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Clip description: On October 18, 2010, members of Dallas’ Turtle Creek Chorale joined singers from over 30 area religious institutions and students from Southern Methodist University in a performance titled, A Night For Peace. WIth just three rehearsals to prepare, the 300+ “Partners In Harmony” massed chorus offered a full-length concert, which concluded with Bach’s DONA NOBIS PACEM (Grant Us …

Andrew Sullivan calls this $3 item from the HRC “a new low.” Can’t say I disagree, but I’ve never missed an opportunity to mock those Lance Armstrong bracelets either.

(Via – Victory Fund) RELATED: Burns has posted a YouTube message about his experience on the show. “You know you’re a redneck when your mom is more excited about meeting Jeff Foxworthy than Ellen DeGeneres.”

Three Long Island high school students have been arrested for stomping and kicking a 14 year-old boy while screaming anti-gay epithets at him. Nassau County Police say on Tuesday at 2:15 p.m., 18-year-old David Spencer of North Valley Stream; 16-year-old Chase Morrison of Lakeview; and 14-year-old Roy Wilson of Baldwin assaulted their 14-year-old classmate on a bus leaving the Nassau …

Perez Hilton appears on today’s episode of Ellen to apologize for his own bullying in the past and to promise to stop outing gay celebrities. Hilton adds that he’s tired of being called a hypocrite and being “an embarrassment to my own community.” Ellen tells him that she believes in second chances.

In response to widespread criticism for publishing an anti-gay editorial from Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, the Washington Post has posted a response from the mother of 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover, who took his life last year after relentless homophobic bullying. An excerpt: I am a single mother and a devout Christian who had never been involved in advocacy …

Citing the recent spate of suicides among LGBT youth, the “ex-gays” at Exodus International announced yesterday that they were ending their opposition to the Day Of Silence, an annual student-led protest of the bullying of queer kids. “All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while …

Rutgers University’s Daily Targum has published an editorial denouncing the media frenzy around the suicide of student Tyler Clementi, arguing that gay activists have turned his death into a “cause based on false pretenses.” It is disappointing that everyone from news to celebrities picked up the story. Actress Brittany Snow and actor Neil Patrick-Harris are just two of the many …

“Youth who embrace homosexuality are at greater risk, because they’ve embraced an unhealthy sexual identity and lifestyle. These alternative sexual identifications or lifestyles deny the reality that we are created male and female. To live or try to live in conflict with how we are made will invariably cause problems, e.g. emotional, psychological and social. Notwithstanding gay activist assertions to …

JMG reader Jeff points us to this satirical website, which reads: Due to the media attention being given to suicides by bullied gay and lesbian youth, we have decided to create a list of straight kids who have been bullied by gays and lesbians until they were driven to take their own lives. Check back later to see if we’ve …

“The religious right points to the suicide rate among gay teenagers — which the religious right works so hard to drive up as evidence that the gay lifestyle is destructive. It’s like intentionally running someone down with your car and then claiming that it isn’t safe to walk the streets. “Which is why I argued that every gay teen suicide …

Backstreet Boys member A.J. McClean weighs in.

NOTE: In case it’s not clear, this is a spoof account. And totally hilarious.

The Detroit News has issued a correction to yesterday’s story. An assistant attorney general who has attracted national attention for a controversial blog that ridicules and denounces a University of Michigan student leader for his gay advocacy, religious beliefs and character has taken a personal leave following intense public scrutiny, a spokesman for Attorney General Mike Cox said today. Cox …