Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Catholic school issues book to gay teens telling them to ‘discover richness of the opposite sex’
metroweekly.comHow to Be Successful in your Love and Sexual Life by conservative priest Jean-Benoît Casterman to students.Casterman’s book claims that “excessive influence” from mothers can cause children to be gay and and says “homosexual tendencies” are “not wanted” and that gay people won’t be “happy,” LGBTQ Nation reports.“Today, some people act like homosexuality is normal,” Casterman wrote. “However, sexual fulfillment is only possible with the otherness of a man/woman, and it’s both mental and physical.”He blamed homosexuality on “the result of emotional development marked by an excessive influence of the mother during childhood or as a result of sexual child abuse by adults that induced an attraction to the same sex or a fear of the opposite.
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