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LGBT Bullying

Day of Silence

April 20, 2012 · 3 comments

The following post by Brent Bailey was re-posted from his blog at oddmanout.net. Brent is a student in the Masters of Divinity program at Abilene Christian University and he will be joining us this summer as an intern at The Marin Foundation. In the post below, he shares about how the theme of silence has [...]

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So exciting! It’s almost release day for our new Love Is an Orientation DVD Curriculum which is set to release on December 13th (for those of you not in North America it will release January 1 through your respective Amazon sites and the Zondervan website). This new resource will be for any church, university, non-profit, organization, clinic, [...]

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A few days ago the BBC World News featured the work of The Marin Foundation in written and audio form! Above is a screenshot I took of the BBC’s home page on their website… And that’s us as the feature story! It’s been crazy since it went live. We have gotten tons of folks reaching [...]

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Yesterday my good friend Dr. Warren Throckmorton released a new church youth group resource to address bullying. Below is the press release that went out for it: Golden Rule Pledge Releases Bullying Prevention Lesson Plans for Church Youth Groups Contact: Warren Throckmorton, PhD, Golden Rule Pledge, 724-967-5644 MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 20 /Christian Newswire/ – On [...]

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Here is the link to the article I just wrote for Religion Dispatches. It’s a counter commentary to Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, who wrote a guest article for the Washington Post. People need to know that not just LGBT people are tired of the same negative generalizations that only stir up further dissent. I was offended [...]

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The Trevor Project

October 12, 2010 · 1 comment

In light of the tragic string of youth that have committed suicide as a result of being bullied for their actual or perceived sexual orientation, a great resource that I would like to point out is The Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention among LGBTQ [...]

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This is Part 2 written by Kevin Harris – Director of Community Relations for The Marin Foundation. You can read Part 1 here. Naming a problem prompts us to take ownership of it, while making it harder to ignore for ourselves and those around us. Thomas Friedman stated; “In the world of ideas, to name [...]

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Here it is. I name names because I think this is too important. Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org

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This forthcoming 2 Part Series is written by Kevin Harris – Director of Community Relations at The Marin Foundation. “Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” -Jesus As most everyone has heard, recently there has been a tragic string of suicides in the last [...]

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I’m tired of the excuses of conservative Christians and their organizations that say the publicity of the recent suicides, and trainings for LGBT bullying in general, are to promote the ‘gay agenda.’ Wrong. They are to dignify human life – whether one agrees doctrinally or not. Just like Jesus did to the institution he came to [...]

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