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The Battle Over Gay Teens
Time ^ | 10/10/2005 | John Cloud

Posted on 11/05/2005 4:39:02 PM PST by Joe Republc

The Battle Over Gay Teens What happens when you come out as a kid? How gay youths are challenging the right--and the left

In May, David Steward, a former president of TV Guide, and his partner Pierre Friedrichs, a caterer, hosted an uncomfortably crowded cocktail party at their Manhattan apartment. It was a typical gay fund raiser--there were lemony vodka drinks with mint sprigs; there were gift bags with Calvin Klein sunglasses; Friedrichs prepared little blackened-tuna-with-mango-chutney hors d'oeuvres that were served by uniformed waiters. Billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr. was there; David Mixner, a gay activist and longtime friend of Bill Clinton's, was holding court with Jason Moore, director of the musical Avenue Q.

But the odd thing was that the gay (and gay-friendly) élite had gathered to raise money not for one of its established charities--the Human Rights Campaign, say, or the Democratic National Committee--but for an obscure organization that has quietly become one of the fastest-growing gay groups in the nation, the Point Foundation. Launched in 2001, Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students. It is one of the few national groups conceived explicitly to help gay kids, and it is a leading example of how the gay movement is responding to the emergence this decade of hundreds of thousands of openly gay youths.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; corruptingminors; davidmixner; gay; gayscholarship; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; indoctrination; mediabias; moneyforsex; perversion; prostitution; recruiting; scholarships; sexpositiveagenda; sexualingchildren; sexualizingchildren; teens; timemag
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To: Joe Republc
"Launched in 2001, Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students."

Isn't that special. Handing out scholarships based upon sexual proclivity.
21 posted on 11/05/2005 5:41:27 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: Texas_Jarhead
Yes, I found that special as well. Guess we can soon expect bisexual scholarships, transgendered scholarships-why not asexual scholarships? How about foot fetishist scholarships? S & M scholarships? Why should one's sexuality have anything whatsover to do with winning a college scholarship?
22 posted on 11/05/2005 5:48:07 PM PST by sanemom
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To: sanemom

How about scholarships for celibates?


23 posted on 11/05/2005 5:55:03 PM PST by mhx
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To: Joe Republc

Leading our children to Hell, one step at a time.


24 posted on 11/05/2005 5:57:17 PM PST by BipolarBob (I'm really BagdadBob under the witness protection program.)
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To: Joe Republc

What surprises me is I don't think there are enough gay people out there to support this stuff.


25 posted on 11/05/2005 6:07:45 PM PST by freekitty
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To: Raycpa

There is a special test you take, that will have you walking bowlegged.


26 posted on 11/05/2005 6:13:38 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: SteveMcKing

Campus ban ROTC scholarship students, but gay scholarships is okay. Ya gotta hand it to those guys, they know how to hand out the inducements.

Of course, there might be some bad actors out there who might pretend to be gay just to get the scholarship. I wonder how their "verification" process works to weed out the fakers.


27 posted on 11/05/2005 6:15:40 PM PST by rbg81
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To: southernnorthcarolina

LOL. Gays do have a wicked sense of humor though, I'll give them that.


28 posted on 11/05/2005 6:17:10 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed)
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To: Joe Republc

There is no such thing as a homosexual - everyone is created as a normal sexual being but some become perverted and depraved (including all those that are commonly referred to as homosexuals).


29 posted on 11/05/2005 6:25:42 PM PST by Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...
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To: Joe Republc
Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students.

Freudian slip?

30 posted on 11/05/2005 6:36:16 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

"The degenerate entertainment industry...has over-sexualized kids culture to the saturation point and beyond."

What's weird to me is that fairly mainstream buddy comedies like "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" and "Saving Silverman" have persistent homosexual subtexts. Both films struck me as heavy on this. It seemed gratuitous and totally out of place.

In "Silverman" Jack Black (Jack Black!) discovers through Amanda Peet's devious psychotherapy that he's gay. And it followed this through to the end, that he really was gay.


31 posted on 11/05/2005 6:41:55 PM PST by avenir (Don't insult my intelligentness!)
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To: Joe Republc
Rabbi of Jewish group resigns after NBC links him to Web sex sting

This is how homosexual addicts prowl the Internet for teenage prey.

32 posted on 11/05/2005 6:45:30 PM PST by af_vet_1981
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To: avenir
you actually watch that crap, whatever it is?

How can you bitch about it when you are part of the problem.

tv/movies are a poison pump. Disconnect it or die.

AV

33 posted on 11/05/2005 7:49:29 PM PST by Atomic Vomit (www.aroostookbeauty.com)
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To: Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...
(There is no such thing as a homosexual - everyone is created as a normal sexual being but some become perverted and depraved (including all those that are commonly referred to as homosexuals).)

It bothers me a lot when people say (including some clergy) that homosexuals are "born that way" and then claim that God made them that way so it must be okay.

Yes, God loves us all. He created us with a free will within a fallen world. If people have no choice in their sexual orientation, then why does Scripture say God considers homosexual acts an abomination and sin?

Some people have a perverted desire for sex with children, animals, dead people, etc. Because they claim they can't help themselves and that God made them that way, should that be okay as well?

Scripture condemns any sexual relations outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. So He's not just picking on gays.

I also believe that sin is sin and we are to love the sinner and hate the sin, just like God does. We are all sinners saved by the grace and mercy of God.
34 posted on 11/05/2005 8:04:42 PM PST by boatbums (Isn't saying 'Mean People Suck'...kinda mean?)
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To: Joe Republc; All
Worth reading: 'The New Gay Teenager'.
35 posted on 11/05/2005 8:39:31 PM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: Joe Republc

Gays seem to be defining themselves as a new RACE of people.


36 posted on 11/05/2005 8:55:25 PM PST by TAdams8591 (It's the Supreme Court, stupid!)
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To: little jeremiah
"of course, if they're "gay", they can never change."

Well, how can they change if they're Born gay?

Targeting teens and children is a ploy to convince everyone it's all in the genes, (when it isn't) and to halt anyone from morally appealing to gays to change. That's the name of THAT tune.

37 posted on 11/05/2005 9:01:59 PM PST by TAdams8591 (It's the Supreme Court, stupid!)
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To: Congressman Billybob

One can give money to whomever one wants, unless it is a criminal enterprise. It is called FREEDOM Billybob. File an amicus brief.


38 posted on 11/05/2005 9:05:28 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie
One can give money PERSONALLY to whomever one chooses. But once one sets up a scholarship, it becomes a public trust, and can be judicially corrected if it engages in discrimination. The key case was a large trust set up in Philadelphia, IIRC, more a than a century ago for college scholarships for "white students." In choosing between ending the scholarships, or simply striking the word white, the court chose the latter.

Similar logic could apply here.

John / Billybob
39 posted on 11/05/2005 9:30:50 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Do you think Fitzpatrick resembled Captain Queeg, coming apart on the witness stand?)
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To: TAdams8591

Good to see you, TAdams! I was thinking about you lately, haven't run into you on the threads I've been frequenting.

Yup, get them early, get them often. That's their strategy. "Childrens' rights". Remember Hitlery was involved in the "Childrens' Defense Fund" or some organization? Childrens' liberation? So they can divorce their parents if their parents commit the heinous crime of bringing them to church, or disciplining them?


40 posted on 11/05/2005 9:31:57 PM PST by little jeremiah
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