March 14, 2008
Oklahoma Legislator Under Attack
Sally Kern, a state legislator in Oklahoma, recently gave a speech that discussed some issues that raised the ire of those who support the homosexual agenda. A pro-homosexual activist recorded the speech and after editing it, posted the redacted version on a website. The result has been a firestorm of protest from homosexual publications, blogs, and activist groups.
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November 21, 2007
Domestic Partner Benefits Proposed for Milwaukee Schools
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Public School Board Member Jennifer Morales has proposed that MPS provide benefits to domestic partners of employees, which will have the effect of increasing property taxes for Milwaukee homeowners, despite a pledge taht there would be no tax increases.
Jennifer Morales herself has a domestic partner who is an MPS employee--a woman she "married" in Canada. As a result, she has a personal interest in the passage of this resolution.
On November 20, the MPS Board Finance Committee voted 4-1 to recommend that the full board support what was defined as "eaual provision of employment benefits regardless of an employee's sexual orientation or family status."
The resolution is scheduled to go to the entire school board at their next meeting, Thursday, November 29, at 6:30pm, and passage is considered to be likely. MPS estimates that adding benefits for domestic partners could cost millions of additional tax dollars.
Unless the public--and especially Milwaukee taxpayers--act now to give MPS their opinions on this issue, Milwaukee will become the first public school district in Southeast Wisconsin to offer benefits to domestic partners of employees.
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October 17, 2007
Hate Crimes Bill on President's Desk
The hate crimes bill passed in the Senate, 60-39, on Sept. 27 as an attachment to the defense bill.
The amendment, sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), would expand hate crime law to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, or disability of victims. White House spokesman Tim Goeglein says it is "the height of irresponsibility" for senators to tie the hate crimes legislation to an important Pentagon spending bill.
The bill is also called the "Matthew Shepard Act", after a homosexual killed in Wyoming in 1998. Ironically, his killers have admitted that Shepard's "sexual orientation" had nothing to do with the crime, as they were just after money for drugs.
Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues at Concerned Women for America (CWA), explains that the legislation creates a two-tiered justice system that elevates one class of citizens based on their chosen sexual behavior. "That is, on its face, a violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the laws," he notes.
Secondly, he believes, the amendment "creates a situation where Americans' [right to] free speech and freedom of religious expression is in harm's way."
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October 16, 2007
Employment Non-Discrimination Act Still not Dead
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has once again been introduced in Congress. It will be written up this week, with several options being considered. No matter which option is selected, however, it will have a far-reaching impact on Christians, churches, non-profit organizations, and the entire business community.
Concerned Women for America's Robert Knight summarizes ENDA as follows:
ENDA would prohibit discrimination based on “sexual orientation,” thus opening businesses with 15 or more employees to harassment by homosexual activist lawyers.
ENDA is billed as an expansion of equality, but it is really a “gay” power grab that would severely curb constitutionally guaranteed “unalienable” rights that Americans hold dear, including the freedoms of speech, religion and association.
Current national policy is committed to upholding and supporting marriage and family. ENDA would initiate an inevitable assault on marriage as “discriminatory” and further weaken efforts to restore marriage to its societal primacy.
ENDA puts the federal government in an adversarial role against the basic sexual morality of the major faiths in America. It is so sweeping that it threatens the freedoms of speech, religion and association.
ENDA will inspire lawsuits by homosexual activists, who will cry “homophobia” when an employer cleaves to policies that favor marriage, family and traditional sexual moral.
ENDA proponents point to the religious exemption in the legislation. But the exemption narrowly applies only to church-related organizations. Anyone else is unprotected. The bill utterly ignores freedom of conscience for individuals. And the question must be asked: If there is a presumption that it would be immoral to impose ENDA on religious bodies, why is it moral to impose it on everyone else?
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March 13, 2007
Hotline: School tells Students to Lie to Parents
Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois is one of many schools across the nation that now requires their freshmen to attend a meeting designed to help them become "tolerant" and "accepting" of homosexuality. The Deerfield meeting features a "Straight Gay Alliance Network" panel led by "gay" and "lesbian" upperclassmen, which essentially promotes high-risk homosexual behaviors, with inappropriate language to describe those behaviors.
While this is enough to cause parents concern, the school has also taken steps to ensure that the parents do not know about this meeting at all. They required that the 14-year-old freshmen attending this meeting also sign a "confidentiality agreement" promising not to tell anyone--including their parents--about the discussion.
The goal is obviously to bring these high school students on board as accepting homosexual behavior as "normal", contrary to what most may have learned home.
After word got out about the confidentiality agreement, the school backed down and said they would not require it in the future, promising to be more "above board and honest" with parents. But the goal had already been reached, as another generation of young people had been indoctrinated. And, despite the school's promises, parents who requested to see the materials used, or to sit in on the indoctrination meeting, were refused.
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