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When I argued that the language used by same-sex marriage advocates risked doing the real harm to LGBTI youths, Facebook removed my post. It took the intervention of former Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson to get it restored, writes John Dickson. Perhaps the most powerful argument   for   same-sex marriage and   against   holding a plebiscite on the issue is the potential harm that is being done to vulnerable LGBTI youth. But the argument itself is far from self-evident, and there are reasons to suspect that both sides of the debate share equal responsibility for protecting gay and lesbian youth from feeling they are a despised minority. The statistics are solid and alarming. A   systematic review of research in the scientific journal BMC Psychiatry   found that lesbian, gay and bisexual people "are at higher risk of mental disorder, suicidal ideation, substance misuse, and deliberate self harm than heterosexual people." Suicide attem...

Fifty-four pro- LGBT activists were arrested protesting North Carolina ’s bathroom privacy law on Monday as the North Carolina legislature began its session. Following a rally outside the state capitol, protestors held sit-ins at state legislators’ offices and then stayed in the building rallying past the end of the day’s legislative session. The passage of House Bill 2 and Governor Pat McCrory ’s subsequent signing of it into law has generated fury from LGBT activists and the left. Local news stations and the Associated Press captured some of the protestors’ actions, which included being carried by police out of the state capitol in plastic handcuffs, shouting, and loudly chanting.  The protestors will be   charged   with second-degree trespassing and one will be charged with resisting arrest, according to Acting General Assembly Police Chief Martin Brock.  They will also be cited for violating building rules or the fire code. Some of the protes...

Two influential Christian leaders are criticizing NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for threatening to pull the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte if North Carolina does not change its recent bathroom privacy law. North Carolina has come under an all-out   attack   by gay activists since state legislators passed, and Gov. Pat McCrory signed into law, the bill stopping men from using women's restrooms and changing facilities, and vice versa. On April 21, Adam Silver signalled the NBA’s support for the campaign against the law. "A change in the law is necessary for us to play in the kind of environment that we think is appropriate for a celebratory NBA event,” Silver   told   the Associated Press . On ESPN’s Mike & Mike morning radio show, Silver said the NBA isn't interested in "saying 'do this or else'" regarding the 2017 All-Star Game, which is scheduled to be held in Charlotte. “They know what’s at stake in terms of the All-Star Game,...

English: State seal of North Carolina (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton ’s ban on state employee non-essential travel to North Carolina over the state’s bathroom privacy law prevents college baseball players from participating in two national championship tournaments there, the Minnesota State College and Universities system ( MnSCU ) has announced.  In a May 3 email to MnSCU trustees, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Noelle Hawton announced: On April 2, Governor Dayton directed that all state employees cease all nonessential state business travel to North Carolina until further notice.  On May 2, the Minnesota State College and Universities presidents met and expressed their support for Governor Dayton.  The presidents have concluded that athletics-related travel is non-essential for purposes of this directive.  While we understand that some players may be disappointed, no sports team from any of our colleges or universitie...

English: Donald Trump at a press conference announcing David Blaine's latest feat in New York City at the Trump Tower. The photographer dedicates this portrait of Donald Trump to Tony Santiago, Wikipedia editor Marine 69-71, perhaps the most officially recognized and accomplished content contributor to Wikipedia, for his outstanding contributions to improving articles related to his Puerto Rican heritage. He is also a close friend. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Where does Donald Trump really stand on gay "marriage"? The Log Cabin Republicans , an organization of homosexual members of the GOP, asks Trump to clarify his views on marriage and homosexual issues generally in a new video entitled, "Donald Trump: 'Trust Me.'" The one-minute video features a montage of video clips of Trump saying that the Supreme Court's   Obergefell v. Hodges   ruling is "the law of the land" and telling a lesbian journalist "you can" expect   mo...

A leading LGBT website is bashing Kentucky clerks for wanting to differentiate between same-sex and opposite-sex couples when issuing marriage licenses. Earlier this week, the investigative website MuckRock.com   published more than 400 e-mails   from embattled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis . Those e-mails showed that 54 of the state's 93 clerks preferred to have separate marriage licenses for same-sex and opposite-sex couples. "' Separate but equal ,' the same old Jim Crow argument that was used to defend 'whites only' lunch counters and segregated schools, has resurfaced," wrote Contributing Editor Jean Esselink for The New Civil Rights Movement (TNCRM). "The words may be different but the underlying concept is the same, except that this time it's being used by Kentucky county clerks who would like to make marriages by same-sex couples separate but equal to marriages by heterosexuals." Homosexuality is a choice - race is not. Ho...

Five justices of the Supreme Court found an unwritten “fundamental right” to same-sex marriage hiding in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment —a secret knowledge so cleverly concealed in the nineteenth-century amendment that it took almost 150 years to find. Facebook and the White House were awash in rainbow flags proclaiming the arrival of “ marriage equality .” Just three weeks after  Obergefell , congressional Democrats filed House (H.R. 3185) and Senate (S. 1858) versions of the “ Equality Act ,” seeking to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the protected classes listed in the federal code. Americans are on an “equality” roll. What could go wrong? As it turns out, quite a bit. If enacted, the deceptively titled Equality Act would punish dissenters who disagree with same-sex marriage by using the enforcement tools of the amended Civil Rights Act of 1964 , but with even greater force and scope. The Equality Act seeks to weaponize  Ober...