Dallas Pastor Targeted In Atheist Billboard Campaign
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A Dallas pastor is the target of a new billboard campaign by the American Atheists. The national atheist group put up more than a half of dozen billboards in Texas on Monday as...
View ArticleTexas Senators Consider Homosexual Discrimination Bill
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas senators have begun considering a bill that would ban discrimination against homosexuals and transgender people in the workplace. Retired Staff Sgt. Eric Alva was the first Purple...
View ArticleFormer Dallas Cowboy Tony Casillas: “I Played With Homosexuals”
Defensive tackle Tony Casillas #75 of the Dallas Cowboys looks on from the sidelines during Super Bowl XXVII against the Buffalo Bills at the Rose Bowl on January 31, 1993. The Cowboys won 52-17....
View ArticleMom Going To Trial For Whipping Son For Homosexual Act
TARRANT COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas mother is in court today for a pre-trial hearing on a family assault case. Erica Moore is the woman who admitted beating her son with an electrical cord for...
View ArticleFort Hood ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Activist Dies In Car Wreck
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Darren Manzella, a gay combat medic discharged from the Army after criticizing the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy in a 2007 television interview, has died...
View ArticleToo Edgy? Too Tame? Gay Pride Parades Spark Debate
(credit: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images) DALLAS (AP) - Initiated as small, defiant, sexually daring protests, gay pride parades have become mainstream spectacles patronized by corporate sponsors...
View ArticleCBS 11 Takes A Closer Look At ‘Reparative Therapy’
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The Texas Republican party made headlines for endorsing “reparative therapy,” a psychological approach that claims to effectively change the sexual orientation of adults, from gay...
View Article‘Former’ Gay Man Who Inspired GOP’s Reparative Therapy Plank Speaks
(KRLD) – “I have a friend in my precinct who introduced me to the idea of ‘reparative therapy,'” says Cathie Adams, President of the Texas Eagle Forum. The Tea Party group spearheaded the effort to get...
View ArticlePerry Discusses View Of Homosexuality
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry, during a visit that focused primarily on economic issues, drew on a reference to alcoholism to explain his view of homosexuality. Perry’s comments to the...
View ArticleAds Feature FWPD Officers Taking A Stand For Gay Marriage
http://media.dallas.cbslocal.com/CBSDAL_20150105231949690AA.mp4 Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Flanked by supportive colleagues, a Fort Worth police officer is taking...
View Article‘Yep, I’m Gay’: Happy 20th Out Anniversary, Ellen DeGeneres
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter NEW YORK (AP) — With a headline of “Yep, I’m Gay” on the cover of Time magazine and the same declaration on her sitcom, Ellen DeGeneres made history 20 years ago...
View ArticleTrial Near For Sect Members Accused Of Beating Away Demons
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — It has been nearly 4½ years since Matthew Fenner said he was beaten in a church sanctuary by a group of congregants hell-bent on expelling his “homosexual demons.” After...
View ArticleLGBTQ Community Cheers Pope’s Reported ‘God Made You Like This’ Remark
VATICAN CITY (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Pope Francis’ reported comments to a gay man that “God made you like this” have been embraced by the LGBTQ community as another sign of Francis’ desire to make gays feel...
View ArticleWith 7th Album Announcement Taylor Swift Calls Out Homophobes
NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Taylor Swift is preparing to release a new album — her 7th — and it contains a track that goes after homophobes. Coinciding with the announcement of her seventh album,...
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