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The "American Dream".
Right.
Posted on 08/20/2007 10:30:08 PM PDT by Coleus
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Head ... Sand ... Hole ... Remove
Let a hundred Foley scandals bloom.
It's easy to dance around singing about a big tent when you skirt around the issues.
Just one question, if homosexuals are such a minority why do politicians always pander to get their vote?
Quite frankly I find the whole idea of pandering to someone’s sexual orientation to be repugnant.
that is a good answer.
> I didn't know they were excluded. Then there is the matter of the Log Cabin Republicans. Just who are they?!
Hey, it worked for Sodom, right?
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This big tent all started back in 1997 during the suing of the Christian Coalition and the big money lenders. The RNC decided then to distant themselves from religious extremists.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=27#27
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=28#28
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=29#29
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=30#30
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=32#32
However... I suggest you read your Bible. You can't teach those who refuse to learn.
Big Tent? Where have I heard that term used before?
Oh wait. Episcopal Church.
No thanks, GOP.
I think Steve Lonegan has jumped the shark. The only thing under big tents are a lot of hot air and clowns.
Power Point of this brochure can be downloaded here
From NAMBLA:
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Harry made the following statement to a press conference on June 24, 1994, in the former Stonewall Inn on Sheridan Square in New York, site of the riots that launched the modern gay movement in June 1969. The press conference was called to announce the Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) contingent in the Stonewall 25 march two days later. It was moderated by SOS co-organizer and indefatigable activist Bill Dobbs. Other participants were Christine Martin, sex educator and documentary filmmaker; Glenda Orgasm (aka Glenn Belverio), drag queen activist and filmmaker; Scott O�Hara, editor and publisher of Steam magazine; Val Langmuir of Feminists Against Censorship (London); Julia Smedley, member of Stonewall Now; and Charley Shively of Fag Rag and professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts.
This statement was transcribed from a videotape of the press conference. A much shorter version�which omits any mention of NAMBLA or SOS, as well as the entire last half of the statement and the first paragraph�appeared in Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder Harry Hay, ed. Will Roscoe (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), p. 303. These omissions seem odd in view of the fact that Harry read from a written text. The truncated version also used capital letters for words such as �Brothers and Sisters� and �Queers,� a convention that is not followed here since this complete version is not based on a written text.
Sir Julian Huxley, the great English biologist, said, at the beginning of this century, no negative trait�and, as you know, a negative trait is one that does not reproduce itself�no negative trait ever appears, and reappears, millennia after millennia after millennia, unless it in some way serves the survival of that species. We gays and lesbians may embody, or have discovered, some things that you folks desperately need to know about.I�m here today as a survivor, as well as the founder of the first ongoing gay organization in the United States, the Mattachine Society, first formed in 1950 in Los Angeles, and now, naturally, a member of SOS, the Spirit of Stonewall, because things we discovered about ourselves and principles we developed in 1950 to �53 are now being trashed by queers who don�t know their own history, all over the place.
We decided from the beginning that, first, because we were still discovering our parameters, we wouldn�t censure each other. If people like NAMBLA self-identify themselves to me as gays and lesbians, I accept them as brothers and sisters with love.
Second, when we decided to rejoin the social or political mainstream again, we would integrate as the group we saw ourselves to be, complete with our own set of values, or we would not integrate at all.
And third, we would no longer permit any heteros�nationally or internationally, individually or collectively�to tell us who we are, what persons our groups should or should not consist of. We assert our right to self-determination, we assert our right to collective self-definition. We queers will decide for ourselves who our members should be.
Members of SOS, notably NAMBLA, have been accused of child molestation. Insofar as child molestation is concerned, the most common form is the sexual coercion by which gay and lesbian children are bedeviled into hetero identities and behaviors. And this is practiced daily by the whole national and international hetero community�parents, family, teachers, preachers, doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs, not to overlook U.S. senators and pooh-bah media.
This outrageous coercion of gay kids into hetero identities and behaviors against their wills is not only sexually abusive, it is spiritually devastating rape, because the child unbeknowingly is being led into developing self-loathing at the same time. For this gigantic criminal trespass against not only today�s children but against all of us also�all of us�since childhood, from the queers my age of 82 down through all the generations of queers assembled here in New York, to the gay kids still being bedeviled by sexual coercion against their wills, we the international gay and lesbian people here this week should unite to sue the whole guilty heterosexual community lock, stock, and barrel to within an inch of their lives, and for every nickel they�ve got, as a beginning of compensation. And while we�re at it, we should request our first-class citizenship as well. This could be the class-action suit of the century.
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“My friend fought a tragic inner battle that tormented him to suicide. No one will ever understand the emotional turmoil that destroyed his life. The demons that haunted him... “
This poor soul fought a battle between good and evil. Evil won. I doubt he is in a better place. The worst thing a Christian can do to his fellow man is to tell him his chosen lifestyle is okay and accept him. He needs to hear the truth, no matter how painful or “intolerant” it may seem. He needs correcting.
Preferring sexual intercourse with others of one’s own sex is not a political ideology or issue, UNLESS AND UNTIL those professing such a perverse and unnatural preference choose to make it a political issue; employing pressure tactics of various kinds and exploiting political institutions and processes as means of compelling others to accept their perverse behavior as morally, socially and culturally normative; and demanding that this behavioral preference be taught to minor children in government schools as acceptable and normative.
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