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White House helped craft 'gay'/transsexual rights bill
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 21, 2007

Posted on 10/21/2007 4:53:23 AM PDT by Man50D

Staff members for President Bush have helped congressional staffers work on "religious exemption" language for a new "anti-discrimination" proposal that actually would codify in federal statutes an anti-Christian bias, and that will make it harder for him to veto, according to an activist group.

"Americans For Truth has learned that a White House official has boasted to pro-family leaders attending a private administration briefing that White House staffers were involved in the negotiations to craft expanded religious exemption language for the new ENDA bill," according to Peter LaBarbera's Americans For Truth organization.

"At the briefing, the White House official did not commit to the assembled evangelical leaders that the president would veto [ENDA], saying that they will wait to see the bill's final language, according to our source. This is troubling in that vetoing ENDA in any form is regarded as a 'no-brainer' by pro-family activists, who are counting on Bush to stop it," he continued.

His organization is running a campaign to encourage people to contact the White House to express their opposition to the plan.

"Some religious leaders take comfort in ENDA's exemptions; we do not," he continued. "White House involvement in negotiations over ENDA is problematic in that makes it more difficult for President Bush to veto the bill.

"H.R. 3685's current religious exemption will hardly affect the many ways in which ENDA would erode and destroy the freedom of Americans to act on their deeply held moral beliefs about homosexuality," he said.

The proposal, for which homosexual and transsexual activists are crusading, "has tremendous potential to criminalize Christianity in the United States by creating federal 'rights' based on wrong and destructive lifestyle," he said.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; bush; enda; farrahyap; homosexualagenda; hr3685; labarbera
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1 posted on 10/21/2007 4:53:25 AM PDT by Man50D
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To: Politicalmom; wagglebee
Congress Critter/Homosexual ping!
2 posted on 10/21/2007 4:55:04 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Man50D

It was the event in Crawford when “W” choked out on the pretzel. He didn’t have many brain cells to spare and being without oxygen damanged his brain enough for him to become a liberal.


3 posted on 10/21/2007 4:58:22 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: Man50D; All
wow. I haven't seen so much overt "the white house did this, the Bush administration did that" on a supposedly "conservative" forum since first coming here in 1998.

They used to fax talking points. Now somehow they just send out thoughtwaves or give free samples of kool-aid to strategic, ummm, mouthpieces, and Poof! an instant plague of leftist rhetoric infects everyone with a freaking keyboard.

4 posted on 10/21/2007 5:00:06 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: the invisib1e hand

“Now somehow they just send out thoughtwaves or give free samples of kool-aid to strategic, ummm, mouthpieces, and Poof! an instant plague of leftist rhetoric infects everyone with a freaking keyboard.”

How is it leftist to be outraged by a report of White House supporting radical gay ideaologies?

Granted the source isn’t the best but you weren’t attacking the source, you were attacking FReepers.


6 posted on 10/21/2007 5:18:44 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: the invisib1e hand
Americans For Truth has learned that a White House official has boasted to pro-family leaders attending a private administration briefing that White House staffers

Let's all go into spasms because some official tattled some hearsay that might or might not be true. This sounds like the typical madeup-redmeat that some groups throw out to the dupes to stir them up AND typically generate fund raising donations from said 'hyped up dupes'.

7 posted on 10/21/2007 5:20:56 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: the invisib1e hand

Gawd how dare we question the Great Leader?


8 posted on 10/21/2007 5:22:23 AM PDT by Brakeman (Subsidies, while expensive for the donor, are ruinous for the recipient.)
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To: Brakeman

“Gawd how dare we question the Great Leader?”

Yep, better get used to keeping your thoughts to yourself. Soon there will be special re-education camps for people who display inappropriate attitudes.


9 posted on 10/21/2007 5:23:51 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Man50D

Unfortunately, it looks like the man I voted for has gone from “reaching across the aisle”, which is destructive (to our party and to our country) and disgusting, to “reaching across the border”, which is destructive and disgusting, to now, a “reach around” - also destructive and especially disgusting. What is wrong with this man?


10 posted on 10/21/2007 5:25:40 AM PDT by DocH (RINO-rudy for BRONX Dog Catcher 2008!!!)
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To: Brakeman
Gawd how dare we question the Great Leader?

Please, question the great leader. But don't confuse that with cheap smears based on dubious, sensationalist headlines found on fringe internet sites and echoed on internet forums.

11 posted on 10/21/2007 5:25:47 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Man50D

Fifteen months left and counting of this retarded nincompoop.

We will probably get someone worse, but I need a breather.


14 posted on 10/21/2007 5:31:02 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Man50D
Since ENDA is not well-defined in this article, statements like this one---White House staffers were involved in the negotiations to craft expanded religious exemption language for the new ENDA bill--- make no sense to those not already fully familiar with the details.

Tell me...what does the statement mean?

16 posted on 10/21/2007 6:10:15 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: Rudder

It means that you wasted your time reading beyond the headline.


17 posted on 10/21/2007 6:19:24 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: em2vn

Seems as though many Freepers also suffer from oxygen deprivation.


18 posted on 10/21/2007 6:20:33 AM PDT by verity ("Lord, what fools these mortals be!")
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To: Man50D

The Bushes should be flushed down the toilette of political history.

Never again should a Bush hold any office of public trust.


19 posted on 10/21/2007 6:39:15 AM PDT by ZULU (We)
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To: Rudder

Now that I think about it, your time would’ve been better spent composing a knee-jerk, anti-Bush diatribe.


20 posted on 10/21/2007 6:40:56 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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