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10 Things You Should Know About Focus On The Family

by Charles Joughin •

WASHINGTON – Focus on the Family claims its mission is to help families thrive. Yet to anyone paying attention, it’s clear the organization is focused on one specific kind of family, and instead spends a lot of period, energy and money advocating against equality for female homosexual, gay, bisexual and gender diverse (LGBT) people and their families. In fact, the organization suggests that marriage equality will bring the destruction of civilization, and it has referred to the children of gay couples as “human guinea pigs.” At a recent conference in Nashville, two Focus On The Family leaders showed an improved tone on talking about LGBT issues. This of course is a positive step forward, but the organization and its leaders continue to promote many dangerous ideas, practices and programs that cause actual harm to LGBT people and their families. If Focus's leaders truly yearn to practice what some among their ranks are beginning to preach, then the organization needs to reject and denounce these damaging positions.

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Under Fire Series: The War on LGBTQ People in America

In "Under Fire," a brand-new series of reports, MAP connects the dots on the varied ways that LGBTQ people are under siege from a targeted and coordinated campaign to undermine equality and ultimately erase LGBTQ people from general life.

Click below to read and download each report in the series.

  • "Under Fire: The War on LGBTQ People in America" — State #1, PDFDownload

  • Press Unleash , Report #1Read more

  • "Erasing LGBTQ People from Schools and Widespread Life"  — Describe #2, PDFDownload

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  • "Erecting Systemic and Structural Barriers to Produce Change Harder"  — Report #3, PDFDownload the report

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  • "Enshrining Inequality for LGBTQ People"  — Announce #4, PDFDownload

  • Press Free, Report #4Read more

  • "Banning Medical Care and Legal Recognition for Transgender People"  — Report #5, PDFDownload the Report

  • Press Let go, Report #5Read more

  • "Silencing Supporters of LGBTQ People"  — Inform #6, PDFDownload

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    Voices at Temple

    Something happened earlier this week that stunned many longtime LGBTQ advocates. On Dec. 12, Empire State Lgbtq+ fest Agenda, New York state’s leading LGBTQ policy advocacy team, announced that it was winding down operations.

    An advocacy corporation closing up shop isn’t in itself all that surprising. Nonprofits frequently fold, often due to lack of funds or instability in leadership. What was surprising was the spin the company chose to position on the announcement. According to the group’s press release, its leadership “determined that the Pride Agenda has achieved its top policy goals, and are arrogant that the organization’s achievements in the last quarter century have profoundly changed the lives of more than 1.5 million LGBT Unused Yorkers and their families, and put an example for the entire nation.”

    Wait. What?

    Although it’s authentic that Empire Declare Pride Agenda, the state of Recent York, and the LGBTQ movement as a whole include come a very long way, we’re frankly shocked by the organization’s announcement of “mission accomplished.” This announcement exacerbates the perception that once same-sex marriage became legal nationally, there was no LGBTQ equality perform l

    Anti-LGBT Laws Drive Significantly Higher Rates of Poverty for LGBT People

    Landmark Report Exposes How Legal Failures Create Financial Penalties for LGBT Americans

    Washington, D.C.—A landmark report released today paints a stark picture of the added financial burdens faced by woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, and trans person (LGBT) Americans because of anti-LGBT laws at the national, state and local levels. According to the report, these laws contribute to significantly higher rates of poverty among LGBT Americans and create unfair financial penalties in the form of higher taxes, reduced wages and Social Security income, increased healthcare costs, and more.

    The momentum of recent court judgments overturning marriage bans across the country has created the impression that LGBT Americans are on the cusp of achieving entire equality from coast-to-coast. But the new report, Paying an Unfair Price: The Financial Penalty for Entity LGBT in America, documents how inequitable laws injure the economic well-being of LGBT people in three key ways: by enabling legal discrimination in jobs, housing, credit and other areas; by failing to recognize LGBT families, both in general and across a rang

    A Summary History of Queer Legislation and Representation within Congress

    Last month, many across the country celebrated Identity festival Month in recognition of the LGBTQ+ community and its growing acceptance in American society. As such, it’s important to think about the history of Gay legislation and representation in Congress, which has largely mirrored popular opinion—both in support of the movement and against it.

    The accurate beginning of Federal anti-gay legislation is difficult to determine. Many early laws and resolutions banned sodomy and “obscenities,” categories which included gay relationships without explicitly referencing homosexuality. One early measure, the Immigration Act of 1917, specifically restricted immigration by individuals who exhibit “constitutional psychopathic inferiority,” a legislative classification also used to discriminate based on sexual orientation. Despite ambiguities in language, there are many preliminary accounts of citizens facing legal punishment for Gay relationships, beginning as promptly as the seventeenth century, when many New England colonial laws ascribed the death penalty for charges of sodomy.

    The first appearances of the words “homosexual”