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.”
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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 am starting to feel like these lowlife scum should just be mowed down like terrorists. In a sense they are....cultural terrrorists, who won't rest until they contaminate and corrupt everything sacred to us."
The gay rights group invited its members to participate but who in the White House invited them? No one (this article makes it sound like they were).
How do they know a Christian wrote it?
Boy, if that isn't the understatement of today. The kids are a means to their end, really sick.
Sweetliberty, this is you!!
The left redacted Bill Bennett quotes last year in an attempt to smear him. They accused him of holding a position he did not an of failing to recognize that the words he said were ugly (he followed the statement immediately with 'this is not my view and no way to argue the case for or against abortion').
" 200,000 registered "
Thought I saw another thread that said 100,000. Hope it's the 200,000.
In other words, whatever perversion you want to practice, with whomever, as long as they are old enough, and capable of saying yes, go ahead. BUT! I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT, and it does not bless you with any special victimhood.
Is that bigotry?
I'm deeply saddened, troubled and puzzled.
I don't believe this is a homosexual Easter Egg Hunt. It's for the children.
With that being said, if this does turn out to be used as a political forum for anyone or any group, that is where I'll draw the line.
It's for the children. Let's keep it that way.
Exactly. (It's all about me,me,me,me.) (them) Can you imagine what would happen if I decided to crash a State dinner, just because I wanted to tell my friends I dined at the WH?
The reason I ask this is that from the logic of 'cause and effect', if you lower the percentage of people who can adopt, the effect will be that more children with be raised (for lack of a better word) by the state and several of these children will probably be lost by the state.
I will state I think those who have broken a felony level law should be barred from adopting children.
And I will agree that having homosexuals adopt children is NOT the ideal situation. But it would be a far worse alternative to have state bureaucrats raise children instead.
No, just something wrong with the repressed ones, like Fred Phelps.
Gonna have to invest in some stronger reading glasses. LOL
Oh, it's become "the lust that will not shut the heck up"!
A while ago someone posted a truly defamatory statement aginst the Jews. I complained to a moderator and it was pulled in minutes.
Occasionally nuts will wander into FR and think they can spread garbage. We like a good joke as well as anymone, but racism amd such is not allowed here.
This article doesn't pass the smell test.
It became the Love That Won't Shut The F*ck Up.
"any chance the homosexuals might hear about Christ on Easter?"
You must not know any homosexuals. Everything is about THEM. They could care less about Christ, Easter, what have you. All they want is attention like little, one track, simple-minded children.
Yes, that's the whole thing and I don't agree with the mowing down part.
One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes." Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web."You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.
"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"
Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story.
The left has to lie to push their agenda. They cannot win a debate based on fact. They have to smear and rely on emotional manipulation.
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