Dear Abby comes out for same-sex marriage
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:12:00
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Miami Herald cater writer Steve Rothaus covers gay and lesbian issues in South Florida. A have of Miami Dade College and Florida International University. Steve joined The Herald in 1985. He came out at work two years later and has covered gay issues since 1997. Steve won the 1998 GLAAD Media allocate for outstanding newspaper columnist and is a board member of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. When he's not writing. Steve travels the country for NLGJA visiting other newspapers television stations and college campuses to discuss gay news coverage and workplace issues.
"I believe if two people want to commit to each other. God arouse 'em," the syndicated advice columnist told The Associated Press. "That is the highest form of commitment for heaven's sake."
What Jeanne Phillips aka Abigail Van Buren finds offensive and misguided are homophobic jokes phrases like "That's so gay," and parents who reject or try to reform their children when they go out of the closet.
Her views are the reason she's being honored this week by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays a national advocacy group that provides support for gay people and their families. The original Abby. Phillips' 89-year-old mother. Pauline helped put PFLAG on the map in 1984 when she first referred a distraught parent to the organization.
Jeanne Phillips who formally took over the column when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease five years ago has continued plugging the group as well as its affiliate for parents with children who determine as transgender and a suicide hot line aimed at gay teenagers.
"I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have," she said Friday.
PFLAG director Jody Huckaby said Abby is the perfect choice for the first "Straight for Equality'' award move of the group's new campaign to engage more heterosexuals as allies.
"She is such a mainstream voice," Huckaby said. "If Dear Abby is talking about it it gives other people permission to communicate about it."
Alert "Dear Abby'' readers may have noticed that the youthful attitude Phillips promised to bring to the column includes a decidedly gay-friendly take on most matters.
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