GAY TRUTH

After the dissolution of my marriage in the late 1990s, my first strategic move to “come out of the closet” was to reach out to a Washington Post investigative reporter who had once interviewed me. He was the only one I could think of who might possibly be gay. I was right. Over lunch in a restaurant in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle, he told me two things that immediately resonated as true: First, gay men are often very successful in their professions because they try harder than others in order to prove themselves. I would quickly discover this to be an accurate description of the many gay men I met who worked at high levels in the White House, the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill, and as heads of large quasi-governmental agencies.    Presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg fits that mold: He transformed himself from a dorky kid to a Rhodes Scholar and Oxford crew club member. Buttigieg returned to the town where he grew up and was  elected mayor...

Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has rejected an attempt by the Organization of American States (OMS) to reach agreements that pro-family activists would lead to the legalization of same-sex “marriage.” “The foundation of Guatemalan society are the families and we will comply with the moral values and ethics that our Constitution demands,” declared the president. President Otto Pérez Molina The topic was discussed during the 43 rd  regular session of the OAS General Assembly held in the city of Antigua, Guatemala , entitled, “For a Comprehensive Policy against the World Drug Problem in the Americas ”. The president refused to sign onto two documents, saying he found within them things “that we do not agree with.” The agreements would have added the term “sexual orientation” to the list of categories protected from discrimination, paving the way for same-sex “marriage” to be legalized in the future. The documents were titled "the Inter-American Convention ag...

ABC NEWS Australia reports: Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney , wooing social conservatives, has adamantly rejected same-sex marriage and trumpeted his belief in Christian values and the family. Three days after Barack Obama became the first US president to back gay and lesbian marriage , Mr Romney told university graduates on Saturday (local time) that the "pre-eminence of the family" remains at the heart of the principles that underpin the nation. "As fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debate," the presumptive Republican nominee told the class of 2012 at Liberty University , the biggest Christian campus in the United States . "So it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman," he said, raising a loud cheer from a crowd of more than 25,000 - the biggest so far in this campaign season. Mr Romney, who did not directly refer ...

Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A new poll shows that President Barack Obama 's decision to support gay marriage might make many independents and even some Democrats less likely to vote for him in November. According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll released Saturday, 26 percent say Obama's support of gay marriage will make them less likely to vote for him as compared to just 13 percent who say it will make them more likely. About 60 percent of Americans say Obama's May 9th announcement will make no difference to who they will vote for. The poll also found there was a negligible difference between the number of Americans who support gay marriage in general, which is about 50 percent, and those who approve of Obama's position on the issue, 51 percent. Gallup noted that since there is a strong relationship between party identification and vote choice, a key to...