I miss the way tv used to handle these types of things...
Posted on 07/19/2011 11:17:56 AM PDT by massmike
The Senate on Monday night confirmed for the first time ever an openly gay male to serve on the federal bench.
J. Paul Oetken, whom President Obama nominated in January, was voted in, 80 to 13, by the Senate to sit on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
“As the first openly gay man to be confirmed as a federal judge and to serve on the federal bench, he will be a symbol of how much we have achieved as a country in just the last few decades,” New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on Monday
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
I miss the way tv used to handle these types of things...
Why is it seen as progress--and as progress towards what--to have someone who flaunts his personal problem on the Federal Bench?
Senator Schumer was the one House Member, years ago, who defended Janet Reno's slaughter of a small religious sect in Texas, in the House hearing over the Waco massacre. I will never forget his rodent eyed--completely compassionless--look in that hearing. This man's sense of what is historically significant is not one that any normal person should have any truck with.
William Flax
Lilac....
I think you mean that he'll be a symbol of just how decadent we've become, Chuckie. Does he have any credentials aside from his sexual preference?
The quality of the federal judiciary has been going downward in general in the last several decades, so this will only grease the skids more.
Lilac....
They’ve already telegraphed the “next step” -
and it IS sex with kids. They’re trying to get the age of consent lowered to 15 for now, lower later.
Also, they’re trying to get the APA to declassify pedophilia as a disorder just as they did with homosexuality. And, like always, they are manipulating the language. It’s not “pedophilia” now... get this - it’s “adult-child sex”. And they are discussing the “benefits of adult-child sex” FOR THE CHILD!
This gay judge confirmation only confirms how far down the slop hole this society has fallen and how far away from God’s moral law we have come.
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Could someone tell me what use liberal Republicans are? Why have them? Why vote for them? If Republican Senators are going to vote for a sexual pervert judge, why bother having a Republican party? The elitists are basically on the same team - it's "Them" against "us", not Dems vs Rebublicans.
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Savagesusie below:
You can’t insinuate that there is anything “wrong” with homosexuality. Not a word. None allowed in Amerikkka.
This brainwashing into the homosexual worldview —homosexual acts are “good” is now in full swing...it had destroyed Dr. Laura’s show—Michael Savage’s TV show, made HUNDREDS of politicians APOLOGIZE for saying the TRUTH, but NOW they mean business....
The sodomite Jerry Brown is making sure that the paradigm shift is complete—that removal of a Christian paradigm—where right and wrong is determined by the Bible, in line with Natural Law which was used for 200 years and foundation of US laws—to Marx’s moral relativism (really Constitutional, folks!!!)—Might makes Right-—whoever has the power gets to force their thinking on all others and punish those who do not think like they do-—FORCE of LAW.....”Marxist group think”.
In communism, you have no freedom of thought or religion. You live in fear...for no one can trust no one—even family—because they obliterate the family and all relationships. Fear....Chambers wrote all about it in Witness.
Cain is also a BIG target of the sodomy lobby because he says the truth (not allowed)—just what my mother and father used to say and they were good people who would never sodomize a boy. Not so with homosexuals—there is a correlation with boy/men sex and tour groups regularly made with men to Asian countries...Also White House parties—had boys (Franklin Case) used by our politicians at parties...
The gay mafia is in control in the White House, the public schools, Hollywood, and they have a BIG agenda for the boys—to make the world act and look like Ancient Greece. They need the children to be corrupted in their thinking when they are young....to go with “up is down” logic when they are little so they never develop logic or able to see a different kind of world. (Formative years has meaning!!!!) Sodomy is learned—exactly like bestiality and holes in the walls and everywhere else people put their organs. It is call no morality—no sexual morality is learned while young—all acts are equal—the same—no right or wrong—just do what feels good (Marcuse). Slaves to emotions and no intellectual development is what Marxists want....slaves to addictions.
Normalization of sodomy is all about perverting the thinking of boys and directing their sexual impulses towards men. Homosexuality is a perversion of nature—caused by trauma, yes and emotional abuse, yes, where people damage the sexual identity during the latency period....but boys can be seduced easily when young and done by NAMBLA’s manual....pick it up sometime for a picture of their worldview they want. It is positively sick—you will puke.
It is what they do in Afghanistan and what was done in Ancient Greece. The ideal “perfect” partners are boys. Wake up—for your son and grandson’s sake. I am not being satirical here or speaking in hyperbole. If anything, I am underplaying their plans. (Pink Swastika is online. Read it it is researched history of the homosexual movements around the world.).
The Franklin Case coverup...is all about high officials at sex parties in Wash. DC. and they intimidate people who are appalled by using judges, lawyers, threats, etc. to hide their actions and keep people quiet. Bribery is the MO in getting things done in Washington and in most politics....Who has what dirt on whom. It is the game they play—but mostly with boys now.
Isn’t Elena Cagan an open lesbian? Seems obvious.
GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings was Ohaha's "Safe Schools" czar and got almost a billion dollars to do his dirty work....inculcating American youth so that chicken hawk gays can have a lot of practiced young partners.
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The Federal Reserve Bldg Hoisted the Gay Pride Flag to Honor LGBT Month
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U.S. Department of Education to host LGBT youth summit Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Secretary of Education (official site) | June 06, 2011 (date of event) | Official press release
FR Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2011 by Salman
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give remarks at the Department’s first-ever Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) youth summit at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The two-day summit, “Creating and Maintaining Safe and Supportive Environments for LGBT Youth,” will take place Monday-Tuesday, June 6-7.
Duncan will highlight the Obama administration’s commitment to ensuring equal access to education for LGBT students as it does for all students. He also will discuss the Department’s Office for Civil Rights recently released guidance on the protection against harassment in an education setting based on gender, which includes gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender individuals.
The guidance, which was sent to schools, colleges and universities in a “Dear Colleague” letter, explains educators’ legal obligations to protect students from harassment based on racial and national origin, gender and disability.Read more at wnd.com
“Does he have any credentials aside from his sexual preference?”
Oetken was born in 1965 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was valedictorian and class president at Regis High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1988 from the University of Iowa and a law degree in 1991 from Yale Law School.
From 1991 until 1992, Oetken served as a law clerk for Judge Richard Cudahy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and from 1992 until 1993, he served as a law clerk to Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. From 1993 until 1994, Oetken served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Harry Blackmun on the United States Supreme Court.
From 1994 until 1996 or 1997, Oetken worked as an associate with the law firm of Jenner & Block. In 1997, he joined the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice as an attorney-advisor, where he worked until becoming an Associate Counsel to the President of the United States in the office of the White House Counsel in 1999. He held that job until President Bill Clinton left office in 2001.
From 2001 until 2003, Oetken worked as an associate at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, and from 2003 until 2004, he was counsel.
In 2004, Oetken joined Cablevision Systems Corporation as its associate general counsel.
“As the first openly gay man to be confirmed as a federal judge and to serve on the federal bench, he will be a symbol of how much we have achieved as a country in just the last few decades,” New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on Monday
How much we have acheived???
How much we have fallen.
I am disgusted. With all of them.
Time to shut this grand experiment down.
The next idiot who tries to feed me the “Pat Toomey is a tea party conservative” line of crap is gonna get a size 6 up the butt.
These Rs in Washington have turned the mid-terms into a huge, solid joke. I’m so sick of the normalization of immorality by these jokers. God help us.
Just sickening.
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Never trust a guy who looks like he had a lead role in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”
Chucky seen here fresh from his starring role in “Who Screwed the American People (Again!).”
I believe it was the EARLY Romans who prohibited several classes of people from holding public office: Those of illegitimate birth (bastards), eunuchs and homosexuals. (That unfortunately changed leading up to the Fall.)
While these children had no choice in the matter, bastards were prohibited because, having no sense of their family past or history, they could not be trusted to operate for the good of the culture based on its history or traditions.
Eunuchs (castrated males) and homosexuals because they could not and/or would not sire children and would, therefore, most likely have no abiding interest in preserving the culture for future generations.
While there are a number of exceptions, I’ll let YOU tell me what sort of folks we have in public office HERE today.
It appears that America has employed technology to compress into slightly over 240 years what it took the Romans over 2,000 to achieve — total and utter cultural collapse.
I believe the Romans would also have put radical feminists in that group – had they permitted radical feminism at the time. Wisely, they did not. More on that a bit later.
While channel-surfing recently, I stopped for a moment on an Animal Planet show featuring two lesbian roommates. And, no, they were NOT in the bedroom. As I watched, I began pondering the question of the growing impact of homosexuals and radical feminists on our culture.
None of these thoughts are original to me and all have been written about and discussed ad nauseam. This little rant is really an exercise in catharsis.
At the individual level, I have personally known a few homosexuals and, in general, have found them to be quiet, respectful and intelligent. Again, there are exceptions – such as the moron from California (where else?) cited below — but I haven’t personally met them and hope I don’t as there would be serious trouble between us.
Having said that, I fear that the homosexual – and the recent politically correct fervor to further legitimize that lifestyle – has done irreparable harm to our NATIONAL life and what remains of what many of us still call European Culture. When that impact is coupled with the rise of radical feminism (you’ll be pleased to know that the EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT is again being disinterred), the product is a result from which the West may never recover.
Allow me to explain:
The physiological fact is that homosexuals normally do not reproduce. The current population replacement rate – the rate necessary to maintain the current native born population level — for the United States is somewhere north of 2 children per couple. Homosexuals usually don’t HAVE kids. Add the radical feminist impact – which holds that motherhood is some form of slavery and has driven many women to seek “fulfillment” OUTSIDE the home — and the current birth rate here is disturbingly FAR BELOW 2.1 per couple.
The other side of the demographic coin is that the virtually unrestrained immigration policies of past administrations have brought a huge influx of people from cultures radically different from that which existed here prior to the advent of PC, diversity, tolerance and all the other names by which many now call these self, nation and culture identity destroying behaviors.
Add the millions and millions of illegals who are now placing such a physical and economic burden on the healthcare and school systems that natural born citizens are being taxed to death and/or cannot, themselves, get the services to which they would otherwise be entitled. It’s a recipe for chaos.
And the politicians – who hope these new welfare recipients will support their perpetual reelection — turn a blind eye.
And as these groups agitate and campaign for THEIR particular flavor of diversity and tolerance, they also give added traction to virtually EVERY OTHER flavor. As they change millions of minds and cause others to reconsider long-standing and time-tested value systems, they are turning our world upside down.
The effect of these factors is that the America in which many of us older folks grew up is disappearing at an alarming rate. As the nation many of us came to love – and donned uniforms to defend – drifts toward some sort of Balkanized
despotism, large segments of these new arrivals – who know little and care even less of the traditions, values and history of this place and even refuse to learn the common tongue — separate themselves into ghetto-like enclaves where outsiders are often not welcomed unless they’re spending money, we run the very serious risk of repeating the experiences of the former Yugoslavia from which some of my people came.
Speaking of whom, my great-great grandparents waited for years then stood in long lines at Ellis Island to be deloused, interrogated and told they had to learn English and our history and traditions and pass a test – something the Hispanics and radical Muslim terrorists strolling across the border with Mexico don’ t have to do.
The Clinton administration – well known for its tolerance of the gay lifestyle – published some statistics in connection with AIDS that startled many. Of course, the PC then rearing its ugly head prohibited all but the brave from commenting on any of that.
The CDC statistics showed that 85% of all AIDS/HIV cases are
1. Active, non-monogamous homosexuals,
(the largest subset)
2. Heterosexuals and bisexuals who have had sex with group 1 and
3. IV drug abusers who share needles.
(Kinda gives new meaning to Romans 6:23, doesn’t it?)
The remaining 15% are those who have contracted AIDS via other,
non-sexual/non-drug means SUCH AS TRANSFUSIONS OF TAINTED BLOOD (which one homosexual “leader” on the West Coast URGED his fellow homosexuals to CONTINUE to attempt to contaminate in order to involve the straight community in the push to increase federal funding for AIDS research).
So, with the population replacement rate practically down to zero, we have some “leaders” of the homosexual community – who do nothing to help raise that rate – encouraging their members to make ill or kill those of us who have and/or are having and raising kids here.
I find it fascinating that many members of the homosexual community and the radical feminists are on the front line of the assault on traditional values and seek to replace them with more tolerance, diversity and other politically correct nonsense. They have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
While their activities have produced short-term “benefits” for them, that diversity, tolerance and egalitarianism have also opened the door to the idea that no culture is “better” than any other and that, for example, beheading homosexuals and women who refuse to fully submit to males is culturally superior behavior. Obama – apparently having confused Chicago with America — spent days apologizing to everyone he met for our defective, decadent, unexceptional and corrupt culture.
And that has brought to our shores a formerly foreign culture, the more radical elements of which are breeding at a rate well in excess of the rate among the indigenous LEGAL and NATURAL BORN population. That they are intensively breeding among themselves, causing anomalies within their gene pool that is causing and will continue to cause SERIOUS problems for them — and, ultimately, us. Go here for more information on that:
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010081111313/life-and-science/culture-wars/muslim-inbreeding-impacts-on-intelligence-sanity-health-and-society.html
And, just as it already has in Great Britain and continental Europe, with those increasing numbers will come increased political and social power – and turmoil.
And with that will surely come a foreign theology (actually a political/economic system masquerading as a religion) and law system.
And that foreign theology – that’d be Islam— and law system – that’d be Sharia — DOES NOT TOLERATE HOMOSEXUALITY and regards WOMEN AS CHATTEL WHO HAVE NO PERSONAL RIGHTS LET ALONE THE SORT OF FREEDOM TO WHICH THE FEMINISTS ARE ACCUSTOMED.
The bottom line, gays and ladies? You will either fall under the sword (put to death for you government school folk) or confined to the house unless your “man” – who will beat you periodically – wants to take you out, in which case you will be garbed from head to toe. And, only HE can drive the car. Where are Betty Freidan, Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinham when we really need them?
Here’s a short video clip of the reward your PC destruction of traditional American values will bring you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlyeT1MBEzE
A number of years ago, a writer posited that there was a “War Against Boys” within and without the government school system. He opined that little boys were being psychologically and emotionally emasculated by millions of female teachers and others in the America of John Wayne.
We have now entered the era of the feminized “metrosexual” (one now occupies the White House) where boys are discouraged – often prohibited — from playing games with toy plastic guns, rubber knives or other weapons. Feminists, if it hadn’t been for millions of young men with REAL guns venturing forth from time-to-time to face down very rough folks with designs on this country – and YOU — your freedom (albeit shrinking thanks largely to our having become the Metrosexual States of America) to promulgate your radical worldview would not exist.
So there you have it.
I’d urge you to think about these things while there MIGHT still be time to alter course.
PS: I had to get this out of my system BEFORE the new, improved congress passes the pending legislation making it a crime to post ANYTHING on the web that could in any way cause ANYONE emotional distress. Would it matter that it was factual? Nope! While it’s probable that the Supremes will rule it a violation of the First Amendment, I’d rather not squander my kids’ small inheritance on lawyers bringing the case.
Packing the bench ... with fudge-packers.
Ewww... where has that gavel been?
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