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'Father', 'Mother' Suppressed in More Nations by Sodomites

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Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:21 pm (GMT -5)

Terms "father", "mother, "wife", "husband" Being Legally Suppressed in More Nations by Homosexuals
Wednesday November 14, 2007
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By Steve Jalsevac

SACRAMENTO, California, November 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past September, the state Senate of California voted 22-15 to approve legislation substituting the term "two persons" for "man and wife" in all state references to marriage. Indeed, the strict regulation of language is proving to be a major front for homosexual activists around the world as it has been for other ideologies that have sought to propagandise societies to accept radical social change agendas.

Immediately following the passage of same-sex “marriage legislation in Spain, the government ordered that the terms “mother” and “father” were to be replaced in the State Civil Registries Family Book with the headings, Parent (progenitor) A, and Parent (progenitor) B.

This February nurses in Scotland were told by Scotland’s National Health Service, in conjunction with Britain’s leading homosexual activist organisation, Stonewall, that they must avoid using the terms “mother” and “father”. These must be replaced with “carers” or “guardians.” The terms “husband”, “wife” and “marriage” must be replaced with “partners” and “close friend.”

In Canada when the government started instituting homosexual “marriage” the province of Ontario banned “mother” and “father” as well as the terms “wife”, “husband”, “widow” and “widower” from all Ontario statutes.

The Australian state of Victoria is pushing to have “mother” and “father” removed from school curricula as recommended in the manual, “Learn to Include” developed by homosexual political activists. Similar changes were put in place in Massachusetts when the law was changed to allow “gay marriage.”

Homosexual activists violate special-needs student

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Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:00 pm (GMT -5)

Homosexual Activists in Massachusetts High School Target Vulnerable Youth
Special Needs daughter of pro-family activist propagandised to point of considering herself to be lesbian
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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

ACTON, MASSACHUSETTS, November 14, 2007 (LideSiteNews.com) - A recent report by MassResistence, a Massachusetts pro-family action group, has revealed the extent to which the homosexual lobbies have infiltrated the state school system and use vulnerable youth to further their cause.

A situation described in the report began when a 17-year-old special-needs student, Claudia Contrada, daughter of MassResistance staffer Amy Contrada, was transfered from the private parochial school she had attended to the public school system. This seemed a good choice to Claudia's adoptive parents because of the greater availability of special-needs support.

Though Claudia, of Korean ancestry, has learning disabilities and psychological/emotional issues she is talented in singing and especially acting. Her therapists said participating in her school's drama program would be very beneficial for her. She is described as having a beautiful voice and a fantastic memory for lines and lyrics.

When the play Claudia's high school drama club planned to perform was made known ("The Laramie Project"), her parents were dismayed by the pro-homosexual, anti-Christian messages it contained. After meetings with school officials failed to persuade them to choose a different play, they reluctantly decided to allow her to participate because of her special educational and emotional needs although. It is not yet known if any special arrangements were requested to protect Amy from participating in any of the more objectional parts of the play.

This is when the full extent of the aggressive homosexual activism in the school was revealed. Claudia, known to be from a stongly traditional principles family, was assigned a high school guidance counselor who was the school's gay-straight alliance club advisor. The school drama director gave Claudia reading material normalizing homosexuality and demonizing those with traditional values as "haters", in preparation for play rehearsals.

As rehearsals continued, Claudia heard references to her mother being a "homophobe" and a "bigot" because she had objected to the play being presented in the school.

According to the MassResistence report, when Claudia told her mother and father that she thought she was lesbian, "They basically ignored it as another silly idea that Claudia got from the latest school lunacy, and nothing more. Claudia doesn't really understand what "lesbian" is. It was all about getting attention. They did worry that she was starting to hang out with some very strange kids who had their own emotional problems stemming from "gay" and "transgender" identity issues."

On Sept. 26, Mark Snyder, a 24-year-old homosexual activist from Boston, posted a "news item" on his website titled "Anti-gay zealot's daughter to star in Laramie Project."

From there on, Claudia had become a "cause célèbre" for the homosexual lobbyists in Massachusetts, who have gone so far as to create a Facebook account for her where she began to receive messages encouraging her to "come out" as a lesbian, contact other homosexual groups and give interviews to homosexual newspapers. She was contacted by a Boston Globe reporter who tried to convince her to do a newspaper interview without her parents' prior knowledge or consent.

Mass Resistance reports on its website that "Claudia's pre-existing issues were exacerbated to such a degree that her health professionals and parents finally concluded that at the very least she needed to leave Acton-Boxborough High School." Brian Camenker of MassResistence confirmed to LifeSiteNews.com today that Claudia has been taken out of the school and "so far the gays haven't found her."

See a detailed account of the Claudia Contrada saga at
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/07d/cac/

Racing industry offered bribe for World Youth Day events

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Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:14 pm (GMT -5)
Racing industry offered payout for Pope

The Age
November 15, 2007
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Racing-industry-offered-payout-for-Pope/2007/11/15/1194766840339.html

Taxpayers will pay $40 million to end resistance by racing authorities to the use of Sydney's Randwick racecourse for next year's World Youth Day (WYD) celebrations.

Racing authorities have been unhappy about moving from Randwick to make way for the massive event next July, which will bring Pope Benedict XVI and hundreds of thousands of Catholics to Sydney.

But under a federal and state government compensation deal announced on Thursday, $10.8 million will go towards the relocation of horses and staff for the event, during which a mass will be staged at Randwick.

The trainers withdrew from negotiations in early August when it was suggested the track would be closed for just three days instead of 10 weeks, which has now been established as the minimum period the track will be out of operation.

Racing NSW, the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) and WYD have reached an agreement which will give $10 million for improvements to the infrastructure of Warwick Farm and Rosehill, to where most trainers and horses will be moved.

The AJC will receive $3 million and also a 50-year extension of its lease, while an additional $7 million will be spent on upgrading Randwick for the event.

Another $10 million has been set aside to ensure the 2008 spring racing carnival goes ahead after this year's was lost due to the equine influenza outbreak.

John O'Shea, vice president of the NSW Trainers' Association, said he and his fellow trainers would work to ensure WYD was a success.

"It is an acceptable result," Mr O'Shea said.

"It appeared we would be financially damaged, making all trainers unviable.

"The package announced today reimburses us for our additional costs and specifically for relocating 700 horses as well as farriers and vets and others who rely on Randwick to earn a living."

Mr O'Shea said it was important plans were in place in case the track was damaged by the 500,000 pilgrims expected to attend, especially in the wake of EI which shut training down in August.

"We are a long way behind the eight-ball," he said.

"There is still no certainty of the autumn carnival and we cannot afford to have three carnivals compromised."

Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'Landys said it was a deal beneficial to all parties.

"It is not compensation, it is reimbursement of the costs to the industry for staging this event," Mr V'Landys said.

"The anger has subsided."

NSW Deputy Premier John Watkins said the WYD could be expected to generate around $150 million to the state's economy and that Randwick was the only realistic place to hold the event.

"Randwick is the only viable option," he said.

"It is a major event with 500,000 people expected to attend.

"The issue is to minimise the impact on the racing community and it became clear the horses had to be moved off the track."

A stage to accommodate Pope Benedict XVI and 800 cardinals will be built at Randwick, with other amenities such as toilet blocks also required.

WYD organisers welcomed an end to the stand-off.

"The federal and state governments have been generous," they said in a statement.

However some trainers remain fearful about potential damage to the Randwick track and disruption to their horses.

"We'll be positive when we see the money," said Grahame Begg.

Giuliani's marriages, cohabitation with a gay couple...

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Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:15 am (GMT -5)

AT THE CORE: Concern over security could lead Christian conservatives to overlook disagreements with Rudolph Giuliani, above, at a campaign stop in a Kirkland, Wash., cafe last month.
Evangelical flocks on their own at the polls

Conservative Christian leaders are increasingly reluctant to get political, leaving a key Republican voting bloc divided. The trend may help Giuliani but hurt the GOP in the long term.

By Stephanie Simon and Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

November 15, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- A fundamental shift is transforming the religious right, long a force in presidential politics, as aging evangelical leaders split on the 2008 race and a new generation of pastors turns away from politics altogether.

The result, in the short term, could be a boost for the centrist candidacy of former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose messy personal life and support for gay rights and legal abortion have not produced the unified opposition from Christian conservatives that many anticipated.

Over the longer term, the distancing of religious leaders from politics could prove even more consequential, denying the GOP one of the essential building blocks it has used to capture the White House in five of the last seven presidential races.

The shift is evident in this Rocky Mountain community at the heart of the evangelical movement.

"As far as me standing in the pulpit holding a voter guide, that's not going to happen," said the Rev. Brady Boyd, 40, who leads a congregation of 10,000 at New Life Church. He will use his position to teach the Bible to believers. "I won't use it to influence their vote," he said.

That suits many in his congregation just fine. "If he starts talking politics, that makes me very uneasy," said Wolfgang Griesinger, 56, a political independent.

"It's not his place to tell us who to vote for," said Marsha Thorson, 54, a Republican who is leaning toward Giuliani.

Black churches have a long tradition of political activism, mostly on the Democratic side. White evangelical churches did not assert themselves politically until Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, when first the Moral Majority and later the Christian Coalition began organizing on behalf of Republicans.

The term "evangelical" refers to Christians who claim a personal relationship with Christ and consider the Bible the word of God, to be faithfully obeyed. They are a huge group -- about one in four voters -- and far from monolithic; their ranks include Pentecostals, charismatics, Southern Baptists and many others. Some worship to rock music, others to hymns; some speak in tongues. Some believe God preordained those headed to heaven; others hold that anyone can achieve salvation by accepting Jesus Christ as their savior. Former Presidents Carter and Clinton are evangelicals, as is President Bush.

Despite that diversity, evangelicals have become a reliable -- and increasingly crucial -- Republican voting bloc. Many were drawn to Bush in 2000 because of his conservative stance on social issues and his story of turning to Christ to overcome a drinking problem. He won the support of more than eight in 10 Christian conservatives in 2000 and nearly nine of 10 in 2004, according to Los Angeles Times exit polls.

But in the three years since, many Christian conservatives have expressed a growing unease about the entanglement of politics and pulpit. Among young evangelical adults, nearly half say involvement in politics is problematic, according to a new book, "unChristian," from the evangelical research firm the Barna Group.

Some of that disillusionment comes from disappointment with Bush's policies, including the war in Iraq. But there's also shame at the often-bombastic, sharply partisan rhetoric of the traditional standard-bearers for conservative Christian values, including televangelist Pat Robertson, 77; the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died this spring at age 73; and radio host James C. Dobson, 71.

One-third of evangelicals under 30 told Barna that they were embarrassed to call themselves believers.

"They're tired of the hard-edged politics that the Christian right has practiced in the last couple of generations," said John C. Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. "They see all this division, all this anger, without a lot to show for it."

Mega-church pastors have capitalized on that frustration by offering a different brand of Christianity. With sunny, affirming services, they cast a broad welcome net -- and fill arena-size sanctuaries each Sunday.

They may promote a cause, such as AIDS relief in Africa. But endorse a candidate? Push a partisan agenda? That could empty half their pews. Few up-and-coming pastors want to risk such a backlash.

"There's nothing in it for them," said Timothy Morgan, deputy managing editor of the evangelical monthly Christianity Today. "It just gets people stirred up."

Florida pastor Troy Gramling, 40, recently preached a series he called "My Naked Pastor," which involved airing his every thought to webcams that followed him around the clock. Make that almost every thought: Gramling said he would never announce to his congregation of 14,000 how he planned to vote.

"That would be putting pressure on them to agree with me, and I don't feel I have a right to do that," Gramling said. "God doesn't call me and tell me who's his favorite."

Mega-church pastors often argue that Christians don't need big names to tell them whom to vote for; they need solid biblical teaching, which they can use to screen each candidate for proper values. But that leaves it up to the voters to determine which values should be the litmus test.

In previous years, the test was obvious: A godly leader must oppose abortion and gay rights and possess a strong Christian faith. This year, the evangelical establishment has sent voters a strong signal that they can feel free to branch away from that trinity.

Robertson, for instance, overlooked Giuliani's three marriages, his brief cohabitation with a gay couple, and his support for abortion rights to endorse him as the best candidate to fight terrorism.

Fundamentalist Bob Jones III, 68, made it clear that he believed that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Mormon, follows a false religion. Yet Jones, chancellor of the university that bears his name, backed Romney on the grounds that he could win the White House.

Dobson has declined to endorse anyone -- despite repeated pleas from supporters of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist preacher who holds textbook religious right positions on social issues. Instead, Dobson has hinted that he may support a third-party candidate.

The disarray on the Christian right -- coupled with the striking silence of mega-church pastors -- means that Republicans can't count on the mass voter turnout drives that helped so much in years past.

"The days when Ralph Reed [and his Christian Coalition] could mobilize tens of thousands of followers are gone," said Rich Galen, an advisor to GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee. "In terms of suddenly turning on a spigot of funds and volunteers and direct mail, that just doesn't happen anymore."

Marvin Olasky, editor in chief of the Christian newsmagazine World, offers this perspective: "Anyone who talks about delivering the evangelical vote might as well apply for a job as a herder of cats."

The upheaval has also left an opening for Democrats, who are aggressively wooing evangelical voters by framing issues such as global warming, healthcare reform and the war in Iraq as moral priorities. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, the party's two presidential front-runners, discuss their faith openly and often, a notable contrast with past Democratic hopefuls.

The Democrats don't expect to swing the entire bloc of conservative religious voters their way next November. "But it's going to be such a close election that even 2 percentage points would make a huge difference," said D. Michael Lindsay, author of a new book on evangelical influence, "Faith in the Halls of Power."

Here at New Life Church, the congregation includes Democrats as well as independents and Republicans, and Boyd says he figures they all come to hear his take on the Gospel, not the latest Gallup poll.

"I don't think that as believers, as Christians, we should back away from the political scene. . . . But there's a correction happening now in the local church," he said.

New Life's founder, Ted Haggard, never hesitated to remind his congregation of his close ties to the Bush administration. Haggard resigned last year after encounters with a male prostitute, but the church's reputation as a political force remains; Boyd said he had been courted by several elected officials since arriving in Colorado Springs.

He meets with the politicians -- but only to see if he can offer them spiritual guidance.

"I'm a pastor," he said. "That's what I'm called to do."

stephanie.simon@latimes.com

mark.barabak@latimes.com

Simon reported from Colorado Springs and Barabak from San Francisco.
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Quebec Mother : do not forget the Roman Catholic heritage

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Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:02 am (GMT -5)
Montreal Gazette

Mother considers teachers in hijabs a threat

Concerned over 'bath of cultures'. Accommodation hearings continue in Laval

JEFF HEINRICH, The Gazette

Thursday, November 15, 2007, Published: 6 hours ago

Reminding them of the Christian name of where they were - on Île Jésus - a young mother yesterday urged the chairmen of Quebec's "reasonable accommodations" commission not to forget their Roman Catholic heritage.

Geneviève April also had a warning for Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor: Don't promote the rise of Islam in Quebec, because it will erode the identity of young French Canadians like her two children, who are exposed to it at school and daycare.

"As a mother, I'm very worried," said April, 30, whose young son attends a multi-ethnic school that is 70-per-cent allophone and where the pupils are of 45 nationalities.

"Children are sponges, and if my children are taught by someone (who is Muslim), they'll start asking themselves who they are," said April, the first of two dozen people who addressed the commission yesterday in Laval.

"And since I'm trying to be open with them, they risk being influenced by someone with a stronger religious identity who's with them all day," she said.

Teachers and daycare workers in hijabs, for example, are a threat, because "children trust the people looking after them, and (wearing the hijab) is practically a kind of subversion, and I think that's deplorable and shouldn't be accepted."

Bouchard, a veteran historian and sociologist who grew up Catholic in Chicoutimi, asked April whether it's OK for parents to transmit their religion to their children.

Absolutely, she replied, but "I don't want Muslim parents transmitting their religion to my children."

"Culture and religion are interrelated," and whereas Islam has no roots here, "Quebec culture is completely filled with allusions to the Catholic religion," she said, noting that the Highway 15 hotel where the Laval hearings are being held sits on Île Jésus.

At his multi-ethnic school, her son is "in a bath of cultures, and his identity will be put to the test," April said.

If his teacher wears a hijab and many of his classmates are Muslims, her son may one day decide to become Muslim himself, "just to be like his friends, and I wouldn't like that," April said.

"That's why you'd like hijabs to be banned in schools?" Bouchard asked.

"Yes," April replied.

Home to 377,000 people - 15 per cent of them born outside of Canada - Laval is the third-most-populous municipality in Quebec after Montreal and Quebec City. Overwhelmingly francophone and Roman Catholic, it also has lots of allophones of different faiths, including about 10,000 Muslims.

That mix has caused some friction between old Catholic traditions and new Muslim demands. A year ago, the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal ordered Laval to stop a 40-year tradition of opening its monthly council meetings with a brief prayer. And last February, a Quebec soccer referee sent off an Ontario girl during a tournament in Laval after she refused to remove her hijab.

Yesterday, Muslims from Syria, Senegal, Egypt and Morocco spoke in the name of what several called "the silent majority of moderate Muslims" whose "universal values" include loving one's neighbour, accepting diversity and treating women equally.

"We have to stay vigilant against all kinds of extremism," including that of "ideological" Muslims who would use tribunes like the commission's to spread "propaganda," said Pierrefonds resident Abdesselam Mejlaoui, who is originally from Morocco.

"No one should force a woman to wear the hijab, but no one has the right to remove it, either," said Mohammed Chraibi, a chemical engineer and Montreal North imam who's part of an interfaith group of Muslims, Catholics and Protestants.

But the Muslims' detractors were also keen to be heard yesterday.

Two brothers-in-law married to Mexicans got into an argument with Bouchard when they insisted that "Latinos and Haitians and Asians" know how to be part of "the Quebec melting pot," but not "a large number of Muslims," who "live in ghettos" and are prevented from marrying outside their religion.

jheinrich@thegazette.canwest.com

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Hospital staff trained to consider ethnic requests

What should a hospital do when one of its medical staff wants to wear the hijab - the Muslim headscarf - in the operating room?

Three years ago, the Cité de la santé de Laval faced that demand from an intern in inhalation therapy and decided to deny the request, its director-general told the Bouchard-Taylor commission yesterday.

"The answer was no, for reasons of the prevention of infections," said Luc Lepage, head of the Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Laval, which includes the hospital and four community health centres in Quebec's third-most-populous city.

Far more common are demands for "reasonable accommodations" by patients, he added. The centre's full-time ethicist polled 100 staffers this year to see how many had received requests from patients, and 38 had.

Most common are requests for someone who speaks their language, someone who is their gender, and for their religious customs and holidays to be respected.

Staff are trained to consider the requests on the basis of their effect on hygiene, on how much they cost and whether they infringe the rights of other patients.

Some female patients insist on being tended to by females, whether that be an orderly, a nurse, a technician or a doctor, Lepage said. Usually, the hospital says it will try to provide a female doctor. But it won't look for female staffers in the other categories.

"I can't reserve female personnel throughout the hospital," Lepage said.

Jeff Heinrich

© The Gazette (Montreal) 2007
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