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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I find it strange that you would bring up the name of Fred Phelps.
I would have thought you'd be a big admirer of his...........
I didn't see that Jim Robinson was the poster of this thread.....
I guess I should see if the operators of the Free Republic are the ones that posted the message before I question whether or not the article represents the views of said operators.
LOL.....
That is the point whenever a homosexual activist refers to their enemies. They fail to mention the disrespect and never it takes to insert their adult sexuality into an easter egg hunt. The moonbats are homos who get their kicks out of harassing Christians and families at Easter time. I don't care if they don't like their sex being rejected.
I didn't just mean a previous record of rape, but instead I meant criminal records dealing with theft, manslaughter, reckless driving, illegal drugs, being drunk, etc...
How about gay politics? They're trying to bring down the heterosexual institution of marriage, you know. Have you heard?
Your saying you don't have a problem with gays is like my saying I don't have a problem with Irish people (I'm half Irish).......and then we find out my Irish relatives have been giving money to the Sinn Fein for the Provos. Which some of them actually were. Big problem with that.
Or do you rally around your friends and family members, like they want you to do, and say, "well, you know, the Provos are really right!!"
That's what PFLAG is all about, as are GLAAD, Lambda Legal, the HRC, and this NGO mentioned in the article.
Oh, so you're a closeted homophobe, eh?
It's not like peds and pederasts will announce themselves.
Unless they join NAMBLA and go into political action.
I must be a repressed liberal who REALLLY wants to pay more of my hard-earned green to the IRS! What a terrible thing to have to face in oneself.
I must need lots and lots of therapy.
Oh no, Georgie, you're a little confused.
It's AL GORE who's a big friend of Phelps. Who just happens to be a Democrat....
Here's one link of stats about percentage of homosexuals in the population; there are some from the late 90s that are more or less the same but most I've seen are somewhat lower than this.
http://cloud9.norc.uchicago.edu/faqs/sex.htm
"Results reported from the study, and included in The Social organization of sexuality, include those related to sexual practices and sexual relationships, number of partners, the rate of homosexuality in the population (which the study reported to be 1.3% for women within the past year, and 4.1% since 18 years; for men, 2.7% within the past year, and 4.9% since 18 years; in all, much lower than the Kinsey report of 10%; pp. 293-296), formative sexual experiences, sexually transmitted diseases, fertility, cohabitation and marriage."
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BTW, quite a few homosexaul activists have admitted that they knew the Kinsey 10% was fraudulent but they used it anyway to "make a point".
Homosexuality doesn't necessarily track with these forms of criminality.
You have to have a baseline somewhere, judging an entire group for the actions of a few is wrong. But doing a background check on people is logical.
Most pedophiles are hetrosexual and a lot of the recently pedophiles reported in the news were women molesting boys.
Yeah, the usual band of brothers. Where you find one, you will find the others. They can't ever do it alone. If it were not for homosexuals they'd have nothing to talk about.
Easter is the holiest of Christian holidays......a celebration of Christ's resurrection. It has exactly 'spit' to do with homosexuality or 'straightness'.
What I absolutely know is that the writer of this drivel knows nothing of Christianity.
Fancy finding you two here, then!
Both of your arguments (assuming you're really two people) are so weak that your only recourse is name calling and pititful little chihuahua-like personal attacks.
Toothless old chihuahuas, that is.
Yep, and that's exactly why I was so angry. These militant homosexuals feel it necessary to inject themselves into every situation and expect their rights to trump the rights of Americans who want to live and raise their kids in a wholesome way. The perversity that is homosexual behavior has become a national plague that has infected every part of our culture, including the church itself, and yes, it enrages me. I make no apology for my rage. I could have perhaps chosen my words a little more thoughtfully, but I didn't. So sue me.
I don't hate homosexuals, but I absolutely hate what they do, and I hate even more that they think they have the right to shove their perverted perspective down the throats of our children...or adults, for that matter. It sickens me. Of course I don't believe they should literally be killed, and I admit that I was indulging in anger-driven hyperbole, and as John O mentioned, it is how I felt, and to an extent, still do. Feelings are not right or wrong. They just are. And if you don't own them, they will own you.
Figuratively speaking however, I do believe they should be, maybe not mowed down, but certainly uprooted and cast out of the public square. They have no place there, nor do they deserve a place, at least not a place that is given in deference to their deviant lifestyle. Individually they should have the same rights as anybody else, but their "right" to practice perversity ends when it violates the right of others, which appears to be what they live for. The majority of the country should not have to be subjected day in and day out to Satan's revelry in decadence.
"This article failed to mention the outrage of the previous thread was basically that gay parents didn't just want to take their kids , they wanted to use the event as a protest."
Yes, exactly. From the article:
"A "gay rights for LBGT families" group plans on creating a public relations firestorm by crashing the annual White House Easter Egg hunt. A group calling itself Soulforce is arranging the event, hoping to steal the spotlight for their groups agenda."
"What you probably don't realize is that the ones posting the violent comments probably were real moonbats."
I have my moments, but truth is, I don't have a violent bone in my body.
"...a somewhat intemperate response by a Freeper to some outrageously provocative article from a gay left lib perspective"
Bingo.
"Whose children will be allowed to participate in the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll on April 17? The sons and daughters of sodomites, if the radical left gets its way."
I could also see Christians being excluded from an Easter egg hunt for their "intolerance."
I know you and agree 100%. I know you only mean well.
We love you, sweetliberty!
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