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Monday, October 06
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Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch , Associated Press via WAVY TV , Soulforce press release Equality Riders talk with Liberty University students in Lynchberg photo: Soulforce Instead of threatened arrests, members of the LGBT Christian group Soulforce held what they characterized as a good discussion with school administrators and student at a small South Carolina Christian college. Associated Press reports that Equality Ride participants met with students in an off-campus area set aside by the administration of Columbia International University in Columbia, SC. The gay activists scrapped...
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Wednesday, September 17
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:: About 20 people spoke in support of keeping The Joy of Gay Sex at the public library in Helena, Mont . where the book has been available since 1993. A dozen others at a public hearing urged the library to remove the book from its shelves, many calling it "immoral" or "pornographic." The library board is expected announce a decision on the issue on October 21. :: Massachusetts Rep. Carl Sciortino won his Democratic primary last night by a wide margin despite being forced to run as a write-in candidate after his...
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Saturday, September 06
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:: The American Civil Liberties Union reported donating $1.2 million to defeat Proposition 8 , the California ban on marriage equality , on the November ballot. Sacramento Bee reports that it's the single largest check written to the campaign, though Equality California, a gay-rights group, and the Human Rights Campaign, a similar group, have bundled more total donations. :: Their neighbors to the south rejected an ad campaign that proclaimed "South Carolina is so gay" but several communities in North Carolina's Triangle are trying to attract...
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Saturday, August 30
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-- Prison officials are preparing rules that will allow a prisoner to marry a same-sex partner, with one caveat. Both partners can't be in prison. "They will have the same marriage rights as other inmates -- they will be able to marry non-inmates, but barred from marrying other inmates in prison," a spokesman told AP. -- A Belgian retiree and his male Senegalese domestic helper have been sentenced two years in a Senegalese jail because the pair got married in Belgium. They were accused of "acts against nature," even though the Belgian's lawyer said the civil union was...
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Thursday, July 24
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Source: Anderson Independent-Mail , Greenville News Anderson, SC -- An Anderson man who alleged last week that his father attacked him with a baseball bat "to cast the demons of homosexuality out of him" was charged Wednesday with filing a false police report, according to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, Greenville News reports. 18-year-old Dwight Clark Ables told deputies that his 49-year-old father yelled, cursed, swung a baseball bat, and prayed on July 13, reportedly angry with him for attending a gay pride parade. Ables turned himself in after a warrant was issued and was in...
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Saturday, July 19
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Source: Anderson Independent-Mail ANDERSON COUNTY, SC -- An 18-year-old man who returned to his home from a gay pride parade was assaulted by his father with a baseball bat last Sunday, the Anderson Independent Mail reports. Qnews update: SC man who said his father attacked him with bat charged with filing false report During the attack, the teen's 49-year-old father yelled, cursed, swung a baseball bat, prayed and tried to "cast the demon of homosexuality out of him," according to the teen's version of events, given to Deputy S.C. Weymouth, the incident report states. According...
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Friday, July 18
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Source: Charlotte Observer , Guardian , Time , Atlanta Journal Constitution , WOLO TV A London ad campaign meant to promote South Carolina to gay tourists has caused quite a stir on this side of the pond. The campaign, launched by marketing agency Out Now Consulting, was intended to promote Amro Worldwide, a London-based gay tour operator, and to tout tourism to several gay-friendly U.S. destinations. But what sells in Piccadilly doesn't necessarily float in Gaffney. The ad has created a controversy that led to the resignation of the employee who approved it and has many in the gay and lesbian...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: WYFF-TV , Tribune-Times , WSPA-TV , WHNS-TV GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. -- A man who threw a fatal punch after using an anti-gay slur pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday and was sentenced to less than three years in prison, WYFF-TV reports. He will likely spend not even a year in prison, WSPA-TV of Spartanville reports. Stephen Moller was charged in the death of Sean Kennedy, 20, in May of 2007. Prosecutors say Moller attacked Kennedy outside of Brews Bar on Pelham Road in Greenville County. Kennedy fell and hit his head on the pavement. According to witnesses at the time of his arrest...
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Thursday, May 22
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Source: The State (Columbia) , WACH-TV , WDEF-TV , Miami Herald blog , Columbia, SC -- The principal of a high school here says that he'll resign next year rather than oversee a school where students are allowed to form a Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) club. Eddie Walker, lead administrator at Irmo High School, announced his resignation to students and faculty Wednesday after the school board explained to him that he must allow a GSA group to form on campus. School board members say it's an all or nothing situation. Either you allow non-curricular clubs, or you don't. Since there are many...
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Thursday, January 17
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Source: CNN , Salon.com , and Guardian Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is taking heat from some members of the gay community over recent comments that appeared to equate gay marriage with bestiality. In an interview with the religious Web site beliefnet.com , Huckabee pushes back on recent critics who have called some of his positions "radical." Asked whether it wouldn't be a "dangerous undertaking" to try to bring the Constitution into conformity with the Bible -- particularly "given the variety of biblical interpretations" -- Huckabee said, "Well...
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Sunday, October 28
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Source: Associated Press via Examiner.com COLUMBIA, S.C. ( AP ) - A Grammy-winning singer whose role in a Barack Obama campaign event riled gay activists served as master of ceremonies of a gospel concert promoting the Democratic presidential hopeful Sunday night. "We're here," Donnie McClurkin told a cheering crowd. "We're here and we're glad we're here." McClurkin, who has angered gay rights groups by saying homosexuality is a choice, told the crowd the musical acts were there "in the name of unity" and "in the name of change." An hour earlier...
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Monday, October 01
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Greenville, S.C. -- South Carolina's role as an early voting state in the presidential primaries has made Greenville one of five cities across the nation targeted for a campaign aimed at convincing people that conservatives have misused the Bible...
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