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State Dept. Lifts Ban on HIV –Positive Visas for ‘Gay’ Games      2/23/2006  The ‘Gay’ Games, a homosexual mock Olympics, will be held in Chicago July 15-22, 2006. Thanks to the work of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, (D) and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, (D-Illinois), the U.S. State Department has created a special “designated event status” for the event which will allow HIV infected athletes and spectators to enter the country despite a national prohibition. This matter is greatly troubling to Peter LaBarbera, President of the Illinois Family Institute, who notes that ‘gay’ bathhouses and sex parties are already on the entertainment...

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

The polls indicate that the issue of principal concern for voters in the key state of Ohio -- as well as other swing states -- was not the war or the economy but "moral issues." In Ohio in particular, the Democrats outpolled their performance in 2000 in their Cleveland base. But this advantage was overcome in the rural districts of western Ohio where thousands of Christian voters cast ballots for the first time. What brought these voters out? We can speculate that a ballot initiative on gay marriage may have had something to do with it. The margin of victory...