Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Oct. 13th, 2006 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdOh, it's a fun update today, with loads of newtype blood libel and allegations of a HUGE GAY MAFIA RECRUITMENT RING on Capitol Hill and all kinds of fun! The GOP is facing a question and is arguing fiercely internally: expel GBLT people wholesale (what the fundamentalists and their supporters want), or get over the whole gaybashing thing because honestly, this is stupid (what the rest of the party seems to want). Read on, it's one verrrry spicy meatball:
Well, we know were Secretary Rice stands now on the fundamentalist-lead anti-GBLT-GOP jihad: ours. Yay, sanity! (Spotted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
filkertom on AmericaBlog);
Meanwhile, our local clusterfuck of theoconservatism, the Faith and Freedom Network, tries to rally the fundamentalist vote for the GOP by bringing out the newtype blood libel: all queers are child rapists, Nancy Pelosi, the likely speaker should the Democrats take over the house (as if) next year, marches in NAMBLA parades (yes, really: "would a Speaker of the House really support the National American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she presently does, to march in their parades"?), and so on. The apparent non sequitur is to equate GBLT people to child rapists, like, well, they do. Also, they claim the 2004 exit polls were "manipulated by the Democratic party," which is, well, another lie, and point to their endorsement/voter's guides again;
Focus on the Family's latest election plug - vote GOP or queers will get married, there will be more stem-cell research, and no new abortion rights reestrictions;
FotF warns their membership - omg just when you thought you were safe from sex ed, now colleges are being all smexxy! And teaching about sex! Ph33r secular colleges andget your kids brainwashed good prepare your children to reject any non-fundamentalist information;
FotF: American families are safer now that internet gambling has been prohibited by the feds;
Remember, any non-condemnational mention of GBLT people's existence is to be condemned: Focus on the Family story about a lesbian schoolteacher who mentioned herself;
Faith and Freedom Network joins in the "War on Christmas" bullshit;
Faith and Freedom Network petition to have retailers "JUST SAY CHRISTMAS" in advertising and store signs; the way it's worded is genuinely ambiguous to me - it's like they want to say "ONLY SAY CHRISTMAS" (as several fundamentalist groups have done) but are providing just enough ambiguity to stay just on this side of that line;
FotF complains about "personal insults" being used by people campaigning against marriage rights bans, talking about "intimidation tactics;" funny, personally I'd think that writing anti-me language into Federal and state constitutions would quality pretty well as an "intimidation tactic" - not to mention the stream of newtype blood libel (GBLT = child rapists, etc) spew that you can see documented in these updates regularly;
FotF characterisies marijuana reform as a "party" initiative;
Focus on the Family, Alliance Defense Fund applaud Pope Benedict for condemning marriage rights efforts as "hedonism"; ADF's Mike Johnson calls GBLT rights "a cataclysmic social battle";
FotF and Parents Television Council claim that NBC is writing obscenities into prime-time shows; includes ACTION ITEM to pour in more "broadcast indecency" complaints to the FCC;
REAL Women of Canada condemn media for not being anti-marriage-rights enough, sends out ACTION ITEM to write newspapers in support of anti-gay articles and columns, and to send in letters against marriage rights;
Traditional Values Coalition cranky that the papers of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny have been accepted by the Library of Congress;
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP! Or John Conyers will chair the judiciary committee, and he is "a committed hard-left radical who... has ties to a pro-North Korea Marxist front organization and to leftist Islamic groups." Also, he's called for the impeachment of Mr. Bush. Oddly, so have I;
TVC ACTION ITEM: Volunteer in South Dakota to help defeat initiative to overturn that state's comprehensive abortion ban, which, I remind my readership, does not include exemptions for the health of the woman;
TVC says "homosexual activists" in Canada are outlawing opposition to homosexuality, quoting a bunch of material out of context (actual context provided), like they do - the actual issue is that the Regina Leader Post wrote an editorial against a bill allowing government employees to refuse to do their jobs regarding GBLT people if they claimed religious opposition - specifically, the plan was to make it hard for lesbian and gay people to get married. The bill failed; the editorial is mostly about how the Tories are not helping themselves with this sort of thing;
The American Family Association's latest "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE AND VOTE GOP" article;
AFA promotes book condemning public education as anti-Christian, pro-GBLT, pro-evolutionary theory, and on and on and on;
AFA support article relaying a Human Events columnist's endorsement of waterboarding and his assertion torture should be just fine; feigns confusion about why any veteran in particular would oppose torture;
Christianity Today column adopting the "marriage rights destroys freedom of religion" rhetoric;
American Family Association legal wing assisting in Texas adoption case; the idea is that lesbian (and, presumably, gay) people shouldn't being allowed to adopt; there's also a funny-odd moment when they say the aunt who is trying to adopt the children is "only" a relative by marriage and criticise her for being kicked out of the military - because of the same GBLT ban they helped get put in place;
DefendMarriage Canada notice about a big end-marriage-rights caucus they're organising at the National Press Club and Parliament buildings in Ottawa;
Accuracy In Media: GBLT Republicans are actually closeted Democrats, "liberal activists who want to use the party to advance the... homosexual agenda," and a "secret gay network" of gay GOP staffers were protecting Foley and engineered the Foley scandal as a Democratic "dirty trick"; oh, and best of all, "we may be looking at... a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill."
----- 1 -----
Condi recognizes gay man's "mother in law" in front of Laura Bush at official ceremony
by John in DC
Thursday, October 12, 2006
AmericaBlog.blogspot.com
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/condi-recognizes-gay-mans-mother-in.html
[More at URL]
----- 2 -----
A Time to Keep Silent and a Time to Speak
Faith and Freedom Network
Thursday, October 12, 2006
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/10/time-to-keep-silent-and-time-to-speak.html
There is an ancient saying found in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes that says, “To everything there is a season.” (3:1). “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” (3:7).
Apparently, the liberal secularists have decided that this is their time to speak.
With lengthy lectures on morality in the Mark Foley scandal, to long lessons on national security regarding the testing of a nuke by North Korea, the secularists, along with the citing of poll after poll which supports their claims, are assuring themselves of victory on the next page of this year’s calendar.
[...]
In fact, they are so sure of victory that Nancy Deloss, who would become Speaker of the House, has already unveiled her agenda for the first 100 hours of her speakership.
So, the secularists feel this is their time to speak.
Here’s why I feel they are wrong.
[...]
Remember the early exit poll reports in the 2004 general election? The exit polls, it was later discovered, had been manipulated by operatives of the Democratic Party and the media to deflate the interest of conservative voters and cause them to just stay home, thinking the election was already won by John Kerry and his secularist party.
In the end, conservatives and people of faith were not fooled, they did go ahead and vote and President Bush and his party were re-elected.
[...]
I do not believe that we are ready to turn over the control of our government to a group of people who have proven themselves to be for opening our borders beyond anything we have seen to date, to spending more tax money and raising taxes as they advance a secular agenda and to a group of people whose mantra, in recent years, has been, “separation of church and state,” which interpreted means, don’t allow the Christian church to influence public life through politics.
I also feel they are wrong because reasonable people are not ready to allow a party that actively promotes the radical homosexual agenda, even taking a position against the Boy Scouts of America for their moral refusal to permit homosexuals to be scout masters.
And, would a Speaker of the House really support the National American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she presently does, to march in their parades. And would she continue to work for her 90 percent approval rating with the ACLU?
[...]
Gary Randall
President
Faith & Freedom
[More at URL]
----- 3 -----
The High Cost of Indifference
If polls are to be believed, there is a feeling among some values voters that Election Day is no big deal. They couldn't be more wrong.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042309.cfm
There are fewer than four weeks left before Americans go to the polls and cast their ballots on Election Day, and some family advocates are concerned that values voters — who had such impact in 2004 — may not bother to show up for the midterm congressional elections.
"If you don't show up, you have done precisely what the liberals want you to do," Don Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association, told CitizenLink. "They will have succeeded magnificently if we, as values voters, come to the place of saying, 'Well, it's not worth it. I'm not even going to go vote.' They will have won."
[More at URL]
----- 4 -----
College Sex-Ed Racier
Permissiveness growing on campuses nationwide.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042301.cfm
You may be feeling pretty good that your college-aged kids made it out of high school without being too badly injured by Planned Parenthood's version of sex education. But don't relax yet: College classes are starting to pick up where Planned Parenthood left off — and it's no-holds-barred.
Daisy DeMelo goes to a secular college in the Midwest. After growing up in a Christian home, she is a bit taken aback at the sexuality on campus. Weekends are especially trying.
[...]
Some of the attitudes on campuses across the country are fed by the schools themselves. Robin Sawyer teaches at the University of Maryland, and is intent on giving his students what they didn't get in high school.
"Because what they get in high school is an absolute joke with regard to sexuality education," he told Family News in Focus, "particularly over the last 10 or 15 years of more conservatism."
Any topic is fair game in Sawyer's class —and pretty much every topic is broached. He makes sure there are no burdensome restrictions on what he teaches.
[...]
Linda Klepacki, sexual health analyst for Focus on the Family, said it's important for parents to instill biblical values before their kids leave for freshman orientation.
[More at URL]
[Editor's note: The course they're talking about is discussed here, and this page contains a link to the PDF of the course descrption.]
----- 5 -----
Bush Signs Internet-Gambling Prohibition
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042308.cfm
President Bush today signed into law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act — a law that will protect American families from predatory online casinos.
The act, which was included in the Safe Port Act, was approved by Congress in September. It will strengthen existing laws and give law enforcement the tools to prosecute illegal online gambling.
Chad Hills, gambling analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said American families are safer.
"By approving this legislation," he said, "our government has protected the nation's families from predatory online casinos, which have addicted many Americans, especially college students."
[More at URL]
----- 6 -----
Gay Teacher Discloses Orientation to Elementary Kids
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042305.cfm
Parents are outraged over a Minneapolis teacher who disclosed his homosexuality to his second-grade class, telling students he and his partner are planning to adopt — but not telling parents of his plans ahead of time, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
Peter Sage, teaching from the "Families All Matter" curriculum, read a prescribed book about a two-mom family. He then went on to explain to the 23 students that he too is gay.
According to Sage, he also said that some people have different views of people not like them, describing how he disagreed with his grandfather's negative view of blacks.
When parents complained to the principal, they were told their children could not be reassigned to another class. According to the Family Research Council, some were told they should consider enrolling their kids in a private school.
[More at URL]
----- 7 -----
Just Say Christmas
Faith and Freedom Network
Friday, October 13, 2006
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/10/just-say-christmas_13.html
Every year the attack on Christmas begins about now. Retailers run away from the word because they don't want to offend any of their customers, even though 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas.
Schools shrink in fear of ACLU lawsuits if the word "Christmas" is mentioned during this time of year on the school grounds or on school calendars.
[More at URL]
----- 8 -----
Just Say Christmas Petition
Faith and Freedom Netework
Online as of 13 October 2006
http://faithandfreedom.us/justsaychristmas.html
Please add your name to the petition below that we are sending to Walmart, Target, Costco, and Sears asking them to "JUST SAY CHRISTMAS" in their advertising and store signs. We will be sending this letter on November 10th.
[More at URL]
----- 9 -----
State Marriage Campaigns are Targets of Intimidation Tactics
Mainstream news media see nothing to report.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042294.cfm
People in Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin are just 26 days away from deciding the fate of amendments to protect marriage.
In Wisconsin, proponents of traditional marriage find themselves the target of intimidation and harassment tactics utilized by their opponents, according to Julaine Appling, executive director of the Wisconsin Family Research Institute -- and a leader of the Vote Yes for Marriage campaign.
"What we should be debating here in Wisconsin," she said, "is: What does this amendment do? What will happen in if we don't put this amendment in place? What will Wisconsin look like if we give people who want to redefine marriage the opportunity to do so, by not putting the amendment in place?"
Instead, gay activists have used the press to make personal insults against Appling. At the same time, she said the news media have ignored and refused to cover the intimidation tactics that homosexual activists are employing.
[More at URL]
----- 10 -----
States Consider Marijuana Legalization
Supporters say it's time to "party responsibly."
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042296.cfm
In spite of being voted down again and again, efforts to legalize marijuana continue to appear on ballots.
In Colorado, supporters rationalize the effort to legalize marijuana by arguing that if the drug is legal, people will choose to smoke a joint rather than drink alcohol.
Mason Tvert, a spokesman for SAFERchoice, said it might mean fewer people would drink and drive.
[More at URL]
----- 11 -----
Pope Speaks Out Against Redefining Marriage
Benedict says efforts to change the institution are based on hedonism.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042295.cfm
While speaking against same-sex marriage last week, Pope Benedict XVI urged believers to reject "modern cultural currents" rooted in "relativism and hedonism."
It marked some of the pontiff's strongest language yet to discourage Catholics from turning away from traditional values.
Jeanette DeMelo, a spokeswoman for the Denver archdiocese, said it was the right language to use.
"He uses the word 'hedonism,' " she said. "It's not something that we talk about very frequently anymore, because it's a very strong word. But really he's talking about relationships that are pleasure-driven, and I think he chose those words to mean exactly that."
[...]
Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said the pope is in tune with other Christian leaders who have been issuing similar warnings for some time.
"There are a lot of leaders in ministry and politics that have recognized this as a cataclysmic social battle," he said. "When the institutions like marriage are under fire, I think that some of that language is being used commonly among leaders who at least recognize those trends."
[More at URL]
----- 12 -----
NBC Scripting Foul Language into Shows
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042298.cfm
According to the Parents Television Council (PTC), broadcasters are intentionally scripting illegal obscenities into prime-time television.
The FCC prohibits indecent content from being broadcast between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Obscene language is always prohibited. Now NBC and other broadcasters are adding obscenities to prime-time shows in order to challenge the law.
[More at URL]
----- 13 -----
SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OPINION IN THE MEDIA
REAL Women of Canada
A L E R T
October 11, 2006
http://www.realwomenca.com/alerts.htm#oct11_06
Media coverage of the same-sex marriage issue has been horrendous. The public has been deprived of valuable information as the debate has been deliberately framed in terms of human rights and Charter rights only. Coverage of the Parliamentary Committee that studied the issue was inadequate as the Committee, after hearing over 500 witnesses, dealing with over 250,000 letters from the concerned public and traveling thousands of miles across the country, was not permitted to table its report in Parliament. Concerns for the well-being of children, presented before the Committee by REAL Women, Dr. Margaret Somerville, and others, were ignored.
The traditional position on marriage did not receive fair exposure except for columns by a few stalwart journalists who put their careers on the line to report the facts against the promotion of same-sex marriage. Some columnists were and continue to be harassed by their editors for doing so. Many have received nasty hate mail and threats to their lives and safety. Journalists who dared exercise their right to freedom of expression by opposing the redefinition of marriage were abandoned by their fellow journalists who feared for their own status in the media industry.
Journalists who uphold the integrity of the profession today need our support. When you read their articles we ask that you encourage them personally. Write letters to the editor defending their point of view. These journalists often stand alone, never knowing when the axe will fall to end their employment as a result of a complaint from a reader whose feelings are hurt. We have our own effective network of information on pro-life, pro-family issues but the public at large is often misled if they are not tapping into this network. Brave journalists writing for major media outlets serve their country well during these difficult times for the family, and they need our support.
Whenever a columnist writes in support of life, family and traditional marriage, i.e., a man and woman united together to the exclusion of all others, please write in support of them. We can do no less in these troubling times where freedom of speech and opinion, although being a “Charter right” is being trodden on by media obsession with political correctness.
----- 14 -----
Radical Homosexual Changed American Culture
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2887
October 12, 2006 – Frank Kameny, a radical homosexual activist throughout his long career, was honored last week by the Library of Congress when it took possession of his private papers for archiving at the library.
Kameny became involved in what was known as the Gay Liberation Movement back in the 1950s, wrote one of the first legal briefs to legalize homosexuality and was instrumental in subverting the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 into removing homosexuality as a mental disorder from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
[More at URL]
----- 15 -----
If Democrats Win House, Rep. John Conyers Will Chair Judiciary Committee
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2886
October 12, 2006 – DiscoverTheNetworks has published a detailed profile of Michigan Democrat John Conyers, who will chair the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in November.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1987
Rep. Conyers is a committed hard-left radical who has called for the impeachment of President Bush and has ties to a pro-North Korea Marxist front organization and to leftist Islamic groups.
Conyers’ district in Detroit is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the U.S. His web site provides translations into Arabic.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1987
TVC’s report, “What If Liberals Win The Congress?” has more details on the security and moral dangers our nation faces if liberals gain control of the Senate or the House this November. Rep. John Conyers is only one troubling example of what will happen to our nation if leftists control the legislative branch.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/what_if_libs_win_congress.pdf
[More at URL]
----- 16 -----
Abortion Appeal Rejected; Battle Shifts To South Dakota
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2888
October 12, 2006 – The Supreme Court has rejected an effort by Operation Outcry to hear Sandra Cano’s appeal to overturn Roe v. Wade. Cano was involved in the companion decision, Doe v. Bolton, which is now known as Cano v. Baker. (Access Operation Outcry’s web site for background information on this case: http://www.operationoutcry.org.)
[...]
Background materials on the South Dakota abortion ban are available on this web site: http://www.voteyesforlife.com. For additional information on how you can help South Dakota maintain its ban on abortion, contact VoteYesForLife, Dr. Allen Unruh, 600 N. Western Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57104; 605-271-3972.
[More at URL]
----- 17 -----
Religious Freedom Clashes With Homosexual Agenda In Canada
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2884
October 12, 2006 – Homosexual activists in Canada, in league with liberals in the media, are working to ban any religious-based criticism of homosexual behavior.
The Regina Leader Post paper, for example, has said that while priests and ordained ministers should be free to criticize homosexual conduct, non-clergy should be prohibited from openly criticizing homosexuality. According to the paper, “There is an argument to be made for allowing religious leaders leeway in criticizing homosexuality. Many religions have prescriptions against the practice and religious leaders should be permitted to publicly defend their religion’s tenets. But extending that right to rank-and-file members of a religion goes too far.”
[...]
Newspapers throughout Canada are comparing opposition to homosexuality as illegal discrimination.
[More at URL]
[Editor's Note: The actual editorial is here, and the actual issue is about a defeated bill allowing state employees to refuse to perform marriage-related job duties if gay people are involved. So, say, a clerk could refuse a marriage license to gay couples, even though they are legally entitled, if they wanted to claim religious opposition to gay people. The newspaper opposes the idea.]
----- 18 -----
'Big Three' TV Networks Charged with Piling On in Reporting on Foley Scandal
By Jody Brown and Bill Fancher
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006a.asp
(AgapePress) - A conservative media watchdog group is reporting that its research exposes the mainstream media's biased treatment of sex scandals among lawmakers in Congress. Democrats, say some pro-family leaders, are pouncing on what that media group calls a "Foley feeding frenzy" as a tool to regain control of both the Senate and the House.
[...]
But Bauer is concerned the extensive media coverage of the Foley scandal is being used by liberals to discourage "values voters" and evangelical Christians from going to the polls in November. While he does not discount that report, the self-described optimist says he is hopeful those voting blocs will not stay home on Election Day.
"I certainly hope [those voters won't be turned off], because I think [the scandal] only proves the need for values voters to be even more active and engaged in the political process, not less so," he states.
[More at URL]
----- 19 -----
New Book Exposes Startling Truths About America's Public School System
Public Education Against America by Marlin Maddoux, Late Founder of USA Radio Network
Book Review by James L. Lambert
American Family Association/Agape Press
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006f.asp
(AgapePress) - The Christian world was deeply affected in March 2004 by news of the passing of Marlin Maddoux, a pioneer in radio as well as a noted journalist and author, who also hosted the weekday radio program, "Point of View" (featured on the USA Radio Network). And at his untimely death, the author's closest friends discovered another important contribution -- the transcripts for his new book, Public Education Against America (Whitaker House Press).
[More at URL]
----- 20 -----
Columnist Questions White House Silence On Interrogating Terrorists
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006d.asp
(AgapePress) - A conservative columnist says he does not understand why the Bush administration has kept silent regarding certain practices used in the interrogation of terrorism suspects -- or why other Washington conservatives object to the very idea.
[...]
The Human Events editor himself does not hesitate to state his approval of using such techniques on enemy al Qaida operatives like Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In fact, the conservative columnist asserts, Congress needs to pass legislation that says the Geneva Conventions' protections do not apply to captured terror suspects.
Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, among other U.S. officials, want to see the Geneva Conventions applied to all prisoners, which means torture would be off limits as an interrogation technique. But Gizzi finds these Republican senators' position difficult to understand, especially since both of them are veterans.
[More at URL]
----- 21 -----
Train Wreck Coming
Why homosexual marriage threatens free expression of religion.
David Aikman | posted 10/12/2006 09:04AM
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/october/31.138.html
In 2004, Swedish Pentecostal pastor Åke Green preached a sermon in which he denounced homosexuality as a "cancerous tumor" on society. A Swedish court subsequently sentenced him to one month in prison for hate speech (a charge that was eventually dismissed). Americans were shocked by the incident, but not alarmed. After all, those poor Swedes have no First Amendment protection of even the most eccentric religious beliefs, a protection Americans have as a matter of course.
Or do we?
[...]
It is unlikely that churches will be forced to conduct gay weddings against the consciences of pastors and priests. Still, the climate of assertive favoritism toward gays by state and local institutions across the country has already chilled sharply the atmosphere of free religious speech.
[More at URL]
----- 22 -----
Case to Consider Fitness of Lesbian Aunt in Adoption Matter
By Ed Thomas
American Family Association/Agape Press
October 12, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/122006d.asp
(AgapePress) - A pro-family First Amendment law firm is assisting in a case in Texas involving opposition to the attempted adoption of two siblings, ages seven years and five months, by an aunt who lives in a lesbian lifestyle.
[...]
"Regardless of your view on same-sex sexual practices, this is not what would be held up as an ideal home within which to place these two children, one of whom is an infant," says the attorney. It is unfortunate, he adds, that the issue of sexual orientation as a prohibition to adoption is one that is increasingly being done away with my modern courts -- which is why the attorney ad litem in the case has asked [American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy] to help.
[...]
[AFA Law Center council Steve] Crampton adds that the aunt is only a relative my [sic] adoption and was discharged from the military for her sexual orientation.
[More at URL]
----- 23 -----
National Marriage Caucus
Defend Marriage Canada
Tuesday, October 24th - Parliament Buildings
http://www.familyaction.org/defendmarriage/
(( NOTE : all registrants will meet at the NATIONAL PRESS CLUB - 150 Wellington St. at 8:30 sharp)) ( right across from Parliament Hill).
Radisson Parliament Hotel has rooms at $123 for registrants - advise them you are at the "CFAC event". call 613-236-1133 . [Ed. Note: CFAC is Canada Family Action Coalition, a theocon group which has been importing American anti-gay rhetoric and tactics in great number over the last couple of years.]
In 2005 the Parliament of Canada rushed to the “alter” and redefined marriage without fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility of holding proper public hearings examining the impact on Canadians. There was no social impact study done (with environment there is always a study). Educators must now teach the new law, deceiving our children with government funded same-sex sexually explicit curriculum. Not only is marriage called equal, now sodomy is equated to normal heterosexual relations. Clergy, acting as marriage commissioners are forced to marry same-sex couples. Religious institutions and facilities have no protection.
[More at URL]
----- 24 -----
Republican Gays are Closeted Dems
By Cliff Kincaid | October 12, 2006
So if the gay Republicans are not really Republicans, what are they?
Send this page to a friend
Format this page for printing
http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4931_0_3_0_C/
The complex nature of the "dirty trick" against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic operatives. Instead, the GOP has played a trick on itself. The party brought so-called gay Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize that the confidential information they held about a secret gay network was political dynamite that could backfire.
At this point in the scandal, the issue is not whether there was such a network, but how big it is. CBS Evening News correspondent Gloria Borger reported the emerging belief that "a group of high-level gay Republican staffers were protecting" Foley. A New York Times story by Mark Leibovich confirmed that gay Republicans have occupied "crucial staff positions" in Congress and "have played decisive roles in passing legislation, running campaigns and advancing careers."
[...]
So if the gay Republicans are not really Republicans, what are they? One veteran observer of this network told AIM that the Foley scandal should make it crystal clear that the gay Republicans are in reality "liberal activists" who want to use the party to advance the same homosexual agenda embraced by the Democrats.
[...]
It's early in the probe, but we may be looking at emerging evidence of a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill. It's time to get beyond partisan politics and follow the evidence wherever it leads. Our media should not be intimidated by charges of "gay bashing." They must lead the way in getting to the bottom of this terrible abuse of power.
[More at URL]
Well, we know were Secretary Rice stands now on the fundamentalist-lead anti-GBLT-GOP jihad: ours. Yay, sanity! (Spotted by
filkertom on AmericaBlog);Meanwhile, our local clusterfuck of theoconservatism, the Faith and Freedom Network, tries to rally the fundamentalist vote for the GOP by bringing out the newtype blood libel: all queers are child rapists, Nancy Pelosi, the likely speaker should the Democrats take over the house (as if) next year, marches in NAMBLA parades (yes, really: "would a Speaker of the House really support the National American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she presently does, to march in their parades"?), and so on. The apparent non sequitur is to equate GBLT people to child rapists, like, well, they do. Also, they claim the 2004 exit polls were "manipulated by the Democratic party," which is, well, another lie, and point to their endorsement/voter's guides again;
Focus on the Family's latest election plug - vote GOP or queers will get married, there will be more stem-cell research, and no new abortion rights reestrictions;
FotF warns their membership - omg just when you thought you were safe from sex ed, now colleges are being all smexxy! And teaching about sex! Ph33r secular colleges and
FotF: American families are safer now that internet gambling has been prohibited by the feds;
Remember, any non-condemnational mention of GBLT people's existence is to be condemned: Focus on the Family story about a lesbian schoolteacher who mentioned herself;
Faith and Freedom Network joins in the "War on Christmas" bullshit;
Faith and Freedom Network petition to have retailers "JUST SAY CHRISTMAS" in advertising and store signs; the way it's worded is genuinely ambiguous to me - it's like they want to say "ONLY SAY CHRISTMAS" (as several fundamentalist groups have done) but are providing just enough ambiguity to stay just on this side of that line;
FotF complains about "personal insults" being used by people campaigning against marriage rights bans, talking about "intimidation tactics;" funny, personally I'd think that writing anti-me language into Federal and state constitutions would quality pretty well as an "intimidation tactic" - not to mention the stream of newtype blood libel (GBLT = child rapists, etc) spew that you can see documented in these updates regularly;
FotF characterisies marijuana reform as a "party" initiative;
Focus on the Family, Alliance Defense Fund applaud Pope Benedict for condemning marriage rights efforts as "hedonism"; ADF's Mike Johnson calls GBLT rights "a cataclysmic social battle";
FotF and Parents Television Council claim that NBC is writing obscenities into prime-time shows; includes ACTION ITEM to pour in more "broadcast indecency" complaints to the FCC;
REAL Women of Canada condemn media for not being anti-marriage-rights enough, sends out ACTION ITEM to write newspapers in support of anti-gay articles and columns, and to send in letters against marriage rights;
Traditional Values Coalition cranky that the papers of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny have been accepted by the Library of Congress;
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP! Or John Conyers will chair the judiciary committee, and he is "a committed hard-left radical who... has ties to a pro-North Korea Marxist front organization and to leftist Islamic groups." Also, he's called for the impeachment of Mr. Bush. Oddly, so have I;
TVC ACTION ITEM: Volunteer in South Dakota to help defeat initiative to overturn that state's comprehensive abortion ban, which, I remind my readership, does not include exemptions for the health of the woman;
TVC says "homosexual activists" in Canada are outlawing opposition to homosexuality, quoting a bunch of material out of context (actual context provided), like they do - the actual issue is that the Regina Leader Post wrote an editorial against a bill allowing government employees to refuse to do their jobs regarding GBLT people if they claimed religious opposition - specifically, the plan was to make it hard for lesbian and gay people to get married. The bill failed; the editorial is mostly about how the Tories are not helping themselves with this sort of thing;
The American Family Association's latest "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE AND VOTE GOP" article;
AFA promotes book condemning public education as anti-Christian, pro-GBLT, pro-evolutionary theory, and on and on and on;
AFA support article relaying a Human Events columnist's endorsement of waterboarding and his assertion torture should be just fine; feigns confusion about why any veteran in particular would oppose torture;
Christianity Today column adopting the "marriage rights destroys freedom of religion" rhetoric;
American Family Association legal wing assisting in Texas adoption case; the idea is that lesbian (and, presumably, gay) people shouldn't being allowed to adopt; there's also a funny-odd moment when they say the aunt who is trying to adopt the children is "only" a relative by marriage and criticise her for being kicked out of the military - because of the same GBLT ban they helped get put in place;
DefendMarriage Canada notice about a big end-marriage-rights caucus they're organising at the National Press Club and Parliament buildings in Ottawa;
Accuracy In Media: GBLT Republicans are actually closeted Democrats, "liberal activists who want to use the party to advance the... homosexual agenda," and a "secret gay network" of gay GOP staffers were protecting Foley and engineered the Foley scandal as a Democratic "dirty trick"; oh, and best of all, "we may be looking at... a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill."
----- 1 -----
Condi recognizes gay man's "mother in law" in front of Laura Bush at official ceremony
by John in DC
Thursday, October 12, 2006
AmericaBlog.blogspot.com
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/condi-recognizes-gay-mans-mother-in.html
Page scandal exposes GOP's gay identity crisisIt doesn't get more real than that. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a member of George Bush's cabinet, while standing alongside First Lady Laura Bush, recognized a gay man, his partner, and his "mother in law" - i.e., his gay partner's mom.
USA Today
October 12, 2006
By Kathy Kiely, USA Today
WASHINGTON - At a State Department ceremony this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warmly acknowledged the family members of Mark Dybul, whom she was swearing in as the nation's new global AIDS coordinator.
As first lady Laura Bush looked on, Rice singled out his partner, Jason Claire, and Claire's mother. Rice referred to her as Dybul's "mother-in-law."
[More at URL]
----- 2 -----
A Time to Keep Silent and a Time to Speak
Faith and Freedom Network
Thursday, October 12, 2006
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/10/time-to-keep-silent-and-time-to-speak.html
There is an ancient saying found in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes that says, “To everything there is a season.” (3:1). “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” (3:7).
Apparently, the liberal secularists have decided that this is their time to speak.
With lengthy lectures on morality in the Mark Foley scandal, to long lessons on national security regarding the testing of a nuke by North Korea, the secularists, along with the citing of poll after poll which supports their claims, are assuring themselves of victory on the next page of this year’s calendar.
[...]
In fact, they are so sure of victory that Nancy Deloss, who would become Speaker of the House, has already unveiled her agenda for the first 100 hours of her speakership.
So, the secularists feel this is their time to speak.
Here’s why I feel they are wrong.
[...]
Remember the early exit poll reports in the 2004 general election? The exit polls, it was later discovered, had been manipulated by operatives of the Democratic Party and the media to deflate the interest of conservative voters and cause them to just stay home, thinking the election was already won by John Kerry and his secularist party.
In the end, conservatives and people of faith were not fooled, they did go ahead and vote and President Bush and his party were re-elected.
[...]
I do not believe that we are ready to turn over the control of our government to a group of people who have proven themselves to be for opening our borders beyond anything we have seen to date, to spending more tax money and raising taxes as they advance a secular agenda and to a group of people whose mantra, in recent years, has been, “separation of church and state,” which interpreted means, don’t allow the Christian church to influence public life through politics.
I also feel they are wrong because reasonable people are not ready to allow a party that actively promotes the radical homosexual agenda, even taking a position against the Boy Scouts of America for their moral refusal to permit homosexuals to be scout masters.
And, would a Speaker of the House really support the National American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she presently does, to march in their parades. And would she continue to work for her 90 percent approval rating with the ACLU?
[...]
Gary Randall
President
Faith & Freedom
[More at URL]
----- 3 -----
The High Cost of Indifference
If polls are to be believed, there is a feeling among some values voters that Election Day is no big deal. They couldn't be more wrong.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042309.cfm
There are fewer than four weeks left before Americans go to the polls and cast their ballots on Election Day, and some family advocates are concerned that values voters — who had such impact in 2004 — may not bother to show up for the midterm congressional elections.
"If you don't show up, you have done precisely what the liberals want you to do," Don Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association, told CitizenLink. "They will have succeeded magnificently if we, as values voters, come to the place of saying, 'Well, it's not worth it. I'm not even going to go vote.' They will have won."
[More at URL]
----- 4 -----
College Sex-Ed Racier
Permissiveness growing on campuses nationwide.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042301.cfm
You may be feeling pretty good that your college-aged kids made it out of high school without being too badly injured by Planned Parenthood's version of sex education. But don't relax yet: College classes are starting to pick up where Planned Parenthood left off — and it's no-holds-barred.
Daisy DeMelo goes to a secular college in the Midwest. After growing up in a Christian home, she is a bit taken aback at the sexuality on campus. Weekends are especially trying.
[...]
Some of the attitudes on campuses across the country are fed by the schools themselves. Robin Sawyer teaches at the University of Maryland, and is intent on giving his students what they didn't get in high school.
"Because what they get in high school is an absolute joke with regard to sexuality education," he told Family News in Focus, "particularly over the last 10 or 15 years of more conservatism."
Any topic is fair game in Sawyer's class —and pretty much every topic is broached. He makes sure there are no burdensome restrictions on what he teaches.
[...]
Linda Klepacki, sexual health analyst for Focus on the Family, said it's important for parents to instill biblical values before their kids leave for freshman orientation.
[More at URL]
[Editor's note: The course they're talking about is discussed here, and this page contains a link to the PDF of the course descrption.]
----- 5 -----
Bush Signs Internet-Gambling Prohibition
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042308.cfm
President Bush today signed into law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act — a law that will protect American families from predatory online casinos.
The act, which was included in the Safe Port Act, was approved by Congress in September. It will strengthen existing laws and give law enforcement the tools to prosecute illegal online gambling.
Chad Hills, gambling analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said American families are safer.
"By approving this legislation," he said, "our government has protected the nation's families from predatory online casinos, which have addicted many Americans, especially college students."
[More at URL]
----- 6 -----
Gay Teacher Discloses Orientation to Elementary Kids
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042305.cfm
Parents are outraged over a Minneapolis teacher who disclosed his homosexuality to his second-grade class, telling students he and his partner are planning to adopt — but not telling parents of his plans ahead of time, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
Peter Sage, teaching from the "Families All Matter" curriculum, read a prescribed book about a two-mom family. He then went on to explain to the 23 students that he too is gay.
According to Sage, he also said that some people have different views of people not like them, describing how he disagreed with his grandfather's negative view of blacks.
When parents complained to the principal, they were told their children could not be reassigned to another class. According to the Family Research Council, some were told they should consider enrolling their kids in a private school.
[More at URL]
----- 7 -----
Just Say Christmas
Faith and Freedom Network
Friday, October 13, 2006
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/10/just-say-christmas_13.html
Every year the attack on Christmas begins about now. Retailers run away from the word because they don't want to offend any of their customers, even though 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas.
Schools shrink in fear of ACLU lawsuits if the word "Christmas" is mentioned during this time of year on the school grounds or on school calendars.
[More at URL]
----- 8 -----
Just Say Christmas Petition
Faith and Freedom Netework
Online as of 13 October 2006
http://faithandfreedom.us/justsaychristmas.html
Please add your name to the petition below that we are sending to Walmart, Target, Costco, and Sears asking them to "JUST SAY CHRISTMAS" in their advertising and store signs. We will be sending this letter on November 10th.
[More at URL]
----- 9 -----
State Marriage Campaigns are Targets of Intimidation Tactics
Mainstream news media see nothing to report.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042294.cfm
People in Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin are just 26 days away from deciding the fate of amendments to protect marriage.
In Wisconsin, proponents of traditional marriage find themselves the target of intimidation and harassment tactics utilized by their opponents, according to Julaine Appling, executive director of the Wisconsin Family Research Institute -- and a leader of the Vote Yes for Marriage campaign.
"What we should be debating here in Wisconsin," she said, "is: What does this amendment do? What will happen in if we don't put this amendment in place? What will Wisconsin look like if we give people who want to redefine marriage the opportunity to do so, by not putting the amendment in place?"
Instead, gay activists have used the press to make personal insults against Appling. At the same time, she said the news media have ignored and refused to cover the intimidation tactics that homosexual activists are employing.
[More at URL]
----- 10 -----
States Consider Marijuana Legalization
Supporters say it's time to "party responsibly."
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042296.cfm
In spite of being voted down again and again, efforts to legalize marijuana continue to appear on ballots.
In Colorado, supporters rationalize the effort to legalize marijuana by arguing that if the drug is legal, people will choose to smoke a joint rather than drink alcohol.
Mason Tvert, a spokesman for SAFERchoice, said it might mean fewer people would drink and drive.
[More at URL]
----- 11 -----
Pope Speaks Out Against Redefining Marriage
Benedict says efforts to change the institution are based on hedonism.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042295.cfm
While speaking against same-sex marriage last week, Pope Benedict XVI urged believers to reject "modern cultural currents" rooted in "relativism and hedonism."
It marked some of the pontiff's strongest language yet to discourage Catholics from turning away from traditional values.
Jeanette DeMelo, a spokeswoman for the Denver archdiocese, said it was the right language to use.
"He uses the word 'hedonism,' " she said. "It's not something that we talk about very frequently anymore, because it's a very strong word. But really he's talking about relationships that are pleasure-driven, and I think he chose those words to mean exactly that."
[...]
Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said the pope is in tune with other Christian leaders who have been issuing similar warnings for some time.
"There are a lot of leaders in ministry and politics that have recognized this as a cataclysmic social battle," he said. "When the institutions like marriage are under fire, I think that some of that language is being used commonly among leaders who at least recognize those trends."
[More at URL]
----- 12 -----
NBC Scripting Foul Language into Shows
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042298.cfm
According to the Parents Television Council (PTC), broadcasters are intentionally scripting illegal obscenities into prime-time television.
The FCC prohibits indecent content from being broadcast between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Obscene language is always prohibited. Now NBC and other broadcasters are adding obscenities to prime-time shows in order to challenge the law.
[More at URL]
----- 13 -----
SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OPINION IN THE MEDIA
REAL Women of Canada
A L E R T
October 11, 2006
http://www.realwomenca.com/alerts.htm#oct11_06
Media coverage of the same-sex marriage issue has been horrendous. The public has been deprived of valuable information as the debate has been deliberately framed in terms of human rights and Charter rights only. Coverage of the Parliamentary Committee that studied the issue was inadequate as the Committee, after hearing over 500 witnesses, dealing with over 250,000 letters from the concerned public and traveling thousands of miles across the country, was not permitted to table its report in Parliament. Concerns for the well-being of children, presented before the Committee by REAL Women, Dr. Margaret Somerville, and others, were ignored.
The traditional position on marriage did not receive fair exposure except for columns by a few stalwart journalists who put their careers on the line to report the facts against the promotion of same-sex marriage. Some columnists were and continue to be harassed by their editors for doing so. Many have received nasty hate mail and threats to their lives and safety. Journalists who dared exercise their right to freedom of expression by opposing the redefinition of marriage were abandoned by their fellow journalists who feared for their own status in the media industry.
Journalists who uphold the integrity of the profession today need our support. When you read their articles we ask that you encourage them personally. Write letters to the editor defending their point of view. These journalists often stand alone, never knowing when the axe will fall to end their employment as a result of a complaint from a reader whose feelings are hurt. We have our own effective network of information on pro-life, pro-family issues but the public at large is often misled if they are not tapping into this network. Brave journalists writing for major media outlets serve their country well during these difficult times for the family, and they need our support.
Whenever a columnist writes in support of life, family and traditional marriage, i.e., a man and woman united together to the exclusion of all others, please write in support of them. We can do no less in these troubling times where freedom of speech and opinion, although being a “Charter right” is being trodden on by media obsession with political correctness.
----- 14 -----
Radical Homosexual Changed American Culture
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2887
October 12, 2006 – Frank Kameny, a radical homosexual activist throughout his long career, was honored last week by the Library of Congress when it took possession of his private papers for archiving at the library.
Kameny became involved in what was known as the Gay Liberation Movement back in the 1950s, wrote one of the first legal briefs to legalize homosexuality and was instrumental in subverting the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 into removing homosexuality as a mental disorder from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
[More at URL]
----- 15 -----
If Democrats Win House, Rep. John Conyers Will Chair Judiciary Committee
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2886
October 12, 2006 – DiscoverTheNetworks has published a detailed profile of Michigan Democrat John Conyers, who will chair the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in November.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1987
Rep. Conyers is a committed hard-left radical who has called for the impeachment of President Bush and has ties to a pro-North Korea Marxist front organization and to leftist Islamic groups.
Conyers’ district in Detroit is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the U.S. His web site provides translations into Arabic.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1987
TVC’s report, “What If Liberals Win The Congress?” has more details on the security and moral dangers our nation faces if liberals gain control of the Senate or the House this November. Rep. John Conyers is only one troubling example of what will happen to our nation if leftists control the legislative branch.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/what_if_libs_win_congress.pdf
[More at URL]
----- 16 -----
Abortion Appeal Rejected; Battle Shifts To South Dakota
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2888
October 12, 2006 – The Supreme Court has rejected an effort by Operation Outcry to hear Sandra Cano’s appeal to overturn Roe v. Wade. Cano was involved in the companion decision, Doe v. Bolton, which is now known as Cano v. Baker. (Access Operation Outcry’s web site for background information on this case: http://www.operationoutcry.org.)
[...]
Background materials on the South Dakota abortion ban are available on this web site: http://www.voteyesforlife.com. For additional information on how you can help South Dakota maintain its ban on abortion, contact VoteYesForLife, Dr. Allen Unruh, 600 N. Western Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57104; 605-271-3972.
[More at URL]
----- 17 -----
Religious Freedom Clashes With Homosexual Agenda In Canada
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2884
October 12, 2006 – Homosexual activists in Canada, in league with liberals in the media, are working to ban any religious-based criticism of homosexual behavior.
The Regina Leader Post paper, for example, has said that while priests and ordained ministers should be free to criticize homosexual conduct, non-clergy should be prohibited from openly criticizing homosexuality. According to the paper, “There is an argument to be made for allowing religious leaders leeway in criticizing homosexuality. Many religions have prescriptions against the practice and religious leaders should be permitted to publicly defend their religion’s tenets. But extending that right to rank-and-file members of a religion goes too far.”
[...]
Newspapers throughout Canada are comparing opposition to homosexuality as illegal discrimination.
[More at URL]
[Editor's Note: The actual editorial is here, and the actual issue is about a defeated bill allowing state employees to refuse to perform marriage-related job duties if gay people are involved. So, say, a clerk could refuse a marriage license to gay couples, even though they are legally entitled, if they wanted to claim religious opposition to gay people. The newspaper opposes the idea.]
----- 18 -----
'Big Three' TV Networks Charged with Piling On in Reporting on Foley Scandal
By Jody Brown and Bill Fancher
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006a.asp
(AgapePress) - A conservative media watchdog group is reporting that its research exposes the mainstream media's biased treatment of sex scandals among lawmakers in Congress. Democrats, say some pro-family leaders, are pouncing on what that media group calls a "Foley feeding frenzy" as a tool to regain control of both the Senate and the House.
[...]
But Bauer is concerned the extensive media coverage of the Foley scandal is being used by liberals to discourage "values voters" and evangelical Christians from going to the polls in November. While he does not discount that report, the self-described optimist says he is hopeful those voting blocs will not stay home on Election Day.
"I certainly hope [those voters won't be turned off], because I think [the scandal] only proves the need for values voters to be even more active and engaged in the political process, not less so," he states.
[More at URL]
----- 19 -----
New Book Exposes Startling Truths About America's Public School System
Public Education Against America by Marlin Maddoux, Late Founder of USA Radio Network
Book Review by James L. Lambert
American Family Association/Agape Press
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006f.asp
(AgapePress) - The Christian world was deeply affected in March 2004 by news of the passing of Marlin Maddoux, a pioneer in radio as well as a noted journalist and author, who also hosted the weekday radio program, "Point of View" (featured on the USA Radio Network). And at his untimely death, the author's closest friends discovered another important contribution -- the transcripts for his new book, Public Education Against America (Whitaker House Press).
[More at URL]
----- 20 -----
Columnist Questions White House Silence On Interrogating Terrorists
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006d.asp
(AgapePress) - A conservative columnist says he does not understand why the Bush administration has kept silent regarding certain practices used in the interrogation of terrorism suspects -- or why other Washington conservatives object to the very idea.
[...]
The Human Events editor himself does not hesitate to state his approval of using such techniques on enemy al Qaida operatives like Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In fact, the conservative columnist asserts, Congress needs to pass legislation that says the Geneva Conventions' protections do not apply to captured terror suspects.
Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, among other U.S. officials, want to see the Geneva Conventions applied to all prisoners, which means torture would be off limits as an interrogation technique. But Gizzi finds these Republican senators' position difficult to understand, especially since both of them are veterans.
[More at URL]
----- 21 -----
Train Wreck Coming
Why homosexual marriage threatens free expression of religion.
David Aikman | posted 10/12/2006 09:04AM
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/october/31.138.html
In 2004, Swedish Pentecostal pastor Åke Green preached a sermon in which he denounced homosexuality as a "cancerous tumor" on society. A Swedish court subsequently sentenced him to one month in prison for hate speech (a charge that was eventually dismissed). Americans were shocked by the incident, but not alarmed. After all, those poor Swedes have no First Amendment protection of even the most eccentric religious beliefs, a protection Americans have as a matter of course.
Or do we?
[...]
It is unlikely that churches will be forced to conduct gay weddings against the consciences of pastors and priests. Still, the climate of assertive favoritism toward gays by state and local institutions across the country has already chilled sharply the atmosphere of free religious speech.
[More at URL]
----- 22 -----
Case to Consider Fitness of Lesbian Aunt in Adoption Matter
By Ed Thomas
American Family Association/Agape Press
October 12, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/122006d.asp
(AgapePress) - A pro-family First Amendment law firm is assisting in a case in Texas involving opposition to the attempted adoption of two siblings, ages seven years and five months, by an aunt who lives in a lesbian lifestyle.
[...]
"Regardless of your view on same-sex sexual practices, this is not what would be held up as an ideal home within which to place these two children, one of whom is an infant," says the attorney. It is unfortunate, he adds, that the issue of sexual orientation as a prohibition to adoption is one that is increasingly being done away with my modern courts -- which is why the attorney ad litem in the case has asked [American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy] to help.
[...]
[AFA Law Center council Steve] Crampton adds that the aunt is only a relative my [sic] adoption and was discharged from the military for her sexual orientation.
[More at URL]
----- 23 -----
National Marriage Caucus
Defend Marriage Canada
Tuesday, October 24th - Parliament Buildings
http://www.familyaction.org/defendmarriage/
(( NOTE : all registrants will meet at the NATIONAL PRESS CLUB - 150 Wellington St. at 8:30 sharp)) ( right across from Parliament Hill).
Radisson Parliament Hotel has rooms at $123 for registrants - advise them you are at the "CFAC event". call 613-236-1133 . [Ed. Note: CFAC is Canada Family Action Coalition, a theocon group which has been importing American anti-gay rhetoric and tactics in great number over the last couple of years.]
In 2005 the Parliament of Canada rushed to the “alter” and redefined marriage without fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility of holding proper public hearings examining the impact on Canadians. There was no social impact study done (with environment there is always a study). Educators must now teach the new law, deceiving our children with government funded same-sex sexually explicit curriculum. Not only is marriage called equal, now sodomy is equated to normal heterosexual relations. Clergy, acting as marriage commissioners are forced to marry same-sex couples. Religious institutions and facilities have no protection.
[More at URL]
----- 24 -----
Republican Gays are Closeted Dems
By Cliff Kincaid | October 12, 2006
So if the gay Republicans are not really Republicans, what are they?
Send this page to a friend
Format this page for printing
http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4931_0_3_0_C/
The complex nature of the "dirty trick" against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic operatives. Instead, the GOP has played a trick on itself. The party brought so-called gay Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize that the confidential information they held about a secret gay network was political dynamite that could backfire.
At this point in the scandal, the issue is not whether there was such a network, but how big it is. CBS Evening News correspondent Gloria Borger reported the emerging belief that "a group of high-level gay Republican staffers were protecting" Foley. A New York Times story by Mark Leibovich confirmed that gay Republicans have occupied "crucial staff positions" in Congress and "have played decisive roles in passing legislation, running campaigns and advancing careers."
[...]
So if the gay Republicans are not really Republicans, what are they? One veteran observer of this network told AIM that the Foley scandal should make it crystal clear that the gay Republicans are in reality "liberal activists" who want to use the party to advance the same homosexual agenda embraced by the Democrats.
[...]
It's early in the probe, but we may be looking at emerging evidence of a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill. It's time to get beyond partisan politics and follow the evidence wherever it leads. Our media should not be intimidated by charges of "gay bashing." They must lead the way in getting to the bottom of this terrible abuse of power.
[More at URL]
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-10-14 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-14 09:19 am (UTC)As for article 4, surely if you tell kids not to do something, that's quite likely to lead to certain people actually doing it?
no subject
Date: 2006-10-14 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-14 06:01 pm (UTC)Re #21
Date: 2006-10-14 09:37 pm (UTC)1. Church of Sweden ministers are currently allowed, but not required, to wed same-sex couples.
2. The Swedish constitution of course guarantees freedom of religion and of expression.
3. In Sweden, if you use those two freedoms to bring harm to anyone, you're still breaking the law. The way I see it, it's just like if the constitution gives you right to bear arms, but shooting someone is still a crime.
no subject
Date: 2006-10-15 12:30 am (UTC)