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What makes a family?
Love makes a family.

This is the story of two gay men who become foster parents to Adam, a premature baby, born with the AIDS virus and addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana, and alcohol. While nursing Adam through the many medical emergencies of his first year and surviving the daily dramas that all new parents go through, they realize that this child, their son, could be taken back from them at any time...

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Ideal for individual or group use, this unique resource presents short pieces from some of the nation's most preeminent church leaders - women and men, Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical - who address fundamental moral imperatives about homosexuality. Through personal testimony, factual clarification, and moral suasion, they invite the reader to open his or her heart to the Spirit, to Gospel values, and to full acceptance of...

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A classic work of gay spirituality—newly revised to reflect today's issues, including gays in the military, the AIDS crisis, and genetic research on homosexuality.

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From the author of the widely acclaimed A Place at the Table, this is a major work, passionately outspoken and cogently reasoned, that exposes the great danger posed to Christianity today by fundamentalism. The time is past says Bruce Bawer, when denominational names and other traditional labels provided an accurate reflection of Christian America's religious beliefs and practices. The meaningful distinction today is not between...

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Homosexuality is being talked about more today than at any other time in human history; the issue of gay rights has reached a moment of truth. Yet many people remain remarkably ill-informed about what homosexuality really is. Why? Partly, says Bruce Bawer in this powerful and provocative book, because of the irrational hatred, fears, and lies of bigots who depict a monolithic "gay lifestyle" that threatens "family values." Partly because of a...

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This is the true story of the emotional, spiritual and intellectual triumph of a woman who found herself unable to sacrifice her child on the altar of benighted social and religious moral convention. Regardless of the tremendous social pressure that was brought to bear, in her story's small-town setting, Rhea Murray refused to abandon her teen-age son.

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In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention begins with an analysis of the 1979 Southern Baptist Convention, the watershed convention where moderate forces fell before the powerful oratory of the ultraconservative faction, which has remained in power ever since. Communication professors Carl L. Kell and L. Raymond Camp investigate the rhetorical shift from moderate to ultraconservative in the...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of America's most compelling, charismatic, and yet tragic figures of the twentieth centry. He was a black man, a preacher's son himself ordained a minister, who challenged a nation's white-dominated agenda in pursuit of genuine freedom, justice, and equality for an oppressed minority.

King was winning to die for the cause, and he was a man of great faith - a devout admirer of Jesus Christ and Mahatma...

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Selected as the Opening Night Premiere at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, The Laramie Project is a groundbreaking HBO Film event that recreates the efforts of a New York theatre troupe to shed light on a western town's loss of innocence following a hate crime perpetrated on a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student. Adapted from the acclaimed play of the same name, the film features an all-star cast.

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On February 12, 2004 the City and County of San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.

Just days after the first wedding was performed, the flowers started arriving. Flowers sent from the very heart of America, the Midwest. Flowers sent with love and support and addressed simply "To Any Loving Couple."

Experience again the joy of that one magical month when over 4000 gay and lesbian couples were united...

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