Posted on Friday, 10/12/2007 - 7:41 p.m. PDT — by Ohso1
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JAIL TIME 4 THOUGHT CRIME? Gay, if not particularly Merry Old England is about to enact new Thought Crime Laws, as the following articles discuss, that provide for up to Seven Years in Prison for saying 'Ungood' things about the behaviors of the radical gender feminist / homosex lobby. Should America, in addition to the New Laws requiring Mandatory Pandering - also institute Civil or Criminal Penalties for those who say 'Ungood' things about Homo-Anal Behaviors or Dyke Misandry???
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IVA:
A family in Germany has been fined $6,300 - for the crime of home-schooling their children.
German officials are intent on enforcing a Nazi-era dictat and stamping out "parallel societies that are based on religion," and are determined to punish parents who refuse "to give their children over to the state school system."
Authorities have already searched the home of this family to find items to sell to pay the fine, and are considering throwing the father in jail to pressure him to change his mind. If that doesn't work, police have threatened to enter the home and drag the children off to school.
Be mindful that the teachers' union in Idaho, the Idaho Education Association, is relentlessly opposed to all forms of parental choice in education, and would do the same kinds of things here if they could. The IVA will continue to stand against the IEA's threat to parental authority in matters of education.
(WorldNetDaily: Homeschoolers facing $6,300 fine)
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A family in Germany has been fined $6,300 - for the crime of home-schooling their children.
---------Because this Global Deception wants everybody doing the Dialectic Process (disccus to come to the GLOBAL DOCTRINE - "TOLERANCE FOR EVERYONE", EXCEPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND SPEAK OUT GOD'S WORD - THE BLESSINGS AND THE CURSINGS TO WARN OTHERS. But when parents are home-schooling their children the public gov't. schools can't control the situation.
Learn more from homepage of Dean Gotcher: http://www.authorityresearch.com/
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IVA:
Liberal activists are so hard up for actual hate crimes that they have to keep inventing them.
A student at George Washington University was caught by a hidden camera drawing six swastikas on her own dorm room door before she complained to campus authorities that she had been the target of hate.
She is apparently implicated in other hate crimes complaints on the GWU campus as well.
This is reminiscent of the BSU student who beat himself up on Boise's Greenbelt after the 2006 passage of Idaho's marriage amendment, and then tried to pass off his wounds as evidence of a hate crime.
Self-inflicted fake hate crimes are increasingly common. In fact, if you Google "fake hate crime" you will instanly get 3,100 hits.
The GWU student association scheduled a town hall forum for last night, for the purpose of discussing the prevention of hateful acts on campus. Sounds like the place to begin is with activist liberal students.
(GW Student Who Complained of Anti-Semetic Graffiti Admits Responsibility - washingtonpost.com)
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Just the Facts on SB 777
· There is legal protection for students without SB 777
· SB 777 changes the law on instruction and activities
· Protection for homosexual, bisexual, and transgender students has been law since 2000.
o The Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 (AB 537) protects "all persons in public schools." It prohibits discrimination based on actual and perceived sexual orientation.
o It explicitly extends protection from the California Penal Code to schools. The Penal Code protects all people in the enjoyment of their rights, as secured in the federal Constitution, United States law, the state Constitution, and state laws.
o AB 394, passed in 2007, requires the State Department of Education to "monitor adherence" to AB 537. This may include state monitoring of student attitudes on sexual orientations.
o Bottom line: AB 537 establishes equal protection for every California public school student, which makes SB 777 unnecessary.
· SB 777 does not streamline existing California Educational Code. It adds to the law.
o AB 537 purposely excluded school instruction and activities from non-discrimination law.
o It reads: "Nothing in [AB 537] requires the inclusion of any curriculum, textbook, presentation, or other material in any program or activity ---"
o SB 777 purposely adds new mandates for school instruction and activities.
o It reads: "No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias" against homosexuality, bisexuality, or transsexuality.
o Bottom line: SB 777 adds school instruction and activities to the things that cannot promote "bias," which elevates homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in public schools.
· SB 777 is a mandate for every school district, ending local control on sensitive issues.
o Under the equal protection of AB 537, each school district has discretion over how it addresses the sensitive issues of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality.
o SB 777 takes away parental and local control and discretion over how to address these issues.
o SB 777 specifically includes charter schools in these new mandates.
o Bottom line: SB 777 normalizes homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality across the state, without room for local discretion on addressing these issues.
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Maryland County Poised to Promote Gender Confusion
The Montgomery County Council, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., is due to vote November 13 on Bill 23-07, to outlaw "discrimination" in housing, employment, and "public accommodations" on the basis of "gender identity"--which, if you don't know, means whether you feel male or female, not whether you were born that way.
Critics immediately asked whether the "public accommodations" would include restrooms, locker rooms and showers (such as those at public swimming pools).
The County Attorney said that under the proposed law, it would still be possible to segregate those facilities on the basis of biological sex.
Astonishingly, a committee of the Council then passed an amendment to insure that men who dress as women would be able to use the women's restroom, locker room, and shower. Their "female" identity must be "publicly and exclusively expressed or asserted," but no change in their male anatomy is required.
The bill dismisses the sexual identity embedded in our internal and external sex organs and the chromosomes of every cell of our bodies as merely being "assigned . . . at birth."
If you live in Montgomery County (or even if you don't), let the County Council know that you oppose this lunacy by calling their 24-hour comment line at (240) 777-7999,(**The Comment Line has just been DISCONECTED - Call 777-7900 for live abuse from these sick perverts) or emailing the addresses listed at the website below:
Additional Resources
List of email address for the Montgomery County, MD Council
'Surgical Sex' -- article by Dr. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins University
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America's Pro-Family Leaders Selling Out Pro-Family Values:
Latest Hypocrisy is Pat Robertson's Endorsement of Giuliani
Thomasson: "Pat Robertson is casting a blind eye to Rudy Giuliani's
big-time advocacy of the transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual agenda"
Campaign for Children and Families does not support or oppose candidates for public office, and provides the following information solely for educational purposes.
Sacramento, California -- Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a leading West Coast pro-family organization, condemns the selling out of family values in the U.S. presidential race by national pro-family leaders, such as Pat Robertson, who today endorsed liberal Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani.
"Pat Robertson is leading pro-family voters astray by abandoning moral standards for government,' said CCF President Randy Thomasson. "This shocking news is a 180-degree turn by the founder of the Christian Coalition. Pat Robertson is casting a blind eye to Rudy Giuliani's big-time advocacy of the transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual agenda -- an intolerant agenda that harms children, religious freedom, parental rights, the institution of marriage, and the Boy Scouts."
It's well known in New York City that former mayor Rudy Giuliani marched in "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" parades, held "lesbian and gay pride breakfasts" at Gracie Mansion, dressed up several times as a woman, led the hijacking of marriage rights at New York City Hall, and personally demeaned marriage by divorcing his first two wives and committing adultery.
• Giuliani's homosexual agenda record: www.stonewallvets.org/RudyGiuliani.htm
• Giuliani's cross-dressing videos:
1997: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb2y1IM17sM
2000: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8
"Pro-family voters in California were fooled by a liberal Republican named Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he's rewarded them by signing a raft of anti-family laws," said Thomasson. "Will Giuliani do the same if he becomes president?" (See www.savecalifornia.com/getactive/arnoldsrecord.php)
Other national pro-family leaders have endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, despite Romney's consistent support for most of the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda, including advocating for homosexual scoutmasters.
(See www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/)
"It's scandalous how some of America's pro-family leaders have abandoned pro-family voting standards," said Thomasson. "If the pro-family community throws away its values, the pro-family community stands for nothing. And if pro-family voters are willing to get behind any popular Republican, no matter how liberal, would they support Hillary Clinton if she became a Republican? Or would the family values of pro-family leaders suddenly reappear? On moral values, Clinton and Giuliani are nearly identical."
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No Joking
This one reminds me of the only known 'Feminist' Joke to ever elicit a small sour wry grin... "
Q- How many Feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A- That's Not Funny - Pig!
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New law could make gay jokes illegal
By Toby Helm, Chief Political Correspondent
telegraph.co.uk 08/11/2007
The right to crack jokes or be rude about homosexuals could fall victim to new government laws to stamp out "homophobic" behaviour, Rowan Atkinson, the Blackadder star warned yesterday...
His concern is that Labour ministers are so obsessed with creating laws to stop people being rude about each other that they are putting in danger the right to free speech and, equally dear to his heart, the comedian's craft.
In a letter to a newspaper he accused ministers of filling their legislative programme with measures that have "serious implications for freedom of speech, humour and creative expression".
Atkinson was referring to measures in the Criminal Justice Bill, currently passing through Parliament, which could mean people who stir up hatred against homosexuals being put in prison for up to seven years.
He said the Government measures, which could be expanded to cover hatred against disabled or transgendered people, seemed to be "infinitely extendable".
"Witness the fact that the Government has invited two
additional groups - the disabled and transsexuals - to 'make the case' for the proposed legislation to be extended to them.
"I am sure that they could make a very good case, as indeed could all those who can claim that they cannot help being the way they are. Men, for example, or women. Or people with big ears."
Atkinson added: "The devil, as always, will be in the detail but the casual ease which some people move from finding something offensive to wishing to declare it criminal - and are then able to find factions within government to aid their ambitions - is truly depressing."
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No wonder the Thought Police in gay if not particularly merry ole eng-land lead the way in Mandatory Radical Homosex Pandering...
Their "Queens" rate much more expensive public funded Drag Costumes than ours... Although there are plans to give Tax Subsidies to Weimar Amerikan Drag Queens under the rubric of 'tolerance & equality' as well... Ohso
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Queen sets out Labour's plans for the next session
6 November 2007
The Queen's speech is written by the Government.
Abortion, IVF for lesbians, genetically-modified babies, and a proposed incitement to 'homophobic' hatred offence can all be expected to feature in the coming session of Parliament.
The Queen's Speech is part of the annual State Opening of Parliament...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill... would remove the assumption that a child needs a father...
The Bill also opens the door for the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos for research, and it proposes to allow cloning techniques which will result in some babies having two genetic mothers and one genetic father.
A law against incitement to 'homophobic' hatred has been announced by the Government...
The free speech implications of these proposals have already
attracted much controversy...
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Training Derailed in Delaware (FRC)
One week after an education watchdog group blew the whistle on a controversial "diversity training" program at the University of Delaware, school officials have announced that the program has been halted.
When FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, published excerpts from the curriculum, outraged parents flooded the campus with calls and emails, demanding an explanation.
As you may remember, more than 7,000 students were asked to participate in sessions designed to "reprogram" young people's worldviews with shocking generalizations about racism, sexual orientation, and moral philosophy. President Patrick Harker, who was in China when the story first broke, returned to cancel the activities.
"No[thing] further... under the current framework will be conducted," he stated. "There are questions about [the program's] practices that must be addressed, and there are reasons for concern that the actual purpose is not being fulfilled."
Those who complained about the implications of the program were pleased with the decision but still unsatisfied. Like us, they would like to see the "training" entirely abolished.
Any program that seeks to impose its views in the name of "diversity" creates more barriers than it eliminates. Such is the case in Delaware, where the emphasis was not on cultural cohesion but ideological enslavement. Join us in urging the University to make the program's current hiatus a permanent one.
Additional Resources - Canada Free Press:
Thought Control Alive and Well at University of Delaware
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Foster couple challenges homosexuality laws By Andrew Pierce 23/02/2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news
Lawyers are to seek a judicial review of a decision by social workers to ban a Christian couple from fostering young children because they refused to sign up to new gay equality laws...
The action against Labour-controlled Derby City Council is likely to become a test case for the Government's Sexual Orientation Regulations. Social workers rejected an application by Eunice and Owen Johns, who have four grown-up children, to be foster parents because they refused to agree to tell any children in their care that homosexual lifestyles were acceptable.
The couple, who have been married for 39 years, had applied to offer weekend respite care for foster children under the age of 10.
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Perceived Queen 4 A Day or Longer
As pointed out - the 'Pander or Perish' laws in Canada now attack the Catholic Church Schools by requiring they teach kids to pretend that Drag Queens can deny their DNA and 'change gender' - as a 'mental trick' that only they can know about based on thier 'perception'.
For the rest of us - it means that those who change legal (if not actual) gender at a whim are now in charge of the Thought Police where it counts - in the Public Toilets...
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YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Coed locker rooms given green light- Statute allows people to 'choose a gender'
November 14, 2007 By Bob Unruh © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Coed locker rooms could be a reality now that a new statute to allow people to "choose a gender" has been approved in Maryland.
But the measure, given the green light by elected officials in Montgomery County, will soon be the subject of a court challenge, according to a non-profit public-interest law firm.
"The definition for 'gender identity' is so vague that no individual of ordinary intelligence can possibly know when they are violating Chapter 27," Robert Tyler, general counsel for the Advocates for Faith & Freedom, told county officials in a letter.
"Pursuant to the definition of 'gender identity,' an individual can choose a gender without limitation whatsoever," he said.
Tyler's comments referred to the newly approved county law 27-03, which creates a protected class of citizenry for those individuals who claim a "gender identity" issue.
As WND reported, the proposal generated a groundswell of opposition when it became known.Essentially, the plan opens the doors of all public accommodations, including facilities such as locker rooms, to those who "perceive" they are of that gender.
"From what I'm reading, the person with the gender identity confusion is being protected by what she or he FEELS he or she is.
Thus, we'd have to protect this person's gender based upon what is in his or her MIND. So, if I'm in a bathroom all by myself late at night, and a man walks in, I am supposed to be okay with this? If I'm at a pool, in a women's locker room, and a man walks in – I'm supposed to be okay with this? This is truly unbelievable, and I'm embarrassed that Montgomery County is even spending its time on this piece of nonsense," a resident, identified as "Lisa," wrote to her elected representative on the board.
WND also reported officials for Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays were raising concerns.
"Any time politicians write a law that violates the rights of others by forcibly invading their privacy, and forcing faith-based organizations and small employers to hire cross-dressers is bad law," said Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX.
Tyler told WND that, presuming Ike Leggett, the county executive, signs the plan into law as expected, a lawsuit will be filed.
"We're working on it at this point in time to evaluate it," he said. "We do expect to file a lawsuit, it's just a matter of when." His earlier letter to the county suggesting that the plan be dropped warned it is unconstitutionally vague, infringes on the rights of religious groups and puts the privacy and safety of citizens at risk by allowing peple with a mental disorder to decide which restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities they use.
...county officials boasted of their accomplishment in the plan to "prohibit discrimination against transgender people... primary focus of my bill to expressly prohibit discrimination against transgender citizens in the workplace, the housing market and delivery of services," Trachtenberg said in a statement.
Griggs noted, however, that the American Psychiatric Association classifies gender identity disorder as a treatable mental illness, and Tyler called for county officials to start protecting and representing the citizens in the county.
"The female residents of Montgomery County clearly have a right of privacy that prohibits all persons of the opposite sex 'from using a restroom, locker room, or other similar facility designated for females'. It is ridiculous to place the desires of persons suffering from gender identity disorder in front of the constitutional rights and safety of 99 percent of the residents in Montgomery County," he said...
the plan "will allow males who self identify themselves as females to have open access to ALL women's and girls' rest rooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and showers. In other words, a male teacher or student will be able to use the female restrooms and locker rooms if he thinks he is a female."
"Gender identity nondiscrimination laws such as this one have been used in Canada to force the teaching of the acceptance of homosexuality on Catholic schools. MCPS health classes currently teach our 12-year-olds that 'gender identity is your inner sense of whether you are male or female'," the group said.
Spokeswoman Michelle Turner said it is an issue of modesty, safety and privacy for children.
"The proposed legislation … still includes 'public accommodations' among major areas covered by the non-discrimination bill," she said.
"The Montgomery County Council has voiced callousness and arrogance to the concerns of parents who object. When asked by a mother concerned about her 10-year-old daughter who swims at the Germantown Indoor Pool, where she must undress in front of women since there are no separate changing rooms, if under this law she could be changing next to a person with male genitals, Council member George Leventhal responded via email: 'I cannot absolutely put to rest your concern that girls might find themselves in a locker room or dressing room in the presence of a person who expresses or asserts herself as a woman but who still has male genitals, but based on my own sense of the prevalence of that condition in the population, I think the likelihood of that occurring is remote,'" PFOX said.
This is just the latest battle Griggs and PFOX have encountered in the region. The pro-homosexual group Truth Wins Out earlier accused her of fabricating a report that a "gay" assaulted a volunteer at a county fair booth. Police later confirmed for WND that the incident did happen as Griggs reported.
In fact, police said they located the suspect based on the victim's description and ended up escorting him off the fairgrounds.
PFOX also is engaged in a fight in Montgomery County seeking a court order to halt a public school sex curriculum because it contains "scientifically flawed and politically biased" information.
The organization joined with Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum and the Family Leader Network in filing the request for the court-ordered stay of the program targeting middle school and high school students in the district.
The organizations said the local board, headed by Nancy Navarro, adopted the curriculum that teaches [bleep] sex as unexceptional and "intentionally excludes" warnings issued by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health of the high medical dangers related to those behaviors.
"The curriculum also teaches students that homosexuality is 'innate,' a controversial and unproven theory advanced by gay advocacy groups serving on the Montgomery County School Board's curriculum advisory committee," the groups' statement said.
Edward L. White III, trial counsel with the Thomas More Law Center, a prominent public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is assisting PFOX and the pro-family groups in their lawsuit against the school board.
The curriculum includes lessons intended for eighth-graders and adopts the language and points of emphasis employed by promoters of homosexuality. Also, 10th-graders will be taught about making announcements that they are homosexual and how to use a condom.
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Judge orders homeschoolers into government education Court: Family's religious beliefs 'no evidence' of 1st Amendment violation Posted: February 29, 2008 By Bob Unruh © 2008 WorldNetDaily
A California court has ruled that several children in one homeschool family must be enrolled in a public school or "legally qualified" private school, and must attend, sending ripples of shock into the nation's homeschooling advocates as the family reviews its options for appeal.
The ruling came in a case brought against Phillip and Mary Long over the education being provided to two of their eight children. They are considering an appeal to the state Supreme Court, because they have homeschooled all of their children, the oldest now 29, because of various anti-Christian influences in California's public schools.
The decision from the 2nd Appellate Court in Los Angeles granted a special petition brought by lawyers appointed to represent the two youngest children after the family's homeschooling was brought to the attention of child advocates. "We find no reason to strike down the Legislature's evaluation of what constitutes an adequate education scheme sufficient to promote the 'general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence,'" the court said in the case. "We agree … 'the educational program of the State of California was designed to promote the general welfare of all the people and was not designed to accommodate the personal ideas of any individual in the field of education.'"
The words echo the ideas of officials from Germany, where homeschooling has been outlawed since 1938 under a law adopted when Adolf Hitler decided he wanted the state, and no one else, to control the minds of the nation's youth.
Wolfgang Drautz, consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany, has said "school teaches not only knowledge but also social conduct, encourages dialogue among people of different beliefs and cultures, and helps students to become responsible citizens."
Specifically, the appeals court said, the trial court had found that "keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children's lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents' 'cloistered' setting."
The appeals ruling said California law requires "persons between the ages of six and 18" to be in school, "the public full-time day school," with exemptions being allowed for those in a "private full-time day school" or those "instructed by a tutor who holds a valid state teaching credential for the grade being taught."
The judges ruled in the case involving the Longs the family failed to demonstrate "that mother has a teaching credential such that the children can be said to be receiving an education from a credentialed tutor," and that their involvement and supervision by Sunland Christian School's independent study programs was of no value. Nor did the family's religious beliefs matter to the court.
Their "sincerely held religious beliefs" are "not the quality of evidence that permits us to say that application of California's compulsory public school education law to them violates their First Amendment rights." "Such sparse representations are too easily asserted by any parent who wishes to homeschool his or her child," the court concluded.
The father, Phillip Long, said the family is working on ways to appeal to the state Supreme Court, because he won't allow the pro-homosexual, pro-bisexual, pro-transgender agenda of California's public schools, on which WND previously has reported, to indoctrinate his children.
"We just don't want them teaching our children," he told WND. "They teach things that are totally contrary to what we believe. They put questions in our children's minds we don't feel they're ready for.
"When they are much more mature, they can deal with these issues, alternative lifestyles, and such, or whether they came from primordial slop. At the present time it's my job to teach them the correct way of thinking," he said.
"We're going to appeal. We have to. I don't want to put my children in a public school system that teaches ideologies I don't believe in," he said.
A spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association, one of the world's premiere homeschooling advocacy organizations, said the group's experts were analyzing the impact of the decision.
"It's a very unfortunate decision," he said.
Randy Thomasson, of Campaign for Children and Families, said under California law parents have the legal right to create a private school in their home and enroll their own children.
"Children belong to the parents, not to the state," he said. But he acknowledged that there's a great deal of misinformation about the status of homeschooling in California.
"For years the government school establishment has been lying to parents about the law. Just this week, a Los Angeles Unified school district employee lied to a mother who wanted to homeschool, telling her you must have a license, you must be credentialed and you must follow all the state curriculum. That's three lies in one sentence."
"Now we have judges going crazy and actively separating children from their parents."
A legal outline for parents' homeschool rights in California, published by Family Protection Ministries, confirmed Thomasson's description.
The state's legal options for home educators include establishing a private school in their home by filing a private school affidavit with state regulators or enrolling in private school satellite instruction programs or independent study programs, it said.
The Long family had been involved in such a program with Sunland Christian School, but the appeals court took the extraordinary step of banning the family from being involved in that organization any longer, since it was "willing to participate in the deprivation of the children's right to a legal education."
A number of groups already have assembled in California under the Rescue Your Child slogan to encourage parents to withdraw their children from the state's public school system.
It's because the California Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked together to establish Senate Bill 777 and Assembly Bill 394 as law, plans that institutionalize the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and other alternative lifestyle choices.
"First, [California] law allowed public schools to voluntarily promote homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality. Then, the law required public schools to accept homosexual, bisexual and transsexual teachers as role models for impressionable children. Now, the law has been changed to effectively require the positive portrayal of homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality to 6 million children in California government-controlled schools," said Thomasson.
Even insiders joined in the call for an abandonment of California's public districts. Veteran public school teacher Nadine Williams of Torrance said the sexual indoctrination laws have motivated her to keep her grandchildren out of the very public schools she used to support.
The Discover Christian Schools website reports getting thousands of hits daily from parents and others seeking information about alternatives to California's public schools.
WND reported leaders of the campaign called California Exodus say they hope to encourage parents of 600,000 children to withdraw them from the public districts this year.
The new law itself technically bans in any school texts, events, class or activities any discriminatory bias against those who have chosen alternative sexual lifestyles, said Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Institute.
There are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs, however. Offenders will face the wrath of the state Department of Education, up to and including lawsuits.
"SB 777 will result in reverse discrimination against students with religious and traditional family values. These students have lost their voice as the direct result of Gov. Schwarzenegger's unbelievable decision. The terms 'mom and dad' or 'husband and wife' could promote discrimination against homosexuals if a same-sex couple is not also featured," she said.
Karen England, chief of CRI, told WND that the law is not a list of banned words, including "mom" and "dad." But she said the requirement is that the law bans discriminatory bias and the effect will be to ban such terminology.
"Having 'mom' and 'dad' promotes a discriminatory bias. You have to either get rid of 'mom' and 'dad' or include everything when talking about [parental issues]," she said. "They [promoters of sexual alternative lifestyles] do consider that discriminatory."
The California plan still is facing a court challenge on its constitutionality and a possible vote of the people of California if an initiative effort succeeds.
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Sinfoul Youth Wingers
As was true in both Orwell's Nightmare of '1984', and was made real in the Nazi Ephebophile Reality of Hitler's Homosex Dream - where the Boy Scouts are destroyed and a New Youth movement committed to Hitler's love for Homo-Anal Buggery instituted...
It is often given to the 'children' to lead the way... In informing on their parents and teachers to the Gestapo / Thought Police.
All done with appropriate guidance from more experienced amd tolerant 'Chicken Hawks' like Ernst Rohm and his stormtrooper pals (and their modern heirs in the radical homosex lobby) of course.
The more things change - the more the Thought Police try to warp them in to New Evils, based on the same old perversions.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Check out "The Local - School slammed for gay slur"
14th November 2007 http://www.thelocal.se/9098/
A school in Stockholm with a Christian profile has received a rap on the knuckles from school authorities for teaching children that homosexuality is sinful...
Having heard the headmaster say that homosexual activity was sinful, the youth wing of RFSL - the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights - reported the school to the education agency..
... head teacher's comments on homosexuality were incompatible with the anti-discrimination policy laid down in the national curriculum.
The agency has given the school until November 30th to show what measures it has taken to rectify the situation.
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CRI: Join Team 777 Today!
The Save our Kids campaign has an exciting opportunity for volunteers! Help save our innocent children from social indoctrination by joining Team 777 today!
Team 777 is looking for 777 individuals or churches to commit to gathering 1,000 petition signatures. With 777 activists obtaining 1,000 signatures, we will be assured of meeting our goal.
Members of Team 777 will receive a thank you gift once they turn in their first batch of petitions. This special apparel will communicate your commitment to preserving and defending our values.
We cannot do this alone. We need your help and joining Team 777 is one of the best ways to make this referendum campaign a success!
Most initiatives pay signature gatherers, which takes millions of dollars. We don't have the war chest that other initiatives have to pay for gathering signatures. However, we do have dedicated volunteers and the church community. We must have California churches on board in order to meet our deadline for signature gathering.
Campaign Update
Campaign centers are now ready to begin distributing petitions. We have 13 centers dispersed throughout the state. If there is a center near you, please visit the location to pick up and drop off petitions. Thank you to the many dedicated activists who have graciously opened their businesses and churches to assist in this effort.
If you have used your petitions and need more, but are not close to a campaign center, please go to www.SaveOurKids.net and order more. They will be mailed to you immediately.
We continue to receive amazing stories from across the state about volunteers gathering signatures. Thank you for your outstanding work! Together, we will achieve our goal and save our kids!
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Can I ask you who is the "Lord" of this Team 777, what is His/Her Name?
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IVA:
In a big win for the pro-family movement, the U.S. Congress has dropped legislation from a defense appropriations bill that would have expanded laws against hate crimes to include homosexuals as a specifically protected class, which would have turned the bill essentially into a thought crimes bill and threatened religious liberty and free speech rights.
Said one House Democratic aide, "We don't have the votes. We're about 40 votes short, not four or six." (Homosexual hate crime bill starved of votes in the House - - The Washington Times
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Homosexual Lobby
Anxiously Awaiting SB 777
While the SB 777 referendum campaign continues to surge forward with increasing strength, the homosexual lobby is busy preparing schools for the new law's implementation.
Last week the Gay Straight Alliance, a homosexual rights group that promotes their agenda in schools, sent out an e-mail instructing their California chapters on how to integrate homosexual history into curriculum. In October-the same month that SB 777 was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger-each GSA school unit received a "campaign guide" entitled "Sharing Our Stories: The Fight for LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum". This guide was designed to assist students in lobbying their peers and school district to include homosexual, transgender, transsexual and bisexual figures in school textbooks.
In the guide students are told that insisting on LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) history in school instruction "helps to create schools where students feel safer and more supported." The GSA e-mail cites the California Safe Schools Coalition's assertion that students feel safer when LGBTQ history was included in their classroom instruction. Interestingly, the California Safe Schools Coalition was established in 2000 by AB 537 (Kuehl), the anti-discrimination law that purportedly ended harassment and discrimination of homosexual students.
When AB 537 was passed, the law made clear that it would not apply to school instruction or school activities. Obviously SB 777 was written to now include instruction and activities. These groups are already planning the curriculum before the law even takes effect.
In fact, curriculum inclusion is not sufficient. According to GSA, "tolerance education is an important first step, but we need to push further." Their goal is to "Infuse LGBTQ curriculum into history, social science, and literature classes."
Utilizing the slogan "Let's Set the Record Straight: History Isn't", students are given several action steps to take in accomplishing their "curriculum campaign" goal. These include monitoring classroom instruction to see if LGBTQ individuals are discussed or "made invisible"; taking over class to present LGBTQ history lessons; contacting textbook companies directly about including LGBTQ history; and lobbying school districts to change curriculum.
Students are also encouraged to promote LGBTQ history month in October. Keep in mind that schools are already participating in November's Transgender Day of Remembrance and April's Gay Day of Silence. To promote these "awareness" campaigns, GSA suggests reading "queer poets" poetry over the school intercom during homeroom and lunch. They also recommend organizing a school-wide assembly to hear about LGBTQ history.
The homosexual lobby is active and ambitious. They already have GSA units in many California schools that will oversee the implementation of SB 777.
As evidenced in the GSA e-mail, their agenda is inclusion in school instruction and activities, regardless of their public assertions of "streamlining" anti-discrimination policies in the law.
The SB 777 referendum is our opportunity to take a stand against the indoctrination of innocent school children.
No child should be discriminated against or harassed. But incorporating discussions of and instruction about controversial lifestyles in the classroom does not accomplish this goal. Instead, it undermines parental authority over children's moral upbringing.
We recognize the true agenda of such radical groups and implore you to join us in the campaign to Save Our Kids.
LGBT Inclusion in Curriculum
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Activist 'banned for life' from criticizing homosexuality - Offending pamphlets quoted ad: 'Man seeking boys ... age not so relevant' 12/15/07 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59217
A lifetime ban on public criticism of homosexuality was upheld against a Catholic activist in Canada by his province's superior court.
Bill Whatcott was fined 17,500 Canadian dollars by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in a complaint by four homosexuals
who charged he "injured" their "feelings" and "self respect" in pamphlets denouncing the "gay lifestyle" as immoral and dangerous, Lifesite News reported.
Saskatchewan's Court of Queens Bench, which hears criminal and civil
cases, upheld a 2006 decision Tuesday by the provincial Human Rights
Commission.
"This fine is for telling the truth [that] homosexual sodomites can
change their behavior and be set free from their sin and depravity
through the forgiveness of sins and shed blood of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ," Whatcott said. A licensed practical nurse, Whatcott regularly campaigns against the political movement that is rapidly advancing homosexual rights in the Canadian legal system, LifeSiteNews said.
"Shame on the Saskatchewan Court of Queens Bench for pandering to homosexual activism and ignoring the truth," he said.
The provincial Human Rights Commission noted Whatcott was "ordered to
discontinue distributing any materials that promote hatred against
people because of their sexual orientation."
The tribunal held that "preventing the distribution of such materials was a reasonable limit on Whatcott's right to freedom of religion and expression as guaranteed by Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
Whatcott says his pamphlets used "verbatim" a text from a classified personal advertisement in a local homosexual publication that said, "Man seeking boys … age not so relevant."
LifeSiteNews noted Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren criticized the tribunals as "kangaroo courts" and "star chambers" with "quasi- legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country ... in which the defendant's right to due process is withdrawn."
A petition to Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being circulated calling for abolishment, or at least curtailment, of the powers of the commissions.
Last month, a Canadian political party leader's posting of a WND
article on homosexuality brought him before the country's Human
Rights Commission to face accusations he was motivated by "hate and
defamation."
Ron Gray of the Christian Heritage Party said he was told directly by
an employee of the Human Rights Commission that the Canadian Human
Rights Act, under which he is being accused, is "about censorship."
Two of the three complaints filed by Edmonton man Rob Wells relate to
the posting of an April 2002 WND story titled "Report: Pedophilia
more common among 'gays.'"
The third complaint against Gray is for several commentaries he wrote
and distributed to party members. One, titled "Sitcom prophet,"
compared the current climate of debate about homosexuality in Canada
to the "Cone of Silence" in the 1960s-era television comedy "Get
Smart."
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Catholic Activist "Banned for life" From Publicly Criticising Homosexuality
Saskatchewan Court Upholds Human Rights Commission Ruling
By Hilary White REGINA, Saskatchewan, December 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission's decision to impose a "lifetime" ban on a local Catholic's freedom to publicly criticise homosexuality, was upheld this week in its entirety by Saskatchewan Court of Queens Bench.
Bill Whatcott, a licensed practical nurse who lives in Saskatchewan, is a campaigner against the homosexual political movement that is sweeping the Canadian legal system. In 2006, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) ordered Whatcott to pay $17,500 Cn. to four complainants who complained that their "feelings" and "self-respect" were "injured" by Whatcott's pamphlets denouncing the "gay lifestyle" as immoral and dangerous.
Whatcott responded to the decision, "This fine is for telling the truth [that] homosexual sodomites can change their behaviour and be set free from their sin and depravity through the forgiveness of sins and shed blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."
He added, "Shame on the Saskatchewan Court of Queens Bench for pandering to homosexual activism and ignoring the truth."
In its 2005-2006 Annual Report, the Commission noted that Whatcott was "ordered to discontinue distributing any materials that promote hatred against people because of their sexual orientation."
The tribunal held that "preventing the distribution of such materials was a reasonable limit on Whatcott's right to freedom of religion and expression as guaranteed by section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms".
Whatcott appealed the decision to the Court of Queen's Bench and received the news on Tuesday that the court would not overturn the HRC's ruling.
Whatcott himself says he was fined for his pamphlets that used "verbatim" a text from a classified personal advertisement in a local homosexual publication that ran, "Man seeking boys.... age not so relevant".
Canadians concerned about what they see as the erosion of basic democratic freedoms are calling for a stop to the extra-judicial powers of the Human Rights Commissions in which the usual rules for due process of law do not apply.
In connection to a similar Human Rights Commission case currently levelled by the Canadian Islamic Congress against the popular conservative political author Mark Steyn, Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren wrote this week that freedom of speech is "the most fundamental right," and that the Human Rights Tribunals represent a significant threat to democratic freedoms.
Freedom of speech, he wrote, is "the queen bee in the hive, as it were. Every other freedom depends on this freedom. Take it away, and we no longer have a free country".
"Like so much in civil society, we put up with it because the alternative is worse, and we'd rather cope with free speech, than with the free intimidation that results from its suppression."
Warren voiced the concerns of many in Canada who believe the Human Rights Commissions' powers and zeal for the far left ideological position makes them an ideal vehicle for the suppression of basic democratic freedoms.
Warren blasted the Human Rights Tribunals, calling them "kangaroo courts" and "star chambers" with "quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country... in which the defendant's right to due process is withdrawn."
"They reach judgements on the basis of no fixed law. Moreover, 'the process is the punishment' in these star chambers -- for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing."
Conservatives in Canada are supporting a petition, addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to abolish or at least curtail the powers of the Human Rights Commissions.
Sign the petition to stop the Human Rights Commissions:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/a-free-dominion-against-...
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Sask. Judge Dismisses Appeal of Pro-Life Demonstrator
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06072004.html
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Enter now the mysterious "Q." The "Q" stands for "Questioning," and its new inclusion in the acronym of sexual immorality is quite telling, as it makes remarkably clear what we've been saying all along, that homosexual behavior is just that-behavior. Do an internet search on LBGTQ, and you'll see that the "Q" is now standard phraseology at our country's educational institutions, including: Brown, Arizona State, Colgate, George Mason, Toronto, Wisconsin, Chicago, Hawaii, Manhattan, North Carolina, and Georgetown, just to name a few. See also the Wikipedia definition, where other acronyms like LGBTQQ, LGBTQ2, LGBU, LGBTI, LGBTT, LGBTA, LGBTTTIQQA, FABGLITTER, etc., are fully described. Like Pinocchio's nose, the acronym grows longer with each added lie.
Despite having lost every marriage battle that they've fought in the United States, save one, the advocates of homosexual behavior are transitioning directly to their ultimate goal - normalization of their behavior. Clearly, the inclusion of the "Q" is an admission that those who self-identify as "gay" or "lesbian" weren't born that way. Science never has shown it, and never will. Thus, because science can't redeem their unredeemable behavior, the next best thing is for the advocates of homosexual behavior to try make the behavior itself worthy of redemption. If all of the G, L, B, T, and Q letters can all be placed into a cloak of legal protection, anything goes. Since you can't be born a "homosexual," if the "Q" accomplishes its mission, advocates of homosexual behavior no longer have to worry about proving to the world that they were "born that way." Rather, they've accomplished what they want-freedom to do what they want to do without fear of reprisal, social judgment, or denial of access to anything they want.
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Another Milestone Reached!
Special Note: Please forward this e-mail to all of your California friends and associates. This will help us get out the news about the SB 777 referendum petitions!
Save Our Kids is thrilled to announce that we have
We know that we have enough petitions circulating to qualify the referendum, but we need them returned ASAP so that we can continue counting and preparing the petitions for submission to the 58 counties.
To date, we have mailed more than 400,000 petitions! With space for 10 signatures each, that equals 4 million signatures!
We have done all that we can do on our end-now it is up to the People to gather signatures and mail them back. Please begin mailing your petitions right away! Each and every signature will be vital to getting the 500,000 signatures we need.
Deadline Confusion
There has been some confusion about the actual deadlines for returning petitions. Here are the official dates:
December 21st: Last day to request petitions from www.SaveOurKids.net
January 4th: Last day for campaign to receive petitions (they must be mailed a few days prior to ensure their arrival by the 4th!)
Please keep working on gathering signatures until we reach our January 4th deadline!
We need every single signature we can get to qualify this referendum.
Save Our Kids Weekend!
With only a few weeks left in the campaign, Save Our Kids is encouraging families, Bible study groups, political organizations and churches to make one last push for signatures. December 28th-30th is Save Our Kids weekend!
During the Christmas and New Year season, many of our fellow citizens will be out at shopping centers and stores. This is the perfect time to set up a table to gather signatures. In just a few hours, you can make a huge difference by informing your fellow citizens and gathering signatures.
Churches should host a petition drive this weekend to inform their members about this assault on traditional values. Save Our Kids has several resources to assist churches in hosting a petition drive. So far, churches have been an integral part of this effort. These beacons of light can push us across the finish line if they continue to host petition drives.
We need your help to make this campaign a success!
We are continually amazed by the dedication of our pro-family allies. Average citizens are answering the call to protect and defend the innocence of our children. Thank you for partnering with us in this historic effort to preserve our values!
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MassResistance
Lawyers for the Lexington Public Schools and David Parker's lawyers have submitted their final briefs to the federal appeals court in Boston.
The hearing for the oral arguments took place on Dec. 5 before the 3-judge appeals panel. Now that the final briefs have been submitted, with each side summing up their positions, a decision is expected within a few weeks.The three-judge federal appeals panel is now preparing to decide the fate of this landmark federal civil rights lawsuit about schools teaching homosexuality in elementary school without parents' knowledge or consent. At issue is whether the ruling by Federal Judge Mark Wolf dismissing the case -- whether that ruling stands, or if not, what happens next.
Last February, Wolf wrote a chilling, outrageous ruling dismissing the case and going further, giving schools virtually unlimited ability to normalize and promote homosexuality in classrooms. The Parkers are appealing this ruling. They seek to have the ruling vacated, and for the trial to be allowed to begin in federal court.
Over the summer, several pro-homosexual groups submitted amicae briefs to accompany the initial briefs by the two parties.
(As we've discussed. There's still an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to this whole thing. Think about it: A panel of federal court judges is seriously and dispassionately deciding whether it's proper to normalize issues homosexual behavior and cross-dressing to elementary school children without their parents' knowledge or consent. In fact, this is madness. It's reminiscent of something out of Red China's insane "Cultural Revolution" from the 1960s.)
Nevertheless, the briefs from each side state their positions pretty clearly:
The schools' brief
Read the school's brief here (Adobe Acrobat format).
The school's legal team consists of lawyers from two big Boston downtown firms, plus the ACLU of Massachusetts and the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a powerful non-profit homosexual law firm.
The school's brief is a virtual blueprint for using the legal process to push homosexuality in the schools. Much of the foundation has been already replicated in other states:
- They make extensive use of "case law" to "prove" that what they are doing is legal and necessary. If anything, this illustrates that if you have the time to do enough research, it's possible to find shreds of case law to back up literally anything. It's quite eerie.
- When the Legislature slipped the term "sexual orientation" into the anti-discrimination and education laws a decade ago, almost no one said much. But now, the homosexual groups are using it as a legal battering ram to force homosexuality into the schools, and punish anyone who disagrees.
- The terms "tolerance" and "diversity" into have found their way into the education system's official goals for what constitutes good citizenship. The schools are now stating certain case law gives them the right to "teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy." Again, the homosexual agenda finds its way in, against parents' wishes.
- We've heard this argument before -- teachers should make the final decisions regarding teaching materials. They say:
- They admit that they intend to push the homosexual agenda into various subjects in elementary school. Thus, they claim it would be "impractical" to allow parents to remove their children.
- And, of course, there's the absurd argument that giving rights to parents would "harm" other students.
- Finally, in their brief they insist that the age of the students doesn't make any difference when it comes to homosexuality or parents' rights. Elementary school-age kids are the same as high-school kids in this regard, they state.
Welcome to the brave new world! From a legal standpoint, only the Parkers and Wirthlins are standing their way. If they have their way in this federal appeals court, watch out America!"The appellate record reveals that Massachusetts law prohibits public schools from discriminating based on sex or sexual orientation, and requires schools to implement curricula aimed at encouraging respect for the human and civil rights of all individuals regardless of, inter alia, sexual orientation. The record further reveals that the defendants' use of the three 'objectionable' books is consistent with the above-mentioned state mandates. The defendants have the First Amendment right to use these books regardless of whether it is a part of the state's core curriculum and regardless of the plaintiffs' allegations of indoctrination."
"Whether King & King or the other books are the most suitable or age-appropriate materials available for teaching Lexington schoolchildren about issues of tolerance and diversity necessarily involves pedagogical and political issues beyond the ken of this Court."
"Under plaintiffs' view, many subjects offered at Estabrook Elementary School may include course work involving 'sexuality, gender identity, and marriage construct.' For example, an art teacher may ask students in art class to draw pictures of their families and describe them to the class in an effort to discuss different types of families. If a student in the art class has same-sex parents, the teacher would have to anticipate the day on which that student would present her drawing to the class, remove students such as the Parker and Wirthlin children from the classroom, create an alternative lesson plan for those students, and make sure another teacher is available to supervise the students removed from the art class. Or a social studies teacher may wish to teach about the civil rights movement, which, in turn, gives rise to a discussion about whether discrimination against gays or lesbians is prohibited. If plaintiffs should obtain the injunctive relief they seek, the social studies teacher would have to anticipate that a student may ask such a question and give parents notice of the potential discussion topic. As the above examples illustrate, the injunctive relief plaintiffs seek is not only burdensome, but also impractical. "
"Further, granting injunctive relief to the plaintiffs will be harmful to students of same-sex parents, and possibly violate those students' constitutional rights. Specifically, students of same-sex parents may feel devalued if other students need to leave the classroom before they can speak about their families. Public schools have a duty not to impinge on the rights of other students." Also . . .
"If Cindy's parents are gay, what lessons does she learn if several of her classmates are escorted from the classroom by a public school official whenever she discusses her home life? Certainly, Cindy does not learn about the goals of tolerance and diversity."
The Parkers' brief
Read the Parkers' brief here (Adobe Acrobat format).
The Parkers' lawyers do a good job of not backing down and stating the obvious rather than subtly implying it. A few quotes from the brief:
What they agree on
Interestingly, both sides agree -- and spend a great deal of time making the point in their briefs -- that the judges should make a decision one way or the other on the motion to dismiss. The judges could choose to "abstain" or "certify", which would force the issue into the state courts, with a possible return to the federal level at a later date. The first portion of both briefs argues against doing that.
What's next
The judges are expected to announce their decision within a few weeks, although there is no official timetable. They could:
1. Sustain Wolf's dismissal. In that case, the only recourse to the Parkers is to go to the US Supreme Court. This is what the school wants.
2. Vacate Wolf's dismissal and send it back to federal court for the trial to begin. This is what the Parkers want.
3. "Abstain" and send it to the state superior court because of the issues surrounding the state notification law or Mass. civil rights statute, with a possible return.
4. "Certify" it by sending to the Mass. SJC for an opinion, with a possible return.
We'll keep you informed!
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Gut and Amend the Bait
In Weimar Kalifornia the tactic discussed below is known as "Gut and Amend" - and is frequently used for 'Pander or Perish' Bills by the Democrap Power Machine in a legislature truly not fit to pass gas...
Where it is not only perfectly legal - but quite the rage amongst all the Hate Baiting Lavender Mafiosa and their Coprophile Allies.
Ohso
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Bait and Switch Doesn't Fool Court (FRC)
In a ruling that reads more like a reprimand of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Commonwealth Court has struck down a five-year-old expansion of the state's "hate crimes" laws by a 4-1 vote.
The suit was brought by Repent America, whose members were arrested in 2004 after they showed up in opposition to a Philadelphia street festival for homosexuals.
Fearing that they would be arrested again for future protests, they argued that the law was unconstitutional--not only because it creates special protections for people based on their sexual orientation, but also because of the political stunt pulled by the legislature to enact it.
Initially, the bill was meant to punish agricultural vandalism, but liberals gutted the proposal at the last minute to include controversial protections for homosexuals.
As such, the court ruled that it violated Article III of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which says that a bill cannot be rewritten in the course of its passage.
"No bill shall be altered or amended... as to change its original purpose." Although state laws typically "enjoy a strong presumption of constitutionality," as Judge James Colins wrote, the legislature attempted to impose the policy on voters without their knowledge or input. We applaud the court for using the state's Constitution, not the prevailing political winds, as its guide in overturning this outrageous abuse of power.
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Church Petition Drives
Churches are an integral part of our communities. They are a beacon of light that provide love, guidance and support. Churches also play a very important role in informing and educating their members. The Save Our Kids campaign is blessed to partner with many denominations throughout our state in dispersing petitions. Thank you to the courageous pastors and church volunteers who are working so hard on the referendum campaign!
If your church has not yet signed up to assist in the campaign, we have some wonderful resources help you get started.
First, Concerned Women for America of California has produced a special flyer on "How to Conduct a Petition Drive at your Church". This easy to follow guide describes specific steps your church can take to gather SB 777 referendum petition signatures.
Second, Concerned Women for America has also produced a brochure called "Political Guidelines for Churches and Pastors". This brochure is another resource that will inform and empower pastors. Churches have a great deal of liberty and this brochure will explain their rights and responsibilities.
Third, Pacific Justice Institute has prepared a letter to pastors that informs them of their rights to participate in the SB 777 referendum campaign.
We recommend printing these three resources and taking them to your pastor. If he has any questions, feel free to contact either the Save our Kids campaign or Pacific Justice Institute.
Keep in mind that if we get 777 churches to gather 1,000 signatures, we will certainly qualify the referendum for the ballot.
Please encourage your church to be one of those 777 churches that stands up for righteousness and truth in our state.
Church Resources
Constitutional Protections for Pastors
Pacific Justice Institute Letter to Pastors
Join Team 777 Today!
The Save our Kids campaign has an exciting opportunity for volunteers! Help save our innocent children from social indoctrination by joining Team 777 today!
Team 777 is looking for 777 individuals or churches to commit to gathering 1,000 petition signatures. With 777 activists obtaining 1,000 signatures, we will be assured of meeting our goal.
Members of Team 777 will receive a thank you gift once they turn in their first batch of petitions. This special apparel will communicate your commitment to preserving and defending our values.
We cannot do this alone. We need your help and joining Team 777 is one of the best ways to make this referendum campaign a success!
Most initiatives pay signature gatherers, which takes millions of dollars. We don't have the war chest that other initiatives have to pay for gathering signatures. However, we do have dedicated volunteers and the church community. We must have California churches on board in order to meet our deadline for signature gathering.
If you or your church would like to join Team 777 click here.
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Petition Centers
Campaign centers are now ready to begin distributing petitions. We have 13 centers dispersed throughout the state. If there is a center near you, please visit the location to pick up and drop off petitions. Thank you to the many dedicated activists who have graciously opened their businesses and churches to assist in this effort.
Petition Centers
Christian Educators Assn. Int'l
227 N. Magnolia Ave. Ste 2,
Anaheim, Ca. 92801
8:30 - 4:30 M-F
Gardner Construction
920 E. Truxtun
Bakersfield, CA 93385
Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills
4201 Eyucalyptus Street
Chino, CA 91710
Hours: 9-5, Tues - Fri
Calvary Chapel, Corona
130 W. Chase Drive
Corona, CA 92882
Office Hours: M-F, 9-5p.m.
57th Assembly District Republican Headquarters
200 East Rowland
Covina, CA 91723
Mon - Thurs. 10 -1
Taxfighters for Anderson
500 Fesler Street, #204
El Cajon, CA 92020
Calvary Chapel Hidden Valley
2449 S Centre City Parkway
Escondido, CA 92025
Tuesday through Friday 9-5 and Sunday from 8-12
Los Osos Christian Fellowship
1333 7th Street
Los Osos, CA 93402
Office Hours: 10-3 M-Thur
Jamison Furniture Shop
301 Maze Blvd.
Modesto, CA 95351
Hearing Aid Center
1804 N. Orange Grove
Pomona, CA 91767
Capitol Four Square Church
2418 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95816
North Park Christian Fellowship
2901 North Park Way
San Diego, CA 92104
New Community Church
165 Eucalyptus Ave.
Vista, CA 92084
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Stop SB 777
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
Thanksgiving week is here and the Save Our Kids campaign is certainly giving thanks for you!
Due to the commitment of our faithful supporters, this campaign continues to power forward, despite all the odds. Our staff marvels at the enormous groundswell this referendum has produced. We have much to be grateful for this week, especially the awakening and activism of California's pro-family citizens. As the quote from Edmund Burke admonishes, the good people of California must rise up to defeat the triumph of evil in our schools.
Here are a few updates on the campaign:
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Remember to send in your petitions by the December 10th deadline! Our absolute deadline is January 4th but we need the petitions ASAP. When the petitions arrive in our office, our volunteers must sort them by county before we turn them in to the county of of elections. This will take many hours and volunteers so we need petitions returned quickly.
* Make sure you have some petitions at Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday. Your family and friends may not have heard about the SB 777 referendum and it is our responsibility to educate our fellow citizens. The main stream media will not cover this important effort so it's up to us to inform others.
Keep in mind that for each petition, signers must be registered to vote in the same county. You may need several petitions for family members from different counties.
* If you need some last minute petitions for Thanksgiving on Thursday or church on Sunday, visit one of our petitions centers. See the bottom of this email for a lsit of petition centers.
* If you run out of petitions, DO NOT COPY them. Petitions that are copied, stapled or missing pages are INVALID and will not be counted by the Secretary of State. Please go to the Save our Kids web site and request more petitions or visit a local petition center.
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Consider asking your church leadership about joining Team 777. We already have several churches and individuals that have committed to gathering 1,000 signatures...
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No Miracle on This Street (FRC)
Philadelphia Mayor John Street is slamming the door on the Boy Scouts this holiday season, all while he is putting out the welcome mat for homosexual activists.
Yesterday I talked about a triumph over unconstitutional hate crime laws in Pennsylvania. However, that victory happened despite the city mayor's efforts to promote the homosexual lifestyle at the cost of religious liberty and freedom.
Philadelphia has given the local Boy Scouts chapter until December 3 to renounce their belief that it is morally wrong to have homosexual scoutmasters, or the city will break a longstanding lease on the city-owned facilities the local chapter rents.
Mayor Street has made it clear that the faith behind the Boy Scout policy is not his concern, and neither is the safety of the children whom the Boy Scouts implemented the policy to protect.
If you need to know more of where the Philly Mayor's sympathies lie, just look for him this Saturday at City Hall in Philadelphia, where he will be presiding over a same-sex commitment ceremony.
While Philadelphia might be known as the City of Brotherly Love - that love is not shared for the good work of the Boy Scouts.
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Old Time Media Ms.Andry
Old Media MISANDRY - the Hatred of Men, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality that characterizes our 'watchdogs' of the Fourth Estate (executive, legislative, judicial & tabloid branches) of government(whose only checks and balances at the bank), plays out its ugly spin in the recent stories about the Attack on the Boy Scouts by Radical Homosex activists.
The outline from the IVA and linked excerpt from Towhall help debunk the current Old Media Spin (including a recent AP / MediaNews Propaganda piece) on this Attack, which 'reporting' reads more like an invitation to a visit a Homosex Cannibal Soup Kitchen run by the local 'Pander or Perish' Society, either as a Diner or Dinner - depending on how 'tolerant' the chefs decide you are.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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The local Scouts, who serve 64,000 mostly minority boys in Philadelphia and in two adjoining counties, had an agreement to lease the building for a dollar a year. Urged on by Diaz, the City Council on May 31 invoked a “sexual orientation†law and reneged on the agreement.
Here’s how the Post summarized the city’s crackdown: “The confrontation between the city and the nation’s third largest Scouts chapter has been building for four years, with each side blaming the other for backing out of previous agreements and for escalating tensions.†So who’s the bully? Egged on by local homosexual activists, city officials are clearly the aggressors, not the Scouts. But the Post’s description is a classic example of moral equivalence, in which aggressor and victim are co-belligerents.
The Post also noted that the city “has invited the Boy Scouts to remain in the nearly 100-year-old building as paying tenants.†“Invited?†That’s a little like saying a mugger “has invited†his victim to remain unharmed as long as he forks over his wallet. Here are a few things the Post story left out:
· The architect of the harassment against the Scouts, City Solicitor Diaz, is openly homosexual, as has been reported in the Philadelphia press.
· The Scouts built the building with their own money, and then gave it to the city in 1928.
· The Scouts had a lease “in perpetuity†with the city, an agreement the City Council broke.
· The Scouts bar openly homosexual Scoutmasters and members for moral reasons and for the sake of protecting young boys from possible harm, not because they are motivated by bigotry or prejudice. The Post article read as if the Scouts have no rational reason for wanting to determine whether prospective leaders or members are attracted sexually to males.
· The national Boy Scouts of America organization gets no ink to defend itself...
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Save Our Kids Update
Special Note: Please forward this e-mail to all of your California friends and associates. This will help us get out the news about the SB 777 referendum petitions!
Overview of SB 777
As average citizens become aware of the SB 777 referendum, they have several questions that we would like to answer in order to further educate and inform.
Authored by lesbian state senator Sheila Kuehl, and signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senate Bill 777 prohibits any classroom instruction or school-sponsored activities that "promote a discriminatory bias" against homosexuals, transsexuals, bisexuals, transgenders and other controversial lifestyles.
This means equal time instruction about these lifestyles for children as young as 5. It would "promote bias" against homosexuals to only discuss heterosexual families. Students with religious or traditional values will be victims of reverse discrimination if they voice their opinions at school. This is one of the most outrageous assaults on traditional families values that we have witnessed in California. The SB 777 referendum will "refer" the bill to California voters and ask them to overturn this shocking new law.
Major Milestone Reached!
Save Our Kids is thrilled to announce that we have already counted 100,000 signatures! Our volunteers are working around the clock to continue counting the petitions we receive in the mail every day. We know that we have enough petitions circulating to qualify the referendum, but we need them returned ASAP so that we can continue counting and preparing the petitions for submission to the Secretary of State.
To date, we have mailed more than 400,000 petitions! With space for 10 signatures each, that equals 4 million signatures!
We have done all that we can do on our end-now it is up to the People to gather signatures and mail them back.
Please begin mailing your petitions right away! Each and every signature will be vital to getting the 500,000 signatures we need.
Deadline Confusion
There has been some confusion about the actual deadlines for returning petitions. Here are the official dates:
Please keep working on gathering signatures until we reach our January 4th deadline! We need every single signature we can get to qualify this referendum.
Save Our Kids Weekend!
With only a few weeks left in the campaign, Save Our Kids is encouraging families, Bible study groups, political organizations and churches to make one last push for signatures. December 28th-30th is Save Our Kids weekend!
During the Christmas and New Year season, many of our fellow citizens will be out at shopping centers and stores. This is the perfect time to set up a table to gather signatures. In just a few hours, you can make a huge difference by informing your fellow citizens and gathering signatures.
Churches should host a petition drive this weekend to inform their members about this assault on traditional values. Save Our Kids has several resources to assist churches in hosting a petition drive. So far, churches have been an integral part of this effort. These beacons of light can push us across the finish line if they continue to host petition drives.
We need your help to make this campaign a success!
We are continually amazed by the dedication of our pro-family allies. Average citizens are answering the call to protect and defend the innocence of our children. Thank you for partnering with us in this historic effort to preserve our values!
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Please forward to your California friends
In response to radical sexual indoctrination coming into all California government schools, a concerned grandmother is urging mothers and fathers of public school students to keep their kids home Nov. 28 and 29.
Last month, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 777 (transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual indoctrination of schoolchildren through mandatory changes to all "instruction" and every school "activity") and AB 394 (transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual indoctrination of students, parents, and teachers via "anti-harassment" training). These new laws have turned "public" schools against parents and the innocence of children. Read how bad SB 777 is by connecting the legal dots.
This transsexual-bisexual-homosexual "education" mandate will impact children as young as five years old in California government schools. There is no opt-out for parents, teachers, schools, or school districts. Effective in January, SB 777 and AB 394 will be enforced by government lawyers from the California Department of Education and by aggressive attorneys representing homosexual-bisexual-transsexual organizations.
Campaign for Children and Families likes the idea of this two-day boycott. We hope parents who keep their children home from California "public" schools on Nov. 28 and 29 will:
2. Learn to appreciate having their children at home, enjoy leading them in alternative educational activities, and take this opportunity to plan for homeschooling or private school.
3. Inform other parents that they need to protect their children by exiting government-run schools.
4. Send a message to government officials that a backlash to these radical new laws has begun.*
* The California government school system stands to lose around $100 in average daily attendance funds each day that you keep your child home or do homeschooling or enroll in private school. California state law says children can have three unexcused absences per year without parents being sent a truancy notice; however, this is rarely enforced. To effectively show their displeasure, parents participating in the Nov. 28 and 29 boycott should inform the school why they're protesting AFTER, not before, the two days' absence.
Join the Nov. 28 and 29 boycott led by California parents and grandparents. At the same time, make a plan to rescue your children from the government school system by homeschooling or by enrolling them in private school. This is a critical, urgent matter. SB 777 and AB 394 go into effect in January.
Click here to learn how to protect your children by permanently exiting the government school system
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Important Information on
Save Our Kids Campaign
We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family! After a very short break for the holiday, The Save Our Kids campaign is back in full gear and we have some important information to share with you.
Karen England in Orange County Tomorrow!
Assembly candidate Larry Dick (60th District) is hosting a free reception for the Save our Kids campaign tomorrow evening, November 27th in Newport Beach. Karen England will be the special guest, sharing an insider update on the referendum campaign. Please attend this event to show your support for the Save Our Kids campaign! RSVP required.
Save Our Kids Reception
Tuesday, November 27th
5:30-7:00pm
Buck Johns' Office
3501 Jamboree Road, South Tower, Suite 606
Newport Beach 92660
RSVP to Jane (714) 553-5742, events@larrydickforassembly.com OR Gina (949) 856-2200, ginamalone@inlandenergy.com
Petition Problems
As petitions begin to pour into our office, we have noticed some mistakes that should be addressed so that every petition will be valid.
Please make sure you follow these directions when you send in your petitions:
If you have not yet received petitions you ordered, please return to the web site www.SaveOurKids.net and re-order. Some orders have slipped through the cracks. With our limited staff, we are making every effort to stay on top of getting orders mailed.
Also, some orders on our web site come through with address information missing. If you do not receive your petitions within one week of ordering them, please re-order.
Petition Deadline Approaching
While we encourage supporters to continue ordering and circulating petitions, we must remind you that we need petitions back in our office ASAP. Our staff must organize petitions by county and this will take many days. Our absolute deadline for processing petitions is January 4th. Please send in your petitions as quickly as you can.
SB 777 Church Bulletin Inserts
We are pleased to announce that we now have a church bulletin insert to assist churches in their petition drives. The demand was so great for a bulletin insert, that we have posted it on our web site. Click here to view the insert.
Church Petition Drives
Churches are an integral part of our communities. They are a beacon of light that provide love, guidance and support. Churches also play a very important role in informing and educating their members. The Save Our Kids campaign is blessed to partner with many denominations throughout our state in dispersing petitions. Thank you to the courageous pastors and church volunteers who are working so hard on the referendum campaign!
If your church has not yet signed up to assist in the campaign, we have some wonderful resources help you get started.
First, Concerned Women for America of California has produced a special flyer on "How to Conduct a Petition Drive at your Church". This easy to follow guide describes specific steps your church can take to gather SB 777 referendum petition signatures.
Second, Concerned Women for America has also produced a brochure called "Political Guidelines for Churches and Pastors". This brochure is another resource that will inform and empower pastors. Churches have a great deal of liberty and this brochure will explain their rights and responsibilities.
Third, Pacific Justice Institute has prepared a letter to pastors that informs them of their rights to participate in the SB 777 referendum campaign.
We recommend printing these three resources and taking them to your pastor. If he has any questions, feel free to contact either the Save our Kids campaign or Pacific Justice Institute.
Keep in mind that if we get 777 churches to gather 1,000 signatures, we will certainly qualify the referendum for the ballot.
Please encourage your church to be one of those 777 churches that stands up for righteousness and truth in our state.
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By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer (11-27) SACRAMENTO, (AP) --
A Christian group based in Southern California sued the state Tuesday to overturn a law that prohibits discrimination against gays in schools. Murrieta-based Advocates for Faith and Freedom filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Diego. It was joined by the Northern California chapter of Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based Christian legal group.
The groups filed suit on behalf of several teachers and a student who claim the law, which was passed this year, is unconstitutionally vague and violates student privacy by changing the definition of gender in California's education code. The lawsuit says school administrators will be forced to read the minds of students, teachers and employees "to determine the individual's self-defined sexual identity so as not to inadvertently discriminate against an individual based upon their self-defined sex."
But the bill's author, state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, said the legislation did not change the state's discrimination laws. Rather, she said it clarified existing education law that already prevented discrimination based upon sexual orientation.
orientation. The 1999 law offered protection to students and school employees through California's hate crimes law, but school administrators wanted the education code to be more specific, said Kuehl, a Santa Monica Democrat whoopenly gay.
"There's no change in the law; it was always the same. All of these truly silly claims that they make about what could happen could have been happening over the last eight years and never did," she said. "I think they know they don't have a case. I think it's purely a fundraising mechanism for them." Kuehl was referring to a campaign by the law's opponents, who are collecting signatures to put a referendum on the bill before voters during next June's primary election.
That drive already has stopped the law from taking effect on Jan. 11. Opponents say the law promotes homosexual, bisexual and transgender lifestyles to children.The law offers the same protection to those groups as it does to others protected under the state's hate crimes law. The law prohibits discrimination based on disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or association with any of those groups.
The groups' suit claims the law passed this year "will eliminate the biological understanding of the term 'gender' and will repeal Education Code Section 212, which currently defines 'sex' as 'the biological condition or quality of being a male or female human being.'"
For example, "What will prevent the 250 pound linebacker from deciding he wants to share the locker room with the cheerleaders?" Advocates for Faith and Freedom attorney Robert Tyler said in a statement.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed the bill on Oct. 12, Attorney General Jerry Brown and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell are named as defendants.
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The case, 07-CV2246, is California Education Committee et al v. Schwarzenegger et al.
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As the deadline for returning SB 777 referendum petitions quickly approaches, the campaign is excited to announce that there are 300,000 petitions in circulation. 300,000 petitions equals 3 million signatures.
If only half of the petitions are returned, there will be more than enough signatures to qualify the referendum for the 2008 June ballot.
"We are simply stunned that we have accomplished this with a volunteer-only campaign," explained Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Family Impact and director of the Save Our Kids campaign. "The response to the referendum campaign has been overwhelming. Every day we receive extraordinary stories from volunteers so passionate about this issue that they are standing in front of stores entire weekends to gather signatures. We are humbled by this kind of dedication to our cause."
A volunteer-only referendum campaign has never qualified for the ballot. The historic SB 777 referendum would be the first to accomplish this feat.
"Citizens are literally clamoring for petitions-we are working overtime to keep up with the demand," stated Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Family Impact. "Liberal lawmakers have gone too far with SB 777 and the people are expressing their disgust by joining the referendum campaign."
"Parents do not want homosexual, transsexual and other confusing sexual issues forced upon their 5-year-old children in kindergarten," stated England. "These are issues that should be addressed by parents when children are mature enough to understand. When citizens hear of SB 777's radical agenda, they are outraged."
"In order to meet our January 4th deadline, we need supporters to start sending their petitions back as soon as possible," explained Turney. "It's going to take many volunteers and long hours to organize the petitions by county before we turn them in. We encourage everyone to quickly gather their signatures and return their petitions."
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Splitsville
Now that the Episcopal Schism is in full bloom, with a Church in CA leading the way out from under the Political 'Pander or Perish' dogma enforced by the Radical Minority of the Leftist / Gender Feminist / Homosex Power Structure now claiming to control its assets...
The attack against them by said Radical Homosex Power Structure, particularly in Weimar Kalifornia, will be swift and merciless. In addition to bankrupting the leaders and supporters, the Radical Homosex agenda will also be to take over the Schools and Churches - and either convert them to Political Indoctrination Centers, or sell them for $$$ to fund political indoctrination.
Eventually - the example of Hyper Zealous Thought Policing now found in Canada & 'great' England, will be used to supplant the Former First Amendment in Weimar Amerika (it is already a myth in the peoples republik of Weimar Kalifornia, Der Arnold - Uber Kommandant, Inc.) in favor of mandatory 'tolerance' training.
Ohso
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Pro-Gay Legislation Fuels Concerns Over England's Anti-Faith Trend
By Ethan Cole, Christian Post Reporter 9/9/07 - http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070909/29237_Pro-Gay_Legislation_Fuels_Concerns_Over_England%27s_Anti-Faith_Trend.htm>
The Church of England has expressed fear over a newly proposed law that could allow homosexuals to sue the church if they felt discriminated against by religious authorities. Under the proposal, a gay individual could sue the church if he heard a sermon that condemned homosexuality. The law is meant to protect homosexuals from hostile or humiliating "environments" as part of a revision of discrimination legislations.
"To deny Christians (and followers of other faiths which take a similar view) such a right (to preach on the sin of homosexuality) would amount to an unjustified interference with the right to manifest religious belief," read a statement by the Church of England, according to the Telegraph.
The Church of England in its official statement to the government regarding the bill has said the proposed harassment laws are unnecessary. The Church also said that Christian schools and believers should retain the right to teach on homosexuality according to the school's religious beliefs. The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship in England further warned that an unrepentant, practicing homosexual could sue the church if it refused him membership under the proposed law.
"We have been concerned at what has seemed in some recent debates to be trend towards regarding religion and belief as deserving of a lesser priority in discrimination legislation than the other strands where the law seeks to bring protection," expressed the Church. "This does not amount to, or achieve, equal respect for different religious
groups and those of no religion; rather it amounts to an enforced secularism that fails to respect religious belief at all," according to the Telegraph...
England's anti-discriminatory proposal is similar to the hate crimes debate raging in the United States...
In Europe and Canada, pastors have already been charged and even threatened with imprisonment for preaching against homosexuality under these countries' hate crimes laws.
"This kind of head-on collision occurs when anti-discrimination laws include sexual orientation and behavioral issues," commented Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and one of America's pre-eminent evangelical leaders, in response to England's proposed discriminatory law.
. "This is where the inevitable collision occurs – when religious liberty is sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. This is what the Church of England sees when it speaks of 'a trend towards regarding
religion and belief as deserving of a lesser priority in discrimination legislation,'" he added.
"Religious liberty is meaningless if the pulpit is not free to preach the Word of God, if churches cannot determine their own membership, and if Christians are silenced in their Christian testimony."
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On Hate Crimes, No Love Lost (FRC)
After weeks of political wrangling, the Senate finally cried uncle on an unpopular plan to attach "hate crimes" legislation to the Defense Authorization bill.
By pulling the proposal before members could even vote on it, Democrats demonstrated just how little real support the legislation enjoyed--even among the party faithful.
With Congress a month out from primary season and our troops in desperate need of resources, one Democratic aide told reporters that "hate crimes" had nowhere near the backing it needed to pass. "We're about 40 votes short, not four or six," he said. "Fed up" with the sheer volume of emails they received (which is how one office described your overwhelming response to FRC's alert), the leadership made a wise decision to drop the provision.
Had they not, it would have likely caused serious PR problems--not only for them but for a number of their Democratic colleagues running in the presidential primaries next month.
For our military, however, the damage may have already been done. The months of delay may not have affected Congress, which operates within the safety and comfort our troops provide, but it has certainly affected the ability of our brave men and women to do their jobs.
This should be an embarrassment to the majority. We congratulate Senator Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Reps. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and John Boehner (Ohio), who were instrumental in the provision's defeat--as were those of you who took the time to make your opinions known. Together, we continue to make a major difference!
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Full Kourt Kanuck Press
Well Well... The Kuhnumbchuck chapter of allied Radical Homosex Mau Mau Artistes have not only shut down the last vestige of Free Speech in that ever more foreign Country of Kanada, but also intimidated the 'Free Press' in to Censoring all Ungood Opinions (Meaning Opinions that Do Not Conform to the political agenda of said Radical Homosex Mau Mau Artistes) from print.
Can Weimar Amerika be far behind in shutting down all but favorable statements about the sick hatreds and vile perversions that make up the radical gender feminist / homosex agenda?
Dare We Fall Behind in this great Censorship endeavor??
Is there a chance of what Dr. Strangelove would call a 'tolerance gap'???
Can We allow something as inconsequential as the First Amendment get in the way of mandatory enforcement of 'tolerance' for intrinsically aberrant, degrading and objectively disordered behaviors being forced upon society by small groups of politically connected hyper zealous radicals????
Rhetorical Questions All - and probably of the type that would and should be Censored by a Responsible Kanuck Press - or maybe even just the greedy biased hacks and myopic old media 'watchdogs' at the Times / MediaNews....
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Panel: Writer of anti-gay letter broke human rights law
By Shannon Montgomery 11/20/07 - http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2007/11/30/4698332-cp.html
CALGARY - An Alberta man who has pressed for five years to get an anti-gay letter branded as hate literature won a victory Friday with a human rights commission ruling that said it broke provincial law and may even have played a role in the beating of a gay teenager. The letter, written by Stephen Boissoin and published in the Red Deer Advocate in 2002, carried the headline "Homosexual agenda wicked" and suggested gays were as immoral as pedophiles, drug dealers and pimps.
Darren Lund, a high school teacher in Red Deer at the time, complained to the Alberta Human Rights Commission... In Friday's ruling, commission panel chairwoman Lori Andreachuk said both
Boissoin and the Concerned Christian Coalition to which he belonged broke provincial human rights law by likely exposing gays to hatred and contempt...
The Advocate was not named in the complaint because the newspaper agreed in a previous human rights settlement to amend its policy on letters to include a ban on publishing any that discriminate on the basis of sexual
orientation.
Lund, now a university professor in Calgary, welcomed the ruling, saying it sends a strong message... The panel ruling suggested that human rights law is a reasonable limit on freedom of expression. "It is, in my view, nonsensical to enact broad and paramount and remedial legislation, such as human rights legislation, to protect the dignity and human rights of Albertans, only to have it overridden by the expression of opinion in all forms," Andreachuk wrote.
Jim Blake, the national chairman of what is now Concerned Christians Canada, said the decision sets a worrisome precedent against freedom of speech and religion. "If you really can't speak out your religious viewpoints, that is tyrannical."
Boissoin was trying to help homosexual people through his actions and would never have advocated hurting anyone, Blake said. He also called the link to the assault on the teenager unfair. "I think that's overstating it," he said. "I think that people are directly responsible for their own action...
The commission will hold a hearing at a later date to decide on what remedies it will impose...
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Dominators of Political LIfe
Gay, if not particularly Merry ole England, is in the thrall of some of the most viciously bigoted Thought Police in the western world - and they are joyously planning on draconian Thought Crime Laws that will imprison anyone who dares stand up to the sick hatreds and vile perversions that motivate them.
I think it particularly interesting that Tony Blair (former P.M.) has recently converted to the Catholic Faith - after having Trashed Catholic Teachings while PM... That and the fact that Northern Ireland seems to be a hang out for English Bureaucratic Poufs.... And "Plaid Cymru" Too.
Sounds like a lot of Behgora Ta Me - and Not Much Faith
Ohso
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Who's who in PinkNews.co.uk's list of the most powerful LGBT people in politics 12/27/07 http://www.pinknews.co.uk
The list goes beyond Parliament to journalists and civil servants... From the boyfriends at the heart of British government, to outed politicans, here's the inside knowledge of the 50 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) people who dominate our political life.
Gordon Brown's Director of Political Strategy, Spencer Livermore tops a list that contains 17 Labour party members, 11 Conservatives, seven Liberal Democrats, three greens and one Plaid Cymru....
1. Spencer Livermore, 32, Director of Political Strategy, 10 Downing Street. Top of our list is a non-elected Labour adviser, but Spencer Livermore has power most MPs could only dream of... He speaks to the PM several times a day and is one of the tiny inner circle that Gordon Brown turns to for strategic advice.
His boyfriend Seb Dance (47) is a special advisor to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland...
3. Peter Mandelson, 54, EU Trade Commissioner. The 'Prince of Darkness' is one of the great survivors of British
politics. Hated by many in his own party... a man who has been sacked twice from the Cabinet now controls one of the most important jobs in world trade, bringing his notorious slippery spin tactics to the negotiating table, just as he did as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland...
19. Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, 43, Labour Peer
Waheed Alli is a TV genius, a committed gay rights champion and successful businessman. He even finds time to speak in the Lords... Made a life peer at the age of 34, he was, preposterously, the only openly gay person in the House, as well as the youngest...
Lord Alli is believed to have convinced Tony Blair not to grant an exemption of the Sexual Orientation regulations to Catholic adoption agencies that would have allowed them to ban gay couples from jointly adopting children
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Remember - in the Post Zelda Dyketopia of Weimar Kalifornia, It will soon be a 'Hate Crime' to refuse to believe that the Male Drag Queen camping it up in the Womyn's Room and wiggling his 'Womyn Penis' at the Other Girls...
Isn't Just Another Girl... Just like all the Other Girls, only different.
Not that anyone will be allowed to say so.
Ohso
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Following California's Footsteps-Maryland and Massachusetts
What happens in California doesn't stay in California. (CRI)
Montgomery County (Maryland) Council members recently voted 8-0 in favor of a bill (Bill 23-07) that would open up women's and girls' public restrooms, locker rooms, and showers, to males who self-identify as transgender.
In order to gain access to the ladies' restroom, all a man would have to do is claim that he "feels like he is a female."
Concerned parents seeking support from the Montgomery County Council have reportedly been met with unfeeling arrogance. One mother is especially concerned about her 10-year-old daughter who swims at the Germantown Indoor Pool, where she must undress in front of women since there are no private changing rooms. If Bill 23-07 passes her daughter may be forced to change next to someone with male genitals.
Bill 23-07 follows in the footsteps of California's SB 777 which would, among other things, require girls' public school restrooms to be opened up to boys claiming to be transgender.
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More than 1,000 California "public school" districts will soon receive letters informing them about the new laws they must implement. Among the raft of government mandates are SB 777 and AB 394, which will have the effect of requiring positive promotion of transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality to six million schoolchildren. Unfortunately, you can't depend on a referendum effort (see below) or a lawsuit to solve this problem. As of January 1, 2008, there's only one reliable way to safeguard innocent children's minds: get them out of the government school system and into home schools and church schools as soon as possible.
Campaign for Children and Families makes it simple to alert parents in your community. Please act now. Download, copy, and distribute CCF's Action Flyer to parents in your church and neighborhood, and on the sidewalk outside your local public school as parents drop off and pick up their children. With you and others boldly doing your parts, together we can reach parents up and down California and save hundreds of thousands of children.
> Click here for CCF's Action Flyer
> Gain confidence that it's completely legal to leaflet in your community
> Learn how to exit government schools for homeschooling or private school
How strong or weak is a ballot referendum?
Campaign for Children and Families has been fielding many calls from Californians asking how the school sexual indoctrination laws -- SB 777 and AB 394 -- can be stopped. When they ask about the SB 777 referendum petition that they've been told will solve everything, callers are surprised to learn that a successful referendum would be only a TEMPORARY erasure of the law. The fact is, voting down a bad law through the weak vehicle of a ballot referendum allows Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled Legislature to pass more sexual indoctrination laws as soon as next summer. And you can bet that these anti-family politicians will exploit this weakness to the max.
There are three different kinds of ballot measures that California voters can initiate:
1. A referendum on the ballot would only be a temporary victory if it wins. For example, while the voters could reject and stop SB 777, victory would only be temporary. A referendum simply cannot stop one or more school sexual indoctrination bills from coming back. So despite good intentions, a referendum -- "the power of the electors to approve or reject statutes" -- does not prohibit the Democrat-controlled California Legislature from passing the same school sexual indoctrination bill next year, the year after, or whenever.
It takes around 750,000 raw voter signatures to place a referendum on the ballot, but to do it, you only have three months from the day the Governor signs a bad bill. The current SB 777 petition drive got a late start. It began with just over two months to try to gather all those signatures. Frankly, the chances for this happening are low, because there is no "paid signature" drive, a practical must to ensure ballot qualification.
What's the effect of a successful ballot referendum? Here's a word picture. Doing a California referendum to try to stop a bad law is like throwing a stick at an armed intruder, rather than stopping him with a handgun. There are other ballot options that are much more permanent and reliable.
2. A statutory initiative would override the California Legislature and permanently tie its hands. This is because the California Constitution, Article II, Section 10(c) prohibits the Legislature from changing or repealing voter-approved statutory initiatives. This type of initiative creates a new state law. Therefore, if a statutory initiative were carefully crafted and passed by California voters, its language would go into the California Education Code, and SB 777 and AB 394 would be effectively stopped.
Like a referendum, you need to collect about 750,000 raw signatures to place a statutory initiative on the ballot. However, unlike the three-month referendum process, you have five months to qualify a statutory initiative. You also get to choose when that five-month signature-gathering period begins. This provides the advance time to raise the necessary funds for professional signature gathering, which is essential for qualification.
However, a statutory initiative will not stop the California Supreme Court from "interpreting" the state constitution to require "equality" for homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual lifestyles in public school instruction and activities. That would be SB 777 all over again.
3. A constitutional amendment is the best ballot option for long-lasting effect. A state constitutional amendment is the only way to override the California Supreme Court, as well as the California Legislature and the Governor. A detailed, well-crafted constitutional amendment would wipe out SB 777 and prevent it from ever coming back again, no matter what the politicians or judges desired. If written correctly, this constitutional amendment could also wipe out AB 394, the second school indoctrination bill pushing alternative sexual lifestyles on students, teachers, and parents through "anti-harassment" training.
When voters pass a well-written constitutional amendment, they achieve the greatest security for their goal. Essentially, the voters are establishing and "interpreting" the state constitution so the judges can't. To qualify for the ballot, a constitutional amendment requires about 1.1 million raw signatures. Like a statutory initiative, you have five months to gather signatures, and you get to choose your five-month period. Ironically, it is easier and less expensive to qualify the stronger ballot measures -- the statutory initiative and the constitutional amendment -- than it is to qualify the much weaker referendum.
CCF and our constitutional attorney colleagues have drafted language to prevent sexual indoctrination of all sorts, as an amendment to the California Constitution. Here's how it reads:
The written permission of a parent or legal guardian is required before an educational institution may implement or allow instruction, programs, activities, or policies regarding sexual subjects, sexual conduct, or sexual identity or orientation.
If passed with a majority vote, this pro-parental rights constitutional amendment would wipe out controversial sexual indoctrination in our schools. A financially-blessed individual could qualify this for the ballot by donating $2.5 million to pay for professional signature gathering, which would get the job done.
No referendum, statutory initiative, or constitutional amendment has qualified for the California ballot in the last 25 years without paid, professional signature gathering. So having one million to three million dollars in place is critical to guarantee that you achieve the ballot. Therefore, the only reliable option for parents who want to protect their children from sexual indoctrination is to pull your children out of the government school system.
So now you know that, if you sign the SB 777 referendum petition, it will, at most, produce a one-time erasure of this horrible law, but won't last like a statutory initiative or constitutional amendment would. Our Democrat-controlled Legislature, which is devoted to the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda, will make sure of it.
More parents exiting California public schools
Thousands of California parents with their children in the government schools are coming to grips with the fact that their kids will be sexually indoctrinated unless they exit the system. California's two-day boycott of "public" schools on Nov. 28 and 29 garnered participation from thousands of parents from San Diego to Redding. Some of the most exciting reports were from Sacramento's Russian-speaking community. These parents' participation in the two-day walkout reportedly reduced some classrooms to 7 or 10 students!
Many parents who kept their children home reported to CCF that they received guff from the school principal, who complained that the school loses money each day a child is absent. This was more evidence that the government school establishment and the teacher unions are more interested in money than they are educating and protecting children and respecting their parents.
Kudos to grandmother Joy Stutz of San Diego, who called for the boycott after being informed about SB 777 and AB 394 by CCF. Every parent who participated now knows there's a problem, and more parents are being informed every day. Of course, the solution to this problem is exiting the government schools and doing home schooling or private schooling. Home schooling can be done for as little as $40 a month and churches can easily set up home school co-ops with no teachers. Don't say you can't homeschool or afford private school, because you can! Isn't your child's mind, heart, and soul worth more than any convenience or possession?
Resources:
> See the SB 777 TV and newspaper stories
> Learn how to creatively homeschool or afford private school or set up a church co-op
> Distribute CCF's Action Flyer to parents in your church, neighborhood, and at your local public school
> Download the SB 777 "Christmas card" created by Citizens for Truth in Education
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In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Mass Resistance: The federal Civil Rights case of the Parker and Wirthlin families against the Lexington, MA school system, over teaching homosexuality and transgenderism to elementary school children without parents' knowledge or consent, comes to a head next Wednesday, Dec. 5, in Boston. A three-judge panel will hear oral arguments from both sides and decide whether the lawsuit may proceed to trial - or whether Federal Judge Mark Wolf's decision in February to dismiss the case will stand.- George Orwell
David Parker was brought into court in handcuffs on May 28, 2005 over his disagreement with the school over teaching homosexuality to his son in kindergarten without his knowledge or consent.
A dozen pro-homosexual organizations, including some of the most powerful in America, have submitted three amicus briefs opposing David Parker's appeal. This is unprecedented in any case involving parents challenging the homosexual agenda in public schools. The ACLU (and possibly GLAD and others) and are also offering free legal assistance to the Lexington school system.
Over the last two and a half years this case has received national and even international notoriety. It's been covered on media from The O'Reilly Factor to National Public Radio. It was even discussed in a recent nationally televised presidential debate.
It is unquestionably not an ordinary civil rights case; it clearly has national implications. And the homosexual movement understands the danger this represents to their cause.
This case clearly brings to the light of day (1) how obsessed the homosexual movement is with reaching your children, and what lengths they're willing to go to do it; and (2) how strongly school systems believe that they supercede the family when it comes to defining values to children -- even if the families object.
Here are the organizations weighing in against David Parker -- and all parents -- in this important case: (This includes some of the most aggressive homosexual groups in the country which target children, and also the state and local teachers' unions.)
* American Civil Liberties Union (national)
* American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
* Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
* Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
* Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
* Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
* Human Rights Campaign Foundation
* Lexington Education Association
* Lexington Community Action for Responsible Education and Safety
* Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
* Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Greater Boston PFLAG)
* Respecting Differences
* Women's Bar Association
SEE OUR FULL REPORT HERE: Read the briefs, plus more about these organizations, commentary and other documentation related to this appeal.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker_lawsuit/appeal_2007/briefs.html
Why are all these organizations so focused on stopping this appeal?
Because if this actually goes to trial, it's the homosexual movement's worst nightmare. Parker's lawyers will run the most aggressive, thorough trial against the homosexual movement in the schools that anyone's ever seen. This is different than any other "pro-family" case in memory, most of which are run by less-than-first-rate pro-bono lawyers from some other state who are usually outclassed by the opposition. But not this time. David Parker has spent serious money (from his personal savings) on a top-flight, very aggressive Boston firm, Denner Pellegrino LLP, that not only specializes in criminal defense but also has big expertise in First Amendment litigation. These guys are serious and they win cases. And they're very determined to win this one. They're prepared to go all the way to the US Supreme Court if necessary.
But if the homosexual movement can get this lawsuit stopped before it can get started, then Federal Judge Mark Wolf's hideous ruling from the Motion to Dismiss would stand as "case law" for the whole country! In that ruling (see link below), Wolf basically says that the state is required to make children believe that homosexuality is normal and natural in order to make them good citizens. And furthermore, Wolf asserts that the state has no obligation to let parents exclude their kids from this, or even inform parents when it's happening. (Does that remind you of Europe in the 1930s, by any chance? Well, get ready . . .) This ruling is poised to be the jet fuel that the homosexual movement needs to push their agenda into every school in America -- unless David Parker prevails.
In the meantime, David Parker needs your support.
Outside the federal courthouse in Boston on Feb. 7, 2007. Supporters braved the cold weather to show support for David Parker during the hearing on the motion to dismiss.
The Background - how this began:
David Parker was arrested in April 2005 and jailed overnight over school staff discussing homosexuality and transgenderism with his son in kindergarten without parents' knowledge or consent. Several months later another couple, the Wirthlins, were outraged when their son's second-grade teacher read "King and King", a story of homosexual romance, to the class without parents' knowledge.
Parker's arrest and events leading up to it and following it.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/index.html
In April 2006, the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school and the town. Almost immediately, the schools (with the help of the ACLU) filed a motion to have the case dismissed.
In February, 2007, Federal Judge Mark Wolf ruled on the motion to dismiss the case. Wolf issued an outrageous decision agreeing with the schools and the ACLU, dismissing the case. In his decision, he claimed that elementary schools have a right -- even a duty -- to teach homosexuality without parents' knowledge or consent!
Report on Wolf's dismissal of case, including the text of his ruling
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker_lawsuit/motion_to_dismiss_2007/order_to_dismiss.html
Wolf's ruling was truly bizarre, and the Parkers and Wirthlins immediately began the process to appeal it in Federal Appeals Court.
Now, the appeal - Wednesday's hearing is crucial.
As mentioned above. The appeal is before a three-judge panel in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.
Parker's lawyers need to demonstrate that Wolf's dismissal of the case was flawed. If the appeal of Wolf's dismissal is successful, the case will go back to the Federal District Court and the trial will be scheduled. If it fails, Parker's lawyers have the option to take that appeal up to the US Supreme Court.
As we said, the homosexual movement understands this case is represents a big threat their march into the public schools across the country. They feel they must stop this lawsuit at all costs. And if Parker loses they will have big legal clout across America.
We'll be there. More on this coming up.
Parker case already affecting Mass. legal system!
Yes, it's already affecting the legal system. . .
We recently met with a mother who was preparing to take her local school system to court over a particular homosexual-related activity that she felt was going to affect her child in a destructive way. But when she discussed it with her lawyer (who specializes in dealing with public schools) the lawyer told her that the recent ruling by Federal Judge Mark Wolf in the David Parker case would make it difficult for her to win!
As you can imagine, the mother was shocked and very upset. But this is how important the David Parker lawsuit has become, not only here but around the country. And the national homosexual movement knows that - and is prepared to pull out all the stops to make sure that this lawsuit does not get to an appeal.
(This also demonstrates that the current Parental Notification Law, MGL Ch. 71 Sec. 32A, is now effectively useless, and a STRONG replacement is desperately needed! MassResistance has filed a NEW bill, S321, that will protect children and parents.)
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Temperance Permit
Note That the Radical Leftist / Gender Feminist / Homosex / Drag Hag Thought Police who will determine what language critical of their Cannibal Soup agenda is Naughty or Nice (or to use their sanitized euphemisms: Temperate & Polite")...
...And thus the limits of Free Speech for All others, who otherwise face Seven Years in Jail for Ungood Talk...
Will be determined (using as yet unknown means) by the Radical Mau Mau Artistes of the "Gay Pressure Group Stonewall" - appropriately named after the Post Judy Garland Funeral Drag Queen Riots at the stonewall bar (and the 'ladies' can too) in NY.
No need to worry about their impartiality, right - old sods?
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Gay hate law 'threat to Christian free speech'
By Steve Doughty http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id=496871&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
Church leaders yesterday warned that new gay hate laws threaten to
stop Christians speaking of their beliefs. Both Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops backed a call for any new law to protect freedom of speech.
Christians should be allowed to hold open discussions about sexuality
and they must be permitted to criticise homosexual behaviour and
lifestyles, they said... churches called for a clause which would remove any threat of prosecution from those who condemn or satirise gay beliefs and practices - the same right that was guaranteed to critics of religion when Labour brought in rules that make it a crime to stir up hatred on religious grounds...
Straw's law would make it a crime to stir up hatred on grounds of
sexual orientation. It would carry a maximum penalty of seven years
in jail for those found guilty - a longer sentence than the five
years handed down to a typical rapist.
If the gay hate law goes through, the bishops said, "People holding
firm opinions on sexuality will generally be reluctant to risk the
emotional and financial costs of being challenged by a neighbour or
colleague and being investigated by the police.
"We are not encouraged by some examples of over-zealous action by the police under current legislation against Christians who have publicly
expressed traditional views on sexuality," the bishops said.
Leaders of the gay pressure group Stonewall, which has been highly influential in drawing up the new law, have said that it will permit religious leaders to continue to express their views on homosexuality
provided they are "temperate" and "polite".
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Big Brother Britain: How much do you earn? Are you gay? Town Hall chiefs have been ordered to find out
By Steve Doughty 20 December 2007
Every town hall has been ordered to send out surveys demanding local residents' personal information and opinions.
The forms will ask householders to give details of their children, mortgage, ethnic background, religion and sexual orientation.
Civil rights campaigners yesterday called the survey 'intrusive and very sinister', pointing out that any information handed over will not be kept confidential...
Find this story at
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=503767&in_page_id=1770>
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We Need Your Help!
As our office volunteers work overtime to count the petitions pouring into the office, we are amazed at the overwhelming response to the SB 777 referendum.
You, California citizens, are an essential part of this effort. Save Our Kids cannot do this without you.
We are depending on you to help us across the finish line.
With over 400,000 petitions circulating, we are confident that we can achieve our goal but it will take everyone collecting signatures up to the January 4th deadline.
Our deadline is quickly approaching and we anticipate needing every signature possible. That is why we need you to continue collecting signatures and sending them in as soon as possible.
Here are some tips for obtaining signatures as quickly as possible this last week:
· Save Our Kids Weekend is December 28-30!
This is a fantastic way to join with thousands of other citizens in gathering those petition signatures. With so many voters at shopping locations, church and other public places, it's the perfect time to set up a table or stand in front of these locations. Contact your local churches and stores to see about participating in the Save Our Kids Weekend!
· Send out an e-mail to all of your contacts, asking them to return their petitions ASAP. If they have not requested petitions already, they can visit one of our 50 petitions centers located throughout the state.
· Call in to local radio shows and remind listeners that our deadline is January 4th. Write letters to local newspapers about our campaign and why it is so important to our children.
Thank you for partnering with us in this historic effort to preserve our values!
We need you to Participate!
Save Our Kids Weekend!
December 28th-30th
With only a few weeks left in the campaign, Save Our Kids is encouraging families, Bible study groups, political organizations and churches to make one last push for signatures. December 28th-30th is Save Our Kids weekend!
During the Christmas and New Year season, many of our fellow citizens will be out at shopping centers and stores. This is the perfect time to set up a table to gather signatures. In just a few hours, you can make a huge difference by informing your fellow citizens and gathering signatures.
Churches should host a petition drive this weekend to inform their members about this assault on traditional values. Save Our Kids have several resources to assist churches in hosting a petition drive. So far, churches have been an integral part of this effort. These beacons of light can push us across the finish line if they continue to host petition drives.
We need your help to make this campaign a success!
Thank you to all SB 777 Coalition Members!
Focus on the Family
California Eagle Forum
California Family Council
Christian Educators Association International
California Republican Assembly
Concerned Women for America - California
Family Leaders Network
Novato Parents & Family Coalition
Pacific Justice Institute
Preserve Liberty
Traditional Values Coalition
Values Advocacy Council
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NORTHERN EXPOSURE
Bible standards attacked in 'bastardized courts'
Homosexual advocates claim hurt feelings, demand penalties
By Bob Unruh © 12/25/ 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Biblical standards are under attack by the "bastardized courts" of Canada, where activists who claim they have "hurt feelings" are demanding – and getting – penalties imposed against those who oppose the homosexual lifestyle, according to a family organization.
The description of the courts, also known as the provincial and national Human Rights Commissions, comes from the Canada Family Action Coalition, which has addressed the problem in an alert to its constituents, and warns the United States is not that far from having similar assaults on traditional family values.
"It has become apparent in the past month how badly the acts are written and how they are being misused to violate the rights of Canadians," the organization said.
"We today have a major national magazine, a federal political party leader and a registered political party, a major Catholic newspaper (Catholic Insight) and an internationally renowned journalist all of whom are being investigated by appointed 'hate speech therapists' from the commissions," the group said.
The journalist is Mark Steyn, according to CFAC spokesman Brian Rushfeldt, and the newest case involves Canada's national Catholic magazine of news, opinion and analysis.
The publication has been told it is being targeted by a complaint from Edmonton resident Rob Wells, who alleges the publication has offended homosexuals.
(Story continues below)
The magazine's editor, Father Alphonse de Valk, dismissed the complaint as unfounded, and said his publication follows the teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality.
In a typically democratic form of government, basic rights such as freedom of speech, opinion and the press would answer for such concerns, but in Canada, under the jurisdiction of the Human Rights Commissions, the result is anyone's guess, Rushfeldt told WND.
The first problem is that the laws setting up the commissions note that if something "indicates discrimination" and "is likely to expose to hatred or contempt" there is a basis for action. But that leaves the determination on what "indicates discrimination" or "is likely to expose to hatred" up to the officials appointed to the commission panels, he said.
The laws also often are interpreted by those who have no training in the law, and the commissions are not bound by the rules of law when they make their decisions, he added.
Catholic Insight reported that Wells' attack on the publication is not his first. In 2006 he tried to close down several websites including concernedchristians.ca because of their Christian content, and he targeted Ron Gray and the Christian Heritage party because the political entity posted articles "motivated by hate" of homosexuals.
Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary, the Knights of Columbus in Vancouver, Maclean's magazine and its editor and Steyn also have been targeted, mostly for their writings regarding homosexuality, or the influence of Islam.
Alan Borovoy, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, told the magazine he never imagined human rights commissions would ultimately be used against freedom of speech, because they were launched in an effort to eliminate discrimination in pay and housing.
But after "sexual orientation" was added as a protected class, the tribunals have been exploited in pursuit of a ban on anything or anyone with less than a full endorsement of the homosexual lifestyle choice.
"The majority of the complaints have been related to homosexuals claiming that they've been offended, that hate is being propagated against them. The majority being targeted are religious sectors of society," Rushfeldt said.
He cited Alberta's provincial requirement as an example. That law requires that, "No person shall publish, issue or display or cause to be published, issued or displayed before the public any statement, publication, notice, sign, symbol, emblem or other representation that (a) indicates discrimination or an intention to discriminate against a person or a class of persons, or (b) is likely to expose a person or a class of persons to hatred or contempt bcause of the race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income or family status of that person or class of persons."
"You see if my feelings are hurt and I feel discriminated against due to my 'religious orientation' then surely I must have a right and entitlement to have an appointed group of people in the Human Rights Commission at taxpayers' expense, intervene and force the activist to pay me compensation for my feelings. This is really not bullying is it? Or is it more like extortion?" said a commentary by the Family Action organization.
"How can I prove my feeling are hurt? I don't need to prove it. I just say it is so and it is so. Do I need to provide truth? No, not under the functions of the Human Rights Act. … Section 3(1) states that if something 'indicates discrimination' and 'is likely to expose to hatred or contempt' is a basis for action."
Worse yet, the commentary noted, the tribunals may make their own rules and regulations, based on the statutory provision that "the panel is not bound by the rules of law respecting evidence in judicial proceedings."
Further, the law says, "No member of the Commission, nor the director of the Commission or any other employee mentioned in section 18, shall be required by any court to give evidence relative to information obtained for the purposes of this Act."
And, "No proceeding under this Act shall be deemed invalid by reason of any defect in form or any technical irregularity."
"The panel (in essence one person perhaps, who is not trained as a judge) can violate the laws respecting evidence and make their own laws in violation of our Charter. That is frightening at any time," the group said.
How could it all apply to the United States? Simple, said Rushfeldt. The "hate crimes" plan that was proposed in Congress could serve as that "one crack" in the wall that would allow such procedures in.
CFAC, which seeks a restoration of Judeo-Christian moral principles in Canada, said the plan advocates tried to "sneak in" by attaching it to a defense appropriations bill recently "was on the verge of some of this kind of stuff."
Rushfeldt said the plan aligned with what now is going on in Canada, even to the point of making people liable for actions by second parties. In Alberta, a man recently was convicted by a Human Rights Commission after writing a letter to the editor opposing homosexuality.
The HRC decision legally linked that writing to an alleged assault on a homosexual two weeks later, even though the attacker never has been arrested or charged.
The Family Research Council has noted the fine print of the U.S. plan would allow the same thing:
"Those who can be found culpable have also been expanded to include not only those who commit the crime but those who may have unknowingly 'inspired' those actions. For example, a pastor can be considered legally culpable if he preaches against the homosexual agenda and a member of his congregation subsequently commits a crime against a homosexual. Thus, the act against the homosexual is considered a crime, as it should be, but so also is the thought against the agenda or conduct," the organization said.
That particular plan has been cited among the top seven acts of Christian-bashing for the year 2007.
Said the Christian Anti-Defamation Coalition, "The 2007 Federal Hate Crimes Bill which threatens religious liberties and lays the groundwork for 'thought crime,' which has no place in American law and violates the concept of equal protection under the law. As has occurred in other nations, these laws pave the way for Christians to be silenced and even arrested because they believe that homosexual acts are sinful."
President Bush
The actual U.S. plan was an amendment to the spending bill, but was stripped out and that delayed at least for now the application of such punishments, before the bill was sent to President Bush.
Michael Marcavage, of Repent America, says his organization has members who were jailed for proclaiming their Christian beliefs on public streets in Philadelphia, because of state regulations similar to the federal proposal.
"It's extraordinarily important that it has been removed from the defense reauthorization bill," he told WND. "But we know that the homosexual lobby is extraordinarily aggressive when it comes to obtaining special protections. That's exactly what this is."
"We must be very vigilant as to what their next move is going to be. They're not going to go away," he said.
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FRC:
Please do your part to STOP California Senate Bill 777!
Stop California Senate Bill 777
SB 777 has been signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger and is now poised to be implemented. This radical new law includes sexual orientation and gender identity for protection against so-called "discriminatory bias." This has profound implications for public education in California!November 28, 2007
School children as young as kindergarten age can now be forced to learn about and support homosexuality, bisexuality, and trans-sexuality. School-sponsored activities, textbooks, and instructional materials could require a positive portrayal of homosexual "marriages," cross-dressing, sex-change operations, and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality. Bathrooms and locker rooms could also become unisex - based on how a child perceives his or her own gender identity.
Immediate and necessary action steps:
Time is of the essence!
Please do your part to STOP SB 777!
Stop California Senate Bill 777
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Please call Senator and House members of the Defense Appropriations conference committee and urge them to remove the Hate Crimes provision in the Defense spending bill.
Down to the Wire on Hate (Thought) Crimes
December 4, 2007 (FRC)
In an attempt to force the veto pen of President Bush, liberals on Capitol Hill have inserted the hate (thought) crimes language into the Defense Appropriations bill expanding both the definition of hate crimes and of those who can be found culpable under these provisions.
The definition is broadened to include sexual orientation among the protected classes, elevating sexual attraction to the status of race and creed. Those who can be found culpable have also been expanded to include not only those who commit the crime but those who may have unknowingly "inspired" those actions. For example, a pastor can be considered legally culpable if he preaches against the homosexual agenda and a member of his congregation subsequently commits a crime against a homosexual. Thus, the act against the homosexual is considered a crime, as it should be, but so also is the thought against the agenda or conduct.
Liberals have deviously inserted this provision in the Defense Appropriations bill. If conservative negotiators are unsuccessful in excising this provision from the bill then President Bush will be forced to do one of two things. First, he could veto the bill, which would then cause delays in funding our troops in Iraq. Second he could sign the bill to ensure the troops receive their funds, but have the unfortunate outcome of granting the new hate crimes provision the force of law.
Given the urgency and importance of these issues please help the House and Senate negotiators by calling members and urging them to remove this provision. Tell them it should be removed because the provision is not germane to the national defense of this country. Most importantly, tell them that the provision should be removed because it runs counter to our country's bedrock principles of free speech and thought.
Call committee members below or click here to send them an email.
Down to the Wire on Hate (Thought) Crimes
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And the Truth Shall Set You Free
After you serve your sentence for telling it, and promise to the parole board that you will actively work to censor any similar ungood truths in the future - in the name of 'tolerance' and free speech of course...
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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IVA: If you want another reason why we must fight hate crimes laws and discrimination laws that provide special protections based on sexual orientation, look no [bleep]her than Canada.
There, a panel ruled that a man broke Alberta's human rights laws and committed a hate crime by doing nothing more than writing a letter to the editor.
The panel blamed the letter for a subsequent beating of a homosexual youth some two weeks after the letter was published. The penalty this man must suffer for exercising his freedom of speech, press and religion has yet to be determined.
(Note: shouldn't the paper be in the dock for publishing this letter in the first place?)
The solution? We must fight every attempt to grant special rights on the basis of sexual orientation, beginning with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act now in Congress.
(Pastor, Christian coalition violated human rights law, Alberta panel rules)
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Priest sued over seminar 'curing' homosexuality
By Mike Elkin in Madrid 12/28/07
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2232653,00.html
A Spanish clergyman is to be investigated after complaints that he is holding seminars which aim to "rehabilitate homosexuals".
Protestant minister Marcos Zapata, head of an organisation running youth centres for troubled children in Galicia, prompted the row after reports surfaced of a recent seminar he led entitled "How to Raise Heterosexual Children".
According to a journalist who attended the seminar, Zapata likened homosexuality to alcoholism and called it an illness, but said healing was possible through family therapy...
Yesterday the Galician regional government said it would investigate Zapata... Spain's gay and lesbian groups are planning legal action...
Esposibleelcambio.org ("Change is possible") is run by Grupo Juan Pablo II, a lay group in Cadiz in southern Spain.
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Spain Investigates Clergymen Over Homophobia Claims
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff December 28, 2007 http://365gay.com/Newscon07/12/122807sp.htm
(Madrid) Two Spanish clergymen - one a Protestant evangelist, the other a Roman Catholic bishop - are under attack for... a seminar for parents titled: "How to Raise
Heterosexual Children".
People who attended the speech say that Zapata called homosexuality an illness and an addiction, comparing it to alcoholism and drug abuse. He went on to say that that homosexuality could be "cured" through therapy...
The regional government said it has opened an investigation to determine if the speech violated Spanish law which bans hate speech against gays.
A Spanish national LGBT rights group said it may take Zapata to court on a charge of libeling gays...
Meanwhile, the Catholic bishop of the Canary island Tenerife is under fire for comparing homosexuality to pedophilia and drug addiction.
Bernardo Alvarez said in an interview that "homosexuality harms society, and we will pay for it."
©365Gay.com 2007
Edited 12/29/2007 11:52 am ET by Ohso1
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The Mandatory Pander or Perish 'Message' of the radical gender feminist / homosex lobby is clearly at work in this one... Ohso
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'LGBT month was life changing in my school'
www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=10931 ; February was Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people (LGBT)
History Month. Teacher Elly Barnes tells of its positive effects in her school
When new government policies on LGBT issues came in I felt compelled
to make sure our school was celebrating properly. ..
We wrote an assembly with music and a PowerPoint presentation that
discussed the Stoke Newington School code, Stonewall, gay symbols,
gay history and famous gay people...
But our message was clear – acknowledge, respect, remember, use the word "gay" in the correct context ...
The only incident that occurred was when six girls tried to walk out
of the year nine assembly before it had even started, because they
were Christians. Their parents had said that they were not to take part in any of the LGBT celebrations. However, our school code supports LGBT month and
says, "students must not be racist, sexist or homophobic"...
In science classes, students discussed the "gay gene", in humanities...whole school assembly began by me asking what does "L" stand for? A resounding "lesbian" was shouted by 1,300 students.
Ruth Hunt is another lesbian who works for Stonewall in London
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CA Parents Fight for Total Recall of SB 777
You may remember that in October, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) signed SB 777, a sweeping pro-homosexual education bill, into law. Arguably the most devastating anti-family bill ever passed in California, SB 777 requires all curricula--even that of private schools--to treat homosexuality and heterosexuality "equally."
Under this misguided mandate, teaching students about the benefits of traditional families will be considered discrimination.
Schools will no longer be asked to tolerate but to advocate a lifestyle with devastating consequences to the public health and conscience. Among other things, history books will be required to include stories of "famous gays," literature assignments will feature homosexual influences, and sex education will include so-called "safe sex" for "alternative" lifestyles. A large coalition of parents and activists is doing all it can to stop the law from going into effect. But to do so, the group Save Our Kids must collect 434,000 signatures by January 10 to put a referendum on the ballot.
To help California families meet their goal, we urge you to visit www.saveourkids.net and see what you can do to prevent this state-sponsored indoctrination from smothering free speech in the classroom. Time is running out, so log on and sign up!
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Interestingly enough, old Gerardo Sandoval (bored stuporvisor from Sodom by the Sea) is also notorious for his Race Baiting Hatred of the IRISH - and his public disparagement of San Francisco Firefighters of Irish Descent.
But then with a name like Sandoval, it is Imossible for him to be a Racist - at least according to the power structure in Weimar Kalifornia. Besides, who doesn't respect a politican who calls for the abolition of the Armed Forces and their replacement with Police Officers...
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Savage vs. CAIR: The battle over free speech
Cinnamon Stillwell 12/ 19, 2007 SFGate
Conservative talk radio show host Michael Savage is no stranger to courting controversy. Savage is known for his blunt commentary which at times goes beyond the realm of the politically incorrect into the confrontational. It is a style Savage describes as "psychological nudity" and the opening to his show warns overly-sensitive listeners as much.
But, in the process, Savage touches on some fundamental truths that hit home with his fans, while simultaneously motivating his opponents. Whether they love him or hate him, 8 million listeners tune into "The Savage Nation" each week. The fact that the show originates in left-leaning San Francisco only adds to its entertainment appeal.
Savage's controversial commentary tends to elicit a censorious response. It wasn't long ago that Savage's remarks on illegal immigrants drew the ire of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, which, it seems, is always on the lookout for avenues of politically-correct behavior control.]
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval introduced a resolution twice this year condemning Savage for "hate speech," a meaningless yet ominous gesture which disregards the concept of free speech.
The resolution failed the first time around thanks to the lone dissent of the now-ousted Supervisor Ed Jew, who, in contrast to Sandoval's identity-politics-steeped perspective, stuck with upholding the First Amendment.
But in October, the resolution passed, providing a menacing example of government interference, albeit symbolically, in the free speech rights of its citizenry.
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IVA
Our newest cultural hero is a registrar in England who is refusing to perform gay weddings because they violate her conscience and deeply held religious convictions. She is taking her local council to court over the matter.
We'll see if the secular left, which routinely insists that simply being "offended" is grounds for all kinds of lawsuits, will allow evangelical Christians the same privilege.
Don't hold your breath.
(Registrar says 'I won't' to gay weddings and sues council over ceremonies which offend her religious beliefs | the Daily Mail)
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FRC:
Spanish Socialism's Anti-Social Assault on Speech
When well over a million Spaniards marched in defense of marriage and family December 30, it seems they had good reason. Skyrocketing abortion rates, a new same-sex "marriage" law, and school indoctrination programs are all contributing to the growing outrage against Spain's socialist regime.
Under President Jose Rodriguez Zapatero, the attacks against traditional marriage and family have become increasingly intense. Unfortunately, a new investigation of clergyman Marcos Zapata means that demonstrators can add another grievance to their list--religious intolerance.
In a seminar sponsored by the Evangelical Council of Aragon, Zapata delivered a speech titled, "How to Raise Heterosexual Children."
Among other things, he urged fathers to "reinforce their sons' masculinity" and show them affection. "If you don't [hug your kids]," he warned, "perhaps another man will."
When the agency of Equality and Welfare learned of the talk, it moved quickly to investigate "any type of proselytism or homophobic attitude" on Zapata's part.
It is utterly ridiculous that this government agency would punish a minister for proselytizing.
After all, isn't that the sole purpose of the pastorate? Zapata, who faces disciplinary action, says that while he believes the church should love and embrace homosexuals, there is an "environmental aspect" of the behavior that parents can and should influence.
However, it's abundantly clear that the only influence socialist Spain cares to exert is its ability to unjustly censor and intimidate religious leaders.
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Spanish Clergyman Investigated for Encouraging Heterosexual Child Development [LifeSiteNews.com]
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Fury over new gay hate laws which 'threaten free speech'
By Simon Caldwell 1/7/08 www.dailymail.co.uk/
A coalition of MPs is hoping to halt a gay hate law which will stop Christians pronouncing their beliefs about marriage and family life. The Tory, Labour and Lib-Dem MPs are demanding an amendment be introduced to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill to make sure religious leaders are not prosecuted for criticising homosexual lifestyles...
The amendment says nothing should prohibit or restrict "discussion of, criticism of, or expression of antipathy towards conduct relating to a particular sexual orientation, or urging persons of a particular sexual orientation to refrain from or modify conduct according to that orientation"...
The proposed law against incitement to hatred of homosexuals would carry a maximum penalty of seven years in jail - a longer sentence than the five years handed down to a typical rapist.
It is considered so severe that it has drawn criticism from some homosexuals...
"For the first time in our history you can have a policeman knocking on your door not for something you have done but for an opinion you have expressed and that should be totally contrary to the British way of life," she said.
A month ago Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops united to warn that: "Christians engaged in teaching or preaching and those seeking to act in accord with Christian convictions in their daily lives need to be assured that the expression of strong opinions on marriage or sexuality will not be illegal."
They said the police had already shown themselves to be "over- zealous" against Christians who have publicly expressed traditional views on sexuality.
In 2006 Joe and Helen Roberts, a retired couple from Fleetwood, Lancashire, were questioned by police officers for 80 minutes on their attitudes to homosexuality after they complained to their council about its promotion of civil partnership ceremonies and the distribution of gay rights leaflets in public buildings. They later won £10,000 in compensation and a cringeing apology from Wyre Borough Council.
Neil Addison, the barrister who represented the couple, said: "Increasingly "hate crime" laws are being used to harass and intimidate ordinary people who dare to disagree with PC orthodoxy."
The gay pressure group Stonewall says the law will permit religious leaders to continue to express their views provided they are temperate and polite.
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"In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell
1. Federal court denies appeal in David Parker case on homosexual programs in elementary school. Outrageous ruling embracing homosexual "tolerance" lessons. (Full report with text of ruling)
2. MassResistance reaction: Time to fight back.
3. David Parker lawsuit had “chilling†effect on schools’ homosexual programs, says homosexual legal advocacy group.
1. Federal court denies appeal in David Parker case on homosexual programs in elementary school. Outrageous ruling embracing homosexual "tolerance" lessons
A three-judge federal appeals panel issued a bizarre and horrific ruling today denying the appeal by David Parker, his wife Tonia, and Rob and Robin Wirthlin in their federal Civil Rights case against the Lexington school system about normalizing homosexuality to elementary school children without parents' knowledge or consent.
The ruling, written Judge Sandra L. Lynch, upholds the dismissal of the case by Federal Judge Mark Wolf, agrees with his reasoning and even goes a bit further.
Lynch's ruling, using an interpretation of Massachusetts statutes and snippets from "case law" to embrace homosexual "tolerance" lessons, largely ignores Constitutional religious guarantees, which was the basis of Parker's legal argument.
Lynch also uses notorious "1999 Curriculum Frameworks" in argument, which is currently just an informal guideline.
Read our full report including text of the ruling here.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker_lawsuit/appeal_loss_013108/
Parker's lawyers are already preparing to appeal the case to US Supreme Court.
2. MassResistance reaction: Time to fight back.
David Parker and his lawyers are not giving up. Neither are we. And neither should you. As we mentioned in our writeup (see link above), there's a history of getting beaten badly at first and then winning big in the end.
But we can't just wait for that to happen. It's time for us to start fighting back. (And to stop feeling depressed and beaten down.)
In our last email we wrote: "Coming up next: What YOU can do."
We'd been working hard on that. But yesterday (Thursday) when the David Parker ruling came, we decided to temporarily switch gears and get this news out to you right away. Now we're back to work.
On Sunday we plan to post our huge (currently 75 pages) research study on the H1722 -- the "Transgender Rights and Hate Crimes Bill" -- and how it will affect you. We've been preparing this for several months. We've put together a lot of pretty chilling material. It will really move you. This is an extremely dangerous bill.
Then early next week watch for our new action links, and more.
So the short answer is: Get ready to fight back. It's time. Watch upcoming emails for more.
3. David Parker lawsuit had “chilling†effect on schools’ homosexual programs, says homosexual legal advocacy group
There's a reason why the homosexual movement has been so hostile and vicious against David Parker and his family: He's been making a difference. By his standing up and filing a lawsuit, their worst nightmare started to come about.
Here's how the homosexual newspaper Bay Windows described it in a recent issue:
Read more here
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/pflag_092407/parker_suit.html
All of us owe David Parker a debt of gratitude and thanks for his sacrifice and for standing up against the aggressive homosexual movement.
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We have been told all along that the homosexual/transgender community simply wants "safe" schools for all children. It appears, however, that the tune has changed to "safe and supportive" schools.
A recent Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) newsletter states that an upcoming "Expression Not Suppression" conference in Fresno will be presented for youth activists dedicated to "defeating homophobia and transphobia and creating safe and supportive schools for everyone."
Safe is one thing. Supportive is another.
All of us want safety on school campus. That is why CRI advocates for discipline issues on campus to be dealt with swiftly and directly.
When the term "supportive" is used, this means that religious students will be forced to embrace sexual lifestyles that go against what they believe the Bible teaches. This is a suppression of personal beliefs and convictions. It is the opposite of tolerance-it is the forcing of one view upon another, allowing no room to disagree or dialogue.
Don't forget that SB 777 is a big part of the homosexual/transgender agenda for California's schools. SB 777 was passed in 2007 and took effect this month. It requires that homosexual relationships be taught in a favorable light in our public schools, and it enables transgender boys, or those claiming to be transgender boys, to access girls' restrooms.
We need your help to stop SB 777!
We should have our new petitions in February so stay tuned!
Expression Not Suppression
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Gainesville's Latest Identity Crisis (FRC)
In Gainesville, Florida, the city commission voted to expand upon their already pro-homosexual ordinances by giving special rights to people based upon "gender identity," which is a personal decision--not a biological reality.
Proving yet again that safety and common sense are no match for political correctness, the city commission passed an outrageous ordinance that defines gender as "an inner sense of being a specific gender... with or without regard to the individual's sex at birth." Similar to what Montgomery County, Maryland passed, the proposal would outlaw "discrimination" on the basis of "gender identity" which affects everything from the Equal Employment Opportunity and Fair Housing rules to regulations governing the Access to Places of Public Accommodations.
Under the law, men who regard themselves as women will be entitled to use the women's restroom as a biological female.
Proponents call this "progress." I call it an open invitation to sexual predators who aren't confused about their gender but looking for any opportunity to victimize women and children.
The mere violation of privacy is unacceptable. Over the protests of dozens of citizens--including Commissioner Ed Braddy--the city went forward with a dangerous trend of social engineering that will jeopardize the health, safety, and comfort of Gainesville residents.
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IVA:
In another indication of how discrimination statutes threaten civil rights rather than protect them, the English equivalent of our Boy Scouts has been reported to England's equality watchdog for discriminating against atheists by continuing to use the Scouting oath, which requires Scouts to promise "to do their best to do their duty to God."
Scouting leaders will not change the oath, saying the founder of Scouting, Lord Baden-Powell, was a "muscular Christian" (boy, could we use some more of those today) who believed that faith was an essential element in turning boys into men.
(Scout's oath 'is religious discrimination' - Telegraph)
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http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_43924.htm
ASA Adjudications
The Christian Congress for Traditional Values
PO Box 9195 Brentwood Essex CM14 9AF
6 February 2008
Ad
A mobile poster for the Christian Congress for Traditional Values
(CCTV) showed a family consisting of a man, a woman and a young son
and daughter. Body copy beside it stated "GAY AIM: ABOLISH THE
FAMILY." CCTVs website address was printed beneath the body copy and
a banner across the picture of the family identified CCTV and showed
a logo.
Issue
The complainant believed the ad suggested all gay people were against
families and family values. He challenged whether:
1. this was an accurate representation of the views of gay people and
2. the ad was likely to cause serious or widespread offence or
condone anti-social behaviour.
The CAP Code: 2.2;3.1;5.1;5.2;7.1;8.1
Response
1. CCTV said they believed the common understanding in the UK of
what constituted a family was a married man and woman, both of whom
had been born in that gender, and their children. They believed this
understanding stemmed from the UK being a traditionally Christian
country with the concept of a family being rooted in Judeo-Christian
principles.
They believed the homosexual community was represented in the media
and in the consciousness of the population at large by a public
campaign for legislative and moral change, and that the ad
represented their views in a factually accurate way. CCTV believed
it was legitimate for them to state their opinion that these were the
views of the public campaign. They did not believe the ad suggested
that all gay people shared those views. They believed the
campaigners who sought same-sex marriage did not do so simply to
achieve the same domestic situation that was available to
heterosexuals but also because they aimed to redefine and abolish the
traditional family. They said it was that aim to which the poster
referred. CCTV cited the 1971 Gay Liberation Front Manifesto
documents which described the traditional family unit (husband, wife
and children) as working against homosexuality, and which stated "We
must aim at the abolition of the family." CCTV said that other aims
listed in the 1971 Gay Liberation Front Manifesto and which had
resulted in legislative or social changes included the teaching of
homosexuality in schools; equalising the age of consent for
homosexuals and heterosexuals; using the media to detract from the
traditional family as the norm and introducing legislation to prevent
discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace. CCTV cited a
similar manifesto published by the National Coalition of Gay
Organisations in the USA in 1972, and several authors, individual
campaigners and organisations who had publicly stated similar aims in
the UK and abroad to illustrate how widely held they believed the
views were.
2. CCTV said their claim was their genuinely-held belief for which
they believed they had provided adequate substantiation. They
believed it was legitimate for them to highlight their concern that
traditional Christian family values and religious liberty were
threatened by the legislative changes homosexual groups campaigned
for, and that there was a place in a democratic society for views
both for and against to be expressed. They believed the potential
for the ad to cause offence was minimal because the aim to redefine
the concept of the family was so widely and openly acknowledged by
the homosexual community. They acknowledged the ad might have caused
offence or irritation or was unwelcome to people who disagreed with
the statement but they did not believe the reaction was so widespread
as to make it unacceptable. They said they did not intend the ad to
result in violent reaction or antisocial behaviour.
Assessment
1. Upheld
The ASA noted CCTV's argument that they believed it was legitimate
that their ad represented their point of view and considered CCTV was
flagged clearly as the author of the ad. We considered, however,
that in the absence of information to the contrary, the statement was
likely to be understood to represent the prevailing view of the gay
community. We noted the evidence CCTV provided indicated that some
sections of the gay community had spoken out strongly against the
traditional concept of the family. We also noted, however, that the
evidence was based mainly on a document published by the Gay
Liberation Front, a radical gay group which disbanded nearly 30 years
ago. We noted that the language used and claim made in the ad did
not appear to reflect the stance taken by today's mainstream
campaigns by the gay community which expressed a desire for the
responsibilities of gay people caring for children to be equal with
those of heterosexual people. We also noted that a family unit today
was increasingly less likely to necessarily comprise a married man
and woman and their children. We considered CCTV had not supported
the claim.
On this point the ad breached CAP Code clauses 3.1 (Substantiation),
7.1 (Truthfulness) and 8.1 (Matters of opinion).
2. Upheld
We noted CCTV's argument that they believed it was legitimate that
they were permitted to express their genuinely held beliefs.
As noted in point 1 above, we considered the statement was likely to
be understood to represent the prevailing view of the gay community
when that was not the case. We considered the statement and the way
it appeared was likely to cause offence both to the mainstream gay
community and supporters of equality, and was likely to be seen as
controversial and possibly inflammatory by a significant number of
people who saw the poster in an untargeted medium. We concluded that
the poster was likely to cause serious or widespread offence and
might lead to antisocial behaviour.
On this point the ad breached CAP Code clauses 2.2 (Social
responsibility), 5.1 and 5.2 (Decency) and 8.1 (Matters of opinion).
Action
We told CCTV to ensure future campaigns were not presented in a way
that could cause serious or widespread offence or which might lead to
antisocial behaviour.
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Legislative Action Alert!
AB 624-Government Oversight of Private Foundations (Coto) (CRI)
Last week the Assembly passed the recently amended AB 624 (Coto).
Immediate action is required to defeat this outrageous bill in the Senate.
AB 624 would require all private, corporate, or public foundations with assets of more than $250 million to collect ethnic, gender and sexual orientation data on their board of directors, staff, members and grant recipients. The bill also requires these philanthropic organizations to report on the percentage of grant dollars awarded to groups where 50% or more of the board members are ethnic minorities or are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. After collecting this data, each group would be forced to publish the information on their web site and include it in their annual report.
Twelve years ago the people of California passed Proposition 209, which prohibited the discriminatory practice of considering an individual's ethnic background in state contracts, education and employment. AB 624 establishes a double standard for the government by forcing private philanthropic organizations-the groups that should be caring for minorities and the poor, not the government-to discriminate where the government is prohibited from doing so.
Even more alarmingly, AB 624 goes much further than typical affirmative action measures; it includes sexual orientation and transgenders as protected classes. This is an egregious abuse of government power in forcing generous, charitable organizations to become politically correct. The government has no business in interfering with these private, citizen-lead organizations.
We must stop AB 624. AB 624 is an incremental measure. This year, it will be wealthy private organization but next year it could be all private organizations and businesses. The next step for liberal lawmakers will be to oversee and censor organizations like CRFI. We must stand up and protect our First Amendment freedoms of speech and association!
Please call and write your senator and express your disapproval of AB 624.
Find Your Senator
Contact Your Senator
Who Voted for AB 624?
Read AB 624
Just the Facts - The Truth About SB 777
Who Voted for SB 777 in the Senate
Who Voted for SB 777 in the Assembly
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On the Left Coast (FRC)
This week I am in Southern California as a part of a series of pastor's conferences in support of the effort to collect one million signatures to put a marriage amendment onto the ballot this November. I am encouraged that pastors and church leaders increasingly understand the threat that exists and as a result are ready to take a stand.
This effort took on even greater urgency yesterday when the California Supreme Court announced it will start hearings on March 4 on the constitutionality of California's current statutory definition of marriage. A decision will come no later than the first week of June. For more information on the marriage effort in California, go to protectmarriage.com.
Speaking of California, just when you think Golden State leaders have run out of bad legislative ideas they come up with another humdinger. On Tuesday the state Assembly passed AB 624.
Under this measure every private, corporate or public operating foundation in California with assets of more than $250 million will be required to gather information about the gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation of its members and its board of directors and then publish that data on its website and in its annual report!
The foundations would also be required to provide this information on their employees and with the owners of the companies with which the foundation does business.
It doesn't stop there. The foundations will also have to collect this information on any group to whom they give a grant. If this measure succeeds, rest assured that it will not stop with these large foundations.
The measure will now be referred to the Senate which can act on the measure prior to the session's end on August 31.
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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS - 'Mom,' 'dad,' banned; now 600,000 students could go - Alternatives offered to parents worried about 'repudiation' of Christian morals
By Bob Unruh worldnetdaily.com 2/9/08
Only months after a new state law effectively banned "mom" and "dad"
from California schools, 600,000 students soon could be following
them out the door because of what has been described as
the "repudiation" of 2,000 years of Christian morality, according to
leaders of a new campaign assembling education alternatives.
The campaign is called California Exodus and is being headed by Ron
Gleason, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Yorba Linda, who said
while the country excels in social, economic, scientific and
political accomplishments, it "gets low grades on the education of
its children."
The issue is the state legislature's adoption of Senate Bill 777,
which requires only positive portrayals of homosexual, bisexual,
transgender and other alternative lifestyle choices.
"First, the law allowed public schools to voluntarily promote
homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality. Then, the law
required public schools to accept homosexual, bisexual, and
transsexual teachers as role models for impressionable children. Now,
the law has been changed to effectively require the positive
portrayal of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality to six
million children in California government-controlled schools," said
Randy Thomasson, chief of the Campaign for Children and Families and
one of those who originally called for an abandonment of public
schools.
"To rescue their children, loving parents need to find an alternative
to government schools, and every church needs to make it a priority
to help parents be in charge of their children's education again," he
said.
He has condemned public school districts as "no longer a safe
emotional environment for children" under the new law, signed by Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, that will introduce children as young as
kindergarten to the homosexuality and other alternative lifestyle
choices.
The law itself technically bans in any school texts, events, class or
activities any discriminatory bias against those who have chosen
alternative sexual lifestyles, Meredith Turney, legislative liaison
for Capitol Resource Institute, said.
There are no similar protections for students with traditional or
conservative lifestyles and beliefs, however. Offenders will face the
wrath of the state Department of Education, up to and including
lawsuits.
"SB 777 will result in reverse discrimination against students with
religious and traditional family values. These students have lost
their voice as the direct result of Gov. Schwarzenegger's
unbelievable decision. The terms 'mom and dad' or 'husband and wife'
could promote discrimination against homosexuals if a same-sex couple
is not also featured," she said.
Karen England, chief of CRI, told WND that the law is not a list of
banned words, including "mom" and "dad." But she said the requirement
is that the law bans discriminatory bias and the effect will be to
ban such terminology.
"Having 'mom' and 'dad' promotes a discriminatory bias. You have to
either get rid of 'mom' and 'dad' or include everything when talking
about [parental issues]," she said. "They [promoters of sexual
alternative lifestyles] do consider that discriminatory."
Thomasson told WND private schools and homeschools will be the only
sanctuaries left for California parents who love their children and
want to protect their sexual innocence."
Members of the coalition include the Exodus Mandate, which advocates
Christian education for children, as well as Eagle Forum, whose
president, Phyllis Schlafly, said there has been a great campaign to
reform public schools, but it's been unsuccessful.
"SB777 and the related legislation represent a repudiation of 2,000
years of Christian moral teaching on human sexuality, marriage, and
the family. The result is that California's schools are now promoting
behaviors and lifestyles that are physically and spiritually
dangerous for children," she said.
Other participating groups include Considering Homeschooling
Ministry, whose founder, Denise Kanter, said its resources can
provide encouragement for parents who want a "safe Biblical home
education" for their children, and Robert Simonds, of Citizens for
Excellence in Education, who said now is the time for pastors and
churches to rescue children. Still other groups include Star Parker
with the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education, The Association of
Classical Christian Schools, DEXIOS, Mission America, Alliance for
the Separation of School and State and the Nehemiah Institute.
Bruce Shortt, the author of "The Harsh Truth About Public Schools"
and a board member for Exodus Mandate, said Christians already
are "numb" to the moral relativism in public schools.
"Now children will be told that their sexual orientation and gender
are relative, too. No longer will children raised in these schools
understand that God made us male and female with different, but
complementary roles. Instead, children will be taught that sexual
orientation and gender are merely a matter of personal choice," he
said.
"Thus, children will be told that because there are many sexual
orientations and gender identities, they simply have to reach their
own conclusions about which sexual orientation and
gender 'possibilities' are 'right for them.' Along with this will
come the message that you really can't tell whether you like
something unless you have tried it. The likely consequences of this
for children, the institution of the family, our churches, and our
culture are horrendous," he said.
Chaplain E. Ray Moore Jr., chief of the Exodus Mandate, said the
program's goal is the put into place programs and resources that
will "successfully extract 600,000 students from public schools this
year."
He said that's about 10 percent of the California public school
student population, and that would align with the percentage of the
population that claims an affiliation with evangelical Christianity.
"Obviously we would hope all the children would go," he said.
"This is such an egregious offense against a Holy God, if the
believers will stand up and act boldly, perhaps in God's mercy, we're
seeking and asking for a Jericho type moment, that there will be some
sudden shifting away from reforming public schools toward a Christian
education," he said.
Shortt said the campaign plans to enlist help from pastors and
churches as well as parents, with explanations that there are a
multitude of options that are not expensive. Those include
homeschooling coops, Internet-based curriculums that offer churches
turn-key academic programs and others. DVD-based programs also are
available, as well as satellite programs.
In many such scenarios, he said, "churches need only provide a place,
someone to be there and make sure the children are safe and on task."
Prices would range from $600 to $1,800 per student per year,
depending on the options, he said, significantly less than the
thousands that tuition to a private Christian school could cost.
Shortt, along with several others, have submitted resolutions to the
Southern Baptist Convention several times recommending home- and
church-based school options.
Said Pastor Wiley Drake, at the time second vice president of the
SBC's executive Committee, "Christians generally need to plan a
Christian educational future for our children. … Anyone who thinks
that a few hours of youth group and church will have more influence
on a child's faith and worldview than 40 to50 hours a week of public
school classes, activities and homework is simply not being honest
with himself.
"Second, the open collaboration between homosexual activists and many
school districts, together with the overall level of crime and
violence in the public schools, makes the public schools an unsafe
place for our children," he said.
Moore told WND that advisers have warned him of the high danger from
California's plan.
"They will take and expose little children down in first, second
grade, down in kindergarten, images of homosexual behavior and this
kind of conduct," the adviser warned. "This has the potential to
thoroughly corrupt several million children in California schools."
Officials with the Gay-Straight Alliance Network and the Transgender
Law Center already have outlined what they believe to be
non-discriminatory treatment in the school system.
"If you want to use a restroom that matches your gender identity …
you should be allowed to do so," the groups advise. "Whenever
students are divided up into boys and girls, you should be allowed to
join the group or participate in the program that matches your gender
identity as much as possible."
Further, the groups advise, "If you change your name to one that
better matches your gender identity, a school needs to use that name
to refer to you." The advocacy group also warns schools against
bringing parents into any such discussion with students.
The California plan still is facing a court challenge on its
constitutionality and a possible vote of the people of California if
an initiative effort succeeds.
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CRI: This week's bill of the week is actually two bills: AB 2085 and AB 2086. Assemblyman Bob Huff, a strong CRI ally in the capitol, has introduced the two bills that will (1) return education code to its previous form before SB 777's passage and (2) require parental notification before such controversial topics as homosexuality, transsexuality, bisexuality or transgenders are discussed in the classroom.
AB 2085 will simply amend the education code to read: "No teacher shall give instruction, nor shall a school district sponsor any an activity, that reflects adversely upon persons because of their race, gender, color, creed, disability, national origin, religion, or ancestry." This will remove the offensive portions that promote homosexuality in public schools.
AB 2086 would require notice to be sent to the parent or guardian of a pupil regarding the proposed discussion on gender identity or sexual orientation in any class other than a sex education or HIV/AIDS prevention class.
These bills seek to restore parental rights in our public schools by respecting the traditional values parents seek to instill in their children and making them aware of what is being taught to their children at school.
Both of these bills are sponsored by Capitol Resource Family Impact and will be heard in committee in just a few weeks.
Read AB 2085
Read AB 2086
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IVA:
A San Francisco area hospital is now being sued because, on the grounds of deeply held religious conviction, it refused to allow breast enlargement surgery to be performed on a man who claims he is now a woman.
The Catholic hospital correctly believes that gender is assigned by God at birth. Further, the hospital does not perform surgical procedures that are contrary to clear Catholic moral teaching such as abortion or direct euthanasia as well as transgender surgery.
(Inside Bay Area - Transgender woman sues Seton hospital)
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Save Our Kids Announces Signature Count
SB 777 Referendum Gathers Incredible Number of Signatures;
Save Our Kids is excited to announce that the campaign was able to obtain more than 350,000 signatures for the SB 777 referendum before today's constitutional deadline.
"For a completely volunteer-driven campaign to obtain this number of signatures is unheard of," explained Karen England, director of the Save Our Kids campaign and executive director of Capitol Resource Family Impact. "We had to overcome incredible difficulties during our signature gathering, including the holidays, and the results are astonishing."
In order to qualify the SB 777 referendum for the 2008 ballots, the campaign needed 434,000 valid voter signatures. "While we didn't reach the threshold of required signatures, we have surprised political observers with the amazing amount of signatures we gathered in just 70 days," stated England. "It is unheard of for a volunteer-only effort to find this kind of support, especially in a state as large as California."
Because of the enormous amount of support for overturning SB 777, Save Our Kids has filed an initiative with the attorney general's office to overturn the new law.
"This initiative will give us double the amount of time to gather signatures, while accomplishing the same goal of eliminating the extreme policies of SB 777," continued England. "Many California citizens are just now finding out about SB 777 and are outraged. By filing an initiative, we will give even more citizens the opportunity to voice their anger over the passage of this radical bill."
The Save Our Kids web site will continue to serve as the online headquarters for overturning SB 777.
Thank You Save Our Kids Co-Chairs!
Senator George Runner
Assemblyman Joel Anderson
Assemblyman Bob Huff
Assemblyman Doug La Malfa
Assemblywoman Sharon Runner
Assemblywoman Audra Strickland
Senate Candidate Dennis Mountjoy
Assembly Candidate Larry Dick
Assembly Candidate Jim Nielsen
Thank you SB 777 Coalition Members!
Focus on the Family
California Eagle Forum
California Family Council
Christian Educators Association International
California Republican Assembly
Concerned Women for America - California
Family Leaders Network
Novato Parents & Family Coalition
Pacific Justice Institute
Preserve Liberty
Traditional Values Coalition
Values Advocacy Council
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There Goes the Neighborhood (FRC)
The American and Canadian governments have several things in common, including, it appears, the pursuit of radical hate speech laws.
As the U.S. braces for another round of hate crimes legislation this spring, our northern neighbors are already engaged in an all-out battle over free speech.
The latest victim is popular author and columnist Mark Steyn, who wrote the best-seller America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. Although the book was published by an American company, excerpts that later appeared in the Canadian press have become the subject of investigation by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). The book, which contrasts Islamic values with those of the West, was considered "a misrepresentation" of the Muslim religion by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC). As a result of CIC's complaint, Steyn finds himself at the center of a controversial debate over the limits of public expression.
Using charges of "discrimination" as a means of silencing opposition, the CHRC's investigation jeopardizes freedom in all of North America. During an interview with The Washington Times, Steyn said, "Offense is in the eye of the beholder. The commissions aren't weighing facts but hurt feelings."
Ironically, when Christians or conservatives object to similar treatment, they usually find themselves on the losing side of the argument, or worse, completely overlooked.
Unfortunately, this is just a preview of things to come if the U.S. House is successful when the battle over new federal hate crimes resumes.
As Mark Steyn can attest, nothing less than our first freedoms are at stake.
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We must be vigilant or else our laws will soon place the rights of people to have transgender surgery ahead of religious freedom rights. Here is a recent example.
Charlene Hastings was born a man but had a sex-change operation. When Charlene inquired about breast augmentation surgery at Seton Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Daly City, he was refused. The hospital does not allow its facilities to be used for transgender surgery. Charlene then filed a lawsuit against the hospital, claiming that he was discriminated against.
This lawsuit pits the rights of people to undergo transgender operations against the rights of a private religious hospital to follow its moral principles.
"Seton Medical Center provides medically necessary services to all individuals," stated Elizabeth Nikels, spokesman for the hospital. "However, the hospital does not perform surgical procedures contrary to Catholic teaching; for example, abortion, direct euthanasia, transgender surgery or any of its related components."
Kristina Wertz, legal director of the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco, is concerned that transgender people are not getting the "care" that they need. Wertz contends that Seton's policy violates the Unruh Act, state law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
"There's simply no religious exemption in the Unruh Act," Wertz said. "We're talking about a type of care that's OK for one class but not another."
In other words, your religious liberty rights under the First Amendment are insignificant compared to the right of people to surgically alter their bodies to look like the opposite gender.
"There are some medical procedures that run counter to Catholic moral teaching, and they include direct euthanasia, embryonic stem cell experimentation and cloning. If Catholic hospitals are denied the right to proscribe such operations, it effectively nullifies their right to remain Catholic," stated Catholic League president Bill Donohue.
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Authors of so called 'hate crimes' laws try to hide the facts about just who is committing violence against whom - just like they tried to hide the facts about the Coprophile cult of Homosex Ephebophile Boy Rape that was at the core of the Nazi Leadership - and the Old Media is right along side them in such Censorship Efforts.
Facts such as are found in this article have been known and Covered Up for Decades - as it would be Ungood to interfere with hate crime hoaxes used to promote the "Pander or Perish' agenda of the Radical Gender Feminist / Homosex lobby.
Ohso. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Violence and Homosexuality
By Paul Cameron, Ph.D. February 2000 Dr. Cameron is Chairman of the Family Research Institute of Colorado Springs, Colorado USA.
In 1992 two Jeffersonville, Indiana lesbians, aged 17 and 16, abducted a 12-year-old girl whom they accused of trying to "steal a girlfriend." The little girl was pushed into the trunk of a car, stabbed repeatedly, and beaten with a heavy metal bar. While still struggling, they poured gasoline on her and set her ablaze.
Later that year a Fort Lauderdale, Florida 14-year-old was convicted of first-degree murder for helping to kill his 40-year-old father. The father "was stabbed 45 times and beaten so badly with an iron skillet that the skillet shattered." The boy confessed that he helped his father's former homosexual lover and roommate kill him so he and the 31-year-old "could live together."
These murders fit traditional psychiatric opinion: excessive violence is naturally associated with other forms of social pathology. From this perspective, those who rebel against society's norms - homosexuals, prostitutes, alcoholics etc. - are more apt to be violent also. Gay leaders reply that they are not pathological, rebellious, or sexually deviant.
They contend that gays are gentle, loving people and that the violence they experience proves that they need special 'hate crime' laws to protect them from non-homosexual 'gay bashers.' Who's right? Does the excess of violence naturally well up from within a pathological gay subculture or do outsiders
direct it toward homosexuals? Keeping in mind that only about 2%-3% of
adults are homosexual or bisexual, (1) let's examine varieties of violence.
Murder and Mass Murder - Although the total number of victims dispatched by a given killer is often in doubt, (e.g., homosexual Henry Lucas claimed that he killed 350), it apears that the modern world record for serial killing is held by a
Russian homosexual, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of raping,
murdering and eating parts of at least 21 boys, 17 women and 14 girls. The
pathology of eating one's sexual victims also characterized Milwaukee's
Jeffrey Dahmer in 1992. He not only killed 17 young men and boys, but
cooked and ate their body parts.
The top six U.S. male serial killers were all homosexual: * Donald Harvey claimed 37 victims in Kentucky; * John Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 boys in Chicago, burying them under his house and in his yard; * Patrick Kearney accounted for 32, cutting his victims into small pieces after sex and leaving them in trash bags along the Los Angeles freeways; * Bruce Davis molested and killed 27 young men and boys in Illinois; * A gay sex-murder-torture ring (Coral-Henley-Brooks) sent 27 Texas men and boys to their grave; and * Juan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 migrant workers (he "made love"
with their corpses).
Lesbian Aileen Wuornos laid claim in 1992 to "worst female killer" with at least 7 middle-aged male victims. She singlehandedly topped the lesbian nurse team of Catherine Wood and Gwen Graham, who had killed 6 convalescent patients in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The association between serial murder and homosexuality isn't recent. Two gays compete for the spot of "world's worst murderer." During the Nazi reign of terror, Auschwitz executioner Ludwig Tiene strangled, crushed, and gnawed boys and young men to death while he raped them. total is uncertain, he often murdered as many as 100 a day. Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard) brutally destroyed the lives of 800 boys. Each lad was lured to his home, bathed and fed. Just as the poor boy thought "this is my lucky day," he was raped, then killed by being ripped or cut apart and either burned or eaten.
A study of 518 sexually-tinged mass murders in the U.S. from 1966 to 1983
determined that 350 (68%) of the victims were killed by those who practiced
homosexuality and that 19 (44%) of the 43 murderers were bisexuals or
homosexuals.(2)
Though probably less than a majority of mass murderers are homosexual,
given that no more than 3% of the populace is gay, homosexual murderers
show up much more frequently than one would expect (even Richard Speck
engaged in homosexuality). Along with serial murder, there appears to be a
connection between homosexuality and murder.
Evidence from before the gay rights movement is limited. Of 444 homicides
in one jurisdiction from 1955-1973, investigators noted 5 clear "sexual
motivation" murders. Three of the 5 involved homosexuality and 2 involved
heterosexuality.(3) Probing more deeply into the connection between murder and homosexuality, Jim Warren, who worked as a counselor at the Washington State Corrections Center, did the intake interview for almost all the younger murderers (i.e., under age 36) in the state of Washington from 1971-82 (during the growth of the gay rights movement). He was "probably the only one who
examined the entirety of each of their case files."
Warren testified (4) that he was struck with how frequently homosexuality turned up in the cases. Starting with a trickle of 2 or 3 murders/year in 1972 until dozens/year by the 1980s, he noted a recurrent pattern: Although the motive listed in the report was often robbery or theft, "about 50% of the time" it was also associated with homosexuality. Typically, a
homosexual would meet someone at a bar or park and invite him to his home.
Before the morning, an argument would ensue and he or his visitor would be
dead.
Violent Sexual Practices * A substantial minority of homosexuals (between 22% (5) to 37% (6,7) ) indulge in painful or violent sex (e.g., bondage and discipline [B/D], where the partner is physically restrained and mildly tortured, or sadomasochism [S/M], where partners are tortured or hurt during sex).
* Even in the 1940s, psychiatrist David Abrahamsen (8) noted, "It is well
known that homosexual inclinations may be accompanied by sadistic or
masochistic tendencies.... These perversions play a great part in many
sexual offenses and in many cases of murder." In a national survey of
random samples of homosexuals and heterosexuals, (7) 32% of those males who called themselves homosexual or bisexual versus 5% of heterosexual males reported having engaged in sadomasochism; 17% of lesbians versus 4% of heterosexual women also admitted to S/M. Likewise, gays and lesbians were about four times more apt to engage in bondage than were heterosexuals.
* Homosexual books and magazines celebrate the "fun" of violent sex. For
instance, a Denver gay columnist (the "leathersex fairy"), told his readers
how to strangle and flog one's partner during sex. He also extolled the
practice of "hanging from a tree by meat hooks through the pectoral
muscles" and described "guys who like to have burning cigars, cigarettes,
or matches held near or pressed into their skin." (9) Likewise, national
and international gay tour books matter-of-factly list places where
sadomasochistic sex can be obtained. (10)
* In 1993, London gays raised £100,000 to appeal a conviction in which the
judge ruled that "sex is no excuse for violence.... Pleasure derived from
the infliction of pain is an evil thing." The crime? "Nailing a foreskin
and scrotum to a board" and "pouring hot wax in a urethra." (11)
* The 1980 CBS-TV documentary, Gay Power, Gay Politics reported that about
10% of the accidental deaths among young men in San Francisco resulted from sadomasochistic sex gone awry.
Deliberately Infecting Others
During Sex Gay activists often argue that what consenting adults do in
private is nobody else's business. However, gays have sex with so many
different partners (5,6,7) that they increase their risk of getting or
transmitting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Indeed, homosexuals are considerably more apt to get STDs than are non-homosexuals. (12)
Most who get an STD decide that they will do all in their power not to
infect others. But others - an important minority - decide that they will
make their partners suffer as much as they have. As Mirko Grmek (13) noted
"every historian of disease knows that such an attitude of vengeance, or at
least of recklessness, had contributed in other times to the spread of
tuberculosis and syphilis." Limited evidence suggests that, compared to
heterosexuals, homosexuals are more apt to harm their sexual partners
deliberately.
The only comparative study (5,9) on this issue found that about 1% of male
and female heterosexuals compared to 7% of gays and 3% of lesbians admitted to deliberately passing on STDs that they had acquired.
When the disease is AIDS, the personal and social costs of deliberate
infection are exceptionally high. Several examples of homosexuals who were
deliberate spreaders of AIDS have been documented, (13) but the most
notorious is that of "patient zero," the Canadian flight attendant who,
until his death at age 32, shared his body and infection with 250 men
every year.
From the late 1970s through the early 1980s he was personally responsible
for at least 40 of the first 248 American cases of AIDS and told public
health officials in San Francisco it "was nobody else's business but his
own." There also appears to be a connection between the practice of violent
sex and one's willingness to deliberately infect someone else. Dividing our
random national sample (7,12) into those with no interest in homosexual
activity (non-H) and those with at least some homosexual interest (H) - and
combining males and females - we found that 4.0% of the non-Hs vs 21.8% of
those with at least some homosexual interest said that they had
participated in sadomasochism (S/M); 7.8% of the non-Hs admitted to bondage
(B/D) vs 27.5% of the Hs. Further, those who had engaged in violent sex of
either type were twice as likely to have deliberately attempted to infect a
partner than those without such violent experience (see Figure). In 1992
three London STD clinics reported that almost half of their homosexual
patients who knew they were infected with HIV had then gotten rectal
gonorrhoea. (14)
These gays were not permitting their deadly infection to spoil their sexual
fun. By 1993 over 100,000 U.S. gays had died of AIDS and tens of thousands
had died of hepatitis B. Most of these had been infected, many deliberately
or carelessly, by other homosexuals. Homosexual Rape The National Crime
Survey (15) reported that about 1 of every 10,000 males over the age of 11
is raped each year (vs 13 of every 10,000 females) - that is, about 7% of
rapes are homosexual.
In two jurisdictions, Columbia, SC (16) and Memphis, TN, (17) males
accounted for 5.7% of the victims of rape reported to authorities - in only
one instance was the assailant a woman. Along with the rise of the gay
rights movement, homosexual rape of men appears to have increased in the
past few decades. (5,15,16)
Homosexual rape is twice as common in urban areas where gays congregate
than in suburban or rural areas. (15) It may also be more common where the
gay subculture is accepted: * a 1970 study in San Francisco found that 9% of male heterosexuals and 24% of gays;
* 2% of female heterosexuals and 11% of lesbians reported having been
homosexually raped. (18)
In our 1983 national urban survey (which did not include San Francisco),
1.3% of heterosexual men vs 12.5% of gay men and 0.6% of heterosexual women vs 8.6% of lesbians reported having been homosexually raped. (5,10)
More alarmingly, between 15% to 40% of statutory rape (child molestation)
involves homosexuality. (19) In one study, 25% of white gays (18) admitted
to sex with boys 16 or younger when they were aged 21 or older.
Rape at any age is violent and emotionally devastating. But it can also
edge victims toward homosexuality. In our national study, almost half the
lesbians said they had been heterosexually raped - perhaps gravitating to
homosexuality because of the experience.
Males often react differently. Thus the Masters and Johnson Institute
reported that a "25-year-old man had had his first sexual experience when
he was 13 years old. It was arranged by his lesbian mother with an older
gay man. After that episode, his imagery and interpersonal sexual
experience were exclusively homosexual." (20)
Likewise, "Mr. K, age 22, felt that his change in sexual preference was
related to his having been raped by two men.... After the assault he
experienced sexual identity confusion and began engaging voluntarily in
homosexual activity. When he was seen for evaluation he labeled himself as
openly homosexual." (21)
Impact of Violence On The Homosexual Lifespan
A study of 6,714 obituaries (22) in gay newspapers across the U.S. revealed
that 3% of 6,574 gays and 20% of 140 lesbians had died violently:
* 1.4% of gays and 7% of lesbians were murdered (rates over a hundred times
those of non-gays);
* 0.6% of gays and 5.7% of lesbians committed suicide (rates dozens of
times those of non-gays); and
* 0.6% of gays and 4.3% of lesbians died in motor vehicle accidents (over
17 times the rate of non-gays)
These events, coupled with various STDs (especially AIDS) gotten from other
gays, resulted in a median age of death of 40 among gays and a median age
of death of 45 among lesbians. In the same study, comparison samples of
married men had a median age of death of 75 and married women a median age
of death of 79. For divorced or single persons the median age of death was
57 for men and 71 for women.
Conclusion The 'hate crimes' gays complain about are infrequent and seldom
involve more than name-calling or snide remarks. The FBI reported 431 hate
crimes against homosexuals for the U.S. in all of 1991. Only one was
"confirmed" for Washington, D.C. - yet D.C. gay activists claimed 397
incidents! When pressed, they admitted that at least 366 of these "crimes"
consisted of "verbal harassment." (23)
In line with traditional psychiatric opinion, violence goes hand-in-hand
with the 'gay' lifestyle. Almost all the exposure by homosexuals to
violence and disease is encountered in the gay subculture. Most of the
murderers in the lifespan study whose sexual orientation could be
determined were also homosexual. While violence toward homosexuals is
deplorable, most violence involving gays is self-induced (and the gay
subculture may export more violence than it absorbs from without).
Copyright 1993, Family Research Institute, Inc. This educational pamphlet
has been produced by Family Research Institute, Inc., Dr. Paul Cameron,
Chairman. A complete report is available for a donation of $25 in the U.S.,
$40 foreign, postage included. Other pamphlets in the series include: What
Causes Homosexual Desire? Child Molestation and Homosexuality Medical
Consequences of What Homosexuals Do Violence and Homosexuality Born
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Colorado - A Political Shell Game with Charities (FRC)
Colorado's House Majority Leader, Alice Madden (D), is unwittingly providing a lesson in political gamesmanship to the religious community and everyone should take note.
Last year the Colorado legislature enacted a state version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which forces businesses to forfeit their religious convictions in matters of firing, hiring, and promotion regardless of a person's faith, age, gender, or sexual orientation.
In a classic move to abate opposition from the religious community, they exempted religious organizations like Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army that provide social services. Madden, who supported the exemption last year, has now introduced H.B. 1080, a bill that would put religious charities under these onerous requirements and clearly violate the religious tenets of many of them.
This is just another example of the growing tendency to use religious exemptions to lull Christian groups into a false security only to pull those exemptions out from under them later on.
The area's religious organizations are understandably upset at the leadership's about-face on the law and intend to do all they can to stop it.
As Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver wrote, "Catholic Charities has no interest at all in generic dogoodism... When it can no longer have the freedom it needs to be 'Catholic,' it will end its services."
That would be devastating news to the disadvantaged families in the area who for the last 33 years have relied on the generosity of such religious charities. In my opinion, Madden has to be pretty desperate to make a political point if she's willing to let peop