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<<Back Blackwell Compares Gay Couples, Farm AnimalsSYLVANIA -- Ohio's Secretary of State is coming out strong in support of Issue One, the measure that would ban same-sex marriage. Kenneth Blackwell spoke to an energized crowd at the Cathedral of Praise Tuesday night. Blackwell said it's time for people of God to take a stand. He even drew a comparison between same-sex couples and farm animals. "I don't know how many of you have a farming background but I can tell you right now that notion even defies barnyard logic ... the barnyard knows better," said Blackwell referring to the...

MORE than half a century after the publication of his landmark study, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," Alfred C. Kinsey remains one of the most influential figures in American intellectual history. He's certainly the only entomologist ever to be immortalized in a Cole Porter song. Thanks to him, it's now common knowledge that almost all men masturbate, that women peak sexually in their mid-30's and that homosexuality is not some one-in-a-million anomaly. His studies helped bring sex - all kinds of sex, not just the stork-summoning kind - out of the closet and into the bright light of day....

The better advocates of gay marriage are an ingenious crowd, full of artful arguments to support their claim. Initially, most of us on the other side found it hard to believe a countervailing argument was necessary, and by the time it became clear that neither "Oh, come off it, you can't be serious" nor "Well, I dunno, it just don't sound right" were going to suffice, the gays were already on their way to victory in the only arenas that matter — the media and the courts. But the activists' intellectual rigour only goes so far. If you suggest, as...

The Orlando man accused of injecting his male sex partners with tainted blood has reached a plea agreement with federal attorneys that clears him of any charges connected to sexual crimes, according to Local 6 News. In February, agents raided a garage in Orlando and confiscated videotapes and bloody syringes that they believed were evidence of sex crimes committed by Mark Randall. An investigation had determined that Randall was reportedly having sex parties in the garage of his home at 211 E. Kaley St. and possibly injecting the men with blood. According to earlier court records, four witnesses said "Randall...

Dead babies are being traded for thousands of dollars by a secretive network of collectors who prize them as trophies. Some of the trophies - dating from as far back as the Victorian age - were stillborn. Aborted foetuses are also among the collections. Most are kept in the homes of British collectors after being sold by medical institutions or schools that are closing down. Specimens are changing hands for more than £5000 ($13,000) each. The Royal College of Surgeons of England described the trade, which is legal in Britain, as "horrific" and "wholly inappropriate". "I am absolutely horrified at...

Collectors pay more than £5000 for dead foetuses By Daniel Foggo and Fiona Govan (Filed: 01/08/2004) Dead babies are being traded for thousands of pounds by a secretive network of collectors who prize them as trophies. The children, who were either stillborn or aborted as foetuses, are being kept in people's homes after being sold by medical institutions or schools that are closing down. Specimens are changing hands for more than £5,000 each. Last night, the Royal College of Surgeons of England described the trade, which is legal, as "horrific" and "wholly inappropriate". Simon Chaplin, a senior curator of the...

Ex-employees say they saved dentist's syringes Workers testify they were suspicious of Hall's actions with patients KAREN GARLOCH Staff Writer RALEIGH - Two former employees of Cornelius dentist Dr. John Hall became suspicious of his behavior in May 2003 and, over the next few months, collected five syringes from his office that were found to contain his semen, according to testimony Saturday before the N.C. Board of Dental Examiners. Cheryl Lynn MacLeod of Concord said she found it unusual when Hall began asking her to leave a patient's side to retrieve items that he didn't end up using, when she...

RALEIGH - An Atlanta psychiatrist testified Sunday she doesn't think Dr. John Hall, a Cornelius dentist accused of injecting semen into the mouths of six female patients, has a psychiatric illness or an interest in deviant sex. Dr. Tracey Irvin, of the Behavioral Medicine Institute, told a panel of the N.C. Board of Dental Examiners that she evaluated Hall for three days in November and also talked with three of his employees and reviewed dental board investigation records. "I did not feel that the information that I had supported that he had been involved with what he had been accused...

Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz and catcher Eddie Perez reportedly made anti-gay comments last week during interviews with the Associated Press, including Smoltz comparing same-sex marriage to legalizing bestiality. The AP article, published July 3, examined homophobia in professional sports and the prospects of a gay player coming out in baseball, basketball, football or hockey.But Smoltz spoke specifically about the most dominant social issue in the gay rights movement, marriage equality, sparking one local activist to demand an apology.“Smoltz, a devout Christian, criticized those who want to legalize gay marriage,” the AP reported. “‘What’s next? Marrying an animal?’ he asked...

This week's thread was a joint venture with Rambette66, my luscious wife. Please give her a round of applause! Anti-War Anti-Bush idiots Useful Idiots took advantage of President Bush's trip to Ireland and Turkey to offer the usual protest nonsequitors. President Bush was greeted in Ireland by thousands of protestors like these. Erin go blech!Thinking, "I keep playing 'Peekaboo', but all I can see is the inside of my sigmoid colon."Take a look at the idiot on the right: Looks like somebody got drunk and got lost on the way to his bowling league.Captain Morgan's idiot son Rudy attends an...

NEW YORK -- Gay pride parade-goers danced down Fifth Avenue and waved rainbow flags Sunday in celebration of a movement that has made huge strides this year with the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. "Even 10 years ago I would have said that's the wrong issue," said Ed Glorius, arms entwined around his partner, Dwight Pollard, whom he married in an unofficial ceremony at a Manhattan restaurant last week. "And now I feel very differently." While Massachusetts became the only U.S. state to legally recognize gay marriages following a ruling by its Supreme Judicial Court last November, gay pride...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — An elementary educator who taught classes until last year was charged with having images of nude youths and using his computer to solicit children. It was not clear if any alleged victims had been students of Kelly Karl Bowen (search), 30. "We can't even tell you how many victims there are yet," Assistant Attorney General Russell E. McGuire said at a bond hearing Thursday. "These kids, we need to find out who they are. We need to get them into counseling." The investigation began June 17 when an undercover officer had an Internet chat with someone posing...

VANCOUVER, June 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Critics of Svend Robinson's Bill C-250 were right - the undefined term of "Sexual Orientation," if included into Section 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code, would offer protection for a whole host of deviant "sexual lifestyles," warns the Citizen's Research Institute (CRI). Opponents to the Bill repeatedly asked if "pedophilia" and other "sexual orientations" would be protected under Bill C-250. These critics were ridiculed and mocked because they could foresee the problems that would result from the ill-conceived and undefined term "sexual orientation." CRI notes that on December 18, 2003, Judge Romilly of...

"Should These Conditions Be Normalized?" American Psychiatric Association Symposium Debates Whether Pedophilia, Gender-Identity Disorder, Sexual Sadism Should Remain Mental Illnesses By Linda Ames Nicolosi On Monday, May 19th, 2003 in San Francisco, at a symposium hosted by the American Psychiatric Association, several long-recognized categories of mental illness were discussed for possible removal from the upcoming edition of the psychiatric manual of mental disorders. Among the mental illnesses being debated in the symposium at the APA's annual convention were all the paraphilias--which include pedophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism, and sadomasochism. Also being debated was gender-identity disorder, a condition in which a...

Police: Partiers Injected With Blood At Sex Parties Syringes Of Blood, Sex Harness Found In Man's Garage POSTED: 11:18 am EST February 26, 2004 UPDATED: 2:29 am EST February 27, 2004 Young men attending sex parties in Orlando, Fla., were reportedly drugged and injected with tainted blood inside a man's garage, according to a Local 6 News report. Video Young Men Reportedly Injected With Tainted Blood At Orlando Sex Parties More Strange Stories Authorities arrested Mark Randall, 45, (pictured, left) earlier this month for allegedly trafficking 48 grams of methamphetamine. After an investigation, authorities determined that Randall was reportedly having...

Bad guys get help Even after the mass murders of 9/11, some people still have trouble accepting the fact that evil is a formidable presence in this world. There are hundreds of thousands of children the world over who are being sold into sexual slavery, and little is being done about it, even by the U.S. government. I first encountered this story in 1991 when I traveled to Thailand and bought an 11-year-old girl for less than $200. The negotiation was captured on tape and reported on the program I was then anchoring, "Inside Edition." On the streets of Bangkok,...

The Barna Research Group reported recently that morality in America continued to decline in 2003. Of 1,024 American adults across different religions, 61% approved of gambling as “morally acceptable,” 60% of cohabitation, and 59% of sexual fantasies. Non-prescription drug use was the least acceptable moral choice, with only 17% of adults approving it. Two unsurprising trends held true: Religious people, especially evangelical Christians, found the fewest behaviors acceptable, with atheists and agnostics positing the most behaviors; and younger respondents found a broader range of behaviors morally acceptable, as older respondents expressed more traditionally biblical moral views. The other behaviors evaluated...

From Part I Indeed, what is exerting this irresistible pressure to conform (by "rebelling") on most of today's youth? Just as the military and private schools and Boy Scouts have uniforms, so does the youth culture: baggy pants, backward hats, chokers and other jewelry, body piercings, tattoos and the like. But if uniforms symbolize values and allegiance, a loyalty to a higher (or lower) order, then in this case it's an allegiance to an increasingly defiant musical, social, sexual and cultural world, a mysterious (to parents) realm that seems magically to be drawing millions of children into it. For three...

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles County man who allegedly offered to circumcise young girls in his home was arrested with his girlfriend yesterday in what prosecutors said was the first U.S. criminal case of its kind. Todd Cameron Bertrang, 41, and Robyn Faulkinbury, 24, were arrested by FBI agents at their suburban Canyon Country home and charged with conspiring to perform female genital mutilation on two minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Aveis said it was the first time anyone has been charged under the Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1995. The law prohibits the practice of...

According to the psychiatrist, Heinrich Wilmer, the German cannibal Armin Meiwes, who killed Bernd Brandes and then ate at least 44 pounds of his flesh, is suffering from “emotional problems.” We might say the same, I suppose, of Brandes, who answered Meiwes’s Internet advertisement for “a young, well-built man who wants to be eaten”—though his problems are now past curing. Brandes also had a slightly offbeat sense of humor. On discovering that both he and Meiwes were smokers, he reportedly said, “Good, smoked meat lasts longer.” The case raises interesting questions of principle, even for those who take the thoroughly...

<p>January 7, 2004 -- A city public-school teacher was nabbed in an Internet sex sting - trying to lure a 14-year-old girl into sexually torturing him, authorities said yesterday. But the "girl" he allegedly hoped would tie him up turned out to be a undercover agent from the Westchester County District Attorney's Office.</p>

NATIONAL NEWS Polygamy advocates buoyed by gay court wins Some see sodomy, marriage opinions as helping their cause By JOE CREA Friday, December 26, 2003 Mark Henkel, a “constitutional conservative” and polygamy advocate, said two recent gay rights victories should pave the way to decriminalizing polygamy laws. He claims the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning state sodomy laws and a Massachusetts case that some say will legalize gay marriage in the Bay State should help polygamists. “The government does not have the authority to be in the marriage business in the first place,” said Henkel, founder of TruthBearer.org, a Web...

UTLER, N.J., Dec. 19 — From the above-ground pool and plastic crèche on the front lawn to the Norman Rockwell figurines in the beige-on-brown living room, there is nothing flamboyant about the Kilian-Meneghin household. The couple — a soft-spoken parish secretary and a nerdy Web administrator inseparable since high school — have a pair of exceedingly polite children, an elderly cat named Spot and two well-maintained Saturns in the driveway. By most standards, the family is as all-American and unremarkable as they come. But one thing sets the parents of Josh and Sarah apart from their neighbors in this bastion...

The term “diversity” is now a ubiquitous part of our cultural parlance, but its meaning remains nebulous and murky. It is applied liberally by those with anti-liberal tendencies who often wish that ideas once thought loathsome or disgusting will one day be as socially acceptable as eating lunch or dinner. “Diversity” functions as its own religion. It falsely claims that all actions or behaviors have value and that no ideas are more meaningful than any others (unless they are politically incorrect ideas but that´s another column). Most importantly, “please respect their diversity” is used as a bludgeon against whoever proclaims...

IS THERE A GAY AGENDA? omosexual activists often scoff at the idea that a "gay agenda" exists. Please read the following and decide for yourself: In February 1972 the National Coalition of Gay Organizations met at the Armitage Avenue United Methodist Church in Chicago. An invitation had been sent out to 495 homosexual organizations across the U.S. to come and prepare a "gay stance for the 1972 elections." About 200 individuals from 18 states representing 85 organizations showed up for the two-day event. Conference participants adopted the 1972 Gay Rights Platform, which included 17 federal and state "demands." DEMANDS: Federal:...

Editor, Naples Daily News: Jeffrey Curley was a 10-year-old who had his bike stolen in October 1997 in Massachusetts. Charles Jaynes was a member of the North American Man-Boy Love Association. The association publishes literature on the subject of how to trick and sexually molest young boys and avoid prosecution. Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari learned of his stolen bike and lured Jeffrey into their vehicle by offering him another bike and then proceeded to sexually sodomize him. When Jeffrey tried to resist, Jaynes smothered him with rags soaked in gasoline. They then dumped his body in a river. The men...

<p>Summary: Reuters reports on December 3, that Armin Meiwes has admitted in a German court that he killed and ate a man he met through the Internet. The Reuters story neglected to mention that Meiwes was a homosexual.</p> <p>WARNING:You will be reading very disturbing material.</p>

Greetings from a fellow FReeper! I am a fervent debater, and most anybody who's ever met me in person can testify to that. One of the most controversial issues I have been debating lately has been gay marriage. Does the U.S. government have a right to ban gay marriage? Can America justify making homosexuality illegal? As a proud Christian, I believe whole-heartedly in the Bible. There isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that the Bible finds homosexuality to be a highly immoral practice. However, when I am arguing with atheists or followers of other religions, especially over a political...

St. Paul's 1890s ban on cross-dressing is called outdated and discriminatory. A St. Paul ordinance from the 1890s that bans cross-dressing in public may soon go the way of the corset and the bowler. Ignored for decades, a provision in Section 280.03 of the city's legislative code forbids anyone from appearing on the street or in any public place in clothes "not belonging to his or her sex." City Council Member Chris Coleman is sponsoring an effort to strike the ban from the books. "It's a stupid and outdated ordinance," said Coleman, a bagpipe player who's been known on occasion...

Friday November 21, 2003 Breichner likens gay pageant to Klan rally by TARA REILLY tarar@herald-mail.comHagerstown Mayor William M. Breichner on Thursday compared a gay pageant that had been slated for a hotel in the city to a hobo convention and a Ku Klux Klan rally. The Miss Gay American National Pageant, an event open to males who impersonate females, had been scheduled for Jan. 10, 2004, at the Clarion Hotel on the Dual Highway, but it has since been postponed. Pageant organizers said they were searching for another venue in Washington County and surrounding areas. Breichner made the comments during...

Posted on Sat, Nov. 22, 2003 Cops: Man molests 3 girls; more arrests, victims are possible as probe continues By LANE FILLERlfiller@leader.net HANOVER TWP - An Ashley man was arrested Friday on charges he molested three elementary-school aged girls 75 to 95 times since June. Police said the man isn't denying the charges and an ongoing investigation might lead to more victims and more suspects. According to police: Kevin Dale Floyd, 31, also known as "Elmo," is known to the girls and the molestation occurred in homes in Luzerne and Ashley, Floyd allegedly kissed and fondled the girls and...

November 16, 2003FRANK RICHAngels, Reagan and AIDS in America onight is the night when Americans might have tuned into Part 1 of "The Reagans" on CBS. But the joke is on the whiners who forced the mini-series off the air. Just three weeks from tonight, HBO will present the first three-hour installment of Mike Nichols's film version of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep. (Part 2 is a week later.) This epic is, among other things, a searing indictment of how the Reagan administration's long silence stoked the plague of AIDS in the 1980's....

<p>Some men are mentally primed for unsafe sex. The threat of catching a disease doesn't cool their desire, as it does for most people, and blue moods or stress can send them cruising for casual partners, suggests a Kinsey Institute study.</p>

Site last updatedNovember 3, 2003 Morality Continues to Decay November 3, 2003 Of the ten moral behaviors evaluated, a majority of Americans believed that each of three activities were “morally acceptable.” Those included gambling (61%), co-habitation (60%), and sexual fantasies (59%). Nearly half of the adult population felt that two other behaviors were morally acceptable: having an abortion (45%) and having a sexual relationship with someone of the opposite sex other than their spouse (42%). About one-third of the population gave the stamp of approval to pornography (38%), profanity (36%), drunkenness (35%) and homosexual sex (30%). The activity that garnered...

CHICAGO - Something queer is happening to the word "queer." Originally a synonym for "odd" or "unusual," the word evolved into an anti-gay insult in the last century, only to be reclaimed by defiant gay and lesbian activists who chanted: "We're here, we're queer, get used to it." Now "queer" is sneaking into the mainstream - and taking on a hipster edge as a way to describe any sexual orientation beyond straight. Jay Edwards, a 28-year-old gay man from Houston, has noticed it. "Hey Jay," a straight co-worker recently said. "Have you met the new guy? He's really cute and...

If just being the owner and caretaker of your pet isn't enough for you, MarryYourPet.com can help you take your relationship to the next level. The site offers online weddings between humans and members of any other species, though it points out that the marriages are not recognized by any government or church. As with human-to-human marraiges, there are no guarantees of happiness, either. "If your marriage breaks down or you can no longer stand their smelly breath, it's entirely your own problem. If Fido goes barmy and eats all the china or Fluffy piddles in your trainer, we will...

Blood from a slit in his victim's throat trickled into a small cup. Allan Menzies raised the vessel to his lips. Convinced he was on the brink of immortality, the 22-year-old killer was attempting to fulfil a sick dream: to become a vampire. The chilling murder of Thomas McKendrick in a small Scottish village was brutal and ritualistic. He was sacrificed to satisfy a lust for blood and an obsession with the occult. Yet his killer's fixation with bloodsuckers is far from unusual. Vampirism is a rapidly growing youth cult and its followers are increasing in numbers. Vampire films and...

FRN Columnists' Corner "When Evil Becomes Good " By Doug PattonAs a Christian writer, I find myself torn between scripture’s admonition to remain focused on the good and noble aspects of life and its warnings about society revering evil as good while reviling good as evil. Last week, yet another outrage came out of the field we once proudly called “education.” The headline read: “University Hosts Bondage Rope Class,” with a subtitle, “British Columbia school features 3-hour course on ‘safety skills.’” As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up! And while all of us have known for...

The "Bondage 101" workshop, not part of the university's official course curriculum, is scheduled Wednesday evening on campus by UVic Pride Collective, a gay-oriented student organization funded partly through student fees. "Some of our members came to us and said they wanted to learn about bondage and how to do it safely," spokesman Michael Joyce said. "I think that should be encouraged." A university spokesman said school officials have no concerns about the workshop. The group recruited bondage experts from an alternative lifestyle group to teach the three-hour evening class, "a workshop about safe use of ropes in a sexualized...

Two sadomasochism conferences scheduled to take place next month – one on the Atlantic Coast and another in the Deep South – have been canceled as a result of citizen outcries, risk of losing a liquor license and police warnings. Black Rose, a Washington, D.C.-based S&M organization, was forced to scrap plans for its 7th annual conference slated to occur Nov. 14-16 at the Princess Royale Hotel in Ocean City, Md., after news of the event roused protests from business owners, religious leaders and city officials. The latter group worried the event would tarnish the city's family-friendly tourist image, while...

The evidence that being gay is not a choice undermines the arguments of homophobes, writes John Shelby Spong. It was Professor Sarah Coakley, an Anglican theologian at Harvard University, who described the church as being something like a swimming pool. "Most of the noise," she said, "comes from the shallow end." That is exactly my sense when I listen to the debate over the issue of homosexuality taking place today in the Christian Church in general and within my Anglican communion in particular. The noise, and it is very loud, comes from those who define this issue as a moral...

Startling Study Says People May Be Born Gay By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter October 6, 2003 3:21 PM (HealthDayNews) -- The origins of sexual orientation may be evident in the blink of an eye. In what is the first study to show an apparent link between a non-learned trait and sexual orientation, British researchers have discovered the way peoples' eyes respond to sudden loud noises may signal differences between heterosexual and homosexual men and women that were developed before birth. The authors, whose study appears in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, say about 4 percent of men and...

No one can say for certain what will happen when an irresistible force comes up against an immovable object, but the battle over same sex marriage may unleash a number of case studies in that field. If same sex marriage makes it into federal law, the right of religions to practice what they preach will be brought into direct conflict with the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Although the draft same sex marriage bill would give clergy the right to refuse to perform wedding ceremonies for same sex couples, it does not give churches the right...

They took a vote, and Jesus lost. That sums up the overwhelming majority of worldwide reaction to the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) convention in Minneapolis. Departing from more than 40 centuries of Pre-Christian Jewish and Christian era doctrine, just over 100 Episcopalian bishops voted to elevate a practicing homosexual man to be bishop of their New Hampshire diocese. Gene Robinson, 56, divorced his wife 13 years ago to live with Mark Andrew, 50. Robinson has never claimed his is in a celibate relationship with Andrew. While the libertine-fringe faction of the ECUSA rejoiced at his election, Anglican leaders around the...

MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDayNews) -- The origins of sexual orientation may be evident in the blink of an eye. In what is the first study to show an apparent link between a non-learned trait and sexual orientation, British researchers have discovered the way peoples' eyes respond to sudden loud noises may signal differences between heterosexual and homosexual men and women that were developed before birth. The authors, whose study appears in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, say about 4 percent of men and 3 percent of women are gay. Scientists have long sought to determine whether sexuality is learned...

MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDayNews) -- The origins of sexual orientation may be evident in the blink of an eye. In what is the first study to show an apparent link between a non-learned trait and sexual orientation, British researchers have discovered the way peoples' eyes respond to sudden loud noises may signal differences between heterosexual and homosexual men and women that were developed before birth. The authors, whose study appears in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, say about 4 percent of men and 3 percent of women are gay. Scientists have long sought to determine whether sexuality is learned...

<p>10/01/2003 Ames, Ia. - Jayme Howard spends his days at computer science class. At night, the Iowa State University freshman learns how to tie up and spank partners.</p> <p>He gets his nighttime lessons from Cuffs, a campus club that teaches students about bondage and other sexual fetishes.</p>

<p>NEW YORK (AP) ? With two key meetings ahead that could determine whether the Episcopal Church splits over homosexuality, the denomination's leader defended his support yesterday for an openly practicing homosexual bishop.</p> <p>Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold said in an interview with the Associated Press that he voted at last month's General Convention to confirm Bishop-elect V. Gene Robinson because Episcopalians in New Hampshire had overwhelmingly chosen him in their local election and had the right to make that choice.</p>

<p>Parading a pair of naked, hooded and gagged men down the middle of the street on leashes, a San Francisco man named Dean elicited a few glances and camera snaps when he stopped to make an adjustment -- a strap here, a clamp there.</p>