Category Archives: Personal Stories

LISTEN TO MATTHEW VINES by copying and pasting this link:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQjNJUSraY.  This outstanding young man’s heartbreaking talk, seen by thousands on YouTube, presents an unemotional and rational argument based on extremely  well-researched scholarship.   Then read the NY Times story below. … Continue reading →

In the state of Washington, there will be a referendum on gay marriage in November.  Here are two testimonials from parents and a grandmom, expressing why they believe in marriage. (From the website of WashingtonUnited.org)     Copy and paste this … Continue reading →

  “What’s traditional? Is traditional when marriage (meant that) brides were bought with goats? I think it’s a civil rights issue.” –Angelina Simmons, an independent voter in Maine, as quoted by the Portland Press Herald (This quote came from the … Continue reading →

See     http://www.youtube.            com/watch?v=5j8hAgzPz7Y. A long-time member of PflagAlamance found this statement meaningful.  It is from Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network. He believes that many of the 6l% of North Carolinians who voted FOR the Amendment just didn’t … Continue reading →

Parents of the Rutgers University student who committed suicide say “Sin needs to be taken out of homosexuality”                                              By Marianne O’Donnell
Rock Center (from the website of FaithinAmerica.com) The family of a Rutgers University student who killed himself after discovering his … Continue reading →

What About Gay Culture? By DAVID M. HALPERIN, Ann Arbor, Mich., New York Times, June 21, 2012 David M. Halperin is a professor of the history and theory of sexuality at the University of Michigan and the author of the … Continue reading →

A Company’s Stand for Gay Marriage, and Its Cost By JAMES B. STEWART      (New York Times, May 26, 2012) In the months leading up to North Carolina’s vote this month to ban gay marriage, most of the state’s business leaders … Continue reading →

On Sunday, May 13th, the story printed below ran on page 2 of the first section of the Burlington Times-News.  We’ve read stories like this before, but we still need to be reminded of the fact that personal friendship is a … Continue reading →

Yesterday I heard good friends tell how this defeat impacted their personal emotions and their lives.    I don’t think I had fully understood before this that the usually unspoken prejudices of many of our Alamance County neighbors would SHOUT through the election—-shout hatred and … Continue reading →

Frank Stasio interviews Jimmy UNC  Radio, April, 2012   http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/Meet_Jimmy_Creech.mp3/view Jimmy Creech had been an ordained United Methodist minister for 14 years before he came to understand the plight of homosexuals within his congregation. A parishioner, whom he calls Adam, … Continue reading →