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20 May 2007 02:03:26 PM |
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Religion is the root of all evil |
source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-root-of-all-evil/2007/05/20/1179601243788.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Religion, says Dawkins, is the big issue that can no longer be ignored
or respectfully tolerated. Rather, it is the decaying carcass that
must be confronted and cast out if civilisation is to be saved. His
attack is trained not solely on Muslim fundamentalism and its Western
religious counterpart - a right-wing fundamentalism that is
creationist, evangelist, extremist , which he says is rising
alarmingly in America, but also in Australia and Europe. He has benign
"mainstream" churches in his sights, too...
Religion, he argues is superstition. It is the enemy of rational
thought, the ever-present threat to civilisation, the fuel of war, the
bastion of bigotry, the rulebook for systematic human rights abuse,
the virus with which parents infect their children. In the home, and
in church schools.
Religion, he says, is the root of all evil. For the statement, surely,
demands no mealy mouthed question mark in the mind of Dawkins, whose
best-selling books The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and The God
Delusion have confirmed his leadership of a swelling band of militant
atheists...
In recent months, atheists have taken part in several public debates:
at the Careforce Church in Mount Evelyn, near Melbourne, in the
Methodist Central Hall, London, and perhaps most potently on neutral
ground at La Jolla, California. There scientists held a forum compared
by The New York Times to the founding convention for a new political
party based on reason.
There has been a rush of other books espousing atheism. They include
Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett, Letter to a Christian Nation by
Sam Harris, and most outspoken, irreverent and readable, God is not
Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens. As one
reviewer put it, Hitchens, the British-born American enfant terrible,
"takes the verbal equivalent of an AK47 to shoot down hallowed
religious figures". Gandhi is an "obscurantist"; Martin Luther King an
orgiast; the Dalai Lama a "medieval princeling"; and Muhammad,
Hitchens suspects, was an epileptic...
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21 May 2007 06:56:41 PM |
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GAY MILITANT INTENT: OUR KIDS
From Concerned Women From America
by Beverly LaHaye
Dear Concerned American,
What I am about to tell you in this letter is so outrageous you may
find it hard to believe. I was astounded myself. I could not believe
that our nation had fallen so far. But the reports here are true. I
have warned many times that our children are under attack. Now I'm
writing to sound the alarm that the situation is even worse than I
thought. I'll tell you more details in a moment, but here's just a
sample of what I've discovered:
Cross-dressing promoted to grade-school children Graphic instruction
in "gay" sex taught to teenage boys and girls Armed guards posted to
keep parents out of high school assemblies led by radical homosexual
activists A book - published by a taxpayer-funded university - that
endorses sex between children and adults!
I've warned about this for many years. Now the evidence is beyond
dispute: there is an evil scheme aimed at destroying our children. The
attack comes on many fronts. It aims to expose children to sex at
earlier and earlier ages... to rob them of their innocence and open
them up to immoral and unhealthy practices... to set them up to accept
messages of
"safe sex" and homosexuality... to usher them into becoming advocates
for - and ultimately participants in - sexual promiscuity, sodomy,
bisexuality, and transgenderism.
These reports confirm my worst fears about this scheme. The time is
short! Radical homosexual activists have long said, "Whoever controls
the schools, controls the future." If they can convince the next
generation that homosexuality is "just another lifestyle," there will
be no stopping them. Even more chilling: If they can lure a whole
generation of young people to explore "alternative" sexual behavior...
to discover their "gay side"...
they will have a whole new generation of young, willing sex partners.
Their first step is to promote gender confusion. Nothing I have ever
seen promises to confuse kids more than a lesson guide obtained and
given to me by one of the researchers here at CWA.
GRADE SCHOOL LESSON PROMOTES CROSS-DRESSING The Gay, Lesbian, and
Straight Education Network, also known as "GLSEN, is pushing a
grade-school curriculum book that promotes cross-dressing. This book
was created by a homosexual parents group at the Buena Vista
Elementary School in San Francisco. It includes a lesson based on a
children's book titled "Jesse's Dream Skirt."
As incredible as it sounds, this is real! The story is about a young
boy named Jesse who likes trying on his mother's dresses, and dreams
of a skirt "that whirled, twirled, flowed and glowed, and felt soft
inside." Jesse's mom helps him make a skirt, and he wears it to
daycare, where his classmates make fun of him. The daycare teacher,
Bruce, gathers the
children together and says, "Jesse loves his skirt. Why are some of
you making fun of him?" A girl says, "Well, I wear pants. Why can't
Jesse wear a skirt?"
A boy, Mike, says that one day his mother let him dress up in her old
dresses and hats. "It was a lot of fun," he said, until his father
came in and yelled at him, saying, "Take off that dress, I don't want
my son to be a sissy!" Mike told his daycare classmates, "I don't
know, - I still don't see what was wrong with it." The children and
their teacher discuss the issue and most of the children end up liking
Jesse's skirt. Some even start making dresses themselves. The book
ends with Jesse twirling around in his "dream skirt," with his
boy-style underwear showing. The companion lesson plan says the "key
message" of "Jesse's Dream Skirt" is: "Respect means keeping our minds
open. Having open minds means giving people freedom to be who they
want to be." I don't know what's worse: encouraging boys to wear
dresses, or the negative portrayal of Mike's father. Children who
study "Jesse's Dream Skirt" are getting the message that their
parents' view of morality cannot be trusted. Lest you think this sort
of insanity is restricted to California, take a loot at this next
report, straight from the Midwest. Armed Security Guard Ejects Mother
of Student from School Assembly on Homosexuality
This really made me angry when I heard about it! The incident took
place in St. Louis, Missouri last year just after school had started
for fall. Debra Loveless, whose daughter attends Metro High School,
heard that GLESEN was conducting a school-sponsored assembly. Loveless
had told school officials that she considered the event inappropriate.
When she tried to view it for herself, she was escorted out of the
assembly by an armed security guard. (Just for wanting to view it!)
Can you believe the arrogance of those school administrators! We may
never know all of what those dear young people were exposed to during
that assembly. But if GLSEN's past performance is any indication, the
material was corrupting an destructive. GLESEN has produced some of
the most foul "educational" material in the dishonorable history of
sex education. Two years ago, CWA uncovered a pornographic teaching
session conducted in Massachusetts by GLSEN. During that workshop,
homosexual instructors indoctrinated children as young
as 14 years old. The children heard detailed descriptions of
perverted sex acts, including the dangerous practice known in
homosexual slang as "fisting." After it was exposed, that session
sparked outrage across the nation. It was such a scandal that it
became known as "Fistgate." GLSEN leaders responded by becoming much
more secretive. Apparently this has led them to keep parents out of
their workshops like the one in St. Louis.
So it has come to this. Our tax dollars foot the bill for homosexual
propaganda to poison our children's minds and defile their hearts.
And when parents want to find out what's going on, they get thrown out
of public schools by armed guards! It's time for parents and
grandparents to stand up and fight to protect our children. We can't
think that just because it hasn't happened in our school yet that it
never will! The radical homosexual activists won't stop with just the
California schools. They won't stop with just the big city
schools. They won't stop until they have reached every school in the
nation.
DANGEROUS NEW BOOK PROVIDES ACADEMIC "COVER" FOR PEDOPHILES AND CHILD
MOLESTERS
The University of Minnesota Press has just published Judith Levine's
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex. This
book includes such outrageous statements as, "Sex is not harmful to
children... There are many ways even the smallesst children can
partake of it."
On another page, the author gushes over a "lush and mysterious" photo
of a "naked 3- or 4-year-old." Quoting a variety of pedophiles,
Levine says children are not necessarily harmed by sex with adults.
She also advocates that America adopt a law like Holland's that
legalizes sex between adults and children as young as 12! It's
unbelievable, but this book is defended by the liberal media elite.
I'm shocked and heartbroken. But we should not be surprised.
America's standards of sexual morality have been belittled as
"taboos," and been worn down step by step. Today, almost nothing is
off limits. Sex between adults and children is just the next barrier
to be torn down. How long will it take these radical activists to
achieve their next evil objective? Our grade-school children are
already being taught that cross-dressing is just wonderful
self-expression. Graphic details of perverted sex practices are
already being taught to high school children, and parents are being
locked out of assemblies taught by radical homosexual activists. We
must - and we can - stop this. NOW! I grieve for our children and
grandchildren. And I fear for our nation if we do not stand up to
this assault of immorality and defeat it...
I've learned that GLSEN now boasts a budget of 3.5 million and a
membership of more than 1,200 homosexual-activist educators. Their
mission is to promote homosexuality and gender confusion in the
schools under any guise that works.
http://www.ihr.org/ http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.nsm88.com/
http://wsi.matriots.com/jews.html
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| User: "Bill Dunkenfield" |
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22 May 2007 01:59:11 PM |
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Ignorance is the root of all evil.
Religion is just one of many examples of ignorance.
JAM
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| User: "cactus" |
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21 May 2007 11:04:54 PM |
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Topaz wrote:
<snip homophobic screed by our resident neonazi scum>
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| User: "Topaz" |
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22 May 2007 05:37:47 PM |
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"Now I'll tell you about another case involving murder and
homosexuals that I'm certain you haven't heard about, unless you
happen to live in northwestern Arkansas and you read the newspapers
there carefully. Less than three weeks ago, on September 26, two adult
homosexuals in the town of Rogers, Arkansas, grabbed a 13-year-old boy
off the street, took him to their apartment, drugged him, and tied him
up and gagged him so that no one could hear his screams, and then they
raped him to death. His body was found in a pool of blood on the
apartment floor.
The 13-year-old boy was Jesse Dirkhising. That's D-i-r-k-h-i-s-i-n-g.
The two adult homosexuals are Davis Don Carpenter and Joshua Macave
Brown, each charged with capital murder and six counts of forcible
rape. I mention these names to help you search for information about
this
horrible crime on the Internet, so that you can verify for yourself
what I'm telling you. Try the Internet site of The Morning News of
Northwestern Arkansas, the local newspaper there, which has been
virtually the only newspaper to carry news of the murder.
As I said, this vicious rape and murder of an innocent child by two
adult homosexuals occurred less than three weeks ago, and it's been
totally blacked out of the national news, while the beating death of
homosexual Matthew Shepard, who made the mistake of looking for a date
in the wrong bar, is still receiving national news coverage every day
more than a year after it happened.
Why? I'll tell you. It's because other groups in this country want it
this way. No individual in America has the power to black out the news
of the homosexual rape and murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising. And
no individual has the power to give the enormous, non-stop national
coverage to the beating of Matthew Shepard that we are seeing. This
is the result of a collective decision--a racial decision--by the jews
who control the news media in America. The message the jews want to
send to White Americans is that homosexuals are innocent victims and
heterosexual White males are aggressors who prey on them. And so they
give us the news which fits that message, and they black out the news
which doesn't.
I mean, really, think about it. Which is the more newsworthy crime:
the beating to death of Matthew Shepard by two men he approached for a
date; or the kidnaping and raping to death of 13-year-old Jesse
Dirkhising by two adult homosexuals? The jews do this manipulation and
distortion of the news for a reason: a collective reason, a racial
reason. And it's working. Idiot White women and idiot White Christians
are joining the homosexuals around the country in even more
candlelight vigils in memory of Matthew Shepard. But there will never
be a candlelight vigil for Jesse Dirkhising. No one will ever hear
about Jesse Dirkhising--except those of you reading this now."
Ed Kadach
http://www.ihr.org/ http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.nsm88.com/
http://wsi.matriots.com/jews.html
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| User: "Greywolf" |
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22 May 2007 06:32:08 PM |
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"Topaz" <mars1933@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:s4s653hburn04n9arq03l7d960kgb4egh0@4ax.com...
"Now I'll tell you about another case involving murder and
homosexuals that I'm certain you haven't heard about, unless you
happen to live in northwestern Arkansas and you read the newspapers
there carefully. Less than three weeks ago, on September 26, two adult
homosexuals in the town of Rogers, Arkansas, grabbed a 13-year-old boy
off the street, took him to their apartment, drugged him, and tied him
up and gagged him so that no one could hear his screams, and then they
raped him to death. His body was found in a pool of blood on the
apartment floor.
The 13-year-old boy was Jesse Dirkhising. That's D-i-r-k-h-i-s-i-n-g.
The two adult homosexuals are Davis Don Carpenter and Joshua Macave
Brown, each charged with capital murder and six counts of forcible
rape. I mention these names to help you search for information about
this
horrible crime on the Internet, so that you can verify for yourself
what I'm telling you. Try the Internet site of The Morning News of
Northwestern Arkansas, the local newspaper there, which has been
virtually the only newspaper to carry news of the murder.
As I said, this vicious rape and murder of an innocent child by two
adult homosexuals occurred less than three weeks ago, and it's been
totally blacked out of the national news, while the beating death of
homosexual Matthew Shepard, who made the mistake of looking for a date
in the wrong bar, is still receiving national news coverage every day
more than a year after it happened.
It is, indeed, a sickening, disgusting thing those two despicable creatures
did to that poor child. (I should say here that I am solidly heterosexual.
But then again, that shouldn't really matter, should it.) But a few things
should come under some scrutiny. Does the tragic death of Jesse do anything
to make either tragedy 'balance' things out? As disgusted as I am to say
this: Matthew Shepard was murdered simply because he was gay. It was a 'hate
crime' directed at someone simply because of their sexual orientation. Jesse
was the victim of a heinous, sadistic, rape and murder; an event which,
unfortunately, happens far too often to contemplate. There *is* a difference
between the two acts of barbarity. The death of Jesse, unfortunately, didn't
garner the press coverage it should have. It's a f'd up world, isn't it?
Why? I'll tell you. It's because other groups in this country want it
this way. No individual in America has the power to black out the news
of the homosexual rape and murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising. And
no individual has the power to give the enormous, non-stop national
coverage to the beating of Matthew Shepard that we are seeing. This
is the result of a collective decision--a racial decision--by the jews
who control the news media in America.
Whoa!! I responded to this post without reading the full text -- as I often
do. That's it. I'm not going to dignify this kind of crap a second more!
The message the jews want to
send to White Americans is that homosexuals are innocent victims and
heterosexual White males are aggressors who prey on them. And so they
give us the news which fits that message, and they black out the news
which doesn't.
I mean, really, think about it. Which is the more newsworthy crime:
the beating to death of Matthew Shepard by two men he approached for a
date; or the kidnaping and raping to death of 13-year-old Jesse
Dirkhising by two adult homosexuals? The jews do this manipulation and
distortion of the news for a reason: a collective reason, a racial
reason. And it's working. Idiot White women and idiot White Christians
are joining the homosexuals around the country in even more
candlelight vigils in memory of Matthew Shepard. But there will never
be a candlelight vigil for Jesse Dirkhising. No one will ever hear
about Jesse Dirkhising--except those of you reading this now."
Ed Kadach
http://www.ihr.org/ http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.nsm88.com/
http://wsi.matriots.com/jews.html
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| User: "Topaz" |
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23 May 2007 11:31:37 AM |
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On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:32:08 -0500, "Greywolf" <greywolf@cybrzn.com>
wrote:
It is, indeed, a sickening, disgusting thing those two despicable creatures
did to that poor child. (I should say here that I am solidly heterosexual.
But then again, that shouldn't really matter, should it.) But a few things
should come under some scrutiny. Does the tragic death of Jesse do anything
to make either tragedy 'balance' things out? As disgusted as I am to say
this: Matthew Shepard was murdered simply because he was gay. It was a 'hate
crime' directed at someone simply because of their sexual orientation. Jesse
was the victim of a heinous, sadistic, rape and murder; an event which,
unfortunately, happens far too often to contemplate. There *is* a difference
between the two acts of barbarity. The death of Jesse, unfortunately, didn't
garner the press coverage it should have. It's a f'd up world, isn't it?
It's Jewish.
There was a book in ordinary bookstores called "An Empire of
Their Own". It was a pro-Jewish book but it showed that the Jews ran
Hollywood.
Here are some quotes from a magazine for Jews called "Moment".
It is subtitled "The Jewish magazine for the 90's" These quotes are
from the Aug 1996 edition after the Headline "Jews Run Hollywood - So
What?":
"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish
power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most
influential production executives at each of the major movie studios
will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names."
"the famous Disney organization, which was founded by Walt
Disney, a gentile Midwesterner who allegedly harbored anti-Semetic
attitudes, now features Jewish personnel in nearly all its most
powerful positions."
The head of Walt Disney studios is now the Jew Michael Eisner.
On studios that were bought out by the Japanese the magazine says:
"When Mitsushita took over MCA-Universal, they did nothing to
undermine the unquestioned authority of Universal's legendary - and
all Jewish - management triad of Lew Wasserman, Sid Scheinberg, and
Tom Pollack."
Here are some quotes from the paper "Jews Control the Media
and Rule America"
It may be rather out of date but it still explains why things are the
way they are.
"American Broadcasting Companies (ABC), Columbia Broadcasting
System (CBS), and National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Each of these
three has been under the absolute control of a single man over a long
enough period of time--ranging from 32 to 55 years--for him to staff
the corporation at every level with officers of his choosing and then
to place his imprint indelibly upon it. In each case that man has been
a Jew.
"Until 1985, when ABC merged with Capital Cities
Communications, Inc...the chairman of the board of directors and chief
executive officer (CEO) of the network was Leonard Harry Goldenson, a
Jew...In an interview in the April 1, 1985 issue of Newsweek,
Goldenson boasted 'I built this company (ABC) from scratch.'"
"CBS was under the domination of William S. Paley for more than
half a century. The son of immigrant Jews from Russia..."
"There has been no move by top G-E management to change the
Jewish "profile" of NBC or to replace key Jewish personnel. To the
contrary, new Jewish executives have been added: an example is Steve
Friedman..."
"The man in charge of the television entertainment division at
CBS is Jeff Sagansky. At ABC the entertainment division is run by two
men....nearly all of the men who shape young Amercians' concept of
reality, of good and evil, of permissible and impermissible behavior
are Jews. In particular, Sagansky and Bloomberg are Jews. So is
Tartikoff. Littlefield is the only Gentile who has had a significant
role in TV entertainment programming in recent years."
"American Film magazine listed the top 10...entertainment
companies and their CEOs...Time Warner Communications (Steven J Ross,
Jew) Walt Disney Co. (Michael D. Eisner, Jew)...Of the 10 top
entertainment CEOs listed above, eight are Jews."
"The Newhouse media empire provides an example of more than a
lack of real competition among America's daily newspapers; it also
illustrates the insatiable appetite Jews have shown for all organs of
opinion... The Newhouse's own 31 daily newspapers, including several
large and important ones, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the
Newark Star-Ledger, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the nation's
largest trade book publishing conglomerate, Random House, with all
its subsidiaries; Newhouse Broadcasting, consisting of 12 television
broadcasting stations and 87 cable-TV systems, including some of the
countries largest cable networks- the Sunday supplement Parade, with a
circulation of more than 22 million copies per week; some two dozen
major magazines, including the New Yorker, Vogue, Mademoiselle,
Glamour, Vanity Fair, HQ, Bride's, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Self,
Home&Garden...."
"Furthermore, even those newspapers still under Gentile ownership
and management are so thoroughly dependent upon Jewish advertising..."
"the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington
Post. These three...are the newspapers which set trends and guidelines
for nearly all others. They are the ones which decide what is news and
what isn't, at national and international levels. They originate the
news; the others merely copy it. And all three newspapers are in
Jewish hands...The Sulzberger family also owns, through the New York
Times Co. 36 other newspapers; twelve magazines, including McCall's
and Family Circle..."
"New York's other newspapers are in no better hands than the
Daily News. The New York Post is owned by billionaire Jewish
real-estate developer Peter Kalikow. The Village Voice is the personal
property of Leonard Stern, the billionaire Jewish owner of..."
"There are only three newsmagazines of any note published in the
United States: Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report....The CEO
of Time Warner Communications is Steven J. Ross, and he is a Jew.
"Newsweek, as mentioned above, is published by the Washington
Post Co., under the Jewess Katherine Meyer Graham..."
"U.S. News & World Report... owned and published by Jewish real
estate developer Mortimer B. Zuckerman..."
" The three largest book publishers...Random House... Simon &
Schuster , and Time Inc. Book Co....All three are owned or controlled
by Jews...The CEO of Simon & Schuster if Richard Snyder, and the
president is Jeremy Kaplan; both are Jews too."
"Western Publishing...ranks first among publishers of children's
books, with more than 50 per cent of the market. Its chairman and CEO
is Richard Bernstein, a Jew."
"Jewish spokesmen customarily will use evasive tactics. "Ted
Turner isn't a Jew!" they will announce..."
"We are doing more than merely giving them a decisive influence
on our political system and virtual control of our government; we also
are giving them control of the minds and souls of our children..."
Whoa!! I responded to this post without reading the full text -- as I often
do. That's it. I'm not going to dignify this kind of crap a second more!
Jewish Leaders in the Homosexual Movement
Larry Kramer -- co-founder of "Act Up," a homosexual/AIDS activist
organization; co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis
Alan Klein -- co-founder of group ACT UP, co-founder of group Queer
Nation, National Communications Director and chief spokesperson for
the Gay & LesbianAlliance Against Defamation [GLAAD]. Klein also co-
founded the successful multimedia campaign STOPDRLAURA.COM
Arnie Kantrowitz -- co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation [GLAAD].
Jonathan D. Katz -- founded and chairs the Harvey Milk Institute, the
largest queer studies institute in the world. A long time queer
political activist, was a co-founder of Queer Nation, [the key San
Francisco branch].
Harvey Fierstein -- film actor [Mrs. Doubtfire]; well-known gay
activist.
Moises Kaufman -- playwright and film director [The Laramie Project].
Israel Fishman -- founder of the Gay Liberation Caucus in 1970 [now
known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table of
the American Library Association], the world's first gay professional
organization.
Bella Abzug and Edward Koch -- both Jewish -- the first members of the
US. House of Representatives to introduce legislation banning
discrimination based on sexual orientation [1974].
Winnie Stachelberg -- political director, Human Rights Campaign [HRC]
Michael S. Aronowitz, The New York Log Cabin Republicans.
Tony Kushner -- gay activist; Tony and 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright [for Angels in America, 1992].
Len Hirsch -- president of the GLBT federal government employees
group, GLOBE.
Meg Moritz, Ph.D. -- a Director and member of the Executive Committee
of GLAAD.
Barbara Raab -- an NBC-TV producer; a "Jewish lesbian feminist
journalist, writer."
Charles Kaiser [?] -- author & founding member of National Lesbian and
Gay Journalists Association [NLGJA].
David Goodstein -- owner/publisher of the gay magazine The Advocate
[1975-1985]; co-founder of the National Gay Rights Lobby.
Judy Wieder -- Editor-in-chief, The Advocate gay magazine.
Alison Bechdel [?] -- cartoonist creator and author of the bi-weekly
comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For."
Kevin Koffler -- Editor-in-chief, Genre gay magazine.
Garrett Glaser -- National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
[NLGJA] national board member.
Ronald Gold -- reporter for Variety; a leader in the fight to overturn
the American Psychiatric Association's policy that homosexuality is an
illness.
Magnus Hirschfeld [d. 1935], early gay rights activist in Germany;
founded one of the first gay rights organizations, the Scientific
Humanitarian Committee; coined the term "transvestism"; fled Nazi
Germany.
Fred Hochberg -- deputy administrator, U.S. Small Business
Administration; co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign [HRC].
Michael Berman -- member, Human Rights Campaign Board of Directors.
Mitchell Gold -- HRC Board
Marty Lieberman -- HRC Board
Andy Linsky -- HRC Board
Dana Perlman -- HRC Board
Abby Rubenfeld -- HRC Board
Andrew Tobias -- HRC Board
Lara Schwartz -- Senior Counsel, HRC
Heather Wellman -- HRC Field Coordinator
Dan Furmansky -- HRC Senior Field Organizer, West
Sally Green -- HRC Associate Field Director
Rick Rosendall [?] -- President, Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance of
Washington, DC.
Barney Frank -- member of U.S. Congress; helped create non-
discriminatory employment policies in all U.S. federal agencies
Kerry Lobel -- executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force.
Robin Margolis, American coordinator of the Bi Women's Cultural
Alliance and author [Bisexuality: A Practical Guide].
Evan Wolfson, Senior Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund -- and -- the executive director of Freedom to Marry.
Jennifer Einhorn -- Communications Director, Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation [GLAAD]
Nancy Alpert [?] -- Treasurer, GLAAD
Judy Gluckstern -- Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Stephen M. Jacoby -- Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Matt Riklin -- Board, GLAAD
Carol Rosenfeld -- Board, GLAAD.
William Weinberger -- Board, GLAAD
Tanya Wexler -- Board, GLAAD.
David Huebner -- GLAAD Counsel.
Richard Goldstein -- Village Voice writer on gay culture and politics
Ron Schlittler -- Director of Field & Policy, Parents and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays [PFLAG].
Craig Ziskin -- Deputy Director of Development, PFLAG.
Debra Weill -- Senior Field & Policy Coordinator, PFLAG.
Dody Goldstein -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
David Horowitz -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
Shawn Frank -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
Leon Weinstein -- Chair, Nominating Committee, PFLAG.
Kate Kendell [?], National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Gayle Rubin -- lesbian author/activist.
Hilary Rosen -- a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund;
former board co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign.
Roz Richter, American attorney and activist.
Bob Kunst -- long-time activist in gay and Jewish causes.
"Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network" [GLSEN]. Board co-chairs:
Marty Seldman, president
"National Gay & Lesbian Task Force" [NGLTF].
Board co-chairs: ..... Rachel Rosen in Santa Fe, N.M
Dave Fleischer -- Director of Training [political training], NGLTF.
Craig Hoffman -- Board of Directors, NGLTF.
Beth Zemsky -- Board, NGLTF.
Marsha C. Botzer -- Treasurer, NGLTF.
Jeff Levi -- first, Levi was NGTF's lobbyist, early 1980s [NGTF became
NGLTF in 1985]. Later, he was NGLTF executive director.
Bill Rubenstein, J.D. '86, developed the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights
Project
Martin Duberman -- author/historian; founded the Center for Lesbian
and Gay Studies at the City University of New York.
Ben Schatz '81, J.D. '85, is executive director of the Gay and Lesbian
Medical Foundation.
Kevin Schaub, American; Executive Director and Dean of the Harvey Milk
Institute in San Francisco, the world's largest center for queer
studies.
Sarah Schulman [1958- ], American playwright, novelist, and activist
[one of the founders of the Lesbian Avengers, a direct-action lesbian
rights organization].
Susan Spielman -- principal/head of Common Ground, an education/
consulting firm specializing in workplace sexual orientation
education; her company has worked with hundreds of U.S. organizations,
helping them to implement domestic partner benefits plans; co-author
of the book Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace.
Gertrude Stein -- wrote the first openly lesbian novel, "Q.E.D.," in
1903, but it was only published posthumously in 1950.
Rikki Streicher (1925-1994), American activist and businesswoman.
Michael Goff -- founded Out magazine in 1992.
Paulette Goodman -- founder of local chapter [Washington D.C.] of
PFLAG and served as President of the National PFLAG organization from
1988-1992.
Jeffrey Newman, American, president and COO of the Gay Financial
Network; president and CEO of out.com.
Jim Levin -- New York gay historian.
Barrett Brick -- GLAA [Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance] Treasurer.
Robin Tyler -- American comedian [born Arlene Chernick] who was the
first openly gay comic in North America; Tyler is also an activist who
was the stage producer for the first three gay marches on Washington
and the national protest coordinator for the "Stop Dr. Laura"
campaign; she produces women's comedy and music festivals, and
operates a lesbian travel-tour company.
Dr. Bruce Voeller [1935?-1994] [?] American gay rights activist,
molecular biologist, physiologist, and AIDS researcher (pioneer in the
use of nonoxynol-9 as a spermicide); cofounder and first executive
director of the National Gay Task Force; creator of the Mariposa
Foundation [an AIDS prevention research organization].
Mark Elderkin [?] -- co-founded Gay.com.
Leroy Aarons -- American professor, journalist, and founder of the
National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association (1990).
Dr. Donald I. Abrams -- American physician, HIV expert, medical
marijuana researcher, and past president of the Gay and Lesbian
Medical Association.
Johnny Abush (1952-2000) -- [Canadian]; archivist of the International
Jewish GBLT Archives.
Roberta Achtenberg [1950- ]; civil rights lawyer and federal official;
appointed as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Miriam Ben-Shalom [1948- ], American Army Reserves drill sergeant and
gay activist; in 1986 she won a ten-year legal battle with the
Reserves
when a court ordered her reinstatement; founder of the Gay, Lesbian,
and Bisexual Veterans Association [GLBVA] in 1990, serving as its
first president.
Larry Brinkin, American gay activist who brought the first domestic
partnership lawsuit [against Southern Pacific Railroad, 1982].
Rob Eichberg, American psychologist, co-creator of National Coming Out
Day [October 11th].
Scott Evertz, American; in April 2001, President Bush appointed him to
serve as the Director of the White House Office of National AIDS
Policy [ONAP].
Gene Falk [?, Jewish name], American business executive; Senior Vice
President of the Showtime Digital Media Group; part of the team that
launched and marketed the U.S. TV series Queer as Folk; Chair of the
Board of Directors of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
[GLAAD].
Surina Kahn -- American lesbian activist.
Larry Kessler -- founding director in 1983 of the AIDS Action
Committee of Massachusetts, the largest AIDS support organization in
New England.
Kathy Levinson -- American investor and philanthropist; serves on the
board of PlanetOut; also on NGLTF Board of Directors.
Judith Light -- actress, activist for gay causes.
David Mixner -- gay activist, political consultant; co-founder of the
Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles [MECLA], a group of
wealthy gays and lesbians who became influential in local politics;
president Bill Clinton's Special Liaison to the Gay-Lesbian Community.
Dan Savage -- American author of gay-themed books [The Kid: What
Happened
After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant; Skipping Towards
Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in
America] and gay-themed- sex-advice columnist [Savage Love].
Susan Schuman, American executive vice-president and general manager
of the Planet Out gay and lesbian online service.
Scott Seomin, American entertainment media coordinator for the Gay &
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation [GLAAD].
Jason Serinus [Jay Guy Nassberg] -- founder and coordinator of the
Lavender Healing Network; a former gay activist with the New York
chapter of the Gay Liberation Front.
David Sine [?] -- American CEO of C1TV, the first U.S. gay and lesbian
cable TV network.
Rex Wockner -- longtime gay, American journalist who has reported news
for the gay press since 1985.
Jack Fritscher -- became Editor in Chief of Drummer gay magazine
[1977].
Leslie Feinberg [1949- ], American trade unionist, transgender
activist and author [Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of
Arc to RuPaul].
Allan Ginsburg - late Jewish poet and leading member of North American
Man Boy Love Association
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Topaz wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:32:08 -0500, "Greywolf" <greywolf@cybrzn.com>
wrote:
It is, indeed, a sickening, disgusting thing those two despicable creatures
did to that poor child. (I should say here that I am solidly heterosexual.
But then again, that shouldn't really matter, should it.) But a few things
should come under some scrutiny. Does the tragic death of Jesse do anything
to make either tragedy 'balance' things out? As disgusted as I am to say
this: Matthew Shepard was murdered simply because he was gay. It was a 'hate
crime' directed at someone simply because of their sexual orientation. Jesse
was the victim of a heinous, sadistic, rape and murder; an event which,
unfortunately, happens far too often to contemplate. There *is* a difference
between the two acts of barbarity. The death of Jesse, unfortunately, didn't
garner the press coverage it should have. It's a f'd up world, isn't it?
<snip hatred from a neonazi bigot who tries to blame everything on one
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Here is part of a speech by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, delivered in
Nuernberg on September 13th, 1935 at the Seventh National-Socialist
Party Congress:
"Almost without exception, the intellectual leaders of Marxist atheism
in Germany were Jews, among them being Erich Weinert, Felix Abraham,
Dr. Levy-Lenz and others. At regular meetings, held in the presence of
a notary public, members were requested to register their declaration
of withdrawal from their church for a fee of 2 Marks. And this the
fight for atheism was carried on. Between 1918 and 1933 the
withdrawals from the German Evangelical Churches alone amounted to
two-and-a-half million persons in Germany. The programme which these
atheistic societies laid down in regard to sexual matters is amply
charcterized in the following demands publicly expressed at meetings
and distributed in leaflet form:
1) The complete abrogation of the paragraphs of the law dealing with
the crime of abortion, and the right to have abortion procured free of
charge in State Hospitals.
2) Non-interference with prostitution.
3) The abrogation of all bourgeois-capitalistic regulations in regard
to marriage and divorce.
4) Official registration to be optional and the children to be
educated by the community.
5) Abrogation of all penalties for sexual perversities and amnesty to
be granted to all persons condemned as 'sexual criminals'.
"Truly a case of methodical insanity, which has for its aim the
wilful destruction of the nations and their civilization and the
substitute of barbarism as a fundamental principle of public life.
"Where are the men behind the scenes of this virulent world
movement? Who are the inventors of all this madness? Who transplanted
this ensemble into Russia and is today making the attempt to have it
prevail in other countries? The answer to these question discloses the
actual secret of our anti-Jewish policy and our uncomromising fight
against Jewry; for the Bolshevic International is in reality nothing
less than a Jewish International."
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26 May 2007 06:46:30 PM |
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<snip more drivel from our resident neonazi propagandist scumbag>
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Homosexual activists are exploiting their agenda through "safe school"
laws across the nation - and California is their latest laboratory.
It's 1 o'clock in the morning and 27-year-old Lybe Crumpton is
standing alone, shaking and on the verge of tears. No, she hasn't been
robbed. She's a fifth-grade teacher who's afraid her students might be
harmed by the homosexual agenda.
A petite brunette with large brown eyes, she has just watched her
school board approve the idea that classrooms like hers play a video
called That's A Family!, featuring 9- and 10-year-old children lauding
the benefits of living with two moms or two dads.
My dads are gay, and gay means . . . two men or two women love each
other, says one smiling girl in the video. It's sort of like having a
mom and a dad love each other, just that it is a man and a man.
But that's not the worst of it. The video which also portrays
children of divorced, single and even jailed parents comes with a
teachers handbook including a crossword puzzle for elementary kids
using words like
transgender and discussion questions such as, What did you learn from
this video about families with gay parents? What else would you like
to know?
It was five hours ago that Crumpton slipped unnoticed into the back of
the Novato, Calif., school board meeting and heard gay-rights
activists warning the board it had better allow tolerance lessons like
this video or risk lawsuits.
That upsets Crumpton because she doesn't think elementary-school kids
are ready to discuss sexual lifestyles, especially one as physically
and spiritually devastating as homosexuality.
They're not worried about who is sleeping with whom, she says. They
worry about who's the best at soccer.
They are just opening a Pandora's box, Crumpton told Citizen moments
after the vote.
Exploiting Danger
What's happening in Novato, an affluent Bay-area suburb in Northern
California, has become increasingly common across the nation as
homosexual activists use safe school laws and concerns over school
bullying to advance their agenda.
It works like this: First, homosexual activists tout hate crimes those
sad but rare incidents in which students are harmed because they are
gay and then they push for laws protecting homosexual students. Once
those laws pass, activists persuade schools to adopt curricula that
promotes not just student safety, but acceptance of homosexuality.
Making schools safe . . . is strongly tied to ensuring that classrooms
are inclusive of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] themes,
said the Web site for one of the nation's largest homosexual lobby
groups the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
GLSEN's executive director, Kevin Jennings, made no secret of that
strategy while extolling homosexual activists inroads into
Massachusetts schools a few years ago.
We immediately seized upon the opponents calling card safety, he
said. We knew that, confronted with real-life stories of youth who had
suffered from homophobia, our opponents would automatically be on the
defensive. . . . This allowed us to set the terms of the debate.
So far the tactic is working; at least eight states have passed safe
school laws to protect gay and lesbian students, and five more
(including Florida and New York) are considering similar legislation.
But it's California schools that have taken the lead.
Over the last two years, legislators in Sacramento have cranked out
laws requiring curriculum to reflect appreciation of different sexual
lifestyles and adding sexual orientation to school discrimination
policies.
Those laws leave schools that resist homosexual pressure vulnerable to
lawsuits, explained Jeff McAlpin, a Novato school board member who
voted against pro-homosexual curriculum.
The state of California has put us in a very difficult position, he
said. We don't have a choice in terms of providing protection [for
homosexual rights], so then the question becomes how far do we go?
It puts you at some level of risk if they can prove you didn't have a
safe environment. And that risk has cast the door wide open to
homosexual activists wielding the threat of lawsuits.
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA), for instance a group that
openly pushes for the normalization of homosexuality through student
clubs has issued a fact sheet urging activists to think of AB 537 [a
California safe school law] as a tool and use it as leverage to work
to change the school climate.
Apparently, members took their marching orders seriously.
After homosexual students in Visalia, Calif., complained of
harassment, their district was punished with a federal court
settlement under AB 537 that forced teachers to receive mandatory
gay-rights training. This year, the district's ninth-grade students
also will attend court-ordered classes taught by the GSA.
While the case does not directly apply to Novato, said McAlpin, It was
clearly a shot across the bows of all school districts that [safe
school laws] had an impact on one district . . . and other districts
better be careful.
Part of the Price?
If the California education system is the latest gay-rights
laboratory, then the Hayward Unified School District is its most
successful experiment. Unlike Novato, with its Victorian homes and
white picket fences, Hayward is an industrial town on the south side
of the Bay filled with cinderblock buildings and windowless factories.
But just like Novato, Christian teachers in Hayward feel forced to
promote a political agenda.
Our backs are against the wall, said Matthew Freschi, a physical
education teacher at Hayward High School. We feel the need to step
forward. Enough is enough.
What pushed Freschi into action was the 2-4-6-8 Are you sure you're
really straight? sign he discovered on his gymnasium door, as well as
the staff meeting he attended at which teachers were encouraged to
assign students library books about homosexuals. Both incidents were
billed as the school's effort to foster safety for gay and lesbian
students.
I agree that no student should be abused or battered for any reason,
Freschi said, but to me that's not protecting anybody; that's
promoting something.
Indeed, Hayward is the perfect case study of how safe school laws
create special privileges for some and oppression for others.
Just ask Monica, a Spanish teacher who had her pay docked last year
for refusing to attend a seminar endorsing homosexuality.
When Hayward school officials ordered teachers to attend sensitivity
training on April 8, Monica and three colleagues at Tennyson High
School requested permission to opt out.
We didn't want to sit and be indoctrinated for four hours, said
Manriquez, who'd already suffered through previous sensitivity
sessions. I have no problem with being sensitive, but what they mean
by that is that we have to be pro-gay in our classrooms.
After the principal denied their request, the teachers sought help
from the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based Christian legal
organization, which argued that civil-rights laws protect religious
freedom in the workplace.
But school officials claimed safe school laws trumped those rights, in
a letter stating that the District has an obligation to ensure that
its employees are properly trained in applicable law. A few days
later, the teachers received notice their pay would be docked for
missing half a day.
These teachers offered to work [in their classroom], so the issue was
not their willingness to work, said Brad Dacus, chief counsel for the
institute. The issue was the intolerance of the school district . . .
that would force teachers to compromise their convictions as
Christians.
That wasn't the end of their troubles. Dubbed The Tennyson Four by
media, the teachers were derided in local newspapers and ostracized at
work. These four teachers are out of touch with the standards of our
community, wrote the Hayward Daily Review in an editorial. It's
possible that some public school students in Hayward are being
assigned to a teacher who hates them. . . . Their human rights should
outweigh teachers religious rights.
Nobody would talk to us for a while, added Monica. But that's part of
the price.
As the Hayward school district quietly trampled on religious freedom,
it drew national attention for a resolution granting homosexual
teachers the right to declare their homosexuality without fear of
reprisal and bring up homosexual relationships in class without
parental consent.
Once again waiving the safe school banner, the April 10 resolution
asserted that a crisis exists in Hayward and called for ongoing
sensitivity training and curriculum that provides positive images of
GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender] people in the classroom.
In a newspaper interview, Tennyson drama teacher Kelsey Hartman
expressed relief that she could now talk about her lesbianism and have
students read a play featuring two women falling in love without fear
of punishment: Now I know we have support, she said. If I'm ashamed,
it shows the students there's something wrong with it.
But Christian teachers don't have the same protection. At previous
sensitivity seminars, Monica said she was told our religion is not to
be brought up. We are to talk about our culture, but not our religion.
Courage Under Fire
Another Christian teacher who did attend the April 8 training, Cynthia
Huggett, says Monica was right to stay away.
When Huggett arrived, the first thing she saw was a display of
newspaper articles about The Tennyson Four. There was a lot of
negativity toward them, Huggett remembered. I heard comments . . .
like they couldn't understand why those teachers couldn't be here. . .
.. What's their problem?
I was kind of wondering myself, well, why are these four people
refusing to go?
She soon found out. During sessions led by educators from area
schools, religion was constantly ridiculed, said Huggett. In a seminar
video called Teaching Respect, for instance, a presenter
matter-of-factly listed people homosexual students could go to for
help, including parents and teachers, but when he got to the word
pastor, he stopped. He paused, and he looked at the audience to get a
laugh out of it like, Right . . . Christians hate gays. . . . If
anything it would be somebody that they would not trust. That was the
gist of it, said Huggett, a Tennyson math teacher. She recalled her
shock when other teachers laughed:
I was thinking, Why are they laughing? Here this was called
sensitivity awareness. . . . First you start with joking, you break
the ice by saying we can make fun of these people now.
According to Huggett and others , the video also claimed that biblical
references about Jesus sitting at the right hand of God were used to
discriminate against left-handed people.
They used Scripture to point out the fact that . . . Christians have a
history from the beginning of bashing homosexuality and people who are
different because God said so, said Huggett. I thought, How dare you
say I can't stand up and talk to my kids about what I believe and
bring out the Bible, but you can go ahead for your purposes and
actually misquote [the Bible]?
By the time the lunch break rolled around, Huggett was too distraught
to stay, so she sought comfort at home in a daily devotional book. To
her surprise, Hebrews 12:2, a verse that describes Jesus sitting at
the right hand of God, was referenced on that day's page.
To come home and see it in my journal . . . it was one of those
moments in my Christian walk that I felt was the closest thing to God
just opening his mouth and talking to me, Huggett said. It was like,
Yes Cindy, you are right. . . . You see what's going on. You see the
evil in it. You understand it. And I'm going to let you know by
Scripture.
Emboldened, she spoke her mind a few days later at a faculty meeting.
I strongly feel that if I don't say something, this will continue and
Christians will be bashed again and again, And I'm not going to let
that happen. I will not stay here if that is going to happen. I will
lose my job and wash dishes if I have to.
Cinderfella
So what does coercing Christian teachers into attending seminars that
belittle their religion have to do with teaching homosexuality to
kids? The answer is simple: To advance their cause, homosexual
activists must first undermine beliefs that categorize right and wrong
behavior.
We've seen the same pattern emerge over and over, said Scott Lively,
who as director of the Pro-Family Law Center has tracked homosexual
infiltration into Vermont, Oregon and Massachusetts school districts.
The gay agenda is first pushed to teachers, then they are trained how
to get it in the classroom. They are being trained that it is
acceptable, even expected, to trample on the private beliefs and
values of the students in their care.
Handouts from the Hayward sensitivity seminars over the past two years
illustrate this agenda. A What You Can Do list distributed at one of
this year's seminars, for instance, suggested that teachers say the
words often lesbian, gay, bisexual in a positive way and identify
gay, lesbian, bisexual contributors throughout the curriculum.
Another handout encouraged schools to bring in openly gay, lesbian,
bisexual adults as resources in classes and assemblies and identify
staff who are gay-friendly and to whom questioning students may go for
advice.
Demonstrating blatant disregard for parental control, yet another page
entitled If a Student Comes Out to You told teachers if trust and
openness exist, sexual behavior could also be addressed.
For teachers in need of more indoctrination tools, a Resources list
distributed at a 2001 seminar recommended several gay-rights
curricula, including Preventing Prejudice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender Lesson Plans for Elementary Schools.
A copy of Preventing Prejudice includes a lesson plan for first- and
second-graders entitled Who Loves Whom LGBT Relationships. The plan
encourages teachers to introduce the lesson on Valentine's Day to
broaden the definition of love that is associated with that holiday
and to ask students to rewrite stories that involve heterosexual
relationships, e.g., fairy tales like Cinderella, substituting LGBT
relationships.
A kindergarten lesson included in the same curriculum called Jesse's
Dream Skirt tells a story about a little boy who is praised for
wearing a dress to school.
According to Hayward district spokesperson Kim Hammond, those lesson
plans, as well as books like Heather Has Two Mommies, are available to
all staff in the district.
What disturbs me most, said Huggett, is that once you say this should
be part of our curriculum, [teachers] will have to appear to believe
that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.
Given the pressure on teachers, the only hope for public education is
parental outrage
There will be no resistance [to pro-homosexual curriculum] from within
the system, from the administration. There might be individual
teachers who object, but the union is lock-stock in step with this. As
a matter of fact, much of the leadership is controlled by these
people anyway.
When one school had a gay-pride day, there wasn't a peep of protest,
an anonymous administrator said. If the phones were ringing off the
hooks the day after they did that . . . saying, How dare you? believe
me, it would have empowered the staff to say, You know this is really
taking things too far. But the great masses just seem to be, I don't
know, asleep.
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27 May 2007 05:39:50 PM |
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Topaz wrote:
<snip more homophobic propaganda from our apparent neonazi closet
homosexual>
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22 May 2007 11:56:43 PM |
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Topaz wrote:
<snip more hatespeech from our resident neonazi scumbag>
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23 May 2007 11:32:46 AM |
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Homosexual activists are exploiting their agenda through "safe school"
laws across the nation - and California is their latest laboratory.
It's 1 o'clock in the morning and 27-year-old Lybe Crumpton is
standing alone, shaking and on the verge of tears. No, she hasn't been
robbed. She's a fifth-grade teacher who's afraid her students might be
harmed by the homosexual agenda.
A petite brunette with large brown eyes, she has just watched her
school board approve the idea that classrooms like hers play a video
called That's A Family!, featuring 9- and 10-year-old children lauding
the benefits of living with two moms or two dads.
My dads are gay, and gay means . . . two men or two women love each
other, says one smiling girl in the video. It's sort of like having a
mom and a dad love each other, just that it is a man and a man.
But that's not the worst of it. The video which also portrays
children of divorced, single and even jailed parents comes with a
teachers handbook including a crossword puzzle for elementary kids
using words like
transgender and discussion questions such as, What did you learn from
this video about families with gay parents? What else would you like
to know?
It was five hours ago that Crumpton slipped unnoticed into the back of
the Novato, Calif., school board meeting and heard gay-rights
activists warning the board it had better allow tolerance lessons like
this video or risk lawsuits.
That upsets Crumpton because she doesn't think elementary-school kids
are ready to discuss sexual lifestyles, especially one as physically
and spiritually devastating as homosexuality.
They're not worried about who is sleeping with whom, she says. They
worry about who's the best at soccer.
They are just opening a Pandora's box, Crumpton told Citizen moments
after the vote.
Exploiting Danger
What's happening in Novato, an affluent Bay-area suburb in Northern
California, has become increasingly common across the nation as
homosexual activists use safe school laws and concerns over school
bullying to advance their agenda.
It works like this: First, homosexual activists tout hate crimes those
sad but rare incidents in which students are harmed because they are
gay and then they push for laws protecting homosexual students. Once
those laws pass, activists persuade schools to adopt curricula that
promotes not just student safety, but acceptance of homosexuality.
Making schools safe . . . is strongly tied to ensuring that classrooms
are inclusive of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] themes,
said the Web site for one of the nation's largest homosexual lobby
groups the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
GLSEN's executive director, Kevin Jennings, made no secret of that
strategy while extolling homosexual activists inroads into
Massachusetts schools a few years ago.
We immediately seized upon the opponents calling card safety, he
said. We knew that, confronted with real-life stories of youth who had
suffered from homophobia, our opponents would automatically be on the
defensive. . . . This allowed us to set the terms of the debate.
So far the tactic is working; at least eight states have passed safe
school laws to protect gay and lesbian students, and five more
(including Florida and New York) are considering similar legislation.
But it's California schools that have taken the lead.
Over the last two years, legislators in Sacramento have cranked out
laws requiring curriculum to reflect appreciation of different sexual
lifestyles and adding sexual orientation to school discrimination
policies.
Those laws leave schools that resist homosexual pressure vulnerable to
lawsuits, explained Jeff McAlpin, a Novato school board member who
voted against pro-homosexual curriculum.
The state of California has put us in a very difficult position, he
said. We don't have a choice in terms of providing protection [for
homosexual rights], so then the question becomes how far do we go?
It puts you at some level of risk if they can prove you didn't have a
safe environment. And that risk has cast the door wide open to
homosexual activists wielding the threat of lawsuits.
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA), for instance a group that
openly pushes for the normalization of homosexuality through student
clubs has issued a fact sheet urging activists to think of AB 537 [a
California safe school law] as a tool and use it as leverage to work
to change the school climate.
Apparently, members took their marching orders seriously.
After homosexual students in Visalia, Calif., complained of
harassment, their district was punished with a federal court
settlement under AB 537 that forced teachers to receive mandatory
gay-rights training. This year, the district's ninth-grade students
also will attend court-ordered classes taught by the GSA.
While the case does not directly apply to Novato, said McAlpin, It was
clearly a shot across the bows of all school districts that [safe
school laws] had an impact on one district . . . and other districts
better be careful.
Part of the Price?
If the California education system is the latest gay-rights
laboratory, then the Hayward Unified School District is its most
successful experiment. Unlike Novato, with its Victorian homes and
white picket fences, Hayward is an industrial town on the south side
of the Bay filled with cinderblock buildings and windowless factories.
But just like Novato, Christian teachers in Hayward feel forced to
promote a political agenda.
Our backs are against the wall, said Matthew Freschi, a physical
education teacher at Hayward High School. We feel the need to step
forward. Enough is enough.
What pushed Freschi into action was the 2-4-6-8 Are you sure you're
really straight? sign he discovered on his gymnasium door, as well as
the staff meeting he attended at which teachers were encouraged to
assign students library books about homosexuals. Both incidents were
billed as the school's effort to foster safety for gay and lesbian
students.
I agree that no student should be abused or battered for any reason,
Freschi said, but to me that's not protecting anybody; that's
promoting something.
Indeed, Hayward is the perfect case study of how safe school laws
create special privileges for some and oppression for others.
Just ask Monica, a Spanish teacher who had her pay docked last year
for refusing to attend a seminar endorsing homosexuality.
When Hayward school officials ordered teachers to attend sensitivity
training on April 8, Monica and three colleagues at Tennyson High
School requested permission to opt out.
We didn't want to sit and be indoctrinated for four hours, said
Manriquez, who'd already suffered through previous sensitivity
sessions. I have no problem with being sensitive, but what they mean
by that is that we have to be pro-gay in our classrooms.
After the principal denied their request, the teachers sought help
from the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based Christian legal
organization, which argued that civil-rights laws protect religious
freedom in the workplace.
But school officials claimed safe school laws trumped those rights, in
a letter stating that the District has an obligation to ensure that
its employees are properly trained in applicable law. A few days
later, the teachers received notice their pay would be docked for
missing half a day.
These teachers offered to work [in their classroom], so the issue was
not their willingness to work, said Brad Dacus, chief counsel for the
institute. The issue was the intolerance of the school district . . .
that would force teachers to compromise their convictions as
Christians.
That wasn't the end of their troubles. Dubbed The Tennyson Four by
media, the teachers were derided in local newspapers and ostracized at
work. These four teachers are out of touch with the standards of our
community, wrote the Hayward Daily Review in an editorial. It's
possible that some public school students in Hayward are being
assigned to a teacher who hates them. . . . Their human rights should
outweigh teachers religious rights.
Nobody would talk to us for a while, added Monica. But that's part of
the price.
As the Hayward school district quietly trampled on religious freedom,
it drew national attention for a resolution granting homosexual
teachers the right to declare their homosexuality without fear of
reprisal and bring up homosexual relationships in class without
parental consent.
Once again waiving the safe school banner, the April 10 resolution
asserted that a crisis exists in Hayward and called for ongoing
sensitivity training and curriculum that provides positive images of
GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender] people in the classroom.
In a newspaper interview, Tennyson drama teacher Kelsey Hartman
expressed relief that she could now talk about her lesbianism and have
students read a play featuring two women falling in love without fear
of punishment: Now I know we have support, she said. If I'm ashamed,
it shows the students there's something wrong with it.
But Christian teachers don't have the same protection. At previous
sensitivity seminars, Monica said she was told our religion is not to
be brought up. We are to talk about our culture, but not our religion.
Courage Under Fire
Another Christian teacher who did attend the April 8 training, Cynthia
Huggett, says Monica was right to stay away.
When Huggett arrived, the first thing she saw was a display of
newspaper articles about The Tennyson Four. There was a lot of
negativity toward them, Huggett remembered. I heard comments . . .
like they couldn't understand why those teachers couldn't be here. . .
.. What's their problem?
I was kind of wondering myself, well, why are these four people
refusing to go?
She soon found out. During sessions led by educators from area
schools, religion was constantly ridiculed, said Huggett. In a seminar
video called Teaching Respect, for instance, a presenter
matter-of-factly listed people homosexual students could go to for
help, including parents and teachers, but when he got to the word
pastor, he stopped. He paused, and he looked at the audience to get a
laugh out of it like, Right . . . Christians hate gays. . . . If
anything it would be somebody that they would not trust. That was the
gist of it, said Huggett, a Tennyson math teacher. She recalled her
shock when other teachers laughed:
I was thinking, Why are they laughing? Here this was called
sensitivity awareness. . . . First you start with joking, you break
the ice by saying we can make fun of these people now.
According to Huggett and others , the video also claimed that biblical
references about Jesus sitting at the right hand of God were used to
discriminate against left-handed people.
They used Scripture to point out the fact that . . . Christians have a
history from the beginning of bashing homosexuality and people who are
different because God said so, said Huggett. I thought, How dare you
say I can't stand up and talk to my kids about what I believe and
bring out the Bible, but you can go ahead for your purposes and
actually misquote [the Bible]?
By the time the lunch break rolled around, Huggett was too distraught
to stay, so she sought comfort at home in a daily devotional book. To
her surprise, Hebrews 12:2, a verse that describes Jesus sitting at
the right hand of God, was referenced on that day's page.
To come home and see it in my journal . . . it was one of those
moments in my Christian walk that I felt was the closest thing to God
just opening his mouth and talking to me, Huggett said. It was like,
Yes Cindy, you are right. . . . You see what's going on. You see the
evil in it. You understand it. And I'm going to let you know by
Scripture.
Emboldened, she spoke her mind a few days later at a faculty meeting.
I strongly feel that if I don't say something, this will continue and
Christians will be bashed again and again, And I'm not going to let
that happen. I will not stay here if that is going to happen. I will
lose my job and wash dishes if I have to.
Cinderfella
So what does coercing Christian teachers into attending seminars that
belittle their religion have to do with teaching homosexuality to
kids? The answer is simple: To advance their cause, homosexual
activists must first undermine beliefs that categorize right and wrong
behavior.
We've seen the same pattern emerge over and over, said Scott Lively,
who as director of the Pro-Family Law Center has tracked homosexual
infiltration into Vermont, Oregon and Massachusetts school districts.
The gay agenda is first pushed to teachers, then they are trained how
to get it in the classroom. They are being trained that it is
acceptable, even expected, to trample on the private beliefs and
values of the students in their care.
Handouts from the Hayward sensitivity seminars over the past two years
illustrate this agenda. A What You Can Do list distributed at one of
this year's seminars, for instance, suggested that teachers say the
words often lesbian, gay, bisexual in a positive way and identify
gay, lesbian, bisexual contributors throughout the curriculum.
Another handout encouraged schools to bring in openly gay, lesbian,
bisexual adults as resources in classes and assemblies and identify
staff who are gay-friendly and to whom questioning students may go for
advice.
Demonstrating blatant disregard for parental control, yet another page
entitled If a Student Comes Out to You told teachers if trust and
openness exist, sexual behavior could also be addressed.
For teachers in need of more indoctrination tools, a Resources list
distributed at a 2001 seminar recommended several gay-rights
curricula, including Preventing Prejudice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender Lesson Plans for Elementary Schools.
A copy of Preventing Prejudice includes a lesson plan for first- and
second-graders entitled Who Loves Whom LGBT Relationships. The plan
encourages teachers to introduce the lesson on Valentine's Day to
broaden the definition of love that is associated with that holiday
and to ask students to rewrite stories that involve heterosexual
relationships, e.g., fairy tales like Cinderella, substituting LGBT
relationships.
A kindergarten lesson included in the same curriculum called Jesse's
Dream Skirt tells a story about a little boy who is praised for
wearing a dress to school.
According to Hayward district spokesperson Kim Hammond, those lesson
plans, as well as books like Heather Has Two Mommies, are available to
all staff in the district.
What disturbs me most, said Huggett, is that once you say this should
be part of our curriculum, [teachers] will have to appear to believe
that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.
Given the pressure on teachers, the only hope for public education is
parental outrage
There will be no resistance [to pro-homosexual curriculum] from within
the system, from the administration. There might be individual
teachers who object, but the union is lock-stock in step with this. As
a matter of fact, much of the leadership is controlled by these
people anyway.
When one school had a gay-pride day, there wasn't a peep of protest,
an anonymous administrator said. If the phones were ringing off the
hooks the day after they did that . . . saying, How dare you? believe
me, it would have empowered the staff to say, You know this is really
taking things too far. But the great masses just seem to be, I don't
know, asleep.
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<snip more hatespeech from our resident neonazi scumbag>
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Here are quotes from a speech delivered by Dr. Joseph Goebbels
at the National Socialist Party Congress, Nuernberg, 1937.
"'Spain represents the world at the cross-roads.' Thus wrote
the Bolshevic press organ, Die Rundschau, in its issue dated July 22,
1937. That one sentance precisely defines the international
significance of the Spanish problem. It states exactly what the
Spanish problem is. Here the final decision must lie either with
Bolshevism or the principle of Authority. On the one side stands
ruinous anarchy and, on the other, orderly constructive development."
"Nations which in recent years have kept their eyes closed to
the startling growth of the international Bolshevic menace will one
day experience a terrible awakening from this moral narcosis. The fact
that we, German National Socialists, as conscious and uncompromising
protaganists against the Bolshevic world-front, are still condemned to
play the part of a preacher in the wilderness, calling out to deaf
ears--this cannot prevent us from seeing things as they are and
calling them by their right names. For if the constantly increasing
extension of this Bolshevic infection in Europe should cause still
greater disaster, then future historians will be in a position to
record the fact that we, German National Socialists, were not among
those who allowed themselves to be led astray in the universal chaos
of thought and mental fog purposely created as a sort of smoke-screen
by an insidious epidemic of political propaganda. Nothing could make
us deviate in the least from the straight road we have taken.
"From the very nature of the case it is obvious that the
subversive forces of International Jewry will raise a tumult of rage
when we clearly and dispassionately lay bare the background of this
revolutionary developement which is extending through the world. For,
after all, they are the only people who are drawing profit forn the
chaotic ruin which Bolshevism is bringing upon mankind. That on this
account they will swamp us with a torrrent of abuse and lies and
calumnies is only an honour for us and a further proof that we are
right in warning Europe against this peril."
"The fight which General Franco is waging, with the support of all
the constructive elements, against the Bolshevic menace to his native
land is at the same time a fight for civilization."
"The Moscow Comintern never tires of impressing on public
opinion thoughout the world the theory that the national movement,
which on July 17, 1936, intervened in the seething developements in
Spain, was a military rising oragnised by reactionary generals and
that this rising was definately repudiated by the Spanish people. The
truth however is that this national movement was in reality an act of
self-defence on the part of the people, against the revolt which had
been planned by the Spanish Communist Party for that time and was
subsequently postponed to August 1936. This communist revolt had been
planned in Moscow several years previously, organized from Moscow and
directed from Moscow, and is still being carried out in practice from
Moscow today."
"In 1935 the annual funds which Moscow contributed for the
support of the Communist Party in Spain totalled several million
pesetas, of which two millions were officially acknowledged as having
been paid by the Comintern itself. At the 7th World Congress of the
Comintern in Moscow, in 1935, Dimitroff gave instructions for the
formation of a Front Populaire in Spain. Between February 16 and April
19,1936, 140 people were murdered by gangs of red revolutionaries, and
529 buildings were burned down and destroyed before the Bolshevic
Revolution officially broke out."
"We can account for this baffling style of mutual admiration
between Bolshevism and Western Liberalist Intellectualism only if we
assume it to be some form of mental disease."
"During February and March 101 Russian Soviet aeroplanes were shipped
from Reval to Spain. And on March 1st, 50 heavy guns from Soviet
Russia were brought overland to Almansa. Recently one single large
consignment of was material from Soviet Russia to the Reds in Spain
included 100 heavy tanks, 500 medium-sized tanks, 2000 light tanks,
4000 heavy machine guns, 6000 light machine guns and 300 aeroplanes,
with their pilots."
"I shall now deal with some instances which will help to give an
idea of the extent to which World Liberalism goes in its moral support
of the Reds in Spain. I have already emphasized the fact that the
marriage between Bolshevism and Democracy presents some uncanny
features; indeed one might call them downright perverse. In the
historical developement of its activities Democracy has more and more
become the political facade of World Capitalism. Bolshevism now
carries the democratic principle to its ultimate logical application.
We may call it the Democracy of Terror. It increases the pace of that
sanguinary and pitiless developement of which Liberalism had already
mapped out the path. I might illustrate this point by a rather drastic
comparison. In democracy leading heads were out-voted by the counting
of heads. In Bolshevism the same result is obtained by chopping off
heads with the guillotine. The result in both cases is the same. The
heads are wanting. The masses are robbed of their natural leaders and
left prey to international Jews, who are now free to exercise their
dictatorship by the employment of terrorization and money."
"Pleasing catchwords were used to win the favour of the
workers but when the communist leaders came into power social terror
became the rule of the day. Among the workers and peasant classes
hunger prevailed, as symbol and sign of the Bolshevic rule."
"In keeping with the Soviet Russian pettern, family life and
the instituton of marriage are being ruined by this world plague.
Degradation of married women, the socialization of women, the
martyrdom of children--these are the principles which are in vogue
here."
"According to the 'Daily Mail' of August 22, 1936, Twenty-eight
nuns from the convent of Santa Clara "were subjected to inconceivable
tortures by relays of red maniacs."
"But Bolshevism in practice is nothing better than the most
frightful find of barbarism. It is the outward expression of the
hatred of the underworld agianst all those who are representative of
Western civilization and a cultural level to which Bolshevism can
never hope to attain."
"Among the 20,000 churches and monasteries which the Reds have
plundered and destroyed many were of historical and architectual
significance which cannot be replaced."
"But the churches of the world remain passive to it all and do not
seem to have the least suspicion as to the deadly menace that
threatens them. This is where Bolshevism shows itself again as the
incarnation of evil. Its destructive influence on the popular
religious instinct goes to the very roots of that instinct itself. And
this ruthless atheistic campaign spares nothing whatsoever which might
serve to remind the people of God and religion. The one fact alone
that the Fuerer has saved the German churches from this fate should be
enough to make them feel bound to remain eternally thankful to him.
But instead of this they never tire of going beyond the sphere of
their religious duties, interfering in political matters and making
their influence felt in a way that has no connection whatsoever with
their duties or their divine calling."
"According to indisputable figures based exclusively on
Bolshevic statistics, 42,000 priests have been murdered in Russia. Up
to February 2,1937, approximately 17,000 priests and monks and eleven
bishops were murdered in Spain."
"A Swedish refugee stated, on November 10, 1936: 'I have seen
churches on the walls of which the murdered bodies of women were hung,
nuns that had been beheaded or burned and whose bodies had been nailed
in rows to the church walls."
"The Strassburg paper, 'Der Elsasser', in its issue of
February 27, 1937 published the staggering fact that '50,000 Spanish
children are at the present moment wandering through Spanish
provinces, abandoned and in rags. All public activities for the
welfare of the youth have been abolished. And so the youngsters, very
often no more than four or five years old, are left no alternative.
They stagger along the road in swarms, shivering with cold and are
nothing more than wandering skeletons.'"
"One shudders to think what might happen to humanity if this
system became universal throughout the world."
"Bolshevism and its 'friendly press' throughout the world lose no
opportunity of pointing an accusing finger at the alleged use of
terror in countries which are governed according to the principles of
authority. The whole world gives a cry of agonizing sympathy when, for
example, a Jew in Germany receives a well-earned box on the ears. But
what is this when compared with the terror that disrupts whole
nations"
"Lenin himself, when asked at the 12th Congress of the Red Party,
what were the principles on which Communism relied, answered: 'Murder,
destruction, not a stone to be left in place if its removal should be
to the advantage of the Revolution.'"
"The Jewish Soviet Ambassador in London finds it convenient to
express his moral indignation before the Non-Intervention Committee in
London. The world and the League of Nations are hypocritically
appealed to. Before these tribunals the Jew Litwinow-Finkelstein plays
the part of the civilised philistine and fills Europe with cries of
protest."
"The Intenational Brigades which are sent into action on the Red
Spanish front are commanded by Soviet officers. Their commander was
the Jew, General Kleber."
"We shall not be deterred from pointing to the Jew as the inspirer,
the instigator and the beneficiary of the dreadful catastrophe."
"At Barcelona he sits, in the person of Wladimer Bischitzki as
director of the international oragnization for the smuggling of arms
and munitions, comrades Lurje and Fuchs, of his own racial breed,
sitting by his side. His Paris agents are his racial compatriots,
Fratkin, Rosenfeld and Schapiro. At Hirtenberg in Austria their
collaborator is the Jew, Mandl. In Amsterdam the Jew, Wolf. In
Rotteerdam the Jews, Cohen, Gruenfeld, Kirsch, and Simon. In Denmark
the Jew, Moses Israel Diamant. In Prague the Jews, Kindler, Kahn,
Abter and Hithner. We know them all and we know them well."
"The fact that Western Liberalism closes its eyes to this evil
portent is only a sign of its almost childish naivety."
"A struggle for native land and liberty, for honour and family
and God and religion, for wife and child, for school and upbringing,
for order, moral principle, culture and civilization, for our lives
and our daily bread , has begun. In Germany it has already been
brought to a triumphant issue."
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26 May 2007 06:47:02 PM |
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<snip more drivel from our resident neonazi propagandist scumbag>
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Jewish Leaders in the Homosexual Movement
Larry Kramer -- co-founder of "Act Up," a homosexual/AIDS activist
organization; co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis
Alan Klein -- co-founder of group ACT UP, co-founder of group Queer
Nation, National Communications Director and chief spokesperson for
the Gay & LesbianAlliance Against Defamation [GLAAD]. Klein also co-
founded the successful multimedia campaign STOPDRLAURA.COM
Arnie Kantrowitz -- co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation [GLAAD].
Jonathan D. Katz -- founded and chairs the Harvey Milk Institute, the
largest queer studies institute in the world. A long time queer
political activist, was a co-founder of Queer Nation, [the key San
Francisco branch].
Harvey Fierstein -- film actor [Mrs. Doubtfire]; well-known gay
activist.
Moises Kaufman -- playwright and film director [The Laramie Project].
Israel Fishman -- founder of the Gay Liberation Caucus in 1970 [now
known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table of
the American Library Association], the world's first gay professional
organization.
Bella Abzug and Edward Koch -- both Jewish -- the first members of the
US. House of Representatives to introduce legislation banning
discrimination based on sexual orientation [1974].
Winnie Stachelberg -- political director, Human Rights Campaign [HRC]
Michael S. Aronowitz, The New York Log Cabin Republicans.
Tony Kushner -- gay activist; Tony and 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright [for Angels in America, 1992].
Len Hirsch -- president of the GLBT federal government employees
group, GLOBE.
Meg Moritz, Ph.D. -- a Director and member of the Executive Committee
of GLAAD.
Barbara Raab -- an NBC-TV producer; a "Jewish lesbian feminist
journalist, writer."
Charles Kaiser [?] -- author & founding member of National Lesbian and
Gay Journalists Association [NLGJA].
David Goodstein -- owner/publisher of the gay magazine The Advocate
[1975-1985]; co-founder of the National Gay Rights Lobby.
Judy Wieder -- Editor-in-chief, The Advocate gay magazine.
Alison Bechdel [?] -- cartoonist creator and author of the bi-weekly
comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For."
Kevin Koffler -- Editor-in-chief, Genre gay magazine.
Garrett Glaser -- National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
[NLGJA] national board member.
Ronald Gold -- reporter for Variety; a leader in the fight to overturn
the American Psychiatric Association's policy that homosexuality is an
illness.
Magnus Hirschfeld [d. 1935], early gay rights activist in Germany;
founded one of the first gay rights organizations, the Scientific
Humanitarian Committee; coined the term "transvestism"; fled Nazi
Germany.
Fred Hochberg -- deputy administrator, U.S. Small Business
Administration; co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign [HRC].
Michael Berman -- member, Human Rights Campaign Board of Directors.
Mitchell Gold -- HRC Board
Marty Lieberman -- HRC Board
Andy Linsky -- HRC Board
Dana Perlman -- HRC Board
Abby Rubenfeld -- HRC Board
Andrew Tobias -- HRC Board
Lara Schwartz -- Senior Counsel, HRC
Heather Wellman -- HRC Field Coordinator
Dan Furmansky -- HRC Senior Field Organizer, West
Sally Green -- HRC Associate Field Director
Rick Rosendall [?] -- President, Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance of
Washington, DC.
Barney Frank -- member of U.S. Congress; helped create non-
discriminatory employment policies in all U.S. federal agencies
Kerry Lobel -- executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force.
Robin Margolis, American coordinator of the Bi Women's Cultural
Alliance and author [Bisexuality: A Practical Guide].
Evan Wolfson, Senior Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund -- and -- the executive director of Freedom to Marry.
Jennifer Einhorn -- Communications Director, Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation [GLAAD]
Nancy Alpert [?] -- Treasurer, GLAAD
Judy Gluckstern -- Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Stephen M. Jacoby -- Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Matt Riklin -- Board, GLAAD
Carol Rosenfeld -- Board, GLAAD.
William Weinberger -- Board, GLAAD
Tanya Wexler -- Board, GLAAD.
David Huebner -- GLAAD Counsel.
Richard Goldstein -- Village Voice writer on gay culture and politics
Ron Schlittler -- Director of Field & Policy, Parents and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays [PFLAG].
Craig Ziskin -- Deputy Director of Development, PFLAG.
Debra Weill -- Senior Field & Policy Coordinator, PFLAG.
Dody Goldstein -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
David Horowitz -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
Shawn Frank -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
Leon Weinstein -- Chair, Nominating Committee, PFLAG.
Kate Kendell [?], National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Gayle Rubin -- lesbian author/activist.
Hilary Rosen -- a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund;
former board co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign.
Roz Richter, American attorney and activist.
Bob Kunst -- long-time activist in gay and Jewish causes.
"Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network" [GLSEN]. Board co-chairs:
Marty Seldman, president
"National Gay & Lesbian Task Force" [NGLTF].
Board co-chairs: ..... Rachel Rosen in Santa Fe, N.M
Dave Fleischer -- Director of Training [political training], NGLTF.
Craig Hoffman -- Board of Directors, NGLTF.
Beth Zemsky -- Board, NGLTF.
Marsha C. Botzer -- Treasurer, NGLTF.
Jeff Levi -- first, Levi was NGTF's lobbyist, early 1980s [NGTF became
NGLTF in 1985]. Later, he was NGLTF executive director.
Bill Rubenstein, J.D. '86, developed the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights
Project
Martin Duberman -- author/historian; founded the Center for Lesbian
and Gay Studies at the City University of New York.
Ben Schatz '81, J.D. '85, is executive director of the Gay and Lesbian
Medical Foundation.
Kevin Schaub, American; Executive Director and Dean of the Harvey Milk
Institute in San Francisco, the world's largest center for queer
studies.
Sarah Schulman [1958- ], American playwright, novelist, and activist
[one of the founders of the Lesbian Avengers, a direct-action lesbian
rights organization].
Susan Spielman -- principal/head of Common Ground, an education/
consulting firm specializing in workplace sexual orientation
education; her company has worked with hundreds of U.S. organizations,
helping them to implement domestic partner benefits plans; co-author
of the book Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace.
Gertrude Stein -- wrote the first openly lesbian novel, "Q.E.D.," in
1903, but it was only published posthumously in 1950.
Rikki Streicher (1925-1994), American activist and businesswoman.
Michael Goff -- founded Out magazine in 1992.
Paulette Goodman -- founder of local chapter [Washington D.C.] of
PFLAG and served as President of the National PFLAG organization from
1988-1992.
Jeffrey Newman, American, president and COO of the Gay Financial
Network; president and CEO of out.com.
Jim Levin -- New York gay historian.
Barrett Brick -- GLAA [Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance] Treasurer.
Robin Tyler -- American comedian [born Arlene Chernick] who was the
first openly gay comic in North America; Tyler is also an activist who
was the stage producer for the first three gay marches on Washington
and the national protest coordinator for the "Stop Dr. Laura"
campaign; she produces women's comedy and music festivals, and
operates a lesbian travel-tour company.
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