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‘Gay’ Log Cabin Minnesota Leader Linked to Violence-Prone ‘UsQueers’ Website 4/30/2003 Eva Young Tries to Get C&F Report Writer in Trouble at Penn State
A leader of Minnesota's Log Cabin Republicans—a homosexual activist group that casts itself as a moderate influence in the GOP—is linked to usQueers.com, a radical "queer" group that advocates the murder of Christian pro-family leaders including CWA Chairman Beverly LaHaye, Culture & Family Report has learned.
The Culture and Family Institute uncovered the link when a Culture and Family Report writer Gary Morella came under fire for his article from last week defending Sen. Rick Santorum. Eva Young, president of the Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans, e-mailed Morella to question his qualifications and possibly jeopardize his employment at Penn State University.
In a phone interview with Culture & Family Report Wednesday, Young said she was not trying to get Morella fired, but said perhaps he should be “disciplined” by the university because his Penn State affiliation was noted in the article.
CWA’s Robert Knight called on the Log Cabin Republicans’ national leadership to disassociate itself from Young for her involvement with activists behind the notorious “usQueers” website, which was ordered shut down by a court order.
Violent history of usQueers.com Young currently co-moderates the companion Yahoo discussion group to usQueers.com, which is surrounded by the violent history of webmaster Bruce Allan Ross, who was jailed last year after storming a Baptist Church in San Diego and threatening its pastor with a broken glass bottle in June 2001.
Ross put his website on the Internet in March 2001. There, he displayed a “Wanted” poster that called for “A Horrible Death By Any Means Soon” for “Well-Known Het [heterosexual] Supremacists.”
The “het supremacists” on Ross’ hit list included former President Ronald Reagan, former Sen. Jesse Helms and Sen. Strom Thurmond, former California State Assemblyman Steve Baldwin, Pat Robertson, Gary Bauer, Paul Weyrich, Rev. Lou Sheldon of Traditional Values Coaltion, Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association, and Focus on the Family’s Dr. James Dobson.
The website also called for the deaths of CWA founder Beverly LaHaye and Culture and Family Institute senior policy analyst Peter LaBarbera, who at that time headed Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.
An archived copy of the original 943-page website, obtained by Culture and Family Report, contains this disclaimer: “usQueers.com does not authorize, ratify or directly threaten acts of violence toward the people or organizations on this list.”
However, other pages on the website show photos of several types of weapons and describe their use, including guns, a sword cane, a bow saw, and a throat slasher.
The website also contains writings by “Uncle Mordecai,” who asks that “just 20% of our Queer tribe . . . step up to the firing line and tell criminals and criminal gay-bashers, ‘You are dead.’ And if it is necessary, kill them.”
About Mrs. LaHaye of CWA, Ross wrote, “This is where it’s hard to keep from going into X-rated language. It’s too easy, really, but come on, she really [is an expletive].”
Ross described LaBarbera as “a true bottomfeeder, a scum-sucking weasel who is obsessed with Queer sex beyond all reason, except where one watches him step on the bodies of those he kills with his lies in order to create his career as a Queer hater and hunter. His death should be soon, since he is rotting now from the inside out.”
In the “About Us” section, the usQueers.com website states:
We are trying to provide information on this website which is not easily available elsewhere, and to serve as a conduit for communications between those who also have this mission. We do not automatically exclude the validity of any methods for achieving this mission.
Young, in her interview with Culture & Family Report editor LaBarbera, characterized the “usQueers” site as a “parody” of an anti-abortion site called the “Nuremberg Files” that celebrated the murder or deaths of abortionists. Young said she did not support calling for the death of critics of homosexuality, and criticized the usQueers site in various e-mails. But in the interest of free speech, she said the violent “gay” site should not have been taken down. (This reporter has not confirmed, through Young’s trail of activist e-mails, that she denounced the violent site.)
‘Christohet’ defined The website also defines a “christohet supremacist” as “a person who speaks or acts according to the belief that people who claim to follow their version of Christianity, and all heterosexuals, have more value to humanity than people who don’t say they follow that version, and all Queers. Variations include het supremacist or heterosexist, Christian supremacist and religious supremacist.”
The website asked visitors to supply personal information about its targets, including: their home, office and church addresses; favorite hangouts; family members; phone numbers; automobile license plate numbers; and “just about anything which could be useful in spotting these dangerous het supremacists when they are wandering around loose.”
Ross Attacked Church In June 2001, a few months after putting up the website, Ross attacked minister David Powell at the First Southern Baptist Church in San Diego while Powell was cleaning the church with his three children, then aged 9, 14, and 16.
During the incident, Ross displayed a broken glass bottle, threatened to hurt Powell, and also threatened to commit suicide by cutting the artery in his own neck. San Diego police officers subdued Ross by firing bean-bag bullets and unleashing a police dog on him. Powell and his children escaped unharmed. Ross said he didn’t know Powell was a pastor.
Powell said during the attack, Ross complained about the Southern Baptist Convention's stances against homosexual behavior, as reported in the media during the previous week's SBC annual meeting in New Orleans, according to Baptist Press.
Eva Young told Culture and Family Report that she opposed Ross’ criminal actions at the church, but noted that he is a manic depressive who had not been taking his medications at the time. (Ross’ lawyer used that in his defense during the trial.)
Young noted that she herself struggles with bipolar disorder and, “it’s a hellish disease. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”
Hopes for heart attack In November 2001, while Ross was awaiting sentencing, he and LaBarbera were guests on San Diego’s Rick Roberts radio talk show. During the broadcast, Ross expressed hope that LaBarbera would die of a heart attack.
In response to the crime he committed against Pastor Powell, the court ordered Ross “not log on to, visit, or participate in any way with the website ‘usQueers.com’ or any website of that nature. The defendant is ordered not to be a guest on any more radio shows. … The Court orders that the defendant take down the website ‘usQueers.com’ and further orders that the defendant not transfer the information on this website to any other for use on another website.”
Ross was also ordered to obey his doctors’ orders and take all prescribed medications.
Ross was sentenced January 29, 2002, to 365 days in jail. During his sentencing, which this writer attended, prosecutor Wes Sherman argued that the jail term was necessary because “[Ross] runs a highly sophisticated website. He is not a walking basket case. He is highly intelligent . . . To him, a computer should be a paperweight or something he looks at.”
Ross stays active with UsQueers Ross apparently has not taken to heart Sherman’s admonition to confine computers to decorative purposes. A recent check of the Yahoo discussion groups “usQueers” and its successor, “us_queers,” proves that Ross and Young are current and active contributors.
The original usQueers discussion group had 24 members, including Ms. Young, who first posted to the list on November 29, 2001 — more than five months after Ross was arrested, and after several articles about his arrest had been published by a variety of news sources and discussed in Internet chat rooms such as Free Republic.
Although the original usQueers group is now inactive, Ross is still listed as its owner, with the most recent posting occurring February 24, 2003, by Eva Young.
While Ross was in jail, a successor discussion group named us_queers was founded last June 1. That list currently boasts 96 members, including Ross, Young and Rusty Morris.
In an e-mail exchange last weekend with Penn State student Patrick Gibbons — who was recently let go as a conservative columnist for the university’s Digital Collegian newspaper — Morris described himself as a 36-year-old with a “criminal psychology degree from Florida State. I have been a gay militant activist since 17, came out at 13. I am a religious cult researcher and cult victims counselor, and have been for the past 14 years.”
Ross is listed on the new us_queers discussion group as a member. Morris is listed as a co-owner, and Eva Young is shown as a co-moderator. Morris and Young each posted messages to the list as recently as April 29.
Young shares moderator responsibilities with James Nimmo, treasurer of Stonewall Democrats of Central Oklahoma and an opponent of library Internet filters for children.
In her interview with Culture & Family Report,” Young said she “does not run” the us_queers discussion group, and said her involvement on the list is a private activity not associated with Log Cabin Republicans.
“I’m on all sorts of lists,” she said.
Violent company Eva keeps In addition to her regular participation in the us_queers discussion group and other online forums, Young also moderates “sodomlist,” a Yahoo chat venue “for folks to discuss tactics and approaches to get rid of sodomy laws.” Rusty Morris is also a member of sodomlist.
Recently, Morris has implied death threats against a pro-family San Diego group, Courageous Christians United. This writer is an occasional volunteer spokesperson for CCU.
Earlier this month, CCU issued a press release about the “Day of Silence,” a national pro-homosexual event held April 9 in schools throughout the country. The press release quoted CCU director Steve Klein: "This silence is ironic considering that sexual deviants, who comprise a tiny percentage of the general population, are among the most vocal and aggressive special-interest groups working to impose their fascist vision of unfettered sexual license on the majority of decent, moral citizens."
Klein’s comment elicited the following ironic remark from Bruce Allen Ross, the “usQueers.com” founder, about CCU: “These people are NOT polite, and should be watched as one would a nearby venomous snake.”
Referring to Klein in an April 10 message, Rusty Morris posted the following:
Bang Bang...they shot him down, BANG BANG ..that lovely sound...
Young said, “I don’t celebrate the deaths of anybody,” and that she condemned Morris’ and usQueers’ more extreme statements. But she said Morries is “an interesting guy.”
“This is an edgy list,” with lively opinions, she said “I don’t support everything that people say on that list.”
Will LCR fire Young? Eva Young did not responded to e-mail questions submitted by this reporter, but she told LaBarbera that she did pass them on to Log Cabin Republicans national headquarters. She said she had not heard anything back from Log Cabins’ national leadership.
Culture & Family Report sought comment from the national Log Cabin Republicans headquarters in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, this reporter called in to the Michael Dresser radio talk show—featuring LCR executive director Patrick Guerrierro and CWA’s Peter LaBarbera—and informed Guerrierro of Eva Young’s affiliation with usQueers.com. While not saying whether he would take any actions against Young, Guerrierro distanced himself from the extremist actions of “usQueers” and said both the conservative and “gay” sides should ramp down their rhetoric.
Culture & Family Report sent inquiries to the national Log Cabin office regarding what, if any, actions would be taken against Eva Young, but they were not responded to as of press time.
Guerrierro has called on Sen. Santorum to step down from his GOP leadership post in the Senate if he does not apologize for remarks supporting Texas’ same-sex sodomy law. Guerrierro has argued that Santorum has the right to make such remarks, but as GOP leader tasked with building supportive coalitions, he should not have made the statements.
He said Santorum’s comments were “hurtful” to homosexuals.
LaBarbera asked Eva Young if the same principle should apply to her—i.e., should the Log Cabin Republicans allow one of their state leaders being involved with extremist “gay” activists that celebrate the murder of opponents and use incendiary rhetoric like “Christo-het supremacists” to described people of faith.
Young replied, “It’s up to the LCR to respond to you. If they’re going to do it [let her go], they’re going to do it. I don’t expect them to. It would be stupid. It will hurt them in the gay press, but it’s their call.”
She told LaBarbera that she doesn’t use phrases like “Christo-het supremacist” but “you are one.” She said she has used the phrase “Leviticus crowd” referring to religious conservatives opposed to “gay right,” especially after she heard Republican operative and Bush advisor Mary Matalin do so.
Knight: Young shows Log Cabin’s must go Robert Knight, director of the Culture & Family Institute of Concerned Women for America, said Log Cabin’s handling of the Eva Young controversy will prove whether Guerrierro is earnest when he talks about reducing extremist “gay” rhetoric.
“Eva Young has long chosen to affiliate herself with a truly hateful group, usQueers, that advocates violence against pro-family leaders like our own Mrs. LaHaye and Peter LaBarbera. It will be interesting to see if Log Cabin Republicans—which has blasted a leading Republican senator for merely voicing his opinion in defense of sodomy laws—will now fully disassociate itself from Ms. Young and her fanatical usQueers allies.
“There is no room in the debate over homosexuality for those who celebrate or commit violence against anybody, including those who defend traditional Judeo-Christian morality,” Knight said.
He said the GOP should factor in Young’s radical associations when confronted with temptations to confer mainstream status on the Log Cabin group. Noting that Patrick Guerrierro and other Log Cabin leaders claim to be “conservative,” he said, “There is nothing conservative about consorting with vicious anti-Christian bigots, just like there is nothing conservative about supporting the redefinition of marriage to include two men or two women, or pretending that two male lovers adopting a baby is as healthy for the child having a mom and a dad.”
In interviews, Guerrierro, who is also pro-abortion “rights,” describes himself as a conservative, and a churchgoing Catholic, despite Church clear teachings against homosexual behavior and “gay” advocacy.
Young tries to cause trouble for C&F Report writer In communicating with CFI writer Gary Morella, who authored the Santorum defense in last week’s Culture & Family Report, Young questioned his qualifications and went for the jugular—by emailing Morella's employers at Penn State University.
Culture & Family Report prefaced Morella’s essay with this statement: “Gary Morella is a research mathematician at Penn State University and a Catholic pro-family advocate who has written extensively on sexual morality and life issues, frequently challenging liberal ethos at the university.”
On April 25, Morella received an e-mail message from Eva Young, president of Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota, who identified herself as a Lavender Magazine columnist and the owner of the “lloydletta” Internet blogspot. Young’s message was also addressed to Bill Mahon, assistant vice president for university relations at Penn State, and the Culture and Family Institute.
In her letter, Young asked Mahon, “Is Gary Morella speaking for Penn State here? Did Gary give the Culture and Family Institute the permission to use both his name, and his institutional affiliation?” She then asked Mahon for Penn State’s official policy.
In subsequent exchanges with Morella and Mahon, Young disclosed her position with the Log Cabin Republicans, as well as her employment with the University of Minnesota. (The same university made headlines last year by publishing Judith Levine’s pro-pedophilia book Harmful to Minors, which just received an award from The Los Angeles Times (see current article in this issue.)
However, Young failed to tell Morella and Mahon that she is associated with the “usQueers” discussion list.
After receiving Young’s initial communiqué, Morella asked her, “Why then should those faculty like myself work under the constraint that we cannot identify who we are in speaking out against homosexual lifestyles?”
Young responded:
Now maybe Penn State is different than the University of Minnesota, but here at the University of Minnesota's [sic] Research Assistants are NOT considered ‘faculty.’ The issue is not one of free speech. You have every right to say what you want. The question is whether it is appropriate to speak — and also use your Penn State affiliation to give you more credibility — especially when you are using your work credentials to talk about a subject that doesn't relate to your day-to-day work.
Morella responded, “I'm wondering just who do you think you are with your impertinent arrogant questions, which I do not have to answer.”
In an April 29 phone interview with Culture and Family Report, Mahon of Penn State affirmed Morella’s right to free speech:
She [Young] sent me a note to that effect, and I explained that Morella has the right to identify himself as a university employee. The same free speech you have wherever you would go, you have on the Penn State campus. We cannot prevent people from speaking out. It’s the law of the country. I think most people would understand that between his stating that he is a mathematician and that he is a frequent critic of the university, he was not speaking for the university.
In her interview with Culture & Family Report, Young said she was not trying to get Morella fired and, in fact, supports his right to speak. But she said perhaps he should be “disciplined” for including his Penn State affiliation with the article. She said she did not know that Culture & Family Report editors, not Morella, wrote the introduction to his article listing his affiliation.
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Pray for Eva Young, Bruce Allan Ross, Rusty Morris, Patrick Guerrierro, and everyone associated with usQueers.com and Log Cabin Republicans to be delivered from homosexuality. Do what you can to inform Republican Party officials about Log Cabin Republicans’ radical "gay" activist affiliations.
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