The Intolerance of "Tolerance"

Doublespeak in the Orwellian Age

AUSTRALIA:  VICTIMS  OF VICTORIA'S RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE LAW

Drawing The Line At Gay Marriage

Courrant - Ap 6/05 - Donna Scales, a 62-year-old grandmother from suburban Portland, Ore., never had much interest in politics.

But last year, when the state's voters were asked to approve a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage, Scales enthusiastically planted a lawn sign in her yard proclaiming her support for the ban.

It's not that Scales has a problem extending some form of legal recognition to gay and lesbian couples. "Of course, if you've spent your life with someone and that person is in the hospital, you should have the right to visit them," she says. "That's just human compassion."

But Scales draws a hard line at marriage, a line she is unwilling to cross.

"It has nothing to do with rights," says Scales, who has been married to the same man for 33 years. "It goes much deeper than that."

Scales is part of a broad swath of the American public - a decisive majority, according to polls - that believes marriage should remain what it has long been: a union between a man and a woman.

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Lesbians refuse access to child 


Apr 20, 2004 



Ap 20/04 - OneNews - A lesbian couple at the centre of a custody dispute over their two-year-old son fathered by a Sydney gay man fear repercussions from publicity over their case.

An Auckland court has granted the child's biological father shared guardianship of his son with the boy's biological mother Fiona Miles and her lesbian partner Brendan Carrigan, The Daily Telegraph reported.

The two-year-old boy was conceived after an agreement between the couple from Auckland and their friends, a Sydney gay couple.

But after the baby was born, the couples fell out and the women moved back to Auckland, refusing the men access.

Miles, a paediatrician, said her submissions to the court had been "lost in the system" and were not reflected in the details made public.

She said she was unable to comment on the details of the judgement 


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Ex-Homosexual Ministry Leader Says Truth is Coming Out
-- Despite Activist Criticism, 'Love Won Out' Events Show Change Is Possible
By Allie Martin and Jenni Parker
February 15, 2005

(AgapePress) - An official with Exodus International, the world's largest resource and referral organization dealing with homosexuality, says homosexual activists are not showing tolerance when it comes to a series of billboards promoting an upcoming conference in Houston, Texas. 

Sixteen billboards advertising an upcoming Love Won Out conference have been placed around the Houston area. The billboards feature pictures of former homosexuals offering a message of hope and change -- individuals who profess that it is possible to leave the "gay" lifestyle. Exodus International sponsored the ads in preparation for the public seminar, an event co-sponsored by Focus on the Family and designed to examine the roots and causes of homosexuality.

The one-day Love Won Out conference, which has been held in 30 cities worldwide, is scheduled to make its first stop in Houston this Saturday. The event focuses on the hope and help available for those who struggle with unwanted homosexuality, largely through the personal testimonies of former homosexuals. Exodus International participates in the conference, offering support to people who want to leave homosexuality and providing them with long-term guidance and resources through member chapters in the region.

Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International and a featured speaker of the conference, says the ministry sponsored the billboards "in the hopes that many in Houston will, possibly for the first time, question the permanence of homosexuality." He himself left the homosexual lifestyle in 1991 and has gone on to become an accomplished writer and much sought-after speaker on the subject. 

"Thousands of people, like myself, felt trapped by homosexuality and found an escape through Jesus Christ," Chambers says. "Our life stories challenge many misconceptions about homosexuality and we want the public to hear another aspect of this difficult issue." 

However, the outcry from pro-homosexual activists has been swift and vehement in protest against the conference and its organizers. Those involved with the event, along with the billboards promoting it, have been labeled hateful by some homosexual groups and their supporters. Chambers says that is because many people involved in or supportive of the homosexual lifestyle "don't want the truth to be told." 

(AgapePress) - In this day of "tolerance," a pro-family activists says there is one group that is never tolerated by those who consider themselves politically correct: "ex-gays."

Following a "Gay Pride Week" observance, a Virginia school system rejected the idea of allowing ex-homosexuals to address its student body. Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute says "ex-gays" seem to have no standing at all.

"People who have overcome homosexuality -- who thought they were born gay and couldn't change and then realized that they could -- are said to be non-existent," Knight says. "They're continually blocked from public access."

Knight says one can find the same discrimination of former homosexuals at the television network level as well. "The networks have had a problem for years because homosexual activists have used veto power in terms of who is booked for programs," he explains. "I myself have experienced that. I've been scheduled to go on network programs with Stephen Bennett and other former homosexuals, and I was told that a segment that had been scheduled was now cancelled because the homosexual activists refused to go on [the program] with an ex-gay."

Bennett, an outspoken former homosexual who now heads a Christian ministry, was scheduled recently to be on Good Morning America to discuss an upcoming controversial PBS broadcast. He was slated to appear with two lesbians in a GMA segment, but they informed the network they would not appear with Bennett. He believes he was booted from the program because of the lesbians' "intolerance and bigotry" toward him for being a former homosexual. (See related story)

"[Homosexual activists] just don't dare allow ex-gays to have a platform," says Knight.

Knight, who is not an ex-homosexual, challenges the homosexual agenda and debates it often, wherever he is allowed to appear.

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Hate Crimes Report - Four Christians still under attack by Pennsylvania District Attorney

AIDS rate for homosexuals climbs; data called 'astonishing'

By Michael Foust

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (12/2/2004)--New statistics showing that homosexual men make up 44 percent of all new HIV and AIDS cases underscore the fact that homosexuality itself is unnatural, a prominent leader in the ex-homosexual community says.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data Dec. 2 showing that the number of newly diagnosed HIV and AIDS cases has increased 11 percent among homosexual men. The data spanned a four-year period ending in 2003.

Despite the fact that homosexual men make up only 1 to 2 percent of the population, they nonetheless made up more than 40 percent of the new cases, the data showed.

Tim Wilkins, head of Cross Ministry, Inc. -- a Christian outreach to homosexuals -- called the data "astonishing."

"If homosexuality was normal and natural, you would not have a disease that spreads as ravenously as this does," said Wilkins, who is married now but once was involved in homosexuality.

Homosexual activists responded to the news by calling for better education and prevention -- for instance, the promotion of condom usage. But Wilkins said the problem can be found in homosexual sex itself. Men were not made to have sex with men, he said.

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Answering Advocates of Gay Marriage - Part 1

Katherine K. Young is professor of the history of religions, and Paul Nathanson is a researcher, at McGill University. This paper was presented at Emory University, Atlanta, GA on May 14, 2003.

There's nothing wrong with homosexuality. One of us, in fact, is gay. We oppose gay marriage, not gay relationships (which are already supported by most of the economic and legal benefits given to common-law couples and should be supported by all).

Most people assume that heterosexuality is a given of nature and thus not vulnerable to cultural change, that nothing will ever discourage straight people from getting together and starting families. But we argue - and this is important - that heterosexual bonding must indeed be deliberately fostered by a distinctive and supportive culture.

Because heterosexual bonding is directly related to both reproduction and survival, and because it involves much more than copulation, all human societies have actively fostered it (although some have also allowed or even encouraged homosexuality in specific circumstances). This is done through culture: rules, customs, laws, symbols, rituals, incentives, rewards, and other public mechanisms. So deeply embedded are these, however, that few people are consciously aware of them.

Much of what is accomplished in animals by nature ("biology," "genetics," or "instinct" ) must be accomplished in humans by culture (all other aspects of human existence, including marriage). If culture were removed, the result wouldn't be a functioning organism whether human or non-human. Apart from any other handicap would be the inability to reproduce successfully. Why? Because mating (sexual intercourse), which really is largely governed by a biological drive, isn't synonymous with the complex behaviours required by family life within a larger human society.

So how could marriage be harmed by adding a few gay couples? A good question, especially when you consider the deplorable state of marriage right now, which has been caused by hedonistic and irresponsible straight people.

Claim 1: Marriage is an institution designed to foster the love between two people. Gay people can love each other just as straight people can. Ergo, marriage should be open to gay people.

Claim 2: Not all straight couples have children, but no one argues that their marriages are unacceptable.

Claim 3: Some gay couples do have children and therefore need marriage to provide the appropriate context.

Claim 4: Marriage and the family are always changing anyway, so why not allow this change?

Claim 5: Marriage and the family have already changed, so why not acknowledge the reality?

Claim 6: Children would be no worse off with happily married gay parents than they are with unhappily married straight ones.

Claim 7: Given global overpopulation, why would anyone worry about some alleged need to have more children in any case?

Claim 8: Marriage should change, whether it already has or not, because patriarchal institutions are evil.

Claim 9: Gay marriage has had historical and anthropological precedents.

Claim 10: Banning gay marriage is like banning interracial marriage.

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Answering Advocates of Gay Marriage - Part 2

Claim 11: The case for gay marriage is more "poignant" than the case against it.

Claim 12: Gay marriage is necessary for the self-esteem of a minority.

Claim 13: Anyone who opposes same-sex marriage is homophobic.

Claim 14: Exceptions could be made for religious communities that disapprove of gay marriage, or religious communities could simply add their rites to those of the state.

Claim 15: To sustain an "ethic of caring and responsibility," we must include gay people in every institution.

Claim 16: Norms of any kind at all are discriminatory.

Claim 17: Almost everyone believes in equality. How can we have that if gay citizens are denied the same rights as other citizens?

Claim 18: Winning the struggle for gay marriage is important for the cause of gay liberation.

Claim 19: What about majority rule in democratic countries?

Claim 20: But gay people are a small minority. Allowing them to marry would mean nothing more than a slight alteration to the existing system and would even add support for the institution. What's all the fuss about?

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Atheistocracy

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WAS BORN because King Henry VIII was religiously forbidden to marry as he wished.

The United States today and much of the rest of the former British Empire is today predominantly Protestant, not Roman Catholic, because of this schism caused by one man’s divorce and re-marriage.

But today the Church of England, with 70 million Anglican Communicants worldwide, may be on the verge of breaking apart over the issue of who may marry whom.

If the Anglican and closely related Episcopal churches accept, perform or sanctify same-sex marriages, conservative members and even member-nation churches now threaten to split away.

The foremost wedge driving this split at the moment is the liberal state Canadian Church, one of whose Bishops has already published a marriage rite for homosexual couples. The first “officially sanctioned” Anglican same-sex “wedding” has already been conducted in Vancouver.

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Australian Church Rejects Homosexual Ordination

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief

October 11, 2004

Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - Australia's Anglican (Episcopalian) Church has voted not to condone the blessing of same-sex relationships or to ordain people in such relationships.

Participants at a general synod - the church's "national parliament" - held in Western Australia also passed a motion opposing sex outside of marriage for heterosexuals - and congratulated Australia's federal government for outlawing same-sex "marriage."


The decisions come shortly before the titular leader of the world's Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, is to announce the findings of commission established after the U.S. appointed the world's first openly homosexual Episcopal bishop.

Due to be released on Oct. 18, the report will provide the church's response both to Gene Robinson's appointment as bishop of New Hampshire and to the Canadian church's blessing of same-sex couples.

As elsewhere in the Anglican Communion in the West, the church in Australia has been divided between evangelicals who base their view on Scripture and a "progressive" wing which says biblical teachings are open to interpretation and should be placed in cultural and historical context.

After an emotive debate, the general synod late last week passed a motion saying that it "does not condone the liturgical blessing of same-sex relationships" and another saying it "does not condone the ordination of people in open, committed, same-sex relationships."

Both resolutions also stressed that "this is a matter of ongoing debate and conversation in this church and ... we all have an obligation to listen to each other with respect."

A third resolution welcomed legislation passed by federal parliament last August stipulating that marriage is "the union of a man and a women to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life."

A leading conservative from Sydney, the Rev. Bruce Ballantine-Jones, asserted that the church had for 2,000 years held the position that "any sex outside marriage is sinful and that includes heterosexual and homosexual activity."

"Just because in the latter part of the 20th century sociological forces have given rise to the gay movement, which has impacted in the church, is no reason for the church to turn its back on the clear teaching," he said.

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Court Upholds Fla. Gay Adoption Ban

MIAMI - July 22/04 - Florida's ban on adoptions by gays narrowly withstood another legal challenge, but some dissenting federal judges condemned the nation's only such blanket prohibition.

In a 6-6 vote, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta declined Wednesday to reconsider the case of four gay men who had appealed an earlier adverse ruling by a three-judge panel of the court.

in a sharply worded dissent, Judge Rosemary Barkett noted that no other groups, including child molesters and domestic abusers, are barred from adopting in Florida.

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Gay Marriage Amendment Heads to Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas on Thursday certified a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage as having enough signatures to qualify for a spot on the November ballot.

The proposed amendment would stipulate that marriage is between a man and a woman and ban same-sex marriages and civil unions in Arkansas.

Arkansas already has a law banning same-sex marriage but the ballot measure, if it passes, would move the ban on the constitutional level.

At least eight other states, and possibly as many as 12, will have similar items on their ballots this summer and fall.

The vote in Arkansas will be Nov. 2, along with tallies in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma and Utah. Missouri will vote on Aug. 3. and Louisiana on Sept. 18.

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Here is a link to contact your Senators:

http://www.senate.gov/index.htm 

Here are some noteworthy articles on the subject from the respected "Weekly Standard":

Beyond Gay Marriage The road to polyamory.

(July 6/04 -) AFTER GAY MARRIAGE, what will become of marriage itself? Will same-sex matrimony extend marriage's stabilizing effects to homosexuals? Will gay marriage undermine family life? A lot is riding on the answers to these questions. But the media's reflexive labeling of doubts about gay marriage as homophobia has made it almost impossible to debate the social effects of this reform. Now...

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The End of Marriage in Scandinavia
The "conservative case" for same-sex marriage collapses.

(July 6/04 -) MARRIAGE IS SLOWLY DYING IN SCANDINAVIA. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade or more. Same-sex marriage has locked in and reinforced an existing Scandinavian trend toward the separation of marriage and parenthood.

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Going Dutch?

(July 6/04 -) A careful look at the decade-long campaign for same-sex marriage in the Netherlands shows that one of its principal themes was the effort to dislodge the conviction that parenthood and marriage are intrinsically linked.

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Episcopal Church USA

Missouri votes to ban same-sex marriage

(Aug 5-2004) (UK) - America's religious right claimed a victory yesterday in the campaign to cast November's elections as a struggle over public morality after a battleground state voted for a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Some 71% of voters in Missouri supported amending the state's constitution to ban same-sex unions. "I'm very gratified ... that the people of this state understand our current policy is a wise public policy and they want to see it protected from a legal challenge," said Vicky Hartzler, from the Coalition to Protect Marriage in Missouri.

Hours later, a county court judge in Washington state arrived at a different conclusion about the institution of marriage, ruling that it would be unconstitutional to deny gay couples the right to wed. However, the state will await the legal opinion of a higher court before it issues marriage licences to same-sex couples.

The high-profile divisions on gay marriage all but guarantee the issue a place in the elections, especially in battleground states across the American midwest.

Missouri was the first of as many as 12 states scheduled to vote on the constitutionality of same-sex marriages in the coming weeks.

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Dr. Dobson's Views on DOMA

http://www.wevotevalues.com/downlink.html (pdf)

The Positive Results of the DOMA Vote

Agape Press -Jul 19/04 -The head of a Christian legal organization says Capitol Hill has been shaken by the voices of Americans who support traditional marriage and want it protected from judicial efforts to redefine it. Despite losing the vote that would have ended a Democratic filibuster of the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), the voices of pro-family Americans have been heard -- and it has many elected officials on Capitol Hill worried. 

Liberty Counsel president Mat Staver explains part of what transpired in Washington, DC, over the days leading up to the vote. "We [had] over three-million petitions being delivered to the Senate in just a matter of a couple of days -- [and] for two days, the Senate voicemail system was literally shut down and inoperable because of the overwhelming response," the attorney says. And in one case, Staver says Senator Bill Nelson of Florida "received a thousand calls in favor and only one in opposition" to the FMA.

 Democrats are concerned that this will become a campaign issue that could hurt them. Former President Bill Clinton has reportedly warned John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, not to get involved in the marriage debate or the abortion debate prior to the November election. But pro-marriage groups plan to make it an election issue.

Source: Agape Press News Service

Was Your Elected Official One of the Sellouts in the Senate ?

In their public statements they say they oppose homosexual marriage. They make wonderful speeches in support of the Pro-Family agenda. They use terms and phrases such as "Family Values" and "The Sanctity of Marriage." But, when the chips were down -- and it was time to stand up and be counted --- many caved in to the radical homosexual agenda.

Today, over half of the United States Senate cast votes AGAINST the Pro-Family Movement. In a political year, they were more afraid of offending the Homosexual Community -- and losing a few votes and a few campaign dollars -- then they were of losing the support of the millions and millions of Americans who believe marriage is a sacred union that can only be formed between a man and a woman.

Do they think that, since the alternative might be worse, we will have no choice but to hold our noses and vote for them again? This time they are wrong.

We will not forget their cowardly rejection of a vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment this Election Day or on future Election Days.

Many organizations will be "Scoring" this vote in their Congressional Score Cards. Those who stood with us will be remembered and rewarded; those who betrayed traditional marriage, family values, and our children will not be forgotten.

California Official Rules in favor of BAN on Gay Marriage

SAN FRANCISCO - Laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman do not run afoul of California's constitution,

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Friday, Oct 2004

Pope Denounces Gay Marriage in Canada

Sep 4, 2004

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II kept up his campaign against gay marriage Saturday, telling the ambassador from Canada - where some provinces allow same-sex couples to wed - that such unions create a "false understanding" of marriage.

In past months, the pope urged authorities to stop approving gay marriages, saying that they degrade the true sense of marriage.

The pope spoke Saturday to the new Canadian Ambassador to the Holy See, Donald Smith.

"The institution of marriage necessarily entails the complementarity of husbands and wives who participate in God's creative activity through the raising of children," said the pontiff, according to the text of the speech released by the Vatican.

"Spouses thereby ensure the survival of society and culture, and rightly deserve specific and categorical legal recognition by the State.

"Any attempts to change the meaning of the word 'spouse' contradict right reason: legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to marriage, cannot be applied to unions between persons of the same sex without creating a false understanding of the nature of marriage."

Three Canadian provinces, accounting for about 70 percent of the country's 31 million people, allow same-sex marriage: Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. The ruling Liberal Party has promised legislation legalizing gay marriage, perhaps next year after Canada's Supreme Court gives a nonbinding opinion on a tentative bill.

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Gay snub lands hotelier in hot water

LONDON (Reuters) - July 1/04 - Guest-house owner Tom Forrest in the wild Scottish highlands was adamant when two London homosexuals wanted to book a room with a double bed -- not in my house you don't.

They could have twin beds, but not a double. "We will not condone your sexual perversion," he told them in an e-mail.

The case has become a cause celebre, highlighting the limits of public acceptance of homosexuality and prompting demands from gay lobbyists for a change in the law.

Forrest, owner of the Cromasaig guest house in Kinlochewe, some 50 miles west of Inverness, was not answering the phone on Thursday but has pledged not to back down.

The Seduction of Our Youth: Christian Parents Are Discovering It CAN Happen Here 


This may well be one of the most important articles to be published. It is written in response to numerous conversations I have had recently with concerned Christians--including hurting parents and troubled pastors. The concern is over the disturbing trend of Christian teens being lured away from biblical faith and morality into a distorted, self-focused, relativistic spirituality with broad, muddied sexual boundaries.

What they are learning through different forms of media and in school is impacting a growing number of our young people.

Not long back the National Education Association and American Psychological Association published and distributed a pamphlet entitled: Just the Facts, sending it to school superintendents. The coalition's aim was as follows: 

1) to advise schools against sexual-reorientation therapy. 
2) to warn administrators that gay clubs must be accepted; 
3) to caution schools about scientific literature that presents heterosexuality as the norm.[1] 

I have mentioned on numerous occasions that most of the American public--including Christians are clueless as to the diabolical, systematic agenda the gay community has meticulously carried out over the past thirty years.

For example, the removal of homosexuality as a psychological disorder from the American Psychiatric Association's DSM (Diagnostic Statical Manual) in the early 1970's was not the result of convincing, newly discovered evidence which clearly established the theory that this sexual orientation and expression was genetic (in-born). 

On the contrary, it was the result of powerful, subversive gay activism.

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Homosexual leader vows to 'torture' opponents
Has plans to 'go in and terrify' officials who oppose 'gay' agenda


The head of a national homosexual organization is vowing to politically "punish," "terrify" and "torture" activists who oppose his organization's agenda on "gay" rights – which he says would give him "endless satisfaction."

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Protect New York's Children from the Gay Elite

In my book The Death of Right and Wrong I warn about the sexualization and targeting of children by the radical gay fringe. The announcement that a school in New York will open in September and be the first publicly run “gay high school” is a testament to that vile and loathsome agenda. 

Do not be cowed with arguments that if you’re against this you’re a “homophobe.” In fact, the unforgivable crime is if we remain silent allowing children to be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness, as we sit and watch gay malignant narcissists make a wild grab for children. Well, it won’t be done in my name, and I contend that every decent hetero- and homosexual person out there should be equally outraged by this hideous action.

Not all of this, however, is inexplicable. As I outline in detail in DRW, there is a sick movement among the homosexual academics and the radical gay fringe to change the age of sexual consent in this nation to 12-years-old. As sexually transmitted diseases for both hetero- and homosexuals increases and HIV/AIDS runs rampant, the goal by some to have access to children (untouched virgins, free of disease) has increased.

This agenda is facilitated by efforts like the "gay high school," which, in my opinion, furthers the sexualization of children.

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If you ask me if I miss living as a lesbian, my answer to you would be, "No way!"

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UK/Wales: Education officials condemned over Child Molesting abuse 'cover up'


Thursday July 1, 2004

The handling by education officials of allegations of sexual abuse against a TV writer and drama teacher was so poor as to constitute a cover up, according to a damning report by the Welsh children's commissioner.

An inquiry into the activities of John Owen, who killed himself in October 2001 before he was due to stand trial over five charges of molesting boys at a south Wales school, found that one official failed in his duty of care so badly that he may have broken the law.

The children's commissioner, Peter Clarke, said he believed that on the balance of probabilities, Owen did sexually abuse children at the Rhydfelen school in Pontrypridd, south Wales, over a number of years.

His inquiry report, published today, concluded that officials at Mid Glamorgan local education authority (LEA) made a "deal" with Owen, who was 47 when he died, to keep a lid on the child abuse allegations. This meant that the matter was never referred to the police or social services, leaving the teacher free to abuse further children.

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OOPS ? California governor Arnold not opposed to same-sex marriage

SUMMARY: Arnold Schwarzenegger , California's Republican governor, affirmed that he had no particular objection to same-sex marriage Thursday.

Yahoo News- Jun 25/04 - A curiously candid Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's Republican governor, admitted that he had no particular objection to same-sex marriage while meandering from table to table during a lunchtime visit to Romano's Macaroni Grill in Folsom, Calif. on Thursday.

The forthright admission came on the same day that the California state Assembly voted 42-27 to oppose a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage -- a measure backed by President Bush . The resolution heads to the Senate, and, if passed, it does not require the governor's signature. In the past, the governor's remarks on the issue have been difficult to interpret.

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POLITICALLY CORRECT POLICE

Canada - In the now infamous "Bijou" episode, it was revealed that police were to turn a blind eye to homosexual customers committing indecent acts on the premises.

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Gay in the U.K not a done deal

What Percentage (%) of the Population is Homosexual ?

Of the sexually active adults surveyed, 98.5 percent have been exclusively heterosexual during the past year.  Less than one percent were exclusively homosexual.

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2 Million African-American Christians Form Coalition for Traditional Marriage

The Gay Inquisition By Camille Paglia

On July 13, C-SPAN 2 aired a remarkable tape of a debate among open gays about gay ideology that took place at the New School in New York City on June 27. Unfortunately, the debate too often resembled an inquisition.

The miscreants summoned to answer for their sins were Andrew Sullivan, one of the most prolific and accomplished public intellectuals in the U.S. and U.K., and Norah Vincent, a courageous and outspoken libertarian whose columns appear in the Los Angeles Times, the Advocate, and the Jewish World Review.

No better evidence could be sought of the current deplorable state of gay activism, with its ranting, sanctimonious demagogues and reactionary insularity. The moderator, Joan Garry, the executive director of GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), was well-intentioned but painfully out of her depth in managing the give and take of ideas. Though she trumpeted her neutrality, she repeatedly cut off discussion when her activist friends on the panel were closely questioned by other panelists or the audience.

The two avowed leftists on stage were Carmen Vasquez, director of public policy of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Services Center, and Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, who has obsessively vilified Sullivan and Vincent (as well as me) for years. Vasquez, who was amiable in the peppy style of a high-school volleyball coach, appeared to be totally unprepared for the debate. She tried to conceal her lack of knowledge of the published writing of Sullivan and Vincent with canned, off-the-point stump speeches about corrupt corporations, global warming, and the Big Bad Republicans, all designed to elicit cheers from her claque. Her effusions were logically disconnected and baffling in syntax. At her daffiest, she seemed to be trapped in a Gilda Radner parody on Saturday Night Live.

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Missouri votes to ban same-sex marriage

Thursday August 5, 2004

America's religious right claimed a victory yesterday in the campaign to cast November's elections as a struggle over public morality after a battleground state voted for a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Some 71% of voters in Missouri supported amending the state's constitution to ban same-sex unions. "I'm very gratified ... that the people of this state understand our current policy is a wise public policy and they want to see it protected from a legal challenge," said Vicky Hartzler, from the Coalition to Protect Marriage in Missouri.

Hours later, a county court judge in Washington state arrived at a different conclusion about the institution of marriage, ruling that it would be unconstitutional to deny gay couples the right to wed. However, the state will await the legal opinion of a higher court before it issues marriage licences to same-sex couples.

The high-profile divisions on gay marriage all but guarantee the issue a place in the elections, especially in battleground states across the American midwest.

Missouri was the first of as many as 12 states scheduled to vote on the constitutionality of same-sex marriages in the coming weeks.

AIDS in Britain: why complacency is justified
Heterosexual AIDS has remained a mercifully rare disease - and it is getting rarer.

According to public health supremo Dr Angus Nicoll, 'None of us can afford to be complacent about HIV - the safer sex message applies to everyone' (1).

The good news that is worrying the medical moralists is that, after all the doomsday scenarios - and not forgetting the devastation it is causing in parts of Africa - AIDS is a declining problem in Britain. The figures show that, some 20 years after the first cases of AIDS in Britain, it remains confined to well-recognised high-risk categories.

While 'safer sex' makes sense for those at high risk, everyone else can indeed afford to be complacent and enjoy an active sex life without worrying about the dangers of AIDS.

When I joined my current practice in Hackney some 15 years ago, there was a general expectation that we would soon be looking after large numbers of AIDS cases. It is a large inner London practice in which the main risk groups for HIV - gay men, drug users, immigrants from Africa - are well represented. 

Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick is the author of MMR ...

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Stage shocker lifts lid on gay domestic abuse

Edinburgh festival play's creators say it is time to be open about violence in same-sex relationships

August 1, 2004

An uncompromising play about hidden violence and cruelty inside gay relationships is set to provoke a row as Edinburgh's Fringe arts festival opens this weekend.

The content of Say Sorry, a show by a new theatre group, is as upsetting to some members of the gay community as it will be to those who are regularly outraged by intimate portrayals of same-sex couples on stage.

The play highlights an issue that many gay men and lesbians believe should be played down, according to the show's creator.

'For them the problem is that it is a negative portrayal of the community,' said Alex Baker, who devised the play and takes the role of the abuser in it.

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All-party backing for gay museum
Monday June 7, 2004

All the main mayoral candidates in London are backing proposals to open a gay museum recognising and celebrating Britain's "secret history" of homosexuality.

Ken Livingstone, the current mayor, and his Conservative and Liberal Democrat challengers have pledged support for a permanent institution, including everything from early accounts of "molly houses" - the gay bars of the 18th century - to banners and T-shirts from the recent campaign against Section 28.

"I'm afraid whoever you elect, you're going to get it. What's not to like?" asked Steve Norris, the Tory candidate, admitting he "stole" the idea from the Green party's Darren Johnson, who included it in his gay-friendly manifesto for London.

"It's part of the way in which we show London to be a welcoming and enjoyable society.

Petrosexuality: When common sense deserts us

Media makes light of sexual assault on 8-year-old boy

Nov 12/04 - Earlier this week, a 29-year-old Connecticut woman, Tammy Imre was charged with one count each of sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. The charges stem from sexual assaults committed on an 8-year-old boy, who was a playmate of her 7-year-old daughter. Imre claimed that the little boy was her "boyfriend" whom she planned to marry some day and did not know how many times she had sexually assaulted him. On some occasions these assaults took place in front of the single mother’s little girl.

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Australia on Homosexual Law Reform

About to get LOUDER

Your Advertising Dollars at work

Viacom is in preliminary discussions to launch a gay cable network in the United States, the media giant's chairman and chief executive said Tuesday

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Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada's New Social Experiment

Gay Marriage: Not A Very Good Idea

Nature itself discriminates

The word discriminate simply means to differentiate, to distinguish. When I chose my wife over millions of other women, I discriminated. When a professional basketball team chooses a two and a half meter athlete over me, it is discriminating. When societies pass laws saying 7 year-olds cannot get a driver's license, they are discriminating. When a nation says a 4 year-old does not have the right to vote, it is discriminating.

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KEY LEGAL CASES INVOLVING FREE SPEECH and the FIRST AMENDMENT 

(TO U.S. Bill of Rights, Rights that ALL American Citizens have)

Hague v. C.I.O., 307 U.S. 496 (1939).
The United States Supreme Court held that citizens have a "guaranteed access" to streets, parks, and other "traditional public forum." The privilege to use the streets and parks for communication of views may be regulated in the best interests of all, but it must not, under the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied. Mere inconvenience to the government will not outweigh free speech interests. The government must use the least restrictive means of achieving legitimate, content neutral objectives. 


Schneider v. State, 308 U.S. 147 (1939). The United States Supreme Court did not allow cities to completely forbid leaflet distribution in order to prevent littering. The objective of keeping the streets clean does not outweigh the right to distribute literature in public. 


Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51 (1965). Public officials may not be given overly broad discretion to grant or deny permits or licenses for free speech. 

Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940). Speech may not be prohibited merely because it offends some listeners. 

Kunz v. New York, 340 U.S. 290 (1951). The United States Supreme Court did not allow a permit to include any restrictions on a speaker's right of free expression. Permits may not be used as a prior restraint on free speech activities. Inappropriate or illegal activities may only be punished after they have occurred. 

Forsyth County v. The Nationalist Movement, 112 S.Ct. 2395 (1992). A city may not consider the listeners' reaction to a speaker when permitting free speech activities. 

Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536 (1965). Hecklers may not be allowed to veto a speaker's right of free speech. Police must control a crowd rather than arrest the speaker in order to maintain order. Regulations may be imposed on free speech to control traffic flow. 

Gregory v. City of Chicago, 394 U.S. 111 (1969). Peaceful marching, chanting, and singing is protected by the First Amendment. 

Grayned v. Rockford, 408 U.S. 104 (1972). Free speech expression may be regulated for noise content in appropriate places such as hospitals or schools while classes are in session. The general test is to ask whether the expressive activity is basically incompatible with the normal activities of a particular place at a particular time. Unamplified speech is permissible for "street preachers" on public streets.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Not to be construed as legal advice. This is not intended to be, and does not constitute, the giving of legal advice. It is only a summary of the legal rights of U. S. citizens. It's important that one understand and be aware of decisions by the U. S. Supreme Court.