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Complete title: Military Should ‘Expressly Prohibit’ Heterosexuals from Using Separate Showers from Homosexuals After Repeal of DADT, Says DOD Working Group A special Defense Department working group appointed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates has recommended that the military should “expressly prohibit” heterosexuals from using separate showers, bathrooms and bunking facilities from homosexuals when the repeal of the law banning homosexuals from the military goes into effect.The working group has also recommended that commanding officers be left with the authority to exempt individuals from using the same showers, bathrooms and living facilities as homosexuals, but only on a “case-by-case” basis.The House...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Pope Benedict XVI said condoms are not the answer to the AIDS epidemic in Africa and can make the problem worse, setting off criticism Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent where some 22 million people are living with HIV. Benedict's first statement on an issue that has divided even Catholic clergy working with AIDS patients came hours before he arrived in Cameroon's capital — greeted by thousands of flag-waving faithful who stood shoulder-to-shoulder in red dirt fields and jammed downtown streets for a glimpse of the pontiff's motorcade. In his four years as...

Democratic candidates for President traveled to Los Angeles to participate in a debate on gay issues. The event, unprecedented for a presidential campaign, was sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the most powerful gay lobby groups in the world. Senator Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), Senator Barack Obama (Ill.), former senator John Edwards (N.C.) and Governor Bill Richardson (N.M.) said they favored civil unions for gays, but not “marriage” per se. Only Representative Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) and former senator Mike Gravel (Alaska) endorsed same-sex "marriage." “Many married heterosexuals enjoy an occasional anal penetration,” Kucinich declared. “If they can be married,...

I work for a major auto company as an electrician. A year and a half ago my employer announced that a one-day mandatory “diversity” class would be scheduled for all employees – no exceptions. Any refusal would result in disciplinary action or possible termination. The facility I worked at had approximately five hundred employees. Many of my coworkers were outraged at what they considered an invasion of their privacy. Most had convictions that were biblically based; others just wanted to be left alone to think and believe as they pleased. The “training,” we were told, was company wide. Our supervisors...

Two mild-mannered pro-family activists have been barred from an Illinois university campus after being railed against by homosexual students and faculty members who accused them of "hate speech."During their fourth visit to Northeastern Illinois University, Wayne Lela and John McCartney were subjected to the shouting and heckling of a large group of homosexual activists who ridiculed the two men for presenting factual information about the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle. One individual even tossed a package of condoms on their display table.Lela and McCartney are the founders of the Committee on Family and Social Health (CFSH). Lela says during the...

The fall afternoon started simply enough: A handful of gay teens from Harvey Milk High School lounged around a Lexus parked by a Starbucks in Greenwich Village on Tuesday. Then things got violent. One of the teens fiddled with the Lexus' sideview mirror, enraging the driver. Words, some of them possibly homophobic, were exchanged. A bottle was thrown at the luxury car. The Lexus driver came at the teens with a screwdriver. When all was said and done, three Harvey Milk students as well as the driver of the Lexus, Vernon Jones, 23, were arrested - and Jones had been...

Imagine that an organism is sick. Imagine that the sick cells convince the organism that they were healthy, and in fact, the healthy cells are sick. The gullible organism would just get sicker and sicker. This is the relationship between society and homosexuals today. Gays argue that same-sex behavior is no different than being left-handed. On the other hand, they say heterosexual behavior is not natural, but socially conditioned and “oppressive.” Heterosexual society and family are being ravaged. Our stupid, opportunistic and craven leaders have betrayed us. We don´t even know we are at war. Let´s decide whom, in fact, ...

Press Release Prison Rape Elimination Act Becomes Federal Law September 4, 2003 SPR Hails Historic Move Toward Safer, More Humane Detention WASHINGTON D.C. – President George W. Bush signed into law the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 today, marking the first time the U.S. government has ever passed a law to deal with sexual assault behind bars. “The passage of this law is a major milestone, finally bringing prisoner rape out of the shadows,” said Lara Stemple, executive director of Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR), a national human rights organization that has worked on the issue for more than two...

Missing the Point on Gays By Alan Simpson Friday, September 5, 2003; Page A21 For several weeks now a storm has been brewing in the Senate over just how homosexuals fit into the mainstream of American life. First, an honest debate on the criminalization of gay sex in Texas somehow gave rise to baseless fears about permitting bestiality and incest. Then, after the Supreme Court's reasonable ruling in Lawrence v. Texas that the government had no business policing people in their bedrooms, a panic developed. Some worried that the decision would lead to gay marriage, thus posing a threat to...

A 13-year-old boy in Arkansas dies after a horrific sexual crime but much of the national media ignore the story. Conservative columnists and other critics think they know why — because the boy's accused killers are gay. "[The media] doesn't want the public to think about homosexuality and pedophilia and torture and the murder of children," says Don Feder, a conservative columnist at the Boston Herald. The boy, Jesse Dirkhising, was bound, drugged, tortured and raped for five hours before he died in 1999. Last month, a jury convicted Joshua Brown, 23, of rape and murder. Brown was sentenced to...

Homosexuality serves no useful purpose Gilbert Williams’ outrageous lies about homosexuality among dumb animals is simply shameful. Homosexuality comprises a barren act that serves no useful purpose in nature, therefore no collection of living creatures whether man or animal, can sustain themselves from generation to generation exclusively through this practice – it brings death. Furthermore, since when do we look to animals for guidance on sexual morality: animals routinely practice incestuous relationships, polygamy and spousal abuse. Does Gilbert Williams, suggest we do the same? Additionally, if homosexual acts were also practiced among animals, then such acts would be readily...

It used to be said, before gays "came out," that they were in "the closet." I wish they would go back into it. The rest of us have been in "Pandora's Box ever since. Not that long ago, in kinder, gentler times, when grown adults actually kept their private business private, and fringe rebels did not get in everyone's face to make their point, what is now considered to be an alternative lifestyle" was in fact, a deviancy. The only thing that has changed is that in 1973, (the same notorious year that also gave us Roe vs. Wade) the...

(AgapePress) - Researchers are warning of an HIV outbreak on college campuses in North Carolina. A study conducted by the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services indicates that up to 60 college students in the state may have become infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The study found that 25 male college students in a three-county region of North Carolina have been diagnosed with HIV since 2001, and nearly 90% of those students were black men whose infections resulted from homosexual sex. Lead researcher Dr. Lisa Hightow, a fellow in infectious...

PHILADELPHIA - OK, so when the Phillie Phanatic bumbled into section 508, a woman threw a rainbow flag onto the fuzzy, green mascot. At that moment, a guy wondered aloud: "Maybe the Phanatic's gay." Hmmm. Eyebrows arched. It seemed like a typical night at Veterans Stadium. But something was oh so different. Some called last night's Phillies game historic. Some ignored it. Some embraced it. Some scoffed. The Phillies hosted a franchise first - Gay Community Night. Nearly 800 spectators crowded into eight upper-deck sections designated for gay and lesbian groups along the first-base line. The rainbow colors - a...

Memphis Episcopal Bishop Don Johnson has apologized to gay and lesbian members of the West Tennessee diocese as he explained his vote against the denomination's first openly gay bishop. At a meeting last night at Grace-St. Luke's, Johnson stood crying and said in voting against the election of V. Gene Robinson, he didn't mean to reject gay members of the church. Johnson was among 43 bishops who voted against the election of Robinson to lead the New Hampshire diocese. They were the minority. Johnson says he voted "no" because the church hadn't done the theological study needed for it and...

Gay Rights And Santa's Elves By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports August 5, 2003 All sides of the "workers' rights" debate are weighing in on the heretofore unrecognized plight of Santa's Elves. Labor leaders and human rights activists are increasingly speaking out on behalf of the yuletide pixies that have, from time immemorial, been forced to toil in arctic conditions, with primitive equipment, to meet vast production quotas and inflexible deadlines. Added complaints have emerged regarding allegedly discriminatory employment practices. National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy has decried the conspicuous lack of female representation within the elf workforce and Little...

For a while now I have wondered how the seaming juggernaut of same sex marriage could be stopped. The Gays for their part do not understand the solemnity or spirituality of marriage, they see it as a civil contract that entitles heterosexuals to share costs such as medical insurance with a friend. To allow such a contract to come into existence would undermine the foundation of marriage itself. Such a thing would lead to temporary contracts and arbitration of vows. It would get silly after a while and our courts would be overcrowded with breach of contract cases. They seam...

A new USA Today /CNN /Gallup Survey suggests there is a backlash of public opinion against homosexuality after the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Texas' sodomy law. It's not surprising. The decision was widely seen as a judicial push for the agenda of homosexual political activists eager to see their lifestyle not only accepted nationwide but promoted by government and major cultural institutions. Defenders of the Texas law had contended the ultimate goal of the case was not to end sodomy laws, but to advance the "ambitious agenda" of homosexual activists. Justice Antonin Scalia, in a scathing dissent, agreed. "The...

Syndicated talk show host Michael Savage continues to fight back. Fired recently from MSNBC, the conservative talker is angry with claims made by his former network MSNBC and fellow conservatives, one of whom claimed on Fox News that his TV program had low ratings. On Savage's web site, MichaelSavage.com, Savage says, "Lying about Michael Savage's ratings is not 'fair and balanced.' A phony conservative is trying to put a knife in my back while I am on the ground. It is bad enough when the Liberals lie. Now a legion of so-called conservatives are creating false statements, publishing half truths,...

Friends, The Amazing Race is one of the most popular TV shows. Unfortunately, CBS has chosen to use the term "married" to describe the relationship of two males from California who are featured on that show. As such, CBS is effectively broadcasting to the nation that "marriage" between two men is valid and exists, despite the fact that NO state in the U.S. recognizes two men as being "married" to each other. At most, Vermont has recognized a "civil union" between two males, but that law was expressly designed not to use the term "marriage" or "married." California and Hawaii...

Students at Southern Oregon University (SOU) say they will cancel their blood drive this term because eligibility to donate discriminates against gay men. Students say that goes against the university's anti-discrimination policy and continues to label AIDS and HIV as a gay men's disease. David Adkins-Brown, SOU multicultural senator, said that is a misnomer that needs to be eradicated. "From my understanding, it's a rule they made up in the 1980s and people are not up to date," he said. Guidelines say males who have had homosexual encounters even once since 1977 are ineligible.

<p>Let me translate into "bigotspeak" what Sen. Rick Santorum meant when he compared gays to bigamists, polygamists and practitioners of incest and adultery.</p> <p>Translated: Hey, I place you in the same category as all those scummy people I just mentioned. Oh, and if you act on who you are, you're also a criminal.</p>

The homosexual is equal in God's eyes to the heterosexual. Parents must love their children, including the child who is homosexual. At the same time, a homosexual child must understand a loving parent's sadness over his or her inability to sexually love a person of the opposite sex.

Senator Rick Santorum, (R-PA) the third ranking Republican in the US Senate, is being criticized by gay groups for comments make during an AP interview. The comments that have the radical guys in fervor are his comments on homosexuality. Santorum stated: “' I have no problem with homosexuality - I have a problem with homosexual acts.''” The radical gays should be used to that comments. It has been the teaching of the Catholic Church for a very long time. Now all of a sudden when a Republican United States Senator utters the same remark there is a major problem with...

<p>Ithaca College plans to host a series of seven lectures and a film in April in celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness Month. All events are free and open to the public.</p> <p>A lecture titled "Queer Reading/Reading Queer: Introducing Queer Studies in the First-Year Composition classroom" is planned for noon Tuesday in 101 Textor Hall. Mary Beth O'Connor, assistant professor of writing, will give the lecture.</p>

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Thousands of people knowingly infect themselves with the HIV virus each year, according to Rolling Stone magazine -- a practice commonly known as "bug chasing" and cited by those who participate in it as the ultimate form of erotic fulfillment. Bug chasing is most commonly associated with homosexual men, Rolling Stone reports, and is propagated through a vast Internet network of websites and chat rooms where bug chasers can arrange sexual encounters with carriers of AIDS. This practice serves as a horrific expression of human sinfulness, Southern Baptist bioethicist Ben Mitchell says. However, believers ought not to be...

(AgapePress) - A Texas school district will permit a self-proclaimed lesbian student to start a so-called, "gay-straight club" at her Houston high school. The Klein Independent School District has settled a federal lawsuit in a deal that will allow the club to be established, and upholds a new district policy that requires written parental permission for students to participate. This action comes after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the district earlier this year on behalf of 17-year-old Marla Dukler. The ACLU argued Klein Independent School District's policy for extra-curricular clubs violated the First Amendment and...

Fistgate IV will be held again on March 15 to teach teenagers how to play with the sexual organs of other students.The first Fistgate was in 2000 and caused waves of protests from parents and others. It was exposed by the Parents Rights Coalition which taped part of the scandal so that people would finally understand what was happening, and by MassNews which reported it.The homosexual community has said that its agenda was badly damaged by the scandal. It was almost unable to find a location for the event in 2001, but Tufts University finally did let them use its...

New HIV infections leaped by an unprecedented 44 percent in Palm Beach County, 30 percent in Broward County and 18 percent in Miami-Dade County last year, as South Florida's struggle with AIDS intensified. ... Health officials on Wednesday attributed the jump to a growing cavalier attitude toward unprotected sex. Some said they were perplexed about why the safe-sex message was not getting out. ... The virus is rising fastest among young gay men who may wrongly think new medications have brought AIDS under control and among black young adults who are spreading it through unprotected heterosexual sex, officials said. Since...

Homosexuals Angry at ConocoPhillipsA major oil company has removed "sexual orientation" from its nondiscrimination policy. Homosexual activists are up in arms because another major oil company, ConocoPhillips, has pulled back from a policy that homosexuals covet. Conoco included the words "sexual orientation" until it merged with Phillips Petroleum last year. The new company erased the language, according to Kelly Shackelford, head of the Plano, Texas-based Freedom Foundation. Conoco-Phillips is based in Houston."Just as a lot of conservatives and pro-family people complain when people go the wrong direction, ConocoPhillips needs to be congratulated and, in fact, more business done with...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An airline passenger who was told he couldn't take his ferret on an airplane is accused of beating the animal to death in an airport restroom. Police said the man had the ferret in a cooler on an American Airlines flight from New York. Flight attendants realized he had the animal and told him he could not take it on his next flight. He's accused of trying to flush the ferret down a toilet during a layover in St. Louis, then beating it to death. An airline...

BY TOM SHAW WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER This Valentine's Day at least six same-sex couples will walk into the Douglas County Clerk's Office seeking marriage licenses. The couples don't expect to get them. Their action will be part of a nationwide effort to push for legalizing same-sex unions. Only Vermont recognizes such unions. The action is being led by the Metropolitan Community Church, which the group says has more than 46,000 members in 22 countries. Same-sex couples will ask for marriage licenses in several states on Valentine's Day. The Douglas County couples will be led by the Rev. Barbara Sagat, pastor...

With infections that outsmart powerful antibiotics on the rise, doctors and public health officials have long worried that they might face an outbreak of resistant bacteria that threaten large numbers of people. Now they've found it -- in Los Angeles County. The large, painful skin infections started turning up early last fall among local gay men, then appeared with increasing frequency over the ensuing weeks and months. Although doctors found the symptoms alarming, it took a while to confirm a connection between these cases. Now they know they're facing an emerging epidemic of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or, more simply, staph....

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE JAN 21, 2003 17:59:25 ET XXXXX MAG: 25% OF NEW HIV-INFECTED GAY MEN SOUGHT OUT VIRUS, SAYS SAN FRAN HEALTH OFFICIAL New ROLLING STONE Managing Editor Ed Needham is set to hit complete controversy with a 4-page report: "Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+." Filed by Greg Freeman, the shock story claims some men with HIV are deliberately having unprotected sex with those who want to be infected! MORE "The men who want the virus are called 'bug chasers,' and the men who freely give them the virus are called 'gift...

Jan. 16, 2003, 6:45PM Supreme Court urged to kill Texas' sodomy law Associated Perss A gay rights group today filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the high court to overturn Texas' sodomy law in the case of two men charged with having sex inside a home in 1998. Lambda Legal, which represents the two men, and several other organizations have asked the Supreme Court to declare the state's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. "Some of the most diverse and respected voices in this country are lining up to tell the Supreme Court that these laws are contrary to American...

Efforts by campus cops to crack down on non-students who use public restrooms for random gay-sex encounters is being called homophobic by some folks in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) community, reports the Chronicle of High Education (subscription-only site). After a number of complaints, officials at Boston University cracked down and began arresting violators on charges of indecent exposure or lewd and lascivious behavior. Other campuses have seen similar crackdowns. But some gay students say persecuting participants in this so-called “tearoom” culture is discriminatory. "Heterosexual couples exploring sex on lovers' lane is romanticized, but same-sex sex is...

A part of the AIDS virus that was considered vulnerable to attack can camouflage itself by changing shapes, says a study that helps show why HIV is so hard to target and kill. HIV cripples the immune system by infecting and killing T-cells. It uses a protein structure on its surface called gp120 to gain entry to the cells. In 1998, scientists announced that they had figured out much about the structure of gp120 and hoped that finding a vulnerability in it could lead to vaccines against HIV. But finding gp120's weakness has remained elusive, in part because the protein...

Syphilis Among Gay, Bisexual Men on the Rise in NYC NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New York City health officials are concerned that, after declining steadily for 10 years, rates of syphilis in the city are rising, particularly among men who have sex with men. According to an article in the September 27th issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the number of cases of early-stage syphilis more than doubled in New York City, from 117 in 2000 to 282 in 2001. They are especially alarmed that a "high proportion" (48%) of syphilis cases were reported among HIV positive...