(2013/05/31) Part 2: The mostly good news (LGBTQ Rights)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 May 2013
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Edition #722
Part 2: The mostly good news
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Ex-Gay Leader Apologizes for Horrible Gay Conversion Therapy - Young Turks - Air Date: 04-27-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Be yourself - Audioslave
Ch. 4: Act 2: You're Better Than That And Have Meaning To Your Life - Dan Savage - Air Date 2-26-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Fix yourself - The Innocent Bystanders
Ch. 6: Act 3: Bravo, Jason Collins! - The Progressive - Air Date: 4-29-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Living a Lie (feat. James Mercer) - Aimee Mann
Ch. 8: Act 4: Reactions To Jason Collins Coming Out - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 4-30-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Le mystère de contre jour - David Ari Leon
Ch. 10: Act 5: Conservative Media Mock NBA's First Openly Gay Player Jason Collins - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 04-30-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Le mystère de contre jour - David Ari Leon
Ch. 12: Act 6: Why Are We Afraid of Homosexuals? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-02-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Take a chance - The Magic Numbers
Ch. 14: Act 7: Howard Kurtz's Criticism Of Jason Collins - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 5-3-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: I just found out about love - Count Basie and His Orchestra & Diane Schuur
Ch. 16: Act 8: How to Be Gay in the NBA - On the Media - Air Date: 5-3-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Dodgers were in Brooklyn - The Great Divide
Ch. 18: Act 9: New England Has Solidly Legalized Marriage Equality - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 04-27-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Ch. 20: Act 10: The pace of change is staggering - Dan Savage - Air Date: 5-14-13
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Ch. 21: It's a choice to buy a gun, it's not a choice to go outside - Brian In Louisville, KY
Ch. 22: People are waiting to exploit problems for profit - Vicki from Oregon
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details |
| 0:05.1 | visit the membership tab at BestOfLeft.com. Now welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:09.2 | BestOfLeft podcast with CoupState from the young Turks, Dan Savage, the |
| 0:12.9 | progressive citizen radio, the media matters minute, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:16.5 | the Jimmy Doar show, on the media, and the David Pakman show. And a note to |
| 0:20.5 | everyone to please stay tuned at the end of the episode while I talk about |
| 0:23.7 | something incredibly important to the podcasting community as a whole and |
| 0:27.2 | what you can do to help. Gay conversion therapy is in the news again today and |
| 0:32.4 | the reason why is because one person who really believed in gay conversion |
| 0:36.0 | therapy and preached about it is completely apologetic about the fact that he |
| 0:40.9 | did so in the past. This guy is James Paul, he's an ex-gay leader in fact he used |
| 0:45.3 | to work for Exodus International and now he's coming out and saying yeah it was |
| 0:50.2 | complete and utter BS and I feel horrible for the number of lives I ruined as I |
| 0:56.1 | was you know endorsing this type of gay conversion therapy. All right let me be |
| 1:01.9 | even clearer about he didn't just work at Exodus International he was the former |
| 1:06.0 | chairman of Exodus International and he wrote a book love one out how God's love |
| 1:12.1 | helped two people leave homosexuality and find each other and then go back in |
| 1:18.4 | to homosexuality. His sequel to that book was called rub one out so now he said he |
| 1:28.7 | was like everybody knew that he was he had started out gay okay and his wife was |
| 1:33.6 | a as a former lesbian they got married obviously never had sex and now he's |
| 1:42.0 | back out as gay like oops sorry about all that stuff where I try to fix |
| 1:46.0 | everybody fix them and turn them straight I was just lying and his wife |
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