ETC: Everyday Thoughts Collected

Well, most of this holiday has been vegging out at home. Last Thursday night was the big fireworks show about two miles away. I went and watched them from the porch of my “ultra liberal Bostonian” neighbors. I use quotes because that is how they describe themselves. Anyway more about that in a minute.
Friday, didn’t [...]

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A friend forwarded me the poll from Quinnipiac University. The poll itself asked a lot of questions about the state of Florida politics but this was the one concerning the Marriage Amendment.

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While in DC, at a Pastor’s conference, I did a local debate regarding the APA silencing people holding the “ex-gay” viewpoint from speaking into a symposium they had scheduled and then canceled at the last minute.  Someone forwarded the transcript to me.  I phoned in to the local CBS affiliate there in town because it [...]

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Quoted in CitizenLink
Gay-Straight Alliance Pushes Students to Accept Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA) is doing its best to make sure high schools use next week — the so-called Freedom to Marry Week — to rally support among students for same-sex “marriage.” Schools are encouraged to feature mock weddings, guest speakers, teach-ins and a [...]

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From the Exodus Press Office:
World Magazine Reports Mainstreaming of Homosexuality is Helping Others Find Freedom From It
Orlando, FL- Leading Christian news publication WORLD magazine features Exodus International in a recent article “Good From Bad: The cultural mainstreaming of homosexuality is liberating those seeking to escape it.”
Lynn Vincent, a senior reporter for WORLD magazine, details some [...]

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We are smack in the middle of our Leadership conference but I wanted to try and get this post done before turning in for the evening.
David mentioned the following as the concluding paragraph of his comment:
Imagine the intolerance and bigotry that will manifest if these people gain more and more control of the seats of [...]

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Early last week I wrote a post about the median income of gay identified households being $80-$83,000. Those statistics and the comparative stats came from the Census Bureau and a well established secular media research group. In all, it was the Census Bureau and the gay community themselves that provided the stats.
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Check out these statistics:
U.S. Population/Median HH Income
Whites 243.8 million / Median Household Income $49,453
Blacks 40.2 million / Median Household Income $30,939
Hispanics 44.3 million / Median Household Income $36,278
Asians 14.9 million / Median Household Income $60,367
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 American Community Survey
Then, according to this article using statistics from Rivendell Media and Absolut that they [...]

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