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'Ex-Gay' Group Draws Fire From Allies
Backers raise concerns about online postings. One advocated ridicule of nonconforming children; the other seemed to justify slavery.
By Stephanie Simon
Time Staff Writer
October 15, 2006
The National Assn. for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality positions itself as a scientific group dedicated to helping gay men and lesbians shedsame-sex attractions and realize their "heterosexual potential."
Its statements routinely outrage gay-rights activists. But two commentariesposted online in recent months by members of NARTH's scientific advisorycommittee have raised concerns among its closest allies as well.
One psychiatrist called for allowing schoolchildren to shame and ridiculeclassmates who don't act according to stereotypical gender roles. Anotherboard member, a therapist, asserted that slaves may have been better off inchains than in "savage" Africa.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=17619
Consumers have few options to control data on Internet services such as search
By Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you do not like what your favorite Internet searchengine or e-commerce site does with information it collects about you, youroptions are limited to living with it or logging off.
Major search engines, for instance, all keep records of your searches forweeks, months or even years, often tied to your computer's Internet addressor more. Retailers, meanwhile, generally presume the right to send marketinge-mails.
Although online companies have become better at disclosing data practices,privacy advocates say the services' stated policies generally don't giveconsumers real choice.
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The Spokesman Review, WA, October 15, 2006
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=154688
Our View: Idaho's HJR 2 is unneeded and mean spirited
Idaho law is clear: Marriage is between a man and a woman.
Many may wish for a more open-minded public policy, but the state's electedlegislators have spoken. The law is the law.
All of which just puts Idaho - and Washington, which has a comparablestatute - in the mainstream among American states. Even though publicattitudes around sexual orientation have grown increasingly accepting inrecent years, they don't go that far. In state after state where voters havebeen offered a chance to extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples,the answer has been no.
What's puzzling in Idaho, with an important election less than a month away,is why the firmly resolved question about same-sex marriage needs moreattention.
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Associated Press, October 15, 2006
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/10/15/oscot_domestic.html
OH Supreme Ct. To Consider Domestic Violence Law
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court will have the final say on whetherthe state's domestic violence law is in conflict with a constitutionalamendment that restricts marriage to one man and one woman.
In 2004 Ohioans passed an amendment intended to ban gay marriage.
It also prohibits the state from giving the legal rights of marriage tocouples who aren't.
The domestic violence law says you can't harm a family member, spouse or aperson living as a spouse.
Some judges say the words "living as a spouse" violate the amendment becauseit gives a legal status to unmarried couples.
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Average coming-out age now 13, survey finds
SUMMARY: LGBT kids have more resources and are more comfortable coming outat earlier ages than their older peers did, says a S.F. State University study.
In time for National Coming Out Day, a new four-year study of LGBT youthsshows that the average age a teenager comes out is now 13, reports the FortLauderdale, Fla., Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
The study, conducted by clinical social worker Caitlin Ryan of San FranciscoState University, highlights how LGBT youths are feeling more comfortablecoming out at earlier ages than their older peers did.
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Houston Chronicle, TX, October 15, 2006
cynthia.garza@chron.com
SAME-SEX PARENTS
'Gayby boom' in Houston
City a favorite spot for gays and lesbians to raise families
By CYNTHIA LEONOR GARZA
Four-month-old Jamison Dillemuth is too young to know the difference, but helooks like a mix between both of his mothers.
When Jamie Dillemuth, 29, and Baby Djojonegoro, 38, decided several yearsago to start a family, they asked Djojonegoro's brother to be a sperm donorfor the child Dillemuth would carry.
"The child will be part of us, both of us, not just Jamie," saidDjojonegoro, who moved to Houston from Indonesia two decades ago when sheentered college. Dillemuth, who is originally from the San Francisco Bayarea, moved to Houston in 2000.
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ABC Online, Australia, October 15, 2006
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1765307.htm
A-G confident of same-sex bill before Christmas
South Australia's Attorney-General Michael Atkinson says legislation toremove discrimination against gay couples will be introduced by the end ofthe year.
The ALP's state convention yesterday called on the Government to deal withthe matter urgently.
A bill to remove discrimination against same-sex couples lapsed in the lastParliament and there have been fears the Government will not introduce itagain.
But at the Labor Party's state convention yesterday, delegates from both theleft and right called on the Government to pursue the matter with urgency.
Mr Atkinson says he will do so.
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Today's Sunbeam, NJ, October 15, 2006
http://www.nj.com/news/sunbeam/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1160896305251770.xml&coll=9
Gay marriage no issue here
By MARTIN C. BRICKETTO, Trenton Bureau
TRENTON -- With the state Supreme Court expected to issue a landmark rulingon gay marriage sometime this month, neither U.S. Senate candidate is makingnoise about the issue in what has generally been a noisy campaign.
There's little or no mention of whether gays and lesbians should be allowedto legally marry on the otherwise exhaustive Web sites for the Democrat,U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, or the Republican, State Sen.Thomas Kean Jr.
"I think this is an election that's been focused on some of the morepredominant issues, it's been focused obviously on the war, on ethics, onhomeland security, on taxes," said Kean spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker.
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HIV Exposure Verdict Could Spur More Cases
by The Associated Press
October 14, 2006 - 4:00 pm ET
(Lawrence, Kansas) A Kansas man has joined a small group of people acrossthe country tried and convicted for exposing people to the virus that causesAIDS.
Women who had sex with Robert Richardson II said he either never told themof his HIV-positive status, lied about it outright or took off a condom during sex.
Richardson, 30, of Lawrence, faces sentencing Nov. 22 on four counts ofintentional HIV exposure. He is thought to be the only person in Kansasconvicted of the crime.
Between 1986 and 2001, just 300 people nationwide were identified as beingprosecuted under such laws, according to a Yale University study publishedin 2003. Of those, 44 were prostitutes and 15 were prison or jail inmates.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/10/15/social_conservatives_say_gay_marriage_threatens_religious_freedom?mode=PF
Social conservatives say gay marriage threatens religious freedom
By Brandie M. Jefferson, Associated Press Writer | October 15, 2006
BOSTON --Gov. Mitt Romney displayed the enthusiasm of a preacherSunday at a Baptist church as he addressed an anti-gay marriage rally ofconservative religious leaders who argue that their rights to religiousexpression are being threatened.
The rally, which was broadcast to churches nationally, is part of alarger effort to energize conservative voters before the Nov. 7congressional elections.
"Here in Massachusetts, activist judges struck a blow to thefoundation of civilization -- the family," the Republican governor andlikely presidential candidate said to an applauding crowd of about 1,000eople, some of whom responded "Amen."
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The Miami Herald
October 16, 2006
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/edward_wasserman/15769039.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Lessons from the Foley affair
BY EDWARD WASSERMAN
edward_wasserman@hotmail.com
Mark Foley, the disgraced former South Florida congressman, is new tothe national media, but he has been a perplexing figure for local media formore than a decade. With his career apparently over, the Foley storyline hasmutated into an election-eve argument over how congressional leadersresponded to warnings he was lusting after teenage pages. But the media'sperformance is being re-examined too, and I worry that the lessons beingdrawn are the wrong ones.
Foley was already old news in June 2003 when I took part in a panel inFort Lauderdale sponsored by the gay and lesbian journalists group on theethics of outing closeted officials. Foley was the featured topic.
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