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Boy Scout B.S.? Proposed policy isn’t perfect, but naysayers ignore stunning progress

Matt Comer — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:05:32 +0000

Update (Feb. 4, 2013, 1:10 p.m.): Be sure to head over to QNotes to read the editorial, “Critics of Boy Scout policy should follow Scouters’ lead,” published this morning. There was much controversy this past week as news broke that the national board of the Boy Scouts of America would be considering ending their national [...]

A letter from a dismissed gay Scout to the Boy Scouts of America

Matt Comer — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:13:43 +0000

[Note: I know my blog has been dormant here lately. Work and school has been taking its toll. I have always deeply appreciated the kind support of my friends, fans and followers. Though I may not be posting regularly here, you can always find me at my day job and, one day, we'll see about [...]

Freedom & Responsibility: On matters of gun control, our children will pay the ultimate price

Matt Comer — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:12:24 +0000

Great power comes with great responsibility. And, so it is with the American people, who have been since the time of our founding entrusted with the rarest form of responsibility in all of human history: Self-governance. Citizens of the United States of America pride themselves on their perception that they are among the freest people [...]

Back in the saddle again

Matt Comer — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:45:22 +0000

Finito. My first three weeks back at QNotes flew by like a flash. My first issue back as editor hit newsstands yesterday and is online today. Check out all the great content, as well as my returning “Editor’s Note” column. After about four months of absence, it’s quite amazing how easy it was to resettle [...]

Charlotte straight club Butter NC’s ‘Repeal Amendment One Party’ raises concerns among LGBT community members

Matt Comer — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:50:05 +0000

A party by a straight nightclub in Charlotte billed as a “Repeal Amendment One Party” by promoters was met this week with raised eyebrows by some members of the city’s LGBT community. The event, originally called “aMENdment” and renamed “Repeal Amendment One Party,” was posted on Facebook on May 30 and will be held at Butter NC, [...]

Protest of Charles ‘Concentration Camp’ Worley draws 1,400-plus

Matt Comer — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:32:49 +0000

Very grateful to have had the opportunity to travel from Charlotte up to Newton, N.C., for the protest of Providence Baptist Church (Maiden, N.C.) Pastor Charles Worley and to also report from the scene for QNotes… Over 1,000 gather in Newton to protest anti-gay preacher’s comments Peaceful protest draws raucous counter protesters Newton, N.C. — [...]

Does Charles Worley and Providence Road Baptist Church really support ‘racial purity’?

Matt Comer — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:02:17 +0000

Yet another update on the Maiden, N.C., Providence Road Baptist Church, whose pastor, Charles “Concentration Camp” Worley, has come under scrutiny for his proposal to send LGBT people to Nazi-like concentration camps and his 1978 sermon blessing the hanging of gays. A mutual friend on Facebook posted a screenshot of a review of the church [...]

UPDATE: Before he channeled Hitler, Pastor Charles Worley was oh-so-hot for the KKK

Matt Comer — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:42:39 +0000

This update on Maiden, N.C., Providence Road Baptist Church Pastor Charles “Concentration Camp” Worley from GoodAsYou.org’s Jeremy Hooper, who found an old sermon archived at SermonAudio from Worley given on April 30, 1978, two years after he started preaching at the church. Listen to the clip below: I’m God’s preacher. I just believe the book. [...]

Matt on CBS Radio: No place for pastor’s words in civilized society

Matt Comer — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:02:41 +0000

Today’s CBS News report on Maiden, N.C., Pastor Charles Worley, as broadcast at 1 p.m. as broadcast at CBS Radio online and syndicated nationally. See earlier post: “Amendment One’s saving grace: Exposing religious violence against LGBT people”

Amendment One’s saving grace: Exposing religious violence against LGBT people

Matt Comer — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:56:22 +0000

[Update (May 22, 2012, 2:03 p.m.): Hear the CBS News radio report with Matt's remarks on Pastor Charles Worley's comments.] Just two weeks ago, voters in North Carolina approved 61 to 39 percent a discriminatory, anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment banning marriage and civil unions for same-sex couples and threatening domestic partner protections for all couples. [...]