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

Sat May 27 22:36:25 PDT 2006

Andrew Sullivan and InOpinion notice the Focus on the Family fake  
letter generator, and includes a number to call Focus on the Family and  
protest the fakery;

Focus on the Family's latest news article and ACTION ITEM to - of  
course - send more fake letters to editors at newspapers across the  
country - see above;

FotF demands more action on fundamentalist issues in Congress;

US Conference of Catholic Bishops endorses anti-marriage-rights  
Marriage Protection Amendment; includes ACTION ITEM to call Senators to  
support passage;

11th Circuit Court of Appeals orders lower court to re-try a case  
ruling against anti-evolutionary-theory activists and the Discovery  
Institute, a creationist organisation;

Focus on the Family pushes a book on the "War on Christmas" and going  
on about how Christians are oppressed in America;

Focus on the Family applauds President Bush's new domestic-policy  
advisor, Karl Zinsmeister, who has written for Focus on the Family's  
in-house magazine _Citizen_ magazine (mostly on Iraq); they're a little  
worried that he hasn't devoted enough time to anti-abortion activism in  
the past;

California governor Schwarzenegger promises to veto state Senate Bill  
1437; includes ACTION ITEM to support the promised veto and to urge the  
house to reject it; SB 1437 would require that lesson plans not be  
anti-gay and that history include mentions that GBLT historical figures  
were, in fact GBLT - that latter part is from Focus on the Family's  
description;

Focus on the Family responds to Playboy saying it's the parents'  
responsibility to watch what children get access to, and an effort on  
Playboy's part to teach how to use parental controls; FotF says "the  
only responsible action Playboy could take is to cease its operations  
entirely"; FotF is on record as wanting governmental bans;

Faith and Freedom Network complains about Seattle City Light and a  
complaint from an employee there about them "invit[ing] its employees  
to participate in the Gay Pride Parade"; he sent around an email  
pushing the "ex-gay" movement "Love Won Out," pushed by Focus on the  
Family, and two people filed complaints;

FFN sends out anti-LBGT-civil-rights bill update on Referendum 65, to  
repeal the LBGT civil rights bill;

Family Research Council applauds passage of Internet Gambling  
Prohibition Act through the House Judiciary Committee;

American Family Association condemns Ford for advertising in _The  
Advocate_ - specifically for advertising in an issue with an article  
about polyamoury, apparently; an article about gay men "promotes  
homosexual polygamy," which is, um, a neat trick; AFA take credit for  
Ford's stock drop and include an ACTION ITEM against Ford;

LifeNews: two FDA heads in a row intervened to keep Plan B off the  
market; they also repeat the LIE chant that Plan B causes abortions;

American Family Association/Agape Press pushes for anti-marriage  
amendment; runs article claiming that there can be no scriptural basis  
for opposing anti-gay discrimination (this in response to a religious  
coalition building against the amendment); also, the Baptist State  
Convention of North Carolina is preparing to, "forbid member churches  
from ordaining homosexual clergy, making public statements supporting  
homosexuality, or accepting as members people who have refused to  
'repent of the sin of homosexual behavior'";

AFA/Agape Press rail against Massachusetts's Governor's Commission on  
Gay and Lesbian Youth, calling it "depraved";

California legislator withdraws bill confirming custodial parent's  
right to move after a divorce; it was backed by domestic violence  
groups; "Such groups 'want to insist that if there's a divorce or  
separation, Mom should be able to do whatever she wishes with her  
kids,' Sacks insists." Such as, apparently, move away from a divorced  
spouce. God forbid _that_ be thought of as okay; the obvious paradigm  
of control here is pretty unmistakable to me;

Traditional Values Coalition urges Congress to reject AIDS funding to  
Global AIDS Fund;

TVC rails against the overturning as unconstitutional an Arkansas law  
banning recognition of _adoptions_ by lesbian and gay people in other  
states, uses it to push the "We, The People Act" which would ban courts  
from hearing anti-gay-law cases (HR4379); also includes ACTION ITEM to  
support the act;

TVC endorses the anti-gay "Risk Audit Project," a Mission America  
effort to have Southern Baptists investigate local public schools for  
any sign of LGBT tolerance (including anti-discrimination codes for  
faculty and students) and remove children from public schools where it  
is found; as usual, they link to their "Homosexuals Recruit Public  
School Children" horror PDF;

TVC upset that Kansas governor vetoed an "abortion statistics" bill  
that required doctors and women to report all abortions and statistics  
about to the state;

TVC ACTION ITEM to support "Holly's Law," a bill to remove RU-486 from  
the market;

The Chicago Tribune carries an op ed saying that lesbians and gays  
being able to marry will make churches "suffer"; the author also  
criticises _Lawrence v. Texas_, which made making lesbian and gay  
people outright illegal, without mentioning the course name;

LA Times article on the unmarried (heterosexual) couple with children  
ordered to get married or move out of their home; Concerned Women for  
America's Robert Knight is quoted, supporting the move-out order;

CWA's Robert Knight writes on "Why a Marriage Protection Amendment is  
Needed," and includes the assertion that "rogue legislators are  
creating counterfeits" (such as domestic parnterships and civil  
unions), so the fight is now both against judges _and_  
legitimately-elected legislatures;

CWA's Robert Knight - he's a busy boy! - has "an update on the proposed  
amendment;" being an audio feature, it has more red-meat than usual in  
it; I transcribed it, like y'do;

Russian gays march in Moscow in violation of ban, are arrested;

CWA's Robert Knight complains about how oppressed Christians are in the  
United States with all this "Christian-bashing," which typically means  
in fundyland any opposition to their attempt to legislate religion,  
talks with William Donohue, President of the Catholic League about it;  
I'd do the transcription, but it's b0rken; checking on what's going  
on... oh wow, their media server exposes its directories (  
http://www.cwfamedia.org/media/ ) ! Coooooool. I wonder what else might  
be in there;

Canada Family Action Coalition: gays are paedophiles;

Focus on the Family Canada: We'll win the culture wars by demographics  
- we have more kids;

FotF Canada: Alberta MP's attempt to introduce an "unborn child  
protection bill"; Catholic Civil Rights League hopes it will be  
supported and then will use it to re-open the abortion debate in  
Canada.

----- 1 -----
AstroTurf from Dr. James Dobson
InOpinion
May 26, 2006

http://www.inopinion.com/features/?itemid=697

Welcome Andrew Sullivan readers. When you're done marveling at Dr.  
Dobson's perfidy, check out the politically incorrect jokes -- Too  
Tough for TV -- and the One Word editorials or drop by and see what  
Nancy Kruh has to say about the world of op-ed columnists.

And now, back to Dr. Dobson's astroturf ...

This AstroTurf machine – spewing fake opposition to gay marriage -- is  
among the most sophisticated and successful out there. It lets Focus on  
the Family supporters create more than 600 variations of the same  
letter.

Most of the time, these operations are more successful at planting  
their plagiarism in the letters columns of smaller papers without the  
staff to pull the weeds, but Focus on the Family really knows what they  
are doing.

They’ve slipped by the editors at The Fresno Bee, The Orange County  
Register, The Toledo Blade, Tucson Citizen and The Deseret News.

UPDATE: From a reader, add The Savannah Morning News to the list of  
victims.

[More at URL]

----- 2 -----
MPA Vote Fast Approaches
Family advocates optimistic measure to protect traditional marriage  
will pick up votes in second Senate vote.
Focus on the Family
from staff reports
May 26, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040646.cfm

A Senate vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) is less than  
two weeks away, but as the day of decision approaches, some lawmakers  
fear concern over other pressing issues has replaced the need to defend  
marriage in the minds of voters.

But Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., isn't one of them, saying there's  
plenty of room in Americans' minds for the marriage issue — even as  
they focus on rising energy prices and the debate over illegal  
immigration.

"I think that marriage is very much on the forefront of the voters'  
minds," he told Family News in Focus. "All you have to do is have an  
election or a ballot issue, and there's large turnout and large voter  
margins in favor of maintaining the definition of marriage."

[...]

TAKE ACTION
There's still time to help ensure passage of the Marriage Protection  
Amendment by writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.  
We've made it easy for you with our special letter-writing wizard.  
Check it out by clicking here

[More at URL]

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Values Issues Not a High Priority
Social conservatives disappointed by lack of action on legislation to  
benefit the family.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
May 26, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040645.cfm

Family advocates are getting increasingly disappointed at the lack of  
congressional action on the issues values voters care about.

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said the Republican-controlled  
House is making good progress on budget matters, immigration issues and  
energy policy, but he doesn't have much to say about legislation aimed  
at protecting life and the family.

"We're moving forward on many fronts," he said, "and I think . . .  
members are going to have lots of things to talk about when they go  
home for the Memorial Day work period."

Amanda Banks, federal issues analyst for Focus on the Family Action,  
said social conservatives would like to see more from the House —  
including action on the Marriage Protection Amendment, which is already  
being considered in the Senate.

[...]

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Catholic Church Backs Marriage Protection Amendment
Focus on the Family
May 26, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040648.cfm

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at a Thursday news conference  
announced full support for a proposed amendment to the U.S.  
Constitution that would preserve marriage as the union of one man and  
one woman.

The Most Rev. Joseph Kurtz, bishop of Knoxville, Tenn., took the stand  
at an Alliance for Marriage forum to reiterate the church's dedication  
"to promote, preserve and protect marriage as it is willed by God, as  
generations have understood and lived it, and as it has served the  
common good of society."

"There is a growing sense among many people," he said, "including a  
wide range of religious leaders, that a Marriage Protection Amendment  
is the only federal-level action that will ultimately protect and  
preserve the institution of marriage."

[...]

TAKE ACTION
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on the Marriage Protection  
Amendment (MPA) on June 6. Your perseverance is needed to convince your  
U.S. senators to vote in favor of the MPA. Please log into the Marriage  
Protection Amendment Action Center to contact your senator.

[More at URL]

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Ruling Forces Lower Court to Reconsider Science-Textbook Stickers
Focus on the Family
May 26, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040650.cfm

The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that a  
lower-court decision to ban stickers identifying evolution as a theory  
from high school science books relied on faulty and incomplete  
information.

The three-judge panel sent the case back to the trial-court judge to be  
re-tried.

[...]

"The problems presented by a record containing significant evidentiary  
gaps are compounded," the ruling read, "because at least some key  
findings of the district court are not supported by the evidence that  
is contained in the record."

[More at URL]

----- 6 -----
Persecution
How Liberals are Waging War Against Christians
by David Limbaugh
[Advertised on Focus on the Family's daily newsbriefing]

http://www.family.org/resources/itempg.cfm? 
itemid=4482&refcd=CE06ECZL&tvar=no

Reclaim Your Right To Participate In The Political Arena
Author David Limbaugh exposes the subtle but pervasive discrimination  
against biblical Christianity in our culture. Using real, sometimes  
shocking, examples from Hollywood, public schools and other venues, he  
shows how terms like “tolerance” and the mythical “separation of church  
and state” have been used to portray Christianity as repressive,  
ignorant and offensive. This is a call to action for those who want to  
exercise their right to influence popular culture and find true  
religious freedom.

[More at URL]

----- 7 -----
New White House Adviser Could be Refreshing 'Jolt'
Karl Zinsmeister. Remember the name. You'll be hearing it a lot over  
the next two years.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
May 25, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0040639.cfm

President Bush has appointed a new domestic-policy adviser. Karl  
Zinsmeister, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in  
Washington, D.C., will succeed Claude Allen on June 12 as the  
president's right-hand man on national issues.

[...]

Pro-family conservatives say Zinsmeister, who has been editor of  
American Enterprise magazine for the last 12 years, is a wise choice to  
lead the White House shop that crafts policy on many issues that affect  
the family.

Gary Bauer, who served as President Reagan's domestic-policy adviser,  
told CitizenLink that Zinsmeister will be "a positive addition" to the  
White House.

[...]

The 47-year-old journalist has top-level credentials, according to Tom  
Hess, editor of Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine. To begin with,  
he's a dedicated husband, father and Sunday School teacher. What's  
more, Zinsmeister has written several articles for Citizen over the  
years — most recently about his time in Iraq.

[More at URL]

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California Governor Would Veto Pro-Gay School Bill
Measure would highlight homosexuality and squelch any opposition.
Focus on the Family
by Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor
May 25, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040640.cfm

If a bill aimed at promoting homosexuality in California schools should  
pass, a spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said it would be  
vetoed.

The bill is pending in the state Assembly. It passed the Senate 22-5.

Barbara McPherson, program manager of legislative affairs for the  
California Family Council, said SB 1437 would mandate that  
social-studies curriculum represent those who are lesbian, gay,  
bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) as an integral part of history.

[...]

Textbooks under development would add the sexual orientation of  
historical figures.

[...]

TAKE ACTION:
If you are a California resident, please contact your Assembly member  
and respectfully ask him or her to vote against SB 1437. Then contact  
Gov. Schwarzenegger and ask him to stand strong in his commitment to  
veto the bill. You can contact them through our new Action Center. If  
you are a CitizenLink Daily Update subscriber, click on the blue "Take  
Action" button in the e-mail and it will log you in automatically.  
Otherwise, click here and make sure you first either log in or enter  
your full address information and click "Go" to call up your Assembly  
member's information.

----- 9 -----
Playboy Says It's Up to Parents to Block Porn
Focus on the Familiy
May 25, 2006

http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040637.cfm

The daughter of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner has unveiled a  
campaign to shun any corporate responsibility for pornographic content.  
Instead, she wants parents to bear the responsibility, Multichannel  
News reported.

The Take Parental Control promotion — spearheaded by Playboy  
Enterprises Inc. and Christie Hefner — purports to aid parents through  
providing step-by-step instructions on how to block unwanted content  
from television, the Internet, cell phones, video games, satellite  
radio and portable media players.

[...]

Countless lives have been destroyed by Playboy's glossy prostitution,  
he said, and the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography found the  
largest consumers of pornography are teenage boys.

"It you produce a pornographic product, it will find its way to  
children and it will harm them," Weiss said. "The only responsible  
action Playboy could take is to cease its operations entirely."

[More at URL]

----- 10 -----
Seattle City Light & the Gay Pride Parade
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Faith and Freedom Network

http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/05/seattle-city-light-gay- 
pride-parade.html

Philip Irvin, a Seattle City Light employee, has recently shared this  
experience with us here at Faith & Freedom. Keep in mind this happened  
before the passage of HB2661.

Philip Irvin in his own words:

EEO Complaint against Philip Irvin

This complaint and its investigation demonstrate again how one-sided  
“sexual orientation” discrimination rules are and will be enforced.

[More at URL]

----- 11 -----
Referendum 65 - 13 Days Left!
Faith and Freedom Network
May 25, 2006

[Received in email; no URL]

Referendum 65 gives the voters the opportunity to accept or reject ESHB  
2661, a law passed in January by the Washington state Legislature which  
opens the door for the courts to impose homosexual marriage.

Politicians in Olympia do not respond to the faith community because  
they don't think we speak for the majority of voters in Washington.

Referendum 65 is our opportunity to prove them wrong. But it will not  
happen unless we get 112,440 valid signatures by June 7th.

Be sure to send in your completed Signature Forms as quickly as  
possible.

----- 12 -----
FRC Praises Committee Passage of the 'Internet Gambling Prohibition Act'
Family Research Council
May 25, 2006 - Thursday
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 25, 2006
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy, (866) FRC-NEWS

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR06E13&f=PG03I03

Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Judiciary Committee approved the  
"Internet Gambling Prohibition Act" by a bi-partisan vote of 25-11.  
Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) authored the "Internet Gambling  
Prohibition Act" to combat illegal Internet gambling. Tony Perkins,  
President of Family Research Council, issued the following statement:

"The House Judiciary Committee is to be congratulated for passing the  
'Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.' Special thanks go to Congressman  
Goodlatte for his tireless leadership on this important issue over many  
years. Today, Congress advanced a piece of legislation that will  
provide real protections to America's families from destructive and  
illegal Internet gambling.

[More at URL]

----- 13 -----
You Will Absolutely Not Believe What Ford Has Done Now
American Family Association
May 25, 2006

http://www.afa.net/ford052506.asp

When Ford responds to those who write concerning their promotion of  
homosexual marriage, the response they get from Ford's Customer  
Relationship Center says their support "is a strong commitment we  
intend to carry forward with no exception." For Ford, that support also  
includes homosexual polygamy.

To show those supporting traditional marriage they mean business, Ford  
sponsored the June 6 issue of the homosexual publication The Advocate.  
The cover reads: "Polygamy & Gay Men. Dirty laundry or sexual freedom?  
How gay men handle multiple partners." The article promotes homosexual  
polygamy.

[...]

Take Action

Forward this email to a Ford dealer near you. Click here (then click on  
the logo) to find email addresses of Ford dealers near you. It is very  
important that Ford know of your participation in the boycott.

Sign the Boycott Ford Pledge if you haven't already done so.

Print out and distribute the Boycott Ford Petition. Click here.

Finally, forward this to your friends and family so they can be aware  
of Ford's support of homosexual marriage.

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Court Papers: Last Two FDA Directors Stopped Morning After Pill Sales
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 25, 2006

http://www.lifenews.com/nat2303.html

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Court papers from depositions given to  
a pro-abortion law firm that has sued the FDA over its delay in  
approving over the counter status for the morning after pill show the  
last two commissioners both intervened to halt or delay that status.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based pro-abortion law  
firm, has been deposing current and former FDA staff members in its  
quest to get the morning after pill approved for sale without a  
prescription.

Barr Laboratories, which makes the Plan B pill that can sometimes cause  
an abortion, originally asked the FDA to approve its request to sell  
the morning after pill to all women without a doctor's visit.

[...]

"What this is really all about is the abortion lobby has been losing on  
the issue of abortion, and they are now diverting attention to  
something they can win on — the 'morning-after' pill," [CWA's Wendy]  
Wright said.

[More at URL]

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Commentary & News Briefs
American Family Association/Agape Press
Compiled by Jody Brown
May 26, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/afa/262006h.asp

[...]

...Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says floor debate will begin a  
week from Monday on a proposed constitutional amendment defining  
marriage as the union of a man and a woman. He says the amendment is  
needed to stop judges from ordering the legalization of same-sex  
"marriage" despite the opposition of voters and their elected  
representatives. Frist and three other senators were joined at a news  
conference by representatives of black and Hispanic churches and the  
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Knoxville Bishop Joseph Kurtz said  
neither the church nor the state has the right to redefine marriage,  
because it comes "from God." Supporters of the amendment believe they  
have a Senate majority, if not the two-thirds needed to amend the  
Constitution. A coalition of diverse faith groups called the Religious  
Coalition for Marriage has been formed to lobby the Senate to approve  
the Federal Marriage Amendment. [AP]

...Pro-family leader Tony Perkins is dismissing charges from a leftist  
religious group that the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment amounts to  
discrimination. (See related article) Perkins, president of the Family  
Research Council, has been a strong supporter of the proposed amendment  
since the idea first surfaced. He says the charges that it is  
discriminatory are false -- and that he can find no basis for the  
group's objections in scripture. "I really don't know on what biblical  
grounds they're standing against marriage between a man and a woman,"  
Perkins admits. "Their position is obviously more motivated by politics  
than by biblical precepts." And he counters a common argument from the  
opposition, noting that the amendment is not about "enshrining one  
religious view" of marriage into the U.S. Constitution. "What it's  
about is about recognizing 5,000 years of human history and the  
indispensable role that marriage plays in the stability and longevity  
of a society," he points out. That in itself, says Perkins, makes this  
a public policy issue where the will of the people should be  
preeminent. [Bill Fancher]

...Leaders of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina have  
proposed denying membership to churches or affiliate groups that affirm  
homosexual relationships. The policy, proposed by the convention's  
board of directors, would forbid member churches from ordaining  
homosexual clergy, making public statements supporting homosexuality,  
or accepting as members people who have refused to "repent of the sin  
of homosexual behavior." The policy must be ratified at the North  
Carolina Baptists' annual meeting in November. Board president Don  
Warren says, "We believe homosexuality is sin, as are many others. But  
we are not aware of any other sin that has a national organization that  
promotes its happening beginning in kindergarten and first grade." [AP]

[More at URL]

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Bay State Activist Bothered That Tax Money Going to Governor's  
Pro-Homosexual Group
By Bill Fancher
AFA/Agape Press
May 26, 2006

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/afa/262006b.asp

(AgapePress) - A pro-homosexual commission under the direction of the  
governor of Massachusetts is poised to receive a big increase in  
funding. According to pro-family activist in the Bay State, school  
activities sponsored by that commission are not for the faint of heart.

The Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth has been on a roller  
coaster ride recently. After being informed about the Commission's  
activities, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney disbanded it. But  
attacks by the pro-homosexual lobby and the liberal press in the state  
led to its reinstatement.

[More at URL]

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Senator Withdraws Bill Giving Custodial Parents Free Rein to Move Away
Men's Issues Expert Applauds Defeat of What He Saw as an  
Anti-Fatherhood Measure
By Jim Brown
AFA/Agape Press
May 26, 2006

(AgapePress) - A fathers' rights advocate is hailing the defeat of a  
California Senate bill that he says would have been devastating for  
children of divorce and their non-custodial parents. Liberal California  
Senator Gloria Romero has withdrawn a bill that would have created a  
"presumptive right" for a divorced parent who has custody to move  
children away from the other parent.

Critics say Romero's proposed legislation would have allowed a  
custodial parent, which is usually the mother, to move her children  
whenever and wherever she wanted, without any consideration by the  
courts of the children's best interests or the relationship between the  
children and their non-custodial parent.

[...]

Senator Romero's bill was being pushed by "misguided" radical feminist  
groups, the men's rights advocate asserts. Among the legislation's  
supporters, he notes, were the California National Organization for  
Women and the California Commission on the Status of Women, and he says  
several domestic violence groups were lobbying in favor of the bill as  
well.

Such groups "want to insist that if there's a divorce or separation,  
Mom should be able to do whatever she wishes with her kids," Sacks  
insists. "Those groups are funded by your tax dollars and my tax  
dollars," he says, "and basically all of these groups are trying to do  
whatever they can to change the law so that if a divorced or separated  
mother wants to get rid of her children's father, she can -- and  
there's going to be very little that can stop her."

[More at URL]

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TVC Urges Congress To Avoid Irresponsible AIDS Funding
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2739

May 25, 2006 -- Congress is on the verge of passing a bill that will  
increase funding for the Global AIDS Fund from $300 million to $866  
million—more than double what President Bush requested from Congress.

The Global AIDS Fund is currently largely unaccountable to the American  
people for the money it spends on fighting AIDS, malaria, and  
tuberculosis, yet we pay at least one-third of the cost.

[More at URL]

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Oklahoma Federal Judge Overturns Ban On Homosexual Adoptions
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2738

May 25, 2006 – Federal Judge Robin Cauthron has struck down a  
two-year-old law passed by the Oklahoma legislature that bans  
recognition of homosexual adoptions from other states.

The case involves two female homosexuals from New Jersey who sued to  
have their adoption of daughters recognized in Oklahoma law. The  
lawsuit was filed by Lambda Legal, an aggressive homosexual law firm.

[...]

Judge Cauthron’s decision is yet another reason why Congress must pass  
“We, The People Act,” to restrict the jurisdiction of federal courts to  
hear cases involving homosexuality. Read and distribute TVC’s special  
reports on judicial activism and what can be done to restore  
constitutional government to our nation: Battle Plan.

[More at URL]

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TVC Joins Risk Audit Project To Protect Teens From Homosexual  
Recruitment
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2737

May 25, 2006 – The Traditional Values Coalition has signed on as a  
supporter of a Mission America project to defend teenagers from being  
recruited into homosexual behaviors on school campuses.

[More at URL]

----- 21 -----
Kansas Governor Vetoes Abortion Statistics Bill
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2735

May 25, 2006 – Liberal Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed  
legislation that would have required abortion clinics to provide  
accurate statistics on late-term abortions performed and whether or not  
the baby was healthy when killed.

[More at URL]

----- 22 -----
Pass “Holly’s Law” This Session
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.capwiz.com/traditional/issues/alert/?alertid=8781766

“Holly’s Law” will require the FDA to temporarily withdraw its approval  
of the abortion drug from the market until a thorough review is  
conducted to determine if the FDA followed appropriate policies in the  
process of approving RU-486.

There were numerous irregularities in how the FDA handled the approval  
of RU-486 during the Clinton Administration.

[More at URL]

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If gays marry, churches could suffer
By Douglas W. Kmiec, a professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine  
University School of Law
Chicago Tribune
Published May 26, 2006

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi 
-0605260218may26,1,1440466.story

After an acrimonious session in which Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.)  
stomped out and Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) bid him "good  
riddance," the Senate Judiciary Committee approved sending the federal  
marriage amendment to the full Senate.

The Feingold-Specter tiff illustrates the intensity of feeling about  
adding to the text of the Constitution what the founders surely thought  
was obvious: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the  
union of a man and a woman." The need to reaffirm the self-evident was  
prompted by Massachusetts' judicial recognition of same-sex marriage,  
which motivated more than a dozen states to overwhelmingly proclaim  
otherwise.

With the states being so vigilant in defense of traditional marriage,  
is there really a need for the people to act? Yes. Activists are  
deployed across the country challenging traditional marriage, and it is  
more than likely that some additional judges will compound the  
Massachusetts mistake. This increased judicial approval of same-sex  
marriage will metastasize into the larger culture. Indeed, an  
insidious, but less recognized, consequence will be a push to  
demonize--and then punish--faith communities that refuse to bless  
homosexual unions.

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Housing Code Defines What Makes a Family
An unmarried couple and their children are denied a city occupancy  
permit. They're suing.
By P.J. Huffstutter, Times Staff Writer
May 21, 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na- 
family21may21,1,5647930.story

BLACK JACK, Mo. — The last of the moving boxes has been put away, and  
the basketball hoop is installed next to the garage door. The  
refrigerator is covered with vacation snapshots and notices of an  
upcoming PTA meeting. Yet Olivia Shelltrack and Fondray Loving and  
their three kids are not yet settled into the sprawling five-bedroom  
home they bought in January.

[...]

"They have the right to protect and restore a marriage-based moral  
order," said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family  
Institute at Concerned Women for America, a public policy organization  
based in Washington, D.C.

[...]

If they lose, the couple could be assessed a fine of $500 for every day  
they live in their home in Black Jack.

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Why a Marriage Protection Amendment Is Needed
Rogue judges and legislators are creating counterfeits.
Concerned Women for America
5/24/2006
By Robert Knight

http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp? 
id=10822&department=CWA&categoryid=family

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.

But events over the past two years clearly illustrate that a federal  
amendment is overdue. The law is in turmoil. Lots of “big things” have  
happened.

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Federal Marriage Amendment Battle Heats Up
Concerned Women for America
5/23/2006

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10827/CWA/family/index.htm

The battle to pass a Constitutional Amendment to protect marriage is  
quickly approaching. Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family  
Institute, has an update on the proposed amendment, the opposition, and  
what can be done to strengthen and pass this measure. Click here to  
listen.

[Knight: "We have a new summary of all the happenings surrounding...  
the Federal Marriage Amendment, because we've seen some politicians  
lately saying, "it's too early, it's too soon, to consider a Federal  
amendment. Let the states handle it. But as my paper, 'Why a Federal  
Marriage Amendment is Needed,' states, a Federal judge overturned  
Nebraska's marriage amendment that was passed by 70 of the people,  
another judge overturned Georgia's marriage amendment that was approved  
by 76% of the people. Another judge in Maryland overturned Maryland's  
marriage law - I mean, you can go down the list, and obviously we need  
a national solution for this if we're going to protect marriage."

"Congress will allegedly vote in the Senate on the Federal Marriage  
Amendment called the Marriage Protection Amendment. Now, CWA has a  
different take on this amendment. We believe a Federal marriage  
amendment is needed, and we would approve many of the arguments used to  
advance this amendment. We don't particularly care for the language of  
this amendment, because we think the second sentence is a little bit  
confusing and doesn't go far enough to protect marriage, so we're  
hoping that the language will be strengthened by the time of the June  
5th vote that Senator Bill Frist has promised, the majority leader, or  
that it would be reduced to a single sentence that's very basic, and  
that would be, 'Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the  
union of a man and a woman.' Period. That's pretty basic, and that  
could go a long way towards protecting marriage without implying states  
could go ahead and create counterfeit versions of marriage, just as  
long as they don't call it marriage. We don't like that eventuality  
either, and six states have already moved to do some of that, starting  
with Vermont."

"That's part of our reasoning for supporting a single sentence. The  
lawyers can do anything they want with the longer sentences, and people  
from both sides of this issue have widely interpreted the second  
sentence of the Marriage Protection Amendment. Some of them, on the  
homosexual side, they've said, oh my gosh, it will outlaw everything,  
including civil unions and domestic partnerships. Y'know, if it does  
that, we would support it! Because we don't believe that the law should  
create incentives to encourage people to remain trapped in  
homosexuality. And also, we don't think the law should force people  
with traditional values to recognise relationships based on what these  
peoples' faith calls a sin. Really, you're talking about Christian,  
Jewish, and Muslim businessmen being told to aid and abet homosexual  
relationships, and if you believe in freedom, you should have the  
freedom not to openly support something that you believe is a grievous  
wrong."

"The pro-family movement can inundate Capitol Hill with phone calls,  
and letters, and faxes, explaining why they want marriage protected  
once and for all in the Constitution. You don't have to go into detail  
about what the amendment will say, you say you want a Federal marriage  
amendment. And I think the senators will get the message. And you  
mention, Martha, that the other side is seeing this as a great battle;  
I was just looking at the latest edition of _The Advocate_ magazine,  
which is probably the top and most respected homosexual activist  
publication, and they have a full page ad from the Human Rights  
Campaign, and it features Senator Rick Santorum, who has endured a lot  
of abuse from homosexual activists since he warned that in the  
_Lawrence v. Texas_ case if the Supreme Court overturned the sodomy law  
in Texas that it would threaten other laws based on morality. And of  
course, that's exactly what has occurred, Senator Santorum was exactly  
right, but they're making him out to be their bette noir, which is  
their agent of evil, their icon of hatred, and Senator Santorum's a  
really good plain-speaking guy who just wants to defend marriage. But  
they have to have something like that, they have to rally around  
something, there's a picture of Seantor Santorum and also of Senator  
Bill Frist, and they're basically saying, calling them the far right,  
and how they're gonna destroy the rights of gay people in this country.  
And it's an incendiary tactic, and we're not surprised.

"The cover is 'gays and polygamy,' and inside, the article leads with,  
'although Big Love, the HBO special, has increased interest in  
heterosexual polygamy, gays have been doing it for a long time, and we  
talked to many of them who have multiple partner unions.' So, you know,  
when you talk to homosexual activists, or debate them, say, on college  
campuses, and they say, oh, it's not about polygamy, it's not about  
anything other than two loving people, they're not really being honest.  
THeir movement has promoted the breaking of every single standard  
regarding sexuality. It's an anything-goes wide-open world, and  
marriage cannot thrive in an environment like that, marriage and family  
cannot endure such a hostile environment."]

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Banned Moscow gay rally broken up
Saturday, 27 May 2006
BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5023466.stm

More than 70 people have been arrested in Moscow after activists tried  
to hold the city's first gay rights rally, despite a ban on the event.

About 50 gay rights supporters were held, as well as 20 people from  
religious and nationalist groups opposed to the march.

[...]

The rally's organiser, Nikolay Alexeyev, was among those arrested.

Slogans and abuse

Meanwhile demonstrators representing nationalist and Orthodox Christian  
groups chanted anti-gay slogans and shouted abuse.

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Standing Against Christian-Bashing
Concerned Women for America
5/24/2006

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10832/CWA/misc/index.htm

As mainstream entertainment becomes increasingly antagonistic to all  
Christians, and Catholics in particular, one group is speaking out and  
successfully challenging this unfair treatment. Bob Knight, Director of  
CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, speaks with William Donohue,  
President of the Catholic League, who is on the front lines of this  
effort. Click here to listen.

[Transcript impossible; audio stream missing from their server]

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Queer Groups Support
Queer Sex with Children
Canada Family Action Coalition
5/25/2006

http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/sexuality/queer-groups- 
target-children.htm

"Egale hopes to work in coalition with other queer groups, Planned  
Parenthood organizations and AIDS groups to oppose raising the age of  
consent” reports a homosexual paper.

Egale and other groups are trying to use the “control your own body”  
argument of abortionists to justify keeping sexual consent age at 14.

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"Cultural conservatism" forecasted to rise
Today’s Family News
Focus on the Family Canada
May 26, 2006

http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/culture/stories/052606.html

The world is poised to produce a generation that will for the most part  
adhere to "culturally conservative" values, according to demographer  
Phillip Longman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.

Writing in USA Today, Longman argued that today’s "progressive  
secularists" had fewer children than their baby boom parents – if they  
had any children at all

“As a consequence,” he stated, “an increasing share of all children  
born into the world are descended from a share of the population whose  
conservative values have led them to raise large families.”

[...]

“Do you find soft drugs, homosexuality and euthanasia acceptable? Do  
you seldom, if ever, attend church? Europeans who answer affirmatively  
to such questions are far more likely to live alone or be in childless,  
cohabiting unions than are those who answer negatively.”

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MP tables unborn child protection bill
Focus on the Family Canada
Today’s Family News
Updated May 26, 2006

http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/life/stories/052606.html

Pro-lifers appear hopeful that a new private member’s bill, which would  
make it a separate crime to kill or injure an unborn child in cases  
where its mother is murdered or assaulted could withstand a legal  
challenge, the Toronto Star reported Tuesday.

Alberta Conservative MP Leon Benoit introduced Bill C-291 last  
Wednesday, insisting it is not intended to reopen the abortion debate.  
He is aware that some will claim it challenges the absence of  
recognition in the Criminal Code that an unborn “human being” is  
entitled to the protections of the law.

“To me, it’s all about protecting, especially, pregnant women against  
violence, and where they’ve made the choice to keep their child, of  
protecting that unborn child,” he told the Star.

[...]

Douglas believes Canadians on both sides of the abortion issue should  
be able to support this bill.

[...]

Even so, others hope the bill will have an impact beyond its stated  
intent.

“We welcome any initiative that recognizes the separate personhood of  
the unborn child,” said Catholic Civil Rights League president Phil  
Horgan in a news release. “This bill could be part of the process of  
restoring this recognition under the law.”

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