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

[Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)]

I took a while to read over the "common ground" report I mentioned in  
the last CWU; for the most part, it's ... well, there's not a lot to  
it, but what there _is_ doesn't bother me. So that's good.

Meanwhile, here's today's news.

Faith and Freedom Network kindly posts the text of its anti-gay Prayer  
Rally powerpoint presentation series - "Fighting gay rights will save  
thousands of sinners in the years ahead and will prevent many others  
from becoming sinners"; "[Gays] won’t stop until they can silence the  
church through imprisonment of its preachers or lawsuits to destroy the  
assets of churches"; "Our attorneys tell us that by adding sexual  
orientation to the law we lose a key element in the “rational basis”  
test for restraining homosexual marriage. It really is a slimy slope";  
lots more;

Focus on the Family worries that UN Human Rights Council reform might  
promote abortion rights;

FotF critical of "Roe v. Wade for men" effort, but still uses it to  
attack Roe v. Wade;

Focus on the Family runs a series of anti-marriage-rights ads in Iowa  
to push an anti-marriage amendment; they're saying "Iraqis can vote,  
why can't we," and uses imagery from the Iraqi elections;

FotF ACTION ITEM to support an anti-marriage amendment in Philadelphia;

FotF's coverage of the Liberty University/Soulforce action, where Jerry  
Falwell had campus police arrest every Soulforce member who set foot on  
campus;

FotF coverage of Catholic Charities decision to stop adoption services,  
stays the state requirement that groups operating as agents of the  
state comply with state non-discrimination law "trample[s] religious  
freedom";

FotF defends the "no queers" policy of the US military;

Not being particularly fast on the update, Faith and Freedom Network  
reports on Delegate Don Dwyer (R-MD)'s attempt to get a judge thrown  
out over her rulings as a new story - after the effort had already  
failed;

Agape Press stories: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops tells Catholic  
Democrats that they must "work actively to restrain, restrict and bring  
to an end the destruction of unborn human life." "The bishops add that  
all Catholics, including Democratic politicians, are obliged to shape  
their consciences 'in accord with the moral teaching of the Church'";  
Also, Pat Robertson's Regent University vows to arrest any and all  
members of Soulforce who set foot on Regent University campus later  
today;

Concerned Women for America writeup on their anti-gay "Call to Arms"  
conference in Maine;

Concerned Women for America's Mario Diaz: "What's up with us men?" -  
article on the attempt by a "men's group" to gain the right not to pay  
child support;

CWA attacks HBO special "Big Love";

Don Feder, a big supporter of the theoconservative right, in Human  
Events Online says yes, it _is_ okay to blame the rape victim; if a  
woman is out by herself late at night, she _should_ expect that she'll  
get raped; compares it to jumping out an airplane without a parachute;  
this is the kind of bullshit http://ginmar.livejournal.com spends a lot  
of time talking about;

Family Research Council ACTION ITEM to support Utah bill HB148,  
currently at the governor's desk, which would block anyone from using  
in loco parentis rights to make any claim of "parent-time, visitation,  
custody, legal guardianship, child support, or an adoption of a minor  
child"; this is specifically intended to target lesbian and gay  
partners;

***** American Family Association launches boycott of Ford Motor  
Company and all affiliated groups over their support of their GBLT  
employees, GBLT-friendly charities, and advertising to gay and lesbian  
consumers; includes national petition drive to build anti-gay and Ford  
boycott support;

AFA/Agape Press: Any attempt to overturn marriage rights in Canada will  
have to wait, they just don't have the votes in parliament; free vote  
expected to be delayed until at least fall;

AFA/Agape Press attacks gay/straight alliance clubs again;

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council says polls showing majority  
support for Roe v. Wade to be false, based results of bad news  
reporting;

Traditional Values Coalition pushes the "We the People Act," which  
would prevent the courts from hearing cases involving religious freedom  
(or persecution), any cases involving GBLT rights or issues, or any  
cases involving issues involving "reproduction"; I am _extremely_  
disappointed in Ron Paul, who I once very much respected, over this to  
my mind indefensibly unconstitutional bill specifically intended to  
eliminate women's reproductive right issues and GBLT folk entirely from  
any federal rights protections;

The Canada Family Action Coalition links to US fundamentalist group  
Focus on the Family - this is worthwhile just as another example of the  
growing interlinking of the fundamentalist movement in North America;

Baptist Press quotes Supreme Court Justice Scalia: it's too soon, the  
current court will not overturn _Roe v. Wade_ and it'll be five votes  
to save the decision.


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Monday, March 13, 2006
The Truth Is ... Dr. Fuiten's PowerPoint Presentation
Faith and Freedom Network

http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/blogger.html

Faith & Freedom has received many requests for the text from Dr. Joseph  
Fuiten’s PowerPoint presentation at the Prayer Rally’s scheduled this  
month. The following is that text.

__________________

They will argue they are just being fair.
Truth is, this normalizes homosexuality by enshrining it in the law.

They will say it’s about not discriminating.
Truth is this sets up gay marriage by creating the legal premise.

They will say church and state should be separate.
Truth is they want moral values out of public life so their immoral  
values can dominate.

They will say we are trying to impose our religious values on them.
Truth is, they are trying to impose their secular and sinful values on  
us.

They will say their freedom does not hurt us.
Truth is this will impact sex education in the schools and every aspect  
of public life.

They will argue gay marriage doesn’t impact my marriage.
Truth is if it impacts my children, it impacts me. Further, it’s a  
bogus argument. This is not about individuals, them or us. It’s about  
public policy and what is best for all of society.

They will say there is no homosexual agenda.
Truth is Ed Murry has already said there is. It won’t stop here. It  
won’t stop with gay marriage. It won’t stop until they can silence the  
church through imprisonment of its preachers or lawsuits to destroy the  
assets of churches.

[...]

They will say we hate gays.
Truth is we love righteousness.

They will say we are homophobic.
Truth is that made up word isn’t even in the dictionary.

[...]

They will say we should save sinners instead of fighting gay rights.
Fighting gay rights will save thousands of sinners in the years ahead  
and will prevent many others from becoming sinners.

[...]

They will say you should not vote on rights.
They only say that after they have just finished voting on gay rights  
in the legislature and before we get our chance to vote. It is the  
Creator who endows us with inalienable rights and this isn’t one of  
them.

[...]

Preventing discrimination has become the fig leaf to cover a naked  
political agenda. The political agenda is normalizing homosexual  
behavior by putting legal approval upon it. It is less a matter of  
discrimination than it is societal approval. The homosexuals have not  
shown a pattern of discrimination nor have they shown that they have  
suffered harm as a class of people. As a group, they are better  
educated and have a higher standard of living than the rest of society  
which is hardly the profile of an oppressed minority.

[...]

Our attorneys tell us that by adding sexual orientation to the law we  
lose a key element in the “rational basis” test for restraining  
homosexual marriage. It really is a slimy slope.

[Much more at URL]


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REAL REFORM NEEDED IN CREATING U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Pro-abortion forces want to mold the agenda.
Focus on the Family
Family News in Focus
March 13, 2006
by Pete Winn, associate editor

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039834.cfm

The United Nations is considering a change in the
mechanism for monitoring and protecting human rights -- a
change that could open Pandora's box.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed raising the
part-time U.N. Commission on Human Rights to permanent --
or "council" -- status. He, along with U.N. President Jan
Eliasson, wants the reform to be adopted right away. They
had hoped the Human Rights Commission would take it up
this week during its scheduled meeting in Geneva,
Switzerland. That meeting has been postponed a week.

The U.S., however, wants to reopen negotiations in hopes
of revising the proposal -- or, at the very least, to
postpone a decision for several months, so it can be
considered in conjunction with final approval of the U.N.
budget.

[More at URL]


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Case Called 'Roe v. Wade for Men'
SUMMARY: Father argues he shouldn't bear responsibility for his  
unwanted child.
Focus on the Family
Family News in Focus
March 13, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039828.cfm

A paternity case in which a young Michigan father is
trying to renounce his parenting responsibilities is being
called "Roe v. Wade for men" by pro-life groups.

Matt Dubay, the father of an 8-month-old girl, says he
feels trapped. He claims his ex-girlfriend knew he didn't
want children, but lied to him and became pregnant anyway.

Dubay is arguing that in the event of a pregnancy
unintended by the father, he should not be required to pay
child support.

[...]

"From a legalist's perspective, this father will lose his
case, because it is all about the children," he said.
"This whole situation only highlights the ridiculousness
of Roe v. Wade, and what it has done to our country."

[...]

"This case is exactly what we've come to," he said, "in a
culture where life has been de-valued through abortion."

[More at URL]


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FOCUS ACTION ADS PROMOTE IOWA MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
Iowans are being preventing from defining marriage at the ballot box.
Focus on the Family
Family News in Focus
March 13, 2006
from staff reports

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039830.cfm

Focus on the Family Action today launched an ad campaign
in support of the Iowa Marriage Amendment, currently
stalled in the State Government Committee by Sens. Michael
Gronstal and Jack Kibbie.

The ads, which feature a young Iraqi woman holding up a
purple-inked finger, state that "Iraqis have the right to
vote. Why don't Iowans?"

"Iowans deserve the same right to vote on how marriage
will be defined as the citizens of the 19 other states who
overwhelmingly protected traditional marriage in their
state constitutions," said Peter Brandt, senior director
of government and public policy for Focus on the Family
Action.  "The citizens of Iraq have the right to vote, and
yet Iowans do not, thanks to the political shenanigans of
Sen. Gronstal and Sen. Kibbie.

[More at URL]


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PENNSYLVANIA COMMITTEE CONSIDERS MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
If the Legislature fails to pass it, the people will not get to vote.
Focus on the Family
Family News in Focus
March 13, 2006
by Mona Passignano, state issues analyst

http://www.family.org/cforum/statenews/a0039833.cfm

Pennsylvania's marriage-protection amendment -- House Bill
2381 -- is scheduled for its first legislative vote in
committee on Wednesday. If the Pennsylvania Legislature
fails to pass the amendment, the people will not be
allowed to vote on the issue.

Without a constitutional amendment to protect it, the
definition of marriage will be in the hands of activist
judges.  In 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts ruled that homosexual couples should have
the right to marry, and in January 2006, a single judge
ruled unconstitutional a Maryland law defining marriage as
between one man and one woman.

[...]

TAKE ACTION: If you are a Pennsylvania citizen, please
contact your representative and urge him or her to pass HB
2381 -- a state constitutional amendment that defines
marriage as between one man and one woman. You can find
contact information in the CitizenLink Action Center.

http://www3.capwiz.com/fof/state/main/?state=PA&view=myofficials

For more information about the Pennsylvania
marriage-protection amendment, visit the Pennsylvania
Family Institute and Pennsylvania for Marriage Web sites.

http://www.pafamily.org
http://www.pa4marriage.org

[More at URL]


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Gay Protesters Arrested at Liberty University
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
March 13, 2006

[Received in email; no URL]

Twenty-four members of the Soulforce Equality Ride were
arrested Friday when they attempted to enter the Liberty
University (LU) campus in Lynchburg, Va. The protest was
part of the gay-activists' 19-stop tour challenging moral
policies at Christian colleges and other campuses.

The News & Advance reported that the activists took turns
stepping toward the university gate and reading from a
prepared statement until they were arrested for
trespassing by the LU police department.

The university, the first stop on the activists' bus tour,
had issued a release from the Rev. Jerry Falwell last week
saying the riders would not be welcome on campus. He
considered the demonstration an effort to gain publicity
rather than an attempt at dialogue.

Falwell said that, for parents, LU represented a "home
away from home" for their children.

"Most of the parents of our students would not invite gay
activists into their homes," he said.

Equality Ride Co-Director Haven Herrin said she was
"profoundly disappointed" by the arrests.

"What I want to do is discuss religion," she said. "I
don't understand why we can't do that."

About a dozen LU students came by to talk with the
demonstrators.

Trey Faulkner, an LU senior, told the demonstrators that
he felt homosexuality was a sin.

"There's healing," Faulkner said. "God does not hate
people who are homosexuals, but He does want to heal their
broken hearts."

EDITOR'S NOTE: The "Equality Ride" is stopping at Regent
University in Virginia Beach, Va., today and Tuesday.
Wendy Cloyd, CitizenLink's assistant editor, is there and
we will publish her report later this week.


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Boston Catholic Charity Halts Adoptions Over Gay Rights
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
March 13, 2006

[Received in email; no URL]

Boston's leading Catholic charity said Friday it would
halt adoption services rather than be forced to follow a
state law allowing gays and lesbians to adopt.

According the Reuters, the Boston Archdiocese's Catholic
Charities said the statute ran counter to Vatican
teachings, setting up a fight in the state Legislature
over whether to change laws that are designed to protect
gay rights, but which trample religious freedom in the
process.

Republican Gov. Mitt Romney said he would propose a law to
make the Catholic Church and other religious institutions
exempt from the state's nondiscrimination act.

"We have encountered a dilemma we cannot resolve," said a
joint statement of Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, president of
Catholic Charities, and Jeffrey Kaneb, chair of its board
of trustees.

"In spite of much effort and analysis, Catholic Charities
of Boston finds that it cannot reconcile the teaching of
the Church, which guides our work, and the statutes and
regulations of the Commonwealth," they said.


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Gay Activists Want Supreme Court Ruling to Impact 'Don't Ask, Don't  
Tell'
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
March 13, 2006

[Received in email; no URL]

Gay organizations that oppose the military's "don't ask,
don't tell" policy say they hope their cause will be
helped by the recent Supreme Court decision in which
universities that accept federal funds were told they
cannot bar military recruiters.

The New York Times reported that the ruling led several
newspapers to write editorials calling for the government
to change its policy.

Steve Ralls, a spokesman for the pro-gay Servicemembers
Legal Defense Network, said such attention was likely to
help build momentum to repeal the military's policy
concerning those who are openly gay.

"The silver lining in this decision is that it has focused
attention on the underlying issue of the prejudicial
'don't ask, don't tell' policy," he said.

But Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military
Readiness, called such efforts "a big PR campaign."

"The law is there to protect good order and discipline in
the military," she said, "and it's not going to change."


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Lawmakers Call For Removal of Activist Judge
Faith and Freedom Network
March 13, 2006

http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/03/lawmakers-call-for- 
removal-of-activist.html

I’m not surprised. It had to happen.

A judge who nullified marriage law in favor of same-sex marriage now is  
facing charges of misbehavior in office.

Last week, Don Dwyer, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates,  
called for the removal of the judge who single-handedly nullified  
Maryland’s marriage law and demanded same-sex marriage.

This action was precipitated by an all-to-familiar process. The  
Maryland Delegates had a Constitutional Marriage Amendment. They tried  
everything at their disposal, including parliamentary procedure of  
petition, to get the bill to the floor. However, in the end; the  
Speaker of the House recessed the body and went to his office, saying  
there was no business to conduct. Thus killing the Amendment and  
putting marriage in the hands of a liberal, secularist, activist judge.

[...]


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Commentary & News Briefs
March 13, 2006
Compiled by Jody Brown
Agape Press

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/132006h.asp

...The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is rejecting a claim by  
Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House that they can obey conscience  
rather than church teachings on abortion. A Catholic Statement of  
Principles signed by 55 House Democrats declared that they "accept the  
tension that comes with being in disagreement with the church in some  
areas." But Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and two fellow  
bishops have responded with a reminder of "the Catholic Church's  
constant teaching that abortion is a grave violation of the most  
fundamental human right: the right to life." They add that the church  
instructs "all Catholics to work actively to restrain, restrict and  
bring to an end the destruction of unborn human life." The bishops add  
that all Catholics, including Democratic politicians, are obliged to  
shape their consciences "in accord with the moral teaching of the  
Church." [AP]

[...]

...A group of homosexual rights activists could be arrested again today  
for the second time in three days. On Friday, 24 of them were arrested  
on trespassing charges as they tried to enter the campus of Liberty  
University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The school founded by Rev. Jerry  
Falwell was the first stop on a nationwide "Equality Ride" tour to  
promote homosexual rights at conservative Christian universities and  
military academies. Their second scheduled stop is today at Regent  
University in Virginia Beach. But Equality Ride organizers say the  
school founded by Rev. Pat Robertson has told them that they are  
unwelcome there too, and that their presence on campus will be  
considered trespassing. The homosexual activists say they plan to try  
to enter the Regent campus today anyway. [AP]

[More at URL]


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"Call to Arms" Conference in Maine Unites Pastors
Cara Cook
Concerned Women for America
March 13, 2006

http://www.cwalac.org/article_311.shtml

The inaugural “Call To Arms” conference for pastors and their wives  
took place March 6 and 7 in Bar Harbor, Maine. The purpose of the  
event, co-sponsored by Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Maine and  
The Maine Jeremiah Project, was to encourage and equip church leaders  
to use the pulpit to combat the moral ambivalence that pervades  
culture.

“The highest levels of Maine state government are aggressively  
instituting policies that contradict the values you teach week by week,  
such as God’s design for marriage,” reads the Call To Arms Web site.  
“Children go from an hour of Sunday school to a week of public  
indoctrination that calls homosexuality normal and the Bible outdated.  
It is crucial that church leaders know how to combat a culture that  
promotes abortion on demand, without even requiring parental  
knowledge.”

[More at URL]


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Delinquent Dad Files Suit Based on Roe v. Wade
Concerned Women for America
3/13/2006
By Mario Díaz

What’s up with us men?

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10305/CWA/life/index.htm

On March 9, The National Center for Men (NCM) filed a suit in a  
Michigan district court to extend to men the so-called reproductive  
rights given to women. NCM filed the suit on behalf of Matt Dubay, 25,  
whom the state of Michigan was forcing to pay child support for the  
7-month-old daughter born to him and his ex-girlfriend, a child he  
“never intended to bring into the world.”

When did we sink so low as a society? When did men?

“Women now have the freedom and security to enjoy lovemaking without  
the fear of forced procreation,” reads the press release. “But men are  
routinely forced to give up control, forced to be financially  
responsible for choices only women are permitted to make, forced to  
relinquish reproductive choice as the price of intimacy.”

Is that what men envy about women, their ability to have sex and then  
get an abortion if they become pregnant? Instead of envying a woman’s  
tenderness and loving spirit, or her “mother’s touch” to calm a child  
when he’s in distress? My head hurts just trying to make sense of the  
immature, illogical, incoherent reasoning. But that’s just me.

[More at URL]


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Pushing Polygamy: “Big Love” is a Big Bore
Concerned Women for America
3/14/2006
By Janice Shaw Crouse

Homosexual creators use HBO program as “nonjudgmental” look at marriage  
and family.

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10308/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm

I was a skeptic when activists first claimed that, after the push to  
mainstream homosexuality, a push to take the stigma out of polygamy  
would follow. Well, according to Mark Henkel of TruthBearer.org,  
“Polygamy rights is [sic] the next civil-rights battle.” He might have  
a point. In January, the Justice Department in Canada released a report  
recommending that our northern neighbors decriminalize polygamy. The  
March 20 Newsweek will argue that the new wave of polygamy activists is  
emerging “in the wake of the gay-marriage movement.” And on March 12,  
HBO launched a new television series, Big Love, featuring a polygamous  
marriage existing in a middle-class American suburb.

Polygamy as a civil right may not be as far-fetched as it might have  
seemed just months ago, given that today’s popular religion of  
multiculturalism, and its chief tenet, non-judgmentalism, demands that  
we accept everything except Judeo-Christian morality. Some people argue  
that entertainment merely follows the social trends; others claim that  
it often presages emerging trends, urged on by so-called “progressives”  
who revel in overturning the existing social order. Certainly,  
entertainment and social trends usually go hand-in-hand.

[More at URL]


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Hey, Over Here, Look at Me -- I'm Blaming the Victim
by Don Feder
Human Events Online
Posted Mar 14, 2006

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13180

Of all of brain-dead liberalism's mind-numbing catchphrases, possibly  
the most inane is "That's blaming the victim!" -- variations on which  
include: "How dare you blame the victim" and "Oh, my God, he’s blaming  
the victim!"

The cliché rests on one of the pillars of modern liberalism -- that  
actions, in fact, do not have consequences, and individuals bear no  
responsibility for their behavior.

[...]

But no one can play the don't-blame-the-victim card like feminists, who  
insist that women should be able to do whatever they please (wherever  
and whenever), regardless of how imprudent or dangerous.

If they end up raped, dead or in relationships where they're abused --  
society is to blame, because we didn't provide them with enough  
protection, because men are beasts, or because we haven't yet created a  
world in which the improvident are completely insulated from the  
foreseeable consequences of their dopey behavior.

Which brings us to the tragedy of Imette St. Guillen, a graduate  
student from Boston who disappeared from a Manhattan bar late last  
month.

Seventeen hours later, the 24-year's nude body (wrapped in a blanket)  
was discovered in Queens. She had been brutally raped and sadistically  
murdered. Darryl Littlejohn, a bouncer at the bar and a parolee with an  
extensive criminal record (once described by the New York State Parole  
Division as "a menace to society"), will likely be charged. Police just  
announced that DNA evidence ties Littlejohn to the crime.

[...]

I have a constitutional right to go skydiving without a parachute. (If  
I end up looking like a pressed flower, am I a victim of gravity?) You  
have a constitutional right to go away for a week and leave your house  
unlocked, with a sign on the door -- "Valuables inside; doors open."  
Angelina Jolie has a constitutional right to walk into a bikers' bar in  
a sheer negligee.


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Governor Huntsman of Utah should sign HB 148
March 13, 2006 - Monday
Utah (more on this state)
Forward to a Friend!

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL06C05

During the recent legislative session in Utah, Representative LaVar  
Christensen introduced House Bill 148. This bill is critical to protect  
the rights of parents from abuse of the doctrine of "in loco parentis".  
View the entire text of the bill here.

"In loco parentis" (in the place of the parent) is a doctrine that  
recognizes temporary, voluntary delegations of parental authority to a  
babysitter or a school when someone besides the parent is caring for a  
child.

However, non-parents and non-relatives (especially lesbian ex-partners)  
have abused the doctrine to claim permanent custody over children who  
are not legally their own. These caretakers have sued for visitation  
rights on the basis of a "psychological relationship" with the child.  
For an excellent article on these bitter battles, click here.

The gay rights lobby has spread misinformation in Utah about this bill.  
They claim that it will squelch the rights of grandparents or divorced  
parents. (The actual bill explicitly protects the rights of parents,  
whether biological or adoptive, and grandparents.)

There is a national effort going on to persuade Governor Huntsman to  
veto HB 148. His office has received phone calls, e-mails and letters  
urging him to veto this critical protection of the rights of legal  
parents.Contact Governor Huntsman today to let him know that he should  
not veto HB 148 but sign it into law. Timing on this is URGENT, as he  
is likely to make a decision by Tuesday, March 14. E-mail is the  
fastest way to urge the Governor to protect parents' rights and sign HB  
148 into law.

You can also write, fax or call the Governor:

Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Utah State Capitol Complex
East Office Building, Suite E220
PO Box 142220
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-2220
801-538-1000
800-705-2464
Fax 801-538-1528

Thank you for your support and please forward this message to your  
family and friends.


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AFA, 18 Other Pro-Family Organizations Call For One-Year Boycott of  
Ford Motor Company
American Family Association
Online as of March 14, 2005

http://www.boycottford.com/

	“For us, it was very natural to address gay families.  We’re targeting  
people with modern day values.  It’s a value set and the Volvo-minded  
consumer is very diverse.  ‘Family’ is much more than the traditional  
family.” - Thomas Anderson, executive vice-president of Volvo Cars  
North America, a division of Ford Motor Company, on definition of  
family.

American Family Association, along with 18 other pro-family  
organizations, has called for a one-year boycott of Ford Motor Company.  
  The boycott was called after Ford reneged on an agreement with  
American Family Association to stop funding homosexual groups which  
promote homosexual marriage.

Ford could have easily avoided this boycott had they desired to do so  
by simply remaining neutral in the cultural battles. Leaders of 44  
pro-family groups urged Ford not to take sides, but to remain neutral.   
However, Ford rejected the plea of the leaders and publicly announced  
their continued support of the homosexual groups. The hundreds of  
thousands of dollars Ford gives to homosexual groups allows the groups  
to pay their fixed expenses with funds given by Ford while using other  
funds in promoting the legalization of homosexual marriage.

[More at URL]


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Canadian Activist Expects Delay in Revocation of Same-Sex 'Marriage' Law
By Chad Groening
American Family Association/Agape Press
March 13, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/afa/132006f.asp

(AgapePress) - A Canadian pro-family activist says there are simply not  
enough Conservative votes right now for Parliament to repeal the law  
that gave marriage rights to homosexuals last year in Canada. The  
issue, he says, probably won't even be discussed until the fall.

Brian Rushfeldt says he was very pleased with the recent elections in  
his country that resulted in Conservative Stephen Harper becoming prime  
minister of Canada. But the chairman of the Calgary-based Canada Family  
Action Coalition does not believe the new PM has enough Conservative  
members of Parliament (MPs) to reinstate traditional marriage, as was  
promised during the campaign.

[More at URL]


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Activist: Gay Straight Clubs About Promotion, Not Protection
American Family Association/Agape Press
March 13, 2006
By Jim Brown
March 13, 2006

(AgapePress) - A pro-family advocate says leaders of Gay Straight  
Alliance clubs in schools falsely claim their main focus is fighting  
discrimination. She contends those clubs are more concerned about  
getting young people involved in homosexuality.

Last week a private high school in Santa Monica, California, held a  
"Free Queer Movie Night" that was sponsored by its Gay Straight  
Alliance club. At the event, the GSA screened a sexually explicit film  
about a lesbian relationship involving a German Jew and a Nazi  
sympathizer during World War II. According to Linda Harvey of the  
Ohio-based pro-family group Mission America, such events are standard  
fare for GSA clubs in both private and public schools.

"Movie nights are real popular -- and they are almost always movies  
about two young people who are homosexual who begin having a homosexual  
relationship," Harvey shares.

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Commentary & News Briefs
March 14, 2006
Compiled by Jody Brown

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/afa/142006h.asp

[...]

...Tony Perkins says a recent abortion-related poll conducted by  
Associated Press should be dismissed as "disinformation" that is  
"intended to give state lawmakers cold feet." The president of Family  
Research Council is addressing the somewhat confusing results of an AP  
survey that, according to the news service, indicates that "a solid  
majority of Americans feel that Roe v. Wade ... should be upheld" --  
but that "most [Americans] support at least some restrictions on when  
abortion can be performed." Perkins has a theory on why Americans are  
offering conflicting views on abortion. "It follows the confusing or  
misleading media reporting," he offers. And because of that type of  
reporting, the FRC leader says individuals in the U.S. do not know that  
the 1973 Roe decision struck down abortion laws in all 50 states, that  
it brought about unfettered abortion-on-demand as well as partial-birth  
abortion, that it is responsible for the increase in young girls being  
preyed upon by older men who then take the minors across state lines to  
have abortions without parental knowledge. "This is Roe," says Perkins.  
"[But] the media doesn't tell the public" about other polls, he adds,  
that show Americans favor reforms such as parental notice, spousal  
consent, and a ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure.  
[Jody Brown]

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‘We The People’ Act Deserves To Be Passed!
By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
For Publication On Or After March 13, 2006

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2640

Washington, DC – Thomas Jefferson, writing in a letter to a friend in  
1820, expressed grave concerns over the potential unrestrained power of  
the federal judiciary to be the final interpreters of all  
constitutional issues. Jefferson told William C. Jarvis that: “To  
consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional  
questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would  
place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”

[...]

The dangers faced by our nation by a judicial oligarchy are clear to  
most Americans. The Supreme Court, for example, has incorrectly ruled  
that abortion and sodomy are “privacy rights” and thus should be legal  
in all 50 states. More recently, the Supreme Court has redefined the  
Constitution’s section on eminent domain to allow the taking of private  
property by governments to give to private developers. The 9th Circuit  
Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that the Constitution  
forbids the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance because it contains the  
words “under God” in it.

These outrageous decisions have no basis in the Constitution, but are  
examples of judges simply reinterpreting the Constitution to suit their  
own political agendas.

Fortunately, Congress is considering passage of the “We the People  
Act,” (H.R. 4379) sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Paul’s  
legislation will enforce Constitutional provisions which permit  
Congress to restrict the kinds of cases that federal courts can hear.  
H.R. 4379 will restrict federal courts from hearing cases involving the  
free exercise or establishment of religion; any cases involving sexual  
practices, sexual orientation, or reproduction; and any issues  
involving same-sex marriage or the institution of marriage.

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Current Canadian Concerns
Legalized homicide law
March 13, 2006

http://www.familyaction.org/

Let Canadians learn the dangers from this California push to assisted  
suicide (really doctor perpetrated homicide). Doctors could prescribe  
overdoses and not advise or notify the family. We must refuse to accept  
this kind of law in civilized society.

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Supreme Court not ready to reverse Roe, Scalia says
Mar 13, 2006
By Tom Strode
Baptist Press
Updated March 14

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22830

WASHINGTON (BP)--South Dakota’s enactment of a ban on abortion has  
boosted hopes the new law might be the vehicle for a reversal of Roe v.  
Wade, but Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said recently he doubts the  
current Supreme Court would overturn the 1973 opinion and doesn’t know  
if it ever will.

[...]

“It is not likely to be overturned with the current court, because  
there are still five justices on our court who voted in favor of Roe  
vs. Wade,” Scalia told a group at the University of Freiburg. “So, if I  
had to guess, I would say, ‘Not yet -- maybe not [ever] -- but  
certainly not yet.”

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