{"id":277,"date":"2010-10-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html"},"modified":"2010-10-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T07:00:00","slug":"gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html","title":{"rendered":"Gay Faith News Roundup: Paladino, Bullies, Marriage &amp; Mormons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holiday weekend, it&nbsp;looks like my prediction about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/why-do-people-still-think-president-obama-is-muslim.html\">gay news overtaking Islamophobia (Obama&#8217;s Muslim roots, Park51<\/a>, etc.) came to fruition: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/10\/11\/national-coming-out-day-2_n_758193.html\">National Coming Out Day<\/a> meets polarized American politics meets tragic bullying-related suicides&#8230; brace yourselves. <\/p>\n<p>While I catch up on last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/pbs-series-on-faith-god-in-america.html\">&#8220;God in America&#8221; installments on PBS<\/a>, here&#8217;s a sample of the religion news and online discussions regarding gay issues, just from the last 48 hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2010\/10\/attacking-gays-or-stating-religious-beliefs\/\">Attacking gays or stating doctrines?<\/a> (GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/10\/12\/my-take-people-of-faith-must-preach-love-in-the-face-of-lgbt-hate\/\">My Take: People of faith must preach love in the face of anti-LGBT hate <\/a>(CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onfaith.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/2010\/10\/god_and_gays\/all.html\">God and gays<\/a> (On Faith)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onfaith.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2010\/10\/christian_compassion_requires_the_truth_about_harms_of_homosexuality.html\">Christian compassion requires the truth about harms of homosexuality <\/a>(Tony Perkins, On Faith)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/news\/metro\/2010-10-12\/anti-gay-violence-denounced?v=1286858742\">Anti-gay violence denounced <\/a>(Kelly Jasper for the Augusta Chronicle&#8217;s Amen Corner)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/politics\/ny_gubenatorial_candidate_says.html\">NY gubernatorial candidate says God didn&#8217;t make gays <\/a>(Episcopal Cafe)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/10\/campaigning-against-same-sex-marriage.html\">Campaigning against same-sex marriage<\/a> (Religion &amp; Public Life With Mark Silk, for Beliefnet)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/10\/11\/carl-paladino-blasts-homosexuality-says-thats-not-how-god-cre\/\">Carl Paladino&nbsp;Softens Remarks on Homosexuality,&nbsp;But Says Children Can&nbsp;Be &#8216;Brainwashed&#8217;&nbsp;<\/a>(David Gibson, for Politics Daily)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.orlandosentinel.com\/features-the-religion-world\/2010\/10\/10\/jewish-newspaper-catches-from-both-sides-over-same-sex-wedding-announcements\/\">Jewish newspaper catches it from both sides over same-sex wedding announcement <\/a>(The Religion World, Orlando Sentinel)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101009\/ap_on_re_us\/us_mormon_church_gays\">LDS leader&#8217;s speech on gays modified on website<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/home\/50448737-76\/packer-event-100000-hannemann.html.csp\">LDS Facebook campaign: Support Packer <\/a>(Salt Lake Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BONUS: Religion Dispatches has had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/sexandgender\/\">several related stories in the past two weeks<\/a>, including &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/sexandgender\/3479\/why_anti-gay_bullying_is_a_theological_issue\/\">Why anti-gay bullying is a theological issue.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holiday weekend, it&nbsp;looks like my prediction about gay news overtaking Islamophobia (Obama&#8217;s Muslim roots, Park51, etc.) came to fruition: National Coming Out Day meets polarized American politics meets tragic bullying-related suicides&#8230; brace yourselves. While I catch up on last night&#8217;s &#8220;God in America&#8221; installments on PBS, here&#8217;s a sample of the religion news&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gay Faith News Roundup: Paladino, Bullies, Marriage &amp; Mormons - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gay Faith News Roundup: Paladino, Bullies, Marriage &amp; Mormons - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the holiday weekend, it&nbsp;looks like my prediction about gay news overtaking Islamophobia (Obama&#8217;s Muslim roots, Park51, etc.) came to fruition: National Coming Out Day meets polarized American politics meets tragic bullying-related suicides&#8230; brace yourselves. While I catch up on last night&#8217;s &#8220;God in America&#8221; installments on PBS, here&#8217;s a sample of the religion news&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-10-12T07:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicole Neroulias\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Gay Faith News Roundup: Paladino, Bullies, Marriage &amp; Mormons - Belief Beat","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Gay Faith News Roundup: Paladino, Bullies, Marriage &amp; Mormons - Belief Beat","og_description":"Over the holiday weekend, it&nbsp;looks like my prediction about gay news overtaking Islamophobia (Obama&#8217;s Muslim roots, Park51, etc.) came to fruition: National Coming Out Day meets polarized American politics meets tragic bullying-related suicides&#8230; brace yourselves. While I catch up on last night&#8217;s &#8220;God in America&#8221; installments on PBS, here&#8217;s a sample of the religion news&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html","og_site_name":"Belief Beat","article_published_time":"2010-10-12T07:00:00+00:00","author":"Nicole Neroulias","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html","name":"Gay Faith News Roundup: Paladino, Bullies, Marriage &amp; Mormons - Belief Beat","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-10-12T07:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2010-10-12T07:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/42dac2ebd149a02dfe91f0f93e36761b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/gay-faith-news-roundup-paladino-bullies-marriage-mormons.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gay Faith News Roundup: Paladino, Bullies, Marriage &amp; Mormons"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/","name":"Belief Beat","description":"BeliefBeat - Nicole Neroulias","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/42dac2ebd149a02dfe91f0f93e36761b","name":"Nicole Neroulias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/caf\/caf1ad99f5fc2a063b8e935cf82f65fdx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/caf\/caf1ad99f5fc2a063b8e935cf82f65fdx96.jpg","caption":"Nicole Neroulias"},"description":"Nicole Neroulias is a correspondent for Religion News Service, a secular news and photo service devoted to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics. A graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously written for The New York Times and other media outlets. She and her family live in Seattle.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/author\/nneroulias"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}