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Titling your article on wealthy gay people and their political funding "A Gay Mafia" was a mistake [Nov. 10]. Mafia implies illegality. I am a gay Italian Democratic donor, and I was offended. Linda Sartori, JUPITER, FLA...
...scholars and others who support gay marriage, the mood was dour. "This has cast a pall" over what had otherwise been a historic election on Nov. 4, said D'Arcy Kemnitz, executive director of the National Lesbian Gay Law Association. Longtime gay rights advocate Dean Trantalis of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and others on the conference call expressed concern that the gay rights movement had become too focused on marriage, and is now paying the price in other more critical areas. "Marriage was never our issue," Trantalis said. "It was thrust upon us by the other side, and they've done...
...proposal was detailed on Friday at the association's national conference in Orlando, Fla. The group asked the 20,000 members in attendance to sign letters to Congress showing support for the initiative. It is part of a number of moves they are advocating to help boost housing prices...
Perhaps not, but as the only white Evangelical in the prospective quartet, Hunter would be a good candidate for the next President's bridge to white Evangelicalism, which he courted on Election Day but had only marginal success in winning over. Hunter is a bona fide megapastor in Orlando, Fla., and and a longtime mover in the Evangelical world. "For a long time now, Joel has been directly politically engaged as a Christian leader, in a nuanced and multifaceted way," notes Andy Crouch, editor of the Vision Project at the Evangelical monthly Christianity Today. On a number of key positions...
...matter how insignificant the Tampa Bay Rays' accomplishments may seem to Walsh, the very least he could have done is acknowledge that the American League Champions of 2008 hail from St. Petersburg, Fla.--not the city of Tampa, as noted in both the dateline and the body of his commentary. This common gaffe among major media outlets is no laughing matter for proud Pinellas County residents and government officials, who are separated from their Tampa counterparts by a rather large body of water known as Tampa Bay. Don Moyer, CLEARWATER, FLA...