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Is this a sign of things to come? In the name of nondiscrimination, will more states force religious organizations to swallow their principles or go out of business? Same-sex adoption is becoming increasingly common, but it is still highly controversial. Millions of Americans would readily agree that gay and lesbian couples can make loving parents, yet insist nevertheless that kids are better off with loving parents of both sexes. That is neither a radical view nor an intolerant one, but if the kneecapping of Catholic Charities is any indication, it may soon be forbidden.

Considering the current hoo-hah over the movie "Brokeback Mountain" and whether it will win any Academy Awards brings into focus what the appeal of this movie might be for straights – heterosexual persons, that is. While I am aware that there is a larger context for this movie in the social arena – a serious dramatic treatment of homosexual love – and that gay advocacy groups consider this another victory in their agenda to break barriers and normalize homosexuality, my personal reaction is to question why I would want to see a movie on this theme. Because of the strength...

A TIME magazine cover story and a recent pro-homosexual school event should leave no doubt that homosexual activists are recruiting kids into homosexual sex and a “gay” identity, using “tolerance” as a ruse. The TIME October 10 piece, “The Battle Over Gay Teens,” which includes not a single reference to the extremely dangerous medical consequences of homosexual behavior, especially for boys, includes these details: • A cocktail party in Manhattan with billionaire liquor magnate Edgar Bronfman, Sr. and Clinton political strategist David Mixner was held in May to raise money for the Point Foundation, a scholarship program to turn “gay”...

A coalition of homosexual activists and atheists plan to march on a Boy Scout camp in San Diego next month demanding the organization open its membership and leadership to them. The group Scouting For All plans to march and rally at a Boy Scout camp Oct. 9.

Following a discussion of the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba, Fox News host Gerald Rivera told his colleague Bill O'Reilly he is certain child molesters are born that way and cannot be effectively treated or cured. "I think that – I believe that child molesters – and I want to be very clear that I'm not saying it's like homosexuality," said Rivera Thursday night. "It's absolutely different. It's a totally different situation. But I believe that, like homosexuals, child molesters are born not made. They are not cured. You don't cure someone from being gay. It's insulting to gay people...

Fairhope looks at ban on sex offenders Ordinance being drafted that would prevent any from moving into the city; an outright ban would be the only one in Alabama Thursday, July 21, 2005 By DAN MURTAUGH Staff Reporter Fairhope is in the early stages of drafting an ordinance that aims to keep convicted sex offenders from moving into the city, officials said Wednesday. Police Chief Chris Browning said he and Mayor Tim Kant have been discussing a possible ban for a few weeks. The city's action could take the form of a ban on sex offenders within city limits or...

How many children must die before lawmakers and the courts decide to keep certain classes of sexual predators behind bars permanently? Joseph Edward Duncan III, a registered sex offender from Fargo, N.D., is the most recent addition to the pantheon of convicted pedophiles who have been let out of jail only to prey on other victims upon their release. Duncan was convicted of twice raping a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint in 1980. He was 16 years old at the time he committed the crime. Sentenced to 20 years, Duncan was first released after serving 14 years, violated his parole and...

Please contact FDLE at 1-888-357-7332, or your local law enforcement agency, if you have information about the whereabouts of any of these persons. Date of Photo:12-23-1998 Ariel Orestes Rovelo Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Sc Fhd Last Reported Address: Miami Springs, FL Alias: Ariel Rovelo Date of Photo:11-05-2002 David D Rodriguez Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Tattoo Left Arm Heart Tattoo Right Arm Yeni Tattoo Other Tat Last Reported Address: Miami, FL Alias: Emilio Alvarez, Roberto Alvarez, Emilio Isiro, Emilio Rodriguez, Emilio Rodriguez, Emilio Roberto Rodriguez, Emilio Yser Rodriguez, Evelio Roberto Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez, Roberto Tysel, Luis Ycer Date of Photo:04-02-2005 James Thomas Butler...

Lessons learned from the Jessie Lunsford case Senator Nancy Argenziano has had some tough trips home in recent weeks. The central Florida legislator's district includes the family, friends, and neighbors of Jessie Lunsford, one of three children in as many weeks who have been stalked, brutalized, raped and killed by repeat sex offenders. Restive crowds of Senator Argenziano's constituents, meeting with her on weekend breaks from her duties in Tallahassee, want to know why laws and judges and parole boards failed to protect Jessie and other victims of similar horrific murders. They want to know why the system not only...

A time to kill Doug Giles April 23, 2005 Ecclesiastes states, “There is an appointed time for everything … a time to give birth and a time to die; a time to embrace and a time to shun embracing,” and among other things, … there is, “a time to kill.” Guess what time I think it is for John Evander Couey and David Onstott? With our nation’s attention rightly riveted on the macabre murders of little Jessica Lundsford and Sarah Lunde, I think I just heard the clock strike Death:30 for the irretrievable duo who carried out these sickening slayings....

Molesters Often Strike Again Saturday, April 16, 2005 By Catherine Donaldson-Evans Jessica Lunsford (search) and Jetseta Gage (search): two young girls recently kidnapped, molested and killed, allegedly by men who authorities said are convicted, registered sex offenders who had served time and were back in the community. Criminologists say it’s all too frequent that the perpetrator is a pathological sexual predator, as in the case of Jessica’s alleged killer in Florida, John Evander Couey (search), and Roger Paul Bentley (search), who Iowa police say murdered Jetseta. “It happens all the time,” said Louis B. Schlesinger, a forensic psychologist specializing in...

WPT to Air Postcards From Buster Episode Withdrawn by PBS Feb. 9, 2005 For More Information: Michael Bridgeman, (608) 265-3855 James Steinbach, (608) 263-1232 Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) will air the "Sugartime" episode of Postcards From Buster at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27. "We've reviewed the program and believe it is consistent with Wisconsin Public Television's mission to educate diverse audiences of children and adults," said James Steinbach, director of programming and production. The episode was withdrawn from distribution by PBS after some objected to content believed to be inappropriate for children. The series producers have made the episode available...

"Guess who came over with his kids," my son said, when he came home from his friend's house -- and by the tone of his voice, I knew something was not right. Call it maternal instinct. My son is 11, and his friend's dad is very wealthy. It's not easy raising sensible children in this town, but that's another story. The guest, the dad's "friend," was Michael Jackson, who'd come over with his children to play. I cannot duplicate my reaction in print. My son happens to be the most adorable, most precious, most delicious 11-year-old boy in the world....

The Mullahs' Killing Fields By Donna M. Hughes FrontPageMagazine.com | December 14, 2004A former political prisoner and the daughter of two slain parents vowed to make sure the voices of Iranians who have suffered under the Islamic fundamentalist regime heard. The two women said they stand by other activists who continue to be arrested, tortured, and executed in Iran for supporting freedom and democracy. On the occasion of International Human Rights Day (Friday, December 10), the torture and execution of political prisoners in Iran was the focus of a briefing in New York hosted by the non-governmental organization Women’s...

PAKISTAN has tried, without much success, to crack down on the madrasses, religious schools, which are often subsidized by Islamic conservatives from Saudi Arabia. Now a weakness has been found; child abuse. Many of the madrassa students are children under 14, and its common knowledge that some of the clerics and teachers running the madrasses will sexually molest their students. In the past, not much attention was paid to this, because it was so shameful. In the province of Punjab (the largest in Pakistan), there have been 500 complaints about such abuse in the last six months. The government decided...

The sex, drugs and paedophilia scandal in the heart of the US Catholic Church has brought the Boston archdiocese to the edge of ruin, reports Julian Coman Leo Inzaghi, the manager of the Caffe dello Sport in Boston's Italian district, stopped reading the local newspapers last week. As a practising Catholic and a father, he found their contents too shocking. "My wife telephoned me and said, 'Have you seen what the Church knew about Father Nyhan?' It turned out that the priest at the private school where we sent our daughter was transferred there after being accused of molesting two...

Lost: 2,900 sex offenders. We swear they were right here just a minute ago. Not all are housebroken or declawed. If located, do not try returning them yourself. Contact the Wisconsin Department of Corrections; we'll send a guy with a net. Reward? Not with a billion dollar state budget deficit there ain't. You might want to refrain from asking all your neighbors if they're the pervs the state is looking for. People hate that. Our state needs help. The Department of Corrections has mislaid nearly one-third of the registered sex offenders in Wisconsin, according to a report this week....

MOLESTERS INC. Pedophilia advocates, unfazed by national outrage over a 1998 expose, continue the push to normalize the sexual abuse of boys. By Karla Dial It’s easy to imagine what pedophilia advocates were thinking in 1998 when they published a study suggesting that the sexual abuse of children wasn’t all that harmful. After all, they’d seen the vast cultural and legal gains the pro-gay movement had won since 1973, when homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — the psychiatric profession’s blue book of mental disorders. Why not try to normalize molestation the same way? So Bruce Rind ...

Was an order -- kept secret from the media -- given by the Pope to release all non-confessional files, data, information, etc? Did the order include releasing all formerly abused church members from "gag order" style confidentiality agreements? The pope said that the civil authorities were correct in considering these CRIMINAL cases. That would assume that the church would cooperate with the civil authorities.