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Matt Barber reveals government brochure on how to treat LGBT employees

Excerpt from the article:

…Our sources have provided Liberty Counsel an internal DOJ document titled: “LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers.” It was emailed to DOJ managers in advance of the left’s so-called “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month.”

The document is chilling. It’s riddled with directives that grossly violate – prima facie –employees’ First Amendment liberties.

Following are excerpts from the “DOJ Pride” decree. When it comes to “LGBT pride,” employees are ordered: Read more…

Key quote:

“It’s a no-brainer that [homosexuals] should have the right to marry. But I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. [resounding applause]. That causes my brain some trouble. Part of why it causes me trouble is because fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there. Because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change. And that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change, and again, I don’t think it should exist.” Read more…

By Todd Starnes

Parents across Massachusetts are upset over new rules that would not only allow transgender students to use their restrooms of their choice – but would also punish students who refuse to affirm or support their transgender classmates.

Last week the Massachusetts Department of Education issued directives for handling transgender students – including allowing them to use the bathrooms of their choice or to play on sports teams that correspond to the gender with which they identify. Read more…

www.LC.org

A young woman was fired from the Macy’s San Antonio Rivercenter department store in Texas for refusing to violate her religious beliefs by permitting a young man dressed as a woman from entering the women’s dressing room. Natalie Johnson claims she saw the young man walk out of the women’s fitting room and politely told him that he could not go back in because it was for women only. The cross-dressing young man claimed that he is a “female.” Read more…

by Robert Knight

If you were the devil, what would be your most important mission, other than inventing false religions?

It would be to corrupt innocent children. Read more…

by Mary Rice Hasson

How can life get better for sexually confused young people if they cut themselves off from their families and abandon themselves to sex?

For LGBT teens who face adversity and intolerance…There’s no place in society for hatred and bullying…You have an amazing future in front of you…
And an entire community in your corner…We promise you. It gets better. Read more…

Jim Brown – OneNewsNow

The Obama administration plans to set up “the nation’s first national resource center” for older homosexual, bisexual, and transgender Americans.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday announced in a press release that the new Resource Center for LGBT Elders “will provide information, assistance, and resources for both LGBT organizations and mainstream aging services providers at the state and community level to assist them in the development and provision of culturally sensitive supports and services.” The Administration on Aging will be awarding a Resource Center grant of $250,000 per year. Read more…

By Nava Friedman The Daily Princetonian

When Arlyn Katen ’12, an LGBT peer educator, read about gender-neutral housing in the Princeton Progressive Nation  last year, “It just seemed like a very far-off decision,” she said, noting that she was “very surprised” when the University announced last week it would pilot a gender-neutral housing program next year. “I’m really happy about the decision,” she added. Katen and other members of Princeton’s LGBT community have enthusiastically received the news of the pilot program. Read more…