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The 2004 election mantra for politicos may well be 'It's homosexuality, stupid,' as Democratic candidates openly court the "gay" vote, and Republicans make quiet incursions into the traditionally Democratic territory – all to the distress of conservative, pro-family groups. "This is going to be a hot-button issue," predicts Peter LaBarbera with the Culture and Family Institute at Concerned Women of America, or CWA, the nation’s largest Christian women’s group. "Howard Dean is running on the gay issue. Now Gephardt is jumping on the band wagon. The whole Party's going that way. ... Their gamble is that people don't care, but...

Portland, Oregon, Mayor Proclaims ‘Leather Pride Week’ for Sexual Sadists ‘Diversity’ takes a new, punishing twist By Peter LaBarbera [WARNING: graphic descriptions] Vera Katz, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, last month issued a formal proclamation declaring "Leather Pride Week" — coinciding with an event held by sexual sadists that included sadistic sex orgies and an event celebrating "fisting," C&F Report has learned. A spokeswoman for Katz reached by C&F Report defended the "leather" proclamation and said it was not intended to promote "fisting," a sadistic perversion practiced mainly by "gay" men in which one man inserts his hand and arm...

(CNSNews.com) - After pro-family leaders criticized Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot for meeting with what they call "gay pressure" groups, Racicot has now agreed to a meeting with a group of people who used to be homosexual. "We thought it was bad politics and not the right thing to do to meet with a homosexual activist group," Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst for the Culture and Family Institute, a part of Concerned Women for America (CWA), told CNSNews.com.LaBarbera was referring to Racicot's early March meeting with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), one of the nation's largest groups advocating special...

BY SENATOR JESSE HELMSA Nation Adrift THE REBIRTH Of AMERICA in the brief history of our own country since we gained our independence, we can look bock upon a tremendous heritage of political freedom founded upon a biblical faith and a biblical understanding of the nature of man. Moreover, we ' can look back upon the material signs of God's blessing in a fruitful and bounteous country, with success in almost every enterprise in war and peace. American Institutions: Under Attack. But within my own lifetime. 1 have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on...

GOP Courting Homosexual Vote -- A 'Recipe for Disaster'By Bill Fancher and Jody Brown April 21, 2003(AgapePress) - When Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Racicot met with homosexual activists recently, it caused a chorus of criticism from the pro-family lobby across the country. Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute says Racicot's address at a Human Rights Campaign meeting in early March is the latest in a series of apparent efforts by the Bush Administration to court the homosexual vote. Knight believes the GOP has been misguided about its pro-family Christian voter base. "I think there is a view...