[Active-l] (NEWS) Today's Cultural Warfare Update (2 of 2)

[Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)]

The fundamentalist right has its new Paul Cameron, now that he's mostly  
been shown up as the fraud he is; the new guy is John R. Diggs, who is  
an actual medical doctor, and his replacement for Cameron's "The  
Medical Consequences of What Gay Men Do" is called "The Health Risks of  
Gay Sex," and I link to it below. Searching on his name yields a  
cavalcade of anti-gay sites and organisations. Be aware of him,  
recognise the rhetoric, know where he gets it.

CANADIANS: The Canada Family Action Coalition is pulling out all the  
old USA-derived "fags and dykes are all psychotic diseased sickos"  
propaganda stops. I mean I haven't seen this much red meat since  
Concerned Women for America stopped explicitly defending gaybashing as  
a "normal reaction to the perversion of homosexuality." The  
theoconservative movement in your country _is_ importing American  
theoconservative tricks and rhetoric. I'm sorry. You need to be aware  
and ready for it, because it will get _remarkably_ brutal, if history  
is any indication.

Anyway, here's part two of today's news roundup:

Concerned Women for America celebrates New York State Supreme Court  
ruling against marriage rights for GBLT couples;

Concerned Women for America's Mike Mears reports on "pro-family  
victories" missed in the July 4th holiday rush at state legislature  
levels;

Concerned Women for America: gay rights mean destroying religious  
freedom via such things as anti-discrimination law;

CWA blasts Michelle Goldberg's book, _Kingdom Coming_, which I have  
gotten from the library and intend to read;

CWA's Robert Knight pushes the anti-marriage "Marriage Protection  
Amendment" again, says they're needed to ban civil union laws passed by  
"rogue legislators" and overturn marriage rights in Massachusetts;

LiveNews.com article on stem cell research bills - some of which are  
pointed to also by the Focus on the Family action item posted before;

Family Research Council press release happy about anti-marriage rulings;

American Family Association ACTION ITEM against Ford Motor Corporation  
- again;

Agape Press/AFA "news article" pleased with the Georgia and New York  
State rulings;

Don Wildmon, president of the AFA, claims credit for Ford Motor's  
financial problems;

AFA update on the California lawsuit where state universities are not  
accepting creationist "science" courses from private schools as  
transfer credit; they're claiming religious discrimination; I say fuck  
that noise, I don't want a doctor whose first-year biology came from  
Bob Jones University School of 6,000 Year Old Earth;

Fundamentalists sue Michigan State University to block domestic-partner  
employee benefits, call it "recognition of same-sex 'marriages'";

AFA article pushing "ex-gay" ministries;

Traditional Values Coalition report happy about Georgia, New York State  
marriage rulings;

TVC ACTION ITEM to support the Line Item Veto Act, which I have to say  
is still _blatently unconstitutional, you cannot fucking amend the  
constitution through legislative action alone, and that's what this  
is_;

TVC happy with the "American Values Agenda" announced by House Majority  
Leader John Boehner (R-OH), which is mostly a shopping list of  
fundamentalist pleasures but has a few tax items as well;

TVC attacks California courts for allowing anti-discrimination case to  
go forward against a private school that expelled two allegedly lesbian  
students;

TVC pushes more creationist bullshit, and points readers at the  
Discovery Institute;

TVC attacks a new Canadian study showing that the more older biological  
brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay; the correlation is  
actually pretty strong; they're making the usual rounds of meaningless  
condemnations that are actually based on the fact that they don't like  
it theologically; in six paragraphs they lie about study contents three  
times, ignore study controls, and specifically raise an objection that  
was not only anticipated by the study but _specifically controlled  
against in it_. (TVC quotes NARTH as saying that the correlation could  
be caused by social factors, such as bullying from older brothers; the  
study included a significant population where the younger and  
more-likely-to-be-gay men were _not_ with their biological parents, in  
multiple matrix combinations, making this assertion by NARTH a _clearly  
deliberate lie_, which is standard procedure for them anyway so I don't  
know why I get upset about it again every time they just _make shit up_  
like this);

House Majority Leader John Boehner's website listing for the "American  
Values Agenda";

Canada Family Action Coalition article against marriage rights for  
lesbian and gay couples, claiming marriage rights for queers makes  
children "second or third class citizens";

Canada Family Action Coalition reports... what looks like a New York  
State theoconservative group's mailing on marriage, celebrating the New  
York State anti-marriage decision; there's no Canadian content at all  
that I can see, so I'm not sure why they're running it - they usually  
make some attempt to tie American theoconservative news blurbs to  
Canadian concerns but in this case I guess it's just schadenfreude;

CFAC reprints James Dobson's CNN commentary/attack on the media  
"provid[ing] cover" for "assault on traditional marriage";

CFAC links to "Medical conditions and sodomy" and "The Health Risks of  
Gay Sex,"

CFAC prints an article saying HIV does not cause AIDS, and that much of  
AIDS is a myth; it has dozens of howlers in it, but unfortunately, I  
suspect they believe this stuff, so, um, yeah;

CFAC keeps up the "Diseased Fags" drumbeat, pulling out all kinds of  
juicy mid-90s attacks, mostly against gay men; this is really red-meat  
stuff here;

CFAC head Brian Rushfeldt complains about being called intolerant,  
pulls up the "diseased fags" arguments again;

CFAC is pointing again to its old anti-marriage-rights website,  
Sanctity Of Marriage Canada.


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New York's Highest Court Rules Against 'Gay Marriage'
Concerned Women for America
7/7/2006
By Kristen Morgan

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/11086/LEGAL/family/index.htm

Ruling mirrors CWA amicus briefs; marriage isn't 'irrational, ignorant  
or bigoted.'

According to the state's highest court, New York marriage laws clearly  
limit marriage to a union between one man and one woman and do not  
violate the state constitution. Moreover, if these laws are to be  
changed, it is not within the authority of a court to do so.

In a decision issued July 6, on four challenges to the state's marriage  
laws, four judges on the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of traditional  
marriage. Two judges dissented from the majority's opinion, and one  
judge, whose daughter has advocated same-sex marriage in California,  
took no part in the case.

Homosexual advocates filed the challenges after the Massachusetts  
Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that recognition of same-sex marriage was  
compelled by the state constitution. Forty-four members of same-sex  
couples acted as plaintiffs in the cases in an attempt to impose  
same-sex marriage by judicial decree and without a vote in the New York  
legislature.

The plaintiffs claimed that the state's denial of marriage licenses to  
same-sex couples violated their rights under the Due Process and Equal  
Protection clauses of the state constitution. Although the plaintiffs  
acknowledged that current state laws recognized only unions between a  
man and a woman, several briefs filed in their support argued that  
same-sex marriages were permitted under New York's existing marriage  
laws.

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State Lawmakers Scrambled Ahead of the Holiday Break
Concerned Women for America
7/6/2006

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/11076/FIELD/misc/index.htm

While families across our nation were racing toward their 4th of July  
holiday plans, lawmakers in several states were scrambling to finalize  
legislation. In the end, that scramble resulted in some pro-family  
victories that you may have missed during the holiday news cycle. Mike  
Mears, CWA’s Director of State Legislative Relations, has this update  
on events in California, South Dakota, New Jersey and New York. Click  
here to listen.

[Summary: Mike is happy that the California curriculum bill is held off  
until at least August; other stories include the South Dakota Sioux  
Oglala tribe ousting President Fire Thunder; New Jersey government is  
shut down due to a budget dispute, which means the casinos have shut  
down and they're very happy about that; the New York Appeals Court,  
which is the Supreme Court of New York State, denying marriage rights  
to gay and lesbian couples.]

[More at URL]


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Recent Cases Show Homosexual Agenda’s Threat to Religious Liberty
Christian school faces lawsuit; federal employee suspended for  
expressing Christian viewpoints.
Concerned Women for America
7/5/2006
By Kristen Morgan

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/11067/LEGAL/freedom/index.htm

Many proponents of religious liberty fear that the homosexual agenda  
poses a serious threat to the rights of religious people to publicly  
express their beliefs.

Two recent cases – one involving a Christian school and the other  
involving a federal employee – underscore this.

In Wildomar, California, a private high school run by the Wisconsin  
Evangelical Lutheran Synod was sued after school officials expelled two  
students whom they believed were involved in a homosexual relationship.  
The two girls filed the suit in December, and on Wednesday the  
California Supreme Court unanimously ruled in California Lutheran High  
School Association v. Superior Court that the case could proceed to  
trial.

In a letter to the students’ parents, school principal Greg Bork  
informed them that the students were being expelled for violating the  
school’s code of conduct, which prohibits actions “contrary to  
Christian decency.” The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod believes  
that homosexual behavior is sinful.

The students claim that the school violated their rights under  
California’s civil rights law, the Unruh Act, which prohibits  
businesses from discriminating on the basis of a person’s actual or  
perceived sexuality. The students’ attorney, Christopher Hayes, said  
that the school operates as a business and has students of various  
religions. “Nothing about accepting these young women or other  
perceived or actual homosexuals has any effect on anybody at the  
school’s ability to preach their religion, to practice their religion  
or to criticize lifestyle choices,” Hayes said.

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Michelle Goldberg’s Alternative Reality
The Christian Right, she says, wants its religious beliefs to become  
the law of the land.
Concerned Women for America
7/5/2006
By Stephanie Warner

Michelle Goldberg, author and social commentator, has come out with a  
new book, Kingdom Coming, which is causing quite a stir. In it, she  
claims that the “Religious Right” wants to take over the government and  
establish a theocracy in America. She claims that “fundamentalist  
Christian” groups want to see their religious beliefs become the law of  
the land.

Goldberg specifically cites Concerned Women for America (CWA) ––  
drawing heavily on her reactions to a lecture by Dr. Janice Shaw  
Crouse, Senior Fellow of CWA’s think tank, the Beverly LaHaye  
Institute. Crouse, an official U.S. delegate to the United Nations  
(U.N.) in 2003 and 2004, lectured on “Feminism’s Failures.” Goldberg is  
convinced that CWA is made up of “totalitarian belligerents” who live  
in an “all-encompassing alternative reality.”

[More at URL]


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Why a Federal Marriage Amendment Is Needed
Rogue judges and legislators are creating counterfeits.
Concerned Women for America
6/8/2006
By Robert Knight

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10822/CWA/family/index.htm

On June 7, 2006, the U.S. Senate voted 49 to 48 on a cloture motion to  
stop debate and vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA-text  
below). Since it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster and proceed to a  
vote on the Senate floor, the Senate thus rejected the chance to vote  
on the amendment itself. It was the second defeat for the MPA over the  
last two years. An earlier attempt at passage was defeated in a 48-50  
failed cloture vote in 2004.

The House is expected to take up its version of the MPA sometime this  
summer.

Opponents of a federal constitutional marriage amendment often contend  
that it's too early, that there is no need for such a measure. Wait  
until something really big happens, they say.

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Observers Expect Senate to Approve Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 6, 2006

http://www.lifenews.com/bio1599.html

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Groups on both sides of the debate  
over spending tax dollars on embryonic stem cell research say they  
expect the Senate to approve a House-backed measure that would overturn  
President Bush's limits on funding it. If the Senate approves the bill,  
Bush would be forced to make good on his veto threat.
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced that senators  
reached a unanimous consent agreement to bring up three bills for a  
debate and vote.

In addition to the funding measure, senators will vote on two bills  
that enjoy support from the pro-life community.

[More at URL]


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FRC Applauds State Rulings Against Same-sex 'Marriage'
Family Research Council
July 6, 2006 - Thursday
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 6, 2006
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy, 866-FRC-NEWS

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR06G01

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today the New York Court of Appeals, the Empire  
State's highest court, and the Georgia State Supreme Court upheld the  
definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Family  
Research Council (FRC) filed an amicus brief in the New York case.  
Despite today's victories, traditional marriage continues to face court  
challenges in Washington state, Maryland, New Jersey, Iowa, Oklahoma,  
California, Nebraska, and Connecticut. Peter Sprigg, FRC's Vice  
President for Policy, released the following statement:

"Today, the high courts in New York and Georgia fulfilled their duty by  
upholding state laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one  
woman. We applaud today's rulings, which recognize the right of the  
legislature and the people to regulate marriage for the good of  
children and society.

"The New York court reasonably concluded that the legislature has a  
legitimate interest in promoting responsible procreation and can  
'rationally' believe that children need both a mother and a father. The  
court's well-reasoned ruling is a shining example for other courts  
across the nation. As we await rulings in several other states, we can  
only hope that other courts will exercise similar judicial restraint  
and avoid substituting their own social policy preferences for those of  
the legislatures and the people.

"We also affirm the Georgia Supreme Court for its decision upholding  
the validity of a state constitutional amendment defining marriage,  
which was approved with 76% of the vote in a 2004 referendum. The  
unbroken success of such amendments makes clear that there is a popular  
consensus that marriage is and should remain the union of one man and  
one woman. However, the only sure way to protect the country against  
more rogue decisions like the one in Massachusetts in 2003--including  
ones at the federal level--is through passage of a Marriage Protection  
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."


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Ford Sponsors Homosexual Media Awards, Desperate Housewives
American Family Association
June 26, 2006

http://www.afa.net/ford062706.asp

When Ford said they support homosexual groups promoting same-sex  
marriage, they meant it. Ford put forth this declaration: "This is a  
strong commitment we intend to carry forward with no exception."

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards events were  
recently held in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. The  
GLAAD Awards honored those who had made outstanding contributions to  
the homosexual lifestyle. Ford was a corporate sponsor for all four  
GLAAD Media Awards events.

In an effort to overcome the boycott called by AFA, Ford is telling  
potential customers that they advertise in Christian publications such  
as Christianity Today, Today's Christian Woman, The National Liberty  
Journal and Charisma. They also say that they are the largest  
advertiser on Christian radio. It is no accident that Ford all of a  
sudden has begun to advertise in Christian publications and on  
Christian radio.

[More at URL]


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Pro-Family Leaders Praise Ga., NY Courts' Pro-Marriage Rulings
By Bill Fancher and Jenni Parker
Agape Press
July 7, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/afa/72006a.asp

(AgapePress) - Pro-family groups are celebrating two court rulings on  
Thursday in New York and Georgia that turned aside bids by homosexuals  
to legalize same-sex "marriage." While the Georgia Supreme Court's  
decision to uphold a referendum result banning homosexual marriage  
surprised few, many conservatives were both surprised and particularly  
pleased by the strong, pro-family wording of the New York court's  
ruling.

In a 4-2 decision, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the state  
constitution guarantees no right to homosexual marriage, declaring that  
the New York constitution "does not compel recognition of marriages  
between members of the same sex" and that the question of whether such  
marriages should be recognized is an issue to be addressed by the  
Legislature.

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Ford Boycott Leader: Homosexual Ties Taking Car Company Downhill
By Ed Thomas
July 7, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/afa/72006e.asp

(AgapePress) - The latest sales figures for Ford Motor Company continue  
the ongoing story of the company's declining bottom line -- a  
several-percentage-points drop in sales that the leader of a pro-family  
group ties in with a boycott and the economy.

Ford says its report for June, released this week, shows the company's  
total auto sales down 6.9 percent. Car purchases did rise 7.1 percent;  
however, truck sales dropped 14.5 percent. Don Wildmon, founder and  
chairman of the American Family Association (AFA), believes one of the  
things hurting the auto manufacturer's profit margin is the boycott his  
organization launched against the automaker this year.

AFA initiated the Ford boycott to protest Ford's affiliation with  
homosexual and liberal causes. Other organizations and individuals have  
joined in, and Wildmon believes the pro-family consumer protest is  
progressively hurting the automotive giant. "They've been going  
downhill at least since we began the boycott," he says, "and their  
stock continues to fall."

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Lawyer Confident Christian Students' Lawsuit Against UC Will Proceed
By Jim Brown
Agape Press/American Family Association
July 7, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/afa/72006c.asp

(AgapePress) - A California attorney says a federal judge is likely to  
allow plaintiffs accusing the University of California (UC) university  
system of engaging in viewpoint discrimination against Christian  
students and schools to take their case to trial.

Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, with some 1,300 students,  
recently filed suit against the UC system, claiming it prohibits the  
Christian high school's students from receiving academic credit for  
courses taught from a Christian perspective. Last week, Judge James  
Otero conducted a hearing in Los Angeles District Court to consider  
UC's request that he dismiss the suit.

[...]

Officials with Calvary Chapel say the Christian school's courses were  
rejected by UC because they used textbooks printed by two conservative  
Christian publishers: Bob Jones University Press in South Carolina and  
A Beka Books in Pensacola, Florida. Tyler anticipates that the judge  
presiding over the matter will allow some -- if not all -- of the  
Christian students' complaints to be heard in court.

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Lawsuit Targets Michigan State's 'Domestic Partner' Policy
By Jim Brown
American Family Association/Agape Press
July 7, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/afa/72006b.asp

(AgapePress) - Michigan State University is being sued over its  
recognition of same-sex "marriages."

The lawsuit filed on behalf of the American Family Association of  
Michigan alleges Michigan State is violating the state marriage  
amendment, which defines marriage as "the union of one man and one  
woman." MSU has a policy that provides employee benefits to so-called  
"same-sex domestic partners." Attorney Pat Gillen with the Thomas More  
Law Center, which is representing AFA-Michigan, says proponents of  
same-sex "marriage" are trying to get the legal status of a lawful  
marriage by using another name.

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'Walking' Beats 'Talking' in Dealing with Homosexuality, Says Pastor
By Jim Brown
AFA/Agape Press
July 7, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/afa/72006g.asp

(AgapePress) - A former homosexual is teaching Christian audiences how  
to evangelize and disciple those caught in the destructive and sinful  
lifestyle of homosexuality.

North Carolina pastor Tim Wilkins is taking his one-day "More Than  
Words" conference to Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday (July 8). Next month  
(August 12), the conference goes to Raleigh, North Carolina. The  
conference is designed to help Christians understand homosexuality and  
learn how to help friends and family members dealing with the sin.  
Wilkins, who says he left homosexuality more than two decades ago,  
notes the focus is "walking versus talking people out of homosexuality.

"If talking changed things, everything would be changed. So our  
emphasis here is emphasizing that love -- compassion grounded in the  
truth of God's Word -- is what sets people free," says the founder of  
Cross Ministry. "And, as I say in many of the venues where I speak, no  
one has ever been argued out of homosexuality -- and for that matter,  
no one has ever been argued into the kingdom of God."

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Georgia And New York Courts Rule In Favor Of Traditional Marriage
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2782

July 6, 2006 Washington, DC –  “The New York and Georgia Supreme Courts  
did the right thing today by upholding traditional marriage,” said TVC  
Executive Director Andrea Lafferty today. “The New York Court ruled  
that there is no state law granting the alleged ‘right’ of same-sex  
marriage and the majority on the Georgia Court ruled that the marriage  
amendment passed by the people did not violate the state’s one-subject  
rule for ballot measures.

“This is a good day for traditional marriage and the rule of law,” said  
Lafferty. “The New York Court decision was especially encouraging. The  
Court ruled that any decision on marriage should come from the state  
legislature and the people, not from the Court.

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Congress On Recess: Visit Them About Line Item Veto!
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2780

July 6, 2006 – While Congress is on recess, take time to visit the home  
offices of your two U.S. Senators. The House passed H.R. 4890, the  
Line-Item Veto Act, but the Senate has not acted on it yet.

The Line-Item Veto Act will enable President Bush to target wasteful  
pork barrel programs in legislation and then send those items back to  
the House and Senate for another vote. Legislators will then be forced  
to vote on these programs as

TVC’s article, “Support the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act, H.R. 4890”  
has more details on this legislation!


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House Majority Leader Launches American Values Agenda
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2778

July 6, 2006 – House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has announced  
the launch of the American Values Agenda, a series of legislative  
proposals designed to defend traditional values.

According to Boehner, “The American Values Agenda is a collection of  
legislative initiatives that speak to the values many American citizens  
hold dear. Freedom to display the American flag … freedom of religious  
expression … the right to keep and bear arms … respect for the sanctity  
of marriage, and the dignity of all human life. These are values that  
have defined the American character, protected our families, and shaped  
our society.”

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Alleged Homosexual Girls Expelled From Christian School Can Sue
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2777

July 6, 2006 – In a case that has serious religious freedom  
implications, the California Supreme Court has ruled that two girls  
alleged to be lesbians can sue a private Christian school over being  
expelled.

The case involves California Lutheran School and its explusion of two  
girls in 2005 over improper sexual behaviors. The Court, however, ruled  
that the girls can sue the school for being expelled—even though their  
conduct violated the religious standards of the school.

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The Fish That Shoots Down Evolution
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2776

July 6, 2006 – In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote the following: “If it  
could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not  
possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight  
modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”

Darwin and his evolutionist allies today should consider the  
archerfish, a fish that shoots down its prey in the air with a burst of  
water.

In a recent commentary on evolution by United Church of God Pastor  
Mario Seiglie, he points out that the archerfish is so uniquely  
designed that it could not have evolved with slight modifications.

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Another Study Pushes ‘Born Gay’ Urban Legend
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2775

July 6, 2006 – Psychologist Anthony Bogaert of Brock University in  
Canada has published a new study allegedly finding a biological reason  
for homosexuality in males.

The study, “Biological versus non-biological older brothers and men’s  
sexual orientation,” was published in the Proceedings of the National  
Academy of Sciences recently.

The study has been touted worldwide as evidence of a genetic origin of  
homosexuality in males. According to Bogaert, a family with older  
brothers has a higher than average rate of younger homosexual siblings.  
This effect, claims Bogaert could be due to the mother’s immune system  
memorizing the number of male fetuses and altering hormones with each  
succeeding infant. This could impact the sexual differentiation in the  
brain of each succeeding male child. There is no credible evidence that  
this is true.

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House GOP Leaders Launch American Values Agenda
Majority Leader John Boehner
Tuesday, June 27, 2006	

http://www.majorityleader.gov/News.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=630

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican leaders today unveiled the American  
Values Agenda, a list of freedom-based legislative initiatives expected  
to move through the House in the coming weeks and months.  The American  
Values Agenda complements the broader House Republican agenda that was  
unveiled by GOP leaders back in March.

[...]

THE AMERICAN VALUES AGENDA

Pledge Protection Act (HR 2389; Rep. Akin)
Summary: Protects the Pledge of Allegiance from attacks by activist  
federal judges seeking to rule it unconstitutional.

Freedom to Display the American Flag Act (HR 42; Rep. Bartlett)
Summary: Ensures an individual has the right to display the U.S. flag  
on residential property.

The Public Expression of Religion Act (HR 2679; Rep. Hostettler)
Summary:  Ensures local officials and communities do not face financial  
ruin to defend their rights to free speech under the Constitution  
(provides that when state or local officials are sued over public  
expressions of religion, no monetary damages, costs, or attorney's fees  
may be awarded).

Marriage Amendment (HJRes 88; Rep. Musgrave)
Summary: Constitutional amendment declaring marriage to be between a  
man and a woman

Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (HR 356; Rep. C. Smith)
Summary: Requires that those performing late-term abortions inform the  
woman seeking an abortion of the medical evidence that the unborn child  
feels pain, and ensure that if she chooses to continue with the  
abortion procedure, she has the option of choosing anesthesia for the  
child, so that the unborn child’s pain is less severe.

Human Cloning Prohibition Act (HR 1357; Rep. D. Weldon)
Summary: Bans human cloning and the importation of products derived  
from a cloned human embryo (e.g. stem cells).

BATFE Reform (HR 5092; Rep. Coble)
Summary: Reforms the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms &  
Explosives (BATFE) to protect citizens’ rights.

Internet Gambling Prohibition (Reps. Leach & Goodlatte):
Summary: Addresses the issue of illegal internet gambling by making  
gambling laws apply equally to the internet.

Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act (HR 5013; Rep. Jindal)
Summary: Prohibits governments from using federal funds to confiscate  
guns from law-abiding citizens during emergencies.

Permanent Tax Relief for Families
Summary: Likely series of votes on the child tax credit, marriage  
penalty relief, tax incentives for adoption, and other priorities for  
American citizens.

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Q&A with Pioneering Ethicist
Margaret Somerville	
By Brian Bethune, Macleans
June 28, 2006

http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/family/marriage/q&a- 
somerville.htm

In an interview with MacLean’s Dr. Margaret Somerville responds to the  
matter of “same sex marriage” definition in Canadian law.

On the Ryerson fiasco, children's rights and same-sex marriage

Dr Somerville raises the issue of whose rights are imposed. I would  
suggest we also look to who is imposing those rights: courts, whose  
ethics and judgment can and should be questioned: Governments, whose  
reason and understanding of societal good can and should be questioned:  
and activists whose best interest is adult selfishness not children.

MacLeans Interviewer: “But if you raise a child in a loving environment  
...”

“…This is not a very popular thing that I say, but as important as love  
is - and it's immensely important - it's not enough. There's more to us  
becoming fully human. It's what Kierkegaard calls the power of becoming  
oneself. You have to feel you've got authenticity and roots and  
connections in order to be able to use that power fully. These kids  
tell me things like, "I look at myself in the mirror and half of me is  
missing, and nobody had the right to do that to me." Another called it  
"a big, black void down below you.’”

The definition of love in some minds is so ill-defined as to allow,  
endorse and even encourage behaviors which are unnatural and harmful.  
What’s love got to do with that? Adults show great disregard for  
children when they put their emotions, wants and desires and even their  
needs ahead of what vulnerable children need.

[More at URL]


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A Very Good Day	
Campaign for Working Families
[Found on Canadian Family Action Coalition website]
July 6, 2006

http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/family/marriage/a-very- 
good-day.htm

I am pleased to do something that doesn't happen very often - report  
victories from the courts in the on-going legal battle to redefine  
marriage in America. Here's the good news: Today, the Supreme Court of  
Georgia unanimously reversed a lower court ruling that declared  
Georgia's state marriage protection amendment unconstitutional, despite  
being approved at the ballot box by 76% of the vote. With today's  
decision, the amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and  
one woman is once again part of Georgia's state constitution.

Now, here's the really good news! This morning, New York's State  
Supreme Court dealt a surprising blow to the efforts of the militant  
homosexual movement to impose same-sex "marriage" on New Yorkers by  
judicial fiat. In its 4-to-2 ruling, the court's majority demonstrated  
that it truly understands what is at stake in the effort to redefine  
marriage - the best interests of our children.

[More at URL]


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Accuracy about public view and marriage
Canada Family Action Coalition
Online as of July 8, 2006

http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/family/marriage/media- 
provides-cover.htm

This report from the US sounds awfully familiar to Canada. Would a vote  
on marriage by the public in a referendum produce the same results as  
in the US states. We think so. The accuracy of polls must be  
questioned. And one must ask what the political ideology of the  
pollster is.

Perhaps the Prime Minister ought to put this crucial social issue of  
marriage to a public vote not just a free vote of MPs. Or perhaps the  
next election should again directly raise the issue (and it will do so  
if marriage is not restored) so the Canadian public can truly be  
represented.

-- CFAC

Commentary: Media provides cover for assault on traditional marriage

James C. Dobson says lawmakers are turning their backs on traditional  
marriage
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) --

On June 7, the U.S. Senate voted for a second time on an amendment to  
define marriage in the U.S. Constitution as being exclusively between  
one man and one woman.

[More at URL]


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Medical Conditions and Sodomy
Canada Family Action Coalition
July 6, 2006

http://www.corporateresourcecouncil.org/white_papers/Health_Risks.pdf

[Contents:]

The Health Risks of Gay Sex
By John R. Diggs, Jr., M.D.

Executive Summary

Sexual relationships between members of the same sex expose gays,  
lesbians, and bisexuals to extreme risks of sexually transmitted  
diseases (STDs), physical injuries, mental disorders, and even a  
shortened life span. There are five major distinctions between gay and  
heterosexual relationships, with specific medical consequences. They  
are:

[Ed. Note: Summary: Fags have hundreds if not thousands of sexual  
partners; lesbians are also bad; gay male sex leads to "physical  
injuries, some of which are virtually unknown in the heterosexual  
population"; claims lesbians are at _higher_ risk for STDs than  
straight men; claims lesbian and gay people are very likely to be  
medically ill; claims that gay and bisexual men have dramatically  
shorter lifespans; claims gay men are virtually incapable of stable  
relationships. In short summery: queers are diseased, perverted sickos.  
Basically this is the same material found flying around the US a lot in  
the background, in a package I haven't seen yet. Oh look, he's got the  
Gay Bowel Syndrome in his footnotes. Yay.]

[Ed. Note: "John R. Diggs" and "Corporate Research Council" gets  
exactly three hits, all off of anti-gay websites.  I found one  
line-by-line counter to his broadsheet here:

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/palmettoumoja/John%20R.%20Diggs's%20lies.pdf

Here's a secondary URL that's got pointers to this data and data on  
Paul Cameron's fabrications. It also discusses the general approach  
taken by Cameron and all his successors. It's worth a look if you don't  
understand yet how they come up with these "studies":

http://www.freewebs.com/palmettoumoja/fighttheright.htm

John Diggs appears to be the new Paul Cameron, if this material is  
accurate at all. He's all over the fundamentalist websites.]


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What We Now Know:
Virus Myth, Part I
6/27/06 (©)
Casey Research, Inc. 2006
Found on Canada Family Action Coalition website on 8 July 2006

http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/sexuality/virus-myth-1.htm

One moonlit night in 1983, a biochemist named Kary Mullis was driving  
along a California mountain road when he had an aha! experience akin to  
Newton's with the apple and Archimedes' in the bathtub. Mullis  
immediately pulled off the road, awakened his sleeping girlfriend, and  
told her that he suddenly knew how to replicate DNA. It was a problem  
that had been vexing scientists and, as it turned out, Mullis was  
right. His insight into the polymerase chain reaction won him the 1993  
Nobel Prize for Chemistry and led to the invention of DNA-replicating  
machines and the tests they make possible, including the one for HIV  
antibodies.

This is simply by way of establishing the impeccable scientific  
credentials of Dr. Kary Mullis. Because when someone of his stature  
questions whether the HIV virus causes AIDS, we should probably listen.  
Huh? Of course HIV causes AIDS, we all know that, don't we? The CDC  
tells us so, the media tell us so, our doctors tell us so. End of  
story.

Well, actually not. There is a sizeable, and growing, chorus of  
dissenting voices. And unlike many groups that challenge an entrenched  
mainstream belief, this one does not consist of loudmouths with fringe  
credentials. It is made up of pre-eminent scientists with rock-solid  
reputations. Among dozens of others, in addition to Kary Mullis, we  
find Dr. Peter Duesberg of UC Berkeley, one of the world's leading  
molecular biologists; Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger, emeritus professor of  
molecular biology and virology at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich,  
Germany; Dr. Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, professor of medical physics  
at Australia's Royal Perth Hospital; Dr. Walter Gilbert, 1980 Nobel  
prize winner for his work on DNA sequencing; and Dr. Gordon Stewart,  
professor emeritus of public health at Glasgow University and a former  
AIDS adviser to the World Health Organization.

[More at URL]


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Gay Behaviors vs. Public Health
"Are you a male who has had sex, even once, with another male since  
1977?"
By Robert Seidenberg
Published 6/29/2006
[Found on Canada Family Action Coalition website, 8 July 2006]

http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/sexuality/gay-behavior.htm

This is one of the questions that all U.S. blood collection facilities  
must ask when they administer the pre-donation questionnaire to screen  
potential donors. Anyone answering yes to this question is  
"indefinitely deferred," or in plain language, banned for life from  
donating blood. Despite pressure from gay advocates to change it, the  
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has maintained this policy for 22  
years. However, the pressure has intensified lately with gay activists  
successfully stopping college blood drives with cries of  
"discrimination."

Thus, this past March, the FDA held yet another workshop to review the  
male-sex-with-male (MSM) policy, and will convene the Blood Product  
Advisory Committee (BPAC) in mid-July to render an official decision.  
Based on recommendations made at the workshop, it is very likely that  
BPAC will finally recommend a modified policy. If they do, gays will  
claim a victory over "discrimination," and that is all that will be  
reported in the sound-bite media.

[More at URL]


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It is a queer thing!
By Brian Rushfeldt
CFAC Executive Director
Canada Family Action Coalition

http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/sexuality/a-queer-thing.htm

I use the word queer and I am called bigot, homophobe and hateful. But  
a queer magazine uses the word and they are proud and applauded. They  
claim they are expressing diversity.

I conclude there is a group who are so proud of their diversity, they  
respect no one else’s diversity.

[More at URL]


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Sanctity of Marriage.ca
Back and white - as is the issue of marriage redefinition!
Canada Family Action Coalition

http://www.familyaction.org/sanctityofmarriage/

[Ed. Note: Most of the contents are older, but it appears to be being  
updated again, with links to anti-gay propaganda in the US -  
particularly the Family Research Council.]


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