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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 8/31/2006 9:27:54 PM
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Phillybeliever
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I would be glad to do that provided the Federal government and the state allow me to deduct that portion of my tax dollars going to fund grants and loans.
Hey, maybe I can deduct from my tax dollars the portion going toward causes I don't agree with either -- just think of how big my savings would be from the Iraq war effort alone! 
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 8/31/2006 11:23:04 PM
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Hey, maybe I can deduct from my tax dollars the portion going toward causes I don't agree with either -- just think of how big my savings would be from the Iraq war effort alone!
You can only do that if you are going to volunteer some time providing for the national defense.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/6/2006 9:21:51 PM
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Also, Walmart just signed an agreement with the Homosexual 'union' (forgot the official name), where they will pay them 25,000 dollars and give them special treatment - oh, and host 2 or 3 of their functions.
I just posted a new thread on this which got closed not realizing there was already something about this on this forum. You can get the full story: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/08/23/business/0823wmgays.txt I have been to stores where they would ask at the checkout if you wanted to donate to a special cause, one was juvenile diabetes. Apparently, Walmart doesn't give you any choice in the matter if your money would be used towards this homosexual promotion. It's too bad you don't even have a say in it, therefore, the only other option is to not shop there. Some will say that there are things we support that we may not agree with through our tax dollars etc., some we may not even be aware of, or have no control over. Well this I am aware of and this I can have some control over and I will at least not help promote that which I do have a choice in. Why help along a cause I don't agree with any more than I have to? I would not feel right in my spirit if I was voluntarily supporting the gay agenda knowing that I have other options.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/6/2006 11:48:56 PM
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In efforts to continue this topic............. I agree, this is another reason NOT to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/11/2006 11:16:10 AM
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Also, Walmart just signed an agreement with the Homosexual 'union' (forgot the official name), where they will pay them 25,000 dollars and give them special treatment - oh, and host 2 or 3 of their functions.
I just posted a new thread on this which got closed not realizing there was already something about this on this forum. You can get the full story: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/08/23/business/0823wmgays.txt I have been to stores where they would ask at the checkout if you wanted to donate to a special cause, one was juvenile diabetes. Apparently, Walmart doesn't give you any choice in the matter if your money would be used towards this homosexual promotion. It's too bad you don't even have a say in it, therefore, the only other option is to not shop there. Some will say that there are things we support that we may not agree with through our tax dollars etc., some we may not even be aware of, or have no control over. Well this I am aware of and this I can have some control over and I will at least not help promote that which I do have a choice in. Why help along a cause I don't agree with any more than I have to? I would not feel right in my spirit if I was voluntarily supporting the gay agenda knowing that I have other options.
I just saw this bit of news today. Very disturbing.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/11/2006 11:26:38 AM
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Walmart has done this with ALL segments of their customer base....whether it's the Latino population (LULAC support) or any other...
here's just a sampling....
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Donates $5 Million to the National Urban League in Support of Workforce DevelopmentFriday, July 28, 2006Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced today a $5 million, multi-year grant to The National Urban League, an organization devoted to empowering African Americans economically and socially, to support its workforce development initiatives.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Partners with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to Provide Scholarships and InternshipsThursday, July 27, 2006Wal-Mart Stores Inc. today announced a $1 million three-year grant to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) to aid in providing scholarship and internship opportunities for deserving Black scholars.
• Sesame Workshop and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Announce Distribution Plans for Military Families InitiativeFriday, July 14, 2006Today, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced plans to distribute bilingual, multi-media outreach kits entitled Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military Deployment, this August.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Continues Community Support by Donating more than $245 Million in CashThursday, July 13, 2006Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. today announced its 2005 charitable giving numbers, which total more than $245 million in financial and in-kind donations to various charitable organizations and causes.
• Spina Bifida Association, the National Council of La Raza, GRUMA and Wal-Mart Announce Unprecedented Effort to Fight Spina BifidaTuesday, July 11, 2006The Spina Bifida Association (SBA), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and GRUMA S.A. de C.V., announced today during NCLR’s 2006 Annual Conference their joint effort to help fight Spina Bifida.
• Wal-Mart to Donate $200,000 to Salvation Army; Will Collect Flood Relief Donations in all Northeast Stores
Now, they get together with ONE organization that you don't agree with, and it's "down with wal-mart"?
Here's Wal-Mart's "explanation" (as if they needed one)... It pretty much says it...
At Wal-Mart, we believe every individual is valued. As a business, our commitment is to welcome and to serve all customers with respect and without discrimination. Attracting customers from all segments of an increasingly diverse customer base is critical to our success. Wal-Mart will always work to connect better with the customers we serve and our loyal workforce.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/11/2006 11:52:52 AM
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Now, they get together with ONE organization that you don't agree with, and it's "down with wal-mart"?
It depends on what that ONE organization is and how involved Walmart is with them.
It's one thing to to not discriminate against businesses that are members of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. It's an entirely different matter for Walmart to become an actual member of the NGLCC. It's also a different matter when Walmart then intends to discriminate against other businesses in favor of members of the NGLCC.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/11/2006 12:08:29 PM
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It's also a different matter when Walmart then intends to discriminate against other businesses in favor of members of the NGLCC.
WHERE did that come from? I would call that pure speculation...and gossip (unless you have someone from Wal-Mart actually stating that)
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/11/2006 1:14:43 PM
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Wlamart has stated that.
I seem to have trouble finding that statement...
let me know where that is.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/14/2006 12:42:58 PM
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Interesting article here about the effect politically correct laws concerning homosexuality are having on Christians in Britain:
How Britain is turning Christianity into a crime
How long will it be before Christianity becomes illegal in Britain? This is no longer the utterly absurd and offensive question that on first blush it would appear to be.
An evangelical Christian campaigner, Stephen Green, was arrested and charged last weekend with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
So what was this behaviour? Merely trying peacefully to hand out leaflets at a gay rally in Cardiff. So what was printed on those leaflets that was so threatening, abusive or insulting that it attracted the full force of the law?
Why, none other than the majestic words of the 1611 King James Bible. The problem was that they were those bits of the Bible which forbid homosexuality. The leaflets also urged homosexuals to ‘turn from your sins and you will be saved’. But to the secular priests of the human rights culture, the only sin is to say that homosexuality is a sin.
Admittedly, Mr Green is not everyone’s cup of tea; other Christians regard him as extreme. But our society is now so upside-down that, by doing nothing more than upholding a fundamental tenet of Christianity, he was treated like a criminal. And yet at the same time, the police are still studiously refusing to act against Islamic zealots abusing British freedom to preach hatred and incitement against the West.
The Bible is the moral code that underpins our civilisation. Yet the logic of the police action against Mr Green surely leads ultimately to the inescapable conclusion that the Bible itself is ‘hate speech’ and must be banned.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/14/2006 3:12:12 PM
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Freedom Fades in California! - this should scare YOU!
Freedom Fades in California -
By Assemblyman Ray Haynes
September 5, 2006
Freedom is a fragile thing. A candlelight in a windstorm, if you will, requiring constant vigilance to preserve. It is never safe, as the old saying goes, as long as the Legislature (or Congress) is in session.
That is because the ruling class, that is, elected officials, bureaucrats, and their allies in the private sector, get money, power and prestige from bigger government, and bigger government is an anathema to freedom. Therefore, those who are in charge of protecting our freedom, (i.e. government officials) have a vested interest in taking it away. Human nature being what it is, everyone, including those in government, act to enhance their money, power and prestige. The less freedom you have, the more power the ruling class has.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 9/18/2006 12:42:45 PM
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Presbyterian Minister Charged for Performing Gay Marriage
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Presbyterian minister says she's been charged with breaking church law for performing a marriage for two women last year. The constitution of the Presbyterian Church USA reserves marriage for a man and a woman, although ministers may bless other types of what are called "holy unions."
SOURCE: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/faith/news-article.aspx?storyid=64798
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/6/2006 3:37:28 PM
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I am confused why you won't shop at a store that is part of the lesbian chamber of commerce, are you saying that if you know a business is owned by a homosexual you won't shop at it? Do you think that if they suffer financially it will change their sexual orientation?
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/12/2006 4:44:23 PM
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If they give support or funding to perversion, I won't be one of their customers anymore.
For me this has nothing to do with causing them to change but to stand apart from any perceived level of support for the causes they back.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/13/2006 8:24:08 AM
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Homosexual activist groups use the money they make in such sales to push for their special rights agenda.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/13/2006 10:10:18 AM
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birds and bees may be gay: museum exhibition
OSLO (Reuters) - The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world's first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.
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With documentation of gay or lesbian behavior among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, whales and dozens of other creatures, the Oslo Natural History Museum concludes human homosexuality cannot be viewed as "unnatural."
"We may have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is clear -- homosexuality is found throughout the animal kingdom, it is not against nature," an exhibit statement said.
Geir Soeli, the project leader of the exhibition entitled "Against Nature," told Reuters: "Homosexuality has been observed for more than 1,500 animal species, and is well documented for 500 of them."
The museum said the exhibition, opening on Thursday despite condemnation from some Christians, was the first in the world on the subject. Soeli said a Dutch zoo had once organised tours to view homosexual couples among the animals.
"The sexual urge is strong in all animals. ... It's a part of life, it's fun to have sex," Soeli said of the reasons for homosexuality or bisexuality among animals.
One exhibit shows two stuffed female swans on a nest -- birds sometimes raise young in homosexual couples, either after a female has forsaken a male mate or donated an egg to a pair of males.
One photograph shows two giant erect penises flailing above the water as two male right whales rub together. Another shows a male giraffe mounting another for sex, another describes homosexuality among beetles.
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One radical Christian said organizers of the exhibition -- partly funded by the Norwegian government -- should "burn in hell," Soeli said. Laws describing homosexuality as a "crime against nature" are still on the statutes in some countries.
Greek philosopher Aristotle noted apparent homosexual behavior among hyenas 2,300 years ago but evidence of animal homosexuality has often been ignored by researchers, perhaps because of distaste, lack of interest or fear or ridicule.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/ts_nm/environment_homosexuality_dc
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/13/2006 2:32:46 PM
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For Gays, a Loud New Foe
Sacramento's large enclave of immigrant Slavic evangelicals is becoming a force on social issues. Their actions shock many.
By Rone Tempest, Times Staff Writer
October 13, 2006
SACRAMENTO — Organizers of the annual Rainbow Festival were prepared for trouble.
The Q Crew, a local "queer/straight alliance," distributed cards telling people what to do if approached by hostile demonstrators. Sympathetic local church groups formed a protective buffer along the festival ground's cyclone fence. Mounted police were on patrol.
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Jerry Sloan manned a table for Stand Up for Sacramento, a recently formed gay self-defense organization.
"So far, so good," he said. "No Russians."
The festival, held last month amid the gay bars, restaurants and shops of midtown's "Lavender Heights" neighborhood, went off without conflict. But the elaborate security preparations reflected growing tensions between Sacramento gays and the city's large and vociferous community of fundamentalist Christians from the former Soviet Union.
Over the last 18 months, Sacramento Russian-language church members have picketed gay pride events, jammed into legislative committee meetings when gay issues were on the agenda and demonstrated at school board meetings.
Incited by firebrand Russian Pentacostal pastors and polemical Russian-language newspapers, the fundamentalists turn out en masse for state Capitol protest rallies.
Last June, urging readers to attend a massive rally, the Russian newspaper the Speaker told them:
"Make a choice. It's your decision. Homosexuality is knocking on your doors and asking: 'Can I make your son gay and your daughter lesbian?' "
In most instances, the Russian-speaking demonstrators far outnumber representatives from all other anti-gay groups combined. Anti-homosexual rallies that a few years ago attracted a few dozen participants now regularly draw hundreds and sometimes thousands, many with a heavy Russian accent.
Even in a state capital where impassioned public demonstrations are a daily event, the Slavic fundamentalists stand out. Elderly women in babushkas stand next to small children carrying signs stating: "Perversion is Never Safe" and "I Am Not Learning About Gay People."
Speakers address the crowds fervently in Russian and Ukrainian.
After a wave of religious refugees that began coming here in the late 1980s, Sacramento now has one of the largest Russian-speaking populations in North America: an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Slavic immigrants, community members say. They came primarily from the Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and the other southern Soviet republics, and settled mostly in Sacramento's northern and western suburbs.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/25/2006 11:13:20 AM
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NJ Court Poised to Rule on Gay Marriage
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New Jersey could become the nation's gay wedding chapel should the state's highest court rule in favor of same-sex marriages, adversaries on the issue agree.
The New Jersey Supreme Court is poised to release its highly anticipated decision Wednesday in a case brought by seven gay couples who say the state constitution allows them to marry, said Winnie Comfort, a spokeswoman for the state judiciary.
"If it's a yes, it will be one of the happiest days, if it's a no, it will be a huge disappointment," said Saundra Heath-Toby, a plaintiff in the case who would like to marry Alicia Toby-Heath, the woman she already calls her wife.
New Jersey is one of only five states with neither a law nor a state constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage. As a result, the state is more likely than others to allow gays to wed, said advocacy groups on both sides.
Only Massachusetts _ by virtue of a 2003 ruling from that state's top court _ allows gay marriages.
Proponents and opponents from across the country are watching the case closely.
"New Jersey is a stepping stone," said Matt Daniels, president of the Virginia-based Alliance for Marriage, a group pushing for an amendment to the federal Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. "It's not about New Jersey."
From a practical standpoint, the Massachusetts court decision made little impact nationally because the state has a law barring out-of- state couples from wedding there if their marriages would not be recognized in their home states.
New Jersey has no such law.
This is one more reason we need a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage; we shouldn't have to deal with this piece meal, based on the whims of state courts.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/25/2006 11:15:06 AM
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This is one more reason we need a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage; we shouldn't have to deal with this piece meal, based on the whims of state courts.
As a conservative, I'd rather see the government stay out of people's lives.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/25/2006 11:31:49 AM
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As a conservative, I'd rather see the government stay out of people's lives.
I tend to agree - I just consider court imposed re-definition of marriage to be extremely intrusive, thus the need for an amendment to protect it's current and long standing state.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/25/2006 4:31:47 PM
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Well, they did it. Sort of.
NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK
New Jersey's Supreme Court opened the door to gay marriage Wednesday, ruling that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but leaving it to lawmakers to legalize same-sex unions.
The high court gave lawmakers 180 days to rewrite marriage laws to either include same-sex couples or create a new system of civil unions for them.
The ruling is similar to the 1999 decision in Vermont that led to civil unions there, which offer the benefits of marriage, but not the name.
"Although we cannot find that a fundamental right to same-sex marriage exists in this state, the unequal dispensation of rights and benefits to committed same-sex partners can no longer be tolerated under our state Constitution," Justice Barry T. Albin wrote for the 4-3 majority's decision.
Outside the Supreme Court, news of the ruling caused confusion, with many of the roughly 100 gay marriage supporters outside asking each other what it meant. Many started to agree that they needed to push for a state constitutional amendment to institute gay marriage.
Garden State Equality, New Jersey's main gay and lesbian political organization quickly announced Wednesday that three lawmakers would introduce a bill in the Legislature to get full marriage rights to same-sex couples.
It will be interesting to see what effect this has on the upcoming election.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 10/25/2006 5:47:17 PM
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Things are heating up in the Old Dominion! 
RICHMOND -- The fight over a proposed constitutional ban of same-sex "marriage" is heating up as both sides of the debate deliver their final sales pitches two weeks before the Nov. 7 election.
Yesterday, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, and his father-in-law, former Gov. A. Linwood Holton Jr., a Republican, encouraged Virginians to oppose the amendment, saying the proposal is excessive because the state already defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman and its "ambiguous" language could lead to unintended consequences for unmarried couples.
"In states that have passed similar language, the ability of partners who are not married to obtain the social service and other protections of family courts have been thrown into jeopardy by this language, and I think that would be a very negative consequence," Mr. Kaine said, before signing with his wife and Mr. Holton, a statement from 200 lawyers and legal scholars in opposition of the amendment.
"We're talking in this amendment about fooling around with [the Virginia Constitution] in a way that will create confusion and unfortunately litigation for two or three generations," said Mr. Holton, who has at times been at odds with Republicans for supporting Democrats. "It just runs a serious risk of messing up our constitution."
Their remarks clash with the opinions of most Republicans, including Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, Attorney General Bob McDonnell and Sen. George Allen, who say traditional marriage must be protected from "activist judges."
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20061024-114643-2695r.htm
Hmmm....what is Kaine's father-in-law talking about? Seems pretty clear to me what the amendment is about...a ban of same-sex marriage. Well, all I know is that when I go out to vote on Nov. 7 I will be voting for this amendment!
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