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:Eric Ethington (Author) | November 8, 2010
New Hampshire – The first openly-gay man ever elected in the Episcopal Church has announced that he is retiring. After 7 years of death threats, he says he will retire in 2013 to allow time for a new Bishop to be elected. I will always remember meeting Bishop Robinson. He was in Salt Lake City [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 25, 2010
Remember David Hardy? He’s the father of a gay son who wrote the extremely popular letter to Boyd K Packer we posted a few weeks ago. Well now he and his wife have been so infuriated by Packer’s latest tyrade against LGBT youth that they’ve created an iReport for CNN about it. Check out the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 21, 2010
Last night, Lt. Dan Choi debated the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on live television with the bigoted and homophobic Bishop Harry Jackson. Guess who got their butt kicked? Watch the video here.
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 8, 2010
This past Friday, the Portugal parliament passed a bill which would legalize same-sex marriage in the country. Heavy protest broke out in the country, which is predominantly Catholic and anger was stoked by the local Bishop, Dom Jose Policarpo who said in a statement to the AP, “Millenary culture deems marriage as a contract between [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 4, 2010
Paul Mero and the Sutherland Institute now have one of Utah’s members of Congress full under their control according to a SL Trib article. Congressman Bishop is personally issuing donation letters on behalf of Sutherland Institute, pushing constituents to protect the values they care about from a government “out of control.” Bishop, the “King of [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.