Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Feb. 19th, 2007 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdHere, have a mini-update. More to come, I'm studying for my bio midterm on Wednesday and also trying to finish up my tax prep. God damn I hate doing taxes.
Mitt Romney claims that Sam Brownback used to be pro-choice too; however, Senator Brownback's people say, "oh, HELL no he wasn't";
New Republic notices that the theocon-backed "gay marriage" bans are designed to hurt queers in any way possible, and that the "protecting marriage" thing is mostly spin;
Houston Chronicle condemns "freakish memo" against evolutionary theory in classrooms;
American Family Association puts out a very old-school ACTION ITEM against "sickness masquerading as art" at Sundance;
AFA ACTION ITEM against Ford Motor for advertising on a show called "Dirt," which had a January 16 episode including implied gay sex;
Family Research Council ACTION ITEM against what they call "mandatory HPV vaccination of schoolgirls," which is to say including the HPV anti-cervical-cancer vaccine in the standard school set. Note that the use of the word "mandatory" is a lie; Texas law lets you opt out of even the school vaccination programme. The reason they oppose the HPV vaccine, even on an opt-out basis, because it will "be administered in a manner that promotes the myth of 'safe sex.'";
Family Research Council ACTION ITEM against a health exemption in a parental-notification law in New Hampshire;
Traditional Values Coalition condemns Hawai'i effort to pass civil unions, which it describes as "the same thing as homosexual marriage";
TVC ACTION ITEM condemning Massachusetts for including same-sex couples in descriptions of state marriage, marriage of same-sex couples being legal in the state and all;
TVC, which has advocated the policy that transgendered people should be involuntarily institutionalised, condemns the University of Southern Maine for adjusting its housing rules to deal with transgendered people and also gay and lesbian students;
TVC condemns teenaged transwoman in Germany, calling GRS "genital mutilation";
TVC condemns attempts to "lure Christians to Democrat Party," asserts that the "Sojourners" Christian group is "more in line with the old Soviet Union than with America".
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Brownback campaign: Romney misleading voters
eyeon08.com
"Watching the 2008 pre-election"
Online as of 12 February 2007
http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/02/12/brownback-campaign-romney-misleading-voters/
I think that this press release just about says it all. No need to comment. Apparently this was triggered by the Romney campaign circulating statements comparing Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney’s record on abortion:
Mitt Romney’s Campaign Misleads Voters about Senator Brownback’s Position on Abortion
"Mitt Romney’s flip flops are enough to make John Kerry blush."
Alexandria, VA – Documentation surfaced over the weekend that the Romney for President Exploratory Committee is misleading voters.
In an e-mail circulated to right-to-life leaders on February 8, 2007, a key Romney staffer wrote: "Just like Sam Brownback, Mitt was once pro-choice but changed his views upon being elected to office… When Brownback was elected to office, that is when he also had a conversion and voted with the pro-life movement."
Brownback for President National Campaign Committee Member Dr. Jack Willke, who was President of National Right to Life for ten years, responded: "Senator Brownback has always been pro-life, and has never made a statement or cast any vote to the contrary."
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A gay marriage ban that hurts conservatives.
Spouse Abuse
by Jonathan Cohn
The New Republic
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=LtYthOOtlbZwz4o%2BlnfuuS%3D%3D
ancer Peter Sparling isn't just another resident of this city; he's an institution. A graduate of Julliard and protégé of the legendary choreographer Martha Graham, Sparling left New York two decades ago to join the University of Michigan faculty. It was a homecoming of sorts for Sparling, who had grown up in nearby Detroit, and, once he returned, Sparling figured he was back for good. In 1993, with the university's blessing, he established the Peter Sparling Dance Company--a troupe known nationally for its innovative performances and beloved locally for its popular children's dance classes. By late summer 2004, as he was celebrating his 20th year with the university and his eleventh with the dance company, Sparling told the Detroit Free Press that "I've never felt more rooted to a place than I do right now to Michigan."
But today Sparling wonders whether he can stay, thanks to a decision handed down by a state appeals court two weeks ago. According to the decision, Michigan's 2004 law against gay marriage prohibits state-run institutions from extending spousal benefits to gay couples. And that's a big problem for Sparling, whose partner of 17 years is a self-employed visual artist who depends upon Sparling for health insurance. Given the couple's financial resources and his partner's health problems, Sparling says buying individual coverage for him will be virtually impossible. "We definitely want to stay--we've invested too much in this town," Sparling tells me in an interview. "But we would have to consider leaving if it were financially difficult."
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Of course, many conservatives in Michigan and around the country would reject that premise. The whole point of their crusade against same-sex marriage is to de-legitimize gay couples as families. But public opinion is moving in precisely the opposite direction: Americans have grown more tolerant--not less--of homosexuality over time. According to a recent Gallup-USA Today poll, 54 percent of Americans now consider homosexuality acceptable, the highest percentage that survey ever recorded. And each succeeding generation is proving more tolerant than the last: While only 36 percent of people older than 80 think it's acceptable, 62 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds do.
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Not in Kansas anymore
Just when Kansas returns science to the classroom, Rep. Chisum tries to goad Texas toward Dark Ages.
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Feb. 15, 2007, 8:13PM
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4557923.html
It started off as a such a good week — both for science and for the American students who must understand it to compete with their peers abroad. The Kansas Board of Education finally joined most of the United States in accepting the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Then Texas' own state Rep. Warren Chisum, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had to mail colleagues a freakish memo denouncing evolution as a religious plot disseminated by one "Pharisee Religion."
The mix of nonsense, free-floating anti-Semitism, misuse of power and seeming obliviousness to all of the above were like a dip into the Dark Ages.
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Tax dollars support sickness masquerading as art at Sundance Film Festival
Contact Your U.S. Senators and Representative Today!
February 6, 2007
http://www.afa.net/neasundance.htm
Recently I sent you information on two films featured at the Sundance Film Festival. One, "Hounddog," featured a scene where a 12-year-old girl was raped. The other film, "Zoo," was about a man having sex with a horse.
AFA has learned that your tax dollars were used to support the Sundance Film Festival. The National Endowment for the Arts gave between $100,000 and $249,000 to help underwrite the festival, and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) gave between $50,000 and $99,999.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) gets millions of dollars to support "art." A few years ago the NEA helped fund a crucifix submerged in urine and named "Pis- Christ." NEA has sponsored similar "art" projects with tax dollars.
PBS gets tax funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Every other non-profit broadcasting station must raise their own funds, but CPB and PBS are funded with hundreds of millions of tax dollars. PBS is probably the most liberal network in America. Hollywood has hundreds of millions of dollars to underwrite the cost of the Sundance Film Festival, but they would rather use your tax dollars than their own money. Together, these two organizations provided upwards of $350,000 of tax money to the film festival.
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Ford Helps Sponsor Explicit, Sickening Homosexual Scene
American Family Association
January 23, 2006
http://www.afa.net/aa012307.asp
Rather than backing down from its support of homosexuality, Ford Motor Company has apparently taken a "rub it in your face" attitude.
On the January 16 episode of "Dirt," which airs on the FX channel, Ford helped sponsor one of the most explicit, sickening homosexual scenes ever shown on television.
Because it is so explicit, I could not even include a description of it here. I hope you will simply trust me. However, if you want to read our review of the scene, or to see the video of the scene, click here. Be forewarned, it is extremely graphic.
Ford has made it extremely clear that they have no intentions of ending their support of homosexuality. Among other things, the company reneged on their agreement to remain neutral in the culture wars, increased their support of homosexual publications, sponsored TV programs pushing homosexuality and required employees to attend "diversity" training promoting homosexuality. For more information on Ford's track record, go to BoycottFord.com.
Take Action
Send an e-mail to Ford's new CEO Alan R. Mulally.
Forward this e-mail to your local Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda or Ford dealer (all owned by Ford). Find their e-mail address here (click on the auto icon). Ask the dealer to forward it to CEO Mulally.
If you haven't already done so, please sign the Boycott Ford Pledge.
Print out the Boycott Ford Petition and distribute it at Sunday School and church.
Extremely important! Help us get the word out about Ford by forwarding this to friends and family! For more information on Ford’s support for the homosexual agenda, click here.
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Oppose Mandatory HPV Vaccination of Schoolgirls
[Editor's note: The word "mandatory" is a lie; Texas law allows opting out of school vaccinations.]
February 9, 2007 - Friday
Family Research Council
Forward to a Friend!
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL07B02&f=PG06I01#FORM
Governor Rick Perry of Texas (R) bypassed the state legislature last week and issued an executive order requiring every schoolgirl in Texas to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus by the fall of this year. The decision to issue this mandate from the governor's mansion and to end debate in the state legislature has caused a firestorm of controversy - and it should have. With this one decision, Gov. Perry, a leader with a strong pro-family record, has short-circuited the kind of legislative debate that is most likely to produce a law that will counter the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and protect the constitutional rights of parents to make medical decisions affecting their children's health.
Your help is needed: Call Gov. Perry at 512-463-2000 and ask him to rescind his executive order and allow the Texas state legislature to vote on this issue.
The health objectives involved are certainly vital. The vaccine in question - trade-named Gardasil and produced by Merck & Co. pharmaceuticals - is reportedly safe and effective against strains of HPV that cause 70% of the cases of cervical cancer, a malady that kills some 3,700 women a year in the United States. Like other vaccines, however, Gardasil is not without risk of side-effects. Moreover, it is administered in a series of three doses whose cost is at least $360 per patient and possibly much higher. Because HPV infection is caused by sexual activity, it is not transmitted by casual contact and therefore is not in the same class as other diseases like polio for which mandatory, school-based vaccination is a public health imperative.
Informed and empowered, most parents will decide to have their children vaccinated against HPV, but many will decide to do so only after more health data has emerged, when their daughter is older, or in settings that minimize the risk that the vaccination will be administered in a manner that promotes the myth of "safe sex." These parents have rights too, and Gov. Perry's sweeping order, even with its "opt-out" feature, tramples on their wisdom and usurps their responsibility. An information and "opt-in" policy for Gardasil would better serve the rights of all Texas families.
Please call Gov. Perry and let him know you support restoring the legislative process on Gardasil in order to preserve parental rights. His order has galvanized the HPV vaccine debate across the United States and put new focus on the balance between public health and parental rights, a balance that has suffered so much in our sexualized culture.
Thank you for taking action today and God bless you.
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New Hampshire Committee Votes to Silence Parents
To: Friends of Family Research Council
From: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins
February 16, 2007 - Friday
Please forward this to your Friends and Family!
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU07B12
While nearly a dozen states debate laws that would expand parents' rights, the New Hampshire legislature is working overtime to undermine them. Since 2003, the Granite State has had a parental notification law on the books, requiring at least one parent to be informed 48 hours before their minor daughter has an abortion. Planned Parenthood, concerned that the law would scare off business, challenged the measure in court on the grounds that it didn't include a health exemption for the mother. Ultimately, the suit landed in the U.S. Supreme Court, where, in January of last year, the justices reversed a ruling that had struck down the law. Now the state legislature is fighting to repeal the law, insisting that the government--not moms or dads--should be the ultimate authority on matters that affect children's health. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 12-5 in favor of abolishing a parents' right to know. From there, the measure will go before the full state House for a vote and, if successful, could be signed into law by Gov. John Lynch (D) as early as March. If the appeal passes, the court case is moot. When FRC attempted to alert our supporters in New Hampshire to the urgency of this issue, we were informed that unless our organization had a lobbyist registered in the state, we were forbidden from e-mailing New Hampshire voters. Obviously, the government is intent on silencing those that would expose their strategy to suppress parents on an issue as vital as teen abortion. In fact, some leaders consider the whole matter of parental notification a distraction from state business. As Rep. Liz Hager (R) said, "Let's get this expensive, unconstitutional problem behind us." However, the true expense will be the toll on innocent, human lives should the state erase a law that serves to give young girls pause about killing their unborn babies. Our friend Karen Testerman, head of New Hampshire's Cornerstone Policy Research, is circulating a petition in hopes of persuading elected officials--not to change their position on abortion, but to uphold parents' rights. For more information on Cornerstone's efforts, log on to www.cnht.org.
Additional Resources
The Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers
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Hawaii Homosexual Activists And Allies Push For Civil Unions
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2999
February 1, 2007 – After Hawaiians successfully fought to ban homosexual marriage in their state in 1998 by amending their constitution, homosexuals and their allies are working to convince the state legislature to grant civil unions to homosexuals.
Civil unions would grant the same rights and privileges to homosexual couples as those given to married couples. This effort would violate the wishes of the Hawaiian people and the constitution, but homosexual activists don’t care. They’ll push for civil unions as equal to marriage.
The homosexual newpaper, the Washington Blade, is touting the work of former anti-gay marriage advocate Debi Hartmann, who once led Hawaii’s Future Today to fight the legalization of homosexual marriage. Hartmann is now an advocate of civil unions – which is the same thing as homosexual marriage.
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Massachusetts Has ‘State Interest’ In Promoting Homosexuality To Kids
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3008
February 15, 2007 – Lawyers representing the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts claim that the state has a compelling state interest to teach children about homosexuality.
The lawyers are defending the school against a lawsuit filed by David Parker, a parent who was arrested in April 2005 for protesting pro-homosexual teachings to his son.
The pro-homosexual lawyers argued that the state must fight discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and that parents have no right to control what ideas the school presents to elementary school children. A lawyer stated: “Once I have elected to send my child to public school, my fundamental right does not allow me to direct what my child is exposed to in the public school.”
“What Estabrook Elementary School did to Josh Parker as a kindergarten child being taught that homosexual marriage is right and proper, is a blatant violation of the rights of parents to direct the destiny of their children. This school district violated their rights by not informing the parents of this homosexual marriage presentation. David Parker has filed a federal lawsuit over the violation of his parental rights,” said TVC Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon.
More details on this case are available on the WorldNetDaily site and on MassResistance.org, which has been working to defend Parker and all parents from homosexual recruitment programs in the public schools in Massachusetts.
TAKE ACTION: Access and distribute TVC’s reports on homosexual recruitment programs in our nation’s schools and reports on the Gay and Lesbian Straight Education Network’s seduction of children into a homosexual lifestyle.
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University Of Southern Maine Features Co-Ed Rooms
The introduction of co-ed rooms was originated by the USM Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity to provide rooms for ‘transgender’ students.
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3014
February 15, 2007 – The University of Southern Maine is one of 20 or more colleges in the U.S. that now offers co-ed rooms, permitting single men and women to live together and share a common bathroom.
According to a report in the Portland Press Herald (2/11/07), the program, which began in 2004 “was designed to offer gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students an alternative housing arrangement on campus.”
School officials now acknowledge that male and female students are comfortable sharing living quarters on campus.
According to Sarah Parker-Holmes, director of the Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity, college institutions “rely too much on the binary concept of you are either one or the other. That does not recognize that is not always the case.”
More and more schools are changing their policies to cater to “transgender” students. One such student is Jeffrey Chang who attends Clark University in Massachusetts. Chang was originally denied his request to live with a female friend in a dorm. Chang looked into gender-neutral policies and created www.genderblind.org, a web site that helps other students create similar policies at their universities. The National Student Genderblind Campaign seeks inclusive dorm rooms and restrooms.
Chang believes that college policies are rooted in past assumptions about men and women. “I think college students want the maximum amount of freedom and choice that they can get at any university,” said Chang.
Recommended Reading From TVC’s Archives:
“A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream”
“Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?”
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12-Year-Old Boy To Undergo ‘Sex Change’ Operation In Germany
[Ed. Note: the child is 14, not 12. Also, other sources indicate that the "sex change operation" is not happening until she turns 18.]
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2998
February 1, 2007 – A child suffering from Gender Identity Disorder (GID) has been recommended by psychiatrists for a sex-change operation. The boy has, unfortunately, been confused about his sexual identity since he was two.
The boy kept telling his parents that he was a girl and at four threatened to cut off his male organ. From that point on, the parents referred to him as Kim.
Psychiatrist Bernd Meyenburg at Frankfurt University has approved the so-called sex change operation for Tim, who is now 14. He is undergoing hormone treatments to allegedly become a girl.
There is a growing trend among psychiatrists and pediatricians here in the United States and around the world to make the unscientific assertion that being male or female are social constructs – not biological realities. As a result, these physicians and therapists are recommending genital mutilation to supposedly fix what is a mental problem.
TVC’s report, “Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?” describes dangerous trends within the pediatric community and psychiatry to normalize sex change operations for kids. Our report, “A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream” details the political agenda of transgender activists to force cross-dressing and transsexualism upon our culture.
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Leftist Group Seeks To Use ‘God Talk’ To Lure Christians To Democrat Party
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3000
February 1, 2007 – A two-year-old public relations firm called “Common Good Strategies” is working behind the scenes to help Democrats convince Christians that they should vote for Democrats of “faith.”
The PR firm is headed by Mara Vanderslice, a 1997 graduate of Earlham College. Vanderslice formerly worked as an intern for Jim Wallis’ Sojourners organization, a far-leftist “Christian” group that is attempting to convince moderate or conservative Christians that Democrat policies are best for achieving “social justice.”
Jim Wallis has been consulting with Democrat strategists for years to lure Christians away from the Republican Party. TVC’s special report on Wallis reveals the consistent far left policies of the group – which have been more in line with the old Soviet Union than with America.
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Mitt Romney claims that Sam Brownback used to be pro-choice too; however, Senator Brownback's people say, "oh, HELL no he wasn't";
New Republic notices that the theocon-backed "gay marriage" bans are designed to hurt queers in any way possible, and that the "protecting marriage" thing is mostly spin;
Houston Chronicle condemns "freakish memo" against evolutionary theory in classrooms;
American Family Association puts out a very old-school ACTION ITEM against "sickness masquerading as art" at Sundance;
AFA ACTION ITEM against Ford Motor for advertising on a show called "Dirt," which had a January 16 episode including implied gay sex;
Family Research Council ACTION ITEM against what they call "mandatory HPV vaccination of schoolgirls," which is to say including the HPV anti-cervical-cancer vaccine in the standard school set. Note that the use of the word "mandatory" is a lie; Texas law lets you opt out of even the school vaccination programme. The reason they oppose the HPV vaccine, even on an opt-out basis, because it will "be administered in a manner that promotes the myth of 'safe sex.'";
Family Research Council ACTION ITEM against a health exemption in a parental-notification law in New Hampshire;
Traditional Values Coalition condemns Hawai'i effort to pass civil unions, which it describes as "the same thing as homosexual marriage";
TVC ACTION ITEM condemning Massachusetts for including same-sex couples in descriptions of state marriage, marriage of same-sex couples being legal in the state and all;
TVC, which has advocated the policy that transgendered people should be involuntarily institutionalised, condemns the University of Southern Maine for adjusting its housing rules to deal with transgendered people and also gay and lesbian students;
TVC condemns teenaged transwoman in Germany, calling GRS "genital mutilation";
TVC condemns attempts to "lure Christians to Democrat Party," asserts that the "Sojourners" Christian group is "more in line with the old Soviet Union than with America".
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Brownback campaign: Romney misleading voters
eyeon08.com
"Watching the 2008 pre-election"
Online as of 12 February 2007
http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/02/12/brownback-campaign-romney-misleading-voters/
I think that this press release just about says it all. No need to comment. Apparently this was triggered by the Romney campaign circulating statements comparing Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney’s record on abortion:
Mitt Romney’s Campaign Misleads Voters about Senator Brownback’s Position on Abortion
"Mitt Romney’s flip flops are enough to make John Kerry blush."
Alexandria, VA – Documentation surfaced over the weekend that the Romney for President Exploratory Committee is misleading voters.
In an e-mail circulated to right-to-life leaders on February 8, 2007, a key Romney staffer wrote: "Just like Sam Brownback, Mitt was once pro-choice but changed his views upon being elected to office… When Brownback was elected to office, that is when he also had a conversion and voted with the pro-life movement."
Brownback for President National Campaign Committee Member Dr. Jack Willke, who was President of National Right to Life for ten years, responded: "Senator Brownback has always been pro-life, and has never made a statement or cast any vote to the contrary."
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A gay marriage ban that hurts conservatives.
Spouse Abuse
by Jonathan Cohn
The New Republic
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=LtYthOOtlbZwz4o%2BlnfuuS%3D%3D
ancer Peter Sparling isn't just another resident of this city; he's an institution. A graduate of Julliard and protégé of the legendary choreographer Martha Graham, Sparling left New York two decades ago to join the University of Michigan faculty. It was a homecoming of sorts for Sparling, who had grown up in nearby Detroit, and, once he returned, Sparling figured he was back for good. In 1993, with the university's blessing, he established the Peter Sparling Dance Company--a troupe known nationally for its innovative performances and beloved locally for its popular children's dance classes. By late summer 2004, as he was celebrating his 20th year with the university and his eleventh with the dance company, Sparling told the Detroit Free Press that "I've never felt more rooted to a place than I do right now to Michigan."
But today Sparling wonders whether he can stay, thanks to a decision handed down by a state appeals court two weeks ago. According to the decision, Michigan's 2004 law against gay marriage prohibits state-run institutions from extending spousal benefits to gay couples. And that's a big problem for Sparling, whose partner of 17 years is a self-employed visual artist who depends upon Sparling for health insurance. Given the couple's financial resources and his partner's health problems, Sparling says buying individual coverage for him will be virtually impossible. "We definitely want to stay--we've invested too much in this town," Sparling tells me in an interview. "But we would have to consider leaving if it were financially difficult."
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Of course, many conservatives in Michigan and around the country would reject that premise. The whole point of their crusade against same-sex marriage is to de-legitimize gay couples as families. But public opinion is moving in precisely the opposite direction: Americans have grown more tolerant--not less--of homosexuality over time. According to a recent Gallup-USA Today poll, 54 percent of Americans now consider homosexuality acceptable, the highest percentage that survey ever recorded. And each succeeding generation is proving more tolerant than the last: While only 36 percent of people older than 80 think it's acceptable, 62 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds do.
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Not in Kansas anymore
Just when Kansas returns science to the classroom, Rep. Chisum tries to goad Texas toward Dark Ages.
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Feb. 15, 2007, 8:13PM
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4557923.html
It started off as a such a good week — both for science and for the American students who must understand it to compete with their peers abroad. The Kansas Board of Education finally joined most of the United States in accepting the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Then Texas' own state Rep. Warren Chisum, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had to mail colleagues a freakish memo denouncing evolution as a religious plot disseminated by one "Pharisee Religion."
The mix of nonsense, free-floating anti-Semitism, misuse of power and seeming obliviousness to all of the above were like a dip into the Dark Ages.
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Tax dollars support sickness masquerading as art at Sundance Film Festival
Contact Your U.S. Senators and Representative Today!
February 6, 2007
http://www.afa.net/neasundance.htm
Recently I sent you information on two films featured at the Sundance Film Festival. One, "Hounddog," featured a scene where a 12-year-old girl was raped. The other film, "Zoo," was about a man having sex with a horse.
AFA has learned that your tax dollars were used to support the Sundance Film Festival. The National Endowment for the Arts gave between $100,000 and $249,000 to help underwrite the festival, and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) gave between $50,000 and $99,999.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) gets millions of dollars to support "art." A few years ago the NEA helped fund a crucifix submerged in urine and named "Pis- Christ." NEA has sponsored similar "art" projects with tax dollars.
PBS gets tax funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Every other non-profit broadcasting station must raise their own funds, but CPB and PBS are funded with hundreds of millions of tax dollars. PBS is probably the most liberal network in America. Hollywood has hundreds of millions of dollars to underwrite the cost of the Sundance Film Festival, but they would rather use your tax dollars than their own money. Together, these two organizations provided upwards of $350,000 of tax money to the film festival.
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Ford Helps Sponsor Explicit, Sickening Homosexual Scene
American Family Association
January 23, 2006
http://www.afa.net/aa012307.asp
Rather than backing down from its support of homosexuality, Ford Motor Company has apparently taken a "rub it in your face" attitude.
On the January 16 episode of "Dirt," which airs on the FX channel, Ford helped sponsor one of the most explicit, sickening homosexual scenes ever shown on television.
Because it is so explicit, I could not even include a description of it here. I hope you will simply trust me. However, if you want to read our review of the scene, or to see the video of the scene, click here. Be forewarned, it is extremely graphic.
Ford has made it extremely clear that they have no intentions of ending their support of homosexuality. Among other things, the company reneged on their agreement to remain neutral in the culture wars, increased their support of homosexual publications, sponsored TV programs pushing homosexuality and required employees to attend "diversity" training promoting homosexuality. For more information on Ford's track record, go to BoycottFord.com.
Take Action
Send an e-mail to Ford's new CEO Alan R. Mulally.
Forward this e-mail to your local Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda or Ford dealer (all owned by Ford). Find their e-mail address here (click on the auto icon). Ask the dealer to forward it to CEO Mulally.
If you haven't already done so, please sign the Boycott Ford Pledge.
Print out the Boycott Ford Petition and distribute it at Sunday School and church.
Extremely important! Help us get the word out about Ford by forwarding this to friends and family! For more information on Ford’s support for the homosexual agenda, click here.
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Oppose Mandatory HPV Vaccination of Schoolgirls
[Editor's note: The word "mandatory" is a lie; Texas law allows opting out of school vaccinations.]
February 9, 2007 - Friday
Family Research Council
Forward to a Friend!
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL07B02&f=PG06I01#FORM
Governor Rick Perry of Texas (R) bypassed the state legislature last week and issued an executive order requiring every schoolgirl in Texas to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus by the fall of this year. The decision to issue this mandate from the governor's mansion and to end debate in the state legislature has caused a firestorm of controversy - and it should have. With this one decision, Gov. Perry, a leader with a strong pro-family record, has short-circuited the kind of legislative debate that is most likely to produce a law that will counter the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and protect the constitutional rights of parents to make medical decisions affecting their children's health.
Your help is needed: Call Gov. Perry at 512-463-2000 and ask him to rescind his executive order and allow the Texas state legislature to vote on this issue.
The health objectives involved are certainly vital. The vaccine in question - trade-named Gardasil and produced by Merck & Co. pharmaceuticals - is reportedly safe and effective against strains of HPV that cause 70% of the cases of cervical cancer, a malady that kills some 3,700 women a year in the United States. Like other vaccines, however, Gardasil is not without risk of side-effects. Moreover, it is administered in a series of three doses whose cost is at least $360 per patient and possibly much higher. Because HPV infection is caused by sexual activity, it is not transmitted by casual contact and therefore is not in the same class as other diseases like polio for which mandatory, school-based vaccination is a public health imperative.
Informed and empowered, most parents will decide to have their children vaccinated against HPV, but many will decide to do so only after more health data has emerged, when their daughter is older, or in settings that minimize the risk that the vaccination will be administered in a manner that promotes the myth of "safe sex." These parents have rights too, and Gov. Perry's sweeping order, even with its "opt-out" feature, tramples on their wisdom and usurps their responsibility. An information and "opt-in" policy for Gardasil would better serve the rights of all Texas families.
Please call Gov. Perry and let him know you support restoring the legislative process on Gardasil in order to preserve parental rights. His order has galvanized the HPV vaccine debate across the United States and put new focus on the balance between public health and parental rights, a balance that has suffered so much in our sexualized culture.
Thank you for taking action today and God bless you.
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New Hampshire Committee Votes to Silence Parents
To: Friends of Family Research Council
From: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins
February 16, 2007 - Friday
Please forward this to your Friends and Family!
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU07B12
While nearly a dozen states debate laws that would expand parents' rights, the New Hampshire legislature is working overtime to undermine them. Since 2003, the Granite State has had a parental notification law on the books, requiring at least one parent to be informed 48 hours before their minor daughter has an abortion. Planned Parenthood, concerned that the law would scare off business, challenged the measure in court on the grounds that it didn't include a health exemption for the mother. Ultimately, the suit landed in the U.S. Supreme Court, where, in January of last year, the justices reversed a ruling that had struck down the law. Now the state legislature is fighting to repeal the law, insisting that the government--not moms or dads--should be the ultimate authority on matters that affect children's health. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 12-5 in favor of abolishing a parents' right to know. From there, the measure will go before the full state House for a vote and, if successful, could be signed into law by Gov. John Lynch (D) as early as March. If the appeal passes, the court case is moot. When FRC attempted to alert our supporters in New Hampshire to the urgency of this issue, we were informed that unless our organization had a lobbyist registered in the state, we were forbidden from e-mailing New Hampshire voters. Obviously, the government is intent on silencing those that would expose their strategy to suppress parents on an issue as vital as teen abortion. In fact, some leaders consider the whole matter of parental notification a distraction from state business. As Rep. Liz Hager (R) said, "Let's get this expensive, unconstitutional problem behind us." However, the true expense will be the toll on innocent, human lives should the state erase a law that serves to give young girls pause about killing their unborn babies. Our friend Karen Testerman, head of New Hampshire's Cornerstone Policy Research, is circulating a petition in hopes of persuading elected officials--not to change their position on abortion, but to uphold parents' rights. For more information on Cornerstone's efforts, log on to www.cnht.org.
Additional Resources
The Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers
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Hawaii Homosexual Activists And Allies Push For Civil Unions
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2999
February 1, 2007 – After Hawaiians successfully fought to ban homosexual marriage in their state in 1998 by amending their constitution, homosexuals and their allies are working to convince the state legislature to grant civil unions to homosexuals.
Civil unions would grant the same rights and privileges to homosexual couples as those given to married couples. This effort would violate the wishes of the Hawaiian people and the constitution, but homosexual activists don’t care. They’ll push for civil unions as equal to marriage.
The homosexual newpaper, the Washington Blade, is touting the work of former anti-gay marriage advocate Debi Hartmann, who once led Hawaii’s Future Today to fight the legalization of homosexual marriage. Hartmann is now an advocate of civil unions – which is the same thing as homosexual marriage.
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Massachusetts Has ‘State Interest’ In Promoting Homosexuality To Kids
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3008
February 15, 2007 – Lawyers representing the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts claim that the state has a compelling state interest to teach children about homosexuality.
The lawyers are defending the school against a lawsuit filed by David Parker, a parent who was arrested in April 2005 for protesting pro-homosexual teachings to his son.
The pro-homosexual lawyers argued that the state must fight discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and that parents have no right to control what ideas the school presents to elementary school children. A lawyer stated: “Once I have elected to send my child to public school, my fundamental right does not allow me to direct what my child is exposed to in the public school.”
“What Estabrook Elementary School did to Josh Parker as a kindergarten child being taught that homosexual marriage is right and proper, is a blatant violation of the rights of parents to direct the destiny of their children. This school district violated their rights by not informing the parents of this homosexual marriage presentation. David Parker has filed a federal lawsuit over the violation of his parental rights,” said TVC Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon.
More details on this case are available on the WorldNetDaily site and on MassResistance.org, which has been working to defend Parker and all parents from homosexual recruitment programs in the public schools in Massachusetts.
TAKE ACTION: Access and distribute TVC’s reports on homosexual recruitment programs in our nation’s schools and reports on the Gay and Lesbian Straight Education Network’s seduction of children into a homosexual lifestyle.
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University Of Southern Maine Features Co-Ed Rooms
The introduction of co-ed rooms was originated by the USM Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity to provide rooms for ‘transgender’ students.
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3014
February 15, 2007 – The University of Southern Maine is one of 20 or more colleges in the U.S. that now offers co-ed rooms, permitting single men and women to live together and share a common bathroom.
According to a report in the Portland Press Herald (2/11/07), the program, which began in 2004 “was designed to offer gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students an alternative housing arrangement on campus.”
School officials now acknowledge that male and female students are comfortable sharing living quarters on campus.
According to Sarah Parker-Holmes, director of the Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity, college institutions “rely too much on the binary concept of you are either one or the other. That does not recognize that is not always the case.”
More and more schools are changing their policies to cater to “transgender” students. One such student is Jeffrey Chang who attends Clark University in Massachusetts. Chang was originally denied his request to live with a female friend in a dorm. Chang looked into gender-neutral policies and created www.genderblind.org, a web site that helps other students create similar policies at their universities. The National Student Genderblind Campaign seeks inclusive dorm rooms and restrooms.
Chang believes that college policies are rooted in past assumptions about men and women. “I think college students want the maximum amount of freedom and choice that they can get at any university,” said Chang.
Recommended Reading From TVC’s Archives:
“A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream”
“Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?”
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12-Year-Old Boy To Undergo ‘Sex Change’ Operation In Germany
[Ed. Note: the child is 14, not 12. Also, other sources indicate that the "sex change operation" is not happening until she turns 18.]
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2998
February 1, 2007 – A child suffering from Gender Identity Disorder (GID) has been recommended by psychiatrists for a sex-change operation. The boy has, unfortunately, been confused about his sexual identity since he was two.
The boy kept telling his parents that he was a girl and at four threatened to cut off his male organ. From that point on, the parents referred to him as Kim.
Psychiatrist Bernd Meyenburg at Frankfurt University has approved the so-called sex change operation for Tim, who is now 14. He is undergoing hormone treatments to allegedly become a girl.
There is a growing trend among psychiatrists and pediatricians here in the United States and around the world to make the unscientific assertion that being male or female are social constructs – not biological realities. As a result, these physicians and therapists are recommending genital mutilation to supposedly fix what is a mental problem.
TVC’s report, “Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?” describes dangerous trends within the pediatric community and psychiatry to normalize sex change operations for kids. Our report, “A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream” details the political agenda of transgender activists to force cross-dressing and transsexualism upon our culture.
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Leftist Group Seeks To Use ‘God Talk’ To Lure Christians To Democrat Party
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3000
February 1, 2007 – A two-year-old public relations firm called “Common Good Strategies” is working behind the scenes to help Democrats convince Christians that they should vote for Democrats of “faith.”
The PR firm is headed by Mara Vanderslice, a 1997 graduate of Earlham College. Vanderslice formerly worked as an intern for Jim Wallis’ Sojourners organization, a far-leftist “Christian” group that is attempting to convince moderate or conservative Christians that Democrat policies are best for achieving “social justice.”
Jim Wallis has been consulting with Democrat strategists for years to lure Christians away from the Republican Party. TVC’s special report on Wallis reveals the consistent far left policies of the group – which have been more in line with the old Soviet Union than with America.
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Sojourners and Socialism
Date: 2007-02-23 10:08 pm (UTC)God bless the misguided evangelicals - they need all the help they can get.
Off to "love my neighbor as myself," like I read this one guy said I should do once...