Exodus: Live Out Loud

Comprehensive sex education is more effective at stopping the spread of HIV infection

http://www.news-medical.net/print_article.asp?id=8015

Disease/Infection News

Published: Monday, 28-Feb-2005

It is estimated that more than half of all new HIV infections occur before the age of 25 and most are acquired through unprotected sexual intercourse. According to the experts on AIDS, many of these new infections occur because young people don’t have the knowledge or skills to protect themselves. To address this important health issue, the American Psychological Association (APA) is recommending that comprehensive and empirically supported sex education and HIV prevention programs become widely available to teach youth how to abstain from risky sexual behaviors and learn how they can protect themselves against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Teens with HIV are having more risky sex

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=8018

Youth with HIV take more risks after new meds introduced

Medical Study News

Published: Monday, 28-Feb-2005

with more partners than their counterparts did in the years before powerful new medications for HIV were introduced in 1996, according to a new report in the American Journal of Health Behavior. A group of HIV-positive youth studied between 1999 and 2000 reported having more sexual partners, more unprotected sex and more drug use than HIV-positive youth studied between 1994 and 1996, say Marguerita Lightfoot, Ph.D. and colleagues at the UCLA AIDS Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine.

British Royal Navy Recruits Homosexuals

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0035633.cfm

February 24, 2005 by Keith Peters, Washington, D.C., correspondent The military branch is partnering with a pro-gay group to increase homosexual participation. The British Royal Navy has announced that not only will it accept gays into its ranks, it will actively recruit them. The Royal Navy is cooperating with a gay activist group to devise better strategies for recruiting homosexuals, in the wake of a European court ruling that found Britain's ban on homosexuals in the military violated human rights laws.

Super-HIV man had sex with 100

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/284403p-243554c.html

BY PAUL H.B. SHIN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

BOSTON - The New York man who sparked fears of a powerful new strain of HIV had drug-fueled, unprotected sex with more than 100 men in the months before his diagnosis, a top researcher said yesterday

There Will Be Consequences From Ontario Same-sex Marriage Bill Just Passed

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022512.html

Claim of collusion between federal and provincial Liberals

TORONTO, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The passage of the Ontario Liberal government’s same-sex marriage Bill 171 will have wide-ranging, serious consequences as illustrated by Giuseppe Gori, leader of the Family Coalition Party, in his Feb. 25 Straight Thoughts newsletter.

“Man”, “Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022511.htm

Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documents

Toronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral.

Education Discrimination

http://www.pfox.org/asp/newsman/templates/newstemplate.asp?articleid=180&zoneid=2

Sunday, February 27, 2005 -
The Washington Examiner newpaper Letters - 24 Feb'05 - Montgomery's sex ed includes lots of theology From: Regina Griggs, executive director, Parents and Friends of Ex- Gays, Fort Belvoir, Va. Re: "Public schools are no place for theological debates," Threads, Feb. 14. David Fishback, chair of the Montgomery County [Maryland] Board of Education's Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, states that ex-gay materials should not be allowed in public schools because "theological debates have no place in a public school health curriculum."

Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Prohibit Abortions of Gay Unborn Children

http://www.lifenews.com/printpage.php

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 25, 2005

Augusta, ME (LifeNews.com) -- A lawmaker in Maine has introduced legislation to prohibit abortions on unborn children who are gay. The legislation has raised eyebrows of both those involved in the abortion debate and those who debate whether or not genetics has any bearing on someone's sexuality.

State Rep. Brian Duprey introduced the measure that would protect gay babies.

He told the Portland Press Herald newspaper that listening to the Rush Limbaugh show gave him the idea for the bill. Limbaugh had commented that if scientists ever discovered a gene that caused a person to be gay, then homosexual activists would become pro-life "overnight."

Desert Stream: Lenten devotional

Holy Hunger
Meditation One

By Andrew Comiskey

The Lenten season is usually associated with sacrifice: we give up one thing or another as a nod to Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice on the cross. My kids try to rationalize the path of least resistance. Coke maybe, TV, never! I do the same: TV maybe, coffee, impossible!

Click here for the full devotional

Desert Stream: Lenten devotional

Holy Hunger
Meditation One

By Andrew Comiskey

The Lenten season is usually associated with sacrifice: we give up one thing or another as a nod to Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice on the cross. My kids try to rationalize the path of least resistance. Coke maybe, TV, never! I do the same: TV maybe, coffee, impossible!

Click here for the full devotional