The Gay Mafia That's Redefining Liberal Politics

Time.com ^ | Oct. 31, 2008 | John Cloud

[CalKat114]

Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 The Gay Mafia That's Redefining Liberal Politics By John Cloud / Beverly Hills

A few weeks before Virginia's legislative elections in 2005, a researcher working on behalf of a clandestine group of wealthy, gay political donors telephoned a Virginia legislator named Adam Ebbin. Then, as now, Ebbin was the only openly gay member of the state's general assembly. The researcher wanted Ebbin's advice on how the men he represented could spend their considerable funds to help defeat anti-gay Virginia politicians.

Ebbin, a Democrat who is now 44, was happy to oblige. (Full disclosure: in the mid-'90s, Ebbin and I knew each other briefly as colleagues; he sold ads for Washington City Paper, a weekly where I was a reporter.) Using Ebbin's expertise, the gay donors — none of whom live in Virginia — began contributing to certain candidates in the state. There were five benefactors: David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., who in 1999 sold the company he had co-founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill of Denver, another tech multimillionaire; James Hormel of San Francisco, grandson of George, who founded the famous meat company; Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., the billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp.; and Henry van Ameringen, whose father Arnold Louis van Ameringen started a Manhattan-based import company that later became the mammoth International Flavors & Fragrances.............

[CalKat114]

If you read the full article, you'll see the connection that a handful of elite wealthy gay political donors have to Soros and Democracy Alliance. These donors -- who call themselves "The Cabinet" -- have poured in millions of dollars to gay marriage and other homosexual issues. "The donors felt they could accomplish more for gays if they shared information rather than operate as "silo" givers. Some members were frustrated that the established gay movement in Washington hadn't made greater progress in a society rapidly coming to see homosexuality as a mere variation rather than a moral degeneration." This is what we're up against, folks.

[goldstategop]

A moral degeneracy is still a moral degeneracy. They can it something else all they want. Its will still be wrong as decreed by the eternal word of God.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[sionnsar]

[paltz]

Gays may see the cabinet as powerful, almost numinous, but its own members see themselves as largely unorganized and highly independent. "It's a group of people who like and respect each other and their opinions," Ray Mulliner, a longtime Hormel adviser, told me recently. "It's nothing more than like-minded donors getting together to share strategies." When I mentioned that similar organizations on the right had received press scrutiny — I was thinking of the Arlington Group, a coalition of movement conservatives — Mulliner angrily rejected the comparison: "You have no reason to be curious about this. You're going to write a piece that's going to start a fire that needs to get put out, and it's going to cost a lot of money to put it out," he said.

Looking to control their media as well.

[backhoe]

"The question of why 1.51% of the population should dictate to the rest of us an overturn of thousands of years of tradition and custom and law and religion still flabbergasts me."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083139/posts?page=227#227

I tried to wake people up, over this manufactured ( yes, it's a construct ) "issue" for years & years:
-A Gay ( or not! ) Old Time- GM links--

Here's the money quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083139/posts?page=266#266

"...actor John Barrowman on what it really means:

It’s been a long wait but we legitimised our relationship to each other a long time ago when we signed our mortgages together and this is just something that forces people who don’t want to recognise it that they have to."

That's right- it's not about "tolerance," or "choice," or any of the other touchy-feely Oh! So! PC things-- it's about force...

The new battle line?

choice versus control.

[ChicagahAl]

So we need a consortium of billionaire heterosexuals to fund a politically hetero-agenda. No wait, that would probably be considered a hate crime.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"...the other members of the Cabinet are Jonathan Lewis (49-year-old grandson of Joseph, co-founder of Progressive Insurance).."

"...The Cabinet is emblematic of a larger shift on the left since 2004 in the direction of big-money politics, a shift most clearly seen in Barack Obama's refusal of public financing for his campaign. The Cabinet is only one of several flush, members-only liberal groups that have formed since 2004, the most famous (and richest) being the Democracy Alliance, whose sponsors include billionaires George Soros, Peter Lewis (father of Cabinet member Jonathan) and Pat Stryker (sister of Cabinet member Jon)..."

Peter Lewis is also a big proponent of marijuana legalization. No wonder his kid is a freak.

[Crazieman]

Savage has been calling them the gay mafia for nearly a decade.

Also “Brown Shorts”

[manc]

they are secretly trying to elect pro homo legislatures and get their judges into place.

They then make their legal move in that state like they have in MA.

For years they worked in that state to get what they wanted.

The problem for them is that many of us have now caught on and are doing constitutional amendments to stop them from furthering their agenda.

These last few amendments have serious destroyed their agenda and this is why they are throwing their dolls out of their prams

[TruthHound]

[Back to People With a Story]

Michael Swift: "Gay Revolutionary"

from Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987

(reprinted from The Congressional Record, with preface restored)

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In 1987, Michael Swift was asked to contribute an editorial piece to GCN, an important gay community magazine, although well to the left of most American gay and lesbian opinion. A decade later this text, printed in the Congressional Record is repeatedly cited, apparently verbatim, by the religious right as evidence of the "Gay Agenda". The video Gay Rights, Special Rights, put out by Lou Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition cites it with ominous music and picture of children. But when the religious rights cites this text, they always omit, as does the Congressional record, the vital first line, which sets the context for the piece. In other words, every other version of this found on the net is part of the radical right's great lie about gay people. For a discussion of the whole "Gay vs. Religious Right" phenomenon see Chris Bull and John Gallagher: Perfect Enemies: The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s, (New York: Crown, 1996)

This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.

We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators,your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.

We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence--will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

"We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

"We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.

Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.

LINK

[wardaddy]

more like a gay Jewish mafia at least Hollywood wise

the velvet gefiltefish mafia

[LetMarch]

Ete following is from: “SPecial Repot For Public Officials”
From: (1986) Institute in Basic Life Principles

HOW DID “ACRIME AGAINST NATURE” DESTROY THE “LIGHT” AND LIFE OF A BEAUTIFUL CITY?

THE ACTUAL ACCOUNT (Genesis 19:1-11,15,24,26)

THE VIOLENT NATURE OF THE PROBLEM (See the scriptue above)

WHY ARE LAWS AGAINST SODOMY VITAL AND BENEFICIAL FOR ALL CITIENS, INCLUDING SODOMITES? (1 Timothy 1:9-10)

WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTAIN SODOMY ONCE IT IS LEGALIZED?
(See the 1983 lawsuit of Gay Rights vs. Texas A & M)

WHY IS IT TRUE THAT SODOMITES ARE NOT A CLASS OF PEOPLE BUT A TYPE OF SINNER? (Romans 1:24)

The above is just a partial outline of the report! It is a must read for all peoples! (Psalm 119:9-11)

[uglybiker]

These donors -- who call themselves "The Cabinet"...

Shouldn't they call themselves: Out Of The Cabinet?

[CalKat114]

Here’s more on this subject from the SF Chronicle. This has alot more information on the background of these top gay donors.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/16/BAJG144PTB.DTL&hw=super+friends&sn=003&sc=790

Wealthy gay men backed anti-Prop. 8 effort
John Wildermuth, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, November 16, 2008

A handful of the nation’s wealthiest gay men pumped more than $4.5 million into the campaign against Prop. 8, part of a flood of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender money that accounted for more than half the $38 million raised in the unsuccessful effort to block the same-sex marriage ban in California.

A direct appeal to the community in the final weeks of the campaign brought a surge of new money into the No on Prop. 8 effort, sometimes as much as $1 million a day.

“Most of our major contributors were either gay or regular contributors to LGBT causes,” said Steve Smith, who ran the campaign against Prop. 8. “I think we had an extraordinary response from the gay and lesbian community.”

Much of that money came from individuals and groups that make no secret of their orientation.

“It’s tremendously important for gays and lesbians to be out when they make political contributions,” said Michael Fleming, who advises David Bohnett, a Beverly Hills technology entrepreneur.

Bohnett, who gave $1.2 million to the effort to block Prop. 8, is one of a group of wealthy gay men who Time magazine recently suggested were seen as “a kind of secret Super Friends, a homosexual justice league” that moves around the nation spending millions of dollars to support gay and lesbian causes and back candidates who back their views.

While people close to the group collectively winced at the magazine’s description of a shadowy group of gay activists styling themselves as “the Cabinet,” political finance records show that wealthy gays and their foundations are taking an increasingly public role in the fight for marriage equality and other gay and lesbian issues.

Tim Gill, for example, is a Denver man who founded Quark Inc., a pioneer in the desktop publishing world. Gill, along with his Gill Action Fund, put $720,000 into the No on Prop. 8 campaign. In 2000, Gill gave $250,000 to defeat California’s Prop. 22, which banned same-sex marriages in the state until it was overturned by the state Supreme Court in May.

In 2006, the Gill Action Fund also spent $3.7 million in nine states in an unsuccessful effort to block same-sex marriage bans. His foundation also has given $120 million to a variety of nonprofit groups, many of them with links to the gay and lesbian community.

Big-name donors
Jon Stryker, heir to a Kalamazoo, Mich., medical implements fortune, gave more than $1 million to the attempt to defeat Prop. 8. Since 2000, his Arcus Foundation has given more than $50 million to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes.

San Francisco philanthropist James Hormel, heir to the meatpacking fortune, gave $300,000 to the fight against Prop. 8. He’s also given hundreds of thousands to Democratic Party causes and put money into state and congressional races across the country.

Bruce Bastian, a onetime Mormon who gave $1 million to the anti-Prop. 8 campaign, said that gays and lesbians have to stand up and level the financial playing field if they want to get their message out and gain marriage equality.

“One thing I learned as a Mormon was that preaching costs money,” Bastian said in a Chronicle interview in July.

Gay celebrities contributed
There was plenty of money from gay groups and out gays and lesbians. Fred Eychaner, a Chicago businessman, gave $250,000. Comedian Ellen DeGeneres gave $100,000, as did actor T.R. Knight and DreamWorks CEO David Geffen. Former Santa Barbara GOP Rep. Michael Huffington gave $100,000, as did New York City philanthropist Henry van Ameringen and Coral Gables, Fla., businessman Jonathan Lewis.

Gay rights groups like Equality California, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the National Gay and Lesbian Task force collected millions in contributions to fight Prop. 8, not all of them from gay and lesbian sources. The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Service Center gave $1 million, while smaller organizations from across the nation chipped in with support.

It wasn’t all big donors. San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros gave $1,000, while former city Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg donated $250. Campaign sources estimated that more than half of No on Prop. 8’s 100,000 donors gave less than $100.

Stepping up
The gay and lesbian community was there when it was needed, said Smith, campaign manager for the No side.

In early October, he held an unusual news conference for the gay media only, telling them that the campaign was low on money, sinking in the polls and needed help, fast.

“Two days later, we had our first $1 million (contribution) day and we probably averaged $500,000 a day to the end of the campaign,” Smith said. “Though there’s no way to know for sure, I’m confident much of that money came from gay and lesbian sources.”

That support didn’t come as a surprise to Prop. 8 supporters.

“There was a ton of gay money put into the No campaign, although it’s hard to say how much because no one asks what your sexual orientation is when you give,” said Frank Schubert, political consultant for Prop. 8. “I don’t know how that’s different from the Mormons and Catholics who gave to us.”

Calling for church boycotts
Equality California, which took the lead in the anti-Prop. 8 effort, estimates that Mormons donated as much as $20 million to Prop. 8, while the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal group, gave $1.25 million to the effort and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, $200,000.

Some of the opponents of Prop. 8 have called for a boycott of Mormon-owned businesses and others who gave money to support the ban on same-sex marriage, which is being challenged in court.

People shouldn’t be any more surprised that Mormons, Catholics and other religious groups gave money to Prop. 8 than they are that gays and lesbians opened their checkbooks to support it, said Edwin Bender, executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

“It’s the people who are affected who get involved, and you’ll always find a few people with deep pockets taking the lead,” he said. “Ballot measures are direct democracy at its purest, and when you talk about issues like ... marriage rights, it becomes very personal.”

Largest gay contributions
Gay and lesbian money from across the country flooded into the campaign against Prop. 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. Among the largest contributions from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community were:

David Bohnett

— Home: Beverly Hills

— Background:

co-founder of Geo-Cities Internet company

— Contribution:

$1.2 million

Jon Stryker

— Home: Kalamazoo, Mich.

— Background: heir to hospital equipment

company

— Contribution:

$1.05 million

Bruce Bastian

— Home: Orem, Utah

— Background:

co-founder of WordPerfect software

— Contribution:

$1 million

Tim Gill

— Home: Denver

— Background: founder

of Quark Inc., which makes desktop publishing software

— Contribution: $710,000

James Hormel

— Home:

San Francisco

— Background: heir to meatpacking fortune

— Contribution: $300,000

Fred Eychaner

— Home: Chicago

— Background: owner, Newsweb Corp.

— Contribution: $250,000

E-mail John Wildermuth at jwildermuth@sfchronicle.com.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/16/BAJG144PTB.DTL

This article appeared on page B - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle

[CalKat114]

There is a bright side to all this. I think the gays' over-reaching will backfire in a huge way. This issue has awakened traditional values people who were oblivious to the radical gays' plan to change America. Now that it's becoming more obvious to the nation that battle lines are being drawn in California, pro-family people will fight back. If the gays keep pushing this, I think Congress could be won back by conservatives in 2010.

Obama doesn't want this issue coming to the forefront since it means he'll have to make good on his promise to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). If Obama and Congress try to repeal DOMA, goodbye Dimocrat Congress! If Obama and Congress don't repeal DOMA, gays may continue their loud hissy fit which could help restore conservative politicians to Congress.

[manc]

agreed I said earlier that many of the people who I talked to this week said that from what they have seen they will vote aginst them as they never bothered this time and that they are now aware how these people are going about things.
One woman said to me that she had no idea how radical they were and she had never took any notice about this before.

Agreed about getting some Dems out, I think too that we can get more conservatives in with this issue. In FL just over 62% of voted for marriage as a one man between one woman and nothing else at all.
The opposition got in the 30% tile , that was a big margin but of course we do not hear that from the media.

here’s hoping we are right, .
The homo’s pushed their agenda too far,

They were so stupid tr every move, they took kids to a homo wedding during school time
they are doing this instead of going about things the legal way
they are acting very immature for all to see
They got judges there in CA to back them and that in itself pissed people off
They equate their agenda to black rights which causes resentment from the black community as it is nothing the same
They shout about rights being taken away but none were.

[Clemenza]

David Geffen is the Godfather. Lawrence Tisch and Stephen Spielberg are Capi. This is what Michael Ovitz told me.

The Gay Mafia is VERY real, especially in the media (both local and national), not just in Hollywood.

[Looper]

So let me get this straight. The anti Prop 8 forces are up in arms about out of state religious organizations, e.g., Mormons, funding Prop. 8, yet there’s no problem with out of state homosexuals contributing to Va. and other races?

[little jeremiah]

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