For those of you who follow my blog in RSS Feed and through email subscriptions and are receiving repeat notifications of  this post,  the reason is because I’m continuing to add additional links to other writings on this issue as the conversation continues. There’s been no shortage of opinions expressed over the past several days [...]

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Every time a straight Christian blogger publishes a compassionate or affirming post on homosexuality their comment section goes whack with activity. Just ask Lindsey at [*!] Emphatic Asterisk, John at Suddenly Christian, Christian at Sharp Iron, or Adam at Pomomusings. A recent example can be found over at Pomomusings where Adam Cleveland Walker posted this [...]

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Today is my birthday. 52. I, Anita, am 52 years old. Whoa. How did that happen? I was a young thing a couple years ago, give or take 30 years more or less, so imagine my surprise to wake up this morning and discover that I’m 50 plus change. Seriously, I’m not one given to [...]

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I’d set aside a couple hours the other day to write a blog post but when I signed onto my WordPress account there was a notification banner for a new version of the software to be installed. Like the dutiful little blogger I am I backed up my database and followed the usual installation process. [...]

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The plan as of the moment is to do some blogging this week but before heading into new topics I wanted to follow up to a couple recent conversations from the serious to the silly. For the serious end of the spectrum, Newsweek has put together a good video piece on the “Gay is the [...]

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Yes. The curly-headed angel hovering over the Baby Jesus is me, serving as photographic evidence that being a lesbian is the least of the reasons why I’ve spent my fair share of time in a therapist’s office. This and the Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer costume I was forced against my will to wear in high [...]

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It’s not. Stop saying it. Stop writing it on poster signs. Stop chanting it. Please. Yes, there are similarities in the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. There are similarities in our struggle for equal rights and each group has historically dealt with discrimination, hate crimes, and intolerance. Blacks have been murdered for [...]

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