[Active-l] (NEWS) Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
kahvi at murkworks.net
Fri Oct 13 21:57:40 PDT 2006
Oh, it's a fun update today, with loads of newtype blood libel and
allegations of a HUGE GAY MAFIA RECRUITMENT RING on Capitol Hill and
all kinds of fun! The GOP is facing a question and is arguing fiercely
internally: expel GBLT people wholesale (what the fundamentalists and
their supporters want), or get over the whole gaybashing thing because
honestly, this is stupid (what the rest of the party seems to want).
Read on, it's one verrrry spicy meatball:
Well, we know were Secretary Rice stands now on the fundamentalist-lead
anti-GBLT-GOP jihad: _ours_. Yay, sanity! (Spotted by filkertom (
http://filkertom.livejournal.com ) on AmericaBlog (
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/condi-recognizes-gay-mans-
mother-in.html );
Meanwhile, our local clusterfuck of theoconservatism, the Faith and
Freedom Network, tries to rally the fundamentalist vote for the GOP by
bringing out the newtype blood libel: all queers are child rapists,
Nancy Pelosi, the likely speaker should the Democrats take over the
house (as if) next year, marches in NAMBLA parades (yes, really: "would
a Speaker of the House really support the National American Man/Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she presently
does, to march in their parades"?), and so on. The apparent non
sequitur is to equate GBLT people to child rapists, like, well, they
do. Also, they claim the 2004 exit polls were "manipulated by the
Democratic party," which is, well, another lie, and point to their
endorsement/voter's guides again;
Focus on the Family's latest election plug - vote GOP or queers will
get married, there will be more stem-cell research, and no new abortion
rights reestrictions;
FotF warns their membership - omg just when you thought you were safe
from sex ed, now colleges are being all smexxy! And teaching about sex!
Ph33r secular colleges and /g/e/t/ /y/o/u/r/ /k/i/d/s/
/b/r/a/i/n/w/a/s/h/e/d/ /g/o/o/d/ prepare your children to reject any
non-fundamentalist information;
FotF: American families are safer now that internet gambling has been
prohibited by the feds;
Remember, _any non-condemnational mention_ of GBLT people's existence
is to be condemned: Focus on the Family story about a lesbian
schoolteacher who mentioned _herself_;
Faith and Freedom Network joins in the "War on Christmas" bullshit;
Faith and Freedom Network petition to have retailers "JUST SAY
CHRISTMAS" in advertising and store signs; the way it's worded is
genuinely ambiguous to me - it's like they _want_ to say "ONLY SAY
CHRISTMAS" (as several fundamentalist groups have done) but are
providing just enough ambiguity to stay just on this side of that line;
FotF complains about "personal insults" being used by people
campaigning against marriage rights bans, talking about "intimidation
tactics;" funny, personally I'd think that writing anti-_me_ language
into Federal and state constitutions would quality pretty well as an
"intimidation tactic" - not to mention the stream of newtype blood
libel (GBLT = child rapists, etc) spew that you can see documented in
these updates regularly;
FotF characterisies marijuana reform as a "party" initiative;
Focus on the Family, Alliance Defense Fund applaud Pope Benedict for
condemning marriage rights efforts as "hedonism"; ADF's Mike Johnson
calls GBLT rights "a cataclysmic social battle";
FotF and Parents Television Council claim that NBC is writing
obscenities into prime-time shows; includes ACTION ITEM to pour in more
"broadcast indecency" complaints to the FCC;
REAL Women of Canada condemn media for not being anti-marriage-rights
enough, sends out ACTION ITEM to write newspapers in support of
anti-gay articles and columns, and to send in letters against marriage
rights;
Traditional Values Coalition cranky that the papers of gay rights
pioneer Frank Kameny have been accepted by the Library of Congress;
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP! Or John Conyers will chair the judiciary
committee, and he is "a committed hard-left radical who... has ties to
a pro-North Korea Marxist front organization and to leftist Islamic
groups." Also, he's called for the impeachment of Mr. Bush. Oddly, so
have I;
TVC ACTION ITEM: Volunteer in South Dakota to help defeat initiative to
overturn that state's comprehensive abortion ban, which, I remind my
readership, does _not_ include exemptions for the health of the woman;
TVC says "homosexual activists" in Canada are outlawing opposition to
homosexuality, quoting a bunch of material out of context (actual
context provided), like they do - the actual issue is that the Regina
Leader Post wrote an editorial against a bill allowing government
employees to refuse to do their jobs regarding GBLT people if they
claimed religious opposition - specifically, the plan was to make it
hard for lesbian and gay people to get married. The bill failed; the
editorial is mostly about how the Tories are not helping themselves
with this sort of thing;
The American Family Association's latest "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE AND
VOTE GOP" article;
AFA promotes book condemning public education as anti-Christian,
pro-GBLT, pro-evolutionary theory, and on and on and on;
AFA support article relaying a _Human Events_ columnist's endorsement
of waterboarding and his assertion torture should be just fine; feigns
confusion about why any veteran in particular would oppose torture;
Christianity Today column adopting the "marriage rights destroys
freedom of religion" rhetoric;
American Family Association legal wing assisting in Texas adoption
case; the idea is that lesbian (and, presumably gay) people shouldn't
being allowed to adopt; there's also a funny-odd moment when they say
the aunt who is trying to adopt the children is "only" a relative by
marriage and criticise her for being kicked out of the military -
because of the same GBLT ban they helped get put in place;
DefendMarriage Canada notice about a big end-marriage-rights caucus
they're organising at the National Press Club and Parliament buildings
in Ottawa;
Accuracy In Media: GBLT Republicans are actually closeted Democrats,
"liberal activists who want to use the party to advance the...
homosexual agenda," and a "secret gay network" of gay GOP staffers were
protecting Foley and engineered the Foley scandal as a Democratic
"dirty trick"; oh, and best of all, "we may be looking at... a
homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill."
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Condi recognizes gay man's "mother in law" in front of Laura Bush at
official ceremony
by John in DC
Thursday, October 12, 2006
AmericaBlog.blogspot.com
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/condi-recognizes-gay-mans-
mother-in.html
Page scandal exposes GOP's gay identity crisis
USA Today
October 12, 2006
By Kathy Kiely, USA Today
WASHINGTON - At a State Department ceremony this week, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice warmly acknowledged
the family members of Mark Dybul, whom she was swearing
in as the nation's new global AIDS coordinator.
As first lady Laura Bush looked on, Rice singled out his
partner, Jason Claire, and Claire's mother. Rice referred to
her as Dybul's "mother-in-law."
It doesn't get more real than that. US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, a member of George Bush's cabinet, while standing alongside First
Lady Laura Bush, recognized a gay man, his partner, and his "mother in
law" - i.e., his gay partner's mom.
[More at URL]
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A Time to Keep Silent and a Time to Speak
Faith and Freedom Network
Thursday, October 12, 2006
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/10/time-to-keep-silent-and-
time-to-speak.html
There is an ancient saying found in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes
that says, “To everything there is a season.” (3:1). “A time to keep
silence, and a time to speak.” (3:7).
Apparently, the liberal secularists have decided that this is their
time to speak.
With lengthy lectures on morality in the Mark Foley scandal, to long
lessons on national security regarding the testing of a nuke by North
Korea, the secularists, along with the citing of poll after poll which
supports their claims, are assuring themselves of victory on the next
page of this year’s calendar.
[...]
In fact, they are so sure of victory that Nancy Deloss, who would
become Speaker of the House, has already unveiled her agenda for the
first 100 hours of her speakership.
So, the secularists feel this is their time to speak.
Here’s why I feel they are wrong.
[...]
Remember the early exit poll reports in the 2004 general election? The
exit polls, it was later discovered, had been manipulated by operatives
of the Democratic Party and the media to deflate the interest of
conservative voters and cause them to just stay home, thinking the
election was already won by John Kerry and his secularist party.
In the end, conservatives and people of faith were not fooled, they did
go ahead and vote and President Bush and his party were re-elected.
[...]
I do not believe that we are ready to turn over the control of our
government to a group of people who have proven themselves to be for
opening our borders beyond anything we have seen to date, to spending
more tax money and raising taxes as they advance a secular agenda and
to a group of people whose mantra, in recent years, has been,
“separation of church and state,” which interpreted means, don’t allow
the Christian church to influence public life through politics.
I also feel they are wrong because reasonable people are not ready to
allow a party that actively promotes the radical homosexual agenda,
even taking a position against the Boy Scouts of America for their
moral refusal to permit homosexuals to be scout masters.
And, would a Speaker of the House really support the National American
Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she
presently does, to march in their parades. And would she continue to
work for her 90 percent approval rating with the ACLU?
[...]
Gary Randall
President
Faith & Freedom
[More at URL]
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The High Cost of Indifference
If polls are to be believed, there is a feeling among some values
voters that Election Day is no big deal. They couldn't be more wrong.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042309.cfm
There are fewer than four weeks left before Americans go to the polls
and cast their ballots on Election Day, and some family advocates are
concerned that values voters — who had such impact in 2004 — may not
bother to show up for the midterm congressional elections.
"If you don't show up, you have done precisely what the liberals want
you to do," Don Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association,
told CitizenLink. "They will have succeeded magnificently if we, as
values voters, come to the place of saying, 'Well, it's not worth it.
I'm not even going to go vote.' They will have won."
[More at URL]
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College Sex-Ed Racier
Permissiveness growing on campuses nationwide.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042301.cfm
You may be feeling pretty good that your college-aged kids made it out
of high school without being too badly injured by Planned Parenthood's
version of sex education. But don't relax yet: College classes are
starting to pick up where Planned Parenthood left off — and it's
no-holds-barred.
Daisy DeMelo goes to a secular college in the Midwest. After growing up
in a Christian home, she is a bit taken aback at the sexuality on
campus. Weekends are especially trying.
[...]
Some of the attitudes on campuses across the country are fed by the
schools themselves. Robin Sawyer teaches at the University of Maryland,
and is intent on giving his students what they didn't get in high
school.
"Because what they get in high school is an absolute joke with regard
to sexuality education," he told Family News in Focus, "particularly
over the last 10 or 15 years of more conservatism."
Any topic is fair game in Sawyer's class —and pretty much every topic
is broached. He makes sure there are no burdensome restrictions on what
he teaches.
[...]
Linda Klepacki, sexual health analyst for Focus on the Family, said
it's important for parents to instill biblical values before their kids
leave for freshman orientation.
[More at URL]
[Editor's note: The course they're talking about is discussed here:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=53823
...and this page contains a link to the PDF of the course descrption:
http://www.hhp.umd.edu/dpch/people/faculty/sawyer_rg.html
]
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Bush Signs Internet-Gambling Prohibition
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042308.cfm
President Bush today signed into law the Unlawful Internet Gambling
Enforcement Act — a law that will protect American families from
predatory online casinos.
The act, which was included in the Safe Port Act, was approved by
Congress in September. It will strengthen existing laws and give law
enforcement the tools to prosecute illegal online gambling.
Chad Hills, gambling analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said
American families are safer.
"By approving this legislation," he said, "our government has protected
the nation's families from predatory online casinos, which have
addicted many Americans, especially college students."
[More at URL]
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Gay Teacher Discloses Orientation to Elementary Kids
Focus on the Family
October 13, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042305.cfm
Parents are outraged over a Minneapolis teacher who disclosed his
homosexuality to his second-grade class, telling students he and his
partner are planning to adopt — but not telling parents of his plans
ahead of time, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
Peter Sage, teaching from the "Families All Matter" curriculum, read a
prescribed book about a two-mom family. He then went on to explain to
the 23 students that he too is gay.
According to Sage, he also said that some people have different views
of people not like them, describing how he disagreed with his
grandfather's negative view of blacks.
When parents complained to the principal, they were told their children
could not be reassigned to another class. According to the Family
Research Council, some were told they should consider enrolling their
kids in a private school.
[More at URL]
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Just Say Christmas
Faith and Freedom Network
Friday, October 13, 2006
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/10/just-say-christmas_13.html
Every year the attack on Christmas begins about now. Retailers run away
from the word because they don't want to offend any of their customers,
even though 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas.
Schools shrink in fear of ACLU lawsuits if the word "Christmas" is
mentioned during this time of year on the school grounds or on school
calendars.
[More at URL]
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Just Say Christmas Petition
Faith and Freedom Netework
Online as of 13 October 2006
http://faithandfreedom.us/justsaychristmas.html
Please add your name to the petition below that we are sending to
Walmart, Target, Costco, and Sears asking them to "JUST SAY CHRISTMAS"
in their advertising and store signs. We will be sending this letter on
November 10th.
[More at URL]
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State Marriage Campaigns are Targets of Intimidation Tactics
Mainstream news media see nothing to report.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042294.cfm
People in Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin are just 26 days away from deciding
the fate of amendments to protect marriage.
In Wisconsin, proponents of traditional marriage find themselves the
target of intimidation and harassment tactics utilized by their
opponents, according to Julaine Appling, executive director of the
Wisconsin Family Research Institute -- and a leader of the Vote Yes for
Marriage campaign.
"What we should be debating here in Wisconsin," she said, "is: What
does this amendment do? What will happen in if we don't put this
amendment in place? What will Wisconsin look like if we give people who
want to redefine marriage the opportunity to do so, by not putting the
amendment in place?"
Instead, gay activists have used the press to make personal insults
against Appling. At the same time, she said the news media have ignored
and refused to cover the intimidation tactics that homosexual activists
are employing.
[More at URL]
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States Consider Marijuana Legalization
Supporters say it's time to "party responsibly."
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042296.cfm
In spite of being voted down again and again, efforts to legalize
marijuana continue to appear on ballots.
In Colorado, supporters rationalize the effort to legalize marijuana by
arguing that if the drug is legal, people will choose to smoke a joint
rather than drink alcohol.
Mason Tvert, a spokesman for SAFERchoice, said it might mean fewer
people would drink and drive.
[More at URL]
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Pope Speaks Out Against Redefining Marriage
Benedict says efforts to change the institution are based on hedonism.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042295.cfm
While speaking against same-sex marriage last week, Pope Benedict XVI
urged believers to reject "modern cultural currents" rooted in
"relativism and hedonism."
It marked some of the pontiff's strongest language yet to discourage
Catholics from turning away from traditional values.
Jeanette DeMelo, a spokeswoman for the Denver archdiocese, said it was
the right language to use.
"He uses the word 'hedonism,' " she said. "It's not something that we
talk about very frequently anymore, because it's a very strong word.
But really he's talking about relationships that are pleasure-driven,
and I think he chose those words to mean exactly that."
[...]
Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said
the pope is in tune with other Christian leaders who have been issuing
similar warnings for some time.
"There are a lot of leaders in ministry and politics that have
recognized this as a cataclysmic social battle," he said. "When the
institutions like marriage are under fire, I think that some of that
language is being used commonly among leaders who at least recognize
those trends."
[More at URL]
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NBC Scripting Foul Language into Shows
Focus on the Family
October 12, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0042298.cfm
According to the Parents Television Council (PTC), broadcasters are
intentionally scripting illegal obscenities into prime-time television.
The FCC prohibits indecent content from being broadcast between 10 p.m.
and 6 a.m. Obscene language is always prohibited. Now NBC and other
broadcasters are adding obscenities to prime-time shows in order to
challenge the law.
[More at URL]
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SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OPINION IN THE MEDIA
REAL Women of Canada
A L E R T
October 11, 2006
http://www.realwomenca.com/alerts.htm#oct11_06
Media coverage of the same-sex marriage issue has been horrendous. The
public has been deprived of valuable information as the debate has been
deliberately framed in terms of human rights and Charter rights only.
Coverage of the Parliamentary Committee that studied the issue was
inadequate as the Committee, after hearing over 500 witnesses, dealing
with over 250,000 letters from the concerned public and traveling
thousands of miles across the country, was not permitted to table its
report in Parliament. Concerns for the well-being of children,
presented before the Committee by REAL Women, Dr. Margaret Somerville,
and others, were ignored.
The traditional position on marriage did not receive fair exposure
except for columns by a few stalwart journalists who put their careers
on the line to report the facts against the promotion of same-sex
marriage. Some columnists were and continue to be harassed by their
editors for doing so. Many have received nasty hate mail and threats to
their lives and safety. Journalists who dared exercise their right to
freedom of expression by opposing the redefinition of marriage were
abandoned by their fellow journalists who feared for their own status
in the media industry.
Journalists who uphold the integrity of the profession today need our
support. When you read their articles we ask that you encourage them
personally. Write letters to the editor defending their point of view.
These journalists often stand alone, never knowing when the axe will
fall to end their employment as a result of a complaint from a reader
whose feelings are hurt. We have our own effective network of
information on pro-life, pro-family issues but the public at large is
often misled if they are not tapping into this network. Brave
journalists writing for major media outlets serve their country well
during these difficult times for the family, and they need our support.
Whenever a columnist writes in support of life, family and traditional
marriage, i.e., a man and woman united together to the exclusion of all
others, please write in support of them. We can do no less in these
troubling times where freedom of speech and opinion, although being a
“Charter right” is being trodden on by media obsession with political
correctness.
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Radical Homosexual Changed American Culture
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2887
October 12, 2006 – Frank Kameny, a radical homosexual activist
throughout his long career, was honored last week by the Library of
Congress when it took possession of his private papers for archiving at
the library.
Kameny became involved in what was known as the Gay Liberation Movement
back in the 1950s, wrote one of the first legal briefs to legalize
homosexuality and was instrumental in subverting the American
Psychiatric Association in 1973 into removing homosexuality as a mental
disorder from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders.
[More at URL]
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If Democrats Win House, Rep. John Conyers Will Chair Judiciary Committee
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2886
October 12, 2006 – DiscoverTheNetworks has published a detailed profile
of Michigan Democrat John Conyers, who will chair the House Judiciary
Committee if Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in
November.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1987
Rep. Conyers is a committed hard-left radical who has called for the
impeachment of President Bush and has ties to a pro-North Korea Marxist
front organization and to leftist Islamic groups.
Conyers’ district in Detroit is home to one of the largest Muslim
populations in the U.S. His web site provides translations into Arabic.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1987
TVC’s report, “What If Liberals Win The Congress?” has more details on
the security and moral dangers our nation faces if liberals gain
control of the Senate or the House this November. Rep. John Conyers is
only one troubling example of what will happen to our nation if
leftists control the legislative branch.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/what_if_libs_win_congress.pdf
[More at URL]
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Abortion Appeal Rejected; Battle Shifts To South Dakota
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2888
October 12, 2006 – The Supreme Court has rejected an effort by
Operation Outcry to hear Sandra Cano’s appeal to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Cano was involved in the companion decision, Doe v. Bolton, which is
now known as Cano v. Baker. (Access Operation Outcry’s web site for
background information on this case: http://www.operationoutcry.org.)
[...]
Background materials on the South Dakota abortion ban are available on
this web site: http://www.voteyesforlife.com. For additional
information on how you can help South Dakota maintain its ban on
abortion, contact VoteYesForLife, Dr. Allen Unruh, 600 N. Western Ave.,
Sioux Falls, SD 57104; 605-271-3972.
[More at URL]
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Religious Freedom Clashes With Homosexual Agenda In Canada
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2884
October 12, 2006 – Homosexual activists in Canada, in league with
liberals in the media, are working to ban any religious-based criticism
of homosexual behavior.
The Regina Leader Post paper, for example, has said that while priests
and ordained ministers should be free to criticize homosexual conduct,
non-clergy should be prohibited from openly criticizing homosexuality.
According to the paper, “There is an argument to be made for allowing
religious leaders leeway in criticizing homosexuality. Many religions
have prescriptions against the practice and religious leaders should be
permitted to publicly defend their religion’s tenets. But extending
that right to rank-and-file members of a religion goes too far.”
[...]
Newspapers throughout Canada are comparing opposition to homosexuality
as illegal discrimination.
[More at URL]
[Editor's Note: The actual editorial is here (
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?
id=1d853517-09eb-4126-88a5-50134a3e0f16 ), and the actual issue is
about a defeated bill allowing state employees to refuse to perform
marriage-related job duties if gay people are involved. So, say, a
clerk could refuse a marriage license to gay couples, even though they
are legally entitled, if they wanted to claim religious opposition to
gay people. The newspaper opposes the idea.]
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'Big Three' TV Networks Charged with Piling On in Reporting on Foley
Scandal
By Jody Brown and Bill Fancher
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006a.asp
(AgapePress) - A conservative media watchdog group is reporting that
its research exposes the mainstream media's biased treatment of sex
scandals among lawmakers in Congress. Democrats, say some pro-family
leaders, are pouncing on what that media group calls a "Foley feeding
frenzy" as a tool to regain control of both the Senate and the House.
[...]
But Bauer is concerned the extensive media coverage of the Foley
scandal is being used by liberals to discourage "values voters" and
evangelical Christians from going to the polls in November. While he
does not discount that report, the self-described optimist says he is
hopeful those voting blocs will not stay home on Election Day.
"I certainly hope [those voters won't be turned off], because I think
[the scandal] only proves the need for values voters to be even more
active and engaged in the political process, not less so," he states.
[More at URL]
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New Book Exposes Startling Truths About America's Public School System
Public Education Against America by Marlin Maddoux, Late Founder of USA
Radio Network
Book Review by James L. Lambert
American Family Association/Agape Press
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006f.asp
(AgapePress) - The Christian world was deeply affected in March 2004 by
news of the passing of Marlin Maddoux, a pioneer in radio as well as a
noted journalist and author, who also hosted the weekday radio program,
"Point of View" (featured on the USA Radio Network). And at his
untimely death, the author's closest friends discovered another
important contribution -- the transcripts for his new book, Public
Education Against America (Whitaker House Press).
[More at URL]
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Columnist Questions White House Silence On Interrogating Terrorists
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
October 13, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/132006d.asp
(AgapePress) - A conservative columnist says he does not understand why
the Bush administration has kept silent regarding certain practices
used in the interrogation of terrorism suspects -- or why other
Washington conservatives object to the very idea.
[...]
The Human Events editor himself does not hesitate to state his approval
of using such techniques on enemy al Qaida operatives like Khalid Sheik
Mohammed. In fact, the conservative columnist asserts, Congress needs
to pass legislation that says the Geneva Conventions' protections do
not apply to captured terror suspects.
Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, among other U.S.
officials, want to see the Geneva Conventions applied to all prisoners,
which means torture would be off limits as an interrogation technique.
But Gizzi finds these Republican senators' position difficult to
understand, especially since both of them are veterans.
[More at URL]
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Train Wreck Coming
Why homosexual marriage threatens free expression of religion.
David Aikman | posted 10/12/2006 09:04AM
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/october/31.138.html
In 2004, Swedish Pentecostal pastor Åke Green preached a sermon in
which he denounced homosexuality as a "cancerous tumor" on society. A
Swedish court subsequently sentenced him to one month in prison for
hate speech (a charge that was eventually dismissed). Americans were
shocked by the incident, but not alarmed. After all, those poor Swedes
have no First Amendment protection of even the most eccentric religious
beliefs, a protection Americans have as a matter of course.
Or do we?
[...]
It is unlikely that churches will be forced to conduct gay weddings
against the consciences of pastors and priests. Still, the climate of
assertive favoritism toward gays by state and local institutions across
the country has already chilled sharply the atmosphere of free
religious speech.
[More at URL]
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Case to Consider Fitness of Lesbian Aunt in Adoption Matter
By Ed Thomas
American Family Association/Agape Press
October 12, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/122006d.asp
(AgapePress) - A pro-family First Amendment law firm is assisting in a
case in Texas involving opposition to the attempted adoption of two
siblings, ages seven years and five months, by an aunt who lives in a
lesbian lifestyle.
[...]
"Regardless of your view on same-sex sexual practices, this is not what
would be held up as an ideal home within which to place these two
children, one of whom is an infant," says the attorney. It is
unfortunate, he adds, that the issue of sexual orientation as a
prohibition to adoption is one that is increasingly being done away
with my modern courts -- which is why the attorney ad litem in the case
has asked [American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy] to
help.
[...]
[AFA Law Center council Steve] Crampton adds that the aunt is only a
relative my [sic] adoption and was discharged from the military for her
sexual orientation.
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National Marriage Caucus
Defend Marriage Canada
Tuesday, October 24th - Parliament Buildings
http://www.familyaction.org/defendmarriage/
(( NOTE : all registrants will meet at the NATIONAL PRESS CLUB - 150
Wellington St. at 8:30 sharp)) ( right across from Parliament Hill).
Radisson Parliament Hotel has rooms at $123 for registrants - advise
them you are at the "CFAC event". call 613-236-1133 . [Ed. Note: CFAC
is Canada Family Action Coalition, a theocon group which has been
importing American anti-gay rhetoric and tactics in great number over
the last couple of years.]
In 2005 the Parliament of Canada rushed to the “alter” and redefined
marriage without fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility of holding
proper public hearings examining the impact on Canadians. There was no
social impact study done (with environment there is always a study).
Educators must now teach the new law, deceiving our children with
government funded same-sex sexually explicit curriculum. Not only is
marriage called equal, now sodomy is equated to normal heterosexual
relations. Clergy, acting as marriage commissioners are forced to marry
same-sex couples. Religious institutions and facilities have no
protection.
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Republican Gays are Closeted Dems
By Cliff Kincaid | October 12, 2006
So if the gay Republicans are not really Republicans, what are they?
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http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4931_0_3_0_C/
The complex nature of the "dirty trick" against the Republicans over
the Mark Foley scandal is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a
George Soros-funded group or emails that had been in the possession of
the media or shopped around by Democratic operatives. Instead, the GOP
has played a trick on itself. The party brought so-called gay
Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize that
the confidential information they held about a secret gay network was
political dynamite that could backfire.
At this point in the scandal, the issue is not whether there was such a
network, but how big it is. CBS Evening News correspondent Gloria
Borger reported the emerging belief that "a group of high-level gay
Republican staffers were protecting" Foley. A New York Times story by
Mark Leibovich confirmed that gay Republicans have occupied "crucial
staff positions" in Congress and "have played decisive roles in passing
legislation, running campaigns and advancing careers."
[...]
So if the gay Republicans are not really Republicans, what are they?
One veteran observer of this network told AIM that the Foley scandal
should make it crystal clear that the gay Republicans are in reality
"liberal activists" who want to use the party to advance the same
homosexual agenda embraced by the Democrats.
[...]
It's early in the probe, but we may be looking at emerging evidence of
a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill. It's time
to get beyond partisan politics and follow the evidence wherever it
leads. Our media should not be intimidated by charges of "gay bashing."
They must lead the way in getting to the bottom of this terrible abuse
of power.
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