(GLAAD) Nationally syndicated radio hosts Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey, of the Alabama based “Rick & Bubba Show,” made highly offensive comments on a recent program, denouncing President Obama’s LGBT Pride Month Proclamation. The hosts spent nearly 10 minutes criticizing the declaration, making comparisons between LGBT people, alcoholics and those who are unfaithful in marriage, and pointing to the bible as a reason to discriminate against our community. The Rick and Bubba Show originates on WZZK-FM (Cox Radio Inc.) in Birmingham, Alabama and is syndicated to dozens of radio stations across the country by the Connecticut based company, Syndicated Solutions .
(BBC News) Why are Kenya’s politicians targeting gay people?
(Brisbane Times) In a week Brisbane celebrated its gay culture, a report unveiled the city’s poor treatment of homosexuals.
(SFist) Photo: Land Coalition Over the weekend, Zimbabwe police arrested two members of the country’s only gay rights group, GALZ . Though initially described as a “sting in which police were looking for pornography and drugs,” the real reason, according to Mail & Guardian , is much more troubling. Zimbabwe police have arrested two members of a gay organisation after they posted a letter in their office from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Lewis Brown criticising the Zimbabwean president’s opposition to homosexuality, their lawyer said on Monday…Police said the letter, mounted on an office wall, ‘undermined the authority of the president,’ an offence under sweeping security laws carrying a penalty of a fine or brief imprisonment.
(SFGN) Belarusian police have violently dispersed a gay pride parade banned by authorities. Riot police on Saturday broke up the demonstration in Minsk and arrested several dozen participants, beating some of them and throwing them on the ground. The organizers said that their goal was to attract public attention to the violation of sexual minorities’ rights in Belarus.
(Wash. Times) A leading religious legal defense group said it is standing with George A. Rekers, the conservative expert on gay behavior who has seen his career implode amid media reports that he took a young gay travel companion to Europe with him.
(Instinct) While the right tries to use Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s sexuality as a baseless foundation to mount their attacks upon (since, without any judicial experience, there isn’t much else for them to sink their claws into), the American Family Association is going one step further saying that no gay person should serve as a Justice. “It’s time we got over the myth that what a public servant does in his private life is of no consequence. We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility, especially when that individual could become one of nine votes in an out of control oligarchy that constantly usurps constitutional prerogatives to unethically and illegally legislate for 300 million Americans,” writes Bryan Fischer.
(GLAAD) This week, an official governmental committee in Uganda announced that almost all clauses in the “anti-homosexuality” bill were either unconstitutional or redundant. The death penalty, requirements for reporting family who are gay, extradition and silencing of advocacy may all be voted down. The New York Times reported that Adolf Mwesige, the head of the committee, “expected the full Parliament to vote down the bill within weeks.” Sadly, this vote will not remove the current law that allows a life sentence for being gay.
(SFGN) “The militant homosexual agenda is a symptom of sexual politics… Sexual politics always trumps religious liberty. Hate crime laws are turning Christians into second class citizens.” This quote is an example of the political punditry that is being satellite and internet broadcasted to over 20 million viewers nationwide by the Coral Ridge Ministries (CRM) production company. The political think-tank operates under the guise of a church, allowing them to use an excess of $45 Million dollars in tax-deductable donations annually for maximum outreach.
(BBC News) Police fire tear gas as opponents of Lithuania’s first gay pride parade throw stones and fireworks at marchers.
