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Janet Porter warns of Disney World’s Gay Day’s ‘public displays of perversion’
Religious Right activist Janet Porter is upset that gay people are vacationing to Disney World for “Gay Day at Disney,” calling on members of her group, Faith 2 Action, to spread the word. Today she told listeners of her radio bulletin that “the homosexual agenda is planning to once again descend on Disney World in […]
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Fla. education chief rejects claim that testing firm is working to turn kids gay
MILTON, Fla. — Florida’s education commissioner on Tuesday rejected an assertion by a state lawmaker that a standardized testing organization aims to make public school students homosexual.
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Fla. lawmaker: New educational standards are designed to turn all school children gay
A Florida Republican state lawmaker says new “common core” educational standards are designed to turn all school children gay.
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Fla. student says he was rejected by fraternity because he’s openly gay
ORLANDO, Fla. — A student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando says he has been banned from joining a fraternity because he is openly gay.
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Lawsuit challenging Fla. school’s denial of gay-straight alliance moves forward
TAVERES, Fla. — Students fighting to have a gay-straight alliance club at their middle school in central Florida have won a partial victory for the time being.
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Walt Disney World ends Boy Scouts grant program due to ban on gay leaders
ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World has suspended financial support to local chapters of the Boy Scouts of America over the group’s continued ban on openly gay and lesbian adults serving as troop leaders or in any other leadership capacity.
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Top Florida employers join coalition to fight against LGBT discrimination
Many of Florida’s largest employers on Monday launched the Florida Business Coalition for a Competitive Workforce, aimed at passing a bipartisan bill that would ban anti-gay and gender-based discrimination.
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Rubio headlines anti-gay group’s fundraiser, says nation’s morality at risk
ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio told an anti-gay group Saturday night that moral issues need to be part of government debate and that the United States needs to do more to protect religious freedom abroad.
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio to headline anti-gay fundraiser
The Florida Family Policy Council (FFPC) announced today that it will host U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at its 2013 Annual Policy Awards Dinner in Orlando on Saturday.
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Florida’s Charlie Crist plots political comeback as Democrat
Nearly three years after losing a U.S. Senate campaign to Republican Marco Rubio and leaving the governor’s mansion, Charlie Crist is plotting a political comeback that seems fantastical even by Florida’s stranger-than-fiction standards.