[Active-seattle-l] [Active-l] Today's Cultural Warfare Update (1/2)

[Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)]

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Focus on the Family celebrates Nicaragua's new comprehensive abortion 
ban; the previous ban had a "loophole" - specifically, a health and 
life of the mother exemption. It required a signoff from _three_ 
doctors to get the exemption - but that _wasn't good enough_. The new 
law, that they like, has no exemptions - including the _life of the 
woman_. And while this is a law in another country, it's "pro-lifers 
from around the world" who are cheering this "fuck the bitch, let her 
die" law;

ADF has lawyers on standby to sue over the "war on Christmas" bullshit;

DC Court of Appeals upholds lower court ruling throwing out a challenge 
to the Weldon Amendment;

Focus on the Family tap-dances around a Fox News poll showing 60% 
support for some form of lesbian and gay partnership recognition;

Focus on the Family: "Even One Porn Web Site Is Too Many"; also 
dismisses the idea of filtering software and, you know, just not going 
to pr0n;

FotF take on the new Bush appointee to Health and Human Services as 
Deputy Secretary: they love him. He's an anti-birth-control activist, 
tho' they don't mention that; they just trumpet his 
anti-abortion/"abstinence-only" activism;

Mitt Romney continues his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential 
nomination by addressing an anti-marriage rally;

I'm including this only because it's an ACTION ITEM: NBC is reportedly 
going to be airing a show called VeggieTales with the biblical lessons 
attached intact; Focus on the Family wants letters thanking NBC for the 
airing;

FotF reports on new iterations of anti-gay activities by churches, 
particularly the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (against civil 
unions as 'morally impermissible,' GBLT people are objectively 
disordered, adoption is wrong), but other denominations as well;

FotF ACTION ITEM to demand the lame-duck Congress pass PERA, the bill 
that would make it much harder to act against local governments 
endorsing religion by making losers not responsible for court costs;

Arizona anti-gay group to try again with a state constitutional 
marriage ban;

Family Research Council claims the election was a victory of "values 
voters" retaking (parts of) the Democratic party, but that it won't 
last because "San Fran Nancy" will be "the most liberal House speaker 
in American history," and that the "moral winds of change" won't 
tolerate a "summer-of-love, anything-goes mentality";

American Family Association ACTION ITEM against Wal-Mart and Sam's Club 
over Wal-Mart's joining (as an affiliate member) the National Gay and 
Lesbian Chamber of Commerce; also for including ads for _Brokeback 
Mountain_ in store, and selling "pro-homosexual items on their wbsite;" 
The AFA have called the NGLCC a whole bunch of things in the past, such 
as a "radical homosexual marriage group" and so on; they want to 'send 
a message' to Wal-Mart;

American Family Association ACTION ITEM against Best Buy, because Best 
Buy is using the phrase "Happy Holidays" in its advertising instead of 
"Merry Christmas"; they want a phone call, specifically, not email, 
because Best Buy is apparently rejecting email sent via the AFA form;

Soon to be former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney: if the Legislator 
won't approve the anti-marriage amendment, he'll take it to the courts 
and get the courts to override the process and send the amendment 
straight to the voters, rules and process be damned; this has no chance 
in hell, but hey, it'll play well with the theocons;

WorldNetDaily writer Pat Boone promotes the American Family 
Association's anti-Wal-Mart boycott;

Freedom Press Canada (linked to from the Pat Boone article above) says 
GBLT marriage rights will destroy "faith, family, and freedom" and says 
"we can kiss our continent good-bye" if t3h gay aren't stopped;

AFA's newsbriefs include a series of anti-gay news items;

Traditional Values Coalition: Democrats in Congress will "criminalise 
criticism of homosexual conduct";

TVC asserts that keeping count of anti-gay violent crime is 
anti-Christian, claims again Congressional Democrats will make anti-gay 
talk illegal.


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Nicaragua Bans All Abortions
Focus on the Family
11-20-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003111.cfm

Enrique Bolanos, president of Nicaragua, signed a bill into law Friday 
that eliminates a loophole that allowed an abortion if three doctors 
certify a mother's health is at risk.

The so-called health exception language has been abused in many 
countries to allow abortion in almost any circumstance.

According to LifeSiteNews.com, U.N. officials and diplomats 
representing Canada, the European Union, Sweden, Finland and Norway 
attempted to pressure Nicaragua to drop the change.

Pro-lifers from around the world send letters to President Bolanos 
encouraging him to sign the legislation.


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Legal Group Offers to Defend Anyone Denied Religious Freedom at 
Christmas
ADF's Christmas Project seeks to clear up misconceptions about seasonal 
religious expression.
Focus on the Family
11-20-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003112.cfm

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) announced last week it has more than 
950 allied attorneys available nationwide to help anyone who is faced 
with an improper attempt to censor celebrations of Christmas in schools 
or on public property.

[More at URL]


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Appeals Court Tosses Pro-Abortion Suit Aimed at Health-Care Workers
Ruling supports the pro-life Weldon Amendment.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
11-20-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003113.cfm

Pro-life health-care workers got a reprieve after a federal appeals 
court last week upheld the Weldon Amendment -- a federal statute that 
prevents them from being forced to perform abortions simply because 
they receive government funding for family planning services.

The pro-abortion National Family Planning and Reproductive Health 
Association (NFPRHA) filed suit to ban the Weldon Amendment, saying the 
law was vague and violated First Amendment rights. The D.C. Circuit 
Court of Appeals upheld throwing the case out.

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Poll: Americans Favor Legal Recognition for Gay Couples
The ballot box proves otherwise.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
11-20-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003114.cfm

According to an Opinion Dynamics/Fox News poll, 60 percent of Americans 
favor some form of legal recognition for gay unions -- 30 percent favor 
gay marriage, and 30 percent back civil unions. Despite such polls, 
Americans overwhelmingly have shown at the ballot box they do not 
support counterfeit marriages.

Jim Pfaff, cofounder of Colorado Family Action, said the survey was 
reported with bias.

"It says here that 30 percent of people want to allow same-sex couples 
to get legally married," he told Family News in Focus, "but it doesn't 
talk about the fact that 70 percent don't." [Ed. Note: of course, the 
poll was about recognition in general. Note that to be without "bias," 
you have to ignore a third of the data and spin it the fundamentalist 
way.]

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Even One Porn Web Site Is Too Many
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
11-17-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003082.cfm

The Justice Department is preparing to breathe life into a dead bill 
that seeks to protect minors from sexual content on the Web.

A study commissioned by the U.S. government says about 1 percent of Web 
sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) contends the study proves a 
point: Internet filters are doing their job. After all, they say, 1 
percent is miniscule. But anti-porn lawyers say the percentage is 
deceptive.

One percent of all Web sites is still a huge number, according to Jan 
LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America.

[...]

"Since we know that most parents won’t block or won’t effectively block 
pornography, that is not an effective means," Trueman said. "The ACLU 
just flat out doesn’t care about kids in this instance; they care about 
this phony notion that the First Amendment protects any communication – 
even pornography."

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Bush Appoints Pro-Life Doctor as HHS Deputy Secretary
Focus on the Family
11-17-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003080.cfm

President Bush announced Thursday that pro-life, 
pro-abstinence-education Dr. Eric Keroack of Marblehead, Mass., will be 
the new deputy assistant secretary for Health and Human Services, The 
Boston Globe reported.

In his new role, Keroack will advise Secretary Michael Leavitt on 
issues such as adolescent pregnancy, abstinence education and family 
planning.

Raymond Ruddy, president of Gerard Health Foundation, said Keroack is a 
pioneer in the use of medical arguments to explain the devastation 
caused by abortion and the reasons teens should remain abstinent until 
marriage.

"He was one of the first doctors ever to really get involved in the 
medical aspect of some of these pregnancy-resource centers," he said. 
"For very, very little pay, he sacrificed a lot to help women do 
ultrasounds and do what was right in the abortion decision.

"It's pretty much what he has done all his life."

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Gov. Romney to Rally for Marriage Sunday
Focus on the Family
11-17-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003078.cfm

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will address a pro-family rally on the 
steps of the Statehouse on Sunday to demand state lawmakers vote on a 
proposed ballot question that would allow residents to decide the 
proper definition of marriage in the Bay State, The Associated Press 
reported.

The measure would define marriage as solely the union of one man and 
one woman, thereby voiding a state Supreme Court decision that found no 
constitutional basis for restricting marriage. That decision made 
Massachusetts the first state to allow same-sex couples to marry.

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NBC Has Eased Up Editing God Out of VeggieTales
Focus on the Family
11-17-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003077.cfm

According to Phil Vischer, one of the creators off the children's 
cartoon VeggieTales, NBC has backed of its insistence that the 
Saturday-morning network version be free of references to God and the 
Bible.

Big Idea, the creator of the hugely popular VeggieTales, teamed up with 
NBC to place the show in the Saturday cartoon lineup. But two weeks 
prior to its premier NBC told the show's producer the cartoon needed to 
be free of references to God and the Bible.

[...]

TAKE ACTION:
Thank NBC for choosing to leave God in VeggieTales. You can write 
Entertainment President Kevin Reilly.

You can e-mail him here: kevin.reilly at nbcuni.com

Or call him at: (818) 840-6046 and (818) 840-6022

His fax number is: (818) 840-6630


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Faith Groups Take Stands on Homosexuality
Christian leaders are rejecting the gay agenda.
from staff reports
Focus on the Family
11-16-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003073.cfm

Catholic bishops, a state convention of Baptists and the Presbyterian 
Church USA (PCUSA) recently took steps to affirm that homosexual 
behavior and Christianity are incompatible.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told its members that 
scriptural teaching is clear regarding the issue of homosexuality. C.J. 
Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League, said it left 
no doubt where the church stands.

"Homosexual behavior is objectively sinful," he said. "Homosexual 
orientation is disordered, and same-sex marriage and civil unions are 
morally impermissible."

The bishops also declared that gay adoption is wrong, although children 
living in same-sex households may be baptized if there is an intention 
to bring them up Catholic.

Norman Jameson, president of the Baptist State Convention of North 
Carolina, said the organization will expel any church that affirms 
homosexuality.

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Senator Seeks to Protect Religious Freedom
Focus on the Family
11-16-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003070.cfm

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., is urging his colleagues to allow a vote on 
the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA) — a measure the House 
approved 244-173.

PERA would eliminate the awarding of attorneys' fees to groups that 
challenge religious displays on public property — many communities give 
in to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after just a threat of 
litigation.

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"This may be the best chance we have to pass another pro-family bill 
before Congress adjourns," she said. "It's crucial that senators hear 
from their constituents on this legislation right away."

TAKE ACTION:
You may contact your senators 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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Arizona Marriage-Amendment Group Concedes
Focus on the Family
11-16-2006

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000003072.cfm

The campaign behind the push to preserve marriage in Arizona 
acknowledged Wednesday the defeat of Proposition 107, but vowed to 
continue the fight to keep marriage the union of one man and one woman.

Arizona law already limits marriage to the traditional union, but 
Proposition 107 would have further protected marriage from redefinition 
by amending the state constitution — a necessary measure to put it out 
of the reach of activist judges.

Cathi Herrod, spokeswoman for Protect Marriage Arizona, said the 
amendment will return.

"The struggle to protect marriage between one man and one woman is far 
from over," she said. "We remain convinced that Arizonans want marriage 
to remain defined as the union of one man and one woman. When you look 
at our country as a whole, it's clear that Americans wants marriage 
defined as a man and a woman."

[Ed. Note: the Arizona amendment would also have banned civil unions in 
any form, as is common. The theocon movement considers civil unions to 
be "counterfeit marriage" and just as evil as marriage rights.]

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The Real San Fran Nancy
Family Research Council
by: Tony Perkins
13 November 2006

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PV06K02&f=PG03I03

When the confetti finally settles at DNC headquarters and the bottles 
of champagne run dry, Americans will get a good, hard look at their new 
leaders. With the House, the Senate, and the statehouses in their 
grasp, the country has spoken. But for many voters, lured by the 
promise of fresh faces and ideas, the reality may be sobering.

For the GOP, racked by personal scandal and policy inefficiency, losing 
the majority wasn't so much a foregone conclusion as it was a necessary 
one. In the end, voters had grown tired of a party whose lapses in 
judgment were overshadowed only by its lapse of belief in core values. 
When conservatives realized that Republicans had abandoned their 
ideology, they ultimately abandoned the GOP. The values voters of 2004 
became the integrity voters of 2006, who sent the message that party 
isn't nearly as important as principle.

[...]

Fortunately, America won't have to wait long to determine if the social 
shift is genuine. Democrats claim to be a new party, yet their first 
vote in Congress will be to elect the most liberal House speaker in 
American history. Clearly, the moral winds of change have yet to reach 
San Francisco, where Rep. Nancy Pelosi resides. If Pelosi, the radical 
brain trust of the party, thinks her city's retro, summer-of-love, 
anything-goes mentality will fly, she underestimates the character of 
the American people.

While a handful of true pro-family Democrats may have tipped the 
election in their favor, don't expect Pelosi & Co. to feel indebted to 
the moderate platform. Instead, anticipate the fiercest assault of our 
time against abstinence, marriage, life, good judges, and religious 
freedom. Pro-life Democrats are likely to be marginalized in positions 
where they have little influence. But don't take my word for it. The 
party has already said as much. In the October 28 edition of the New 
York Times, Shaila Dewan and Anne Kornblut note that "if this crop of 
moderate and conservative Democrats arrived on Capitol Hill as members 
of the Democratic majority, they would not have much power individually 
to change the face of Congress... Instead, party veterans would remain 
in chairmanships and House leadership posts." As speaker, Rep. Pelosi 
and the old guard of liberal extremists will surely pounce on the 
opportunities that their new committee chairmanships will afford them.

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Send A Message To Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, Don't Shop With Them This 
Friday Or Saturday
Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as 
possible by forwarding it to your entire email list of family and 
friends.
American Family Association
November 20, 2006

http://www.afa.net/walmart_11202006.htm

We have asked our supporters not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club this 
coming Friday or Saturday. Thus far nearly 400,000 families have agreed 
not to shop at Wal-Mart on those days. We suggest you shop with your 
local merchants.

Here is why we are asking you not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club 
this Friday or Saturday:

* Wal-Mart gave $60,000 to homosexual group to support homosexual 
agenda in the workplace

* Wal-Mart made a generous donation to the Northwest Arkansas Gay, 
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center

* Wal-Mart sells pro-homosexual items from their website

* Wal-Mart asks for, and receives, permission to join Gay & Lesbian 
Chamber of Commerce

* Wal-Mart invites homosexual ad agency to headquarters for 2-day 
seminar to indoctrinate employees.

* Last March, Wal-Mart chose to promote "Brokeback Mountain" video over 
a top-selling family-oriented film. Wal-Mart began taking advance 
orders of the homosexual love movie, "Brokeback Mountain." A large 
display greeted customers when they walked through the front doors of 
the store. "Brokeback Mountain" was released the same day as best 
selling pro-family movie, "The Chronicles of Narnia" which Wal-Mart did 
not promote.

Take Action

Please sign the pledge not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club this 
Friday or Saturday.

It is very important that you forward this email to your friends and 
family letting them know of the homosexual activists attempt to reward 
Wal-Mart for their support of groups promoting homosexual marriage.

Click Here to Sign the Pledge Now!


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Best Buy Bans Use of Merry Christmas in Advertising
American Family Association

http://www.afa.net/petitions/issuedetail.asp?id=222

Best Buy has announced they will be using "Happy Holidays" this coming 
Christmas shopping season, and they will not be using "Merry 
Christmas."

UPDATE! Best Buy is blocking emails! Please call their corporate office 
and ask for Chairman Schulze to express your displeasure at their 
"Anti-Christmas" policy. The number is 1-612-291-1000.

UPDATE!
Best Buy is blocking emails! Please call their corporate office and ask 
for Chairman Schulze to express your displeasure at their 
"Anti-Christmas" policy. The number is 1-612-291-1000.


Best Buy has announced they will be using "Happy Holidays" this coming 
Christmas shopping season, and they will not be using "Merry 
Christmas."

Dawn Bryant, a spokeswoman at Best Buy Co. Inc., says their advertising 
will not be using the term "Merry Christmas." "We are going to continue 
to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout 
that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of 
them," Bryant said. Click here for reference article.

While many other retailers have decided to begin reusing "Merry 
Christmas", Best Buy will not be among them. Best Buy considers the use 
of Merry Christmas to be disrespectful.

But while Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics company in the 
nation, will not be mentioning Christmas, they sure do want the 
shopping dollars from those who remember the Reason for the season.

Send an e-mail to Best Buy telling them of your disappointment at their 
decision to ban Christmas in their advertising. (You may receive an 
auto-reply. If so, that is ok. Don’t worry about it, your e-mail has 
been received.)


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Mass. Governor Wants Gay Wedding Vote
Nov 19 10:55 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID WEBER
Associated Press Writer
Boston

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/19/D8LGIEH80.html

Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday he would ask the state's highest court to 
order an anti-gay marriage amendment question onto the ballot if 
legislators fail to vote on the matter when they reconvene in January.

Romney said he would file a legal action this week asking a justice of 
the Supreme Judicial Court to direct the secretary of state to place 
the question on the ballot if lawmakers don't vote directly on the 
question Jan. 2, the final day of the session.

Romney, an opponent of gay marriage who decided not to seek re- 
election as he considers running for president, made his announcement 
to the cheers of hundreds of gay marriage opponents at a rally on the 
Statehouse steps.

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The Grinch, the 'gays' and Wal-Mart
WorldNetDaily
Posted: November 18, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53016

I played tennis with Sam Walton.

Yes, the man who conceived, founded and built the mighty Wal-Mart. What 
a man he was! Everything he did, he gave his all to. That, I found out, 
included tennis. I'm remembering a match on his home court in 
Bentonville, Ark., when my pro partner, John Newcomb, and I faced Mr. 
Sam and his partner, Rod Laver. Mr. Sam had to be in his late 60s by 
then, but he ran for everything, and if he got his racket on the ball, 
he was likely to put it away. The other three of us will never forget 
what a competitor, what a happy scrapper he was.

[...]

This year, instead of bowing and kowtowing to militant atheist and 
super liberal "political correctness," so-called, I'm thrilled to see 
that Wal-Mart has banished "the Grinch" that threatened to steal 
Christmas, and will be advertising Christmas sales and playing 
Christmas music – and not conforming to the total "Holiday" imagery and 
advertising of other milk-toast wimp marketers. Again, the family 
friendly vision of Sam Walton lives on! I believe he's smiling 
somewhere, possibly in the presence of the One whose birth Christmas 
celebrates.

So imagine my surprise, my shock really, when I read yesterday that 
this venerable company, the international outgrowth of Mr. Sam's 
personal vision, has agreed to automatically donate 5 percent of online 
sales directly to the Washington, D.C., community center for gay, 
lesbian, bisexual and transgender people! The cash donation will come 
from online purchases made at Wal-Mart through the homosexual group's 
website. Every purchase made online for books, music, videos, clothing 
and accessories, children's clothing and toys, and electronics will 
automatically send 5 percent of the sales to the CCBLBT organization.

The American Family Association Action Alert, a widely read Internet 
news source, says this latest move follows Wal-Mart's joining the 
National Gay and Lesbian "Chamber of Commerce," and agreeing to give 
generous financial help to that organization also. The AFA, and I 
predict many other family organizations, are calling for a 
post-Thanksgiving boycott of Wal-Mart. In fact, they're lining up 
1,000,000 families who will pledge not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's 
Club on the Friday or Saturday following Thanksgiving.

If the boycott succeeds, it won't bankrupt Wal-Mart; but it may send 
them a message, loud and clear.

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WARNED
Canada's Revolution Against Faith, Family and Freedom Threatens America
Freedom Press Canada
Online as of 20 November 2006

http://www.freedompress.ca/latest_release.php?ref=WorldNetDaily

This book is essential reading for both Americans and Canadians even 
though it is more particularly directed to our American friends. Both 
countries face a serious challenge to their cultures. This book exposes 
the radical exploitation of Canada at the hands of extremist activists, 
leftwing politicians and a plethora of crusading activist judges, who 
are using their status in Canada to get at America. Their aim is 
marriage. But the prize is America. They want to use marriage as a 
weapon to systematically destroy the Judeo-Christian civilization of 
North America, but to do that they need America to "go gay". Gay 
"marriage" will open America up to the rest of the demands of the 
homosexual political movement. Everything from school curriculum to 
parental rights, adoption, the age of consent and religious freedoms 
will be up for grabs once gay "marriage" is made legal in America. 
Unless socons in both countries unite and work to resist these 
political opponents, we can kiss our continent good-bye.

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Commentary & News Briefs
November 17, 2006
Next stories will be posted on Nov. 27, 2006
Compiled by Jenni Parker

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/172006h.asp

...A retired U.S. Army officer and Pentagon advisor says he believes 
future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will block any effort to punish the 
San Francisco School System for voting to phase out its Junior ROTC 
program over the next two years. The school board voted 4-2 this week 
to dump the program because of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't 
tell" policy regarding homosexual service in the military. Retired Army 
Lieutenant Colonel Bob Maginnis says it is the students who are 
ultimately going to be punished. "It's unfortunate," he says, "that 
there are people out there who want to attack young, innocent people 
who are seeking to better themselves because these people tend to 
disagree with a particular policy of the U.S. government." But Maginnis 
doubts the government will cut off federal dollars to the school 
system. "It is unlikely, especially given the political realities of 
probably something Nancy Pelosi is going to have some say over as the 
new Speaker of the House," the military advisor observes. In previous 
cases, he points out, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that ROTC 
programs must have the same access as any other groups. Nevertheless, 
Maginnis says the San Francisco school officials' response to the JROTC 
program is typical of the Bay Area and other homosexual enclaves around 
the U.S., in that "they want to hold hostage the education and the 
prosperity of young people to their own political whims." [Chad 
Groening]

[...]

... USA Today reports that the present-day market for homosexual 
consumers is hitting the mainstream in a big way. As recently as a 
decade or two ago, companies shunned the homosexual market -- but not 
so today. With 16 million homosexual consumers age 18 and older 
boasting a buying power of $641 billion, corporations, local 
governments and businesses country-wide are very much aware of, and 
catering to, this burgeoning market. U.S. Census data shows that 
homosexuals are no longer segregated into "gay ghettos" in cities like 
San Francisco and New York. Instead, they live in virtually every 
county in the U.S. Thomas Roth, president of Community Marketing, a 
homosexual market research firm, says, "We have more discretionary 
income, and we love to spend our money on travel and shopping." As a 
result, travel-related businesses of all kinds are courting the 
homosexual market in a big way. United and American Airlines, 
Travelocity, restaurant chains, and city and tourism bureaus nationwide 
have jumped on the bandwagon. Wal-Mart offers seminars to its employees 
called "Why Market to Gay America." But companies that cater to 
homosexuals still risk a backlash from fundamentalist religious groups, 
adds USA Today. American Family Association and others have gone after 
companies such as Ford Motor, Walt Disney, and Procter & Gamble in 
recent years. [Pat Centner]

...Southern Baptists in Alabama have passed a resolution criticizing 
Wal-Mart for joining the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. 
Wal-Mart also has agreed to hold workshops to help homosexuals join its 
ranks of suppliers. Delegates to the Alabama Baptist State Convention's 
annual meeting called the retailer's actions "contrary to the biblical 
beliefs of many of its customers." They stopped short of calling for a 
boycott, but urged the state's Southern Baptists to pray for the 
leaders of Wal-Mart and other businesses. [AP]

[...]

...School officials in an Illinois community are defending their 
decision to expose young children to a book promoting homosexuality. 
The book, called And Tango Makes Three, is the story of two male 
penguins raising a baby penguin. Its defenders say it is simply 
recounting a true story of a similar incident that happened at New 
York's Central Park Zoo; however, some parents of kids at Shilo 
Elementary School are worried about the book's homosexual undertones 
and have asked, at the very least, for it to be moved to a restricted 
area of the school library -- and perhaps for parental permission to be 
required for its release. But according to Associated Press, school 
officials at Shilo have refused these requests. District Superintendent 
Jennifer Filyaw even rejected a recommendation from a panel she 
appointed, which supported the parents demand. Parent Lilly Del Pinto 
says her five-year-old daughter brought the book home, but she 
immediately stopped reading it to her little girl when she got to the 
part in the book in which a zookeeper says "the penguins must be in 
love." [Fred Jackson]

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TVC Chairman Warns Of Coming Homosexual-Inspired Legislation
Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2940

November 16, 2006 – Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Rev. Louis P. 
Sheldon’s commentary this week warns Americans about the coming flood 
of pro-homosexual legislation in the Democrat-controlled Senate and 
House.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC), one of the most aggressive homosexual 
lobbying groups in the U.S., spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to 
help elect pro-homosexual legislators. Among them are: Senator Amy 
Klobuchar (MN), Rep. Gabby Giffords (AZ), Sen. Bob Casey (PA) and Rep. 
Ron Klein (FL). Both Casey and Klobuchar have vowed to push for passage 
of pro-homosexual hate crime bills.

Rev. Sheldon noted: “Americans voted for a change in Congress. They 
obviously have not seriously considered the kind of changes they may 
have to cope with once the homosexual agenda goes into full swing in 
the Senate and House. The homosexual goal is to create protected 
minority status for homosexuality as though it were equal to such 
immutable characteristics as race. The side-effect of this effort will 
be to criminalize criticism of homosexual conduct and to violate 
religious freedom and freedom of conscience. It is also likely that all 
attempts to pass a constitutional marriage amendment will be dead on 
arrival in the Senate.”

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Pro-Homosexual Democrats To Push Anti-Christian ‘Hate Crime’ Legislation
By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2933

November 14, 2006 - With the Democrats taking control of both the U.S. 
Senate and House of Representatives this January, we can expect the 
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and its pro-homosexual surrogates newly 
elected to Congress, to begin an aggressive push for passage of a “hate 
crimes” bill designed to provide federally protected status to the 
behavior of homosexuality. This hate crimes bill is likely to be a 
re-engineered version of the old Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act 
(LLEEA). The pro-homosexual, anti-Christian Employment 
Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is another bill that will be revived as 
part of the homosexual agenda.

[...]

The homosexual goal is to create protected minority status for 
homosexuality as though it were equal to such immutable characteristics 
as race. The side-effect of this effort will be to criminalize 
criticism of homosexual conduct and to violate religious freedom and 
freedom of conscience. It is also likely that all attempts to pass a 
constitutional marriage amendment will be dead on arrival in the 
Senate.

Newly-elected Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey (D) who defeated 
pro-family Senator Rick Santorum (R) has already indicated his plans to 
push for a hate crimes bill that includes “sexual orientation” and 
“gender identity.” Casey’s announcement is payback to HRC for its 
strong support of his race for the Senate. Gender identity, for those 
unfamiliar with the term, is code for an individual who thinks he is 
the opposite sex. (This includes cross-dressers, transvestites and 
transsexuals.) Sexually confused individuals will be a protected 
minority if Casey and his minions in the Senate have their way.

HRC is encouraged by the election of Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota to the 
U.S. Senate. She defeated rival Mark Kennedy. Klobuchar is a proponent 
of pro-homosexual hate crime legislation; HRC raised thousands of 
dollars for her campaign.

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