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What it means to say ‘no’ to gay marriage
SEVEN years ago I got married. How lucky am I? Not because I got to marry my best friend and soulmate, nor the fact that after 14 years together we are happier than ever.
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Don’t donate blood if you’re gay – they don’t deserve your help
Are Hong Kong’s gay men desperate to donate blood? Is it a privilege they are not worthy of? You would be forgiven for thinking so, considering how the Hong Kong Red Cross this week finally tackled the question of accepting blood donations from men who have sex with men.
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LGBT community is underrepresented in business and leadership roles around the world.
Brace yourself. According to Business Insider, the average person will spend 90,000 hours of their life in the workplace. That is an awful lot of time, particularly if something integral to you is considered taboo.
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Death to gays! WTF?
Roy Moore, a Republican candidate for US Senate in Alabama, has appeared multiple times on a radio show hosted by a controversial pastor who preaches that the biblical punishment for homosexuality is death. Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is in a runoff primary race against fellow Republican and incumbent Sen. Luther Strange. Moore is a hardline conservative, who made his name in Alabama by championing social and cultural issues popular with the religious right.
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Let’s not forget, Castro’s Cuba is still anti-gay.
For years, Cuba was not very friendly to homosexuals – i.e., concentration camps for gays and segregation of people with HIV. About 20 years ago, Reynaldo Arenas wrote his memoirs and reminded the world that homosexuality is a crime in Cuba, and he was one of the many exhibits of that repression.
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We Hear You: Debating Transgender Military Personnel and Culture’s Role in American Dream
Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s coverage and commentary on President Donald Trump’s plan to bar openly transgender individuals from military service got our audience talking, as did our examination of the role of culture in maximizing opportunity in America. Write us at letters@dailysignal.com—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thank you to Walt Heyer for sharing his experience (“I Was Once Transgender. Why I Think Trump Made the Right Decision for the Military“). I have often wondered just how we got to this point. Changing a person’s sex doesn’t change issues any more than changing real estate cures an alcoholic.
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Don’t generalize the LGBTQ community.
Growing up Jewish in the Jersey suburbs, I was encouraged to be curious about other people’s religions and found that strangers were often curious about mine. I was told that questions were OK, but my parents taught me to bristle at any inquiry that would make me the face of my faith. These were questions that started with “Why do your people…” or “Why do Jews…”