[Active-seattle-l] [Active-l] (NEWS) Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
kahvi at murkworks.net
Tue Aug 8 00:01:51 PDT 2006
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This is really only a partial; it's mostly the Dobson empire (US and
Canada) and the local Washington State fundamentalists, plus a couple
of other sources. Hopefully I'll be able to get caught up on the other
majors tomorrow.
Shi'a death squads continue to target gay men - and now also target
sexually-molested boys, killing them as "immoral";
Gays and lesbians moving out of Virginia in response to increasing
anti-gay laws;
Faith and Freedom Network calls Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) "One of
Us," and is hosting him at a fundraiser;
Radio coverage of the fundamentalist confab, the "Values Voters Summit";
Focus on the Family jumps on the anti-GLSEN bandwagon, attacking
Gay-Straight Alliance clubs, and GLSEN as an evil plot;
Anti-abortion-rights activist group files request with US Supreme Court
to overturn <i>Doe v. Bolton</i>, the case that said you had to allow
abortions to preserve a woman's health; the fundamentalists are already
on record, of course, of not caring about the health of the women
involved;
Faith and Freedom Network propaganda piece against the Washington State
court system;
Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM looking for letters to the editor and
letters to Congress supporting the "Prison Fellowship" programme, where
states paid fundamentalist evangelical groups to convert prisoners to
fundamentalist Christianity; unsurprisingly, it's been ruled
unconstitutional as a state endorsement of religion; they seem to be
quite afraid of this case and are desperate to see it overturned;
Anti-abortion-rights activists continue to push for the so-called
"partial-birth abortion ban" to be retained; they're specifically
targeting the idea that abortion bans have to include health exemptions
for the woman;
Focus on the Family outraged that a Vermont woman gets visitation
rights from her ex-partner;
FotF: "Study Finds Many Homosexuals OK with Infidelity," says health
professionals should have a responsibility to tell lesbian and gay
people that their sexuality is "damaging";
Acres of lies: Focus on the Family story on several Kansas state school
board "intelligent design" backers being voted out; calls it a "vicious
smear campaign," a defat for "accurate science standards," and so on;
god, what a load of crap;
Georgetown College in Kentucky is the latest of a series to break off
with the Southern Baptist Convention over rising fundamentalism;
Vatican key in keeping GBLT groups out of consultant status at UN;
unnamed Vatican rep quoted as using "special rights" language;
Focus on the Family Canada calls for stepping up the drug war;
Focus on the Family Canada reports on Canadian professor suspended and
fined for anti-gay comments on his website; I don't know whether this
involves Canadian speech laws, which I disagree with strongly, or is a
private matter involving a school website where school conduct rules
apply, where I still disagree but not as strongly.
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Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target
Evidence shows increase in number of executions as homosexuals plead
for asylum in Britain
Jennifer Copestake
Sunday August 6, 2006
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1838222,00.html
Hardline Islamic insurgent groups in Iraq are targeting a new type of
victim with the full protection of Iraqi law, The Observer can reveal.
The country is seeing a sudden escalation of brutal attacks on what are
being called the 'immorals' - homosexual men and children as young as
11 who have been forced into same-sex prostitution.
There is growing evidence that Shia militias have been killing men
suspected of being gay and children who have been sold to criminal
gangs to be sexually abused. The threat has led to a rapid increase in
the numbers of Iraqi homosexuals now seeking asylum in the UK because
it has become impossible for them to live safely in their own country.
[More at URL]
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Feeling Unwelcome, Some Gays Vacate Virginia
November Ballot Ban Helps Fuel Migration
By Kirstin Downey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 7, 2006; Page B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/06/
AR2006080600797.html?referrer=delicious
Edel Quinones lived in Virginia for 10 years, but early this year, he
sold his Arlington townhouse to move to the District.
"It felt like I wasn't welcome anymore," he said.
Quinones and his partner of three years are joining a migration of gay
people out of Virginia in the face of recent legislative action they
perceive as hostile.
[More at URL]
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Santorum Invitation
Monday, August 07, 2006
Faith and Freedom Network
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/08/santorum-invitation.html
Gary Randall is co-hosting a luncheon for Senator Rick Santorum of
Pennsylvania. As you know, Sen. Santorum (R-PA), is one of us and has a
strong allegiance with people of faith.
If you would like to attend, you are invited. Please use the link below
to view the invitation in pdf format and register for this event.
[More at URL]
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Radio Shows to Broadcast from the Values Voter Summit
Focus on the Family
August 7, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0041552.cfm
Popular radio hosts will broadcast live from the Washington Briefing, a
Values Voter Summit scheduled for Sept. 22, 23 in Washington, D.C.
Some of those who will broadcast from the event include Carmen Pate of
USA Radio; Wendy Christian with American Family Radio; Rennie Bishop of
WWRL; Kevin McCullough with the MuscleHead Revolution on Salem radio;
the Martha Zoller Show; the Lynne Breidenbach Show; the Armstrong
Williams Show; the Marc Bernir Show; the Don Kroah Show; and the Kirby
Wilbur Show.
[More at URL]
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What GLSEN Doesn't What You to Know
Learn how a leading gay-activist group works to get in public schools.
by C. Sulley Cushman
Focus on the Family
August 7, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/commentary/a0041546.cfm
Few parents send their kids to school to be force-fed pro-homosexual
messages day in and day out. Yet, that's exactly what's happening in an
increasing number of schools across the nation. How are gay activists
getting around parents and into America's classrooms?
[More at URL]
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Doe v. Bolton Appeal Filed with Supreme Court
Will the court reconsider a case that helped bring abortion on demand?
by Pete Winn, associate editor
August 7, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0041547.cfm
Lawyers for Sandra Cano — the "Jane Doe" in the landmark abortion case
Doe v. Bolton — have filed a request with the U.S. Supreme Court to
have the 1973 decision reconsidered and overturned.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court created a constitutional right to an
abortion. Doe v. Bolton added the "health of the mother" exception that
made abortion legal any time during pregnancy — right up to birth.
[More at URL]
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Judicial Confusion
Friday, August 04, 2006
Faith and Freedom Network
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/blogger.html
Earlier this year, a Washington State Supreme Court Justice complained
to the press that confusion was caused because of the "politicizing" of
the judicial elections by some groups around the state.
[...]
In their attempt to secularize America, activist judges have
purposefully tried to move society away from the church and religion,
under the guise separation of church and state, toward what they call
progressive secularism. In doing so, they have replaced administrating
justice according to the law, with administering "fairness" according
to their personal beliefs and agenda.
Pushing the misunderstood and misinterpreted comments of Thomas
Jefferson in a letter to a group of Baptists regarding the separation
of church and state, some actvist judges have, in too many cases, moved
America away from our laws which were based on Judeo-Christian law and
teaching.
Once they have achieved that "artificial separation" they and they
alone become as god and decide what is "fair" in every court case.
[More at URL]
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Prison Fellowship Takes Aim at Judicial Activism
If a ruling by a federal district judge in Iowa stands, the future of
all faith-based ministries working in the public square is at stake.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
August 4, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0041536.cfm
It's been just over a month since a federal judge in Iowa declared
unconstitutional Prison Fellowship's InnerChange Freedom Initiative
(IFI), ordered the program booted out of Iowa prisons and told the
ministry to repay the state.
Prison Fellowship is fighting back in defense of the Christian-based
prisoner-rehabilitation program, according to president and CEO Mark
Earley. It's doing so on behalf of all faith-based ministries that get
funds from the government -- or which work in government facilities
like prisons.
[...]
TAKE ACTION:
1. Please pray for God's Will to be done in this important legal
challenge. To learn more about the case and to follow it, please see
the Prison Fellowship Web site.
2. If possible, consider writing a letter to the editor of your local
newspaper, especially if you reside in Iowa, Texas, Kansas, Minnesota,
Arkansas or
Missouri.
3. Please ask your senators to support -- and cosponsor -- S. 3696, the
Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act.
You can contact them through the CitizenLink Action Center.
If you are a CitizenLink Daily Update subscriber, click on the blue
"Take Action" button in the e-mail to be automatically logged in to our
Action Center. Otherwise, click on this link.
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Briefs are Filed in Partial-Birth Abortion Case
Challenges steadily move toward Supreme Court showdown.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
August 4, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0041530.cfm
Liberty Counsel filed a friend-of-the-court brief Thursday with the
U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Inc., one of the cases challenging the federal
ban on partial-birth abortion . The brief is on behalf of the
Association of Pro-Life Physicians and nurse Jill Stanek.
[...]
“(The 8th Circuit) struck down the law saying that it didn’t have a
health exception," he said, "and therefore it’s unconstitutional.”
[More at URL]
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Vermont Court Grants Visitation to Lesbian
Focus on the Family
August 4, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0041535.cfm
The Vermont Supreme Court today upheld a lower court decision that
ruled a former lesbian must take her biological daughter from Virginia
to Vermont for visitation with the woman's former same-sex partner.
[...]
"Today's ruling tramples on parental rights and state sovereignty," he
said. "Virginia law refuses to recognize same-sex marriage or civil
unions. Under the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Vermont does not
have the right to impose its same-sex union policy on Virginia.
"The Vermont ruling illustrates that same-sex marriage or civil unions
will inevitably clash with other states."
[More at URL]
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Study Finds Many Homosexuals OK with Infidelity
Focus on the Family
August 4, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0041532.cfm
Many homosexuals do not consider infidelity within their relationship
immoral, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical
Psychology.
[...]
"It's significant to see the psychological community being honest about
the lack of long-term monogamous relationships among many men living
homosexually," Haley said. "The next crucial step would be to put this
admission into practice and warn gay- and lesbian-identified men and
women. As professional caregivers, committed to the emotional and
physical well-being of their clients, they have a moral responsibility
to make them aware of the damaging repercussions of promiscuous sexual
behavior."
[More at URL]
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Kansas Analyzes Loss for Intelligent Design
Conservative school board members voted out.
from staff reports
August 3, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0041518.cfm
Advocates of accurate science standards in public schools are looking
for answers after a defeat in the Kansas primaries. The state board of
education lost a conservative majority. That almost certainly means
standards that currently allow open discussion about the pros and cons
of evolution will be rolled back.
A misleading propaganda campaign was apparently too hard to overcome.
The Kansas science standards were supposed to be the gold standard,
according to proponents of Intelligent Design (ID), written without
bias and with no religious entanglements. That made it all the more
frustrating when the pro-ID majority was voted out of office. Robert
Crowther of the Discovery Institute said they were up against a vicious
smear campaign.
[...]
But many people still think the Kansas model is still the way to go.
Del Tackett, a senior vice president at Focus on the Family, said time
is no friend of evolutionists.
[More at URL]
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Colleges Sever Ties with Southern Baptists
The core issue is the integrity of the Bible.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
August 3, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0041517.cfm
More than 50 colleges from coast to coast are affiliated with their
state’s Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), but half a dozen have
abruptly severed ties over the past decade.
Georgetown College in Kentucky is the latest school to disassociate
from the SBC. Dr. Hershael York, former president of the Kentucky
Baptist Convention, said it all comes down to the Bible.
“They will tell you that the core issue is academic freedom. I will
tell you that the core issue is the integrity of the word of God,” he
said. “I cannot help but feel, every now and then, that they think you
cannot be intellectual and believe that the Bible is literally true.”
[More at URL]
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Homosexual Groups Seeking Official Status Rejected Again by U.N.
Focus on the Family
August 3, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0041521.cfm
Meeting in Geneva last week, the U.N. Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) rejected three homosexual groups that had applied and been
rejected earlier for official U.N. status. This despite intense
pressure from an international coalition of homosexual activist groups.
According to the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, in late
July, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
(IGLHRC) submitted a petition asking a U.N. body to overturn a decision
made earlier in the year that rejected applications for U.N.
consultative status from the Danish National Association for Gays and
Lesbians, the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany and the
International Gay and Lesbian Association - Europe.
[More at URL]
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"Harm reduction" vs. "drug prevention"
[Ed. Note: in email, this was referred to as "The Myth of Harm
Reduction"]
Today’s Family News
Focus on the Family Canada
August 2, 2006
http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/dependencies/stories/080206.html
If you believe that the government supports the parental desire to keep
children from getting caught up in illicit drugs, you would be wrong,
says one expert.
“The average parent may not realize that the drug policy in this
country no longer is supportive of them as a parent,” Dr. Colin
Mangham, director of research with the Drug Prevention Network of
Canada, told Today’s Family News.
Since the 1990s, he said, Canada has moved away from funding what had
been effective drug prevention programs and instead – with little or no
public debate – adopted a policy of “harm reduction.” In Mangham’s
view, it is based on the idea that “there isn’t anything that a person
shouldn’t be able to do, we shouldn’t interfere . . . and that
therefore we want simply to try to protect people from the consequences
of their actions.”
[More at URL]
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Prof suspended for "anti-gay" opinions
Today’s Family News
Focus on the Family Canada
August 2, 2006
http://www.fotf.ca/tfn/sexuality/stories/080206.html
Cape Breton University (CBU) history professor David Mullan is under a
two-week suspension for publicly stating that “homosexuality is a
repudiation of nature and the apotheosis of unbridled desire,”
AgapePress reported last week.
Mullan, who was also fined $2,100, was suspended after an outside
investigation – in which he refused to participate – convicted him of
violating the university’s policy on discrimination and harassment.
[More at URL]
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