certified
as gay - owned.
Relatively faster performance when the task involved moving the manikin toward the
gay male couple
was taken
as a sign of implicit attraction, rather than aversion, toward homosexual men.
When your workplace
is home to a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences, your company can more effectively market to all groups of consumers, from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds, men and women, older and younger adults and those who identify
as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Nor
are there «laws on the books» that allow it,
as if these states someone wrote in protections for employers to fire
gays at will.
In Cook's statement of his own sexual orientation in Bloomberg Businessweek he justified revealing that he
was gay for social reasons, noting what he sees
as the potential for anti-
gay discrimination in the majority of the country.
The former global operations CIO at Barclays landed on our 40 Under 40 list last year for his impressive background, quick achievements
as CIO of Nike, and his advocacy and influence in the
gay community (Watson
is out, and
was the first non-U.S. citizen to score a seat on the board of GLAAD).
There have
been gay and bisexual characters in the show before, such
as Captain Jack Harkness played by John Barrowman.
He also came out
as gay in 2016 and has
been a strong champion for LGBTQ rights.
As a result,
being gay at WH Smith
is simply not an issue.
Openly
gay people
are therefore promoted on merit every bit
as much
as everyone else.