Today's Cultural Warfare Update
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solarbirdThese are going to be kind of spotty for a little while, as I'm sure you've already noticed; this whole coming week is going to be more than a little nuts, with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annathepiper's thyroid surgery on Tuesday, and then the NASFiC (CascadiaCon - http://cascadiacon.org - the North American Science Fiction Convention, in Seattle) the following week. So... well, like I said: a little nuts. But by a week into September, when things are likely to be heating up again anyway, I'll be back and able to be more on top of all this.
FotF cheers appeals court ruling on prohibition of military-wife abortion;
FotF accuses Richmond, VA sexual-minourity youth organisation of funneling boys to adult gay men for sex - includes action item (ACTION ITEM);
Agape Press runs news article talking about the same group, accusing them of promoting pedophilia;
FotF newsbrief claims a journal editor was fired for publishing a piece on intelligent design;
FotF and the Eagle Forum defends Roberts's comment about not encouraging homemakers to become lawyers;
FotF Action Item against CBS's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, scheduled for November sweeps (ACTION ITEM);
FotF continues to advocate that stem-cell research is Nazi science;
FotF: Kansas Atty. General sues governor, seeking court order stopping state money from being spent on abortion-related services on grounds that a foetus is a person protected by the Kansas state constitution's bill of rights;
CWFA wonk Warren Throckmorton complains about "raunchy" books in school English courses;
LifeSite.com accuses environmentalists of genocide over the banning of DDT;
Anti-civil-rights-protections side in Maine argues that civil rights protection for GBLT people would lead to gay marriage;
Family Research Council action item: Ban RU-486 (ACTION ITEM);
Traditional Values Coalition: Roberts supports "voluntary school prayer";
TVC: "[homosexual/cross dressing] community" opposes Roberts, and that alone is reason to support him.
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Appeals Court Says Government Not Required to Pay for Military Abortions
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037604.cfm
SUMMARY: Court upholds law which prohibits government
payment for abortions.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the
military does not have to pay for abortions obtained by
dependents of military personnel.
In a refreshing instance of judicial restraint, a three
judge panel on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling
that had forced Tricare -- the military's health insurance
program -- to pay for the abortion of a Navy wife.
Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the
Family, said the judges on the nation's most liberal
appeals court did something unexpected -- they followed
the lead of both Congress and the Supreme Court. Under
both the law and a related high court ruling, Tricare
funds can be used to pay for an abortion only if the life
of the mother is in danger.
"It's a decision that shows judicial restraint,"
Hausknecht said. "It shows deference to legislative
preferences and choices -- made when any kind of
legislation is created. It's the correct decision."
The circumstances of the case are tragic. The woman
involved, identified in court papers only as "Jane Doe,"
had filed suit against in 2002 to force Tricare to pay for
aborting her pre-born child. The fetus suffered from
anencephaly -- a disorder in which a large portion of the
brain and skull are missing. Infants with anencephaly
usually die within hours to days after delivery. The trial
judge had agreed with Doe.
[More at URL]
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Clubs Send Teen Boys to Gay Bars for 'Outreach'
by Aaron Atwood, assistant editor
Focus on the Family
http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037598.cfm
SUMMARY: Taxpayer-funded gay youth centers are exposing
boys to preying gay men in programs billed as HIV
prevention.
"I use to attend ROSMY, when I was 19," someone who
identified himself as "Kevin" wrote in response to a note
on Pastor Darryl L. Foster's Web log. "They do allow teens
to hang around gay bars and clubs to pass out HIV kits. I
know because I use to do it!"
A flyer posted on the Web site for the Richmond
Organization for Sexual Minority Youth (ROSMY) read,
"Calling ROSMY Men & Boys: Do you want to go to some of
Richmond's hottest gay clubs for free? Educate men about
the importance of safe sex and condom use?"
The ad is marketing for ROSMY's government-sponsored HIV
prevention program.
Foster is calling attention to youth-oriented homosexual
centers that regularly introduce their young members into
the gay club scene -- funded, in part, by your tax dollars
through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Foster, who goes by "DL," is founder and director of
Witness Ministries. He found the ad on ROSMY'S Web site
and posted it on his blog July 28 to draw attention to how
the group connects gay men with boys. ROSMY responded by
removing the page from its Web site the next day and
issuing a statement.
"ROSMY has been questioned by an Atlanta, Georgia based
group about its HIV prevention program among youth in the
Richmond community," the statement read. "With the
assistance of a federal government grant from the Center
for Disease Control and in partnership with the
Richmond-based Fan Free Clinic, ROSMY followed the CDC
guidelines for educating boys and men age 13-29."
So, while the controversial ad was taken down, the group
makes no denial of Foster's accusation -- a fact that left
him puzzled.
"If nothing was wrong with the ad, why take it off the
Web?" he asked. "Why would any organization want to
facilitate children interacting sexually with adults?"
Kevin shared his story with Foster via e-mail.
"Many times friends of mine would go with older man to
their place!" he wrote. "Also many of these out reach boys
got HIV themselves! ROSMY and SMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth
Assistance League) in DC pay kids to do this! They do not
ask if the kids are psychologically prepared, they just
send them! A kid who may be abused may, see a handsome 24
yr old guy and go home with him."
Going home with the older man leads to sex, according to
Kevin.
SMYAL promotes its "HIV prevention" program through what
it calls outreach. There are plenty of opportunities for
youth to become part of the movement. They can even be
trained as a Youth Outreach Worker.
"Outreach is being conducted at DC Pride Events (DC Black
Pride, DC Youth Pride, and Capital Pride) as well as bars,
clubs, and other social places where our youth and their
sex partners go to have fun," the Web site explains.
SMYAL and ROSMY did not return requests for comment.
A CDC spokeswoman said studies show HIV prevention works
best when a message of safe sex is given by a demographic
similar to the at-risk group. Black men who have sex with
men would respond better to a message given by black men
who have sex with men. But she wasn't sure what the CDC
guidelines on age were.
[...]
Robert Cohen, board president of Parents and Friends of
Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), pointed out the problem with
pro-gay doctrine being cloaked as support.
"Rather than saving, they are indoctrinating them into a
life that will betray the very essence of who God made
them to be," he said. Cohen, a therapist in the
Washington, D.C., area, said some of his clients have been
encouraged by high school guidance counselors to join
groups that simply encourage homosexuality.
"These groups like SMYAL show my clients where and how to
have sex," he said. "The schools aren't telling students
they have the option to not be gay; they aren't getting
the whole story. The whole story is that ex-gays do
exist."
[...]
TAKE ACTION: Contact the CDC and ask Director Julie
Gerberding to exert greater discretion concerning how tax
dollars are used to support gay youth organizations.
http://www3.capwiz.com/fof/dbq/officials/agencies/?id=4366&dir=fof&command=depresult2&submit.x=14&submit.y=9
[More at URL]
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Pastor Uses Blog to Expose Web Ad Promoting Pedophilia
Caution... This article contains descriptions not suitable for children
By Jim Brown
Agape Press
August 3, 2005
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/32005e.asp
(AgapePress) - A support group for "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth" in Virginia is being accused of encouraging illegal sexual interaction between men and boys.
Atlanta Pastor DL Foster recently noted on his personal web log that the Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youth (ROSMY) had an ad on its website endorsing pedophilia. The ad asked "all ROSMY men and boys" if they wanted "to go to some of Richmond's hottest gay clubs for free" or "educate men about the importance of safe sex and condom use."
Shortly after Pastor Foster exposed ROSMY on his blog, he says the group took down its ad.
"[B]ecause young people are vulnerable, because they are at a place where they can be taken advantage of sexually by older men who are already in the homosexual lifestyle, I just find [that type of thing] alarming, right on its face," the pastor exclaims.
[More at URL]
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Evolutionist Editor Fired after Publishing Intelligent Design Piece
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
August 19, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
Richard Sternberg, an evolutionist and former publisher of
the "Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington,"
a journal supported by the Smithsonian Institution, was
fired after he decided to publish a piece in favor of the
intelligent design theory.
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. Office of
Special Counsel, which was established to protect federal
employees from reprisals, concluded that scientists at the
National Museum of Natural History had retaliated against
Sternberg and attempted to smear him as a "creationist."
Sternberg suffered retaliation in the form of
misinformation "disseminated through the Smithsonian
Institution and to outside sources," James McVay, the
principal legal adviser in the Office of Special Counsel
wrote Sternberg. "The allegations against you were later
determined to be false."
"I loathe careerism and the herd mentality," Sternberg
said. "I really think that objective truth can be
discovered and that popular opinion and consensus thinking
does more to obscure than to reveal."
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Critics Now Say Judge Roberts is Anti-Women
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
August 19, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
John Roberts is reportedly opposed to the right for women
to work, the Washington Post reported. The recent round of
paperwork has shown a "shocking" quote Roberts made to
then-White House Director of Public Liaison Linda Chavez.
In 1985 Chavez proposed entering her deputy, Linda Arey,
in a contest sponsored by Clairol to honor women who'd
changed their lives after age 30 -- Arey had been a
teacher then decided to attend law school.
As an assistant dean at the University of Richmond law
school before he joined the Reagan administration, Roberts
wrote in a memo that Arey had "encouraged many former
homemakers to enter law school and become lawyers."
Roberts said in his memo that he saw no legal objection to
her taking part in the Clairol contest. Then he added a
personal aside: "Some might question whether encouraging
homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common
good, but I suppose that is for the judges to decide."
Phyllis Schlafly, the president of the Eagle Forum and who
entered law school at age 51, said, "It kind of sounds
like a smart alecky comment." She noted Roberts was "a
young bachelor and hadn't seen a whole lot of life at that
point."
Schlafly said she's not concerned about Roberts, and added
"I don't think that disqualifies him. I think he got
married to a feminist; he's learned a lot."
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Tell CBS to Turn Its Eye to Family Programming
Focus on the Family
CITIZENLINK
Aug. 18, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
CBS is getting back in the barely-dressed supermodel
business -- announcing plans to air a "Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show" in November.
The network broadcast the show in 2002 and 2003 --
prompting thousands of protest e-mails from Americans
offended by the program's salacious nature. The network
took a break last year, in what was widely thought to be a
response to tougher enforcement of broadcast-decency
standards by the Federal Communications Commission.
If you haven't already, please take a moment to let CBS
President Les Moonves know what you think of the network's
decision to bring the show back this year.
You can e-mail him through our CitizenLink Action Center:
http://www3.capwiz.com/fof/issues/alert/?alertid=7941211&type=CU
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German Opposition to Cloning Stems from Nazi Past
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
August 18, 2005
http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037589.cfm
SUMMARY: Justice Sunday speaker underscores the link
between cloning and embryonic stem-cell research and Nazi
experimentation.
Is embryonic stem-cell research Nazi-esque, as Focus on
the Family Action Chairman Dr. James Dobson recently
branded it? It is for the people of modern-day Germany,
according to Dr. William Donohue, who heads the Catholic
League.
Donohue raised that point last Sunday in his presentation
at Justice Sunday II in Nashville, Tenn. Donohue pointed
out that Germany has very tough laws prohibiting embryonic
cloning -- an important part of embryonic stem-cell
research (ESCR).
Donohue told CitizenLink he was incensed that Dobson was
attacked last week by the Anti-Defamation League for
drawing a link between ESCR and Nazi-era experimentation.
"I was glad to come to the defense of Dr. Dobson, who is a
good man," Donohue said. "He was unfairly maligned in a
piece in the Wall Street Journal . . . because he was
making some analogies between support of embryonic
stem-cell research, which obviously was taken to its worst
extreme in Nazi Germany. Some people made a cruel
caricature of what he was saying.
"People who make those criticisms have to understand that
within Germany today, they have very restrictive laws
regarding embryonic stem-cell research. Why? Because, they
say, 'We have to remember our past -- from 1933 to 1945.'
That's what they're saying -- we have to remember what
happened during those years, which of course coincides
with the years of Nazi Germany."
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Kansas Suit Seeks to Stop State Funding of Abortions
Focus on the Family
August 18, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has filed a lawsuit
against Gov. Kathleen Sebelius seeking a court order to
prohibit state-funded abortions.
The Lawrence Journal-World reported that the lawsuit
challenges the expenditure of state funds for abortions
because it violates the Kansas Constitution's protection
of "inalienable natural rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The suit also seeks to define life as starting at
fertilization when "a new, unique and genetically distinct
human being is formed, distinct from its host while
dependent upon her."
The state has paid for abortions for low-income women
through Medicaid.
The suit was filed by state Rep. Lance Kinzer, whom Kline
appointed as special counsel in the case.
"I was asked to bring a suit to determine whether there is
a conflict to using state funds, through Medicaid, for
abortions," Kinzer said.
He said for the court to resolve that issue, "there has to
be a determination that the unborn baby qualifies as a
person in Kansas' Bill of Rights."
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Should Raunchy be the Fourth R?
by Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.
Focus on the Family
August 17, 2005
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/commentary/a0037573.cfm
SUMMARY: Parents should keep a close eye on what fiction
their teens are reading.
School is just around corner. Awaiting anxious students
are new schedules, new teachers, new challenges and in
some school districts, old controversies about what books
should be read in school. Wow, where did the summer go?
School districts have been facing challenges over what
should be in the library as long as there have been
libraries, but recent changes in the world of children's
literature and our society have focused the debates on
matters of teen sexuality. A recent MSNBC story regarding
adolescent reading material describes growing parental
concern over the explicit nature of books aimed at young
teens. Correspondent Janet Shamlian reports on some recent
hot-selling teen titles: "In 'Claiming Georgia Tate,' a
father has sex with his daughter. In 'Rainbow Party,'
teens make plans for an oral sex party. And in 'Teach Me,'
out next week and seemingly ripped from the day's
headlines, there's a student-teacher affair."
While I am not aware of challenges to any of these
specific books; if they find their way into schools, there
probably will be. Recent disputes over books in Lexington,
Mass., Pleasant Valley, Iowa and Columbus, Ohio, have
divided communities and led to legal action.
[More at URL]
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Green Hands Dipped In Blood: The DDT Genocide
By John Jalsevac August 15, 2005 - LifeSiteNews.com Special Report
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005_docs/DDTworstcrime.pdf
1. The Worst Crime of the 20 th Century
“Which kills more: ideology or religion?” 1 asks author Andrew Kenney in the title of what is certainly one of the more startling pieces I’ve read in some time.
For Kenney, however, it’s not the meat of that question that’s really up for debate, and it’s not his answer to the meat of it that’s startling; after all, a summary finger count shows that the man who favors the religious wars has his work cut out to match the math of the fascist and communist regimes that have dropped the metaphorical guillotine since the French Revolution.
What makes Kenney’s article startling is not that the self-professed atheist necessarily concludes that the reds (communists) and the browns (fascists) have contributed much more heartily to history’s flow of blood than any religion, but that, of the three available ideological colors, it is the extremists of the green standard whose hands are perhaps guiltiest for the last century’s outpouring of crimson.
According to Kenney over 50,000,000 people died in the 20 th century because of the gratuitous recklessness of eco-extremists; this estimate is actually quite conservative in comparison to junkscience.com’s claim that over 80,000,000 have dropped at the hands of the tree-huggers.
“In purely numerical terms,” says Kenney about the alleged murderous scheme, “it was the worst crime of the 20 th century.”
But what was the worst crime?
“The banning of DDT,” says Kenney.
[More at URL; note URL is a PDF]
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Gay Marriage Talks Color Maine Debate
By FRANCIS X. QUINN, Associated Press Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-gay-rights-maine,1,508688.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
AUGUSTA, Maine -- Maine is in the midst of its third referendum campaign in eight years to decide if gays should be given broad civil rights protections. And while the measure has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, conservatives are warning Maine could go the way of Massachusetts if gays are given more rights.
"Absolutely," said Michael Heath, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, embracing the gay marriage connection. "This vote in November either sends us toward it or points us away from it."
The dispute began after Gov. John Baldacci signed a new law in March that would extend the Maine Human Rights Act to make discrimination based on sexual orientation illegal in employment, housing, credit, public accommodations and education.
A conservative church-led alliance led a petition drive to demand a "people's veto" to reject it, and a vote is scheduled for November.
Gay rights advocates denounce the gay-marriage tactic as a smoke screen. Maine law already bans gay marriage, and language approved by the Legislature says the anti-discrimination measure "may not be construed to create, add, alter or abolish any right to marry."
[More at URL]
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Contact the FDA to ban RU-486
August 16, 2005 - Tuesday
Forward to a Friend!
Family Research Council
Contact the FDA and demand they behave responsibly by immediately removing the drug from the market until the investigation is over and a proper review can be done.
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL05H03
In the year 2000, President Bill Clinton used political pressure to get the abortifacient drug RU-486 approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). President Clinton's move ignored anecdotal evidence of complications and deaths from European countries that had already approved the drug, and also circumvented normal FDA approval methods, allowing the drug to be distributed in the United States a short two months later. Since that time at least five young women have died from complications after taking the drug, including eighteen-year-old Holly Patterson. Holly's death inspired the introduction of Holly's Law, legislation that would instruct the FDA to remove RU-486 from the shelves until it can be properly reviewed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joined by the FDA and California Health Departments, are finally investigating this dangerous drug.
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Judge Roberts Memos Reveal Respect For Pro-Life Views; Voluntary Prayer In Public School
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2383
August 18, 2005 – Recent memos of Judge John Roberts from his years in the Reagan Administration reveal his judicial philosophy. A 1985 memo stated that his view that voluntary prayer was constitutional and that the Supreme Court’s view against voluntary prayer was wrong. Another memo supported the right of pro-lifers to hold memorial services for aborted babies. In this memo, he stated that such a service was “an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy.”
TVC’s Executive Director Andrea Lafferty is encouraged by Roberts’ memos. “The more that is revealed about Judge Roberts’ judicial views, the better he looks,” said Mrs. Lafferty. “It is becoming more and more obvious that Roberts has a sound judicial philosophy, and he understands the proper role of judges in our Republican form of government. He correctly views judges as interpreters of law, not creators of law. He will make a fine Supreme Court Justice!”
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Homosexual Leader Fears Roberts’ Confirmation To Supreme Court
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2382
August 18, 2005 – Joe Solmonese, head of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a radical left-wing homosexual lobbying group, is fearful that Judge John Roberts will undermine the Constitution if confirmed to the Supreme Court.
According to Solmonese (apparently taking his cue from talking points distributed by People for the American Way), Judge Roberts “would vote with the far right wing of the Court, and against protections for our [homosexual/cross-dressing] community. … Roberts has embraced a view that the Court has no business protecting basic civil rights.”
Solmonese says Roberts is guilty of urging “judicial restraint” and has criticized the Court for intrusions into social issues best left to legislatures.
These criticisms from Solmonese are examples showing why Judge Roberts is the ideal candidate for the Supreme Court. Judicial restraint is what we need in Supreme Court Justices—not leftwing ideologues who will force their views upon the American people and undermine popular governance.
Homosexuals understand that an activist judicial system is the only way that gay marriage and other homosexual agendas can be forced upon the American people. When people are allowed to vote on these issues, they routinely vote for traditional values. Activist judges undermine the democratic process—but Solomese favors this.
[More at URL]
annathepiper's thyroid surgery on Tuesday, and then the NASFiC (CascadiaCon - http://cascadiacon.org - the North American Science Fiction Convention, in Seattle) the following week. So... well, like I said: a little nuts. But by a week into September, when things are likely to be heating up again anyway, I'll be back and able to be more on top of all this.FotF cheers appeals court ruling on prohibition of military-wife abortion;
FotF accuses Richmond, VA sexual-minourity youth organisation of funneling boys to adult gay men for sex - includes action item (ACTION ITEM);
Agape Press runs news article talking about the same group, accusing them of promoting pedophilia;
FotF newsbrief claims a journal editor was fired for publishing a piece on intelligent design;
FotF and the Eagle Forum defends Roberts's comment about not encouraging homemakers to become lawyers;
FotF Action Item against CBS's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, scheduled for November sweeps (ACTION ITEM);
FotF continues to advocate that stem-cell research is Nazi science;
FotF: Kansas Atty. General sues governor, seeking court order stopping state money from being spent on abortion-related services on grounds that a foetus is a person protected by the Kansas state constitution's bill of rights;
CWFA wonk Warren Throckmorton complains about "raunchy" books in school English courses;
LifeSite.com accuses environmentalists of genocide over the banning of DDT;
Anti-civil-rights-protections side in Maine argues that civil rights protection for GBLT people would lead to gay marriage;
Family Research Council action item: Ban RU-486 (ACTION ITEM);
Traditional Values Coalition: Roberts supports "voluntary school prayer";
TVC: "[homosexual/cross dressing] community" opposes Roberts, and that alone is reason to support him.
----- 1 -----
Appeals Court Says Government Not Required to Pay for Military Abortions
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037604.cfm
SUMMARY: Court upholds law which prohibits government
payment for abortions.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the
military does not have to pay for abortions obtained by
dependents of military personnel.
In a refreshing instance of judicial restraint, a three
judge panel on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling
that had forced Tricare -- the military's health insurance
program -- to pay for the abortion of a Navy wife.
Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the
Family, said the judges on the nation's most liberal
appeals court did something unexpected -- they followed
the lead of both Congress and the Supreme Court. Under
both the law and a related high court ruling, Tricare
funds can be used to pay for an abortion only if the life
of the mother is in danger.
"It's a decision that shows judicial restraint,"
Hausknecht said. "It shows deference to legislative
preferences and choices -- made when any kind of
legislation is created. It's the correct decision."
The circumstances of the case are tragic. The woman
involved, identified in court papers only as "Jane Doe,"
had filed suit against in 2002 to force Tricare to pay for
aborting her pre-born child. The fetus suffered from
anencephaly -- a disorder in which a large portion of the
brain and skull are missing. Infants with anencephaly
usually die within hours to days after delivery. The trial
judge had agreed with Doe.
[More at URL]
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Clubs Send Teen Boys to Gay Bars for 'Outreach'
by Aaron Atwood, assistant editor
Focus on the Family
http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037598.cfm
SUMMARY: Taxpayer-funded gay youth centers are exposing
boys to preying gay men in programs billed as HIV
prevention.
"I use to attend ROSMY, when I was 19," someone who
identified himself as "Kevin" wrote in response to a note
on Pastor Darryl L. Foster's Web log. "They do allow teens
to hang around gay bars and clubs to pass out HIV kits. I
know because I use to do it!"
A flyer posted on the Web site for the Richmond
Organization for Sexual Minority Youth (ROSMY) read,
"Calling ROSMY Men & Boys: Do you want to go to some of
Richmond's hottest gay clubs for free? Educate men about
the importance of safe sex and condom use?"
The ad is marketing for ROSMY's government-sponsored HIV
prevention program.
Foster is calling attention to youth-oriented homosexual
centers that regularly introduce their young members into
the gay club scene -- funded, in part, by your tax dollars
through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Foster, who goes by "DL," is founder and director of
Witness Ministries. He found the ad on ROSMY'S Web site
and posted it on his blog July 28 to draw attention to how
the group connects gay men with boys. ROSMY responded by
removing the page from its Web site the next day and
issuing a statement.
"ROSMY has been questioned by an Atlanta, Georgia based
group about its HIV prevention program among youth in the
Richmond community," the statement read. "With the
assistance of a federal government grant from the Center
for Disease Control and in partnership with the
Richmond-based Fan Free Clinic, ROSMY followed the CDC
guidelines for educating boys and men age 13-29."
So, while the controversial ad was taken down, the group
makes no denial of Foster's accusation -- a fact that left
him puzzled.
"If nothing was wrong with the ad, why take it off the
Web?" he asked. "Why would any organization want to
facilitate children interacting sexually with adults?"
Kevin shared his story with Foster via e-mail.
"Many times friends of mine would go with older man to
their place!" he wrote. "Also many of these out reach boys
got HIV themselves! ROSMY and SMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth
Assistance League) in DC pay kids to do this! They do not
ask if the kids are psychologically prepared, they just
send them! A kid who may be abused may, see a handsome 24
yr old guy and go home with him."
Going home with the older man leads to sex, according to
Kevin.
SMYAL promotes its "HIV prevention" program through what
it calls outreach. There are plenty of opportunities for
youth to become part of the movement. They can even be
trained as a Youth Outreach Worker.
"Outreach is being conducted at DC Pride Events (DC Black
Pride, DC Youth Pride, and Capital Pride) as well as bars,
clubs, and other social places where our youth and their
sex partners go to have fun," the Web site explains.
SMYAL and ROSMY did not return requests for comment.
A CDC spokeswoman said studies show HIV prevention works
best when a message of safe sex is given by a demographic
similar to the at-risk group. Black men who have sex with
men would respond better to a message given by black men
who have sex with men. But she wasn't sure what the CDC
guidelines on age were.
[...]
Robert Cohen, board president of Parents and Friends of
Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), pointed out the problem with
pro-gay doctrine being cloaked as support.
"Rather than saving, they are indoctrinating them into a
life that will betray the very essence of who God made
them to be," he said. Cohen, a therapist in the
Washington, D.C., area, said some of his clients have been
encouraged by high school guidance counselors to join
groups that simply encourage homosexuality.
"These groups like SMYAL show my clients where and how to
have sex," he said. "The schools aren't telling students
they have the option to not be gay; they aren't getting
the whole story. The whole story is that ex-gays do
exist."
[...]
TAKE ACTION: Contact the CDC and ask Director Julie
Gerberding to exert greater discretion concerning how tax
dollars are used to support gay youth organizations.
http://www3.capwiz.com/fof/dbq/officials/agencies/?id=4366&dir=fof&command=depresult2&submit.x=14&submit.y=9
[More at URL]
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Pastor Uses Blog to Expose Web Ad Promoting Pedophilia
Caution... This article contains descriptions not suitable for children
By Jim Brown
Agape Press
August 3, 2005
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/32005e.asp
(AgapePress) - A support group for "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth" in Virginia is being accused of encouraging illegal sexual interaction between men and boys.
Atlanta Pastor DL Foster recently noted on his personal web log that the Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youth (ROSMY) had an ad on its website endorsing pedophilia. The ad asked "all ROSMY men and boys" if they wanted "to go to some of Richmond's hottest gay clubs for free" or "educate men about the importance of safe sex and condom use."
Shortly after Pastor Foster exposed ROSMY on his blog, he says the group took down its ad.
"[B]ecause young people are vulnerable, because they are at a place where they can be taken advantage of sexually by older men who are already in the homosexual lifestyle, I just find [that type of thing] alarming, right on its face," the pastor exclaims.
[More at URL]
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Evolutionist Editor Fired after Publishing Intelligent Design Piece
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
August 19, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
Richard Sternberg, an evolutionist and former publisher of
the "Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington,"
a journal supported by the Smithsonian Institution, was
fired after he decided to publish a piece in favor of the
intelligent design theory.
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. Office of
Special Counsel, which was established to protect federal
employees from reprisals, concluded that scientists at the
National Museum of Natural History had retaliated against
Sternberg and attempted to smear him as a "creationist."
Sternberg suffered retaliation in the form of
misinformation "disseminated through the Smithsonian
Institution and to outside sources," James McVay, the
principal legal adviser in the Office of Special Counsel
wrote Sternberg. "The allegations against you were later
determined to be false."
"I loathe careerism and the herd mentality," Sternberg
said. "I really think that objective truth can be
discovered and that popular opinion and consensus thinking
does more to obscure than to reveal."
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Critics Now Say Judge Roberts is Anti-Women
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
August 19, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
John Roberts is reportedly opposed to the right for women
to work, the Washington Post reported. The recent round of
paperwork has shown a "shocking" quote Roberts made to
then-White House Director of Public Liaison Linda Chavez.
In 1985 Chavez proposed entering her deputy, Linda Arey,
in a contest sponsored by Clairol to honor women who'd
changed their lives after age 30 -- Arey had been a
teacher then decided to attend law school.
As an assistant dean at the University of Richmond law
school before he joined the Reagan administration, Roberts
wrote in a memo that Arey had "encouraged many former
homemakers to enter law school and become lawyers."
Roberts said in his memo that he saw no legal objection to
her taking part in the Clairol contest. Then he added a
personal aside: "Some might question whether encouraging
homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common
good, but I suppose that is for the judges to decide."
Phyllis Schlafly, the president of the Eagle Forum and who
entered law school at age 51, said, "It kind of sounds
like a smart alecky comment." She noted Roberts was "a
young bachelor and hadn't seen a whole lot of life at that
point."
Schlafly said she's not concerned about Roberts, and added
"I don't think that disqualifies him. I think he got
married to a feminist; he's learned a lot."
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Tell CBS to Turn Its Eye to Family Programming
Focus on the Family
CITIZENLINK
Aug. 18, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
CBS is getting back in the barely-dressed supermodel
business -- announcing plans to air a "Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show" in November.
The network broadcast the show in 2002 and 2003 --
prompting thousands of protest e-mails from Americans
offended by the program's salacious nature. The network
took a break last year, in what was widely thought to be a
response to tougher enforcement of broadcast-decency
standards by the Federal Communications Commission.
If you haven't already, please take a moment to let CBS
President Les Moonves know what you think of the network's
decision to bring the show back this year.
You can e-mail him through our CitizenLink Action Center:
http://www3.capwiz.com/fof/issues/alert/?alertid=7941211&type=CU
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German Opposition to Cloning Stems from Nazi Past
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
August 18, 2005
http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037589.cfm
SUMMARY: Justice Sunday speaker underscores the link
between cloning and embryonic stem-cell research and Nazi
experimentation.
Is embryonic stem-cell research Nazi-esque, as Focus on
the Family Action Chairman Dr. James Dobson recently
branded it? It is for the people of modern-day Germany,
according to Dr. William Donohue, who heads the Catholic
League.
Donohue raised that point last Sunday in his presentation
at Justice Sunday II in Nashville, Tenn. Donohue pointed
out that Germany has very tough laws prohibiting embryonic
cloning -- an important part of embryonic stem-cell
research (ESCR).
Donohue told CitizenLink he was incensed that Dobson was
attacked last week by the Anti-Defamation League for
drawing a link between ESCR and Nazi-era experimentation.
"I was glad to come to the defense of Dr. Dobson, who is a
good man," Donohue said. "He was unfairly maligned in a
piece in the Wall Street Journal . . . because he was
making some analogies between support of embryonic
stem-cell research, which obviously was taken to its worst
extreme in Nazi Germany. Some people made a cruel
caricature of what he was saying.
"People who make those criticisms have to understand that
within Germany today, they have very restrictive laws
regarding embryonic stem-cell research. Why? Because, they
say, 'We have to remember our past -- from 1933 to 1945.'
That's what they're saying -- we have to remember what
happened during those years, which of course coincides
with the years of Nazi Germany."
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Kansas Suit Seeks to Stop State Funding of Abortions
Focus on the Family
August 18, 2005
[Received in email; no URL]
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has filed a lawsuit
against Gov. Kathleen Sebelius seeking a court order to
prohibit state-funded abortions.
The Lawrence Journal-World reported that the lawsuit
challenges the expenditure of state funds for abortions
because it violates the Kansas Constitution's protection
of "inalienable natural rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The suit also seeks to define life as starting at
fertilization when "a new, unique and genetically distinct
human being is formed, distinct from its host while
dependent upon her."
The state has paid for abortions for low-income women
through Medicaid.
The suit was filed by state Rep. Lance Kinzer, whom Kline
appointed as special counsel in the case.
"I was asked to bring a suit to determine whether there is
a conflict to using state funds, through Medicaid, for
abortions," Kinzer said.
He said for the court to resolve that issue, "there has to
be a determination that the unborn baby qualifies as a
person in Kansas' Bill of Rights."
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Should Raunchy be the Fourth R?
by Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.
Focus on the Family
August 17, 2005
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/commentary/a0037573.cfm
SUMMARY: Parents should keep a close eye on what fiction
their teens are reading.
School is just around corner. Awaiting anxious students
are new schedules, new teachers, new challenges and in
some school districts, old controversies about what books
should be read in school. Wow, where did the summer go?
School districts have been facing challenges over what
should be in the library as long as there have been
libraries, but recent changes in the world of children's
literature and our society have focused the debates on
matters of teen sexuality. A recent MSNBC story regarding
adolescent reading material describes growing parental
concern over the explicit nature of books aimed at young
teens. Correspondent Janet Shamlian reports on some recent
hot-selling teen titles: "In 'Claiming Georgia Tate,' a
father has sex with his daughter. In 'Rainbow Party,'
teens make plans for an oral sex party. And in 'Teach Me,'
out next week and seemingly ripped from the day's
headlines, there's a student-teacher affair."
While I am not aware of challenges to any of these
specific books; if they find their way into schools, there
probably will be. Recent disputes over books in Lexington,
Mass., Pleasant Valley, Iowa and Columbus, Ohio, have
divided communities and led to legal action.
[More at URL]
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Green Hands Dipped In Blood: The DDT Genocide
By John Jalsevac August 15, 2005 - LifeSiteNews.com Special Report
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005_docs/DDTworstcrime.pdf
1. The Worst Crime of the 20 th Century
“Which kills more: ideology or religion?” 1 asks author Andrew Kenney in the title of what is certainly one of the more startling pieces I’ve read in some time.
For Kenney, however, it’s not the meat of that question that’s really up for debate, and it’s not his answer to the meat of it that’s startling; after all, a summary finger count shows that the man who favors the religious wars has his work cut out to match the math of the fascist and communist regimes that have dropped the metaphorical guillotine since the French Revolution.
What makes Kenney’s article startling is not that the self-professed atheist necessarily concludes that the reds (communists) and the browns (fascists) have contributed much more heartily to history’s flow of blood than any religion, but that, of the three available ideological colors, it is the extremists of the green standard whose hands are perhaps guiltiest for the last century’s outpouring of crimson.
According to Kenney over 50,000,000 people died in the 20 th century because of the gratuitous recklessness of eco-extremists; this estimate is actually quite conservative in comparison to junkscience.com’s claim that over 80,000,000 have dropped at the hands of the tree-huggers.
“In purely numerical terms,” says Kenney about the alleged murderous scheme, “it was the worst crime of the 20 th century.”
But what was the worst crime?
“The banning of DDT,” says Kenney.
[More at URL; note URL is a PDF]
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Gay Marriage Talks Color Maine Debate
By FRANCIS X. QUINN, Associated Press Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-gay-rights-maine,1,508688.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
AUGUSTA, Maine -- Maine is in the midst of its third referendum campaign in eight years to decide if gays should be given broad civil rights protections. And while the measure has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, conservatives are warning Maine could go the way of Massachusetts if gays are given more rights.
"Absolutely," said Michael Heath, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, embracing the gay marriage connection. "This vote in November either sends us toward it or points us away from it."
The dispute began after Gov. John Baldacci signed a new law in March that would extend the Maine Human Rights Act to make discrimination based on sexual orientation illegal in employment, housing, credit, public accommodations and education.
A conservative church-led alliance led a petition drive to demand a "people's veto" to reject it, and a vote is scheduled for November.
Gay rights advocates denounce the gay-marriage tactic as a smoke screen. Maine law already bans gay marriage, and language approved by the Legislature says the anti-discrimination measure "may not be construed to create, add, alter or abolish any right to marry."
[More at URL]
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Contact the FDA to ban RU-486
August 16, 2005 - Tuesday
Forward to a Friend!
Family Research Council
Contact the FDA and demand they behave responsibly by immediately removing the drug from the market until the investigation is over and a proper review can be done.
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL05H03
In the year 2000, President Bill Clinton used political pressure to get the abortifacient drug RU-486 approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). President Clinton's move ignored anecdotal evidence of complications and deaths from European countries that had already approved the drug, and also circumvented normal FDA approval methods, allowing the drug to be distributed in the United States a short two months later. Since that time at least five young women have died from complications after taking the drug, including eighteen-year-old Holly Patterson. Holly's death inspired the introduction of Holly's Law, legislation that would instruct the FDA to remove RU-486 from the shelves until it can be properly reviewed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joined by the FDA and California Health Departments, are finally investigating this dangerous drug.
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Judge Roberts Memos Reveal Respect For Pro-Life Views; Voluntary Prayer In Public School
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2383
August 18, 2005 – Recent memos of Judge John Roberts from his years in the Reagan Administration reveal his judicial philosophy. A 1985 memo stated that his view that voluntary prayer was constitutional and that the Supreme Court’s view against voluntary prayer was wrong. Another memo supported the right of pro-lifers to hold memorial services for aborted babies. In this memo, he stated that such a service was “an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy.”
TVC’s Executive Director Andrea Lafferty is encouraged by Roberts’ memos. “The more that is revealed about Judge Roberts’ judicial views, the better he looks,” said Mrs. Lafferty. “It is becoming more and more obvious that Roberts has a sound judicial philosophy, and he understands the proper role of judges in our Republican form of government. He correctly views judges as interpreters of law, not creators of law. He will make a fine Supreme Court Justice!”
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Homosexual Leader Fears Roberts’ Confirmation To Supreme Court
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2382
August 18, 2005 – Joe Solmonese, head of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a radical left-wing homosexual lobbying group, is fearful that Judge John Roberts will undermine the Constitution if confirmed to the Supreme Court.
According to Solmonese (apparently taking his cue from talking points distributed by People for the American Way), Judge Roberts “would vote with the far right wing of the Court, and against protections for our [homosexual/cross-dressing] community. … Roberts has embraced a view that the Court has no business protecting basic civil rights.”
Solmonese says Roberts is guilty of urging “judicial restraint” and has criticized the Court for intrusions into social issues best left to legislatures.
These criticisms from Solmonese are examples showing why Judge Roberts is the ideal candidate for the Supreme Court. Judicial restraint is what we need in Supreme Court Justices—not leftwing ideologues who will force their views upon the American people and undermine popular governance.
Homosexuals understand that an activist judicial system is the only way that gay marriage and other homosexual agendas can be forced upon the American people. When people are allowed to vote on these issues, they routinely vote for traditional values. Activist judges undermine the democratic process—but Solomese favors this.
[More at URL]
