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Vatican Rep: Suicide At Notre Dame Makes Marriage Opponents Look Like Kooks

“When Dominique Venner killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head inside Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral (indeed, it seems, within the sanctuary itself) he desecrated that great church. If it turns out that Venner killed himself in protest over France’s new ‘gay marriage’ law, then, besides condemning the classical scandal his deed produced, one may further observe that all …

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Dominique Venner’s Suicide Note

“I believe it is necessary to sacrifice myself to break with the lethargy that is overwhelming us. I am killing myself to awaken slumbering consciences.” – French anti-gay marriage activist Dominique Venner, from the suicide note found near his body at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral. Venner’s suicide remains headline news across France today and the ruling Socialist Party …

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FRANCE: Manif Pour Tous Denies Knowing Man Who Killed Himself At Notre Dame

Yesterday a well-known anti-gay marriage activist shot himself in the head at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral hours after writing a blog post denouncing France’s legalization of same-sex marriage.  The French press, quite naturally, wants to know if the man was affiliated with Manif Pour Tous. Their leader Frigide Barjot says he was not: “This was a personal, isolated …

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FRANCE: Far-Right Party Leader Applauds Suicide At Notre Dame Cathedral

Far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen today applauded the actions of the anti-gay marriage activist who committed suicide this afternoon at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral. The suicide was hailed as a political gesture by Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front. “All respect to Dominique Venner whose final, eminently political act was to try …

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FRANCE: Anti-Gay Marriage Activist Commits Suicide Inside Notre Dame

An elderly anti-gay activist shot himself in the head today after placing a letter on the altar of Paris’ famed Notre Dame Cathedral. It’s the first suicide in decades at the landmark site, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin told The Associated Press. “It’s unfortunate, it’s dramatic, it’s shocking,” Jacquin said. The motives for the suicide, and the contents of the man’s letter, …

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Focus On The Family: People Said Really Mean Things On Our Facebook Page To Promote Anti-Gay Bullying

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Focus On The Family: Please Give Money To Enable More Gay Youth Suicides

Focus On The Family has posted a money beg to further their campaign to promote the physical and emotional abuses of LGBT children.  Please feel free to visit their Facebook page and tell them what you think. I got deleted and banned immediately.  So much for “dialog.” UPDATE: Focus has removed the Facebook plea for donations and replaced it with …

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Warren: My Son Committed Suicide With An Unregistered Gun Bought On The Web

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Pastor Rick Warren’s Son Commits Suicide

From today’s New York Times: The 27-year-old son of the Rev. Rick Warren, one of America’s most influential religious leaders, committed suicide, Mr. Warren said in an e-mail released on Saturday to staff members and congregants at his 20,000-member Saddleback Valley Community Church. Rick Warren said in the e-mail that his youngest son, Matthew, had “struggled from birth with mental …

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Porn Star Wilfried Knight Has Died

Last night gay porn industry sources began noting the death of performer Wilfried Knight, 35, who some report took his own life in grief over the suicide of his longtime partner Jerry Enriquez earlier this month. Just over a week ago Knight posted a lengthy blog entry in which he blasted the cult-like abuse of Enriquez by the Canadian yoga …

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No Apology From NOM’s Jennifer Morse

“The media and activists groups are mischaracterizing my remarks, in which I urged students to befriend gay students, and also urged them all to adhere to the traditional standards of sexual morality. I believe that engaging in uncommitted sex hurts people of both genders and all sexual orientations. I would be happy to meet with Tyler Clementi’s mom and dad …

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Clementi’s Parents Want NOM Apology

The parents of Tyler Clementi want NOM to apologize after their repulsive spokesperson Jennifer Roback Morse referenced their son in a speech to Catholic students at Iowa State.  Morse said: Sometimes you hear about these things and, you know, you don’t hear the whole story in the media. That kid Tyler Clementi who killed himself — who threw himself off …

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Porn Star Arpad Miklos Dead At 45

Famed porn star Arpad Miklos has committed suicide at the age of 45. The news came today via Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman, who this morning interviewed a close friend of Miklos on his web series, Gwissues. According to Bragman’s source, Miklos left a note in which he stipulated how to dispose of his remains. Miklos, whose real name was Peter …

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NEW YORK CITY: Gay Man Attempts Suicide After Child Porn Arrest

New York City resident Shawn Klein, who wed his partner atop the Empire State Building in February after winning the landmark’s Valentine’s Day contest, yesterday attempted suicide by throwing himself in front of a subway train after being charged with possession of child pornography. Shawn Klein was in critical condition at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, where he was …

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BRITAIN: Nurse Who Took Prank Call From Fake Queen Elizabeth Found Dead

On Wednesday an Australian radio duo pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles prank-called the British hospital caring for Kate Middleton. Today the nurse that took that call and revealed information about Middleton’s condition was found dead. Authorities suspect suicide. DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian made the prank call from Down Under, impersonating Prince Charles and the Queen …

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FLORIDA: Gay Man Kills Himself Over The Reelection Of President Obama

The locally well-known gay owner of a Key West tanning salon has killed himself, apparently (in part) as a result of President Obama’s reelection. Keys News reports: A Key West businessman who for years gave to AIDS Help and other charities may have taken his own life after a bout of depression over a struggling business and the recent election …

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Evangelical Couple Keeps Terminally Ill Daughter Alive Against Her Wishes

An evangelical pastor and his wife in Queens are keeping their terminally-ill daughter, a former Manhattan banker, hooked up to a ventilator against her will because they believe that her stated wish to die naturally constitutes suicide in the eyes of God. And that’s a mortal sin that will send her to hell. Lee’s court-appointed lawyer complained her devout parents …

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Savage To Perkins: Sue Me, I Dare You

“Sue me, Tony. I’d love to see you talk about my ‘issues’ on a witness stand. I realize that this isn’t how you think the world is supposed to work, Tony. You believe—and you’re old enough to remember a time when—people like you were free to say vile and disgusting things about people like me without anyone objecting. Certainly people …

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HomoQuotable – Dan Savage

“Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council — First of all, they tell, Tony Perkins tells parents whose kids come out to reject them. Tony Perkins tells the parents of queer kids to do what Tony Perkins damn well knows drives those kids to suicide — doubles their already quadruple rate of suicide. Why would someone who calls themselves a …

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CALIFORNIA: Liberty Counsel To Sue To Stop “Ex-Gay” Therapy Ban

Predictably, the Liberty Counsel says they will file suit to thwart California’s just-approved ban on the “ex-gay” torture and brainwashing of children. Their suit will be filed on behalf of NARTH, whose board member George Rekers was recently exposed for hiring a lithe young male prostitute for a two-week European vacation. “The California governor and legislature are putting their own …

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