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1 Dead, 3 Shot at San Francisco Gay Pride Event
The 40th annual gay pride weekend drew thousands to Civic Center Plaza Saturday, and more were expected Sunday for the parade, a concert and comments from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. However the event was marred after a shooting during the street party on Saturday night. In the shooting 19-year-old Stephen Powell died. and a 19-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man, were injured but are expected to survive. A 19-year-old man is in custody....
Catholic Charity WINS gay adoption ruling
An independent Catholic charity won a High Court battle on Wednesday over adoption laws that would have forced it to consider gay couples as parents. Catholic Care, a registered adoption agency, wants special dispensation from sexual orientation regulations which forbid it from giving children solely to heterosexual couples. The organisation argued that a clause in the act allows charities to discriminate by amending its objectives. An earlier High Court judgement ruled against it, b...
Stuff!Heyy :) All is happy again my end :) yay I have an beautiful kitten called simba, he had his 1st set of jabs yesterday, and his worming tab, and he did really well bless him :) he only meowed once when the nurse jabbed him. He was very drowsey the rest of the day bless him, but hes alright now. I have also met a new amazing and beautiful, and understanding, caring, loving, just an amazing lady,... |
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Pope Benedict leads condemnation of Ignoraphobia.Pope Benedict has struck back against scientific evidence that ignorance is a personal choice with the foundation of the IPiB charity Rites Of Ignorance. This charity will be working with other notable religious figures as well as certain Political World Leaders to bring in a world where the Ignorant can walk and discriminate and show their intolerance without fear of being made to fee... |
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Book Review of the BibleDecided that there are no conversations about books so i decided to look on my book shelf and tell you about the first book i picked up . . . . sadly it was The Bible! now the word Bible derives from the word Libary because the Bible is not just one book but actually a conllection of 66 books put into 2 section the old and new testement! The Bible still today is the highest selling Book of all tim... |
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My ProfileOk so apparently my profile has had over 100 hits, and yet i apparently only have 3 friends, sooo peeps listen up! if you go on my page, or read my blogs and think that i am kinda funny or interesting or semi entertaining please feel free to send me a friends request! oh and i dont know how this site works and stuff but just coz you send me a friends request, dont worry i know thats not ... |
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Women are prepared to pay up to £50,000 on IVF to have a babyWomen are prepared to pay up to £50,000 to realise their dreams of motherhood, a study has found. Most would take on extra work, sell possessions and sacrifice pensions to fund fertility treatment if they had difficulty conceiving. And they would be willing to spend an average of £15,000 on IVF – with one in ten prepared to shell out as much as £50,000. One in five would even consider moving hou... |
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Breaking News: Ignorance found to be Non-ExistantLast night scientists studying human DNA have been able to announce that ignorance and everything associated with it have no genetic basis and therefore cannot be real. Professor Max Sapient has spent many years trying to find the gene responsible for such forms of ignorance as racism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, sexism, Heterophobia, Pedophobia, Psychophobia, Ageism and Xe... |
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Congratulations to the C**k in a FrockOh wow, this week is meant to be mega busy with 3 meetings tomorrow and a panel of judges to go up in front of on Thursday to try get a loan for my business, I was not really looking forwards to it at all, it should be hard graft and paper work, the 2 things I despise the most about the job lol. Anyway this morning I got an amazing email and I just had to come and tell you all about... |
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David and the gods.Last night the God and Goddess of Love passed away. In response to this I figured I'd do a bit of a roll call. Of course, some people might think I'm going a little wierd but it kinda boils down to a common thing that is said about the Abrahamic God and the gods of MMORPG game Guild Wars in the cinematic ending the second from last mission of Nightfall. Basically that God or the gods ... |
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IVF postcode lottery as NHS cuts costsChildless couples are facing a widening postcode lottery after NHS officials ordered GPs to slash the amount of fertility treatment on offer to cut costs, stark new figures show. Women in some areas are being denied access to the treatment altogether while others are facing new restrictions which appear to flout national guidelines. One in five local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) said they had cu... |
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Part Time PrideThis is a very very late follow on from something I experienced a very, very long time ago that made me angry. So anyway.Straight acting: Something we in the LGBT community use to refer to anyone who abides by social conditioning strongly enough to pass as straight, whether they are or not.Being gay: Something used derogatorily by homophobic people to refer to any behaviour that either, is far eno... |
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Why older women are more prone to fertility problemsScientists have discovered why women are more likely to suffer from miscarriages and infertility problems if they try to have babies later in life. Their study also sheds light on why children born to women in their late 30s and early 40s are at greater risk of Down's Syndrome and other genetic conditions. The team of British researchers found that as a woman gets older levels of a crucial pro... |
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I love this poem :)If our relationship was a babywe would be counting its age this way.It might be walking by nowpulling itself to an awesometwenty-seven inches andmaybe tottering across the roombefore collapsing on its bottom.There would be plenty of time for mistakes.It would always manage to getback on its feet again. If our relationship was a babyit would be starting to feed itselfIn a messy sort of waybut with... |
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Thousands attended Manchester Pride's Parade and Festival 2010Thousands of people attended Manchester's 20th annual gay Pride parade and celebrations over the Bank Holiday weekend. The parade, part of the Big Weekend that concludes Pride week, was this year led by Sir Ian McKellen. Despite damp weather, organiser Jackie Crozier told the BBC that the turnout was "fantastic". She added: "We're absolutely delighted with the amount of people who turned out a... |
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Pride Angel at Manchester Pride's Lifestyle ExpoManchester Pride's Lifetyle Expo started today with great success, thankfully the rain did not dampen any spirits, with hundreds of visitors attending the variety of stalls. Pride Angel were happy to be one of those stalls and gave advice to those interested in becoming parents through donor conception or co-parenting. Erika and Karen the co-founders of Pride Angel said 'We are so happy by the ... |
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Sperm Donation - FSDWHi,My wife and I are trying to find a nice man who will kindly donate some of his sperm. We are using the Free Sperm Donations Worldwide website and have come into contact with a few men.We have done this before, and met a really nice guy, but after 6 months of trying it didn't work. Now we've moved to a different part of the UK, we want to try again.It now feels really strange that we... |
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