Warren J. Blumenfeld

Rev. Charles L. Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., during a recent sermon, argued for the building of a large fence some 150 miles long to contain "lesbians" in one section and "homosexuals and queers" in another section. "And have that fence electrified till...

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he [or she] has saved the whole world." -- The Talmud

The histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) people are replete with incredible...

Washington, D.C. is one of the most popular tourist destinations not only within the United States, but internationally as well. Millions of people from across the globe come to our nation's capital expecting to see its glowing history and remarkable educational treasures, its breathtaking artwork and gleaming architecture, and, of...

President Barack Obama took an historic move on Tuesday, May 9, 2012 in an interview with ABC TV Good Morning America host, Robin Roberts, when he "came out" for marriage equality asserting that "same-sex couples should be able to get married."

Back in December 2010, President...

The recent suicide death of 14-year-old Kenneth James Weishuhn, Jr., from the northwestern corner of my home state, tossed and battered me like an Iowa tornado. Though I never met Kenneth in life, I feel that I know him in death. His passing spun me like the death of an...

Rev. Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church of Fayetteville, North Carolina loudly and vehemently lectured during his Sunday sermon (April 29, 2012) that parents must enforce strict gender role behaviors, their duty before God, on their children.

"Dads," Harris commanded, "the second you see your son dropping the...

"A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent."
--Boy Scout Law

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." - from "Me and Bobby McGee," written by Kris Kristofferson

Mitt Romney, in his address on "freedom" to the National Rifle Association on Friday, April 13, 2012 used the term "freedom" a total of 30 times and "free" another four times,...

Interviewed on MSNBC by guest host Luke Russert on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, Tony Perkins, president of the so-called Family Research Council, stated that he does not support the granting of "special business rights" to "homosexuals" in national or state legislation, and especially with regard to ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act)...

Officials in 17th-century Puritan Boston coerced Hester Prynne into permanently affixing the stigma of the scarlet letter onto her garments to forever socially castigate her for her so-called "crime" of conceiving a daughter in an adulterous affair. Stigmata include symbols, piercings, or brands used throughout recorded history to mark an...

With the ascendency of Barack Obama during the primaries and his election as the 44th president of the United States in 2008 and to the current time, the media have, on numerous occasions, asserted that the United States can now be considered as a "post-racial" society, where the notion that...

Leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) yet again has come under intense scrutiny recently when Elie Wiesel, renowned author and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize who survived the German Holocaust, publicly requested that presidential candidate and member of the Mormon Church, Willard Mitt Romney,...

"Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has been poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
only then will you learn that you cannot eat money."
-- Cree Proverb

Republican presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum, questioned Barack Obama's...

Marriage equality for same-sex couples gained momentum recently as a federal district court ruled unconstitutional the anti-equality California Proposition 8 passed by voters in 2008, and the state legislatures of Washington and New Jersey, and the Maryland General Assembly, passed bills that would legalize marriage for same-sex couples. The Maryland...

Homosexual behavior violates the commandments of God, is contrary to the purposes of human sexuality, distorts loving relationships, and deprives people of the blessings that can be found in family life and in the saving ordinances of the gospel. Those who persist in such behavior or who influence others to...

As wisely and eloquently stated by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1839 play, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, "the pen is mightier than the sword," this adage holds that the written word acts as a powerful tool in the transmission of ideas. Why else would oppressive regimes and other virulent...

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi

College and university students throughout the country have organized boycotts and petition drives to terminate their schools' relationship with the national fast food chain Chick-Fil-A because of the restaurant's...

Recently speaking at a town hall meeting at an American Legion Hall in Lady Lake, Florida, presidential hopeful Rick Santorum fielded a question, or rather, a comment from a woman in the audience who forcefully proclaimed: "I never refer to Obama as President Obama because legally he is not....

Adding insult to injury, just one month after passing this country's most restrictive and punitive anti-immigration law, the Arizona legislature in the beginning of May 2010 passed House Bill 2281, signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer, targeting public school districts' ethnic studies programs. Arizona School Superintendent, Tom Horne,...

From ancient to modern times, since long before Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland, Franklin Roosevelt, and the "Johns" (Fitzgerald Kennedy, Edwards, and Ensign), through William Jefferson Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Anthony Weiner, and Newt Gingrich, married men have found it engorgingly hard to keep their pants zipped. But I am continually struck...