[Active-seattle-l] [Active-l] (NEWS) Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
kahvi at murkworks.net
Thu Nov 2 23:24:08 PST 2006
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Attention Closeted, Self-Hating Evangelical Gay Men: STOP TAKING YOUR
WRETCHED SELF-HATRED OUT ON THE REST OF US, YOU FUCKING BASTARDS.
Rev. Ted Haggard - and yes, he does matter, even if he's not as famous
as Dobson or the better-known theocons - accused of paying for sex with
men; URL courtesy firni.livejournal.com;
More Focus on the Family GET OUT THERE AND VOTE GOP articles; this
one's all about the judges again;
FotF looking for anti-marriage petition volunteers on election day in
Florida;
FotF: Democrats don't care about character;
FotF: Americans United for Separation of Church and State should shut
up and stop complaining about Focus on the Family's
e/n/d/o/r/s/e/m/e/n/t/ /s/h/e/e/t/s/ "scorecards" being handed out at
churches; note that 501(c)(3)s are permitted to endorse candidates, but
FotF pretends these "scorecards" are different because, well, you know;
FotF complains about being "belittled" by Planned Parenthood; also
repeats the very intentional "Plan B causes abortion" lie (it doesn't);
Latest fundamentalist-led attempt to amend Massachusetts's constitution
to ban GBLT marriage comes up next week - anybody know whether this has
any shot of happening? Let me know;
"Congressman Defends Life and Purity" - a Republican subcommittee
generates a couple of theocon-pleasing documents we'll probably see
quoted a lot soon, one on RU-486 and one on "abstinence-only
education";
Religious-discrimination lawsuit against the Air Force Academy _thrown
out_ - the judge ruled that because the students were no longer
students (the case has dragged on) that they no longer had standing to
sue. I don't have details, but on the face of it, this is an amazing
ruling - if you're looking for an excuse to get cases thrown out;
Concerned Women for America pushes South Dakota referendum to confirm
the state's complete ban on abortion - including for the health of the
mother;
CWA says, "Pay attention to us election night!" and offers
talking-heads to anyone who will listen to them;
"How America Went Gay," an anti-gay psychologist's column hosted on
"Leadership University," linked to by CWA; a moderate amount of
red-meat in this column;
Traditional Values Coalition - "Elections Are Won By Who Gets Out The
Vote!" - vote, vote, vote, vote, vote GOP;
TVC: Theocon-friendly judges at stake, vote vote vote vote GOP;
Democrats in the Senate will be like "a Freddy Krueger movie;"
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP or "homosexual agenda accelerates" - there
could be nondiscrimination law including GBLT people, and lesbian and
gay people might be able to get married;
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP: "Key Races on November 7th";
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP, and in particular, the key issue is banning
marriage rights for lesbian and gay people;
American Family Association reports on Focus on the Family's James
Dobson endorsement of Ken Blackwell in Ohio; c.f. massive evidence of
Ohio election fraud under his leadership in 2004, including precincts
with more Republican votes than voters. Also, Kansas Attorney General
Phill Kline intends to target abortion-providing doctors in his
medical-records examinations.
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Key Evangelical quits amid gay sex claim
By CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 2, 6:40 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_re_us/haggard_sex_allegations
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The leader of the influential National
Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of the drive for same-sex
marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with
a man.
The Rev. Ted Haggard also stepped aside as head of his 14,000-member
New Life Church while a church panel investigates, saying he could "not
continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations."
The investigation came after a 49-year-old man told a Denver radio
station that Haggard paid him to have sex.
[More at URL]
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A Liberal Congress Could Spell Disaster for Conservative Judicial
Nominees
What's at stake in the upcoming election? Plenty, if you want to see
judges on the bench who respect the Constitution.
Focus on the Family
2 November 2006
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000002861.cfm
Conservative pundits and pro-family legal analysts say if liberals gain
control of Congress on Tuesday, the fate of future conservative
judicial nominees will hang in the balance.
With them, according to Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst of Focus on
the Family Action, will hang the fates of pre-born babies, marriage and
religious liberty.
"The success of the president's judicial appointments depends on
conservative control of the Senate," he said. "If conservatives do not
retain control, then ultraliberals like (Sens.) Patrick Leahy, (D-Vt.),
Ted Kennedy, (D-Mass.), and Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.) will decide the
type of judges the president can get confirmed."
[More at URL]
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Florida Volunteers Needed to Collect Petitions at the Polls
Focus on the Family
11-2-2006
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000002873.cfm
Florida4Marriage.org is organizing hundreds of volunteers to help
collect petitions on Nov. 7 outside polling locations.
The petitions will assure the placement of the Florida Marriage
Protection Amendment on the 2008 ballot. Of 600,000 petitions that were
circulated, 40,000 still need to be collected.
Volunteers are needed between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Election Day.
[More at URL]
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Character Counts at the Ballot Box
Focus on the Family
11-2-2006
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000002872.cfm
A poll conducted by Zogby International found the "values, morals and
character" of a candidate were the most important things to consider
when casting a vote.
[...]
Broken down by political affiliation, 63.2 percent of Republicans chose
character, while 42 percent of Democrats said opposition to the war in
Iraq was the most important consideration -- just 24 percent of
Democrats chose character.
[More at URL]
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Americans United Continues Using Scare Tactics Against Values Voters
Focus on the Family
11-2-2006
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000002874.cfm
Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) -- headed by
Barry Lynn -- falsely charged this week that a church can lose its
tax-exempt status if it hands out a Vote Scorecard created by Focus on
the Family Action and FRC Action.
"These guides are clearly partisan and deceptive," Lynn said. "Houses
of worship should not be part of the Religious Right's unethical and
legally problematic campaign to intervene in elections."
[...]
"I'd be surprised if (Lynn) even read the voter guides," McClusky said.
"This is just an intimidation of Christians. Barry Lynn would probably
be happiest if Christians just stayed home on election day.
"So my advice would be: 'Christians, show him up and show up on
election day.' "
[More at URL]
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Planned Parenthood Belittles Pro-Lifers in Video Game
Web-based strategy trumpets the morning-after pill.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
11-2-2006
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000002863.cfm
Planned Parenthood's Illinois affiliate has set up an online "video
game" called "RX Zone" that belittles pro-life pharmacists who refuse
to dispense the so-called morning-after pill.
Emergency contraception, sold under the name "Plan B," can sometimes
cause an early abortion. [Ed. Note: as discussed many times here, this
is a lie; an intentional ongoing meme to confuse birth control and
abortion. The people who back this lie also say most other forms of
birth control can cause abortions, including the normal birth control
pill; also, Focus on the Family's head James Dobson has called for the
overturning of Supreme Court cases overturning bans on birth control;
troll through older CWUs for examples. None of this is coincidental.]
[More at URL]
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Massachusetts Lawmakers to Reconsider Marriage
Petition drive leads to a Constitutional Convention.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
11-2-2006
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000002865.cfm
Massachusetts will convene a Constitutional Convention next week to
discuss the possibility of ending same-sex marriage. Pro-family groups
have gathered a record number of petition signatures to get the
Legislature to reconsider its decision not to take up a constitutional
amendment.
In August, the state Legislature adjourned without addressing the issue
that would allow the people to vote on marriage. Kris Mineau, president
of the Massachusetts Family Institute, said his group united with other
pro-family organizations to force the hand of lawmakers.
“Seventy-five percent of all registered voters in Massachusetts have
said they want to vote on this marriage amendment and Massachusetts to
get an amendment on the ballot," Mineau told Family News in Focus.
Lawmakers who support same-sex marriages have threatened to walk out of
the session, meaning the 101 members needed for a quorum to do business
would not be met.
[More at URL]
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Congressman Defends Life and Purity
Reports from Rep. Mark Souder cover RU-486 and abstinence education.
by Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor
Focus on the Family
11-2-2006
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000002875.cfm
The Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and
Human Resources, chaired by Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., has released two
must-read reports -- one that details concerns about the abortion drug
RU-486 and another that examines abstinence-until-marriage programs.
[More at URL]
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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit against Air Force Academy
Allegations of widespread bias by Christians unproved and complainants
lacked standing to bring suit.
Focus on the Family
31 October 2006
[Received in email; no URL]
Evangelical Christians and legal experts applaud a federal judge for
tossing out a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force Academy last week --
one which had accused the academy of creating an atmosphere which
fostered religious discrimination.
U.S. District Judge James A. Parker in New Mexico ruled that
Albuquerque-based lawyer Mikey Weinstein and the handful of other
former cadets who brought the legal action had provided no proof to
their "vague" allegations that the academy was biased in favor of
evangelical Christians and improperly allowed Christian cadets to
proselytize those of other faiths.
Alliance Defense Fund attorney Kevin Theriot said the judge wisely
ruled that since the former cadets who filed the suit were no longer at
the academy, the legal action served no purpose.
"He dismissed a completely baseless suit," Theriot told CitizenLink.
"The plaintiffs were trying to get the court to prohibit, not only
people at the academy, but anyone in the Air Force from sharing their
faith with their fellow servicemen while they were on duty. And that
would have been an incredibly intrusive restriction on religious speech
and the ability of people of faith -- any faith -- to share their
faith."
[More at URL]
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South Dakota Referendum Could Make History on November 7
Pro-Life effort could lead to challenge of Roe v. Wade.
Concerned Women for America
11/2/2006
By Eva Arlia
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/11740/FIELD/life/index.htm
On November 7, South Dakotans face a momentous opportunity at the
ballot box - to protect the unborn. A battle 33 years in the making
will come to a culmination in a vote on Referred Law 6, which would
outlaw abortions in the state. CWA of South Dakota State Director Linda
Schauer is encouraged by the milestone this law represents in the
pro-life movement. "South Dakota sees about 820 babies a year aborted …
the equivalent of more than 30 kindergarten classes." According to
Schauer, if Referred Law 6 is passed, "South Dakota will be the safest
place for women and children."
This February, the South Dakota State Legislature passed H.B. 1215, a
bill prohibiting the heinous practice of abortion in the state, the
only exceptions being in the case of rape, incest or risk to the life
of the mother. Section 2 of the bill also outlaws the sale,
administration or prescription of "any medicine, drug or other
substance with the specific intent of causing or abetting the
termination of life of an unborn human being."
The sale of contraceptives, however, "if … administered prior to a time
when pregnancy can be determined," is not affected by this bill. This
denotes the vast difference between pregnancy prevention and pregnancy
termination. [Ed. Note: however, CWA semi-regularly publishes the
"truth" about how most forms of contraception actually cause abortions.
As mentioned above, this is an intentional lie, and a meme intended to
move the goalposts back against birth control.]
[...]
CWA of South Dakota remains on the forefront of the pro-life movement
to assure passage of Referred Law 6. Schauer says, "This is a team
effort like the Body of Christ. Even pastors are getting involved and
preaching from the pulpit on the issue. It involves a lot of prayer,
education, and mobilizing the electorate to take a stand."
[More at URL]
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CWA Experts Available to Provide Commentary Throughout Election Night
Concerned Women for America
11/2/2006
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/11732/MEDIA/misc/index.htm
Washington, D.C. – On November 7-8, Concerned Women for America (CWA)
experts will be readily available throughout the day and into the early
hours of the morning to provide invaluable commentary and analysis on
the congressional election. We will be here to provide you with news of
key ballot initiatives and federal races all over America. CWA’s Web
site (www.cwfa.org) will include articles, interviews and analysis – a
key resource for media and concerned citizens who want to know what’s
really happening during Election night.
“This election will be pivotal in determining the outcome on all the
issues that are important to conservative Christians,” said Dr. Janice
Crouse, Senior Fellow of CWA’s Beverly LaHaye Institute. “It is really
all about whether a Judeo-Christian worldview will continue to drive
American policies. How Values Voters behave at the polls will once
again determine the future of America.”
CWA President Wendy Wright said, “More attention is focused on this
mid-term election than perhaps any other in American history. Ballot
measures on marriage, abortion, cloning and eminent domain will
certainly drive people to the polls and influence who they elect as
their representatives. While this election will steer the direction of
America for the next two years, it may have its greatest impact on how
it will impact Americans for the 2008 election.”
“Regardless of what happens on Election Day, pro-family Americans are
going to want to know the role they will play in the next Congress,”
said Mike Mears, CWALAC’s Director of State Legislative Relations. “You
can be sure that Concerned Women for America Legislative Action
Committee will be there to lead the charge and help conservatives
navigate the way.”
Contact Stacey Holliday at 202.488.7000, extension 126, to set up an
interview with a CWA expert.
For Information Contact:
Stacey Holliday
(202) 488-7000
media.cwfa.org
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How America Went Gay
by Charles W. Socarides, M.D.
http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/socarides.html#
Charles W. Socarides, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in New
York. He is president of the National Association for Research and
Therapy of Homosexuality, and author of Homosexuality: A Freedom Too
Far (Adam Margrave Books, Phoenix, Arizona).
For more than 20 years, I and a few of my colleagues in the field of
psychoanalysis have felt like an embattled minority, because we have
continued to insist, against today's conventional wisdom, that gays
aren't born that way. We know that obligatory homosexuals are caught up
in unconscious adaptations to early childhood abuse and neglect and
that, with insight into their earliest beginnings, they can change.
This "adaptation" I speak of is a polite term for men going through the
motions of mating not with the opposite sex but with one another.
For most of this century, most of us in the helping professions
considered this behavior aberrant. Not only was it "off the track"; the
people caught up in it were suffering, which is why we called it a
pathology. We had patients, early in their therapy, who would seek out
one sex partner after another-total strangers-on a single night, then
come limping into our offices the next day to tell us how they were
hurting themselves. Since we were in the business of helping people
learn how not to keep hurting themselves, many of us thought we were
quietly doing God's work.
[...]
My wife, Clare, who has an unerring aptitude for getting to the heart
of things, said one day recently in passing, "I think everybody's being
brainwashed." That gave me a start. I know "brainwashing" is a term
that has been used and overused. But my wife's casual observation only
reminded me of a brilliant tract I had read several years ago and then
forgotten. It was called After the Ball: How America Will Conquer its
Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 1990's, by Marshall Kirk and Hunter
Madsen.
[...]
Excuse me. Gay is not good. Gay is not decidedly free. How do I know
this? For more than 40 years, I have been in solidarity with hundreds
of homosexuals, my patients, and I have spent most of my professional
life engaged in exercising a kind of "pastoral care" on their behalf.
But I do not help them by telling them they are O.K. when they are not
O.K. Nor do I endorse their "new claim to self-definition and
self-respect." Tell me: Have we dumped the idea that a man's
self-esteem comes from something inside himself (sometimes called
character) and from having a good education, a good job and a good
family-and replaced that notion with this, that he has an affinity to
love (and have sex with) other men?
[...]
Giving God the credit for their gayness is a persistent refrain in much
gay literature today, and I am saddened to see people of evident good
will become unwitting parties to the blasphemy. Gays ascribe their
condition to God, but he should not have to take that rap, any more
than he should be blamed for the existence of other man-made
maladies-like war, for instance, which has proven to be very unhealthy
for humans and for all other living things. God does not make war. Men
do.
[More at URL]
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Elections Are Won By Who Gets Out The Vote!
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2918
November 2, 2006 – Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Rev. Louis P.
Sheldon is urging all Christians and conservatives to vote on November
7th! “I already know who will win the election on November 7th,” said
Rev. Sheldon. “It is the party that gets the most people out to the
polls to vote that day! The significance of your vote can’t be
underestimated. One vote per precinct can make the difference between
victory or defeat for traditional values.
“In the 2000 election between President Bush and Senator Al Gore, the
margin of victory for Bush was only 537 votes statewide in Florida!
This gave Bush a total of 271 Electoral College votes giving him the
victory.” said Rev. Sheldon. “Imagine how our nation would have
responded to 9/11 if Al Gore and his liberal cronies had been in the
White House?”
[More at URL]
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Federal Court Reform Dies If Liberals Win Congress
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2914
November 2, 2006 -- Rev. Sheldon’s commentary for this week discusses
the scary scenario of having Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) heading up the
important Senate Judiciary Committee should Democrats take the Senate
on Nov. 7.
Rev. Sheldon notes that Leahy “will use his unethical parliamentary
tactics to block every decent man and woman that President Bush
nominates for the federal bench. He’s done this before, and we can
expect him to do it again.”
The goal of reforming the federal judiciary will be defeated if
liberals dominate this committee. “The goal of reforming the federal
bench and placing judicial conservatives on the bench is one of the
most important efforts conservatives have ever undertaken in the past
60 years,” said Sheldon. “If we fail, the horrors of judicial tyranny
will multiply like bodies in a Freddy Krueger movie.”
[More at URL]
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Homosexual Agenda Accelerates If Liberals Win Congress
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2915
November 2, 2006 -- The homosexual paper, New York Blade reported on
October 30 that Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) had met with 40
homosexual and transgender activists earlier in the week to discuss
pushing key legislative efforts if liberals take the Senate on November
7.
The Blade reports that Clinton said she would support overturning the
military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; would support the
legalization of same-sex relationships as “civil unions” and would push
for more AIDS funding for New York under the Ryan White CARE Act.
Clinton said she would also push for inclusion of cross-dressers and
transsexuals in any new version of the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act (ENDA), which has been defeated for years under a
Republican-controlled Congress. TVC has aggressively opposed and
successfully opposed this legislation repeatedly and has a special
report describing its dangers.
[More at URL]
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Key Races On November 7th
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2916
November 2, 2006 – In a National Review symposium on the future if
liberals take Congress, House Majority Leader John Boehner said this:
“What’s most troubling about the prospect of a Democrat majority is the
idea that so many old and backward ideas would be reintroduced as
standard practice and imposed on the American public. Think about it:
Charlie Rangel, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Henry Waxman,
George Miller…all of these Democrats were the ones in power when we
threw them out of the majority back in 1994! Why was that? Because they
were wrong then and they’re wrong now!
[More at URL]
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Key Issues On November 7th
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2917
November 2, 2006 – Voters across the nation are facing numerous votes
on issues that will impact families, taxes, and morality. Voters in
Arizona, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia,
Wisconsin and Colorado will be voting on amendments to protect marriage
as a one-man, one-woman union. The need for state amendments is more
evident than ever in view of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decision to
force the state legislature to legalize homosexual marriage within 180
days.
The text of the eight amendments is available here:
http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/May2306MarriageChartSD.pdf
Voters in Missouri will be asked to approve a stem cell/cloning bill
that will legalize the harvesting of stem cells from human embryos.
Amendment 2 will institutionalize the killing of unborn children for
their stem cells. Missourians Against Human Cloning has detailed
information on this dangerous, misleading legislation.
Parental involvement legislation in California will help parents know
if their daughter is getting an abortion. Proposition 85 will do the
following:
[More at URL]
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Commentary & News Briefs
November 2, 2006
American Family Association/Agape Press
Compiled by Jenni Parker
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/22006h.asp
..A powerful Christian pro-family leader is throwing his support behind
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell. Focus on the Family founder
Dr. James Dobson has announced his personal endorsement of Blackwell,
the Republican candidate who is running against Democrat Ted Strickland
in the Ohio governor's race. Dobson is featured in a new radio ad in
which he calls Blackwell "the champion of Ohio's marriage amendment and
a lifelong pro-life leader." In the ad, the Focus on the Family
chairman emphasizes that he is "speaking as a private individual and
not on behalf of any organization" as he urges values voters to cast
their ballots for the GOP candidate as Ohio's next governor. "Ken
Blackwell has stood for our values," Dobson observes, "and it's our
turn now to stand with him. Help elect a great leader who shares our
values." Blackwell's campaign has accused Strickland of wanting to keep
God out of public life by voting to let liberal judges prohibit prayer
in school and remove Ten Commandments displays from public buildings.
[Jim Brown]
...Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline says his office is reviewing
patient records from abortion clinics in connection with alleged cases
of child rape, failure to report child rape, and violations of the
state's late-term abortion statute. Kline says the targets of his
investigation are not the women and children but the doctors who
perform the abortions and the rapists. Efforts to get the clinic
records have taken months, mainly because of opposition from Wichita
abortionist George Tiller and the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America. [Fred Jackson]
[More at URL]
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