Evangelicals fire back with Chick-fil-A ‘buy-cott’
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has organized a Chick-fil-A “buy-cott” for Wednesday, Aug.1 after he became “incensed at the vitriolic assaults” on the Atlanta-based fast food chain in the wake of company COO Dan Cathy’s comments on same-sex marriage.
Cathy, son of the company’s founder Truett Cathy, told the Baptist Press in a recent interview that the company was “guilty as charged” in its opposition to same-sex marriages.
“We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit,” Cathy is quoted as saying. “We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.”
Valdosta mayor refuses to sign South Georgia Pride proclamation
Valdosta Mayor John Gayle refused to sign a proclamation naming Sept. 15 as South Georgia Pride Day because he doesn’t believe in gay marriage or the LGBT “lifestyle,” according to a local activist and Pride organizer.
“He said he had strong personal convictions and beliefs and doesn’t approve of my lifestyle or gay marriage,” said Raynae Williams, a lesbian and assistant executive director of South Georgia Pride. Williams met with the mayor today and said the meeting lasted no more than five minutes.
Gayle did not return a call from GA Voice seeking comment but told a local TV station he could not sign the proclamation due to religious beliefs.
Study: HIV rates in black community as much as three times higher than whites
An Emory study presented today at the International Conference on AIDS, currently being held in Washington, D.C., shows “greatly” elevated rates of new HIV infections among African-American gay and bisexual men.
The study focused on six cities across the U.S.: Atlanta, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Black men who have sex with men contracted HIV at a rate of 2.3 percent per year, or nearly 50 percent higher than in white men who have sex with men in the U.S.