Posted on 10/15/2004 9:47:42 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
It sounds like one of those Jeff Foxworthy jokes, doesn’t it? ''If directions to your house include what to do after you turn off the dirt road, you might be a redneck.'' ''If your grandmother wakes you up in the middle of the night and says ‘come look at this before I flush it,’ you might be a redneck.'' ''If you introduce someone to your brother and the father of your child and there’s just one guy standing there, you might be a redneck.'' You know the bit.
But this article isn’t about a redneck. It’s about Julia Boseman, a North Carolina Democrat running for the State Senate against Republican Woody White.
Julia Boseman, a New Hanover County commissioner, is a lesbian activist whose political agenda includes support for gay marriage and state benefits for homosexual ''domestic partners.'' She promises to be a big spending liberal Democrat, the likes of which North Carolina has never elected to its legislature.
Furthermore, Boseman, whose ''domestic partner'' is the coach of UNC-Wilmington’s softball team, has been a controversial figure outside her role as a public servant. Recently, she and her ''domestic partner'' had a baby, which was made possible by a sperm donation from her biological brother. When the couple (Boseman and her ''domestic partner,'' not her brother) sought to have the baby baptized in a local church, many in the community were outraged.
Readers of this editorial probably wonder why a race for a State Senate seat in North Carolina is the subject of a national column. I have a different question:
Why is the race between Julia Boseman (who, as of this writing, has 17 contributors in her county) and Woody White (with over 650 contributors in his county) even close?
The answer is to be found on the national website www.victoryfund.org. The site includes the following plea to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gendered voters nationwide:
''North Carolina is a Victory Legislative Horizon State, meaning that there are currently no openly LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or trans-gendered) officials serving in the State Legislature. In 2005, the North Carolina State Senate will begin debate on a Constitutional amendment which would define marriage as between 'one man and one woman.' Now is the time that we must elect openly LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans-gendered) members to the North Carolina State Senate to protect our rights.''
The national site also includes the following criticism of Boseman’s opponent:
''(Woody) White has taken anti-choice stances and opposes any legislation that would allow gays and lesbians to adopt children and he would oppose any legislation that would allow gays and lesbians the same protections afforded to heterosexual married couples including opposition to any type of domestic partner benefits. He promises to 'resist any efforts by the liberal gay community to pass laws allowing adoption of children, public benefits for same-sex partners, or becoming a special protected class as that term is interpreted by the Courts.' ''
Finally, the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and trans-gendered lobbyists get to the bottom line: ''Boseman will need to raise in excess of $250,000 to be victorious in November.''
That is why Boseman, the Democrat, has raised more money than White the Republican, despite her paucity of local donations.
All across the country, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and trans-gendered candidates are preparing to launch a radical agenda in geographical areas where their ideas are not those of their constituents. They are influencing local elections by running highly financed national campaigns that depend on big money from donors who do not necessarily live in the state or even the region where ''their candidate'' is running.
But these candidates rarely talk about their agenda in public. They usually wait until they are elected to spring their true plan on unsuspecting voters. That is why Boseman’s website currently shows no picture of her together with her ''domestic partner.'' That is why her biography makes no mention of her ''domestic partner'' or the child they produced with the sperm donated by her brother.
Since the voters of North Carolina do not share their values, the Boseman campaign adopts a two-pronged strategy; First, buy the election with out-of-state contributions from New York and San Francisco. Second, spring the radical LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans-gendered) legislative agenda on the voters immediately after assuming office.
Such a strategy can only work if the public is unaware of what is happening. I wrote this article because I want voters to make an informed decision. Regardless of where you live, you need to know if your local candidate is supported by www.victoryfund.org.
I don’t want to challenge Julia Boseman's right to use her brother’s sperm to ''father'' her child. Nor do I want to challenge her right to be openly gay. I just want her to be open and honest about her real political agenda.
Mike S. Adams called Julia Boseman's law office for confirmation of all facts in this article. She would not return his calls.
About the Writer: Mike Adams is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and the author of the new book, "Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel." His website is at: http://www.DrAdams.org.
It's not going to matter. If she's like this, and the R even sends out one mailer pointing this stuff out, she'll lose big in NC.
If she were in downtown Seattle, or San Francisco, sure, but not in NC.
Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, among others, practice Baptism as a sacred rite. Whatever issues a church might have with this kid's parents, why should this child be forbidden from receiving a sacred rite?
What a shame... Bearing children to be treated and brought up as object tools for a political agenda. I'm sure they will love and care for the child... as much as I love and take care of my new Dewalt table saw.
Wont and i repeat wont be no gay marriage here in NC. We cant even get the lottery.To many of us Baptist!!
I too am far more concerned about "baby mammas" spawning broods from unknown (and/or) multiple absentee fathers. More concerned about children born to drug addicts, toddlers and infants mentally, physically and/or sexually abused before social services *finally* removes the child, more concerned about children shuffled around five different foster-mother-only homes with a half dozen children or more in residence while waiting for adoption, more concerned about toddlers who's drug-addled egg-and-sperm donors share drugs with them.
This is far lower on my priority scale of social concerns because *gasp* this is a "lesbian" couple or the child is conceived of science, not nature.
In a free and open society which has embraced use of scientific conception (Catholic Church wisely counsels against this slippery slope), such procedures cannot be restricted from a fellow competent, sovereign citizen's informed decision when no medical basis (brother-sister as sperm-egg donor "biological parents") for such restrictions exist.
OK, I just contributed. Lets pony up North Carolinians.
So9
Hey, Mod, in reference to Post #21 being pulled. The "godless atheist" remark was in reference to MineralMan's tagline. He calls himself a godless atheist. It was not an insult or an abuse. Easy on the triggerfinger there.
Thanks MineralMan for bringing this deleted post to my attention.
The church has a right to express her devotion to God and deny this child baptism if it sees fit. I don't see where it's anyone's business.
Are you a Christian?
One of my favorite Alonzo and Oscar songs.
Chorus:
I’m my own grandpa.
I’m my own grandpa.
It sounds funny I know,
but it really is so.
I’m my own grandpa.
Any Church that would deny a child baptism due to that child's parents' actions deserves nothing but contempt. I would love to see you honestly try to defend a church that denied an innocent child religious sacraments due to the failings of its parents.
Are you a Christian?
If anything, I'm a Deist. So-called "Christians" on FR have done a very good job of turning me against organized Christianity.
Might as well tell "Whirlybirds" not to grow in rain gutters.
Let that be a lesson for all those god-fearing atheists out there.
Lando that new graphic rocks!
"If anything, I'm a Deist. So-called "Christians" on FR have done a very good job of turning me against organized Christianity."
You're against organized Christianity but you think you have a right to challenge a church's self government?
I haven't been a member of "organized" Christianity for several years now.
I have every right to challenge stupidity and small-mindedness, yes.
You don't have a problem with this church; you just have a chip on your shoulder. For someone who is so disgusted with "organized" Christianity, why do you "troll" (no pun intended) these threads for hit pieces?
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