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Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's
So Hard to Be Human and Gay
& Healthy in a Sick Society and Professor of
Religious Studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
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And Now We Boycott
Target?
And We Keep
Expecting Them to Be Rational….
An LGBTQ
History Month Historical Revisiting of a Sainted Same-Sex
Military Couple
A Reminder About
Our Reactions to the Religion Addiction That Got Us
Here
Are These the Deep,
Dark Secrets of Those Who Can’t Quit a Cruel
President?
Are We Ready for Our
Next Difficult Conversation?
Are We Still
as Confused About Love and Sex on Valentine’s Day
2023?
Are We Still Blaming
Mothers for Screwed Up Ideas of Motherhood?
As
Religion Addicts Battle in Their “Culture War,”
Here Are Rules of Engagement
A World Religions
Professor Faces Mortality
Be Honest: Does the
US Really Value Education?
Can I Have A
Conversation with You Anyway?
Can
“Lincoln” Still Happen Here and
Now?
Can We Stand
Resolute Against the Rollback of LGBTQ
Equality?
Class, Race, and
Addicts Who Prefer Eliminating LGBT People
Collateral Damage
is Just the Price of Making America Macho
Again
Could
Creativity and Imagination Be Too Scary, Subversive, and
Even Too Queer?
Could Fundamentalists
Exist Without Being Motivated by Hate?
Could It Be
Dangerous to Argue that Religion Is Responsible for
Discrimination?
“Culture Wars” Are
Tweaked and Front and Center Again Because It’s All One
Party Has to Offer
Dialogue with
Right-Wingers? Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Does
“Freedom” Mean Anything Beyond
Selfishness?
Does Your Politician
Pass the Religious Test?
Don’t
Believe Anything You Hear When Someone Says “The Bible
Says It”
Don’t Fall for
Any Anti-LGBTQI+ Psychological Malarkey
Do Politicians Really
Value What You Value?
Do We Also Promote
Those LGBTQI Stereotypes?
Egyptian Hope;
American Pessimism
Eighteen Suicides a
Day
Face It: Religion Addicts
Must Support Right-Wing Politicians
Forgive and Forget?
Not So Fast!
44 Suicides a Day?
What’s the Straight Role Doing to Our
Veterans?
Government Messes, Gay
Bombs, and Citizen Hop
Guilt Is Such an
Effective Tool of Control that We’ll Use It on
Ourselves
Hiding the Family
Values Gang’s Sexual Addictions
How Americans Raise
Girls and Boys
How Much Longer
Will “Traditional” Be Used As if It
Matters?
How to Help the
Media Undo the Blue Wave
How to Prepare for
the Long Term Even If Political/Cultural Storms Threaten
Just Off the Coast
How to Win the Next
Election By Not Feeding the Mainstream Media What It
Wants
If Just This One
Idea About Manhood is Changing, There’s
Hope….
I’ll Say It:
Every Right-Wing Bigot Is Responsible for the Orlando
Murders
Is "Color
Blindness" a Worthy Goal?
Is Huckabee the
Right-Wing’s Savior?
Is It Gay or
European?
Isn’t Seeking
Government Support for Your Religion an Act of
Unbelief?
“It Hasn’t
Changed that Much”
It’s
Dangerous to Argue that Religion Is
Responsible
It’s Getting
Harder, But Hope Is Still Our Choice
It’s Just Hard to
Admit that We Don’t Have Answers - Even When We
Don’t
It’s Not You.
Translating What Right-Winger’s Say to Trigger
You
It’s the Pride
Part of LGBTQ Pride That Still Drives Them
Nuts
I Will Say It Again:
Every Right-Wing Bigot Is Responsible for Those LGBTQ
Nightclub Murders
I Won’t
Forgot What that Bethlehem Breakfast Club Taught Me About
Religion
Lessons From
an Assassination
Lessons I Hope
We’ve Learned Over the Decades, 2021
Edition
Let Them Hit
Bottom
Love and Sex on
Valentine’s Day
Make Up Research and
Pray Hard
Marriage. Where Are We
Now?
"Marriage. Where Could We
Be?" Part 1
"Marriage. Where Could We Be?"
Part 2
"Marriage. Where Could We
Be?" Part 3
Mel White’s Journey
Continues
Men Behaving Badly and
those Nine Layers of “Getting Laid”
More Believers Are
Saying “It Ain’t Necessarily
So”
Most Right-Wing
Religion Won’t Handle This Political Dilemma
Well
Mother’s Day,
and A Lot Else, Ain’t What it Use to Be
A Movement for
Real Change We Can Believe In
The Non-End of
Homophobia
No Surprise at All:
It’s Religious People Fearing They’re Losing Power
They’ve Savored
No Surprise in That
Grand Jury Report: Religion Has a History of Covering Sexual
Dysfunction
No Surprise in That
Southern Baptist Sex Scandal Report: Religion Has a History
of Covering Sexual Dysfunction
Not a Straight, White,
MAGA Male? Then They’re Coming for You
Now We Know, But Do We
Want To?
Now, What Will the
Celebration Over ENDA Look Like?
Now, Who Are the
Real Narcissists?
On the serious
politics of lying
Our America on Our
Mind
Outrage Over Red
Cups Fills the Attention Deficit of the Needy
Pandemics, Social
Distancing, and a Hug
“Please Raise
Them to Be Monsters”? Really?
Politics of
Hopelessness, Skepticism and Dropping Out
Pride
Religious People,
What’s Most Important to You?
Republicans
Throw Their Gay Adorers Under the Bus Again
Resolve Now to Make
2024 the Year We Take Back the Language
Responding to the
Current Right-Wing Grooming of Americans
Re-Using the Religious
Right-Wing for 2012
Sex in
2012
Sexual Sickness Remains
Central to the Right-Wing’s Self--Destructive
Addictions
Should
the Religiously Abused Just Leave It Now?
So, What Are We Going to
Do About It?
Stonewall: The Reality
that Inspires
Stop Making the Bible
Be an Excuse for LGBTQ Discrimination
Supreme Court Moves
to Destroy Straight Marriage
Surprised that
There’s So Much Rape in the Military?
“T” and the Rest
of Us Are Told to Wait Again
Ted Haggard Graduates
from the Accelerated "Straight 101" Course
The Cliché is
Right: We Really Are All in This Together
The Comfort of
Fundamentalisms
The Controlling Power
of Guilt
The Inevitable
Will Take More Effort
The Most
Important Thing the Bible and the Constitution Have in
Common Is Their Usefulness
The Pathetic
Masculine Heroics of Today’s Right-Wing
The Privilege of Mary
Cheney
The Religious
Right-Wing’s Sexual Sickness Destroys Their Lives But
Remains Central to Their Religion Addiction
There’s Money,
not Bigotry, in Our Genes
The Right-Wing Knows
What Liberal Guilt Betrays: Look Sincere or
Lose
The Right-Wing’s
Continuing Obsession with LGBTQ People, 2020
VersionThese
are Uniquely Perilous Times for Equality. So What
Now?
These are Uniquely
Perilous Times for Equality. So What Now?
These Holidays
Exalt Those Who Must Flee Home and Homeland
These Trump Years
Expose a Class of the Psychopathic Rich and The Game They
Play
The Strategy: Legalizing
Anti-Gay without Acting Like You Are
The Supreme Court Moves to
Destroy Straight Marriage
The Ubiquity of
that Imposter Syndrome: “It Doesn’t Go
Away”
This Generation Gap
Really Matters
‘Tis the Season to
Examine Myths
Those June Gay Lifestyle
Expos
Time to Say it Again:
It’s Looking Grim, But There’s Still a Place for
Hope‘Tis the
Season to Examine Myths
To Really
Mainstream LGBT People
Transgender People are
Lightening Rods for Our Issues
Translating
Right-Wing Attempts to Trigger Liberal Guilt
Using Guilt to Control
the World
Virginia Tech, Don Imus, and
America’s Seething Anger
Watching the Church
Deal with Its Sex Problems
We Haven’t Turned
the Corner on Marriage Equality Yet
“We Look Like
Mississippi”
We Might Not Like It,
But What If There Are People We Can’t
Reach?
We Must Be Able
to Understand A Human Being Unlike Us?
What Do We Learn
from Rush’s Latest Offense?
Whatever Happened to
“Hate Is Not a Family Value”?
What I’d Like
to Say When I Officiate an LGBTQ Wedding
What If We Don’t
Agree Politically?
What Must a
Woman Go Through to Become a US President?
What Now? (Part One:
Get Over Appearing Elitist)
What Now? Part
Two: It’s Not Either/Or: Let’s Face Race and
Everything
What Now? Part
Three: It’s Not About Reasoning with the
Right-Wing
What Now? Part Four:
Are You Personally Prepared for This Fight?
What’s Behind
Today’s Flair-Up in the Right-Wing War on LGBTQ
Youth
What Should a
“Beautiful” Person Look Like?
"What's Love
Worth, After All?"
What’s the Most
Crucial Preparation for a Challenging
Confrontation?
What We Learn from
Anti-LGBTQ History Is That There’s Nothing More to
Say
What Would Successful
Dating Be?
When Can a Speaker of
the House Cry?
When It Comes to
Religion, Let’s Keep One Resolution
When the Right-Wing
Claims Their Words Don’t Matter
When We Still Excuse
This Stuff As Just How Men Talk
Why Are Transgender
People at the Center of Republican Culture
Wars?
Why Do Those
White Evangelicals Really Love Trump? (Part One of a
Series)
Why Do Those
White Evangelicals Really Love Trump? (Part Two in a
Series)
Why Do Those
White Evangelicals Really Love Trump? (Part Three in a
Series)
Why “God,
Guns, and Gays” Is Still Working
Why I Quit Calling
Right-wing Hypocrites “Hypocrites”
Why Is the
Difference Between a Citizen and a Politician Important
Today?
Why Is the Idea of
Privilege So Controversial?
Why Obama Became the
Religious Right-Wing’s Devil
Why Presidential
Penises Are So Important?
Will “Culture
Wars” Work Again?
Will These Supremes
Care About “Equal Justice for All?”
Will the US Ever
Like Educators?
Will You Boycott the
Russian Olympics?
"Yes We
Can"
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