Posted on 03/01/2006 12:01:59 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Whose children will be allowed to participate in the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll on April 17? Not the sons and daughters of gay parents, if the Christian right gets its way.
In November, when the Family Pride Coalition, a D.C.-based gay rights advocacy group, invited its members to participate in one of the “great traditions of our country” the religious right sprang into action. The Institute on Religion and Democracy, a religious think tank, accused the Family Pride Coalition of trying to “exploit a children’s event for political purposes.” Even the White House has weighed in.
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The Christian right blogosphere is afire, condemning the presence of gay parents on the White House lawn as “nearly terrorist threats from the homo lobby.” One post suggests that “White House psychologists” should be deployed to help the children of gay parents and implies that they are molested in their homes. Another wishes the gays “good luck,” reminding readers that “the Secret Service carries automatic weapons.”
Such posts are, of course, “those of the individual posters” to http://www.FreeRepublic.com, “and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of … its operators.” The site claims 200,000 registered members, known as “Freepers,” and a daily readership of “tens of thousands.” Free Republic, founded in 1996, has been embraced by right-wing social conservatives as the online water cooler for “patriots” who are “biased toward God, country, family, liberty and freedom.”
Or at least liberty and freedom for some. “These lowlife scum should just be mowed down like terrorists,” writes one good Christian.
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Good catch. Poster claims to be a "Christian mom".
Funny - I must've missed the "kill the homos" Sunday School class!
State bureaucrats don't a damn about what happens to children, it's just a 9 to 5 job to them that they can push onto someone else.
Most homosexuals, like hetrosexuals, are not child molesters.
Do you care to now revise your above statement?
For those who are so are acutally intested in the truth here a link to the article this Liberal writer is lying about. As you can see the Author of the piece is lying by omissions
I doubt it. And you make some good points in your statement.
You velly bad mans. You stop silliness now!
I think we have some people here from group #3 :-)
"Never mind they offend children at ten times the rate than heterosexuals."
Source? Just curious.
Pillow-biting != Pedophilia
And there's no way the number of children 'offended' by homos is > number of children abused by hetero parents.
I was referring to FBI statistics, not some independent "studies"........
Hm. Well, I confess that I don't see much in the full quote to mitigate the comment -- it was and is out of line.
Of course, one may ask when FR became a blog. While many here revel in the news calling them such, FR is not a blog, and it just goes to show how out of touch the media is.
You're out of the loop. It's now "The love that won't shut the hell up."
I'm sure there are also plenty of mothers who'll file fraudulent suits, alleging molestation that never happened, after coaching their sons to say it did. Between the risk of real molesters and the risk of fraudulent suits, that organization is faced with a tough challenge in screening applicants.
Personally, I think that our society should move away from the concept of people building careers around teaching schoolchildren, coaching children's sports, leading other children's activities, etc. The reality is that a disproportionate percentage of people who opt for such careers have pedophilic tendencies. Any normal adult is qualified to do those things, and especially as far as school teachers are concerned, it would be highly beneficial for children to be educated by adults who have significant experience in the adult world (I fondly recall a 6th grade math teacher I had, who was a retired Navy captain). And the growing epidemic of female school teachers committing statutory rape on their male students (in many cases barely adolescents) shows that gay men are far from the only problem.
When screening applicants for adoption, foster care, Big Brothers, teaching, coaching, or any other position that affords significant opportunity for molestation, screeners should be looking for adults with a track record of community service NOT involving children. The pervs generally have resumes where practically every entry has something to do with children. But unfortunately, in this culture where everybody's expected to be a certificated "expert" in some narrow field, such resumes don't raise red flags, since they're exactly the kind of resumes that normal people have been encouraged to develop, after majoring in things like "elementary education", "physical education", "child development", etc.
You need to be careful with such statements. Did the FBI report rate relative to proportion of population? Or is it a simple "X% of molestations were by heterosexuals and Y% were by homosexuals?"
There's a fairly significant difference between the two statistical approaches.
That ought to leave a mark, but probably won't.
Answered HERE
Notice I said "rate" not quantity.
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