Posted on 05/21/2009 12:44:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A member of Obama's Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships advisory board has stated that one of the main challenges in promoting "responsible fatherhood" in America will be to dismantle a perception that fatherhood is "heteronormative" - i.e., that heterosexuality is the norm.
In addition to his role on Obama's faith advisory board, Knox is the director of the religion and faith program at the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual activist group.
"Responsible fatherhood offers us an immense opportunity to speak to a real need in the country," Knox said in a May 11 PBS interview. "It'll be challenging to do that in a way ... not to sort of hold a heteronormative view of fatherhood up as the only model."
Knox claimed that 25% of gay male couples in America "are raising children - their own and other people's."
"Challenges will be all of us getting to know what fatherhood means for us and how to talk about it in a way that is as inclusive as possible, and as empowering as possible for all fathers," he said. Knox mentioned that he has suggested that the advisory council investigate "mentoring processes" that have been developed to help homosexual men raising children.
"The president has been very clear with us that he expects us to get along and to work together on these several initiatives, and I think it will be relatively easy to do," he later added. (To watch the PBS video of Knox's remarks: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/blogs/one-nation-religion-politics-200...)
Last week, several leading American Catholics, including House Republican Leader John Boehner, Catholic League President Bill Donohue, American Life League's Judie Brown, and members of the Family Research Council issued a letter to Obama urging Knox's ouster from the advisory group. In addition to his numerous positions that run directly contrary to traditional moral values, Knox has on several occasions severely criticized the Pope and the Catholic Church.
Knox has said he stands by previous comments calling Pope Benedict XVI "morally reprehensible" for not supporting the use of condoms. An open homosexual, Knox called a Cheyenne, WY bishop "immoral and insulting to Jesus" for instructing that an activist lesbian couple not receive Communion.
He also labeled the Catholic fraternal group, the Knights of Columbus, "foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression" for supporting Proposition 8, California's true marriage amendment.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Catholics Call for Obama to Oust Homosexualist Pope Critic from "Faith" Council
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051308.html
Pedophile Ringleader was Top Advisor to Scottish Gov't on Homosexuality and Children
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051411.html
"Gay" Subculture Left Woman Scarred from Childhood in Homosexual Home
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06041911.html
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There it is again...that urge to swear every time I read about someone 0 has chosen, something he as said, or some America-threatening act he has committed.
I watched the premier of “Glee” on the Fox Network. The female lead character is the daughter of two queers who “mixed up their sperm in a turkey baster” and impregnated a surrogate. One dad is black and the other white, of course. She’s not sure which is her biological dad.
We are sinking fast.
God help us.
America continues its death spiral into the cesspit.
Does King Barry know anyone who is not a homosexual?
I don't think he really cares if the abortionists are homosexual or not.
And the media will report this as if it were fact. God forbid that they investigate that number and see what truth or lack thereof is in it.
No results found for heteronormative:
However, it does show up on Wiki. . .
Just another attack in the war on the family.
Satan and his liberal minions sure are stepping it up lately.
Words just fail....pray people and pray like you mean it! Then DO, what you can and even what you think you can’t! I know I will until my time has come.
Remember that vengeance is his and he WILL repay, everyone reaps what they sow! They have sowed the wind and will reap the whirlwind.
Just another word made-up by some educated beyond their intelligence.
how do gay married couples have ‘their own’ ?
Immoral degenerates.
I think God’s patience is probably wearing pretty thin by now.
I told you it is not the man you vote for, it is all the extremists from that party that get put into policy offices unaccountable to anyone.
BTW, how is that going to work in the 35 states that note marriage is only between a man and a women.
IOW this homosexual wants to attack fathers because fatherhood helps prevent homosexuality?
this a lack of fathers, according to this homosexual activist, ENCOURAGES(!) homosexual behavior?
Obama is truly a nut job for appointing this sexual hedonist.
That seals it. I will never watch it, and I will not allow my children to do so either.
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