tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67442030931669788882024-03-13T14:21:13.532-07:00MAN UP!Dedicated to holding men responsible for their actions, behaviors and role in society. Using non-violent peer pressure to stop unhealthy behaviors among men that negatively impacts them, their family, the community and society.Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-38298940758738483602013-02-01T12:16:00.003-08:002013-02-01T12:16:45.809-08:00KIDS NEED BOTH MOM AND DAD, SAYS GAY MAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The benefits of intact biological families were emphasized on a “Building a Marriage Culture” panel at the National Review Institute’s 2013 Summit, “The Future of Conservatism.” One of the panelists, Doug Mainwaring, spoke of his personal experience as a gay man who came to realize that his own children need both a mother and a father.</div>
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“For a long time I thought, if I could just find the right partner, we could raise my kids together, but it became increasingly apparent to me, even if I found somebody else exactly like me, who loved my kids as much as I do, there would still be a gaping hole in their lives because they need a mom,” Mainwaring, co-founder of National Capital Tea Party Patriots, said.</div>
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Mainwaring is now living with his ex-wife so they can co-parent their two teenaged sons.</div>
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“I don’t want to see children being engineered for same-sex couples where there is either a mom missing or a dad missing,” Mainwaring explained. “Somebody needs to stand up for the rights and needs of children in an age when the selfishness of adults seems to be trumping those rights.”</div>
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Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-56935595538421913552013-01-30T03:56:00.003-08:002013-01-30T04:23:01.063-08:00What the Boy Scouts can learn from the Catholic Church and Penn State about putting gays in leadership positions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Raynard Jackson a president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a Washington, D.C.-based public relations/government affairs firm, wrote in his Black Press USA column <a data-mce-href="http://blackpressusa.com/boy-scouts-shouldnt-become-gay-scouts/" href="http://blackpressusa.com/boy-scouts-shouldnt-become-gay-scouts/" target="_blank"><em>Boy Scouts Shouldn't Become ‘Gay Scouts’</em></a>:</div>
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In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in <a data-mce-href="http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/constitutional-law/constitutional-law-keyed-to-cohen/protection-of-penumbral-first-amendment-rights/boy-scouts-of-america-v-dale-2/" href="http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/constitutional-law/constitutional-law-keyed-to-cohen/protection-of-penumbral-first-amendment-rights/boy-scouts-of-america-v-dale-2/" target="_blank"><em>Boy Scouts of America v. Dale</em></a> that Boy Scouts, and all private organizations, have the constitutionally protected right under the First Amendment of freedom of association to set membership standards. In 2004, the BSA adopted a new policy statement, including the following as a “Youth Leadership” policy:</div>
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“Boy Scouts of America believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed. The conduct of youth members must be in compliance with the Scout Oath and Law, and membership in Boy Scouts of America is contingent upon the willingness to accept Scouting’s values and beliefs. Most boys join Scouting when they are 10 or 11 years old. As they continue in the program, all Scouts are expected to take leadership positions. In the unlikely event that an older boy were to hold himself out as homosexual, he would not be able to continue in a youth leadership position.”</div>
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The Boy Scouts of America are reported to be reconsidering their position on gays becoming scout leaders.</div>
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<strong>What can the Boy Scouts of America learn from others who have put gays into leadership positions? Perhaps the experiences of the Catholic Church and Penn State University are two case studies that will predict what could happen.</strong></div>
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In 1998 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas paid $30.9 million to twelve victims of one priest ($44.1 million in present-day terms). From 2003 to 2009 nine other major settlements involving over 375 cases with 1551 claimants/victims, resulted in payments of over $1.1 billion. The Associated Press estimated the settlements of sex abuse cases from 1950 to 2007 totaled more than $2 billion. </div>
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BishopAccountability.org puts the figure at more than $3 billion in 2012. Addressing "a flood of abuse claims" five dioceses (Tucson, Arizona; Spokane, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Davenport, Iowa, and San Diego) got bankruptcy protection. Eight Catholic dioceses have declared bankruptcy due to sex abuse cases from 2004-2011.<sup id="cite_ref-Eightbankruptcies_24-0"><a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases#cite_note-Eightbankruptcies-24" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases#cite_note-Eightbankruptcies-24"><br /></a></sup></div>
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Penn State University (PSU) had a similar experience with Jerry Sandusky. The Sandusky scandal had far-reaching outcomes for the university. The report of an independent investigation commissioned by the PSU board and conducted by former FBI director Louis Freeh and his law firm stated that Spanier and Paterno, along with Curley and school vice president Gary Schultz, had known about allegations of child abuse on Sandusky's part as early as 1998, and were complicit in failing to disclose them.</div>
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In so doing, Freeh stated that the most senior leaders at Penn State showed a "total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims" for 14 years and "empowered" Jerry Sandusky to continue his abuse.</div>
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On July 23, 2012 the NCAA imposed sweeping penalties on Penn State—among the most severe ever imposed on an NCAA member school—including a fine of $60 million, a four-year postseason ban and vacating of all victories from 1998–2011. In doing so, NCAA President Mark Emmert stated that the sanctions were levied "not to be just punitive, but to make sure the university establishes an athletic culture and daily mindset in which football will never again be placed ahead of education, nurturing and protecting young people." The Big Ten Conference subsequently imposed an additional $13 million fine. Spanier, Curley and Schultz have since been brought up on criminal charges for their role in the cover-up.</div>
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In addition <a data-mce-href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/279731-congressmen-ask-for-return-of-penn-state-scholarships-stripped-in-sandusky-scandal#ixzz2JORbOaxm" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/279731-congressmen-ask-for-return-of-penn-state-scholarships-stripped-in-sandusky-scandal#ixzz2JORbOaxm" target="_blank">40 scholarships were stripped</a> from Penn State University in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.</div>
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Sandusky was a pederast, as were all of the Catholic priests involved in the abuse of young boys. All pederasts are gay according to <a data-mce-href="http://www.liberty.edu/" href="http://www.liberty.edu/" target="_blank">Liberty University</a> Visiting Professor of Law Judith Reisman, who said that “post the ‘landmark’ <a data-mce-href="http://www.lawnix.com/cases/lawrence-texas.html" href="http://www.lawnix.com/cases/lawrence-texas.html" target="_blank"><em>Lawrence v. Texas</em></a> decision in 2003, paraphrasing Justice Antonin Scalia, everything goes.” Professor Reisman said, “Following Alfred Kinsey ‘sexologists’ began to occupy our schools, so that educated professionals have largely been trained to be a form of sexual anarchists.”</div>
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“Although the stupidity of advocating harmless amoral sexuality overwhelms us daily, our arrogant ‘educated’ populations say morality has no place in our sexual lives,” Reisman said. “Just as AIDS is a natural outgrowth of amoral sexual education and media, so too is child sexual abuse. We are breeding a new human character and child sexual abuse is increasingly part of that character.”</div>
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Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-62484576599198670192012-05-05T10:14:00.001-07:002012-05-05T10:14:23.677-07:00Muslim Brotherhood invades Tampa to re-elect President Obama!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ip4t0is1_Eo?fs=1" width="480"></iframe><br />
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A Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) will hold a pro-shariah Conference in Tampa, Florida on May 11 - 13, 2012. The Conference will be at the Hilton Hotel Airport 2225 North Lois Avenue, Tampa FL. <br />
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ISNA is a cultural jihad organization that has been designated as an "un-indicted co-conspirator" in the federal terrorism financing case called - Holy land Foundation Trial. The Muslim Brotherhood is actively working to get President Obama re-elected. Join with many patriotic Americans as we stand against the Muslim Brotherhood in Florida.Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-64691128801327289562012-01-13T06:27:00.000-08:002012-01-13T06:27:25.621-08:00American Universities Promoting Pedophilia, Oh My!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8-0jjgMJuI/TxA_OW8sdyI/AAAAAAAAAIY/JbRyHkl9txQ/s1600/wizard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8-0jjgMJuI/TxA_OW8sdyI/AAAAAAAAAIY/JbRyHkl9txQ/s1600/wizard.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Penn State was rocked by the revelation that<a class="ext" href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/bigten/story/2011-12-07/jerry-sandusky-grand-jury-report-penn-state/51710718/1" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Gerald A. “Jerry” Sandusky</a>, a pedophile, was never exposed over a period of 20 years while engaged in blatant gay acts with boys on campus and while head of The Second Mile, a foster home where according to the Grand Jury report, “he found his victims”. Americans were shocked at the firing of <a class="ext" href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-07/o-brien-succeeds-paterno-as-penn-state-works-through-scandal.html" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Joe Paterno</a> when it was revealed that he and the Pennsylvania State University took no action against Sandusky.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This most recent case of an American university’s involvement in sheltering a pedophile demands answers to three key questions:</div><ol style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 2em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Has pedophilia been promoted on other college campuses, and if so by whom?</li>
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</ol><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>Has pedophilia been promoted on other college campuses, and if so by whom?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Pedophilia and other deviant sexual behaviors have been studied and then promoted by Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Texas and Harvard University.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The prominent members of the faculty at each of these premier American universities who have promoted deviant sexual behaviors including pedophilia are: Indiana University Zoology Professor Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, Fred Berlin, M.D., Ph.D., founder, National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma and founder, Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic, Renee Sorentino of Harvard Medical School, John Sadler of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. I add to this list John Breslow of the London School of Economics and Political Science.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">It all began when Indiana University Zoologist Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey shocked the nation in 1948 with the publication of<i>Sexual Behavior in the Human Male</i>, followed in 1953 by <i>Sexual Behavior in the Human Female</i>. The GLBT community and its supporters even today draw heavily from Kinsey.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>Is research done at American universities used to promote deviant sexual behaviors including pedophilia?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In her March 30, 1998 <i>Insight</i> magazine article titled, “<i>Q: Should state funding of the Kinsey Institute’s sexual research end?” </i>Beverly R. Newman states, “Kinsey’s pernicious and fallacious dogma, pervasive in our [American] schools, courts and professions, is poison to children.” How prophetic these words are given the Sandusky Scandal. Newman addresses the “controversial claims” of Kinsey. According to Newman, “What are those controversial claims? The most far-reaching is that children naturally are given to initiating sexual acts and virtually all forms of sexual behavior should be acknowledged as normal and tolerated.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D., in her book, “<a class="ext" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Sabotage-Scientist-Unleashed-Corruption/dp/1935071858" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Sexual Sabotage: How one Mad Scientist Unleashed a Plague of Corruption and Contagion of America</a>” analyzed the impact of Kinsey’s “research”. Reisman notes, “Kinsey states it very clearly’, said [American psychiatrist] <a class="ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Socarides" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Charles Socarides</a>, MD, ‘That all types of sexual activity - sex with the opposite sex, sex with the same sex, sex with both sexes, sex with children, sex with whips and chains, fisting sex, sex with animals – any kind of sex was normal and common.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This view of sexuality is totally embraced by the GLBT community and their supporters.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“Kinsey’s ‘work’ regarding the sexuality of teenagers, pre-adolescent children, and infants is horrifying. <i>Sexual Behavior in the Human Male</i> and <i>Sexual Behavior in the Human Female</i> provide abundant evidence of child sexual torture by Kinsey’s ‘researchers’, who engaged in brutal, sexual experiments on children. This ‘work’ is critically important to the effects of the Kinsey reports on our society, our laws, and the Kinsey lobby today,” states Reisman.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>Is the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (GLBT) community promoting pedophilia?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">According to Fred Berlin, M.D., Johns Hopkins University, “Individuals whose sexual orientation is directed toward children manifest the same range of personality, temperamental, and character traits as individuals whose sexual orientation is directed toward adults. <b>A recent <i>Journal</i> article documented that the vast majority of individuals with pedophilia showed no evidence of either antisocial or narcissistic personality disorder. It may be no easier for a person with pedophilia to change his or her sexual orientation than it is for a homosexual or heterosexual individual to do so</b>.” [My emphasis]</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The organization B4U-ACT sponsored its summer 2011 Symposium in Baltimore on August 17, 2011, which was attended by pro-pedophile activists and mental health professionals including Dr. Berlin. The conference examined the ways in which “minor-attracted persons” could be involved in a revision of the American Psychological Association (APA) classification of pedophilia.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">B4U-ACT classifies pedophilia as simply another sexual orientation and decries the “stigma” attached to pedophilia. B4U-ACT science director Howard Kline has criticized the definition of pedophilia by the American Psychological Association, describing its treatment of “minor-attracted persons” as “inaccurate” and “misleading.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">B4U-ACT according to its website was established in 2003 as a 501(c)(3) organization with the following purposes:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">To publicly promote services and resources for self-identified individuals (adults and adolescents) who are sexually attracted to children and seek such assistance,</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">To educate mental health providers regarding the approaches helpful for such individuals,</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">To develop a pool of providers in Maryland who agree to serve these individuals and abide by B4U-ACT's Principles and Perspectives of Practice, and</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">To educate the citizens of Maryland regarding issues faced by these individuals.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">According to <em><a class="ext" href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/evil-attendees-at-prominent-pro-pedophilia-conference-horrified-by-sessions" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a></em>, "Speakers addressed the around 50 individuals in attendance on themes ranging from the notion that pedophiles are ‘unfairly stigmatized and demonized’ by society to the idea that ‘children are not inherently unable to consent’ to sex with an adult. Also discussed were arguments that an adult’s desire to have sex with children is ‘normative’ and that the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ignores the fact that pedophiles ‘have feelings of love and romance for children’ in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">B4U-ACT is a pro-GLBT organization.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">It is clear that Penn State is not an anomaly. Rather it represents the logical outcome of the false research, which began with Kinsey, and continues today under Berlin, Sorentino, Sadler and others. The mainstreaming of the GLBT lifestyles has naturally been extended to pedophiles and pederasts. While all gays are not pedophiles, it can be logically concluded that all pederasts fit neatly into a gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender category.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Voltaire warned, “<em>Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.</em>”</div><hr style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-top-style: solid; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; height: 1px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 1.66em;"><b>NOTE</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I just received an e-mail from Dr. Judith Reisman, who is quoted in this column. She gave me permission to post it. Here are Dr. Reisman's remarks:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Pederasty is male to boy abuse versus pedophilia which is commonly heterosexual abuse of a child. So, in that sense, the problem isn’t pedophilia but indeed pederasty. In either case the term is medicalized and incorrect since there is no love of the boy or the child, just selfish exploitation. Moreover, it’s not “intercourse” but sodomy. One must destigmatize language before we can destigmatize the actions.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">So, yes, it’s a “gay” problem of pederasty, boy abuse, commonly including exploitive and disease oriented oral and anal sodomy of the boy victim.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Indeed, the issue here is Kinsey’s norming promiscuity, adultery, etc., and sex with children, period.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">That abusers are bi, homo, tri, quad, bestial, as well as “straight,” etc., is expected when a society has come to believe, and to teach in almost every schoolroom for decades, that children are unharmed by, even benefit from, sex with oneself, each other, as well as older persons of same or opposite sex.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Respectfully,</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Judith</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.66em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a class="ext" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pederast" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>dictionary.reference.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>browse/pederast</a><br />
Origin: 1720–30; < Greek paiderastḗs lover of boys, equivalent to paid- (stem of paîs ) boy, child + erastḗs lover, equivalent to eras-, stem of erân to love + -tēs agent noun suffix.</div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-33631221572431032522011-12-03T10:11:00.000-08:002011-12-03T10:11:18.712-08:00Bullying hysteria may cause suicides, not prevent them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NPETQiKy5rg/TtpmNO4Aj7I/AAAAAAAAAIE/cROHfNSlbr0/s1600/Gay+flag.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NPETQiKy5rg/TtpmNO4Aj7I/AAAAAAAAAIE/cROHfNSlbr0/s320/Gay+flag.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">America's public schools, colleges and universities have fully embraced the anti-bullying campaign as the key to protect gay students on their campuses. The Family Research Council has discovered that this anti-bullying campaign may be the proximate cause of suicides in our youth. The unexpected outcome of this program, instituted by <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/kevin_jennings/index.html" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Kevin Jennings</a> the founder of GLSEN, has caused our youth to commit suicide.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Please read this column courtesy of the <a href="http://www.frc.org/" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Family Research Council</a> and appearing in <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-activist-admits-bullying-hysteria-may-cause-suicides-not-prevent-them?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=110c65c41f-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines12_02_2011&utm_medium=email" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">LifeSiteNews.com</em></a>:</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ever since the highly-publicized suicide of a New Jersey college student in September of 2010, pro-homosexual activists have been using the issues of bullying and teen suicide as tools in pursuit of their political agenda, and as rhetorical weapons against those who oppose it. Every time another report surfaced about a suicide by a teenager who identified as or was perceived to be “gay,” and who had reportedly been bullied, the finger would be pointed directly at conservatives. Bullying causes suicides, we were told, and public expression of conservative political, social, or religious viewpoints concerning homosexuality causes bullying. Affirm homosexual conduct as morally neutral, or more kids will die.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">As early as October of 2010, however, experts on suicide prevention were warning that this simplistic approach linking suicides (which are always tragic) to bullying (which is always wrong) could do more harm than good. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/expert-says-media-dangerously-ignore-mental-illness-coverage.html" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">An article based on an interview with Ann Haas</a>, research director for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, asked, “[W]hat if the way we’re talking about these suicides could actually be encouraging vulnerable young people to copycat the tragic behavior?”</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">A year later, <a href="http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Commentary/Op_ed_Our_Role_in_Stopping_a_Suicide_Crisis/" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a commentary last month on the website of The Advocate</a>, the nation’s leading “gay” magazine, finally admitted that this is a serious problem. David McFarland is “interim executive director and CEO” of The Trevor Project, which runs a suicide prevention hotline for “LGBT” youth. McFarland cited the political and cultural “benefit from showcasing the health crisis of disproportionate rates of suicide and incidences of bullying that affect LBGT young people.” However—in an astonishing admission—he also acknowledged that “this tactic has also increased suicide risk.”</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Got that? Here is a pro-homosexual activist admitting that “this tactic” (“showcasing . . . suicide and . . . bullying”) “has also increased suicide risk”</strong> (emphasis added).</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">There are three key problems with the “bullying causes suicide” theme. The first is that it ignores most of what we know about the causes of suicide. McFarland acknowledges gently that “the reasons a person attempts suicide are . . . complicated,” and notes that “suicide is closely tied to psychological well-being.” Haas was more blunt, indicating to the reporter that “underlying mental-health issues . . . are present in 90 percent of people who die by suicide.” In other words, most people who are bullied do not commit suicide. It is mental illness—not bullying—that causes most suicides.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">However, the second problem with emphasizing the link between bullying and suicide is that, as McFarland states, “it can influence someone who is at-risk to assume that taking your own life is what you’re supposed to do next if you are LGBT or bullied.” Haas made the same point a year ago, warning that publicly identifying bullying as a motive for suicide can “mak[e] suicide seem like an understandable, if not unavoidable, culmination of a person’s experience.” She added, “Suicide is not a rational act.” McFarland makes the same point, declaring that “we can help avoid making suicide appear like a logical choice.”</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The third problem, which flows out of the second, is what McFarland refers to as “suicide contagion.” He warns that “the more a story of a particular victim is out there, the more likely one or more people who are at-risk will also attempt suicide.” Haas warned, “Stories depicting the person who’s died by suicide as very sympathetic can inadvertently encourage vulnerable young people to identify with him or her.” In other words, being revered as a martyr in death can appear more attractive than experiencing continuing pain in life.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We should do all we can to help young people with mental illness—whether homosexual or heterosexual—and to prevent teen suicides. And we should do all we can to prevent bullying of any child—for their sexual orientation, appearance, religion, or any other reason. But it is time for homosexual activists to stop exploiting personal tragedies to advance their political agenda—especially in a way that may cause more such tragedies.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.frc.org/" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reprinted with permission from the Family Research Council.</strong></em></a></div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-56402138472863953902011-11-21T05:05:00.000-08:002011-11-21T05:07:20.199-08:00Ripping Our Society to Shreds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6es6C3j69dQ/TspMhWY6eLI/AAAAAAAAAH8/Fbp3Twda_HY/s1600/Gay+Marriage+Demands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6es6C3j69dQ/TspMhWY6eLI/AAAAAAAAAH8/Fbp3Twda_HY/s320/Gay+Marriage+Demands.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>There was a time when civil rights were understood to mean those enumerated in the U.S. Constitution. Now, at least in the State of Massachusetts, they mean the right of homosexuals and transgender people to flaunt their lifestyle anywhere, any time. If you don’t like it and say so, the police can arrest you.<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">On November 16, the Massachusetts legislature pushed through a controversial “Transgender Rights and Hate Crimes” bill. The whole process was so unethical as to be breathtaking. In two hours, the bill went from committee release to re-write, to a late-night House vote and early-morning Senate final passage. The Senate, unlike the House, passed it by voice vote to avoid a roll call to identify who supported it. </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">As <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">MassResistance</a>, a pro-family group, noted, “Its passage appears to be timed to coincide with ‘<a href="http://www.masstpc.org/" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Transgender Awareness Week</a>’ in Massachusetts.” Since when did that State or any other get to the point of having such absurd events? Since when have we reached a point where any spoken objection to Gay Pride parades or similar events can be deemed a crime? It’s not a crime. It’s free speech. </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">The arrogance this represents is appalling, but the implications of the homosexual and transgender lobby’s efforts have far greater implications for everyone, but especially for families who do not want their children exposed to “choices” they are too young to understand and which their parent’s faith or beliefs disapprove. These matters do not belong in a school curriculum.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">A case in point. In 2010, Capone’s Restaurant in Peabody, Massachusetts tossed out a group of men dressed as women who were upsetting its customers and even using the woman’s restrooms. When the new law goes into effect, the restaurant will be subject to fines, as would be its customers if found guilty of trying to “intimidate” them with their reaction to their presence.</span><br />
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</div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-7269674573077850282011-10-25T03:20:00.000-07:002011-10-25T03:20:43.682-07:00Gay Marriage is an equality to far!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 20px;">Courtesy of<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/christian-demoted-pay-docked-for-mild-comments-on-gay-marriage-in-churches?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=57f019ade4-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines10_24_2011&utm_medium=email"> LifeSiteNews.com</a>:</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">MANCHESTER, October 24, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) – A Christian property manager in England has been demoted, taken a £14,000/year pay cut and narrowly avoided the sack for commenting on Facebook that Christian churches should not be forced to participate in same-sex union ceremonies.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">54-year-old Adrian Smith was declared by a tax-funded housing trust to be guilty of “gross misconduct” after he called allowing same-sex ceremonies in churches “an equality too far” in a Facebook comment thread.</div><div class="photo-left clear" id="image_wrapper3" style="clear: both; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 14px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 200px;"><img alt="" class="article-img" height="195" src="http://www.lifesitenews.com/images/sized/images/news/Trafford_Housing-200x195.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="200" /><div class="article-img-caption" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">54-year-old Adrian Smith was found guilty of "gross misconduct" by The Trafford Housing Trust.</div></div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Writing on his own Facebook page, which was not accessible to anyone other than his Facebook friends, Smith had responded to a BBC news item about a controversial new law that would allow churches to conduct same-sex union ceremonies. Asked if his comment meant that he did not approve of the proposed law, Smith wrote, “No, not really. I don’t understand why people who have no faith and don’t believe in Christ would want to get hitched in church.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“The Bible is quite specific that marriage is for men and women. If the State wants to offer civil marriages to the same sex then that is up to the State; but the State shouldn’t impose its rules on places of faith and conscience.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The trust summoned Smith from home to a disciplinary meeting after another staff member complained. The Trafford Housing Trust, (THT) which manages homes in Sale, Greater Manchester, removed Smith from his managerial position that paid £35,000 per year, reemploying him as a £21,000/ year “adviser.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">With legal help from the Christian Institute, Smith is suing, saying the trust breached its contract by violating his rights to free speech and religious liberty.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The trust made a statement to the BBC, saying that its updated code of conduct “clearly set out what use employees can make of social networking sites such as Facebook.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“Some three months after this new code was issued, Mr. Smith, without our authority or knowledge and on a Facebook page that identified him as a manager at Trafford Housing Trust, made comments that were found, by a full disciplinary investigation in which he had trade union representation, to be in breach of the company’s code of conduct and other policies.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“Mr. Smith was disciplined for his breach of company policy. The trust made no comment about any personal beliefs that he holds.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Smith’s lawyer, Tom Ellis of Manchester-based law firm Aughton Ainsworth, said that Smith was “shocked and distressed” over the incident.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“As a Christian, Adrian believes in the values of fairness, courtesy and respect for the opinions of others. These are the values of a mature and healthy society.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“Surely that leaves room for colleagues to discuss and even disagree about the topics of the day. Conversations like that happen in offices and factories up and down the country every day.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The incident has aroused outrage among some of the UK’s popular newspaper columnists, even on the left. Ally Fogg, a columnist for the Guardian newspaper, noted that Smith had “politely expressed some relatively mild views” on the issue. “If the trust was concerned about its reputation for inclusiveness and tolerance, it couldn’t have got things more badly wrong,” Fogg wrote.</div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-45401141096602324192011-10-19T03:23:00.000-07:002011-10-19T11:37:33.837-07:00Move from Homosexuality to Heterosexuality possible and Harmless<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AC90giJN4is/Tp6ljRve6nI/AAAAAAAAAHc/cWaEbiGrxA4/s1600/heterosexuals1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AC90giJN4is/Tp6ljRve6nI/AAAAAAAAAHc/cWaEbiGrxA4/s200/heterosexuals1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Courtesy of David Prudent from the <a href="http://narth.com/2011/10/2061/">National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality </a>(NARTH):<br />
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<h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font: normal normal normal 25px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Change in Sexual Orientation is Possible, Harm Unlikely, according to New Evidence of Long-Term Outcomes</b></span></h2><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reviewed by Christopher H. Rosik, Ph.D.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="more-2061" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(October, 2011) The best-designed study of sexual-orientation change efforts (SOCE) to date, has just concluded in a follow-up report that some people can indeed move from homosexuality to heterosexuality, and that harm is unlikely to result from such efforts.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The original study was published in 2007 by Stanton Jones, Ph.D., of Wheaton College, and Mark Yarhouse, Ph.D., of Regent University, in their book, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ex-Gays?”.</em> The follow-up study has just appeared in the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy</em>.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy</em><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </strong>the authors conclude:</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evidence from the study suggested that change of homosexual orientation appears possible for some and that psychological distress did not increase on average as a result of the involvement in the change process” (Jones & Yarhouse, 2011, p. 404).</em></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Study methods</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The authors followed 98 individuals (72 men and 26 women) who undertook SOCE through the assistance of a variety of Christian ministries over a period of 6-7 years. The authors’ motivation for conducting this study was, in part, that the American Psychological Association had gone on the record indicating that change in sexual orientation was not possible, and that risks to those who engage in such efforts could be significant.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The authors note that the APA has moderated its viewpoint somewhat since then, fluctuating between statements that sexual-orientation change is “uncommon,” to the view that science “cannot yet” make conclusive statements about such change from the available literature.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The rigor of their own research standards, Jones and Yarhouse indicate, in fact meets many of the requirements that the APA itself has asserted are necessary in order to make reasonably definitive conclusions about the actuality of such change.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants in the Jones-Yarhouse study were first assessed at the beginning of their involvement in SOCE (from 1-3 years); again at 3 years, and again at the 6-7 year mark. Findings from the first two assessments were published earlier in the book, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ex-Gays?</em> (2007).</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Standardized and widely accepted measures of sexual orientation and psychological distress were administered at each assessment period. At the final time of assessment, attrition had reduced the available sample to 64%, which is not unusual for longitudinal studies.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Study findings</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The results after 6-7 years of SOCE involvement, presented below, indicate that change does indeed occur, although not for<br />
everyone.</div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Success: Conversion: 23% (n = 14) of the sample reported substantial reductions in homosexual attraction and subsequent conversion to heterosexual attractions and functioning.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Success: Chastity: 30% (n = 18) reported that homosexual attraction was still present, but only incidentally or in a way that did not seem to bring distress, allowing them to live contentedly without overt sexual activity.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continuing: 16% (n = 10) reported modest decreases in homosexual attraction, but were not satisfied with their degree of change and remained committed to the change process.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nonresponse: 7% (n = 4) reported no significant sexual orientation change; they had not given up on the change process, but some were confused or conflicted about which direction to turn next.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Failure: Confused: 5% (n = 3) reported no significant sexual orientation change, and had given up on the change process, but without yet embracing a gay identity.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Failure: Gay identity: 20% (n = 12) had given up on the change process and embraced a gay identity.</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jones and Yarhouse observed that from the point-of-view of the ministries involved in their study, 53% of the sample therefore had self-categorized as achieving “some version of success,” and 25% had self-categorized as failure.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As regards harm, the study participants on average did not report experiencing harm due to SOCE during the course of their pursuit of change. In fact, two of the indicators of psychological distress actually improved significantly over the time of the study.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jones and Yarhouse conclude that “the findings of this study appear to contradict the commonly expressed view that sexual orientation is not changeable” (p. 425). and that attempts to change are not likely to be harmful.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While the authors believe their research clearly contradict the pessimism regarding SOCE that has been promulgated by the APA, they do acknowledge that their study has limitations.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First, the average change in sexual orientation was modest, although they noted that this is likely to be an artifact of average change scores including some participants who made dramatic shifts away from homosexual orientation and fewer participants who reported dramatic shifts to a gay identity. In other words, the dramatic changes toward heterosexual response clearly made by some participants may have been offset by changes toward homosexual response in others, so that the overall average change in sexual orientation for the sample appeared to be modest.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Second, participants who had begun the change process prior to the start of the study appeared to have disproportionately positive outcomes compared to participants inducted into the study early in their pursuit of change. This may indicate that some weeding-out of individuals who were not successful in changing sexual orientation occurred in the time between the onset of pursuit of change and the initial collection of data. Although there is no way to know this for sure, Jones and Yarhouse imply that it is probably wise to view their study’s success rate for the change process undertaken in Christian ministries as a somewhat optimistic figure.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A third limitation is the relatively small sample size, which makes any generalization of these findings to the population of individuals pursuing SOCE tentative. That said, the size of the sample is not uncommon in the longitudinal research that has been widely accepted as representative of samples in other subject domains. Finally, the authors note that, given the study design, it was not possible to determine which components of the participants’ change process were responsible for the outcomes reported.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Comment</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No doubt this study will be dismissed by skeptics who for ideological reasons remain dogmatically unwilling to acknowledge the reality of sexual orientation change in some people. However, Jones and Yarhouse’s study of SOCE should go a long way toward putting to rest two extreme positions: i.e., that change always occurs and is simply a choice, or that change never occurs and is generally harmful.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is also worth remembering that this study did not examine SOCE’s that occur in the context of psychotherapy. The subjects in this study received their counseling in Christian ministries. It is certainly within the realm of plausibility that the inclusion of professional psychological care, over and above participants’ involvement in Christian ministries, would increase positive outcomes.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The hallmark of a scientific organization that is not beholden to socio-political interests is a heightened curiosity at unexpected findings, and a subsequent dedication to understanding how such findings came to be. In the case of change in sexual orientation, which had been purported to be impossible, this implies a dedication to study those individuals who report change in order to identify the active ingredients of change and thereby maximize its potential among SOCE consumers.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately, however, the major mental-health associations appear to be moving further away from a purely scientific approach and toward one apparently directed by activists, whereby the purpose of their science does not seem to be understanding those who report change, but rather debunking, dismissing, and ignoring them. Thus while Jones and Yarhouse will win no accolades or awards from the APA, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that their research exemplifies the best in scientific curiosity and courage.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reference</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jones, S. L., & Yarhouse, M.A. (2007). <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ex-gays? A longitudinal study of religiously mediated change in sexual orientation.</em> Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jones, S. L., & Yarhouse, M. A. (2011). A longitudinal study of attempted religiously mediated sexual orientation change. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 37</em>, 404-427. DOI: 10.1080/009263X.2011.607052</div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-71456192159995580392011-10-13T03:59:00.000-07:002011-10-13T03:59:25.005-07:00Where were the churches’ in fight against Don’t Ask repeal?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 20px;">WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) - One of America’s most seasoned war generals expressed frustration at the silence of Christian churches as the U.S. military’s ban on open homosexuality fell to a repeal effort earlier this year.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin described at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday the exasperation of pro-family leaders in Washington who found themselves abandoned by church leaders unwilling to make a stand for the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Boykin, who spent the majority of his career in the Special Forces, was mission commander of the battle portrayed in the Hollywood movie “Black Hawk Down,” and accepted the surrender of Panama military dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989.</div><div class="photo-left clear" id="image_wrapper3" style="clear: both; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 14px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 240px;"><img alt="" class="article-img" height="176" src="http://www.lifesitenews.com/images/sized/images/news/Jerry_Boykin-240x176.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="240" /><div class="article-img-caption" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday.</div></div><div style="line-height: 20px;">According to Boykin, “nobody in this country fought a greater fight” against normalizing homosexuality in the military than Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, himself a former Marine who joined forces with senator and fellow veteran John McCain.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“John McCain kept turning to Tony Perkins saying, ‘Where’s the church? Where are the spiritual leaders?” said Boykin.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“The answer was, they were silent. The church was silent.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">FORT WORTH, Texas, October 11, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) - The Texas school where a teen was punished for saying homosexuality was wrong has apologized and stated the boy “has the right to express an opinion in a manner consistent with law and policy.”</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Fort Worth Independent School District has issued a letter fully vindicating high school freshman Dakota Ary, who was given in-school suspension for telling another student that he believes homosexuality is wrong because of his Christian faith.</span></div><div class="photo-left clear" id="image_wrapper3" style="clear: both; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 14px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 240px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="article-img" height="154" src="http://www.lifesitenews.com/images/sized/images/news/Dakota_Ary-240x155.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="240" /></span><br />
<div class="article-img-caption" style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Dakota Ary</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The school’s letter is in response to a letter from the Christian legal organization Liberty Counsel, which is representing Dakota, requesting full vindication and a full retraction of the suspension. The district’s letter will be placed in Dakota’s permanent file to further clear his record.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The controversy surrounded an incident that happened when Dakota was in Kristopher Franks’ German language class at Western Hills High School and the topic of homosexuality arose. Dakota said to one of his classmates, “I’m a Christian and, to me, being homosexual is wrong.” Franks overheard the comment, wrote Dakota an infraction, and sent him to the principal’s office.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In the discipline referral form, Franks charged Dakota with “possible bullying” and indicated, “It is wrong to make such a statement in public school.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Two weeks prior to this event, Franks had displayed a picture of two men kissing on a “World Wall” and told his students that homosexuality is becoming more prevalent in the world and that they should just accept it. Many of the students were reportedly offended by his actions and his continually bringing up the topic of homosexuality in a German language class. The teacher was temporarily placed on administrative leave with pay last week.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, praised the school’s vindication of Ary.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“No public school teacher should use the position of authority to bully students to accept homosexuality. That is what this teacher did, and he got his hand caught in the cookie jar,” said Staver. “We want to make sure this never again happens to any student.”</span></div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-62981372920725205222011-10-10T08:45:00.000-07:002011-10-10T08:47:31.327-07:00Gay ‘marriage’ in high demand? Not according to the U.S. census<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
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October 5, 2011 (<a href="http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/17957" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Breakpoint.org</a>) - The pressure to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples keeps increasing. The impression is given that thousands upon thousands of gays and lesbians are unable to do the one thing they want to do more than anything else: That is, have a wedding.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">As if to prove the point, the US Census Bureau announced that it would be counting same-sex households in the 2010 Census. In August the Bureau announced that there are nearly a million. I was surprised by the small number.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">But this past week, they reduced their estimate of same sex couple households by nearly thirty percent. In fact, it turns out that there are fewer than 650,000. That’s about six tenths of one percent of total US households.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">But an even greater shocker for me was the number of same-sex married households. Gay marriage is legal in six jurisdictions. In Massachusetts, it’s been the law since 2004. Same-sex couples can get married, for example, in Massachusetts and Washington, DC, and live anywhere because nobody’s enforcing DOMA anymore in view of litigation. And yet there are only 131,729 households headed by married same-sex couples. That’s two-tenths of one percent of married households. Talk about the tail wagging the dog!</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">This census data exposes the two biggest myths created about gay marriage.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The first is that there’s a huge demand for it. No way! In fact, there’s hardly any demand at all. Gay couples are not lined up at city halls hoping for a marriage license.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The second myth is the so-called “marriage equity” argument: That this is just another civil rights movement. Are you going to tell me that it was possible to fuel the civil rights movement with 646,000 couples, when only 131,000 had a real stake in it? It’s laughable.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">I have never believed that gays wanted to marry. Their behavior by its very nature is too promiscuous. Gay relationships are for the most part sexually open rather than exclusive.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">For us to redefine marriage, thereby altering thousands of years of human history, ignoring all of the benefits marriage offers to individuals, cultures, civilizations and — above all — children, for the sake of 646,000 same-sex households, only 131,000 of which are married, is madness.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Gays and lesbians don’t want marriage; they want their sexual choices affirmed as normal and moral. And that’s what’s behind the blacklisting, boycotting, and suing anybody who even questions homosexuality. They don’t want anyone telling them that how they live is morally problematic. Gays are actively trying to destroy marriage and will take away our freedom of speech and religion in order to do it.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Does this take the church off the hook? No. For years we have helped deconstruct marriage, winking at cohabitation and allowing easy divorce. We’ve allowed politicians to pass bad divorce laws and to loosen the moral standards surrounding marriage. Now it’s all coming back to haunt us. But our job is to rebuild marriage as a sacred institution and to stand our ground and defend it, come what may, from what appears to be a tiny minority.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><em>Reprinted with permission from <a href="http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/17957" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Breakpoint.org</a></em></div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-25219514594276452132011-09-29T05:58:00.000-07:002011-09-29T05:58:00.600-07:00Texas judge rules homosexual man can’t leave his child alone with same-sex partner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DZu7Lcqp4JM/ToRrSstFkfI/AAAAAAAAAHU/LTv7Uom3XI0/s1600/texas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DZu7Lcqp4JM/ToRrSstFkfI/AAAAAAAAAHU/LTv7Uom3XI0/s200/texas.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">HOUSTON, TX, September 28, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) – A Texas judge has ruled that a homosexua</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">l man cannot leave his children alone with his sexual partner. Harris County Associate Judge Charley Prine, Jr. issued the injunction in June, although it was only signed earlier this month. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The injunction was issued after William Flowers sought to change a 2004 custody arrangement with his ex-wife over their three children.</span><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Flowers had three children with his ex-wife, Lacey. When Flowers and his ex-wife divorced in 2004, his wife was awarded custody and Flowers was given regular visitations.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">In 2010, Flowers, then a practicing homosexual, “married” his homosexual partner in Connecticut. His partner has two children.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">When Flowers recently sued for custody of his three children, a jury found that his ex-wife should keep the kids, though his regular visitations would continue. In an injunctive section, however, Judge Prine ordered that Flowers cannot leave his children with any man who is not part of the family “by blood or adoption,” including Flowers’ sexual partner, without the ex-wife’s express permission.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Flowers and his partner say they will appeal the ruling.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Speaking of the judge’s ruling, Flowers said, “He knows I’m homosexual. He’s knows I’m married to a man and he knew that there’d be times my children may be alone with Jim if I have to run out to work,” according to <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8347950" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">ABC News</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Jim Evans, Flowers’ partner, says that he won’t bother asking Lacey if he will be allowed to be alone with the children. “She would never ever let the kids be left with me,” he said.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">When asked whether Lacey would ever give permission for Flowers’ “husband” to be alone with his children, Lacey’s attorney, Jennifer Broussard, reportedly responded, “Well, he doesn’t have a husband in Texas, dear,” according to the Houston Press.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">In November 2005, Texas voters passed an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman.</div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both;"></div><div style="margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 16px;"><div id="google_ads_div_Bottom_Banner_600x90_ad_container"><ins style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline-table; height: 90px; position: relative; width: 600px;"></ins></div></div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-40226559661855927062011-09-28T04:30:00.000-07:002011-09-28T04:30:49.713-07:00British Lawyer: Stop the Gay Agenda NOW!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
Britain's <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11c/MR_banquet/announcement.html" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">most prominent pro-family lawyer</a> told activists at the MassResistance Banquet on Sept. 18 that they had better fight now or it will be too late. English Barrister Paul Diamond has been involved with numerous high-profile cases in the UK and also on the European continent defending pro-family people against the tyranny of the state and corporations.<br />
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He gave a riveting talk and answered questions about what's happening in Britain right now, and how America is on that same horrible path unless we take action now. He came to the US exclusively to speak to MassResistance, and during his stay was also interviewed on several radio stations in Massachusetts and across the country.<br />
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His message was blunt: "You've got to stop this now in America while you still can."<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>Cultural upheaval in Britain</b></span><br />
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Diamond compared today's U.S. society to Britain's in 1997. "We thought it was stable; we'd had centuries of religious tolerance," he said. Then in 1997 came a huge change in the political culture. "Human rights, equality, and non-discrimination" became buzz words backed by law, and began to be forcefully enforced against Christians by the courts.<br />
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Now 14 years later, a British couple cannot be foster parents because their Judeo-Christian beliefs are considered "homophobic." A judge ruled children must be protected from "infection" by such beliefs. The hostility of judges against religious people has even extended to their being considered as "terrorists," he said. Anti-discrimination laws have become tools to discriminate.<br />
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Diamond's personal "terrifying wake-up call" came in 2004 when a 70-year old street preacher was knocked to the ground and beaten by a gang of 30 youths because he unfurled a banner urging people to leave homosexuality and return to Jesus. Rather than arresting the attacking gang members, British police arrested the victim; they charged the preacher with inciting the attackers by "speaking hate speech."<br />
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Although Diamond had a lucrative law practice at the time, he decided then to change his priorities. "There's no point in having money if you're revolted by the country you're living in," he said. "And America is not immune to this."<br />
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At the MassResistance banquet.</div><span style="color: maroon;"><b><br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>Some points from his MassResistance speech</b></span><br />
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"We've got to return power to the people," he said. Diamond suggested that "middle America," like "middle England," is fearful that the country people love is being taken away. The values common to its citizens are being removed.<br />
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His advice to counteract this was threefold.<br />
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<b>First, spread the truth.</b> We must move out of our own sphere of influence and create debate among average Americans about the harmful truths of the homosexual agenda, he said.<br />
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"Children are pawns in an unprecedented social experiment with the most disastrous outcomes." he said. "We need explain this; liberals will lose the debate because their arguments are illogical and weak," Diamond said.<br />
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"They cannot survive rational arguments. You need to create debate."<br />
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However, be prepared to abandon false PC "respectability." <b>"You're going to have to abandon respectability. </b>You're not going to be liked by Harvard University or the mainstream media," he said, "but you might be heard because you'll be speaking intelligently."<br />
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<b>Secondly, we need to keep trying to develop major media contacts to publicize the truth.</b> (As we've seen, the media instinctively wants to ignore these types of stories.) He pointed to front-page articles that British newspapers finally printed about the absurdity of anti-discrimination policies that target and discriminate against Christians only.<br />
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For example, British Airways employees have been banned from wearing even small cross necklaces, but allowed to wear turbans, Hindu ponytails, or any other jewelry with religious symbolism. This made the front page of a major UK newspaper.<br />
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Some media personnel will see the light, he said, and others might listen because the story will sell papers.<br />
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<b>Finally, Diamond said, pro-family activists must exchange information across borders - help each other out,</b> as the opponents already have been doing with great skill. Much of the world's future still follows America's lead, he said. "You've been leaders of the free world not because of your wealth but because of your values."<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>Work and sacrifice ahead of us, he says</b></span><br />
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"You have to act now. We waited too late in Britain, He said. He went on to say that you don't want a situation where -- like in the case of the 70-year-old man -- you're charged with inciting your own attack. They are imposing a new morality. And though much of it is being built through obscure things such as housing regulations, anti-discrimination codes, etc., it all adds up to a totalitarian atmosphere.<br />
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"We've got to return the power to the people," he said. But we're living in a 'fool's paradise" if we expect this to happen without work and sacrifice. And he said that MassResistance is a group that people must support to get the job done.<br />
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And as for the Brits, he said, "We're fighting to win. We're not retreating."<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>A legal breath of fresh air</b></span><br />
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There's one big key to his success. If nothing else, Paul Diamond is the kind of lawyer we wish we had here, but rarely find. He's a pro-family version of the ACLU lawyers who always wipe the floor with us because they're smart, passionate, aggressive, fearless street fighters. Our lawyers - and we've seen this over and over - tend to be respectful, methodical, relatively passive, not great strategists, and generally afraid of offending liberals. What he has, you unfortunately probably can't teach. We don't want to sound unkind, but it's a big problem.<br />
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And furthermore, he's willing to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty if necessary. Too many of our lawyers want to find an easy exit that may be a long-term strategic blunder.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>Sally Kern - fearless state legislator from Oklahoma</b></span><br />
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Also speaking at the banquet was <b>Sally Kern,</b> an Oklahoma state legislator. Kern described herself as minister's wife, a former high-school government teacher who ran and won for office in the "reddest state" in the union.<br />
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However, when she exposed a political opponent as a homosexual activist hiding his agenda (including being funded by Tim Gill), everything erupted. She was viciously attacked and targeted by the homosexual activists -- not only in Oklahoma but across the nation -- who showered her with incredible and often disgusting abuse. To make their point, in the following election they ran a transsexual against her and raised an enormous amount of money to defeat her. (She didn't back down, fought hard, and won with 66% of the vote!)<br />
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What motivates her, Kern said, is that she actually studied the Bible and America's Founding Fathers. "I just will never compromise the principles of God's truth," she said.<br />
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Her book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stoning-Sally-Kern-Christian-conservatism-/dp/1616383615/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317144787&sr=8-1" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">The Stoning of Sally Kern,</a></i> describes her ordeal but is not just autobiographic, she said. It describes the ordeal of any Judeo-Christian conservative who speaks up in the public arena. (The horrible, often infantile, abuse from homosexual activists continues. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stoning-Sally-Kern-Christian-conservatism/product-reviews/1616383615/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">Take a look at the hate-filled comments about her book on the Amazon website.</a>)<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>Scott Lively - closing remarks</b></span><br />
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<b>Dr. Scott Lively,</b> who has become a pro-family legend, came from Springfield and gave the benediction and closing remarks. As Paul Diamond said we must do, Dr. Lively has been working internationally. He talked about his recent pro-family successes in Eastern Europe and other countries. "We need to be starting with our neighbors but looking beyond our borders," he said. And he said that he thinks that the homosexual movement is much farther along here in America than most of us realize. But he made it clear that the counter-revolution takes root here. "We in this room, the people supporting MassResistance, are the ones who actually get things done. Starting with the simple stuff."<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>DVD and CD of banquet speeches to be available</b></span><br />
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I<b>f you missed it in person, this is really worth getting and listening to.</b> We are putting together a DVD and CD of Paul Diamond's speech and more from the MassResistance banquet. Watch this space for more details.<br />
<span style="color: maroon;"><b>Paul Diamond on Boston radio</b></span><br />
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Paul Diamond's message isn't exactly what the American mainstream media wants to talk about. But on Monday, Boston's Talk 1200 radio, the region's major conservative talk station (which also has Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc.) had Paul Diamond on the morning drive-time Jeff Katz show and the afternoon drive-time Jay Severin show. He was also interviewed on some national pro-family shows.<br />
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<b> <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11c/MR_banquet/audio.html#radio" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">Listen to Paul Diamond on the Jeff Katz show (9:24 minutes).</a></b><br />
</div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-4998448558945912622011-09-19T11:43:00.000-07:002011-09-19T12:18:31.130-07:00Does the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network Really Keep Kids 'Safe?'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If you want to know then watch this shocking video expose of the group GLSEN. GLSEN is all about getting access to our children when they are most vulnerable - in our public schools.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Any questions? This may be coming to a public school near you!</i></b></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">According to the <a href="http://www.frc.org/">Family Research Council</a>:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">"The video exposes GLSEN's horrific things being pushed at children, going back to the infamous <b><a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/index.html" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">"Fistgate" incident</a></b> in 2000, and the horrible <b><a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/black_book/black_book_inside.html" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">"Little Black Book - Queer in the 21st Century"</a></b> which was given out at a GLSEN conference at Brookline High School in 2005, and other material from the MassResistance website. It also shows erotic homosexual books for teenagers which were showcased on the GLSEN website in 2008.</span><br />
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GLSEN has recently been awarded money by the Obama administration and has been celebrated in the White House. The group is regularly given funding by the Massachusetts Legislature through the odious <i>Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth </i>(which MassResistance has filed a bill in the MassResistance Legislature to eliminate). Major politicians and professional sports teams have supported GLSEN through their partnership with the horrific <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11c/it_gets_better/index.html" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">"It Gets Better" project.</a> Many large corporations give money to GLSEN."</span></span></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-77729277075102894062011-09-08T08:22:00.000-07:002011-09-08T08:41:41.379-07:00Iran: Three men were executed convicted of sodomy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mDg_FlL7hkw/TmjdkYV-DiI/AAAAAAAAAHI/Dnpy0UsvaBg/s1600/Hanging_of_Mahmoud_Asgari_and_Ayaz_Marhoni.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mDg_FlL7hkw/TmjdkYV-DiI/AAAAAAAAAHI/Dnpy0UsvaBg/s1600/Hanging_of_Mahmoud_Asgari_and_Ayaz_Marhoni.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/">Iran Human Rights</a>, September 5: According to the reports from Iran, six people were hanged in the Karoun prison of Ahvaz (southwest of Iran) early Sunday morning September 4th.<br />
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The state run Iranian news agency ISNA reported that three of those executed were sentenced to death by the Ahvaz revolution court, convicted of "unlawful" acts and acts against Sharia, based on the articles 108 and 110 of the Iranian Islamic penal code. Articles 108 and 110 of the Iranian Islamic Penal code are part of the chapter covering the punishment of "Hadd" for "sodomy". Article 108 says: "Sodomy (or Lavat) is sexual intercourse between men”, and article 110 says:”Punishment for sodomy is killing; the Sharia judge decides on how to carry out the killing".<br />
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The men were identified as: "M. T.", "T. T." and "M. Ch." (age not mentioned for any of them) and besides being convicted of sodomy, had also committed other offences such as kidnapping and robbery, said the report.<br />
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Condemning the executions, the spokesperson of Iran Human Rights (IHR), Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said: ”Yesterday’s executions for sodomy might be among the rare cases were the Iranian authorities admit to having executed men convicted of homosexual acts". He added: "Iranian authorities normally present such cases as rape, but rape as not been mentioned in this case".<br />
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IHR is currently investigating the case of the three men executed for sodomy.<br />
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According to ISNA, the three others executed in Ahvaz today, were "A. H." convicted of keeping and trafficking of 6309 grams of heroin, and "J. N." and "A. Sh." convicted of rape and robbery.<br />
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The report didn’t mention the age of those who were executed.<br />
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Amiry-Moghaddam warned about a new wave of executions scheduled for the coming weeks in Iran. He said: "After a short break in the executions due to the Holy month of Ramadan, we have received reports about many scheduled executions in the coming days and weeks in Iran". Amiry-Moghaddam added: "Many of the scheduled executions are planned to be carried out publically".<br />
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Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were hanged convicted of sodomy and rape in 2005. Many Rights groups believe that the Iranian authorities present execution for homosexuality as rape, to make it more acceptable to the international community.</div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-72717070314666232742011-09-08T04:20:00.000-07:002011-09-08T04:41:30.786-07:00Hunter, Gatherer of Signatures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ankMMYs6Jb8/TmikzTNmZ3I/AAAAAAAAAHE/ArSR_jU0glk/s1600/Rep+Duncan+Hunter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ankMMYs6Jb8/TmikzTNmZ3I/AAAAAAAAAHE/ArSR_jU0glk/s1600/Rep+Duncan+Hunter.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Courtesy of the <a href="http://www.frc.org/">Family Research Council</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Just because President Obama says homosexuals can openly serve doesn't mean others can't openly object--not if Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) can help it. Over the next two weeks, the fellow Marine veteran will be sprinting to beat the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal with a bill that would protect the troops' right to free speech. As far as Hunter is concerned, if he can't protect national security by stopping the repeal from taking effect, he can at least protect the right of conscience of the servicemen and women who are afraid their opposition to homosexuality will be used against them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Although the new policy doesn't take effect until September 20, Hunter and other conservatives are already fielding complaints from the branches about the Pentagon's progressive training materials. The California Congressmen says he's talked to dozens of active duty personnel, who say the Defense Department is "<a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/08/military-hunter-dont-ask-dont-tell-083011w/" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">pushing the line</a>" in its implementation of the new rules. "It is a legitimate concern," Hunter's office explained, especially as the Pentagon works on "disciplinary policies for people who don't agree with this decision." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Under Hunter's bill, the troops have to abide by the repeal--but they don't have to like it. "The military always falls in line," a spokesman for the Congressman's office <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/06/military.dadt/" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">said</a>, "but that doesn't mean that the men and women who serve in its ranks should suddenly be forced to personally accept [homosexuality]."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Essentially, the legislation would ensure that "members of the Armed Forces are not pressured to approve of another person's sexual conduct if that sexual conduct is contrary to the personal principles of that member." These "conscience protections" would give our troops just as much right to voice their opinions as others have to flaunt their sexuality. With just 13 days to go before the military opens its arms to gays and lesbians, the time to push Hunter's bill is now. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.frc.org/contact-elected-officials" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">You can help by calling your members</a> and encouraging them to cosponsor the legislation. Our troops promised to obey orders--not surrender principles.</span><br />
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</div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-9169297763981484842011-09-08T03:37:00.000-07:002011-09-08T03:37:13.533-07:00Obama admin called Catholic Church source of spreading “homophobia” in Poland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>BY <a alt="Kathleen Gilbert" href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/author/kgilbert/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">KATHLEEN GILBERT</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="line-height: 20px;">WASHINGTON, D.C., September 6, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) - While surveying the landscape for inroads to push the homosexual agenda into Poland, American embassy officials under the Obama administration complained that the Catholic Church teaching is a major source of “homophobia” in the heavily Catholic country, according to private cables recently published by Wikileaks.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The cables from the American embassy in Warsaw, marked “sensitive but unclassified,” were part of a dump of over 250,000 official government documents last week by Wikileaks.</div><div class="photo-left clear" id="image_wrapper3" style="clear: both; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 14px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 240px;"><img alt="" class="article-img" height="154" src="http://www.lifesitenews.com/images/sized/images/news/wikileaks-240x154.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="240" /><div class="article-img-caption" style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/08/09WARSAW805.html" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">One cable</a> from the American embassy in Warsaw dated August 2009 pointed to the Catholic Church as central in promoting “homophobia” in the former Soviet-controlled country.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“The Catholic Church plays a significant role in the formation and propagation of anti-gay attitudes in Polish society, especially in rural areas,” states the communiqué entitled “Gay rights in Poland: long road ahead.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Officials did note that “the Polish Episcopate has condemned violence and discrimination against gays and lesbians,” but said that message is ignored by local priests teaching that sexual attraction to the same gender is “a deviant condition.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“Moreover, the Church continues to label homosexual acts as sins and calls on homosexuals to practice abstinence. Most Polish opponents of gay rights cite ‘Catholic values’ and ‘natural law’ to support their views,” the cable continues.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">While largely ignored, the issue of the homosexual agenda has come onto the radar of more conservative Polish statesmen: officials note that some lawmakers are readying defenses against acceptance of homosexuality in schools by drafting legislation similar to a law in Lithuania that bans favorable depictions of homosexuality.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Despite cultural and political hurdles, the American embassy appeared optimistic that the gay rights movement would eventually take hold in Poland.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The cable concludes that acceptance of homosexuality has “a long way to go” in Poland. However, it also says the situation is “gradually improving,” pointing especially to the effects of the Catholic country’s deepening economic dependence on more progressive parts of the continent.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“As Poles’ social and economic ties to Western Europe deepen, we expect homophobia will continue to decline, as well,” it states.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Another cable notes that Poland “has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe” despite pressure from the United Nations to soften its legal barrier to abortion and contraception. <a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/06/09WARSAW626.html" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">The communiqué</a> names Anand Grover, United Nations special envoy on health issues, as the official who chastised Poland for its pro-life laws.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Last Wednesday, the Polish parliament <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-historic-polish-ban-on-all-abortions-fails-by-razor-thin-margin" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">narrowly voted down</a> a total ban on all abortions despite an immense surge of support from the Polish people for the ban.</div></span></span></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-405670632281829122011-09-07T06:07:00.000-07:002011-09-07T07:22:57.982-07:00The real agenda behind gay anti-bullying clubs in your school<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GY-Xf5_7zxs/TmduOUjDtbI/AAAAAAAAAG8/GZc-uXi8ABY/s1600/I+love+queers+photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GY-Xf5_7zxs/TmduOUjDtbI/AAAAAAAAAG8/GZc-uXi8ABY/s200/I+love+queers+photo.JPG" width="150" /></a></div><b><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/author/peter%20baklinski/">By Peter Baklinski</a></b><br />
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WALTHAM, Massachusetts September 6, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) – Back in the early 1990’s most people in North America would have doubted there would ever come a day when the homosexual agenda would be accepted with open arms in elementary and high schools. Today however, that agenda is firmly implanted in public schools and is quickly making its way into Catholic schools, thanks to a well-planned strategy laid out by radical gay activists in 1995.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">In the early 90’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered (GLBT) activists in Massachusetts sought to indoctrinate school children with homosexual values. GLBT activist Kevin Jennings, who was later appointed by President Obama as the assistant deputy secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools inside the Department of Education, masterminded the scheme of gay anti-bullying programs as a perfect inroad into the otherwise resistant classrooms of the nation.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">“If the Radical Right can succeed in portraying us as preying on children, we will lose,” warned Jennings in a 1995 speech to fellow GLBT activists outlining his strategy. “Their language–‘promoting homosexuality’–is laced with subtle and not-so-subtle innuendo that we are ‘after their kids.’”<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Jennings argued that the key to success lay in “framing” the issue in another way, to the advantage of the GLBT cause.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The strategy consists in linking the GLBT cause to “universal values” that everyone in the community has in common, such as “safety.” One then builds on this universal value the idea that “homophobia” represents a “threat” to students’ safety since it creates a “climate where violence, name-calling, health problems, and suicide are common.” From this point, one simply promotes legislation and programs for schools that frames the GLBT agenda in the language of these universal values.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">“This framing short-circuited their arguments and left them back-pedalling from day one,” boasted Jennings. “[N]o one could speak up against our frame and say, ‘Why, yes, I do think students should kill themselves:’ This allowed us to set the terms for debate.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Jennings realized that this strategy would effectively throw any opposition into a defensive mode and steal their best line of attack. If anyone objected to the homosexual and transgender indoctrination that the activists planned to push in the schools, they would be accused of heartless disregard for students.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Despite the fact that it has been executed time and time again for almost two decades the methods and talking points have hardly changed at all. A recent policy to address “homophobic harassment and bullying, and homophobia and heterosexism” approved by the Board of Education in Burnaby, BC followed Jennings’ strategy precisely, right down to the language of “safety.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Policy # 5.45 <a href="http://sd41.bc.ca/budgets_policies/pdf/policies/545.pdf">states</a> that to “ensure that all members of the school community work together in an atmosphere of respect and safety regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, the Board of Education will adopt appropriate administrative regulations and strategies that promote respect for human rights, support diversity, and address discrimination.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The final goal of the campaign, according to Jennings, is that one day when, “straight people” hear that someone is “promoting homosexuality,” he would say “‘Yeah, who cares?’ because they wouldn’t necessarily equate homosexuality with something bad that you would not want to promote.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">While much of the past 15 years has left the goals of the gay ant-bullying scheme carefully unspoken, a recent article in an online homosexual publication let the cat out of the bag.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>“Why would we push anti-bullying programs or social studies classes that teach kids about the historical contributions of famous queers unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept queer sexuality as normal?,” <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-journalist-lets-face-it-we-want-to-indoctrinate-children/">wrote</a> Daniel Villarreal on Queerty.com, a website that promotes the gay agenda.<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>“We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it. Recruiting children? You bet we are,” he added.<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">“I for one,” continued Villarreal, “certainly want tons of school children to learn that it’s OK to be gay, that people of the same sex should be allowed to legally marry each other, and that anyone can kiss a person of the same sex without feeling like a freak. And I would very much like for many of these young boys to grow up and start f**ing men.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">For a fuller description please see the<a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/kevin_jennings/1993_report/Jennings1993Report_Analysis.pdf"> special report on Jennings</a> by Mass Resistance.<o:p></o:p></div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-545682350216524352011-09-03T03:44:00.000-07:002011-09-03T03:47:28.783-07:00Outraged parents oust gay sex books from New Jersey school reading list<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W755kTw1yEU/TmIE4qKpHsI/AAAAAAAAAGo/BbiPhzVm77Y/s1600/Bookshelves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W755kTw1yEU/TmIE4qKpHsI/AAAAAAAAAGo/BbiPhzVm77Y/s200/Bookshelves.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/outraged-parents-oust-gay-sex-books-from-new-jersey-school-reading-list?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3a3ca8fead-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines09_02_2011&utm_medium=email">Courtesy of Life Site News</a>. Written by Kathleen Gilbert<br />
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MONROE TWP, New Jersey, September 2, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) - Two books, one containing an explicit depiction of statutory lesbian rape, and the other a homosexual orgy, have been ousted from a local high school by outraged New Jersey parents.<br />
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<div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The texts, “Norwegian Wood” and “Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines,” originally appeared on the summer reading list for both middle school and high school students at Monroe Township schools this year.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Norwegian Wood,” a novel by Haruki Murakami, includes a graphic depiction of a 31-year-old woman raping a 13-year-old girl, while “Tweak,” a story about addiction, describes a homosexual orgy scene as well as the details of drug use.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The books, school officials say, were included on the list by a group of teachers, librarians, and administrators, and approved by the board of education. Chuck Earling, superintendent of Monroe Township Schools in Williamstown, N.J., told <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/23/new-jersey-school-district-yanks-lesbian-sex-book-from-required-summer-reading/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Fox News</a> that the committee “didn’t feel it was inappropriate based on the language that’s used, common language used on the street.” </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">However, after outrage from local parents, the district yanked the books, and Earling apologized. “We were not trying to create controversy. We were just trying to get students to read,” he said.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg told Fox that the affair was a lesson to parents to keep watch over what their kids are reading in schools. “Here we see the intersection of parental values being offended, the hyper-sexualization of our youth and the homosexual agenda being pushed,” Sprigg told Fox News Radio.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Exposing children to graphic sexual content – that is not as evil as censorship in the minds of some left-wing activists.”</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Books exploring the homosexual lifestyle have been making their way into public schools across America in recent years, particularly in states where same-sex “marriage” has been legalized.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2008/oct/08100812" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;"> rejected</a> a Massachusetts father’s plea to opt-out his kindergartener from listening to homosexual children’s books, or at least to be notified of the objectionable material.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A California law <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-gov-signs-law-mandating-pro-gay-curriculum/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">signed</a> by Gov. Jerry Brown in June mandates that textbooks in pubic schools statewide teach children about “the role and contributions of” homosexual American historical figures, and forbids materials that “contain any matter reflecting adversely” upon gays on the basis of sexual identification.. The law is automatically on hold after conservatives leaders <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-referendum-launched-to-halt-mandatory-gay-history-law/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">launched</a> a referendum effort to put the textbook question before California voters.</span></div></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-69089426446381754822011-08-31T05:55:00.000-07:002011-08-31T06:40:11.852-07:00New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights: A Very Slippery Slope<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2vG9w777bO4/Tl4vSfhSkCI/AAAAAAAAAFY/vvUX2yZICyo/s1600/new-jersey-sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2vG9w777bO4/Tl4vSfhSkCI/AAAAAAAAAFY/vvUX2yZICyo/s200/new-jersey-sign.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">Winnie Hu in her New York Times article, "<a _mce_href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/nyregion/bullying-law-puts-new-jersey-schools-on-spot.html?emc=eta1" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/nyregion/bullying-law-puts-new-jersey-schools-on-spot.html?emc=eta1">Bullying Law Puts New Jersey Schools on [the] Spot</a>", reports, "Under a new state law in New Jersey, lunch-line bullies in the East Hanover schools can be reported to the police by their classmates this fall through anonymous tips to the Crimestoppers hot line." The law is called the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights. But whose rights does it protect?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: x-small;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">According to Winnie,</span> "</span><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">In Elizabeth, children, including kindergartners, will spend six class periods learning, among other things, the difference between telling and tattling. </span><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">And at North Hunterdon High School, students will be told that there is no such thing as an innocent bystander when it comes to bullying: if they see it, they have a responsibility to try to stop it."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">Winnie goes on to say that this puts an unfunded mandate on New Jersey schools. So more money is needed to investigate those who bully. Another reason to increase public school funding magically appears right before our eyes. She totally misses the big picture.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">What Winnie misses is just what concerns many parents, teachers and school based administrators about this onerous law. The Anti-Bulling Bill of Rights infringes upon the first Ten Amendments to our Constitution. The law goes overboard by crminializing something that is normal and common. Children expressing their opinions about other children. It puts into the hands of an "antibullying specialist" the requirement to investigate complaints. Is this a new layer of law enforcement? As Richard G. Bozza, executive director of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators, said. “I think this has gone well overboard. Now we have to police the community 24 hours a day."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">New Jersey has now outlawed what exactly - having an opinion?</span></strong></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">What is the legal definition of bullying? What if one child passes along a opinion about another child? Who has violated the law? The child who initially stated the opinion or the child (or children) who pass it along? What if a child disagrees with another child about something? Is saying they disagree with their classmate constitute bullying?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">1. A child states that another child is in the school is an illegal alien and reports that fact to other students. Congress has passed legislation making illegal immigration a crime. Is the child bullying the illegal alien student?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">2. What if a Muslim child says to a gay child that he disagrees with his classmate's life style because of his firm religious beliefs. Is that bullying? Or is that freedom of speech and freedom of religion?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">3. Or how about a black child voicing an opinion about how a white child dresses or behaves around other minority students. Is that bullying?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">What about the reverse of each of these examples?</span></strong></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">This law begs so many questions that delve into the morals and behaviors of individual children without foundation. In public schools many children are too young to understand what they are expressing. Remember that old saying, "Out of the mouths of babes"? Sometimes children will, well, just be children and tell the truth that upsets another child. Is that criminal? What will parents now do if their child is faced with a crime and criminal record at the age of 6 years-old?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">On September 1, 2011 any child can now call the Crimestoppers hot line in New Jersey and snitch on another child. What if the snitch is found to be wrong? Will the snitch be then charged with bullying or bearing false witness or lying?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">Do you see the dilemma and slippery slope New Jersey has created? </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">When is a snitch a bully and when does a bully become a snitch in order to bully? Who makes that determination and based upon what? Bullying is not a crime unless and until it becomes violent. Then the perpetrator has committed a real crime - assault.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">Feel good laws like the New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill or Rights always have serious unintended consequences. I fear this law will do much more harm than good to our most precious resource - our children.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">Let children be children. I see schools under this New Jersey law filled with those who will not express their opinions in the very places where the free exchange of ideas is paramount.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span _mce_style="font-size: small;">This so-called Bill of Rights is actually a Bill of Oppressive Silence. Shades of the former Soviet Union and its network of informers.</span></span>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-28620060291587836352011-08-31T02:54:00.000-07:002011-08-31T03:47:37.265-07:00Perry signs pledge to protect marriage, oppose homosexual ‘marriage’<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="line-height: 20px;">WASHINGTON, D.C., August 30, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) – Presidential candidate Rick Perry has signed a pledge that if elected president he will protect the traditional definition of marriage and oppose homosexual “marriage.” The Republican Texas governor joins Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum in signing the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) <a href="http://www.nationformarriage.org/site/c.omL2KeN0LzH/b.3836955/k.BEC6/Home.htm" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">pledge</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div class="article-img-caption" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Rick Perry's signature on the National Organization for Marriage pledge</div></div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“Kudos to Gov. Rick Perry for making it clear: he’s a marriage champion,” National Organization for Marriage (NOM) president Brian Brown said in an August 26 <a href="http://www.nomblog.com/12875/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">statement</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“By doing so, Perry makes crystal clear that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, gay marriage is going to be a bigger issue in 2012 than it was in 2008, because the difference between the GOP nominee and President Obama is going to be large and clear,” Brown said. “We look forward to demonstrating that being for marriage is a winning position for a presidential candidate.”<br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The NOM marriage pledge lists five commitments. The first commitment is to support passage of a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Perry, a supporter of states-rights, has previously said that the legal definition of marriage is the states’ prerogative.<br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“Our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the same sex. And you know what? That’s New York, and that’s their business, and that’s fine with me,” Perry <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rick-perry-argues-states-rights-approach-to-gay-marriage-says-of-new-york-t/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">told</a> an audience in Aspen, Colorado on July 22.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“That is their call,” said Perry. “If you believe in the 10th Amendment, stay out of their business.”<br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">Days later, Perry <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rick-perry-obviously-homosexual-marriage-is-not-fine-with-me/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">clarified</a> his stance by saying that he is against homosexual marriage and does not believe it is “fine” that New York passed its new law, but reiterated that the right way to protect marriage was at the state level.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher told LifeSiteNews that she doesn’t view Perry’s support for a federal constitutional amendment as a “flip flop,” but rather a “clarification” of his states-rights position.<br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“Perry, like most conservatives and unlike President Barack Obama, believes that if you are going to get a federal constitutional right, you have to actually amend the constitution, a process which requires three-fourths of the states to agree,” she said.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">“I’m very pleased to see Rick Perry demonstrate he’s a marriage champion.”</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The NOM pledge’s second commitment is to appoint federal judges and justices who reject the idea that “our Founding Fathers inserted a right to gay marriage into our Constitution,” and its third is to support the Defense of Marriage Act “vigorously” in court. Perry <a href="http://governor.state.tx.us/priorities/families/stronger_families/defense_of_marriage_act/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">supported</a> the Texas Defense of Marriage Act when it was under debate and eventually approved by Texans.</div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 20px;">The fourth commitment says that, as president, the signatory will “establish a presidential commission on religious liberty” to investigate claims of threats or harassment of individuals who advocate against homosexual “marriage.” And the final commitment is to “advance legislation” allowing for a popular vote in Washington, D.C. on whether to allow homosexual marriage. Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-to-allow-dc-residents-right-to-vote-on-marriag/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">had sued</a> Washington to allow for a popular vote on the issue, but was denied.<br />
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To find out more about Perry’s record on the life and family issues read <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/who-is-rick-perry-part-1-faith-and-family-issues" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Part I</a>, <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/who-is-rick-perry-part-ii-a-texas-governors-pro-life-legacy" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Part II</a>, and <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-case-against-rick-perry-pro-life-and-pro-family-concerns" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Part III</a> of our special report: Who is Rick Perry?</em></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-92208843077247369672011-08-29T13:18:00.000-07:002011-08-29T13:19:08.420-07:00Destroying America's Moral Fiber<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<div><div style="clear: both; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SEjnwTLdmD8/Tlvr4Q6WuNI/AAAAAAAADcY/eJHIrWu_xNA/s1600/Gay+parade2.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #7799bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><br />
<img border="0" height="132" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SEjnwTLdmD8/Tlvr4Q6WuNI/AAAAAAAADcY/eJHIrWu_xNA/s200/Gay+parade2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There’s something very wrong when the forthcoming memorial ceremonies of 9/11 at Ground Zero in New York City will not include prayer. Almost by definition, a memorial service includes prayer for the souls of the dead and for renewal in the face of adversity. The failure to include representatives of different faiths is not just a bad decision, it is indicative of an effort to erase religion from public events and institutions.<br />
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The Constitution does not forbid the practice of religion. It forbids the states and federal government from imposing a state religion.<br />
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Across America we have seen the slow creep of moral decline in public institutions despite a population that is widely understood to have a deep faith in a greater power in their lives, but which I mean God, not government. America overcame its economic problems in the 1980s through the leadership of Ronald Reagan who never hesitated to cite God as the inspiration and source of our fundamental belief in freedom and liberty.<br />
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To my mind, it began with the prohibition of school prayer, a part of the educational experience for generations of American children. Since then, schools have been turned into minimum security prisons with a notable rise in bullying. Along with the Pledge of Allegiance, a short prayer was a reminder and reinforcement of the belief that there is a higher power, despite the arrogance of officialdom at all levels.<br />
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Though homosexuals represent a very small percent of the population, they have received increasing attention in the nation’s media and have become emboldened to hold parades in cities where they celebrate their sexual deviancy.<br />
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Most notably has been the decision by several states to authorize same-sex marriage despite the extension of “civil unions” to provide for gaps in the legal process as they affect homosexuals living in committed relationships. The degradation of the sanctity of marriage, a practice and tradition dating back for millennia, has been nothing less than an attack on moral values in America.<br />
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The campaign to reduce former levels of intolerance for homosexuals began when the American Psychiatric Association (APA) concluded in 1973 that homosexuality was not a mental disease or disorder. It voted to support “gay rights.” .<br />
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<strong>Peddling Pedophilia</strong><br />
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A recent conference sponsored by B4U-Act, a pedophilia advocacy group, featured psychiatric professionals who argued to remove pedophilia from the APA’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If that were to occur, pedophilia would no longer be considered a mental disorder, at least by this professional group.<br />
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This is the North American Man-Boy Love Association on steroids.<br />
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Should that occur, the doors would be open to consider this abhorrent behavior, condemned throughout our society, as just another behavior that does not merit severe penalties. As if every child in America is not already at risk, this would encourage the media to encourage greater public acceptance and “understanding” of pedophilia.<br />
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The B4U-Act conference concluded that pedophilia was “not a choice”, that efforts to treat pedophilia are “similar to methods used on homosexuals 50 years ago and similarly ineffective”, and that ‘minor-attracted persons “do not exhibit narcissism, psychosexual immaturity…psychopathology, neurosis or any personality disorder more than people attracted to adults.”<br />
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This is such a blatant effort to suggest that pedophiles are just like everyone else that it renders the profession of psychiatry a thin excuse for every form of deviancy that threatens individuals—in this case children—and society at large with the failure to discourage and punish this abomination.<br />
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Those psychiatrists and psychologists have apparently already forgotten the horror that greeted revelations of widespread pedophilia among Catholic priests and others responsible for children in their care.<br />
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In early August, former child star, Corey Feldman, courageously declared “The number one problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia” saying that the “casting couch” exists for children, too.<br />
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This is occurring as America witnesses the most gay-friendly administration in its history. The appointment by President Obama of Kevin Jennings to a position in the Department of Education is an example. Jennings helped introduce Bill 4530 in Congress that would require the normalization of homosexuality, transgenderism, cross-dressing and other behaviors into the curriculums of schools from coast to coast. California has introduced legislation mandating such views in its schools.<br />
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Jennings was a long-time homosexual activist in Massachusetts and the founder of GLSEN, a homosexual organization that targets children in schools. He has since left the administration to lead an organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts with the same goals.<br />
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The nation’s economic problems can be fixed and we can ensure a strong defense, but the moral rot that is occurring with every passing day will destroy America from within more surely than any external enemy could hope for.<br />
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© Alan Caruba, 2011</span></div>Dr. Richard M. Swier, Ed. D., LTC, US Army (Ret.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05768482066868099242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744203093166978888.post-18030983878203679052011-08-27T02:16:00.000-07:002011-08-31T05:53:51.239-07:00How to Spot Homosexual Activism in Schools<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nPY2FL9kxn8/Tli17qRwdNI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/xorrnJ2N6H4/s1600/focus+on+the+family+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nPY2FL9kxn8/Tli17qRwdNI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/xorrnJ2N6H4/s1600/focus+on+the+family+logo.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>From: </b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b><a href="http://www.focusonthefamily.com/">Focus on the Family</a></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://clink.convio.net/site/R?i=mt2XC6rC4hqeZFGd-hpNKw" target="_blank">True Tolerance: Do You Know How to Spot Homosexual Activism in Schools?</a> </b>As a parent or concerned citizen, it’s easy to feel a bit powerless and intimidated when trying to navigate large, bureaucratic school systems.<br />
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But the good news is, you are not alone – and you are definitely not powerless. That’s why we’ve created TrueTolerance.org to equip parents and citizens with excellent resources to help them present their viewpoint in a loving, reasonable and fact-based way.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.truetolerance.org/2011/four-red-flags-parents-can-watch-for/" target="_blank">Red Flags Parents Can Watch For</a> </b>As a parent or concerned citizen reading the information on this Web site, you might be wondering, How can I tell whether any of this is happening in my neighborhood schools?<br />
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It’s easy to feel a bit powerless and intimidated when trying to navigate large, bureaucratic school systems.<br />
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But the good news is, you are not alone–and you are definitely not powerless. That’s why we’ve created this Web site–to equip parents and community citizens with excellent resources that will enable them to present their viewpoint in a loving, reasonable and fact-based way.<br />
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To help get you started, below we’ve listed four red flags to watch for–indicators that can help alert you about whether homosexual advocacy groups might be influencing what’s happening in your public school classrooms–as well as suggestions for how to respond.<br />
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<b>1) Books Promoting Homosexuality </b>Many parents across the land are discovering that books for children as young as kindergarten–sometimes even preschool–are being used to acquaint children with the idea of same-sex relationships and things like bisexuality and transgenderism. (See this list of books that have been recommended to educators by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network).<br />
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So one of the easiest ways you can start researching what’s happening in your school district, is to check out the public school libraries. Nowadays, most schools have online library catalogues for all grade levels, and you can use key words to search the content in the database.<br />
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The school library is an important indicator of what’s happening in the rest of the school because, technically, the library is supposed to reflect and support the larger school curriculum. And teachers often draw from the library to supplement lesson plans. So if you see an unusual number of sexually explicit books or content that promotes homosexual activism popping up in the search list, that’s a strong indicator that you might want to start asking more questions about if and how these materials are used in classrooms or for student assignments.<br />
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<b>2) Videos and other Supplemental Materials </b>You can also ask about whether videos or other materials are being used to supplement and expand the regular curriculum. Even though they may not be listed as an official part of the curriculum, unbeknownst to parents, oftentimes videos promoting same-sex relationships–or materials, such as crossword puzzles that teach kids the meaning of terms such as “transgender”–are available for use by teachers to supplement their regular lesson plans. Read more about parents who discovered these sorts of materials being used in their schools in these articles:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Under the Banner of Tolerance" -- <a href="http://fota.cdnetworks.net/truetolerance/Under_the_Banner_of_Tolerance.pdf" target="_blank">http://fota.cdnetworks.net/<wbr></wbr>truetolerance/Under_the_<wbr></wbr>Banner_of_Tolerance.pdf</a> and<br />
"Parents Beware" -- <a href="http://fota.cdnetworks.net/truetolerance/p9_June_Jul_Citizen_10_antibullying.pdf" target="_blank">http://fota.cdnetworks.net/<wbr></wbr>truetolerance/p9_June_Jul_<wbr></wbr></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://fota.cdnetworks.net/truetolerance/p9_June_Jul_Citizen_10_antibullying.pdf" target="_blank">Citizen_10_antibullying.pdf<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>3) “Family Diversity,” “Tolerance,” or “Safe Schools” Instruction </b>You’ll also want to start asking questions if your school announces a so-called family diversity course and/or “tolerance” or “safe school” programs. Oftentimes, homosexuality promotion is couched within these programs (or within lessons labeled as “anti-bullying”) without parents being notified. By categorizing homosexual-themed teaching within a subject like “family diversity” or “social justice,” school officials often try to skirt parental control. They argue that since this teaching is categorized as a social issue — and not labeled as sex education — they no longer have to give parents prior notice and/or the ability to exempt their children from the class.<br />
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One way to begin researching this is to visit your school’s Web site. Many school Web sites have something similar to a “Curriculum and Instruction” category listed under the “Departments” heading. That’s the best place to start. You can look for certain flag words or titles which have a likelihood of having homosexuality teaching incorporated into the program without parents knowing. You can also click on the “school board” section of your school district’s Web site and actually examine the board agenda & minutes and do a search for key words, such as “diversity” or “tolerance.”<br />
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<b>4) School laws & policies that single out “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” </b>Homosexual activists groups have waged a national campaign lately to pressure school districts across the country to enforce so-called anti-discrimination or anti-bullying policies that spell out categories such as “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.” While these campaigns sound well-meaning and compassionate, the problem is that the policies are often used as leverage to undermine parental rights and mandate homosexuality lessons in the classrooms. Read more about that trend here.<br />
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What can you do if you discover these warning signs in your school district? For more information, read:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'How to Respond to Homosexual Advocacy in Your School District" -- <a href="http://www.truetolerance.org/2011/six-ways-parents-can-respond-to-homosexual-activism-in-public-schools/" target="_blank">http://www.truetolerance.org/<wbr></wbr>2011/six-ways-parents-can-<wbr></wbr>respond-to-homosexual-<wbr></wbr>activism-in-public-schools/<br />
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<div class="article-body" id="article-body"><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">MOUNT DORA, FL, August 25, 2011 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) - A social studies teacher who <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/florida-high-school-removes-teacher-for-criticizing-gay-marriage-on-faceboo/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">was suspended</a> from the classroom due to comments he made on his private Facebook page condemning same-sex “marriage” is now being allowed to return to his teaching duties.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Jerry Buell’s re-instatement was announced yesterday in <a href="http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=1093" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">a press release</a>issued by Liberty Counsel, the non-profit organization that represented him when the Lake County School Board launched an investigation after receiving a complaint about his post.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Commenting on New York’s legalization of same-sex marriage, Buell had written: “I’m watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">He went on to post: “And now they show two guys kissing after their announcement. If they want to call it a union, go ahead. But don’t insult a man and woman’s marriage by throwing it in the same cesspool as same-sex whatever! God will not be mocked. When did this sin become acceptable???”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">According to Liberty Counsel’s statement, the complaint was lodged by a 2002 graduate of Mount Dora High School, who had never had Buell as a teacher.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Buell is a veteran teacher at the Florida high school, and chair of the school’s social studies department. He was named teacher of the year in 2010.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">After a weeklong investigation to determine whether the comments constituted an ethics code violation, Buell was re-instated three days after the school year began.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“This is a great day for the Constitution. By fully exonerating Mr. Buell, the Lake County School Board has reaffirmed what the rest of Americans already knew. The First Amendment protects the right of public servants to express their personal opinion without any fear or intimidation. It is a shame that Mr. Buell had to miss three days of teaching for his employer to learn this lesson,” Harry Mihet, Senior Litigation Counsel for Liberty Counsel, commented.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">According to an Orlando Sentinel report, Buell met with Lake County School Superintendent Susan Moxley for about an hour before Moxley announced her decision. It was also announced that a “written directive,” the contents of which will be available to the public in ten days, has been placed in Buell’s file.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Although Buell has said that he is taking down his Facebook page, he told CNN in an interview earlier this week that he stands by the comments he made there.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“I stand by what I said. One of the things that make America great is the fact that we can disagree, and there’s nothing wrong with passion,” Buell said. “It was not use of bad language or anything, just passionate words.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In response to a question about returning to a classroom that may include homosexual students, Buell said that he respected all his students “as the children of God and creations of God that they are.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“I explain to my students, you won’t feel safer, you won’t find a place you’ll be more respected, and you won’t find a place you’ll have more fun all day, and I would challenge anybody to ask any one of my thousands of students if that has not proven to be true,” he said.</span></span></div></div>Dr. Richard M. 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