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ITHACA -- Tompkins County residents will once more be able to include the Boy Scouts of America in their United Way donations. But they will have to do so by adding the name themselves to their pledge cards. United Way Executive Director James Brown, United Way Board President Joann Gruttadaurrio, Baden-Powell Vice President Steve Gray, and Baden-Powell Council Executive Mark Tyson made the formal announcement Thursday>. The Tompkins County agency stopped funding the Baden-Powell Council last year after a June 28 Supreme Court decision allowed the Scouts to keep membership and leadership criteria that exclude avowed homosexuals. It was the ...

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Copyright 2002 by Scott Douglas Lively, Esq.There is no shame in believing a lie until you learn the truth.The success of so-called "gay rights" is an amazing triumph of clever deception over simple logic. When it comes to this issue, otherwise intelligent people routinely fall for arguments that just don't hold up under scrutiny. "Gay" sympathizers aren't necessarily more gullible than other people, they are simply tricked into accepting certain conclusions without first examining the underlying premises. He who defines the terms controls the debate -- and by extension, public opinion. On this issue the terms have been defined (in...

<p>A California public school district is allowing homosexual school employees to "come out" in front of children in school without obtaining parents' permission.</p> <p>A unanimous resolution allows teachers at the Hayward Unified School District to talk openly about homosexuality or to discuss their homosexual lifestyles with students during class. The district's school board says such action is required under the California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000.</p>

May 2002Dear Friends,A warm May greeting to you all! As you know, the Memorial Day holiday will be observed at the end of the month. The purpose of this annual observance is to honor the memories of those in our armed forces who have died in service to our country. This year, as the war on terrorism continues and the men and women of our military are deployed to the far-flung corners of the globe, I hope you'll be in prayer on behalf of those and their families who are fighting to defend the freedoms we hold so dear. They...

A City Combats AIDS Complacency As Rates of Sexual Diseases Climb, San Francisco Preaches Risk to Gay Men AIDS Special Report by Rene Sanchez Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 12, 2002; Page A03 SAN FRANCISCO -- On the streets of the Castro district, news of funerals for gay men who had AIDS is scarce. Cafes are no longer filled with gaunt, sickly customers. And some days, when the city sends a van out to offer free tests for sexually transmitted diseases, it finds few takers. The worst of the plague has passed. But health officials here say that as...

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KIRTLAND, Ohio -- What if a class assignment forced you to choose between getting a passing grade or following your moral values? A class at Lakeland Community College was told to wear a pink triangle for the day to symbolize gay pride. NewsChannel5's Kareen Wynter reported that one student decided to fight it, but it almost cost him the school year. Many students dream of graduating school with high honors, but this student said that he has little to look forward to in his final weeks. "It's a moral issue I have," he said. "I pay tuition to come to...

[...] Taxpayers Pay $260,000 for DSS Mistake The mother whose 5-year-old son, Kyle Ross, died after a Rottweiler attacked him at a foster home has received $260,000 in a settlement with the state. This is the same woman, Diana Ross, whose newborn baby was seized from her arms last year by state police and DSS agents at the maternity ward of the Mary Lane Hospital in Ware. At that time, Atty. Greg Hession told MassNews that the snatch could be retribution for the wrongful death suit she had filed against the agency for the injuries and death suffered by Kyle....

CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION HONORING THE BOY SCOUTS DEFEATED SACRAMENTO (April 2, 2002) - Today, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee rejected a resolution that would honor the Boy Scouts of America on its anniversary of holding a congressional charter. The resolution, ACR 140, is authored by Republican Assemblymember Robert Pacheco of Walnut. Jean Harris, executive director of the California Alliance for Pride and Equality (CAPE), applauded the Assembly committee's action and said, "The leadership of the Boy Scouts of America is failing miserably when it sends the message that discrimination and intolerance are acceptable. The organization's call 'to respect and defend the...

BOSTON (AP) — Cardinal Bernard Law, answering an attorney's questions under oath Wednesday, maintained that he relied on the advice of doctors and subordinates when he approved the parish transfer of a priest accused of sexually abusing children. The deposition was ordered in a civil lawsuit accusing Law of negligence in supervising a pedophile priest John Geoghan whose case helped trigger the church's sex abuse crisis. The Archdiocese of Boston had settled with the 86 victims who accused Geoghan of sexual abuse for an estimated $15 million to 30 million, but it backed out of the settlement last week. A...

Memo to Catholic priests everywhere: If you plan on attending a future Mardi Gras, try not to be photographed shirtless next to a drag queen and some chiseled guys in biker shorts. Because that photo op just cost Rev. Thomas Bouterie his pastor's post at a church outside of New Orleans. The 47-year-old Bouterie--unknowingly snapped at last year's New Orleans bacchanal--appears in "Masking and Madness: Mardi Gras in New Orleans," photographer Kerri McCaffety's vibrant study of the annual Crescent City celebration. Following a meeting with diocesan brass, Bouterie announced Saturday (5/4) his decision to step down after 13 years...

Press Advisory May 6, 2002 CALIFORNIA SENATE POISED TO O.K. NON-PHYSICIAN ABORTIONS Under the guise of an affirmation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision imposing liberal abortion laws on the fifty states, is a radical change in California abortion law, which will put women’s lives in jeopardy. SB 1301, which could be on the Senate floor as soon as Thursday, would remove the 35-year-old law that permits only “a holder of the physician’s and surgeon’s certificate” to perform abortions. The Reproductive Privacy Act, which would replace the 1967 Therapeutic Abortion Act, is authored by Senator Sheila Kuehl...

A 12-year-old Rock Island girl will be in federal court today to prevent her grade school from printing her winning yearbook cover design without the words she wanted: “God Bless America.” The original, winning entry by Marissa De La Rosa included that phrase, but the school made her erase those words and replace them with “Proud to be an American” after being told she had won, according to a lawsuit. Marissa and her father, Joseph De La Rosa, filed the suit in U.S. District Court, Rock Island, against the Rock Island-Milan School District, Ridgewood Elementary School Principal John Frieden and...

Picket of Catholic Charities fundraiser In protest of Howard Brown, "Catholic" Charities counselor / Planned Parenthood escort (!!). Time: Wednesday, May 1 6:00-7:30 pm Location: Hawthorne Hotel 18 Washington Square West “On the Common” Salem, MA NewsMax.com   Monday, Feb. 25, 2002Pro-Abortion Worker Is Massachusetts Catholic Charities Official It looks as if the embattled Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston hasn't learned a single thing about the dangers of covering up problems such as the horrendous pedophile priests scandal - it now refuses to discuss having an official of a Catholic Charities organization under its authority working as a volunteer at...

The Homosexual Problem In case you missed it, the April 23rd edition of 'Alan Keyes is Making Sense' which aired last Tuesday on MSNBC featured a heated debate among host Alan Keyes, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, and two guests representing both 'Dignity USA', and 'Catholics Speak Out'-advocacy groups who openly promote the legitimization of homosexual activity within the Catholic Church (the recently accused Fr. Shanley served as Chaplain to one of the organizations) Quoting from the statement delivered by the Pope which read, "The abuse of the young is a grave symptom of a crisis affecting not only the...

Child molestation and pedophilia occur far more commonly among homosexuals than among heterosexuals on a per capita basis, according to a new study. "Overwhelming evidence supports the belief that homosexuality is a sexual deviancy often accompanied by disorders that have dire consequences for our culture," wrote Steve Baldwin in, "Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement," soon to be published by the Regent University Law Review – after Stanford Law Review backed out. Baldwin is the executive director of the Council for National Policy in Washington, D.C. "It is difficult to convey the dark side of the homosexual culture without appearing...

Russia moves to re-criminalise gay sex A group of Russian parliamentarians submitted to consideration by the State Duma the draft law criminalizing same-sex intercourse. M oscow - On April 22, 2002, a group of Russian parliamentarians submitted to the consideration by the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament) the draft law criminalizing same-sex intercourse between consenting adult males. "The unnatural satisfaction of sexual desire of one male with another male", as they defined the proposed crime, shall be punishable with 1 to 5 years in jail. Authors of the draft law claim that their purpose is to...

<p>I was driving with my 3-year-old daughter Monday morning down West Liberty Avenue, when we had no choice but to gaze out the car windows at a variety of 5-foot placards depicting extremely graphic photos of aborted fetuses. My daughter asked me, "Mommy, why are those people holding signs of scary monsters?" In shock myself as to what I was seeing, I did not know what to say.</p>

The Interfaith Campaign to Safeguard Roe is an educational and advocacy initiative for people of all faiths. The campaign welcomes all who support a federal judiciary that will uphold the constitutional right to choose. We pledge to hold President Bush and the U.S. Senate accountable for confirming federal court judges who will safeguard Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. Reproductive rights hang in the balance. The right to choose was maintained by a one-vote margin in the most recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion (Stenberg v. Carhart, 2000). In 8 of the 13 circuits, anti-choice judges...