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Patrick McHenry… You Have Some Explaining To Do!

Thursday, May 1, 2008

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Patrick McHenry… You Have Some Explaining To Do!

Why does Patrick have some explaining to do? The photos show McHenry partying with Jackie Sullens and her lesbian partner. According to the Gaston County Republican Women's website, Sullens is the organization's newsletter editor.

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Final Update: Charlotte DJ Issues Apology

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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For the last couple days, I’ve been blogging about a Charlotte deejay that used some careless remarks when referring to celeb gossip.  [See post 1 here and post 2 here]  This evening, the deejay, CJ, posted the following remarks on the station’s website: Friends, It has come to my attention that comments I made on-air Tuesday the [...]

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Update: 96.1 The BEAT DJ’s Anti-Gay Comments

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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An important update has occurred with events mentioned in this article.  Comments on this thread have been disabled.  Please click here to view the updates and leave your comments. EDITORIAL NOTE:  All future responses from Clear Channel & 96.1 The BEAT will be published to this thread as a comment at the bottom of the post.  [...]

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Popular NC DJ Makes Anti-Gay Comments

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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An important update has occurred with events mentioned in this article.  Comments on this thread have been disabled.  Please click here to view the updates and leave your comments. On my way home last night, I was listening to 96.1 The BEAT - a Charlotte-based radio station.  Spinning the beats was afternoon deejay CJ.  CJ [...]

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NC Personnel Office Rescinds LGBT Protections

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Yesterday, you may remember that I blogged about the North Carolina Office of State Personnel adding protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender State Government employees to the 2008-revision of the employee handbook.  The day after, Equality North Carolina is reporting that the protections have been rescinded: Right Wing Attempts to Undo State Worker Protections 4/15/2007 [...]

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Holy Father Makes First State Visit

Monday, April 14, 2008

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Pope Benedict XVI will be making his first US visit today.  His first pastoral visit to the States will not be void of protests and controversy.  A number of groups, including DignityUSA, plan to use the papal’s visit to bring attention to his pastoral failures.  See this press release we received today from DignityUSA: Group [...]

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SoulForce Equality Ride Begins…

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

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SoulForce, an organization that works tirelessly to stop religion-based discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is in the midst of their second annual Equality Ride event.  Last year, the inaugural run, took a group of young people to colleges around the country that have policies against LGBT students & faculty. This year, my friend [...]

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