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ABC hires gay activist to write 8-hour history of the ‘gay rights’ movement

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ABC plans to air an 8-hour miniseries about the history of homosexual activism, penned by a prominent homosexual political activist.  Homosexual writer and director Dustin Lance Black will write the miniseries.  Its timeline will reportedly begin with the  1969 Stonewall Riots , in which a police raid on a gay bar resulted in several nights of  violent demonstrations by homosexuals .  Gay activist Dustin Lance Black will pen the 8-hour miniseries. Black, 39, has been  active  in the homosexual advocacy movement since the beginning of his film career. He made his debut as a director and screenwriter with 2000’s  The Journey of Jared Price , a gay romance film, followed closely by  Something Close to Heaven , a gay coming-of-age short film.  The following year, he made a documentary in which he was also a subject called  On the Bus,  about six homosexual men on a road trip to the Burning Man music festival.  Black, who was raised Mormon, is a co-founder of the American Found

With gay marriage will come polygamy

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Image via Wikipedia In March, the popular HBO series “ Big Love ” ended its five-year run. The show about a polygamist household in Utah is as close as the vast majority of Americans will ever get to polygamy. Or maybe not.  Shockingly, polygamy is on the rise in the West, especially in Muslim enclaves. And there are 30-50 thousand polygamists in the U.S., the vast majority living in Mormon splinter groups. And despite the rosy picture of polygamy painted by “Big Love,” Rose McDermott, who teaches at Brown University , will tell you that in the real world, polygamy is abusive and exploitative: Women in polygamous communities suffer “higher rates of HIV infection ,” increased incidences of domestic violence, and even a higher likelihood of dying in childbirth. To stem the abuses, McDermott urges governments to “think twice” before legalizing polygamy. But elected officials may not have any say in the manner.  Since the 1960s and later, Roe v. Wade, decisions regarding marriage, fa