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Robert N. Minor's monthly column featured daily on our
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Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's
So Hard to Be Human and Gay
& Healthy in a Sick Society and Professor of
Religious Studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
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After That Election,
Feeling Bad Might Be Good
And Now We Boycott
Target?
And We Keep
Expecting Them to Be Rational….
An LGBTQ
History Month Historical Revisiting of a Sainted Same-Sex
Military Couple
A Reminder About
Our Reactions to the Religion Addiction That Got Us
Here
Are These the Deep,
Dark Secrets of Those Who Can’t Quit a Cruel
President?
Are You Taing Care of
Yourself During this Scary New Backlash?
Are We Ready for Our
Next Difficult Conversation?
Are We Still
as Confused About Love and Sex on Valentine’s Day
2023?
Are We Still Blaming
Mothers for Screwed Up Ideas of Motherhood?
As
Religion Addicts Battle in Their “Culture War,”
Here Are Rules of Engagement
A World Religions
Professor Faces Mortality
Be Honest: Does the
US Really Value Education?
Can I Have A
Conversation with You Anyway?
Can
“Lincoln” Still Happen Here and
Now?
Can We Stand
Resolute Against the Rollback of LGBTQ
Equality?
Class, Race, and
Addicts Who Prefer Eliminating LGBT People
Collateral Damage
is Just the Price of Making America Macho
Again
Could
Creativity and Imagination Be Too Scary, Subversive, and
Even Too Queer?
Could Fundamentalists
Exist Without Being Motivated by Hate?
Could It Be
Dangerous to Argue that Religion Is Responsible for
Discrimination?
“Culture Wars” Are
Tweaked and Front and Center Again Because It’s All One
Party Has to Offer
Dialogue with
Right-Wingers? Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Does
“Freedom” Mean Anything Beyond
Selfishnesss
Does Our Sports Culture
Take Away a Boy's Humanity?
Does Your Politician
Pass the Religious Test?
Don’t
Believe Anything You Hear When Someone Says “The Bible
Says It”
Don’t Fall for
Any Anti-LGBTQI+ Psychological Malarkey
Do Politicians Really
Value What You Value?
Do the Letters in
LGBTQI+ Have Anything to Do with a Community?
Do We Also Promote
Those LGBTQI Stereotypes?
Egyptian Hope;
American Pessimism
Eighteen Suicides a
Day
Face It: Religion Addicts
Must Support Right-Wing Politicians
Forgive and Forget?
Not So Fast!
44 Suicides a Day?
What’s the Straight Role Doing to Our
Veterans?
Government Messes, Gay
Bombs, and Citizen Hop
Guilt Is Such an
Effective Tool of Control that We’ll Use It on
Ourselves
"Hey, You Kids, Get
Off My Lawn"
Hiding the Family
Values Gang’s Sexual Addictions
How Americans Raise
Girls and Boys
How Girls Are
Expected to Conform in Our Sports Culture
How Much Longer
Will “Traditional” Be Used As if It
Matters?
How Religion Has
Been - and Still Is - Used for Bigotry
How the Push for
Christian Nationalism Is an Act of Unbelief
How to Help the
Media Undo the Blue Wave
How to Prepare for
the Long Term Even If Political/Cultural Storms Threaten
Just Off the Coast
How to Win the Next
Election By Not Feeding the Mainstream Media What It
Wants
If Just This One
Idea About Manhood is Changing, There’s
Hope….
I’ll Say It:
Every Right-Wing Bigot Is Responsible for the Orlando
Murders
In Messages for
Equality, Keep It Simple
Is "Color
Blindness" a Worthy Goal?
Is Huckabee the
Right-Wing’s Savior?
Is It Gay or
European?
Is Labeling People
a Barrier to Understanding Them?
Isn’t Seeking
Government Support for Your Religion an Act of
Unbelief?
“It Hasn’t
Changed that Much”
It’s
Dangerous to Argue that Religion Is
Responsible
It’s Getting
Harder, But Hope Is Still Our Choice
It’s Just Hard to
Admit that We Don’t Have Answers - Even When We
Don’t
It’s Not You.
Translating What Right-Winger’s Say to Trigger
You
It’s the Pride
Part of LGBTQ Pride That Still Drives Them
Nuts
I Will Say It Again:
Every Right-Wing Bigot Is Responsible for Those LGBTQ
Nightclub Murders
I Won’t
Forgot What that Bethlehem Breakfast Club Taught Me About
Religion
Just Say
No!
Lessons From
an Assassination
Lessons I Hope
We’ve Learned Over the Decades, 2021
Edition
Let Them Hit
Bottom
Love and Sex on
Valentine’s Day
Make Up Research and
Pray Hard
Marriage. Where Are We
Now?
"Marriage. Where Could We
Be?" Part 1
"Marriage. Where Could We Be?"
Part 2
"Marriage. Where Could We
Be?" Part 3
Mel White’s Journey
Continues
Men Behaving Badly and
those Nine Layers of “Getting Laid”
More Believers Are
Saying “It Ain’t Necessarily
So”
Most Right-Wing
Religion Won’t Handle This Political Dilemma
Well
Mother’s Day,
and A Lot Else, Ain’t What it Use to Be
A Movement for
Real Change We Can Believe In
Navigating These
Family Holidays
The Non-End of
Homophobia
No Surprise at All:
It’s Religious People Fearing They’re Losing Power
They’ve Savored
No Surprise in That
Grand Jury Report: Religion Has a History of Covering Sexual
Dysfunction
No Surprise in That
Southern Baptist Sex Scandal Report: Religion Has a History
of Covering Sexual Dysfunction
Not a Straight, White,
MAGA Male? Then They’re Coming for You
Now Is Not The Time
to Let Anything Else Distract Us
Now Isn't the Time to Criticize Leadership in LGBTQ+
Communities
Now We Know, But Do We Want To?
Now, What Will the Celebration Over ENDA Look Like?
Now, Who Are the Real Narcissists?
On the serious politics of lying
Our America on Our Mind
Our Lives and Loved Ones Are on the Line Now
"Out" or Not on Coming Out Day, You're Still Okay
Outrage Over Red Cups Fills the Attention Deficit of the
Needy
Pandemics, Social Distancing, and a Hug
“Please Raise Them to Be Monsters”? Really?
Politics of Hopelessness, Skepticism and Dropping Out
Pride
Religious People, What’s Most Important to You?
Republicans Throw Their Gay Adorers Under the Bus Again
Resolve Now to Make 2024 the Year We Take Back the
Language
Responding to the Current Right-Wing Grooming of
Americans
Re-Using the Religious Right-Wing for 2012
Seven Messages That Wreck LGBTQ+ Relationships
Sex in 2012
Sexual Sickness Remains Central to the Right-Wing’s
Self--Destructive Addictions
Should the Religiously Abused Just Leave It Now?
So, What Are We Going to Do About It?
Stonewall: The Reality that Inspires
Stop Making the Bible Be an Excuse for LGBTQ
Discrimination
Supreme Court Moves to Destroy Straight Marriage
Surprised that There’s So Much Rape in the
Military?
“T” and the Rest of Us Are Told to Wait Again
Ted Haggard Graduates from the Accelerated "Straight 101"
Course
The Cliché is Right: We Really Are All in This
Together
The Comfort of Fundamentalisms
The Controlling Power of Guilt
The Inevitable Will Take More Effort
The Most Important Thing the Bible and the Constitution Have
in Common Is Their Usefulness
The Pathetic Masculine Heroics of Today’s
Right-Wing
The Privilege of Mary Cheney
The Religious Right-Wing’s Sexual Sickness Destroys
Their Lives But Remains Central to Their Religion
Addiction
There’s Money, not Bigotry, in Our Genes
The Right-Wing Knows What Liberal Guilt Betrays: Look
Sincere or Lose
The Right-Wing’s Continuing Obsession with LGBTQ
People, 2020 VersionThese are Uniquely Perilous Times for
Equality. So What Now?
These are Uniquely Perilous Times for Equality. So What
Now?
These Holidays Exalt Those Who Must Flee Home and
Homeland
These Trump Years Expose a Class of the Psychopathic Rich
and The Game They Play
The Strategy: Legalizing Anti-Gay without Acting Like You
Are
The Supreme Court Moves to Destroy Straight Marriage
The Ubiquity of that Imposter Syndrome: “It
Doesn’t Go Away”
This Generation Gap Really Matters
‘Tis the Season to Examine Myths
Those June Gay Lifestyle Expos
Time to Say it Again: It’s Looking Grim, But
There’s Still a Place for Hope‘Tis the Season to
Examine Myths
To Really Mainstream LGBT People
Transgender People are Lightening Rods for Our Issues
Translating Right-Wing Attempts to Trigger Liberal Guilt
Using Guilt to Control the World
Virginia Tech, Don Imus, and America’s Seething
Anger
Watching the Church Deal with Its Sex Problems
We Haven’t Turned the Corner on Marriage Equality
Yet
“We Look Like Mississippi”
We Might Not Like It, But What If There Are People We
Can’t Reach?
We Must Be Able to Understand A Human Being Unlike Us?
What Do We Learn from Rush’s Latest Offense?
Whatever Happened to “Hate Is Not a Family
Value”?
What Is It That Keeps Everyday People Stuck in the Culture
War Against Transgender People?
What I’d Like to Say When I Officiate an LGBTQ
Wedding
What If We Don’t Agree Politically?
What Must a Woman Go Through to Become a US President?
What Now? (Part One: Get Over Appearing Elitist)
What Now? Part Two: It’s Not Either/Or: Let’s Face
Race and Everything
What Now? Part Three: It’s Not About Reasoning with the
Right-Wing
What Now? Part Four: Are You Personally Prepared for This
Fight?
What’s Behind Today’s Flair-Up in the Right-Wing
War on LGBTQ Youth
What Should a “Beautiful” Person Look Like?
"What's Love Worth, After All?"
What’s the Most Crucial Preparation for a Challenging
Confrontation?
What We Learn from Anti-LGBTQ History Is That There’s
Nothing More to Say
What Would Successful Dating Be?
When We Want to Be Courageous, a Bishop Stands Up
When Can a Speaker of the House Cry?
When It Comes to Religion, Let’s Keep One
Resolution
When the Right-Wing Claims Their Words Don’t Matter
When We Still Excuse This Stuff As Just How Men Talk
Why Are Transgender People at the Center of Republican
Culture Wars?
Why Are We Marching Anyway?
Why Do Those White Evangelicals Really Love Trump? (Part One
of a Series)
Why Do Those White Evangelicals Really Love Trump? (Part Two
in a Series)
Why Do Those White Evangelicals Really Love Trump? (Part
Three in a Series)
Why “God, Guns, and Gays” Is Still Working
Why I Quit Calling Right-wing Hypocrites
“Hypocrites”
Why Is the Difference Between a Citizen and a Politician
Important Today? Why This Religion Prof Quit Calling
Right-Wing Hypocrites "Hypocrites" Long Ago
Why Is the Idea of Privilege So Controversial?
Why Obama Became the Religious Right-Wing’s Devil
Why Presidential Penises Are So Important?
Why This Religion Prof Quit Calling Right-Wing Hypocrites
"Hypocrites" Long Ago
Will “Culture Wars” Work Again?
Will These Supremes Care About “Equal Justice for
All?”
Will the US Ever Like Educators?
Will You Boycott the Russian Olympics?
"Yes We Can"
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