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An Anti-Gay Easter [FR mentioned]
In These Times ^ | March 1, 2006 | By John Ireland

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at inthesetimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: casloy; eastereggroll; fr; freerepublic; frinthenews; georgew23225; homosexualagenda; homotrollsonfr; homozot; mediabias; paulcjesup; smearcampaign; zot; zotbait
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To: generally
Bingo!! I know of no freepers who advocate killing anyone, for goodness sake. While I do not approve of using children to promote a political agenda, most posts that I read, stated that the policy should be one parent per child, and no political shirts or signs. That, after all, is not the purpose of the Easter Egg Hunt. It is for children, and nothing else.
61 posted on 03/01/2006 12:22:16 PM PST by gidget7 (Get GLSEN out of our schools!!!!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

This is why homosexuals want to be able to adopt other people's children. So they can use them as pawns in their continuing appeal-to-emotion effort to foist their disgusting deathstyle on the rest of us. It's no different than when NOW puts a 9 year old on a podium so she can tell the audience how scared she is that she won't have any rights when she grows up.


62 posted on 03/01/2006 12:23:10 PM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
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To: Jim Robinson

All parents should be gay. But homos shouldn't be allowed near kids.

There's nothing gay about homosexuality.


63 posted on 03/01/2006 12:23:51 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth!")
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To: Jim Robinson
This buffoon's words should be taken with a spoonful of salt. Hs profile says, "John Ireland lives with his partner and son in Los Angeles. If they are able to attend the White House Egg Roll in April, they will do so as a family."
64 posted on 03/01/2006 12:24:07 PM PST by indcons (Beware of muslims bearing gifts (apologies to Homer))
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To: gidget7

How about a policy of "no uninvited guests"?


65 posted on 03/01/2006 12:24:16 PM PST by weegee (Liberals have a god complex. They always want to create and run Eden, err.... Utopia.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Gonna have to invest in some stronger reading glasses. LOL

I was just making sure you did not have any pyschic powers.

66 posted on 03/01/2006 12:24:36 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Paul C. Jesup
But it would be a far worse alternative to have state bureaucrats raise children instead.

Oh gee Paul, how odd of you to support homosexual adoption.

That's so out of character for you.

Never mind they offend children at ten times the rate than heterosexuals.

67 posted on 03/01/2006 12:24:55 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (If you don't like Jesus, you can go to hell.)
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To: zkbeta51
The article makes us sound like moonbats.

What you probably don't realize is that the ones posting the violent comments probably were real moonbats.
68 posted on 03/01/2006 12:24:57 PM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
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To: L98Fiero
I wonder what thread those quotes are from.

Here's one:
But notice how they've changed the context - the original article talked about "crashing" the WH party. Seems to me reasonable to treat WH crashers as terrorists.

69 posted on 03/01/2006 12:24:59 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: weegee
"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"

Well, not exactly a lie ;)

Even so, moby's an idiot and the left are liars. Thanks for the link, being sent to a friend who made me listen to one of his cd's on a car ride. He will pay for that ;)
70 posted on 03/01/2006 12:26:06 PM PST by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: Jim Robinson
Not the sons and daughters of gay parents

That sentence doesn't sound right in any context.

71 posted on 03/01/2006 12:26:22 PM PST by CougarGA7 (There's no cure for stupid.)
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To: Jim Robinson
They urinate on religious symbols, defecate on pictures of relgious symbols, gleefully seek every possible opportunity to profane anything and everything about our most sacred beliefs. Then they have friendly judges override the ballot box and pass laws to enforce their ill-will upon us and then hurl at us a tidal wave of accusations that we are intolerant and hateful. Go figure.
72 posted on 03/01/2006 12:26:30 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Tokra

Can you please point out these "over the top quotes"? Or are you parrotting the author's hate-filled, out of context assertions?


73 posted on 03/01/2006 12:26:32 PM PST by indcons (Beware of muslims bearing gifts (apologies to Homer))
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To: Juan Medén

I think the "journalist" 'quoted' his own imagination......


74 posted on 03/01/2006 12:26:50 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Glenn
Knowing how liberals lie this could either be a complete fake concocted by the author, a fake quoted from some liberal blogsite, a doctored quote from a discussion about terrorist enablers having nothing to do with the gay caballeros, or a somewhat intemperate response by a Freeper to some outrageously provocative article from a gay left lib perspective. It has taken me a while to grasp just how completely mendacious many radiclibs are. As a result i now presume any quote out of context to be a probable lie of distortion, misrepresentation or pure counterfeit.
75 posted on 03/01/2006 12:27:25 PM PST by robowombat
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To: tfecw

Well he's faking the concern over Bush's support/opposition of certain legislation and possibly spreading a lie about an abortion in Bush's past.


76 posted on 03/01/2006 12:28:04 PM PST by weegee (Liberals have a god complex. They always want to create and run Eden, err.... Utopia.)
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To: L98Fiero
I'm in the bay area, of course i know many homo's :-)

instead/in addition to having a stupid easter egg hunt maybe the whitehouse could read from their bibles about the death and rising again of Christ.

77 posted on 03/01/2006 12:29:00 PM PST by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: robowombat

The media ignores the leftist protesters (and some of the participants have been clearly IDed as known leftists) holding up signs with statements like "I support our troops when their shoot their officers".


78 posted on 03/01/2006 12:29:40 PM PST by weegee (Liberals have a god complex. They always want to create and run Eden, err.... Utopia.)
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To: Tokra
I totally agree.

I also think that some of our more "rhetorically colorful" anti-Gay posters would be absolutely, positively stunned to find out how many Gays are Conservative, and disapprove of the left wing Gay agenda.
79 posted on 03/01/2006 12:29:41 PM PST by GeorgeW23225 ("Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal.")
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To: Paul C. Jesup
But it would be a far worse alternative to have state bureaucrats raise children instead.

I disagree. I'd rather have a kid in a state-run orphanage (or better yet, in a religious orphanage) than in the home of a homosexual. The first is not an ideal situation. The second is child abuse.
80 posted on 03/01/2006 12:30:01 PM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
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