Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Jun. 3rd, 2006 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdIt's all out, now; I mentioned on Wednesday that the barrage would be starting, and it is. Every US organisation I monitor and several that I normally don't have the amps set to 11 to push the anti-marriage-rights Marriage Protection Amendment, and a lot of ultimatums are being delivered. Focus on the Family is placing ads in USA Today, there's occasional hints of a bolt to a third party (not included here; they're pretty oblique). Interestingly, the Traditional Values Coalition has decided the current version is unacceptable because it isn't anti-gay enough - they want outright bans also on civil unions and domestic partnerships in any form, whereas the other groups would only prefer that.
Watch for anti-gay sermonising this weekend at local churches; almost all of the theocrats are explicitly pushing for anti-gay/anti-marriage sermons, to be followed by church-led actions to support the MPA. The Family Research Council, for example, is providing sermon notes.
Canadian readers may want to note multiple Focus on the Family Canada ACTION ITEMS for British Columbia, as well.
And now, today's news.
Focus on the Family says their letter-generators aren't form letters; they do this whenever anybody criticises their astroturf getting printed;
RealClearPolitics urges federalism, opposes Federal Marriage Amendment in any form;
Volokh Conspiracy does the same; Dale Carpenter's Cato Institute paper is coming out against the topic as well;
Focus on the Family reports that President Bush is going to endorse the federal anti-marriage-rights amendment; includes ACTION ITEM to support the amendment via your senators and also to listen to President Bush's address;
FotF's 10 Things I Hate About Gays;
FotF's anti-marriage-rights ads in USA Today to target John McCain and Hillary Clinton; includes ACTION ITEM to phone Sens. McCain and Clinton;
FotF's fax-based action item to support the anti-marriage-rights amendment;
The Associated Press version of the story about Bush's impending re-endorsement of the anti-marriage-rights amendment;
Fox News: Marriage Amendment Could Soothe Angry Right;
Focus on the Family promotes The Marketing of Evil, which talks mostly about out t3h 3vil gay mafia is affecting your mind;
Focus on the Family reports on the success of the social conservative's complaint-generating machine - they've generated almost 300,000 complaints this year to the FCC about "indecency" on television; includes an ACTION ITEM to submit more complaints;
Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine: Lesbian and gay people don't want to get married, they want to destroy sexuality and the family;
Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine cover story is one long ACTION ITEM to support the anti-marriage-rights "Marriage Protection Amendment"; includes action items to write Senators and Representatives - it'll be coming up in the House after the Senate - and so on;
FotF: Louisiana passes comprehensive abortion ban, but the law stays itself pending an overturn of Roe v. Wade;
FotF: House Appropriations Committee votes to continue the "Mexico City Policy," a.k.a. the Global Gag Rule;
FotF: Louisiana governor Blanco will sign comprehensive abortion ban, stayed pending overturn of Roe v. Wade;
FotF: Iowa lawmakers want to be able to intervene in a state-court lawsuit against that state's marriage ban;
FotF: Anti-abortion group to receive portion of funds from "Choose Life" license plates in Indiana;
FotF: "morality and politics must intersect;" you must be for abortion bans to get fundamentalist vote; strong implications of "if you're not anti-abortion and for bans, you aren't a Republican";
CWA's Robert Knight is upset with US voting to allow GBLT groups consultive status at UN; claims that they are "too savvy" to "directly promot[e] pedophilia" but CWA knows better - CWA hasn't been saying lately so much that "queers are all child rapists," but they have a long history of saying that and it comes to the surface in this article;
CWA's Jan LaRue: Taking marriage out of state hands and making it a Constitutional matter is Federalism; in other news, black is white, and watch out for that bus at the zebra crossing;
Human Events Online runs CWA's article above on their own site;
Florida Baptist Witness: "Homosexual activists are intent upon promoting their agenda in the mass media while squelching opposing viewpoints"; this is about the public-service spots that aired on TV earlier this spring;
The Daily Standard attacks the GBLT rights movement, calling it a "hijacking" of "the civil rights legacy," calls the struggle for equality under the law a "hustle," compares it to affirmative action set-asides;
CWA links to a Christian Examiner article promoting Mission America's anti-gay "School Risk Audit" programme;
CWA promotes Louisiana bill to make divorce more difficult, increase the waiting period;
CWA's Bob Knight on the new Batwoman being a dyke, talks about how much better written and how much better characterisation the "classic" comic superhero titles were and had, to which I have only one thing to say: SUPERDICKERY!;
CWA's Bob Knight compares the ACLU to the new Dutch political party that wants to legalise pedophilia and child porn; they do, of course, make the obligatory "it's the homosexuals' fault" slur, but there's actually surprisingly little of that; I suspect from this that it's Holland's own version of the Renee Gaspard society, and not their own version of NAMBLA;
CWA's Janice Crouse on Poland anti-abortion/anti-gay(?) rally;
Family Research Council front-page push for the anti-marriage Federal amendment (MPA); includes ACTION ITEM and "fact sheet";
FRC "Marriage Protection Sunday" ACTION ITEM to distribute "sermons and other resources" to pastors for sermons to rally support for the anti-marriage amendment;
FRC's Tony Perkins to be on Good Morning America pushing the anti-marriage-rights Federal amendment;
FRC's Washington Update pushes The Advocate story on polygamy and gay men; includes ACTION ITEM for the anti-marriage "Marriage Protection Amendment";
America Family Association ACTION ITEM to support the MPA by contacting US Senators;
World Magazine: legalised civil marriage for lesbian and gay people will "roll back religious freedom"; also condemns religious leaders who have spoken out against the Federal amendment;
American Family Association claims Ford's problems are from their anti-gay boycott of Ford Motor;
AFA article reports on Bishop Gerald Glen's support for the anti-marriage amendment; "Bible Doesn't Condone Same-Sex Unions; Neither Should Lawmakers";
The AFA/Agape Press news summary has multiple zomg t3h gayz stories this Friday;
AFA starts up the Christmas Wars again this year - in June; includes ACTION ITEM to demand retailers use "Merry Christmas" (and, presumably, only "Merry Christmas") under threat of boycott;
Traditional Values Coalition opposes the anti-marriage Marriage Protection Amendment because it isn't anti-gay enough; they demand one that also bans all civil unions and domestic partnerships;
Tim Eyman makes appointment on Monday to bring in anti-gay referendum petitions;
Focus on the Family Canada ACTION ITEM against including GBLT people in social studies in BC;
FotF Canada alleges: Polygamy quietly recognised by Federal government;
FotF Canada ACTION ITEM to oppose new Canadian Aboriginal Voices Radio station on 106.3FM in Vancouver because it may interfere with broadcasts from the US radio station Spirit 106, which carries Focus on the Family programming;
From Andrew Sullivan: Focus on the Family's James Dobson's regular broadcast calls marriage rights supporters "the forces of Hell."
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Letters to the editor
Seattle Times
June 1, 2006
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003031328_thulets01.html
Effective writing
Advice from the pros
Reader Charles Pluckhahn lobbed all sorts of charges at Focus on the Family in his recent letter ["Sincerely whose?" Northwest Voices, May 31], none of them with much stickability.
Calling it "willful deception" for groups like ours to help readers write letters to the editor is ludicrous; all we offer readers like Elisa Baggenstos is the assistance of a professional communicator to put what is in their hearts into publishable form.
[More at URL]
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Living With Cultural Federalism
By Ryan Sager
RealClearPolitics
June 01, 2006
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/living_with_cultural_federalis.html
Next week, in what is fast becoming an election-time ritual, the Senate will take up debate of a constitutional amendment to define marriage in the United States as between one man and one woman (no dogs allowed). And, just as predictably, the amendment will fail by a wide margin to garner the necessary two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress.
Thus will Americans continue a great experiment in what has been called "cultural federalism."
Neither party has much in the way of a genuine commitment to the principle of federalism - the idea that many policy decisions are best left to state and local governments - in either economic or social affairs. But in a nation increasingly polarized by hot-button cultural questions, both parties would do well to recognize that in our democracy, living together is often a matter of learning to live apart.
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Against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage
Dale Carpenter
The Volokh Conspiracy
May 28, 2006
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_05_28-2006_06_03.shtml#1149167310
Today the Cato Institute is publishing a paper I've written on why a federal amendment banning gay marriage is a bad idea, even if you oppose gay marriage. Of course, if you think recognizing same-sex marriages is a good idea, that's a strong reason by itself to oppose an amendment banning them. This paper is written for conservatives and moderates who either oppose or are unsure about same-sex marriage. Here's the executive summary:
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Bush to Endorse Marriage Protection Amendment
Spokesman calls it "an enduring and sacred institution."
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0040733.cfm
President Bush will publicly endorse the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) on Monday in a ceremony at the White House just two days before the Senate is expected to vote on the measure.
"The president firmly believes that marriage is an enduring and sacred institution between men and women and has supported measures to protect the sanctity of marriage," White House spokesman Ken Lisaius told reporters.
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TAKE ACTION:
You can fax your senators a pre-written message in support of marriage for free through our Action Center.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
President Bush is expected to speak about the Marriage Protection Amendment on his weekly radio broadcast Saturday. You can listen to it online.
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Why Not Gay Marriage?
Ten persuasive answers to the question of "why not gay marriage?"
Focus on the Family
http://www.family.org/cforum/pdfs/fosi/marriage/Why_Not_Gay_Marriage.pdf
[PDF at URL]
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USA Today Marriage-Protection Ads to Target Sens. McCain and Clinton
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040738.cfm
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA), and pro-family groups are stepping up efforts to make sure their constituents weigh in on one of the most important issues of our time.
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It urges readers not to leave the future of marriage in the hands of activist judges. And not to let McCain and Clinton speak as if they represent the nation. Instead, it encourages the readers to call their two senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to vote in favor of the Marriage Protection Amendment.
[More at URL]
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Pass the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment
Focus on the Family
Online as of June 2, 2006
Hellishly long URL elided
Click the Take Action button at the bottom of this page to go the the area where you can send faxes to your senators.
This amendment would offer the strongest defense to protect marriage from activist judges. It would place the definition of marriage outside the reach of the courts by codifying it in the U.S. Constitution. After passing the Congress, the amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
S.J.Res.1 simply states: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman."
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) early next week -- and now more than ever your voice is crucial to its passage.
[More at URL]
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Bush to Back Gay Marriage Ban Amendment
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
Jun 01 11:04 PM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/01/D8HVQLM00.html
WASHINGTON - President Bush will promote a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday, the eve of a scheduled Senate vote on the cause that is dear to his conservative backers.
The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages. To become law, the proposal would need two-thirds support in the Senate and House, and then be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures.
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Marriage Amendment Could Soothe Angry Right
Friday, June 02, 2006
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197882,00.html
WASHINGTON — With Republicans facing a potential backlash at the polls in November, a renewed national debate over gay marriage can only boost the morale of the party's religious conservative base, which for a variety of reasons is near mutiny, say sources in the movement.
"It could be an issue that may not necessarily bring them back, but it will bring them out, which is the key thing for the fall elections," said Bill Greene, head of RightMarch.com, an Atlanta-based conservative activist organization.
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Q&A: David Kupelian on The Marketing of Evil
The author speaks on powerful manipulative techniques designed to change your mind on important issues.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040710.cfm
Why have gay activists been so successful in advancing their political agenda? Is there a connection between that success and the fact that Hollywood portrays gays positively on TV?
You bet, according to David Kupelian, editor of WorldNetDaily's Whistleblower magazine.
In his new book, The Marketing of Evil, Kupelian says Americans are being duped into believing that "evil is good and good is evil."
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FCC Flooded with Indecency Complaints
2006 has already seen more objections than all of last year.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040708.cfm
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received more than 275,000 complaints about broadcast indecency so far this year — more than it received in all of 2005.
Dan Isett, director of corporate and entertainment affairs at the Parents Television Council, said the American people are fed up.
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TAKE ACTION:
The FCC has an online form for you to file broadcast-indecency complaints.
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Do Gays Really Want ‘Marriage’?
A look at the states where same-sex unions are legal raises some serious doubts.
by Caleb H. Price
Focus on the Family
Citizen Magazine
http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/features/a0040665.cfm
Vermont and Connecticut offer civil unions to gay partners. Domestic partnerships are available to homosexuals in California, Maine, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Colorado voters will likely vote on a civil-union initiative this fall and many expect Oregon to reconsider the issue in 2007. All of these, many homosexual activists hope, will be stepping stones to same-sex marriage.
Same-sex marriage has already been legalized in five countries—Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Spain and South Africa. And civil unions or other forms of domestic partnerships are in place in at least 11 others—Czech Republic, Denmark (and Greenland), France, Finland, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as well as the Australian state of Tasmania.
Yet with so many opportunities to attain privileges that have been reserved for opposite-sex couples, and with so many homosexuals demanding full access to marriage benefits, it’s surprising how few gay couples actually tie the knot when government-sanctioned status is made available. Thus, despite the calculating and emotional rhetoric about “benefits” and “basic fairness” coming from pro-gay advocates, perhaps it’s really not about marriage after all?
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At its core, the homosexual zeitgeist seeks to destroy God’s created intent for sexuality and the family while deconstructing the imago dei that humans bear—male and female—on the Earth.
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Showtime
Make sure the Senate hears from you before it votes on the Marriage Protection Amendment this summer.
by Tony Perkins
[Ed. Note: Tony Perkins is head of the Family Research Council]
Focus on the Family
Citizen Magazine
http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/coverstory/a0040663.cfm
The radicals who oppose a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman say it is discriminatory. They say that barring homosexuals from marrying is no different from forcing Rosa Parks to give up her seat on the bus. And they seem to think that their best talking point is a quote from the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, a civil-rights hero who’s most famous for his landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 that outlawed racial segregation in the schools.
Warren later wrote an opinion that further advanced the cause of civil rights. His majority opinion struck down Virginia’s “anti-miscegenation” law, which banned inter-racial marriages. Radicals today say that if Virginia’s law was unconstitutional, then an amendment barring men from marrying men and women marrying women must be unconstitutional, too.
But radicals often neglect to mention why Chief Justice Warren ruled against Virginia’s law.
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During his 2004 presidential campaign, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said marriage should be limited to a man and a woman. All we ask of Kerry and his colleagues is that they put it in writing. After all, Kerry might want to avoid telling the American people: “I actually voted for marriage before I voted against it.”
Help Kerry out. E-mail him. Better yet, call him. Tell him: “Marriage—defend it; don’t end it.” Here’s his number: 202-224-3121.
Call that same number to reach your Representative and your two U.S. Senators. Make sure your voice is heard, and soon, because the Senate is expect to vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment on June 6. We need every available vote in Congress; the Marriage Protection Amendment requires a two-thirds vote of both the House (at least 287 votes) and Senate (at least 67 votes).
Another way to get your congressmen’s attention is by writing a letters to the editor of your local newspaper. Make sure the letter is 300 words or less. Include the name of your Representative or Senator.
Praise those who signal they will vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment. Don’t hesitate to express your disappointment with those, like U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who oppose the amendment.
Disappointment is more effective than anger, even though I share your frustration with the real duplicity of some of our elected officials. More likely, some congressmen will drag their feet and give some double-speak answer. Use your letters to let your neighbors know that you are onto this game.
Bottom line:If the Members of Congress are not for the Marriage Protection Amendment, they are against it. It’s really that simple.
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Louisiana Abortion Ban Passes Both Chambers
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040714.cfm
The Louisiana House overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday that would ban nearly all abortions in the state if Roe v. Wade is overturned, WBRZ-TV reported.
The 85-17 vote followed just two hours of debate. An amendment that would have made an exception for cases of rape or incest was rejected.
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Rep. Mike Powell told colleagues the Founding Fathers intended the nation to recognize the sanctity of life.
"Our form of government affords protection in a purposeful order," he said. "The Founders intentionally placed 'life' before 'liberty' and 'liberty' before 'the pursuit of happiness' in the Declaration of Independence."
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U.S. Will Continue to Uphold Mexico City Policy
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040712.cfm
The House Appropriations Committee has voted to retain the Mexico City Policy — a measure that prohibits the use of taxpayer money for abortions in other countries, LifeNews.com reported.
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[Editor's Note: It's much more comprehensive than that. It has been called the 'Global Gag Rule,' because to receive funding, organisations have to not only not spend it on abortion, but cannot offer abortion services at all, cannot support abortion rights, cannot discussion abortion in any way, even in countries where it is legal and locally supported.]
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Louisiana Governor Will Sign Abortion Ban
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040736.cfm
Gov. Kathleen Blanco said she will sign into law legislation that would ban abortion in Louisiana -- if Roe v. Wade is overturned, KATC-TV reported.
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Legislators Weigh in on Iowa Same-Sex Marriage Suit
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040737.cfm
Seventeen Iowa lawmakers have requested that a Polk County judge allow them to intervene in a suit filed by six same-sex couples who say they were denied marriage licenses, WHO-TV reported.
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Pro-Life License Plates Accepted in Indiana, Rejected in Missouri
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040734.cfm
An Indiana pro-life organization has received tentative approval from the state for a "Choose Life" license plate, The Courier-Journal reported.
The Indiana Association of Pregnancy Centers submitted the design and will receive part of the proceeds from sales of the plates.
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Principle Pays at Ballot Box
Analysts say voters appreciate candidates who stick to their pro-life convictions.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040722.cfm
With the midterm congressional elections approaching, analysts say when candidates are open about their views — and those views are rooted in principle — it's always a plus at the polls.
For Republicans, that means sticking with their party's pro-life platform is wise.
"We are a pro-life party," said Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee (RNC). "We're proud of our pro-life stance, and many of our candidates are going to speak directly to that on the stump."
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It's also a case where morality and politics must intersect.
"If you try and separate and say it's a moral issue and not a political issue," she said, "what you get are candidates who say they're personally opposed to abortion, but they would not do anything about it."
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U.S. Backs Homosexual Groups at United Nations
Delegation drops opposition to applications for three European activist organizations
Concerned Women for America
6/2/2006
By Robert Knight
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10880/CFI/nation/index.htm
In a move applauded by homosexual activist groups, the United States reversed longstanding policy and voted in May to grant official United Nations consultative status to three homosexual groups.
Along with six other countries, the U.S. voted on a tactical proposal by Germany to accept the applications of the International Gay and Lesbian Association - Europe (ILGA-Europe) and Germany's Lesbian and Gay Federation (LSVD) for consultative status at the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECSOC). The votes took place on May 16 and May 17.
The United States also backed a proposal to include the Coalition of Gays and Lesbians in Quebec (CGLQ), but that application was deferred until January 2007.
The proposal for the first two groups was defeated 9-7, so the groups still lack official status.
A U.S. State Department spokesman told Concerned Women for America's Culture & Family Institute that the U.S. delegation dropped its objection to the three homosexual groups after determining that none was directly involved with groups promoting pedophilia.
According to Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Senior Fellow of CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute, the deciding factor was being able to say that they were not "directly" promoting pedophilia. Crouse said, "Of course, these groups aren't directly involved; they are too savvy for that. They have discovered a way around the U.S. objections and we are letting them get away with making their connections indirect and hidden."
All three of the homosexual groups, however, openly support same-sex "marriage," adoption of children by homosexuals, special protections based on homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism, and oppose abstinence education.
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Making Marriage a Constitutional Matter
Senators need to preserve federalism and protect states from more judicial mugging.
Concerned Women for America
6/2/2006
By Jan LaRue, Chief Counsel
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10876/LEGAL/misc/index.htm
The Senate is scheduled to debate and vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) next week. While some pro-family organizations like Concerned Women for America would prefer a stronger text than the MPA, there is no disagreement that marriage is worthy of constitutional protection. Congress should begin the amendment process instead of waiting until the Court of last resort desecrates the sanctity of marriage by reducing it to state-sanctioned sexual licentiousness.
Senators on both ends of the political spectrum, and some in the elusive, mushy-middle-moderate-centrist school of political expediency, think that the union of one man and one woman in holy matrimony is only worthy of constitutional protection as the last resort. "It should be left to the states," they tell us, "until a federal court strikes down a state's marriage law." Last resorts are no resort if they're also untimely.
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Some call it federalism. Some of us think that true federalists wouldn't sit idly by while judicial tyrants pummel a sovereign state with three free muggings before beginning the lengthy process of amending the U.S. Constitution.
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Why Marriage Is a Constitutional Matter
by Jan LaRue, Esq.
[Editor's Note: Jan LaRue is a CWA wonk]
Human Events Online
Posted Jun 02, 2006
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15322
The Senate is scheduled to debate and vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) next week. While some pro-family organizations like Concerned Women for America would prefer a stronger text than the MPA, there is no disagreement that marriage is worthy of constitutional protection. Congress should begin the amendment process instead of waiting until the court of last resort desecrates the sanctity of marriage by reducing it to state-sanctioned sexual licentiousness.
[More at URL - appears to be the same article as on the CWA website]
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Culture Digest
Free TV ads promote homosexual agenda; .xxx porn domain rejected; study links casinos, crime
Florida Baptist Witness
Published June 1, 2006
http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/6015.article
WASHINGTON (BP) — Homosexual activists are intent upon promoting their agenda in the mass media while squelching opposing viewpoints, according to the Traditional Values Coalition, which has sounded the alarm on a particular group that collaborated with CBS and ABC to air ads affirming homosexuality — for free.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has developed a series of public service announcements, one of which ran May 9 during a soap opera in which a teenager told his parents he was a homosexual, TVC said. The public service announcement, which ran at the end of CBS’ “As the World Turns,” told viewers to take a stand against the discrimination and prejudice faced by homosexuals, bisexuals and transgendered people.
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Same-Sex Marriage:
Hijacking the Civil Rights Legacy
The indiscriminate promotion of various social groups' desires and preferences as "rights" has drained the moral authority from the civil rights industry.
by Eugene F. Rivers & Kenneth D. Johnson
06/01/2006 12:00:00 AM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/285fhdqe.asp
THE MOVEMENT TO REDEFINE MARRIAGE to include same-sex unions has packaged its demands in the rhetoric and images of the civil rights movement. This strategy, though cynical, has enormous strategic utility. For what reasonable, fair-minded American could object to a movement that conjures up images of Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellows campaigners for racial justice facing down dogs and fire hoses? Who is prepared to risk being labeled a bigot for opposing same-sex marriage?
As an exercise in marketing and merchandising, this strategy is the most brilliant playing of the race card in recent memory. Not since the "poverty pimps" of 35 years ago, who leveraged the guilt and sense of fair play of the American public to hustle affirmative action set-asides, have we witnessed so brazen a misuse of African-American history for partisan purposes.
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Mission America launches nationwide monitoring of curriculum issues
Christian Examiner staff report
Online as of June 2, 2006
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jun06/Art_Jun06_10.html
As battles over public school curricula are playing out in districts across the country, Mission America has unveiled a new School Risk Audit as a way for parents and churches to monitor homosexual activist activity in their local school districts.
The effort was announced April 26 to coincide with the national “Day of Silence” where students are encouraged to not talk all day on campus in support of gay and lesbian students.
The project is sponsored by the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council and state chapters of pro-family groups such as Eagle Forum.
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“The insidious alliance between some school administrations and homosexual activists has been hidden from parents for far too long,” Tony Perkins, of Family Research Council, said in a news release. “Recent events in Lexington, Massachusetts and similar instances across the country demonstrate the next phase in the campaign to normalize homosexual behavior—the capturing of America's youth. American families need to know about the homosexual indoctrination being forced upon young impressionable minds. Conducting a risk audit in local school districts will help do just that.”
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CWA of Louisiana Testifies on Divorce Reform
Concerned Women for America
5/31/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10862/FIELD/family/index.htm
The Louisiana legislature is considering a bill that would lengthen the waiting period before a couple can be granted a divorce. Deborah Young, State Director for CWA of Louisiana, provided lawmakers with valuable testimony not so much from the perspective of a lobbyist, but as a pastor and someone whose own marriage survived a turbulent time thanks to the waiting period of another state. CWA Policy Analyst Martha Kleder spoke with Deborah about this measure and what Louisiana residents can do to promote its passage. Click here to listen.
[Ed. Note: According to Deborah Young, the bill would impose a one year waiting period on any divorce.]
[Deborah Young: "This particular legislation is being offered by one of CWA of Louisiana's great friends, [State] Rep. Ernie Alexander, who lives here in LaFayette, and we've collaborated with him in the past. And this particular legislation provides procedures for the granting of a divorce when there are minour children of the marriage. We don't prefer divorce, we know that God hates divorce, but in these cases, where minour children must be protected, we must do all we can to make sure that protection exists. And the granting of the extension, from 180 days to 365 days, gives the marriages the greater chances of success. And divorce, hopefully, can be avoided - at all costs." [Ed. Note: Emphasis in original]
[Ed. Note: it now goes to the state House.]
Young says that Hurricane Katrina also makes the longer waiting period more important the because of the "stressors" involved of the storm. "Protecting children... from decisions made out of these levels of stress."
ACTION ITEM: Contact Louisiana state Senators and Representatives to support HB 1379.]
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DC Comics Introduces Lesbian Character to Batman Series
Concerned Women for America
Robert Knight
5/30/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10870/CFI/misc/index.htm
Batwoman, is returning to the Batman comic book series, this time as a “lipstick lesbian.” Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, has more on this development and events in the world of comics that have let to it. Click here to listen.
[Robert Knight: "We've got word from the BBC that Batwoman is making a comeback... now this is a little-known character in the Batman saga, Batwoman had a brief existence from 1956 to 1979 when they killed her off. I guess she was the victim of the Bronze Tiger and the League of Assassins. But they've announced that they're going to bring her back... and she'll be a quote lipstick lesbian... carrying on an affair with Renee Montoya... this isn't the first time DC Comics has decided to shock people. I remember a few years ago when a new president took over, she promised to make DC comics "cutting edge," and to get rid of its family image, and to even use profanity and charged sexual situations and so forth, so, apparently she planted some seeds that are now coming to flower."
Knight: "If you go into any comic store now, you'd be shocked if you were a fan of comics even a couple of decades ago. The comics come in the form of graphic novels, which are really thick comic books, and they say they're novels... the plots are pretty predictable but the graphics accompanying them are far more explicit than they ever used to be... I can't really recommend comics anymore, it used to be a good pastime for kids to get involved in comics as a bridge to real reading... and I read the DC comics with Superman and Batman... they had intricate plots, they had interesting characters, and they never delved into moral relativism, or promoting outright evil, the way some comics do now."
Knight: "Marvel actually beat DC to the punch... we were surprised a few years ago in 2002... they introduced the Rawhide Kid, the first comic about a gay cowboy, I guess they were ahead of the pack from Brokeback Mountain..."
Klieder: [Lesbian characters are dangerous to young boys].
Knight: ".. they get a false picture of female sexuality... and of course, that's the whole problem with pornography... it misrepresents female sexuality, and it misrepresents what men can expect from women, and vice-versa... a lot of marriages have been hurt by pornography, because it's so unrealisitic, and it skews expectations."
Knight: "They should look for the early Batman editions, any of the first several decades of Batman are excellent - I mean, the writing was good, the graphics are excellent, it's good stuff, and it's always good vs. evil, sometimes the villians learn lessons - they're all morality tales, which is what really makes a good story; if it doesn't have a morality tale at the core of it, it doesn't hold up, it doesn't stand the test of time. We've seen that in terms of motion pictures, books, even comic books - if they don't tell a moral story, they're not going to last."
Knight: "We haven't delved into it very far, in fact, we had a little difficulty... doing a search on the internet, we kept getting blocked! So that tells you what's wrong with the comics realm these days, if you're doing research on comics and you keep getting blocked by a filter, and comics are geared towards kids, then something's wrong here."
[Ed. Note: they consider all noncondemnational references to GBLT people to be obscene; I imagine the filtering software they're using does too, and bans all sites with GBLT material. Therefore...]
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Dutch Pedophiles Form Political Party
Concerned Women for America
Robert Knight
6/2/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10871/CFI/misc/index.htm
The Netherlands is taking another step in its march of liberal social policy; the nation’s pedophiles are seeking recognition and acceptance by forming a political party. Their chief goal is to eventually do away with the age of consent. Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, says this is not unexpected from a nation that led the world in legalized drugs and prostitution, and homosexual activism. Click here to listen.
[Robert Knight: "They want to actually eliminate the age of consent... they want multi-partner unions.. and they want to be recognised as pedophiles as a legitimate minourity group with aspirations for activities in the future that will not be frowned upon by the rest of society..."
Robert Knight: "For years, people have been warning that if you embrace homosexuality, pedophiles will make their case that they should be accepted, and they didn't wait long! They've actually been doing it in Holland for many years now; Holland is where Pidica, the journal of Pedophilia, has been published, and that's a semi-scholarly periodical that advocates pedophilia and tries to present a scientific and research case for legalising pedophilia and decriminalising things like child pornography. And by the way, that's one of the platforms of this new Charity, Freedom, and Diversity Party, they want an end to the criminalisation of child pornography, but they say they're still against the production of it. Y'know, that stance is identical with that of our own ACLU, in the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union does not support the making of child pornography, they say they support laws banning that, but they don't want any laws against possession of child pornography - in other words, they don't want to do anything to stop the creation of a market for this awful stuff."
Knight: "Children are squarely in the bullseye, they have been for some time now in the Netherlands, and it seems as if Holland society is falling apart. It's gotten to the point - they've legalised drugs... the age of consent is 12, pornography is rampant. It was only a matter of time before they had a political party devoted to legitimising pedophilia."
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Pray for Poland’s March for Life and Family
Concerned Women for America
6/1/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10867/CWA/life/index.htm
On June 4, Christians in Poland will take to the streets in the first national March for Life and Family. While Poland remains the strongest of the European nations on issues of life and family, it is under attack. Dr. Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow with the Beverly LaHaye Institute, has more on the situation in Poland and the birth of pro-family activism there. Click here to listen.
For more information on the March visit: http://marsz.org/wp/index.php/march-for-life/
[Crouse: "Most of the countries [in Europe] have abandoned the family... the pro-gay movement, the pro-abortion movement is very strong in Europe, and Warsaw and all of Poland is one of the last holdouts, so this movement is certainly exciting because it's part of this whole advance for the family, this whole advance for the pro-life movement in Warsaw, and the whole of Poland coming up for this coming year."
Crouse: "Most of the countries in Europe have really been targeting Poland... Poland has increasingly been the target of the EU countries... because they vote consistently conservative on pro-family/pro-life issues, and more and more they are being threatened by the radical anti-life anti-family ideologies that are being promoted in that nation. It's a very very conservative nation, but the inroads are very obvious when you come into Warsaw, you see the advertisements for the Da Vinci Code movie, for instance, you see very lewd advertisements for products, and this stands in start contrast to the number of churches that you see, families that you see walking around with the father and the mother and all the children, so the contrasts are very stark. ... all the things that are so corrosive in our culture are more and more prevalent in countries like Poland, so it's very very encouraging to see groups like this pro-family pro-life group having a national march to say, 'we will be unified, we will stand against these forces and protect our families and promote life in our country.'"
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Countdown to Senate Marriage Amendment Vote
Family Research Council
Online as of June 2, 2006
http://www.frc.org/
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Next week the U.S. Senate will vote on S. J. Res. 1, the Marriage Protection Amendment to the Constitution. We are thrilled to report that with your help we have passed 53,000 signatures to our online petition. These petitions will be presented to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Monday, June 5. Nonetheless, continue to have your friends and family sign up and speak out! Let's all take the actions needed to answer the question the rising generations will ask us: "Where did you stand?" In addition, download this fact sheet and give it to your pastor for Marriage Protection Sunday!
Add name to marriage petition
Fact Sheet
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June 4, 2006: Marriage Protection Sunday
Family Research Council
June 3, 2006
http://www.frc.org/
This Sunday is Marriage Protection Sunday, as the Senate will consider the Federal Marriage Protection Act this coming week. At this critical time, the Church must provide the leadership needed to motivate Americans to make their voices heard. Under IRS regulations Churches are permitted to discuss the Amendment plainly. We have posted a variety of materials that can be used or sent onto your pastor for this special Sunday. Please see sermons and other resources here.
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Tony Perkins to Appear on Good Morning America to Discuss MPA
Family Research Council
Online as of 3 June 2006
http://www.frc.org/
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will appear Monday June 5th at 7am EST on ABC's "Good Morning America" to speak at length about the Senate vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment. Please tune in to see how this issue impacts your family and all Values Voters across the United States.
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Tony Perkins' Washington Update
To: Friends of Family Research Council
From: Tony Perkins, President
June 2, 2006 - Friday
Please forward this to your Friends and Family!
A Direct Challenge
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU06F02&f=PG03I03
The Advocate bills itself as "the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine." Its June 6 cover story certainly should make news. The magazine depicts three identical male dolls wearing tuxes over the caption "Polygamy & Gay Men." The story features oh-so-sympathetic portraits of several groups of men who are living in arrangements it calls polyamorous. "We're as married as we could be," says one homosexual member of a San Diego trio, "we all have rings and have a day we celebrate [as] our anniversary." The challenge could not be more "in your face."
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Activist Judge Overturns Marriage Laws; Homosexual Marriage Now Legal In All 50 States
Contact Your Two U.S. Senators Today!
American Family Association
Online as of 2 June 2006
http://www3.capwiz.com/afanet/issues/alert/?alertid=8799581&type=CO
How would you like to wake up one morning and learn that the above headline was the top story in every newspaper in America? That hasn’t happened—YET! But gradually, little by little, that is where we are headed. A similar headline will appear in your paper soon unless enough people send a message to their U.S. Senators!
The vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (sponsored by Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado), making marriage legal only between one man and one woman, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate June 6.
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TAKE ACTION
Enter your zip code or state in the box above and click “GO” to prepare your emails to your two Senators today. (If either of your Senators is co-sponsoring the Marriage Protection Amendment, he or she will receive a thank you. If either of your Senators is not co-sponsoring the bill, he or she will get the letter encouraging them to vote for it.) And please, please forward this to friends and family. They probably don’t understand how close the homosexual activists are to getting homosexual marriage legalized.
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'A coming storm'
Government: A federal constitutional amendment may be the only way to head off a church-state clash over same-sex marriage
Lynn Vincent
World Magazine
June 10, 2006
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11926
When he saw the news story, Anthony Picarello did a double-take. On Monday, May 22, more than 30 religious leaders from 10 states traveled to Washington, D.C., to voice their concerns over same-sex marriage and religious freedom. Mr. Picarello, president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, read an online account of a press conference held in conjunction with the trip.
"To consciously legislate against religious traditions . . . is really an affront to my faith," Craig Axler, leader of Reform Congregation Beth Or in Maple Glen, Pa., told reporters.
But Mr. Axler and his group, "Clergy for Fairness," weren't rallying against same-sex marriage. They were complaining that the Federal Marriage Amendment, scheduled for a June 5 vote in the U.S. Senate, "raises alarming constitutional concerns" because defining marriage as between one man and one woman would restrict the liberty of religious leaders who, like Mr. Axler, want to be able to marry same-sex couples.
"The story had the feel of the world turning upside down," Mr. Picarello said.
Particularly since he himself had just made public the findings of 10 top First Amendment scholars who concluded that broadly legalizing same-sex marriage will likely roll back religious freedom for everyone but those who agree with Mr. Axler.
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Boycott of Ford Impacting Automaker
Company Continues Promotion of Same-Sex 'Marriage'
By AFA Journal
American Family Association/Agape Press
June 2, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/22006e.asp
(AgapePress) - As the boycott of the Ford Motor Company picks up steam, the automaker continues to help finance homosexual organizations pushing same-sex "marriage."
More than 20 pro-family groups are currently boycotting Ford, which also makes Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury. The American Family Association, which initiated the boycott, has learned that Ford dealers recently met with corporate officials, and the boycott's effect on sales was the major topic of discussion.
In fact, while Ford's financial difficulties are not new, the company's woes appear to be accelerating. The automaker's sales dropped 5 percent in March and 7 percent in April, and Ford's stock has dropped more than 14 percent since the boycott began, reaching the lowest price in nearly 20 years.
"We've said all along that Ford should be concentrating on making better automobiles, rather than getting in the middle of the culture war," AFA chairman Don Wildmon says. "The latest round of bad economic news seems to bear this out."
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Bishop Jackson: Marriage Amendment Presents Political Vote on a Biblical Issue
Bible Doesn't Condone Same-Sex Unions; Neither Should Lawmakers, He Says
By Allie Martin and Jody Brown
American Family Association/Agape Press
June 1, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/12006a.asp
(AgapePress) - A prominent black Christian pastor is among minority religious leaders calling on the U.S. Senate to approve a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Black and Hispanic church leaders are urging senators to vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA), which would protect traditional marriage from being redefined. Those supporting the MPA say it is needed to stop judges from legalizing same-sex "marriage," despite the opposition of voters and their elected representatives. The Senate is to debate and vote on the proposed amendment next week.
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Commentary & News Briefs
June 2, 2006
Compiled by Jenni Parker
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/22006h.asp
...Today is the start to "Gay Pride Week" in Boston, Massachusetts, and that means the American flag will not be flying over City Hall. Brian Camenker of the pro-family advocacy group Article 8 Alliance observes that Gay Pride Week is apparently a very important event in Boston as far as city officials are concerned. To start the festivities this year, he says, Mayor Thomas Menino "is going to be part of a ceremony where he raises the gay flag, the rainbow flag, over Boston's city hall." Camenker adds that he and other members of his group plan to be at City Hall today as the events kick off to "take a picture of the mayor of Boston as he does this bizarre thing."
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Don't let the anti-Christmas crowd kick Christ out of Christmas this year
Companies are now working on their Christmas promotions. Let them hear from you today.
American Family Association
June 1, 2006
http://afa.net/060206.asp
June is not the time when we think of Christmas. But June is the time when retailers begin making their plans for Christmas promotions — store banners, newspaper ads, TV commercials, etc.
Remember last Christmas when many national retailers banned the use of Merry Christmas and allowed only the use of Season's Greetings or Happy Holidays or even winter holidays? Remember how some stores did not allow their employees to say "Merry Christmas" to their customers? Remember how Christmas trees were called Holiday trees?
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TVC Opposed to Marriage Protection Amendment
Re: Opposition to S. J. Res. 1 the Marriage Protection Amendment Because of the Second Sentence
Traditional Values Coalition
June 1, 2006
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2742
Dear Senator:
Traditional Values Coalition has always taken a strong position in supporting traditional marriage and opposing any statutory imitations of marriage designed to appease the homosexual lobby.
While Traditional Values Coalition supports the need for a federal constitutional amendment, because it is the only way to ensure that marriage between one man and one woman is protected, we strongly oppose S. J. Res. 1, the Marriage Protection Amendment, because of the second sentence.
The situation at this moment could be called a triumph of anti-federalism. Not only do states not have an individual voice in this debate – one state, Massachusetts, has imposed homosexual marriage through the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution on the other 49 states.
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Eyman to file signatures Monday in bid to repeal gay rights law
By CHRIS McGANN
P-I CAPITOL CORRESPONDENT
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Friday, June 2, 2006
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/272538_eyman02.html
OLYMPIA -- Maybe he can't find his handcuffs.
Or maybe his gorilla suit got lost at the cleaners.
Or he might just be in search of the perfect tutu to wear when he dances into the Secretary of State's Office next week to file the signatures for his latest ballot measure, Referendum 65.
Whatever the reason, Tim Eyman was mum Thursday about having enough signatures to get on the ballot the measure to repeal the state's new gay civil rights law.
"We haven't put out any announcement, and when we have, we'll definitely let you know," said Eyman, who in recent years has found increasingly attention-grabbing ways of presenting his initiative signatures for review.
He apparently wasn't so coy with Tina Clarke, initiative supervisor for the Secretary of State's Office, who confirmed that Eyman made an 11 a.m. appointment Monday to turn in signatures for Referendum 65.
About an hour later, he e-mailed a terse announcement: "We'll be bringing down petitions ... Monday."
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Adding a little confusion to the mix, those who opposed the new law -- presumably those who signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot -- would have to vote no on the referendum to repeal the law. Those who support the new law would vote yes.
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John Vezina, campaign manager for Washington Won't Discriminate, a group that has raised more than $100,000 to keep the new law on the books, said he's not surprised.
"A lot of people didn't think he'd get the signatures; we always thought he would," Vezina said.
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BC GOVERNMENT AGREES TO ADD HOMOSEXUALITY INTO SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Today’s Family News
Focus on the Family Canada
June 2, 2006
http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/education/stories/060206.html
[Ed. Note: The Take Action was included only in the email edition]
British Columbia continues to lead the way in the assault on family values with the provincial government’s decision on Thursday to include more gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered issues in the school curriculum. The government also plans to make it more difficult for parents or students to choose to opt out of classes that address these topics.
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the Attorney-General made this decision as part of a settlement to a complaint filed in 1999 with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. In the complaint, Murray and Peter Corren argued that homosexuals were being discriminated against because of a "lack of positive portrayals of gay, lesbian and transgendered people."
A bulletin from the provincial government stated that the settlement includes the development of a “social justice” course for Grade 12 students with content that “will include issues such as race, ethnicity, gender, family structure and sexual orientation.”
However, changes are not limited to this one course. The bulletin also states that the province “will also establish a process and schedule to review the B.C. educational curriculum to ensure that it reflects inclusion and respect for the diverse groups that today make up B.C.’s population.”
According to Thursday’s Vancouver Sun, homosexual activist Peter Corren revealed that “the settlement will also make it more difficult for students and parents to opt out of course lessons that address topics pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Last summer, TFN readers were informed that Peter and Murray Corren wanted independent schools to be included in the complaint to the government. However, a spokesperson from the office of the Attorney-General told TFN on Thursday that independent schools are not being included in this decision to introduce more sexual diversity into the curriculum.
It is expected that this decision will increase the already growing percentage of families that are choosing alternatives to public education such as private faith-based schools and home schooling.
Take Action> As more of the details are being worked out regarding how this settlement will affect the education system, now is the time to express your concerns to the B.C. government. Contact Minister of Education Shirley Bond, Attorney-General Wally Oppal or your local MLAs. Remind them that parents have ultimate responsibility for the education of their children and there should be no restrictions on parents who wish to exempt their children from any teaching on sexual orientation.
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Polygamy quietly recognized by federal government
Today’s Family News
Focus on the Family Canada
June 2, 2006
http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/family/stories/060206_01.html
Despite assurances by the previous government that polygamy was criminal and would remain that way, censored documents obtained by Sun Media now show that multiple-wife marriages have in fact been given limited legal recognition by the federal government.
Obtained through an access to information request, these documents reveal that polygamous marriages were recognized for the purpose of enforcing payments for spousal support and inheritance.
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Your Help is Needed> Protect Christian Radio
Focus on the Family Canada
[Received in email; no URL]
If you are a Christian living in B.C.’s Lower Mainland or on Vancouver Island, you likely have tuned into Praise 106.5 FM to listen to Christian music and teaching programs like Focus on the Family with Dr. James Dobson. The CRTC is currently reviewing an application by a Canadian radio station for the frequency of 106.3 FM, which will likely cause significant interference with 106.5 FM.
The CRTC is accepting submissions from the public on this application but the deadline is Monday, June 5. Please help protect Christian broadcasting in Canada by carefully following the directions provided on the Praise 106.5 FM website.
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Malkin Award Nominee
Andrew Sullivan
Friday, June 2, 2006
http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/06/malkin_award_no.html
"... As you all very well know, marriage is under vicious attack now, I think from the forces of hell itself," - James Dobson, on his radio show, May 30.
Watch for anti-gay sermonising this weekend at local churches; almost all of the theocrats are explicitly pushing for anti-gay/anti-marriage sermons, to be followed by church-led actions to support the MPA. The Family Research Council, for example, is providing sermon notes.
Canadian readers may want to note multiple Focus on the Family Canada ACTION ITEMS for British Columbia, as well.
And now, today's news.
Focus on the Family says their letter-generators aren't form letters; they do this whenever anybody criticises their astroturf getting printed;
RealClearPolitics urges federalism, opposes Federal Marriage Amendment in any form;
Volokh Conspiracy does the same; Dale Carpenter's Cato Institute paper is coming out against the topic as well;
Focus on the Family reports that President Bush is going to endorse the federal anti-marriage-rights amendment; includes ACTION ITEM to support the amendment via your senators and also to listen to President Bush's address;
FotF's 10 Things I Hate About Gays;
FotF's anti-marriage-rights ads in USA Today to target John McCain and Hillary Clinton; includes ACTION ITEM to phone Sens. McCain and Clinton;
FotF's fax-based action item to support the anti-marriage-rights amendment;
The Associated Press version of the story about Bush's impending re-endorsement of the anti-marriage-rights amendment;
Fox News: Marriage Amendment Could Soothe Angry Right;
Focus on the Family promotes The Marketing of Evil, which talks mostly about out t3h 3vil gay mafia is affecting your mind;
Focus on the Family reports on the success of the social conservative's complaint-generating machine - they've generated almost 300,000 complaints this year to the FCC about "indecency" on television; includes an ACTION ITEM to submit more complaints;
Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine: Lesbian and gay people don't want to get married, they want to destroy sexuality and the family;
Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine cover story is one long ACTION ITEM to support the anti-marriage-rights "Marriage Protection Amendment"; includes action items to write Senators and Representatives - it'll be coming up in the House after the Senate - and so on;
FotF: Louisiana passes comprehensive abortion ban, but the law stays itself pending an overturn of Roe v. Wade;
FotF: House Appropriations Committee votes to continue the "Mexico City Policy," a.k.a. the Global Gag Rule;
FotF: Louisiana governor Blanco will sign comprehensive abortion ban, stayed pending overturn of Roe v. Wade;
FotF: Iowa lawmakers want to be able to intervene in a state-court lawsuit against that state's marriage ban;
FotF: Anti-abortion group to receive portion of funds from "Choose Life" license plates in Indiana;
FotF: "morality and politics must intersect;" you must be for abortion bans to get fundamentalist vote; strong implications of "if you're not anti-abortion and for bans, you aren't a Republican";
CWA's Robert Knight is upset with US voting to allow GBLT groups consultive status at UN; claims that they are "too savvy" to "directly promot[e] pedophilia" but CWA knows better - CWA hasn't been saying lately so much that "queers are all child rapists," but they have a long history of saying that and it comes to the surface in this article;
CWA's Jan LaRue: Taking marriage out of state hands and making it a Constitutional matter is Federalism; in other news, black is white, and watch out for that bus at the zebra crossing;
Human Events Online runs CWA's article above on their own site;
Florida Baptist Witness: "Homosexual activists are intent upon promoting their agenda in the mass media while squelching opposing viewpoints"; this is about the public-service spots that aired on TV earlier this spring;
The Daily Standard attacks the GBLT rights movement, calling it a "hijacking" of "the civil rights legacy," calls the struggle for equality under the law a "hustle," compares it to affirmative action set-asides;
CWA links to a Christian Examiner article promoting Mission America's anti-gay "School Risk Audit" programme;
CWA promotes Louisiana bill to make divorce more difficult, increase the waiting period;
CWA's Bob Knight on the new Batwoman being a dyke, talks about how much better written and how much better characterisation the "classic" comic superhero titles were and had, to which I have only one thing to say: SUPERDICKERY!;
CWA's Bob Knight compares the ACLU to the new Dutch political party that wants to legalise pedophilia and child porn; they do, of course, make the obligatory "it's the homosexuals' fault" slur, but there's actually surprisingly little of that; I suspect from this that it's Holland's own version of the Renee Gaspard society, and not their own version of NAMBLA;
CWA's Janice Crouse on Poland anti-abortion/anti-gay(?) rally;
Family Research Council front-page push for the anti-marriage Federal amendment (MPA); includes ACTION ITEM and "fact sheet";
FRC "Marriage Protection Sunday" ACTION ITEM to distribute "sermons and other resources" to pastors for sermons to rally support for the anti-marriage amendment;
FRC's Tony Perkins to be on Good Morning America pushing the anti-marriage-rights Federal amendment;
FRC's Washington Update pushes The Advocate story on polygamy and gay men; includes ACTION ITEM for the anti-marriage "Marriage Protection Amendment";
America Family Association ACTION ITEM to support the MPA by contacting US Senators;
World Magazine: legalised civil marriage for lesbian and gay people will "roll back religious freedom"; also condemns religious leaders who have spoken out against the Federal amendment;
American Family Association claims Ford's problems are from their anti-gay boycott of Ford Motor;
AFA article reports on Bishop Gerald Glen's support for the anti-marriage amendment; "Bible Doesn't Condone Same-Sex Unions; Neither Should Lawmakers";
The AFA/Agape Press news summary has multiple zomg t3h gayz stories this Friday;
AFA starts up the Christmas Wars again this year - in June; includes ACTION ITEM to demand retailers use "Merry Christmas" (and, presumably, only "Merry Christmas") under threat of boycott;
Traditional Values Coalition opposes the anti-marriage Marriage Protection Amendment because it isn't anti-gay enough; they demand one that also bans all civil unions and domestic partnerships;
Tim Eyman makes appointment on Monday to bring in anti-gay referendum petitions;
Focus on the Family Canada ACTION ITEM against including GBLT people in social studies in BC;
FotF Canada alleges: Polygamy quietly recognised by Federal government;
FotF Canada ACTION ITEM to oppose new Canadian Aboriginal Voices Radio station on 106.3FM in Vancouver because it may interfere with broadcasts from the US radio station Spirit 106, which carries Focus on the Family programming;
From Andrew Sullivan: Focus on the Family's James Dobson's regular broadcast calls marriage rights supporters "the forces of Hell."
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Letters to the editor
Seattle Times
June 1, 2006
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003031328_thulets01.html
Effective writing
Advice from the pros
Reader Charles Pluckhahn lobbed all sorts of charges at Focus on the Family in his recent letter ["Sincerely whose?" Northwest Voices, May 31], none of them with much stickability.
Calling it "willful deception" for groups like ours to help readers write letters to the editor is ludicrous; all we offer readers like Elisa Baggenstos is the assistance of a professional communicator to put what is in their hearts into publishable form.
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Living With Cultural Federalism
By Ryan Sager
RealClearPolitics
June 01, 2006
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/living_with_cultural_federalis.html
Next week, in what is fast becoming an election-time ritual, the Senate will take up debate of a constitutional amendment to define marriage in the United States as between one man and one woman (no dogs allowed). And, just as predictably, the amendment will fail by a wide margin to garner the necessary two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress.
Thus will Americans continue a great experiment in what has been called "cultural federalism."
Neither party has much in the way of a genuine commitment to the principle of federalism - the idea that many policy decisions are best left to state and local governments - in either economic or social affairs. But in a nation increasingly polarized by hot-button cultural questions, both parties would do well to recognize that in our democracy, living together is often a matter of learning to live apart.
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Against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage
Dale Carpenter
The Volokh Conspiracy
May 28, 2006
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_05_28-2006_06_03.shtml#1149167310
Today the Cato Institute is publishing a paper I've written on why a federal amendment banning gay marriage is a bad idea, even if you oppose gay marriage. Of course, if you think recognizing same-sex marriages is a good idea, that's a strong reason by itself to oppose an amendment banning them. This paper is written for conservatives and moderates who either oppose or are unsure about same-sex marriage. Here's the executive summary:
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Bush to Endorse Marriage Protection Amendment
Spokesman calls it "an enduring and sacred institution."
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0040733.cfm
President Bush will publicly endorse the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) on Monday in a ceremony at the White House just two days before the Senate is expected to vote on the measure.
"The president firmly believes that marriage is an enduring and sacred institution between men and women and has supported measures to protect the sanctity of marriage," White House spokesman Ken Lisaius told reporters.
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TAKE ACTION:
You can fax your senators a pre-written message in support of marriage for free through our Action Center.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
President Bush is expected to speak about the Marriage Protection Amendment on his weekly radio broadcast Saturday. You can listen to it online.
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Why Not Gay Marriage?
Ten persuasive answers to the question of "why not gay marriage?"
Focus on the Family
http://www.family.org/cforum/pdfs/fosi/marriage/Why_Not_Gay_Marriage.pdf
[PDF at URL]
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USA Today Marriage-Protection Ads to Target Sens. McCain and Clinton
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040738.cfm
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA), and pro-family groups are stepping up efforts to make sure their constituents weigh in on one of the most important issues of our time.
[...]
It urges readers not to leave the future of marriage in the hands of activist judges. And not to let McCain and Clinton speak as if they represent the nation. Instead, it encourages the readers to call their two senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to vote in favor of the Marriage Protection Amendment.
[More at URL]
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Pass the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment
Focus on the Family
Online as of June 2, 2006
Hellishly long URL elided
Click the Take Action button at the bottom of this page to go the the area where you can send faxes to your senators.
This amendment would offer the strongest defense to protect marriage from activist judges. It would place the definition of marriage outside the reach of the courts by codifying it in the U.S. Constitution. After passing the Congress, the amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
S.J.Res.1 simply states: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman."
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) early next week -- and now more than ever your voice is crucial to its passage.
[More at URL]
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Bush to Back Gay Marriage Ban Amendment
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
Jun 01 11:04 PM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/01/D8HVQLM00.html
WASHINGTON - President Bush will promote a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday, the eve of a scheduled Senate vote on the cause that is dear to his conservative backers.
The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages. To become law, the proposal would need two-thirds support in the Senate and House, and then be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures.
[More at URL]
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Marriage Amendment Could Soothe Angry Right
Friday, June 02, 2006
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197882,00.html
WASHINGTON — With Republicans facing a potential backlash at the polls in November, a renewed national debate over gay marriage can only boost the morale of the party's religious conservative base, which for a variety of reasons is near mutiny, say sources in the movement.
"It could be an issue that may not necessarily bring them back, but it will bring them out, which is the key thing for the fall elections," said Bill Greene, head of RightMarch.com, an Atlanta-based conservative activist organization.
[More at URL]
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Q&A: David Kupelian on The Marketing of Evil
The author speaks on powerful manipulative techniques designed to change your mind on important issues.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040710.cfm
Why have gay activists been so successful in advancing their political agenda? Is there a connection between that success and the fact that Hollywood portrays gays positively on TV?
You bet, according to David Kupelian, editor of WorldNetDaily's Whistleblower magazine.
In his new book, The Marketing of Evil, Kupelian says Americans are being duped into believing that "evil is good and good is evil."
[More at URL]
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FCC Flooded with Indecency Complaints
2006 has already seen more objections than all of last year.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040708.cfm
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received more than 275,000 complaints about broadcast indecency so far this year — more than it received in all of 2005.
Dan Isett, director of corporate and entertainment affairs at the Parents Television Council, said the American people are fed up.
[...]
TAKE ACTION:
The FCC has an online form for you to file broadcast-indecency complaints.
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Do Gays Really Want ‘Marriage’?
A look at the states where same-sex unions are legal raises some serious doubts.
by Caleb H. Price
Focus on the Family
Citizen Magazine
http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/features/a0040665.cfm
Vermont and Connecticut offer civil unions to gay partners. Domestic partnerships are available to homosexuals in California, Maine, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Colorado voters will likely vote on a civil-union initiative this fall and many expect Oregon to reconsider the issue in 2007. All of these, many homosexual activists hope, will be stepping stones to same-sex marriage.
Same-sex marriage has already been legalized in five countries—Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Spain and South Africa. And civil unions or other forms of domestic partnerships are in place in at least 11 others—Czech Republic, Denmark (and Greenland), France, Finland, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as well as the Australian state of Tasmania.
Yet with so many opportunities to attain privileges that have been reserved for opposite-sex couples, and with so many homosexuals demanding full access to marriage benefits, it’s surprising how few gay couples actually tie the knot when government-sanctioned status is made available. Thus, despite the calculating and emotional rhetoric about “benefits” and “basic fairness” coming from pro-gay advocates, perhaps it’s really not about marriage after all?
[...]
At its core, the homosexual zeitgeist seeks to destroy God’s created intent for sexuality and the family while deconstructing the imago dei that humans bear—male and female—on the Earth.
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Showtime
Make sure the Senate hears from you before it votes on the Marriage Protection Amendment this summer.
by Tony Perkins
[Ed. Note: Tony Perkins is head of the Family Research Council]
Focus on the Family
Citizen Magazine
http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/coverstory/a0040663.cfm
The radicals who oppose a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman say it is discriminatory. They say that barring homosexuals from marrying is no different from forcing Rosa Parks to give up her seat on the bus. And they seem to think that their best talking point is a quote from the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, a civil-rights hero who’s most famous for his landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 that outlawed racial segregation in the schools.
Warren later wrote an opinion that further advanced the cause of civil rights. His majority opinion struck down Virginia’s “anti-miscegenation” law, which banned inter-racial marriages. Radicals today say that if Virginia’s law was unconstitutional, then an amendment barring men from marrying men and women marrying women must be unconstitutional, too.
But radicals often neglect to mention why Chief Justice Warren ruled against Virginia’s law.
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During his 2004 presidential campaign, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said marriage should be limited to a man and a woman. All we ask of Kerry and his colleagues is that they put it in writing. After all, Kerry might want to avoid telling the American people: “I actually voted for marriage before I voted against it.”
Help Kerry out. E-mail him. Better yet, call him. Tell him: “Marriage—defend it; don’t end it.” Here’s his number: 202-224-3121.
Call that same number to reach your Representative and your two U.S. Senators. Make sure your voice is heard, and soon, because the Senate is expect to vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment on June 6. We need every available vote in Congress; the Marriage Protection Amendment requires a two-thirds vote of both the House (at least 287 votes) and Senate (at least 67 votes).
Another way to get your congressmen’s attention is by writing a letters to the editor of your local newspaper. Make sure the letter is 300 words or less. Include the name of your Representative or Senator.
Praise those who signal they will vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment. Don’t hesitate to express your disappointment with those, like U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who oppose the amendment.
Disappointment is more effective than anger, even though I share your frustration with the real duplicity of some of our elected officials. More likely, some congressmen will drag their feet and give some double-speak answer. Use your letters to let your neighbors know that you are onto this game.
Bottom line:If the Members of Congress are not for the Marriage Protection Amendment, they are against it. It’s really that simple.
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Louisiana Abortion Ban Passes Both Chambers
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040714.cfm
The Louisiana House overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday that would ban nearly all abortions in the state if Roe v. Wade is overturned, WBRZ-TV reported.
The 85-17 vote followed just two hours of debate. An amendment that would have made an exception for cases of rape or incest was rejected.
[...]
Rep. Mike Powell told colleagues the Founding Fathers intended the nation to recognize the sanctity of life.
"Our form of government affords protection in a purposeful order," he said. "The Founders intentionally placed 'life' before 'liberty' and 'liberty' before 'the pursuit of happiness' in the Declaration of Independence."
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U.S. Will Continue to Uphold Mexico City Policy
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 1, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040712.cfm
The House Appropriations Committee has voted to retain the Mexico City Policy — a measure that prohibits the use of taxpayer money for abortions in other countries, LifeNews.com reported.
[More at URL]
[Editor's Note: It's much more comprehensive than that. It has been called the 'Global Gag Rule,' because to receive funding, organisations have to not only not spend it on abortion, but cannot offer abortion services at all, cannot support abortion rights, cannot discussion abortion in any way, even in countries where it is legal and locally supported.]
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Louisiana Governor Will Sign Abortion Ban
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040736.cfm
Gov. Kathleen Blanco said she will sign into law legislation that would ban abortion in Louisiana -- if Roe v. Wade is overturned, KATC-TV reported.
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Legislators Weigh in on Iowa Same-Sex Marriage Suit
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040737.cfm
Seventeen Iowa lawmakers have requested that a Polk County judge allow them to intervene in a suit filed by six same-sex couples who say they were denied marriage licenses, WHO-TV reported.
[More at URL]
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Pro-Life License Plates Accepted in Indiana, Rejected in Missouri
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040734.cfm
An Indiana pro-life organization has received tentative approval from the state for a "Choose Life" license plate, The Courier-Journal reported.
The Indiana Association of Pregnancy Centers submitted the design and will receive part of the proceeds from sales of the plates.
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Principle Pays at Ballot Box
Analysts say voters appreciate candidates who stick to their pro-life convictions.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
June 2, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040722.cfm
With the midterm congressional elections approaching, analysts say when candidates are open about their views — and those views are rooted in principle — it's always a plus at the polls.
For Republicans, that means sticking with their party's pro-life platform is wise.
"We are a pro-life party," said Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee (RNC). "We're proud of our pro-life stance, and many of our candidates are going to speak directly to that on the stump."
[...]
It's also a case where morality and politics must intersect.
"If you try and separate and say it's a moral issue and not a political issue," she said, "what you get are candidates who say they're personally opposed to abortion, but they would not do anything about it."
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U.S. Backs Homosexual Groups at United Nations
Delegation drops opposition to applications for three European activist organizations
Concerned Women for America
6/2/2006
By Robert Knight
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10880/CFI/nation/index.htm
In a move applauded by homosexual activist groups, the United States reversed longstanding policy and voted in May to grant official United Nations consultative status to three homosexual groups.
Along with six other countries, the U.S. voted on a tactical proposal by Germany to accept the applications of the International Gay and Lesbian Association - Europe (ILGA-Europe) and Germany's Lesbian and Gay Federation (LSVD) for consultative status at the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECSOC). The votes took place on May 16 and May 17.
The United States also backed a proposal to include the Coalition of Gays and Lesbians in Quebec (CGLQ), but that application was deferred until January 2007.
The proposal for the first two groups was defeated 9-7, so the groups still lack official status.
A U.S. State Department spokesman told Concerned Women for America's Culture & Family Institute that the U.S. delegation dropped its objection to the three homosexual groups after determining that none was directly involved with groups promoting pedophilia.
According to Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Senior Fellow of CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute, the deciding factor was being able to say that they were not "directly" promoting pedophilia. Crouse said, "Of course, these groups aren't directly involved; they are too savvy for that. They have discovered a way around the U.S. objections and we are letting them get away with making their connections indirect and hidden."
All three of the homosexual groups, however, openly support same-sex "marriage," adoption of children by homosexuals, special protections based on homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism, and oppose abstinence education.
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Making Marriage a Constitutional Matter
Senators need to preserve federalism and protect states from more judicial mugging.
Concerned Women for America
6/2/2006
By Jan LaRue, Chief Counsel
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10876/LEGAL/misc/index.htm
The Senate is scheduled to debate and vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) next week. While some pro-family organizations like Concerned Women for America would prefer a stronger text than the MPA, there is no disagreement that marriage is worthy of constitutional protection. Congress should begin the amendment process instead of waiting until the Court of last resort desecrates the sanctity of marriage by reducing it to state-sanctioned sexual licentiousness.
Senators on both ends of the political spectrum, and some in the elusive, mushy-middle-moderate-centrist school of political expediency, think that the union of one man and one woman in holy matrimony is only worthy of constitutional protection as the last resort. "It should be left to the states," they tell us, "until a federal court strikes down a state's marriage law." Last resorts are no resort if they're also untimely.
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Some call it federalism. Some of us think that true federalists wouldn't sit idly by while judicial tyrants pummel a sovereign state with three free muggings before beginning the lengthy process of amending the U.S. Constitution.
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Why Marriage Is a Constitutional Matter
by Jan LaRue, Esq.
[Editor's Note: Jan LaRue is a CWA wonk]
Human Events Online
Posted Jun 02, 2006
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15322
The Senate is scheduled to debate and vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) next week. While some pro-family organizations like Concerned Women for America would prefer a stronger text than the MPA, there is no disagreement that marriage is worthy of constitutional protection. Congress should begin the amendment process instead of waiting until the court of last resort desecrates the sanctity of marriage by reducing it to state-sanctioned sexual licentiousness.
[More at URL - appears to be the same article as on the CWA website]
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Culture Digest
Free TV ads promote homosexual agenda; .xxx porn domain rejected; study links casinos, crime
Florida Baptist Witness
Published June 1, 2006
http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/6015.article
WASHINGTON (BP) — Homosexual activists are intent upon promoting their agenda in the mass media while squelching opposing viewpoints, according to the Traditional Values Coalition, which has sounded the alarm on a particular group that collaborated with CBS and ABC to air ads affirming homosexuality — for free.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has developed a series of public service announcements, one of which ran May 9 during a soap opera in which a teenager told his parents he was a homosexual, TVC said. The public service announcement, which ran at the end of CBS’ “As the World Turns,” told viewers to take a stand against the discrimination and prejudice faced by homosexuals, bisexuals and transgendered people.
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Same-Sex Marriage:
Hijacking the Civil Rights Legacy
The indiscriminate promotion of various social groups' desires and preferences as "rights" has drained the moral authority from the civil rights industry.
by Eugene F. Rivers & Kenneth D. Johnson
06/01/2006 12:00:00 AM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/285fhdqe.asp
THE MOVEMENT TO REDEFINE MARRIAGE to include same-sex unions has packaged its demands in the rhetoric and images of the civil rights movement. This strategy, though cynical, has enormous strategic utility. For what reasonable, fair-minded American could object to a movement that conjures up images of Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellows campaigners for racial justice facing down dogs and fire hoses? Who is prepared to risk being labeled a bigot for opposing same-sex marriage?
As an exercise in marketing and merchandising, this strategy is the most brilliant playing of the race card in recent memory. Not since the "poverty pimps" of 35 years ago, who leveraged the guilt and sense of fair play of the American public to hustle affirmative action set-asides, have we witnessed so brazen a misuse of African-American history for partisan purposes.
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Mission America launches nationwide monitoring of curriculum issues
Christian Examiner staff report
Online as of June 2, 2006
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jun06/Art_Jun06_10.html
As battles over public school curricula are playing out in districts across the country, Mission America has unveiled a new School Risk Audit as a way for parents and churches to monitor homosexual activist activity in their local school districts.
The effort was announced April 26 to coincide with the national “Day of Silence” where students are encouraged to not talk all day on campus in support of gay and lesbian students.
The project is sponsored by the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council and state chapters of pro-family groups such as Eagle Forum.
[...]
“The insidious alliance between some school administrations and homosexual activists has been hidden from parents for far too long,” Tony Perkins, of Family Research Council, said in a news release. “Recent events in Lexington, Massachusetts and similar instances across the country demonstrate the next phase in the campaign to normalize homosexual behavior—the capturing of America's youth. American families need to know about the homosexual indoctrination being forced upon young impressionable minds. Conducting a risk audit in local school districts will help do just that.”
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CWA of Louisiana Testifies on Divorce Reform
Concerned Women for America
5/31/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10862/FIELD/family/index.htm
The Louisiana legislature is considering a bill that would lengthen the waiting period before a couple can be granted a divorce. Deborah Young, State Director for CWA of Louisiana, provided lawmakers with valuable testimony not so much from the perspective of a lobbyist, but as a pastor and someone whose own marriage survived a turbulent time thanks to the waiting period of another state. CWA Policy Analyst Martha Kleder spoke with Deborah about this measure and what Louisiana residents can do to promote its passage. Click here to listen.
[Ed. Note: According to Deborah Young, the bill would impose a one year waiting period on any divorce.]
[Deborah Young: "This particular legislation is being offered by one of CWA of Louisiana's great friends, [State] Rep. Ernie Alexander, who lives here in LaFayette, and we've collaborated with him in the past. And this particular legislation provides procedures for the granting of a divorce when there are minour children of the marriage. We don't prefer divorce, we know that God hates divorce, but in these cases, where minour children must be protected, we must do all we can to make sure that protection exists. And the granting of the extension, from 180 days to 365 days, gives the marriages the greater chances of success. And divorce, hopefully, can be avoided - at all costs." [Ed. Note: Emphasis in original]
[Ed. Note: it now goes to the state House.]
Young says that Hurricane Katrina also makes the longer waiting period more important the because of the "stressors" involved of the storm. "Protecting children... from decisions made out of these levels of stress."
ACTION ITEM: Contact Louisiana state Senators and Representatives to support HB 1379.]
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DC Comics Introduces Lesbian Character to Batman Series
Concerned Women for America
Robert Knight
5/30/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10870/CFI/misc/index.htm
Batwoman, is returning to the Batman comic book series, this time as a “lipstick lesbian.” Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, has more on this development and events in the world of comics that have let to it. Click here to listen.
[Robert Knight: "We've got word from the BBC that Batwoman is making a comeback... now this is a little-known character in the Batman saga, Batwoman had a brief existence from 1956 to 1979 when they killed her off. I guess she was the victim of the Bronze Tiger and the League of Assassins. But they've announced that they're going to bring her back... and she'll be a quote lipstick lesbian... carrying on an affair with Renee Montoya... this isn't the first time DC Comics has decided to shock people. I remember a few years ago when a new president took over, she promised to make DC comics "cutting edge," and to get rid of its family image, and to even use profanity and charged sexual situations and so forth, so, apparently she planted some seeds that are now coming to flower."
Knight: "If you go into any comic store now, you'd be shocked if you were a fan of comics even a couple of decades ago. The comics come in the form of graphic novels, which are really thick comic books, and they say they're novels... the plots are pretty predictable but the graphics accompanying them are far more explicit than they ever used to be... I can't really recommend comics anymore, it used to be a good pastime for kids to get involved in comics as a bridge to real reading... and I read the DC comics with Superman and Batman... they had intricate plots, they had interesting characters, and they never delved into moral relativism, or promoting outright evil, the way some comics do now."
Knight: "Marvel actually beat DC to the punch... we were surprised a few years ago in 2002... they introduced the Rawhide Kid, the first comic about a gay cowboy, I guess they were ahead of the pack from Brokeback Mountain..."
Klieder: [Lesbian characters are dangerous to young boys].
Knight: ".. they get a false picture of female sexuality... and of course, that's the whole problem with pornography... it misrepresents female sexuality, and it misrepresents what men can expect from women, and vice-versa... a lot of marriages have been hurt by pornography, because it's so unrealisitic, and it skews expectations."
Knight: "They should look for the early Batman editions, any of the first several decades of Batman are excellent - I mean, the writing was good, the graphics are excellent, it's good stuff, and it's always good vs. evil, sometimes the villians learn lessons - they're all morality tales, which is what really makes a good story; if it doesn't have a morality tale at the core of it, it doesn't hold up, it doesn't stand the test of time. We've seen that in terms of motion pictures, books, even comic books - if they don't tell a moral story, they're not going to last."
Knight: "We haven't delved into it very far, in fact, we had a little difficulty... doing a search on the internet, we kept getting blocked! So that tells you what's wrong with the comics realm these days, if you're doing research on comics and you keep getting blocked by a filter, and comics are geared towards kids, then something's wrong here."
[Ed. Note: they consider all noncondemnational references to GBLT people to be obscene; I imagine the filtering software they're using does too, and bans all sites with GBLT material. Therefore...]
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Dutch Pedophiles Form Political Party
Concerned Women for America
Robert Knight
6/2/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10871/CFI/misc/index.htm
The Netherlands is taking another step in its march of liberal social policy; the nation’s pedophiles are seeking recognition and acceptance by forming a political party. Their chief goal is to eventually do away with the age of consent. Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, says this is not unexpected from a nation that led the world in legalized drugs and prostitution, and homosexual activism. Click here to listen.
[Robert Knight: "They want to actually eliminate the age of consent... they want multi-partner unions.. and they want to be recognised as pedophiles as a legitimate minourity group with aspirations for activities in the future that will not be frowned upon by the rest of society..."
Robert Knight: "For years, people have been warning that if you embrace homosexuality, pedophiles will make their case that they should be accepted, and they didn't wait long! They've actually been doing it in Holland for many years now; Holland is where Pidica, the journal of Pedophilia, has been published, and that's a semi-scholarly periodical that advocates pedophilia and tries to present a scientific and research case for legalising pedophilia and decriminalising things like child pornography. And by the way, that's one of the platforms of this new Charity, Freedom, and Diversity Party, they want an end to the criminalisation of child pornography, but they say they're still against the production of it. Y'know, that stance is identical with that of our own ACLU, in the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union does not support the making of child pornography, they say they support laws banning that, but they don't want any laws against possession of child pornography - in other words, they don't want to do anything to stop the creation of a market for this awful stuff."
Knight: "Children are squarely in the bullseye, they have been for some time now in the Netherlands, and it seems as if Holland society is falling apart. It's gotten to the point - they've legalised drugs... the age of consent is 12, pornography is rampant. It was only a matter of time before they had a political party devoted to legitimising pedophilia."
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Pray for Poland’s March for Life and Family
Concerned Women for America
6/1/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10867/CWA/life/index.htm
On June 4, Christians in Poland will take to the streets in the first national March for Life and Family. While Poland remains the strongest of the European nations on issues of life and family, it is under attack. Dr. Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow with the Beverly LaHaye Institute, has more on the situation in Poland and the birth of pro-family activism there. Click here to listen.
For more information on the March visit: http://marsz.org/wp/index.php/march-for-life/
[Crouse: "Most of the countries [in Europe] have abandoned the family... the pro-gay movement, the pro-abortion movement is very strong in Europe, and Warsaw and all of Poland is one of the last holdouts, so this movement is certainly exciting because it's part of this whole advance for the family, this whole advance for the pro-life movement in Warsaw, and the whole of Poland coming up for this coming year."
Crouse: "Most of the countries in Europe have really been targeting Poland... Poland has increasingly been the target of the EU countries... because they vote consistently conservative on pro-family/pro-life issues, and more and more they are being threatened by the radical anti-life anti-family ideologies that are being promoted in that nation. It's a very very conservative nation, but the inroads are very obvious when you come into Warsaw, you see the advertisements for the Da Vinci Code movie, for instance, you see very lewd advertisements for products, and this stands in start contrast to the number of churches that you see, families that you see walking around with the father and the mother and all the children, so the contrasts are very stark. ... all the things that are so corrosive in our culture are more and more prevalent in countries like Poland, so it's very very encouraging to see groups like this pro-family pro-life group having a national march to say, 'we will be unified, we will stand against these forces and protect our families and promote life in our country.'"
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Countdown to Senate Marriage Amendment Vote
Family Research Council
Online as of June 2, 2006
http://www.frc.org/
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Next week the U.S. Senate will vote on S. J. Res. 1, the Marriage Protection Amendment to the Constitution. We are thrilled to report that with your help we have passed 53,000 signatures to our online petition. These petitions will be presented to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Monday, June 5. Nonetheless, continue to have your friends and family sign up and speak out! Let's all take the actions needed to answer the question the rising generations will ask us: "Where did you stand?" In addition, download this fact sheet and give it to your pastor for Marriage Protection Sunday!
Add name to marriage petition
Fact Sheet
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June 4, 2006: Marriage Protection Sunday
Family Research Council
June 3, 2006
http://www.frc.org/
This Sunday is Marriage Protection Sunday, as the Senate will consider the Federal Marriage Protection Act this coming week. At this critical time, the Church must provide the leadership needed to motivate Americans to make their voices heard. Under IRS regulations Churches are permitted to discuss the Amendment plainly. We have posted a variety of materials that can be used or sent onto your pastor for this special Sunday. Please see sermons and other resources here.
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Tony Perkins to Appear on Good Morning America to Discuss MPA
Family Research Council
Online as of 3 June 2006
http://www.frc.org/
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will appear Monday June 5th at 7am EST on ABC's "Good Morning America" to speak at length about the Senate vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment. Please tune in to see how this issue impacts your family and all Values Voters across the United States.
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Tony Perkins' Washington Update
To: Friends of Family Research Council
From: Tony Perkins, President
June 2, 2006 - Friday
Please forward this to your Friends and Family!
A Direct Challenge
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU06F02&f=PG03I03
The Advocate bills itself as "the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine." Its June 6 cover story certainly should make news. The magazine depicts three identical male dolls wearing tuxes over the caption "Polygamy & Gay Men." The story features oh-so-sympathetic portraits of several groups of men who are living in arrangements it calls polyamorous. "We're as married as we could be," says one homosexual member of a San Diego trio, "we all have rings and have a day we celebrate [as] our anniversary." The challenge could not be more "in your face."
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Activist Judge Overturns Marriage Laws; Homosexual Marriage Now Legal In All 50 States
Contact Your Two U.S. Senators Today!
American Family Association
Online as of 2 June 2006
http://www3.capwiz.com/afanet/issues/alert/?alertid=8799581&type=CO
How would you like to wake up one morning and learn that the above headline was the top story in every newspaper in America? That hasn’t happened—YET! But gradually, little by little, that is where we are headed. A similar headline will appear in your paper soon unless enough people send a message to their U.S. Senators!
The vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (sponsored by Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado), making marriage legal only between one man and one woman, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate June 6.
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TAKE ACTION
Enter your zip code or state in the box above and click “GO” to prepare your emails to your two Senators today. (If either of your Senators is co-sponsoring the Marriage Protection Amendment, he or she will receive a thank you. If either of your Senators is not co-sponsoring the bill, he or she will get the letter encouraging them to vote for it.) And please, please forward this to friends and family. They probably don’t understand how close the homosexual activists are to getting homosexual marriage legalized.
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'A coming storm'
Government: A federal constitutional amendment may be the only way to head off a church-state clash over same-sex marriage
Lynn Vincent
World Magazine
June 10, 2006
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11926
When he saw the news story, Anthony Picarello did a double-take. On Monday, May 22, more than 30 religious leaders from 10 states traveled to Washington, D.C., to voice their concerns over same-sex marriage and religious freedom. Mr. Picarello, president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, read an online account of a press conference held in conjunction with the trip.
"To consciously legislate against religious traditions . . . is really an affront to my faith," Craig Axler, leader of Reform Congregation Beth Or in Maple Glen, Pa., told reporters.
But Mr. Axler and his group, "Clergy for Fairness," weren't rallying against same-sex marriage. They were complaining that the Federal Marriage Amendment, scheduled for a June 5 vote in the U.S. Senate, "raises alarming constitutional concerns" because defining marriage as between one man and one woman would restrict the liberty of religious leaders who, like Mr. Axler, want to be able to marry same-sex couples.
"The story had the feel of the world turning upside down," Mr. Picarello said.
Particularly since he himself had just made public the findings of 10 top First Amendment scholars who concluded that broadly legalizing same-sex marriage will likely roll back religious freedom for everyone but those who agree with Mr. Axler.
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Boycott of Ford Impacting Automaker
Company Continues Promotion of Same-Sex 'Marriage'
By AFA Journal
American Family Association/Agape Press
June 2, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/22006e.asp
(AgapePress) - As the boycott of the Ford Motor Company picks up steam, the automaker continues to help finance homosexual organizations pushing same-sex "marriage."
More than 20 pro-family groups are currently boycotting Ford, which also makes Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury. The American Family Association, which initiated the boycott, has learned that Ford dealers recently met with corporate officials, and the boycott's effect on sales was the major topic of discussion.
In fact, while Ford's financial difficulties are not new, the company's woes appear to be accelerating. The automaker's sales dropped 5 percent in March and 7 percent in April, and Ford's stock has dropped more than 14 percent since the boycott began, reaching the lowest price in nearly 20 years.
"We've said all along that Ford should be concentrating on making better automobiles, rather than getting in the middle of the culture war," AFA chairman Don Wildmon says. "The latest round of bad economic news seems to bear this out."
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Bishop Jackson: Marriage Amendment Presents Political Vote on a Biblical Issue
Bible Doesn't Condone Same-Sex Unions; Neither Should Lawmakers, He Says
By Allie Martin and Jody Brown
American Family Association/Agape Press
June 1, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/12006a.asp
(AgapePress) - A prominent black Christian pastor is among minority religious leaders calling on the U.S. Senate to approve a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Black and Hispanic church leaders are urging senators to vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA), which would protect traditional marriage from being redefined. Those supporting the MPA say it is needed to stop judges from legalizing same-sex "marriage," despite the opposition of voters and their elected representatives. The Senate is to debate and vote on the proposed amendment next week.
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Commentary & News Briefs
June 2, 2006
Compiled by Jenni Parker
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/22006h.asp
...Today is the start to "Gay Pride Week" in Boston, Massachusetts, and that means the American flag will not be flying over City Hall. Brian Camenker of the pro-family advocacy group Article 8 Alliance observes that Gay Pride Week is apparently a very important event in Boston as far as city officials are concerned. To start the festivities this year, he says, Mayor Thomas Menino "is going to be part of a ceremony where he raises the gay flag, the rainbow flag, over Boston's city hall." Camenker adds that he and other members of his group plan to be at City Hall today as the events kick off to "take a picture of the mayor of Boston as he does this bizarre thing."
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Don't let the anti-Christmas crowd kick Christ out of Christmas this year
Companies are now working on their Christmas promotions. Let them hear from you today.
American Family Association
June 1, 2006
http://afa.net/060206.asp
June is not the time when we think of Christmas. But June is the time when retailers begin making their plans for Christmas promotions — store banners, newspaper ads, TV commercials, etc.
Remember last Christmas when many national retailers banned the use of Merry Christmas and allowed only the use of Season's Greetings or Happy Holidays or even winter holidays? Remember how some stores did not allow their employees to say "Merry Christmas" to their customers? Remember how Christmas trees were called Holiday trees?
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TVC Opposed to Marriage Protection Amendment
Re: Opposition to S. J. Res. 1 the Marriage Protection Amendment Because of the Second Sentence
Traditional Values Coalition
June 1, 2006
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2742
Dear Senator:
Traditional Values Coalition has always taken a strong position in supporting traditional marriage and opposing any statutory imitations of marriage designed to appease the homosexual lobby.
While Traditional Values Coalition supports the need for a federal constitutional amendment, because it is the only way to ensure that marriage between one man and one woman is protected, we strongly oppose S. J. Res. 1, the Marriage Protection Amendment, because of the second sentence.
The situation at this moment could be called a triumph of anti-federalism. Not only do states not have an individual voice in this debate – one state, Massachusetts, has imposed homosexual marriage through the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution on the other 49 states.
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Eyman to file signatures Monday in bid to repeal gay rights law
By CHRIS McGANN
P-I CAPITOL CORRESPONDENT
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Friday, June 2, 2006
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/272538_eyman02.html
OLYMPIA -- Maybe he can't find his handcuffs.
Or maybe his gorilla suit got lost at the cleaners.
Or he might just be in search of the perfect tutu to wear when he dances into the Secretary of State's Office next week to file the signatures for his latest ballot measure, Referendum 65.
Whatever the reason, Tim Eyman was mum Thursday about having enough signatures to get on the ballot the measure to repeal the state's new gay civil rights law.
"We haven't put out any announcement, and when we have, we'll definitely let you know," said Eyman, who in recent years has found increasingly attention-grabbing ways of presenting his initiative signatures for review.
He apparently wasn't so coy with Tina Clarke, initiative supervisor for the Secretary of State's Office, who confirmed that Eyman made an 11 a.m. appointment Monday to turn in signatures for Referendum 65.
About an hour later, he e-mailed a terse announcement: "We'll be bringing down petitions ... Monday."
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Adding a little confusion to the mix, those who opposed the new law -- presumably those who signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot -- would have to vote no on the referendum to repeal the law. Those who support the new law would vote yes.
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John Vezina, campaign manager for Washington Won't Discriminate, a group that has raised more than $100,000 to keep the new law on the books, said he's not surprised.
"A lot of people didn't think he'd get the signatures; we always thought he would," Vezina said.
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BC GOVERNMENT AGREES TO ADD HOMOSEXUALITY INTO SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Today’s Family News
Focus on the Family Canada
June 2, 2006
http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/education/stories/060206.html
[Ed. Note: The Take Action was included only in the email edition]
British Columbia continues to lead the way in the assault on family values with the provincial government’s decision on Thursday to include more gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered issues in the school curriculum. The government also plans to make it more difficult for parents or students to choose to opt out of classes that address these topics.
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the Attorney-General made this decision as part of a settlement to a complaint filed in 1999 with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. In the complaint, Murray and Peter Corren argued that homosexuals were being discriminated against because of a "lack of positive portrayals of gay, lesbian and transgendered people."
A bulletin from the provincial government stated that the settlement includes the development of a “social justice” course for Grade 12 students with content that “will include issues such as race, ethnicity, gender, family structure and sexual orientation.”
However, changes are not limited to this one course. The bulletin also states that the province “will also establish a process and schedule to review the B.C. educational curriculum to ensure that it reflects inclusion and respect for the diverse groups that today make up B.C.’s population.”
According to Thursday’s Vancouver Sun, homosexual activist Peter Corren revealed that “the settlement will also make it more difficult for students and parents to opt out of course lessons that address topics pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Last summer, TFN readers were informed that Peter and Murray Corren wanted independent schools to be included in the complaint to the government. However, a spokesperson from the office of the Attorney-General told TFN on Thursday that independent schools are not being included in this decision to introduce more sexual diversity into the curriculum.
It is expected that this decision will increase the already growing percentage of families that are choosing alternatives to public education such as private faith-based schools and home schooling.
Take Action> As more of the details are being worked out regarding how this settlement will affect the education system, now is the time to express your concerns to the B.C. government. Contact Minister of Education Shirley Bond, Attorney-General Wally Oppal or your local MLAs. Remind them that parents have ultimate responsibility for the education of their children and there should be no restrictions on parents who wish to exempt their children from any teaching on sexual orientation.
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Polygamy quietly recognized by federal government
Today’s Family News
Focus on the Family Canada
June 2, 2006
http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/family/stories/060206_01.html
Despite assurances by the previous government that polygamy was criminal and would remain that way, censored documents obtained by Sun Media now show that multiple-wife marriages have in fact been given limited legal recognition by the federal government.
Obtained through an access to information request, these documents reveal that polygamous marriages were recognized for the purpose of enforcing payments for spousal support and inheritance.
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Your Help is Needed> Protect Christian Radio
Focus on the Family Canada
[Received in email; no URL]
If you are a Christian living in B.C.’s Lower Mainland or on Vancouver Island, you likely have tuned into Praise 106.5 FM to listen to Christian music and teaching programs like Focus on the Family with Dr. James Dobson. The CRTC is currently reviewing an application by a Canadian radio station for the frequency of 106.3 FM, which will likely cause significant interference with 106.5 FM.
The CRTC is accepting submissions from the public on this application but the deadline is Monday, June 5. Please help protect Christian broadcasting in Canada by carefully following the directions provided on the Praise 106.5 FM website.
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Malkin Award Nominee
Andrew Sullivan
Friday, June 2, 2006
http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/06/malkin_award_no.html
"... As you all very well know, marriage is under vicious attack now, I think from the forces of hell itself," - James Dobson, on his radio show, May 30.
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Date: 2006-06-03 04:51 pm (UTC)In the over all mix of things I don't think the 'angry right' gives a damn about marriage rights right now, and A LOT of people on the 'angry right' are thinking of forming their own party and dumping the republicans. The only thing stopping them right now is that the Democrats are even worse on immigration than the Republicans, if such a thing is possible.
What's most surprising is that no one in office seems to realize that the majority of Americans want illegal immigration stopped. And aren't going to vote for anyone who supports illegals.
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Date: 2006-06-04 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-04 04:39 am (UTC)La Raza is openly out in Southern Cal now, they're opening public schools that don't allow whites or anyone not hispanic. AND they're getting away with it! Have to wonder where the ACLU is in all of this...
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Date: 2006-06-06 04:36 am (UTC)Which might be the first useful thing I've seen come out of the whole illegal immigration mess :-)
Re: TV indecency fine legislation
Date: 2006-06-11 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-11 03:09 pm (UTC)Re: TV indecency fine legislation
Date: 2006-06-14 02:57 pm (UTC)