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Supporters of Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California, are running their first television ad.The commercial features San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom making a celebratory speech. The state Supreme Court had just invalidated a law overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2000 that declared "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Following is a text of the ad and an analysis by Aurelio Rojas of The Bee's Capitol Bureau: The ad Newsom: This door's wide open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.Narrator: Four judges ignored 4 million...

Closer scrutiny of the important people (that is, the poeple Obama himself identified as important) in Barack Obama's life is proving to yield what can only be called a "ick factor." Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko and Frank Marshall Davis head the list. Frank Marshall Davis, the mentor described as "Frank" in Barack Obama's first autobiography, Dreams from my Father. Davis was not only a communist (a member of the actual Communist Party), but actually wrote about enjoying sex with teenagers, in a book authored pseudonymously. The Autonomist cites the evidence:

Robinson proposes marriage of Church and State? Gay Episcopal bishop endorses Obama Washington DC, Aug 3, 2007 / 10:31 am (CNA).- Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the nation's first openly gay Episcopal bishop, has given his endorsement to presidential hopeful Barack Obama, citing the Illinois Democrat's experience with racism and discrimination. Obama's campaign put out a news release announcing Robinson’s support. It identified Robinson as "a civil rights leader and a leading voice in the faith community." The bishop says he hopes to persuade Obama to embrace same-sex marriage. Obama supports civil unions and rights for gay couples, but...

WAUWATOSA, WI, July 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A homosexual event organizer has been charged with felony for sexually soliciting a 14-year old boy over the Internet, World Net Daily (WND) reports. 42-year old David Bodoh contacted the Oconomowoc boy through an Internet chat room. The boy's foster mother contacted the police, however, and an undercover agent pretended to be the boy over the Internet. According to Quest, Bodoh pretended to be 21, and sent sexually explicit emails as well as nude photos of himself. He arranged to meet the boy at Brookfield Square Mall on July 12, promising to give...

Fairfax County police said they arrested an Alexandria man in connection with the sexual assault of a teenage boy. Raymond Craig Alexander, a 34-year-old Fairfax County Park Authority employee, was arrested Wednesday after property taken during a search of his home established probable cause, according to police. Alexander is charged with aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy and custodial indecent liberties with a child. Federal authorities also are investigating Alexander, and more charges could be filed. Anyone with information about the case should call Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS/8477 or police at 703-691-2131

Who are you to judge? Who are you to say that the more than slightly creepy 39-year-old woman from Arkansas who just gave birth to her 16th child yes that's right 16 kids and try not to cringe in phantom vaginal pain when you say it, who are you to say Michelle Duggar is not more than a little unhinged and sad and lost? And furthermore, who are you to suggest that her equally troubling husband -- whose name is, of course, Jim Bob and he's hankerin' to be a Republican senator and try not to wince in sociopolitical pain...

Speaking for the second time this month in front of a predominantly gay audience, Hillary Clinton assured the crowd at a Gay Men’s Health Crisis dinner at Chelsea Piers that help was on the way. She guaranteed her support of their issues “when I’m President,” and pointedly referred to a special AIDS grant she pushed through Congress for the first time “since the end of the last Clinton administration.” The crowd laughed appreciatively at what was at once a well-worn bit about the Clinton restoration, and an acknowledgement of the influence of the gay fund-raisers and activists who may put...

The truth about 'gay' pedophiliahttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52330 http://tinyurl.com/n6tcp Posted: October 7, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Olivia St. John Liberals are experts at framing debates in their favor. Since the Foley fiasco hit the news, the emphasis has been on evils lurking within the Republican Party. Incredibly, political editor Brian E. Crowley of the Palm Beach Post opined, "Rumors that Foley is gay have swirled around him for years. … But on Friday, whether Foley was a homosexual or a heterosexual no longer seemed to matter." Really? Why would that be considered inconsequential? Could it be because the Democrat Party embraces legalizing...

The death of manlinesshttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52283 Posted: October 5, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern Mark Foley is a sick man in a sick culture. He apparently was abused by a priest as a child, and then he, too, abused House pages (how extensively is uncertain) before it ruined him. By the way, as his attorney affirmed on Tuesday, Mark Foley "is a gay man." Aside from the political tides generated by Foley's resignation, there are much larger cultural tsunamis swashing round. The Foley scandal intensifies the strain on relationships between youth and adults. It is particularly damaging for relations between old men and...

Sex offender sentencing puts judge on hot seat O'Reilly show targets Columbus case Friday, March 17, 2006T.C. BrownPlain Dealer Bureau Columbus - Franklin County Judge John Connor is the Columbus Shamrock Club's Irishman of the Year, but his name is mud in much of the rest of the town, if not the country. Connor sits at the center of a national fire storm over his lenient sen tence for a child sex offender, with conserva tive cable TV host Bill O'Reilly fanning the flames of outrage. Adding fuel to the fire is Connor's history of drunken-driving convictions. State Republican...

A text message is leading to charges for a former Slaton teacher. 32-year-old Abelardo Tomas Mata was arrested yesterday and charged with "online solicitation of a minor." He is now free on a $30,000 bond. Now, something as simple as a cell phone could be used in an online crime because of text messaging. In this case, Slaton police detective tells us Mata is accused of showing a 13 year old female student an explicit text message. On February 17th, a Slaton junior high school student walked into the principal's office and showed him a text message she says was...

Ex-prostitute says he won't bow out of state House race DALLAS (AP) - A man running for state representative acknowledged that he once worked as a prostitute but said he's turned his life around and doesn't regret his past. Tom Malin, who has also sold Mary Kay cosmetics and now markets electricity, conceded that his illicit past could cost him the nomination in the March 7 Democratic primary. "I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior," Malin said in Friday's Dallas Morning News. On his campaign Web page, Malin...

BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Nickelodeon production assistant has been arrested for allegedly fondling a 14-year-old boy at the TV network's Burbank, Calif., studio. Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Ezell Channel Friday with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, the Burbank Leader reported Saturday. The victim's mother filed a police complaint Tuesday after she found Channel's name on the "Megan's Law" Internet list of convicted child molesters, police said. Police told the newspaper Channel's job at the children's network did not put him in regular contact with minors. However, police said the alleged...

SALEM, N.H. -- A man dressed as Santa was arrested after he walked into a New Hampshire mall and dropped his pants in front of some teens, according to a Local 6 News report. Police said Richard Mullen walked into the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem and performed the act. "He continued doing this multiple times," Salem police spokesman Robert Larson said. "He was asked to leave the mall by mall security. On his way out of the mall, he dropped the pants one more time as a couple was walking in." Mullen did not work for the mall...

"Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies seized the materials from the home of Allan Douglas Winters of Vienna, Va. Mr. Winters, 35, teaches social studies and music at the Nysmith School in Herndon." -----snip----- "Mr. Winters asked to speak with his mother when agents asked for permission to search his computer..." -----snip----- "Some of the boys in the material were as young as toddlers, agents said. Many of the recovered images showed children -- mostly young males --..."

SEATTLE -- Stuart Smailes was a jolly, potbellied man, proudly gay, with a walrus mustache and a passion for Broadway shows, merry-go-rounds, and calliopes, his friends say. But most of all, he was an art buff -- so much of a buff that he left a $1 million bequest for a fountain sculpture to the City of Seattle, with an unusual stipulation: It had to include a naked man.

The New Jersey courts had rarely seen a hero quite like Judge Stephen Thompson. A decorated Army veteran who lost a leg after being shot 20 times in the Vietnamese jungle, he came home to earn a law degree. He rose to the state bench, where he presided over Megan's Law cases, earned a reputation for fairness and balance and later helped make the state's first drug court an unqualified success. Yesterday, that same Stephen Thompson went on trial, accused of going to Russia in 2002 to perform sex acts with a teenage boy. He is accused of videotaping that...

LOS ANGELES -- A 15-year Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested for allegedly committing illegal sex acts with a teenage boy. Officer George Stan, 36, was taken into custody Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport. LAPD officers and FBI agents met Stan when he returned from vacation. He is accused of multiple sex acts involving a 15-year-old boy over the past three years. He was booked for "oral copulation with a minor." According to an LAPD statement, "The investigation disclosed multiple illegal sexual acts involving Stan and a 15-year-old male victim. The acts occurred in the city of Simi...

Police Say Jailed Child Molester May Have Thousands of VictimsBy Rachel Konrad Associated Press Writer Published: Jun 16, 2005 SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A convicted child molester jailed in California may have committed sex crimes against thousands of victims, police said Thursday after finding computers, notebooks and meticulous, handwritten lists of boys' names and apparent codes for various sex acts. San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield described 63-year-old Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller as "one of the most active child molesters we've ever seen." During a search of his bedroom in San Jose, police discovered binders full of child porn and...

GET YOUR PREDICTION IN NOW..... (1) FOUND GUILTY, with a jail sentence. (2) FOUND NOT GUILTY, on all charges. (3) Found GUILTY, but Michael not in court. (4) Found NOT GUILTY, but Michael not in court. (5) Michael commits suicide. (6) Michael flees the counntry. Please suggest other alternative endings to this freakshow.

MIAMI -- No matter what you've thought up until this point, your opinion of former TV weatherman Bill Kamal might change after watching or reading Part IV of Local 10's exclusive interviews. Wednesday, Local 10 obtained a letter that Kamal wrote to a federal judge, causing the addition of another night of coverage to this complicated story. This new information will likely leave you wondering whether Kamal is thinking rationally. During Local 10's prison interview, Kamal made references to a conspiracy theory. Kamal: "It's me against the United States government." He questioned whether he became a target while working in...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - They may not be as unpredictable as Michael Jackson, but witnesses in the singer's child molestation case have surprised lawyers on both sides with unexpected testimony. Flight attendant Cynthia Bell had been expected to testify this past week that Jackson shared wine with his young accuser on an airplane trip - but she said no such thing. Bell testified she served Jackson wine in a Diet Coke can but did not see the boy drink from it. Prosecutors also thought Jesus Salas, the pop star's former house manager, would say he served wine to Jackson...

Giles teacher caught on video, police say Posted: 3:36 p.m. The New River Valley Current A Giles County teacher was caught on video inappropriately touching a student during a class this week, Narrows Police Chief Tommy Gautier confirmed Friday. Homer Lee White, 54, a county teacher for three decades, was charged Wednesday with six counts of aggravated sexual assault against an 11-year-old male student. White is the music instructor at Narrows Elementary/Middle School and band director at Narrows High School. Gautier said that after parents complained that their son had been molested multiple times during school hours, police worked out...

UN-created Pederast Undergroundby William Norman GriggFebruary 20, 2005   Didier Bourguet is on trial in his native France for charges of sexual abuse and rape in Congo while working as a UN transport worker. His defense attorney, Claude de Boosere-Lepidi, told the court "that there was a network of UN Personnel who had sex with underage girls and that Bourguet had engaged in similar activity in a previous UN posting in the Central African Republic," reported the February 12 Los Angeles Times. “Bourguet’s case is the only one that has been prosecuted among 150 allegations against about 50 soldiers and...

Parents and teens alike are exploring sexual identity issues. Are they heteroflexible -- or fauxmosexual? Girls barely in their teens are exploring their sexuality. And more and more often, that exploration includes same-sex behavior. The trend has, inevitably, spawned new words. Some say they're "heteroflexible." Others sneer that they're merely "fauxmosexual." Is it really new? More importantly -- to parents and to the teens themselves -- what does it mean? Lisa M. Diamond, PhD, assistant professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, studies young women's sexual orientations, sexual attractions, and sexual behavior. "Women's...

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

A Crime Ready for Its Close-Up Cinema Tackles Pedophilia, in Equal Amounts of Shadow and Light By Desson Thomson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 16, 2005; Page N01 In "Bad Education," which opened here Friday, a preteen boy named Ignacio is singing "Moon River" in Spanish while a priest strums a guitar in an idyllic riverside setting. The boy looks beatific. He sings like a dream. But the priest watches Ignacio with something darker than innocent appreciation. We don't like what we see, yet we don't completely check him off as a "bad guy." That -- preserving the priest's...

The unending 50-year war over Alfred Kinsey and his sex research is about to flare up once again, thanks to the new movie Kinsey. The film manages to be fairly faithful to the biographies of Kinsey while sliding by or simply omitting a lot of negative material that might interfere with a heroic view of the man. Kinsey was a highly intelligent, fearless man and an unusually skilled interviewer whose question-and-answer techniques heavily influenced the way polls and surveys are done today. Conservatives seem quaint when they argue that Kinsey’s two reports, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and...

<p>Michael Jackson addresses the audience during the Radio Music Awards in October.</p> <p>SANTA BARBARA, California (CNN) -- Former Santa Barbara Sheriff Jim Thomas said there is a second child who claimed in 1993 that Michael Jackson molested him. Those accusations were audiotaped but not videotaped, the sheriff said.</p>

LOS ANGELES - When he surrendered to the Santa Barbara, Calif., sheriff last week, Michael Jackson resembled an aging Joan Crawford, pale, frail and weighing 120 pounds. His financial well-being appears equally fragile. With each successive record costing more and earning less than the last, he is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain his lavish lifestyle. By any measure, Jackson, 45, must be considered wealthy. But according to his close advisers, industry friends and court records, he is also an extravagant spender whose wealth is being consumed by an appetite for monkeys, Ferris wheels and surgery. A lawsuit against Jackson...

Accused ... Jackson Jacko 'bid to fly boy out'DESPERATE Michael Jackson tried to send the cancer victim he is accused of molesting abroad to stave off scandal, it emerged yesterday. He acted after he was seen on TV holding 12- year-old *******’s hand and telling interviewer Martin Bashir he slept with young boys. But *******’s mother J##### refused to go, so it is claimed that Jackson tricked her into signing a legal document saying he had not abused the boy. A family source said: “Michael got them passports and was trying to send them out of the country, but...

  Jackson is like Gandhi, claims brother!Asian News InternationalWASHINGTON, November 27 Enlarge Jermaine Jackson has lent support to tainted brother Michael Jackson and said that he has been victimized."This is a modern-day lynching. My brother has become a threat like Christ became a threat, like Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi became a threat. My brother's consciousness has become a threat because he is a person who cares about people," Jermaine was quoted as saying in an interview to 'The Mirror'.His is one of the voices that used to croon with Michael's in the heyday of The Jackson 5, when the...

OK...so Jacko, the King of Strange is on the hot seat again. There are lots of "I heard that..." comments flying around concerning what happened in the 1993 Jordan Chandler case, this old GQ article covers some ground that most never were aware of.

<p>LOS ANGELES — Molestation accusations levied against pop superstar Michael Jackson (search) are being fueled by money, according to the entertainer's lawyer.</p> <p>At the same time, doubts about the credibility of the family of the boy claiming the charges are beginning to emerge. The family already has been involved in two previous cases that involved abuse allegations: a lawsuit in which the family said they were battered by mall security guards and a divorce fight in which the father pleaded no contest to spousal abuse and child cruelty.</p>

<p>Geragos: "This is not the lottery. This is this man's life."</p> <p>LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Mark Geragos, singer Michael Jackson's lawyer, said Tuesday that a charter airline company secretly videotaped conversations between him and Jackson on board a plane and attempted to shop the tapes to media outlets.</p>

During the Clinton impeachment year, one got used to viewing television with a trigger finger on the remote, lest the children overhear with too much precision what all the fuss was about. My children are older now, but I still find myself in great sympathy with those home-schooling religious types who simply abjure television and radio altogether; walling off their homes and their lives from the putrescence that swirls outside. As it is, we man the cultural battlements with an ever-increasing sense of futility. When the reporter following every hiccough of the Scott Peterson trial appears on screen, we may...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson, addressing his fans directly via a new Web site, says the child molestation allegations made against him are "predicated on a big lie" and he will be exonerated in court.The entertainer's spokesman, Stuart Backerman, had said last week that Jackson was putting the site together so he could communicate with the news media and fans. Jackson said in his statement that it would serve as a source for "official communications on my case.""As you know, the charges recently directed at me are terribly serious," Jackson said in the six-paragraph statement. "They are, however, predicated...

The latest Michael Jackson controversy perfectly mirrors the shallowness and exploitation at the center of the entertainment business. Jackson now seems to have become the three-dimensional picture of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, the man who looked forever young but kept a picture hidden that recorded his layers of crime and sickness. Jackson's reputation carries the foulings so emblematic of our time, revealing themselves in spiritual pustules. It is a strange tale. Jackson evolves from cute little exploited boy and lead singer in a bubble gum group of brothers all the way to a progressively eccentric and repulsive tabloid favorite. In...

<p>EXPLICIT letters and poems said to have been written by Michael Jackson to his alleged victim will form the centrepiece of the sex-abuse case against him.</p> <p>Police seized at least a dozen letters during the raid on Jackson's Neverland ranch last week.</p> <p>"The district attorney is convinced these letters will be crucial to the case against Jackson," a source close to the investigation said yesterday.</p> <p>"The boy told investigators about letters and poems and their precise location inside Michael's home. These letters were among the evidence seized, along with videotapes.</p>

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Elizabeth Taylor said on Sunday that she believes pop star and good friend Michael Jackson is "absolutely innocent" of child molestation charges and will be "vindicated." In a statement, Taylor also criticized the press for behaving "abominably" toward the self-styled King of Pop, who was arrested this week on suspicion of sexually abusing a young boy. "Their whole reaction is that he is guilty. I thought the law was 'innocent until proven guilty.' I know he is innocent and I hope they all eat crow," Taylor said of the press. The veteran actress, who...

<p>ACCUSING Michael Jackson of sexual abuse comes with a hefty price tag.</p> <p>A decade after shocking the world with allegations in 1993 that he was molested by the bizarro superstar, the lives of a California man and his relatives remain a living hell.</p>

This weekend finds Michael Jackson in serious legal peril. He is a man (sic) whose riches and career prove that in America, not even vile weirdos are left behind. Soon the wannabe King of Pop will be forever known as the King of Pedophilia as it appears that he is every bit as guilty as Mumia Abu-Jamal. It is my sincere hope that the singer’s future bizarre interviews will be issued from murderous confines of Pelican Bay penitentiary. Of course, there are those eager to defend him. They say prosecutors were too zealous and that there was no reason for...

MICHELLE HOLDEN ADMITS SEX WITH MINOR, IS SPARED PRISON TERM May 7, 1999 Three days after her husband stepped down as the mayor of Pasadena, Michelle E. Holden tearfully halted what would have been a sordid trial, pleading no contest to a felony count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor - the couple's 15-year-old male babysitter. (snip) Comforted by her lawyer, Mark J. Geragos, Holden sobbed and dabbed at her eyes in the nearly empty Pasadena courtroom as she entered her plea. It came even as the jury was being selected. Ironically, the charge she acknowledged - sexual intercourse...

The latest Michael Jackson controversy perfectly mirrors the shallowness and exploitation at the center of the entertainment business. Jackson now seems to have become the three-dimensional picture of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, the man who looked forever young but kept a picture hidden that recorded his layers of crime and sickness. Jackson's reputation carries the foulings so emblematic of our time, revealing themselves in spiritual pustules. It is a strange tale. Jackson evolves from cute little exploited boy and lead singer in a bubble gum group of brothers all the way to a progressively eccentric and repulsive tabloid favorite. In...

Please, Gloria Allred, Just Go Away She represents the worst in celebrity ambulance-chasing and cable TV [Doug Gamble] 11/26/03 To paraphrase an old joke, if you want to avoid injury, don't ever get between Gloria Allred and a TV camera. The Los Angeles-based lawyer, whose credo seems to be, "It is better to be obnoxious and famous than not to be noticed at all," is impossible for viewers of cable TV interview shows to avoid. It is nothing for Allred, with her forced grin and grating manner, to pop up on MSNBC, CNN and the Fox News Channel all on...

The cancer kid in the Michael Jackson sex scandal is sick again and living in poverty - while the star's handlers vow to crush anyone who maligns the self-styled King of Pop. Jamie Masada, the Hollywood comedy club owner who first brought together Jackson and the boy, visited the 13-year-old a few days ago and was shocked. "He only has one kidney and it's failing him, and part of his face is swollen up," Masada told the Daily News yesterday. "His cancer's in remission, but he worries if the cancer comes back, what's going to happen." Masada met the boy...

Michael Jackson's booking photo and personal information are shown on this copy of a release from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department after Jackson was booked on child molestation charges, Nov. 20. Were it not for a slice of luck, it could have been a little Japanese boy who fell into the single-glove clutches when the superstar stopped blowing bubbles and decided to pan in on peter at Neverland, according to Shukan Bunshun (12/4). Michael Jackson has long enjoyed an affinity for Japanese children and, were it not for earlier allegations of sexual abuse of a little boy than the...

Santa Barbara DA announces they are working "100 new solid leads" in Michael Jackson case. When The Gloved One was arrested last week, cops asked that anyone with additional evidence in "this or other cases involving Mr. Jackson" call them. There have been at least 1000 phone calls. At least 100 are being worked as solid leads. Looks like this case of the cancer kid was the one that broke the dam. Anyone want to guess that their are at least 10 other probable cases.... and this announcement will spur even more calls? Also, supposedly Jackson has real $ troubles...

<p>LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson's (search) defense team plans to vigorously attack the credibility of the mother of the boy now making the allegations against the superstar, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>In addition to videos, first reported about by Fox News this past week, in which the mother and the boy say they love Jackson and have never seen any inappropriate behavior, sources said there are written statements saying the same thing, which were signed late February by the boy and his mother in front of Jackson's attorney Mark Geragos (search).</p>