Why a 'Gay' Activist Columnist at The Washington Times?

Culture & Family Institute of CWA ^ | 12/18/2002 | Peter LaBarbera

[Remedy]

As a pro-family conservative and former reporter for The Washington Times, I am one of that newspaper's biggest boosters. To appreciate the thoroughness of the Times and the balance it provides to the liberal Post, one need only travel to another big city and read the shallow and biased fare that passes for "news" and commentary in the local newspaper. Americans owe a debt of gratitude to the Times.

So I was stunned one recent morning to open up the Times and read that it had added a weekly column by Andrew Sullivan to its Friday editorial pages. Sullivan is a gifted essayist and cultural critic, to be sure, but he is also one of the world's most effective propagandists for the homosexual cause. He tirelessly advocates for "gay marriage" - an oxymoron if there ever was one. And he regularly posits a moral equivalence between normal male-female relationships and unnatural homosexual couplings. Worse, he claims to do so as a practicing Catholic.

Like countless fellow "gay" activists, Sullivan wrongly assumes that his homosexual "orientation" is natural and criticizes the Church's age-old Biblical stance that homosexual behavior is sinful. Rather than examine his heart and repent of his own errors, Sullivan - who has AIDS and who was discovered last year to have posted a solicitation on a homosexual "barebacking" (condomless sodomy) Web site - questions the Church and its teachings.

Not surprisingly, Sullivan is using his Friday "Weekly Dish" column in The Washington Times column to advance his favorite cause. In his November 6 column, he hails several "gay" election victories and works in yet another pitch for "gay marriage." He also welcomes the growing homosexual support for Republicans and ends with an appeal to President Bush to support a federal pro-homosexual "law against workplace discrimination" as a means of winning further support. Funny, I recall reading that Sullivan once bucked the "gay" lobby by opposing expansive "gay rights" laws as unnecessary and a potential threat to liberty. It appears that his "gayness" has trumped his "conservatism" once again.

It's a sad commentary on our times that today a person is probably more likely to be fired or disciplined at his job for opposing homosexuality than for being homosexual. Take Eastman Kodak, which imposes a misnamed "diversity" code on its employees - regardless of their religious or moral beliefs. Kodak recently fired a 23-year employee, Rolf Szabo, who bristled at a memo ordering workers to support homosexual coworkers who "come out" as "gay," lesbian, bisexual or "transgendered." Szabo copied his reply, "Please do not send this type of information to me anymore as I find it disgusting and offensive," to all the Kodak employees who had received it, and then refused to issue an apology. The leading "gay" lobby group, Human Rights Campaign, organized a letter-writing campaign in support of Kodak's action.

This is not "tolerance;" it's mandatory groupthink, and the Corporate Thought Police will only get bolder, and meaner, if "conservative" Sullivan gets his way and the federal homosexual bill he is touting - the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) - becomes law. You can bet there would be more Rolf Szabos thrown out on the street under ENDA, all in the name of "gay" tolerance.

There has never been a time when the media - led by The Washington Post and The New York Times - have pushed the pro-homosexual line harder than they do today. The Washington Times is different. It gives voice to traditional viewpoints that so often are shut out by today's journalists, who are like so many lemmings jumping off a moral cliff. Andrew Sullivan has plenty of media outlets with which to hawk "gay marriage" and other misguided homosexual causes. The last thing we need is for a self-described "family" newspaper - "America's newspaper" - to lend its respected pages to his immoral crusade.

[Remedy]

He tirelessly advocates for "gay marriage" - an oxymoron if there ever was one.

• Fairness, Accuracy and Honesty in Discussing Homosexuality and Marriage, by Lynne Marie Kohm & Mark A. Yarhouse is an introduction to this issue and ties in the social science articles with the law. ---Lynn Marie Kohm is the John Brown McCarty Professor of Family Law, Regent University School of Law.---Mark A. Yarhouse, is an assistant professor of psychology, Regent University School of Psychology and Counseling.

• Talking Points: How Homosexual 'Civil Unions' Harm Marriage The eminent Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin argued that no society has ceased to honor the institution of marriage and survived.

• Same Sex Marriage: Til Death Do Us Part? Homosexual marriage is nothing like traditional marriage. Homosexual unions are not built around lifetime commitments, nor are they good environments to raise children.

And he regularly posits a moral equivalence between normal male-female relationships and unnatural homosexual couplings.

• What Is "A Homosexual" Kinsey reported that those who engaged in homosexuality were exceptionally sexually flexible, intensely sexualized, and highly venturesome. Kinsey's published data reveal that homosexuals are much more willing to "try it" with an animal, a child, a man, many women, or for that matter "something completely different."
• What Homosexuals Say About Homosexuals - Is This Gay Behavior Sick?
• Compared with their heterosexual peers, homosexual men were at greater risk for psychiatric disorders, including mood and anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, and simple phobia. ---Theo G. M. Sandfort, Archives of General Psychiatry Vol. 58, Number . , 2001. Page(s) 85-91. SO MUCH FOR HOMOPHOBIA
• Relationship violence was found to be a significant problem for homosexuals. Forty-four (44) percent of the gay men reported having experienced violence in their relationships; 13 percent reported sexual violence and 83 percent reported emotional abuse. Levels of abuse ran even higher among lesbians: 55 percent reported physical violence in their relationships, 14 percent reported sexual abuse, and 84 percent reported emotional abuse. Susan C. Turrell,Journal of Family Violence Vol. 13, Number . , 2000. Page(s) 281-293.
• Violence and Homosexuality The top six U.S. male serial killers were all gay.
• The median age of death for those who regularly engage in homosexual behavior leaned in the direction of less than 50. The data suggest a "20- to 30-year decrease in lifespan" because of "substantially evelated rates of sexually elevated diseases . . . cancer and heart conditions, and violence among homosexual men and women." Paul Cameron, Psychological Reports,Vol. 83, Number . , 1998. Page(s) 847-866.
• Almost one-third (29.7 percent) of gays and nearly one-half (47.5 percent) of lesbians reported being or having been the victim of relationship violence. In addition, 22 percent of gays and 38 percent of lesbians admitted using violence against their partners. Lisa Walder-Haugrad, Violence and Victims Vol. 12, Number . , 1997. Page(s) 173-184.
• Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do FECAL SEX About 80% of gays (see Table) admit to licking and/or inserting their tongues into the anus of partners and thus ingesting medically significant amounts of feces. Those who eat or wallow in it are probably at even greater risk. In the diary study,5 70% of the gays had engaged in this activity--half regularly over 6 months. Result? --the "annual incidence of hepatitis A in...homosexual men was 22 percent, whereas no heterosexual men acquired hepatitis A." In 1992,26 it was noted that the proportion of London gays engaging in oral/anal sex had not declined since 1984.
• Gay Foster Parents More Apt to Molest
•  Talking Points: Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse
• Studies of Homosexual Parenting: A Critical Review, by George Rekers & Mark Kilgus illuminates the flaws of the leading social science studies on homosexual parenting and child development that are relied upon by courts, legislators, and lawyers in advocating homosexual adoption of children. ---George Rekers, a Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, is author of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexual Problems. He was the recipient of the 2000 Sigmund Freud Award for Pioneering Research.--- Mark D. Kilgus is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who presently serves as the Medical Director of Northpointe Behavioral Healthcare Systems in Michigan.

Worse, he claims to do so as a practicing Catholic.

• Courage, an apostolate of the Roman Catholic Church, ministers to those with same-sex attractions and their loved ones. We have been endorsed by the Pontifical Council for the Family.
•  What Does The Bible Say About . . . .Homosexuality, Adultery & Other Sexual Sins
• Responding to Pro-Gay Theology

 It appears that his "gayness" has trumped his "conservatism" once again.

•  Selling Homosexuality To America
• "Gay Rights" Strategies Involve Conscious Deception And Wholesale Manipulation of Public Opinion

wrongly assumes that his homosexual "orientation" is natural and criticizes the Church's age-old Biblical stance that homosexual behavior is sinful

•  The Gay Gene: Going, Going ... Gone
• Homosexuality: A Political Mask For Promiscuity: A Psychiatrist Reviews The Data Indeed, the Torah reserves its most intense condemnation for homosexuality: "to'eva" - abomination...

Sullivan - who has AIDS and who was discovered last year to have posted a solicitation on a homosexual "barebacking" (condomless sodomy)

• The plague abettors Through 20 years of political correctness and political pressure, the gay establishment has caused AIDS to spread like wildfire.

The last thing we need is for a self-described "family" newspaper - "America's newspaper" - to lend its respected pages to his immoral crusade.

• The Poisoned Stream. "Gay" Influence in Human History. Volume One. Germany 1890-1945.

[gundog]

It's a sad commentary on our times that today a person is probably more likely to be fired or disciplined at his job for opposing homosexuality than for being homosexual.

So why all the hub-bub over the need for special protections? Not long ago, the Oregonian ran a Lifestyles Section front page story on a couple that was having a great deal of trouble finding housing...because they had two cats. The photos and text made it abundantly clear that they were homosexuals, but their biggest problem in finding housing was the two cats.

[Faith]

Thanks for pulling together such a wealth of information . I find myself growing quite intolerant---not of gays, but of their constant PR machine that attempts to convert all of our thinking and gain our acceptance. They are wasting their breath on me. If they convince the entire society that their lifestyle is normal and acceptable---indeed honorable, they will still not have changed one iota of the real truth---the Word of God.

[RAT Patrol]

I canceled my subscription over it. I can get that kind of junk online for free. I bought the WTimes actually just to support a conservative paper. I'll still read it online. They've got some great stuff. But I feel no obligation any more to buy a subscription. There are many other talented columnists that could have chosen. It's their right to choose Sulli, but it's my right to disagree.

If the Washington Times were not a conservative publication then I would feel they SHOULD carry someone with Sullivan's liberal social views. It's only right to have balance. But this is different.

[Cicero]

It's not a question of discrimination against gays, or running them out of the Republican party. Frankly I don't ask people I meet what their "sexual orientation" is, and I doubt if many people would.

The point is that there's a big difference between being gay and being a gay activist, working day and night to impose your "values" on everyone else by force of law.

[blau993]

Your position apparently is that the Times must be totally monolithic in its approach, apparently because those of us who read it are too gullible and naive to be able to deal with Mr. Sullivan's advocacy of homosexual rights. Sorry Mommy, those old apron strings are just a LITTLE TOO CONFINING. I think I can read Mr. Sullivan's column (or choose not to read it) without feeling an uncontrollable impulse to wrap myself in pink ribbon.

[KC_Conspirator]

Not only that, but many conservatives are not "conservative" when it comes to economic policy. Andrew Sullivan is an economic conservative. Sure, I can't agree with all of Sullivan's agenda, but he's a critical thinker about most topics and it would be foolish to just throw away his input because of his other "issues".

[shrinkermd]

Some of what is said here makes sense. But there is a problem. What Sullivan did was take a job at the Washington Times. Who among you want to deny him this? If so what writing jobs are you going to permit to do and why.

IMHO, this is an employment issue. No question about it, biologically and statistically homosexuality is not normal and the gays and the lesbians dispute this. Even my own professional association, American Psychiatric Association, disagrees with my convictions. But is preventing Sullivan from writing for a newspaper a way to solve the argument? I think not.

I think the homosexuals want to be accepted as they are in society. Unfortunately, their in-your-face-I-am-as normal are has resulted in an identity "politics" war. In the meantime, homosexuals are going to need jobs, places to live, religious institutions and everything else we desire and need. Neither the Constitution or common sense leaves much of an alternative

[Remedy]

the Times must be totally monolithic in its approach

No. More along the lines of the Anti-Defamation League hiring Joseph Goebbels as a public relations specialist, i.e., The Poisoned Stream. "Gay" Influence in Human History. Volume One. Germany 1890-1945.

 

[BibChr]

So about post #19 of #20, madg will appear to tell us that the emperor in fact has really great clothes, and we really needn't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain.

Dan

[gcruse]

The NYT runs Bill Safire. The Washington Post runs George Will. One gets the feeling that some would have this country be a theocracy, given the opportunity.

[Remedy]

Neither the Constitution or common sense leaves much of an alternative

Thomas Jefferson on Sodomy

Sect. XIV. Whosoever shall be guilty of rape, polygamy, or sodomy* with a man or woman, shall be punished; if a man, by castration, a woman, by boring through the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch in diameter at the least.

* Paragraph 25. H. 8. C. 6. Buggery is twofold. 1. With mankind, 2. With beasts. Buggery is the Genus, of which Sodomy and Bestiality, are the species. 12. Co. 37. Says, "note that Sodomy is with mankind." But Finch's L. B. 3. c. 24. "Sodomiary is a carnal copulation against nature, to wit, of man or woman in the same sex, or of either of them with beasts." 12. Co. 36. Says, "it appears by the ancient authorities of the law that this was felony." Yet the 25. H. 8. Declares it felony, as if supposed not the be so.... B. Fleta, L. i. c. 37. says, "pecorantes et Sodomitae in terra vivi confodiantur." The Mirror makes it treason. Bestiality can never make any progress; it cannot therefore be injurious to society in any great degree, which is the true measure of criminality in foro civili, and will ever be properly and severely punished, by universal derision. It may, therefore, be omitted. It was anciently punished with death, as it has been latterly. Ll. Aelfrid. 31. and 25. H. 8. c. 6. see Beccaria. Paragraph 31. Montesq.

Peterson, Merrill D. "Crimes and Punishments" Thomas Jefferson: Writings Public Papers (Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1984) pp. 355, 356.

The penalties for violating sodomy laws in the USA:

Idaho, 5 years to life

Oklahoma, 20 years

Michigan, 15 years

Mississippi, 10 years

Puerto Rico, 8 - 20 years

Louisiana, 5 years/$2000

South Carolina, 5 years/$500

North Carolina, 3 years

Virginia, 1-5 years

Alabama, 1 year/$2000

Missouri, 1 year/$1000

Kansas, 6 months/$1000

Utah, 6 months/$299

Florida, 60 days/$500

Texas, $500

[muir_redwoods]

The fact is, they're not running their newspaper for your enjoyment. It's an on-going enterprise operating in a free market. They can hire anybody they choose and you can choose to spend your money on it or on another newspaper. Your choice to buy is just like the channel selector on your TV. If you don't like what they do, don't support them with your purchase.

It might be just as simple to buy the newspaper and choose not to read the column you don't like. I don't agree totally with anybody I have yet met and certainly not with any newspaper.

Of course if you ask my wife and kids they'll tell you that I am a bit hard to get along with now and then

[laurav]

Wow - rejoicing in the chronic or potentially fatal illness of a fellow human being. That's very Christian of you.

/sarcasm

[shrinkermd]

Your laws, like your hatred, are obvious, but when and where have these laws been enforced?

[laurav]

If the Washington Times were not a conservative publication then I would feel they SHOULD carry someone with Sullivan's liberal social views. It's only right to have balance.

The Washington Times is not aiming to be a conservative publication. They're aiming to be a mainstream newspaper that's balanced, unlike the competition. So they have columnists like Nat Hentoff and Andrew Sullivan. Makes it more interesting to read than reading 15 conservative columnists saying the exact same thing.

[blau993]

Sorry, my friend. The ADL's purpose is to advocate a point of view. Of course they would not hire someone whose viewpoints are directly opposed to theirs. However, a newspaper is a whole other world. The purpose of editorial pages and columnists is to provide an interchange of views and ideas. If everybody is singing out of the same hymnal, it all gets pretty anemic after a while. Sullivan is an excellent writer, as you concede, and his ideas are often provocative and always witty. I think I can deal with the gay stuff or anything else I may not happen to agree with. I don't need or want censors to preserve my alleged virtue.

[Remedy]

Your laws, like your hatred, are obvious

Violence and Homosexuality The top six U.S. male serial killers were all gay.

[RAT Patrol]

Oh chill, will you? I said they had the right to carry him. I'm not asking for gov't mandates on the issue. But I'm entitled to pick and choose what I support. It's a big issue to me. As are taxes, abortion, guns, etc...

How about a gay publication that carried Jerry Falwell? Would you subscribe? The WTimes is not balanced on any other issue; why this one? I will not help anyone promote this immorality. It is a matter of conscience to me.

[Howlin]

Charming.

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when and where have these laws been enforced?

Homosexuals Demand Legalization of Sex With Strangers in Public Parks

[eno_]

It is your absolute right to disagree and cancel your subscription. But maybe you should take the time to see if this is some "endorsement" of a "gay lifestyle" or if Andrew Sullivan is a conservative who has made different life choices from your's. There is a big difference.

[Remedy]

when and where have these laws been enforced?

Supreme Court Of The United States,No. 99-699 Boy Scouts Of America And Monmouth Council, Et Al., Petitioners V.James Dale

[LO_IQ]

The Wash Times is a conspiracy by the Moonies to destroy America < /sarcasm>

[gcruse]

working day and night to impose your "values" on everyone else by force of law.

You mean like the Religious Right, as exemplified by TVC,
drugwarriors, 'there is no freedom from [my] religion,' etc. etc.  etc?

[Remedy]

when and where have these laws been enforced?

Hundreds rally for '10 Commandments judge'

"They have objected to my behavior as a judge because I reference the moral foundation of the law when we talked about sodomy, when we talked about adultery, when we talked about separation of church and state. I go back to the legal history that we have here in Alabama, our court case precedents, and the foundations of law to show that these things comport with the Scriptures from which we get our moral foundation."

Gay rights organizations in Alabama and Washington, including Equality Begins at Home of Central Alabama, are calling for Moore's resignation, accusing him of using "right-wing rhetoric and far right religious dogma to justify homophobia and execution of homosexuals."

The effort is in response to the Alabama high court's unanimous decision to reject a lesbian mother's child custody petition. Moore wrote a separate concurring opinion, repudiating homosexuality on religious grounds, calling it "abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature's God."

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when and where have these laws been enforced?

Because of the nature of the crime, the penalties for the act of sodomy were often severe. For example, Thomas Jefferson indicated that in his home state of Virginia, "dismemberment" of the offensive organ was the penalty for sodomy. ⁷ In fact, Jefferson himself authored a bill penalizing sodomy by castration. ⁸ The laws of the other states showed similar or even more severe penalties:

That the detestable and abominable vice of buggery [sodomy] . . . shall be from henceforth adjudged felony . . . and that every person being thereof convicted by verdict, confession, or outlawry [unlawful flight to avoid prosecution], shall be hanged by the neck until he or she shall be dead. ⁹ NEW YORK

That if any man shall lie with mankind as he lieth with womankind, both of them have committed abomination; they both shall be put to death. ¹⁰ CONNECTICUT

Sodomy . . . shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labour in the penitentiary during the natural life or lives of the person or persons convicted of th[is] detestable crime. ¹¹ GEORGIA

That if any man shall commit the crime against nature with a man or male child . . . every such offender, being duly convicted thereof in the Supreme Judicial Court, shall be punished by solitary imprisonment for such term not exceeding one year and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for such term not exceeding ten years. ¹² MAINE

That if any person or persons shall commit sodomy . . . he or they so offending or committing any of the said crimes within this province, their counsellors, aiders, comforters, and abettors, being convicted thereof as above said, shall suffer as felons. ¹³ [And] shall forfeit to the Commonwealth all and singular the lands and tenements, goods and chattels, whereof he or she was seized or possessed at the time . . . at the discretion of the court passing the sentence, not exceeding ten years, in the public gaol or house of correction of the county or city in which the offence shall have been committed and be kept at such labor. ¹⁴ PENNSYLVANIA

[T]he detestable and abominable vice of buggery [sodomy] . . . be from henceforth adjudged felony . . . and that the offenders being hereof convicted by verdict, confession, or outlawry [unlawful flight to avoid prosecution], shall suffer such pains of death and losses and penalties of their goods. ¹⁵ SOUTH CAROLINA

That if any man lieth with mankind as he lieth with a woman, they both shall suffer death. ¹⁶ VERMONT

8. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew A. Lipscomb, editor (Washington, D. C.: Thomas Jefferson M emorial Association, 1904), Vol. I, pp. 226-227, from Jefferson's "For Proportioning Crimes and Punishments."
9. Laws of the State of New-York . . . Since the Revolution (New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1798), Vol. I, p. 336.
10. The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut (Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1808), Book I, p. 295.
11. A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia (Milledgeville: Grantland & Orme, 1822), p. 350.
12. Laws of the State of Maine (Hallowell: Goodale, Glazier & Co., 1822), p. 58.
13. Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1810), Vol. I, p. 113.
14. Collinson Read, An Abridgment of the Laws of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1801), p. 279.
15. Alphabetical Digest of the Public Statute Laws of South-Carolina (Charleston: John Hoff, 1814), Vol. I, p. 99.
16. Statutes of the State of Vermont (Bennington, 1791), p. 74.

[RAT Patrol]

I've read enough of Sullivan to know he's not all THAT conservative on issues that matter to me. I'd rather not know about his sex life to tell you the truth. He has made it my business so I'm just saying I do not support the gay agenda in any way, shape, or form. Period. Forever and ever.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: Why a 'Gay' Activist Columnist at The Washington Times?

Well, it is the Season to don our gay apparel...

[JonH]

I got the message that you feel strongly about this issue and have gathered a lot of data on the subject. I am not pro-gay, nor do I support the gay community's efforts to impose their life style on others. Regardless, I have a question. How is this rant different than the gay's effort to keep Dr. Laura off TV. Were we against the program to silence that voice?

[shrinkermd]

"The penalties for violating sodomy laws in the USA:Idaho, 5 years to life;Oklahoma, 20 years;Michigan, 15 years;Mississippi, 10 years;Puerto Rico, 8 - 20 years;Louisiana, 5 years/$2000;South Carolina, 5 years/$500; North Carolina, 3 years;Virginia, 1-5 years;Alabama, 1 year/$2000;Missouri, 1 year/$1000;Kansas, 6 months/$1000;Utah, 6 months/$299;Florida, 60 days/$500;Texas, $500

Which of these states has imposed these draconian penalties and when? That is the question. Your personal views are important but they aren't the law of the land.

[cruiserman]

It's a sad commentary on our times that today a person is probably more likely to be fired or disciplined at his job for opposing homosexuality than for being homosexual.

Seems more like a way of increasing the Times's circulation by appealing to gay readers.

[ken5050]

Every Thursday morning when I open my Wall Street Journal, I neatly cut out Al Hunt's column, crumple it up, and flush it down the john...without reading it.....been doing it for years...it's very theraputic..

[Remedy]

How is this rant different than the gay's effort to keep Dr. Laura off TV.

Compassionate Society Should Discourage Deadly Homosexual Behavior

[VRW Conspirator]

I believe in live and let live. I think that most Americans do, also. The hang ups I have with the gay activists is their political agenda and their deafing silence on child predators. A sizeable number of molestations are by gay men. There are even gay activists who are pushing for more than just tolerance, they are advocating acceptance to the point of special minority status. Some gay activists are even driving the agenda of lowering the age of consent.

All in all, the gay activists are largely anti-Christianity. Having a half a dozen or so verses in the Bible that speak against homosexuality is the primary reason. The agenda by these gay acivists here is to neutralize Christian belief and moral implementation. The Christian ethic is the biggest single factor for America being Great and that is what they are attacking.

[Remedy]

Which of these states has imposed these draconian penalties and when?

Lawrence v. Texas, 41 SW.3d 349 (2001)

[JonH]

Sorry...your canned link response does not support a case for censorship for either side of the issue. Trying to silence a voice has almost nothing to do with discouraging behavior whether deadly or just disagreeable.

[Remedy]

The Christian ethic is the biggest single factor for America being Great and that is what they are attacking.

Sept. 2, 2000 ,Volume 15, Number 34 WORLD ON THE WEB, Marvin Olasky

...For example, the word homophobia smogged up the air over the Democratic convention in Los Angeles last week, as we learned once again that a man who criticizes homosexuality on biblical grounds is trying to repress his true desire to plant a big sloppy kiss on the dude next door.

...That's why Rabbi Lapin's fearless statement makes sense: "Those of us who venerate freedom, be we Jewish or Christian, be we religious or secularized, have no option but to pray for the health of Christianity in America. No other group possesses both the faith and the numbers sufficient to hold back the ever-encroaching, sometimes sinister, power of the state."

[VRW Conspirator]

That's why Rabbi Lapin's fearless statement makes sense:...

Rabbi Lapin always make sense. He makes me think so hard that it makes my brain hurt.

[blau993]

Every Thursday morning when I open my Wall Street Journal, I neatly cut out Al Hunt's column, crumple it up, and flush it down the john...without reading it.....been doing it for years...it's very theraputic..

And I am sure it keeps you very regular too.

But it's the MIND we are talking about here. It is like any other muscle in the body. If you don't exercise it, not only does it not grow, it atrophies.

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Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 US 186 (1986)
After being charged with violating the Georgia statute criminalizing sodomy by committing that act with another adult male in the bedroom of his home, respondent Hardwick (respondent) brought suit in Federal District Court, challenging the constitutionality of the statute insofar as it criminalized consensual sodomy. The court granted the defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded, holding that the Georgia statute violated respondent's fundamental rights.

Held: The Georgia statute is constitutional. Pp. 190-196 .

(a) The Constitution does not confer a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy. None of the fundamental rights announced in this Court's prior cases involving family relationships, marriage, or procreation bear any resemblance to the right asserted in this case. And any claim that those cases stand for the proposition that any kind of private sexual conduct between consenting adults is constitutionally insulated from state proscription is unsupportable. Pp. 190-191 .

(b) Against a background in which many States have criminalized sodomy and still do, to claim that a right to engage in such conduct is "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition" or "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty" is, at best, facetious. Pp. 191-194 .

(c) There should be great resistance to expand the reach of the Due Process Clauses to cover new fundamental rights. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily would take upon itself further authority to govern the country without constitutional authority. The claimed right in this case falls far short of overcoming this resistance. Pp. 194-195 .

(d) The fact that homosexual conduct occurs in the privacy of the home does not affect the result. Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 , distinguished. Pp. 195-196 .

(e) Sodomy laws should not be invalidated on the asserted basis that majority belief that sodomy is immoral is an inadequate rationale to support the laws. P. 196 .

[scripter]

Great links, Remedy. Nice formatting as well!

Let me know if you want to be included or removed in future pings of this type.

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[I_Love_My_Husband]

Faith hello! (Remember me? I'm formerly grlfrnd!)

I agree with you completely.

I can't stand Sully, for these reasons AND the totally DISGUSTING scandal he was involved in (he advertised for unsafe sex practices and IS HIV+!!!)

[Clint N. Suhks]

I canceled my subscription over it.

I see it like Fox news, fair and balanced, and hold my nose when Alan Colmbs is on. Except Alan isn't mentally ill.

[scripter]

So that's what happened to freeper grlfrnd... I had you on my ping list but it started failing one day so I removed grlfrnd... Of course now you're on the ping list with your new account. Gee, thanks for telling me. :-)

[weegee]

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