From TED.com:
“iO’s photography can be seen regularly in two features in The New York Times: Notes from the Underground and The Lowdown. She is also the creator of Self Evident Truths—an ongoing project to document the wide variety of experiences in LGBTQ America. So far, she has photographed about 2,000 people for the project. Her goal: 10,000 portraits and a nationwide rethinking of discriminatory laws.”
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It’s no surprise that our political polarization should break along religious lines, with Fundamentalist Christians, Jews, and Muslims and many Catholics gathering right, while more open-minded faith communities lean left. This is not new. Throughout history, hard times have brought out extremists of all kinds, with one side attributing our troubles to the “wrath of God” and the other disparaging those who oppose progress as Luddites and haters. Yet just because it’s so doesn’t mean it’s right. From both a religious and psychological perspective, this relentless battering takes its toll on our personal beliefs as well as our social values and mandates.
It is unhealthy, unproductive, and—okay, I’ll say it—unacceptable.
Dr. Nicholas Cummings, Former APA President (1979-1980)
Blog master’s note:
I find the below information very disconcerting by NARTH. Dr. Robert Spitzer, in a previous post, specifically called out NARTH and other anti/ex-gay agenda groups to stop using his invalid research results regarding “gays can change.” Since that time, NARTH has attempted to find a replacement for Dr. Spitzer with a former APA president, Nicholas Cummings, to revive their cause. (more…)
Dr. Robert Spitzer (Photo credit: seattlelesbian.com)
I’m curious as to whether they have said anything or how they live with the fact that the one study that they’ve always been citing, has now been taken away from them. I would think that’s a pretty rough place to be in. The people that are pushing the ex-gay idea, are so full of hatred for homosexuality really, that I don’t think that they can respond in an ethical way.
Photo Credit: Pigs
Whew! I’m not sure how this happens in one week, but here’s a different video, hot off the presses, (5/29/12) of another church promoting discriminatory messages against gays and lesbians, but this time through a 5-year old singing,
‘Ain’t no Homos Gonna Make it to Heaven’
Via Gawker comes this picture of 9-year old Josef Miles protesting the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. Apparently Miles and his mother were driving around Topeka, Kansas, spotted the group chanting its typical hate, and Miles asked to pull over so he could stage a solo protest.
Kid Told Westboro Protesters ‘God Hates No One’ Because, ‘That Is True’
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Psychiatrist apologizes for flawed research that “gays can change” and giving ammunition to anti-gay groups such as a local pastor calling for the ultimate death of queers and homosexuals. (Warning: Graphic video)
By Josh Fischman
Dr. Robert Spitzer (Photo Credit: Inside Social)
(Adapted from the Chronicle of Higher Education on May 18, 2012): Robert L. Spitzer retired years ago but his influence has not. That’s why his recantation last month of his own paper, research purporting to show that therapy could turn some homosexuals into heterosexuals, has such extraordinary resonance. The work of Dr. Spitzer, a psychiatrist and Columbia University emeritus professor–who actually got homosexuality removed from the medical list of mental disorders in 1973–rippled across society. (more…)
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