"My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism." – Clinton per Marquez (Jerusalem Post 3/28/99)

Washington Post 7/95 Stephen Higgins (Director BATF – WACO) "…The day has long passed when we can afford to ignore the threat that is posed by individuals who believe they are subject only to the laws of their god and not those of our government…. …."

6/29/98 The Reagan Information Interchange, Mary Mostert. An anonymous informant employee of Forest Service employee provided a copy of a letter from Clinton which said among other things "THE WHITE HOUSE Washington GAY AND LESBIAN PRIDE CELEBRATION, 1998 Warm greetings to everyone taking part in the 1998 Gay and Lesbian Pride Celebration .Best wishes for a wonderful celebration.. Bill Clinton" with a note from Rob Sadler adding the following "As a Federal employee, it is important to add your name to the growing ranks of employees who are willing to openly identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons in the workplace. This act of personal bravery and conviction does more to alter the workplace environment and change perceptions than any other single action. We hope you will consider adding your name to this Register before National Coming Out Day on October 11, 1998." TV coverage of the 29th Gay Pride parade blocked out dirty placards, insulting banners, anti- religious themes, a half dozen men stark naked except for green condoms, bare-breasted women, and the passing of the parade in front of the St. Patrick's Cathedral - instead - as an example WNBC said "They're celebrating with pride and parades, a rainbow of flags, floats and festivities ... They kicked off in high style ... and remained spectacular to its end."

7/9/98 AP A crackdown on sex in public restrooms at a commuter bus terminal has netted dozens of offenders -- and raised the concern of advocates who fear that the campaign targets gay men.Authorities say that they are not singling out gay men. Officers also patrol the women's bathrooms, though they have not witnessed any sex there..

AP 10/14/98 ". The church - not gays and lesbians - has sinned by promoting unhealthy attitudes about sex, a United Methodist reverend who performed a union ceremony for two women in September 1997 said Wednesday. The Rev. Jimmy Creech, a former Omaha pastor, set off a national controversy last year when he performed the ceremony at First United Methodist Church..While critics have condemned him for disobeying Christian teachings, Creech said the church has fostered an unhealthy discussion of sex by teaching that it is not something to be talked about in public."

Freeper report 10/16/98 "I received this email today from someone who believes either that Christians are not being persecuted, or that they are and that they deserve it. The email originated from the .gov domain. Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 7:05:25 AM Subj: Christians persecuted? To: lazfilm@aol.com I read your article with interest Why are you Christians (I don't think you're REAL Christians) surprised and insulted when people defend themselves against something YOU started? YOU'RE the ones who have branded gays as sinners--YOU'RE the ones that don't understand the biology of sexual orientation (or evolution!). YOU'RE the people who started this--and to wonder why you're being attacked is ludicrous. What would Jesus do? Jesus probably WAS a homosexual-he certainly deviated from marriage and family and all your so-called traditional values--what would you label him? He hung around with a bunch of guys and had prostitutes for friends--he had no job, and he loitered around temples and banks. There is not ONE of you that would find this acceptable behavior today---You know in your hearts that Jesus would accept people's gayness--that's the kind of person he was--to think otherwise, is to deny your religion. Lynn

Washington Times 10/16/98 Julia Duin ".Family groups say they are furious at being linked with the murder of Matthew Shepard by TV commentators, newspaper columnists and homosexual activists. NBC, the network that airs the "Today" show, got so many complaints about comments by anchor Katie Couric that it told Focus on the Family Thursday to desist. "NBC was getting flooded with calls, so much they've called us today, asking the calls to stop," said Focus spokeswoman Amy Tracy. "When Katie made that comment on TV, our constituents started calling here. People are outraged.".On Monday's broadcast, Miss Couric and NBC reporter Geoffrey Dickens linked several Christian groups with the type of intolerance that reportedly led to the murder of Mr. Shepard, the 21-year-old University of Wyoming homosexual student who was viciously beaten last week and died Monday While ending an interview on Monday with Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer, Miss Couric asked: "Some gay-rights activists have said that some conservative Christian political organizations, like the Christian Coalition, the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family are contributing to this anti-homosexual atmosphere by having an ad campaign saying, 'If you're a homosexual, you can change your orientation.' That prompts people to say, 'If I meet someone who's homosexual, I'm going to take action and try to convince them or try to harm them.' Do you believe that such groups are contributing to this climate?" ."

San Jose Mercury 10/17/98 Richard Cohen ".IT IS expected of me, I know, that I would use the murder of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, to lambaste political and religious conservatives for their homophobia. I will not disappoint. In fact, I will figuratively place the young man's body at the doorstep of Trent Lott, Richard Armey and countless other conservatives who maintain, somehow, that what President Clinton does in the privacy of the Oval Office has a baleful effect on national morals but their own public statements about homosexuality evanesce into the Washington night leaving, aside from a stink, no effect at all. They are wrong.."

San Francisco Gate 10/17/98 Debra J. Saunders "``WHAT MURDER isn't a hate crime?'' Jane Armstrong of Santa Cruz, asked yesterday. In 1986, Armstrong's 17-year-old brother Tod was shot four times in the course of a robbery, then left to die. Armstrong doesn't understand why Tod's robbery/murder isn't considered a hate crime, while the robbery/murder of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual college student living in Wyoming, is.."

Washington Weekly 10/19/98 J. Peter Mulhern (Peter the Lawyer) ".The anencephalic left pounced on Matthew Shepard's bloody shirt and promptly began waving it around. According to Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, Wyoming police have arrested the wrong suspects in the Shepard case. The real culprit, he tells us, is Trent Lott. Senator Lott has an alibi, but this detail deters Richard Cohen hardly at all. Senator Lott and other Republican leaders are guilty of Matthew Shepard's murder because their rhetoric "robbed homosexuals of . . . humanity," thus "legitimizing hate," and promoting violence. The smoking gun proving Senator Lott's guilt is his own statement that homosexual acts are sinful. For thousands of years this moral insight has been conventional wisdom. Now, according to Richard Cohen, stating that insight is bigotry and incitement to violence. Nobody tries to explain or justify this about-face. Our moral opinions are supposed to change in the same mindless way that we exchange wide ties for narrow ones and vice versa. We don't need reasons; fashion reigns. Senator Lott's view of homosexuality grows out of the integrated moral philosophy that is woven into American society. The liberal view rests on the moral philosophy of the 1960's -- "if it feels good do it." But people like Richard Cohen have no respect for depth and no aversion to shallowness. The sillier a liberal idea gets, the more viciously liberals attack those who reject it.The only intelligible message one can derive from Richard Cohen's shameful attack on Trent Lott is that people who reject current liberal orthodoxy are bad. Disagreement is tantamount to murder; conformity is the duty of every decent person. iberals demand deference for their beliefs, but they proudly display contempt for the beliefs of others. When outraged Christians succeeded in raising some doubt about whether Corpus Christi would be produced, liberals cried foul, citing the First Amendment. Freedom of speech, they argued, demands that there be no social restraints on the presentation of controversial views. his is a truly radical suggestion. The Bill of Rights has traditionally dealt only with the limits of government action. The Christian protest of Corpus Christi never sought to have the government ban the offensive production. The protesters are asking that those responsible for the play cancel it voluntarily because it falls outside the bounds of good taste.."

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 10/19/98 Editorial ". Christians are responsible for the death of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old gay college student who was kidnapped, robbed and pistol-whipped, then left tied to a fence on a Wyoming ranch on Oct. 7. At least that's the slant NBC News felt compelled to include in a story it aired last Tuesday, the morning after Mr. Shepard died...From Mr. Gregory's Oct. 13 report on the ``Today'' show: ``Even as friends of Matthew Shepard held a candlelight vigil in his honor, gay civil rights groups rushed to condemn the killing, portraying Shepard as a casualty of a new cultural war against gays and lesbians, a war declared this summer by a coalition of religious right groups including the Christian Coalition, which funded advertisements in major newspapers and commercials on TV promoting a campaign to convert homosexuals to heterosexuality.'' .By the way, after leaving Shepard for dead, police say Henderson and McKinney returned to Laramie, picking a street fight with two Hispanics. In this current climate of political correctness, can there be any doubt that the chihuahua of Taco Bell commercial fame somehow won't be blamed?.."

WorldNetDaily 10/20/98 Jane Chastain "There is no scientific proof that one is born homosexual. It is a movement grounded in politics not science. In 1973, homosexuality was removed from the American Psychiatric Association's official list of disorders, not as a result of any scientific breakthrough, but by a campaign of intimidation and harassment. An independent poll of APA members conducted at the time showed that an overwhelming majority considered it to be a treatable disorder. Under continued pressure from homosexual activists, the APA subsequently voted to "normalize" sadomasochism and pedophilia.."

Jewish World Review 10/20/98 Thomas Sowell ".People who glibly talk about "hate crimes" ignore both the past and the implications for the future in what they are advocating. It took centuries of struggle and people putting their lives on the line to get rid of the idea that a crime against "A" should be treated differently than the same crime committed against "B." After much sacrifice and bloodshed, the principle finally prevailed that killing a peasant deserved the same punishment as killing a baron. Now the "hate crime" advocates want to undo all that and take us back to the days when punishment did not fit the crime, but varied with who the crime was committed against.."

The Nation 11/11/98 Tony Kushner ". Trent Lott endorses murder, of course; his party endorses murder, his party endorses discrimination against homosexuals and in doing so it endorses the ritual slaughter of homosexuals. Trent Lott endorses murder. He knows that discrimination kills. Pope John Paul II endorses murder.None of these kids will ever be allowed to marry the person she or he loves, not while the Pope and his church can prevent it; all of these kids are told, by the Holy Catholic Church, and by the Episcopalians and Lutherans and Baptists and Orthodox Jews: Your love is cursed by God. To speak out against murdering those who are discriminated against is to speak out against discrimination. To remain silent is to endorse murder.. If you are lesbian, gay, transgendered, bi, reading this, here's one good place to assign blame: The Human Rights Campaign's appalling, post-Shepard endorsement of Al D'Amato dedicates our resources to the perpetuation of a Republican majority in Congress. The HRC, ostensibly our voice in Washington, is in cahoots with fag-bashers and worse. If you are a heterosexual person, and you are reading this: Yeah yeah yeah, you've heard it all before, but if you have not called your Congressperson to demand passage of a hate crimes bill that includes sexual orientation, and e-mailed every Congressperson, if you have not gotten up out of your comfortable chair to campaign for homosexual and all civil rights--campaign, not just passively support--may you think about this crucified man, and may you mourn, and may you burn with a moral citizen's shame."

The Washington Times (Weekly) 10/19-25/98 Editorial ". On October 7 in Laramie, Wyoming police say , two men lured a college student our of a local bar to their truck, beat him, tiedhim to a fence post, pistol-whipped him with a .357 magnum, robbed him and left him for dead in near- freezing temperatures. Then they did something really, really heinous. They reportedly derided the victim for his homosexuality. ..But it wsn't swift and sure justice for the suspects that the critics were demanding. It was public consciiousness-raisingand attitude adjustment. "I was deeply grieved by the act of violence perpetrated against Matthew Shepard," said President Clinton. "There is nothing more important to the future of this country than our standing together against intolerance, prejudice and violent bigotry." How about standing together against violent crime? In a letter to the Laramie Daily Boomerang, two Unitarian Church ministers complained that the incident was atypical in its brutality but not in its "underlying motive" --And they weren't talking about robbery. Gays in Laramioe they said, "are frequently assaulted with derision, intolerance, insult and hostility--if not guns and ropes." The two apparently make no distinction between derision and hangings or shootings, but derision didn't kill Matthew Shepard. The deliberate blurring of thought, word and deed in this case is regrettable for a couple of reasons. Rather than turn hate into some kind of thought crime, it actually diminishes the horror of the murder itself. There is no such thing as a good motive for murder.."

LifeSite Daily News 10/29/98 ".John Holmes of the Association of Christian Schools International revealed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is requiring all participants in federal school nutrition programs and other USDA programs -- including religious schools and other religious institutions -- to display a poster saying that discrimination is prohibited on the basis of "race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status." Holmes noted that US law does not establish "sexual orientation" or "political beliefs" as a protected class. In a release by the National Center for Public Policy Research Holmes said that Congress should be informed that the USDA is forcing compliance with a statute the Congress has not approved.."

AFA.net 2/6/99 Gene Edward Veith (World Magazine) ".The way to keep the Internet safe for children, according to many Christians and cyber libertarians leery of government censorship, is for parents to employ filtering software, which promises to prevent children from signing on to sexually explicit or other harmful sites. The most commercially successful filtering software-outselling its competitors by as much as 10 to one and rated best of them all by a number of computer magazines-is CyberPatrol. Published by The Learning Company and automatically updated on-line, CyberPatrol blocks out sites that fall into 12 categories: Violence/Profanity, Partial Nudity, Full Nudity, Sexual Acts, Gross Depictions, Intolerance, Satanic/Cult, Drugs/Drug Culture, Militant/Extremist, Sex Education, Questionable/Illegal and Gambling, and Alcohol and Tobacco. Christians might be surprised to find themselves included in such company. The American Family Association, Donald Wildmon's media watchdog organization and a longtime advocate of filtering the Internet, is now being filtered by CyberPatrol. The AFA's Web site, itself devoted to fighting the media's "Gross Depictions," has been judged blockable on the grounds of "intolerance," a category previously reserved for Nazis and Klansmen. The AFA, like other Christian activist organizations, questions the gay-rights movement and teaches that homosexual acts are immoral. This is considered an example of discrimination based on sexual orientation, which is a clear violation of the criteria published in the CyberPatrol manual. Impressionable young minds thus need to be protected from the heinous, shocking ideas of moral conservatives. .."

The Wanderer 11/5/98 Paul Likoudis Freeper marshmallow ".How easy is it for a homosexual activist with 20 years of experience in "gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered ministry" to use a Catholic archbishop, "contaminate" Catholic schools, and frustrate the parents of Catholic school students? It's very easy, according to homosexual activist Bill Kummer, who publicly disclosed his step-by-step plan that transformed nine of the eleven Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis into "gay- friendly" schools. He has been so successful, as a matter of fact, that he can proudly boast that some Catholic high schools in his archdiocese have gay student clubs, survey students on their "homophobia," publish gay newspapers, have queer literature in their libraries, and even permit same-sex couples to dance at their high school proms. In just three years, Kummer claimed, under his direction, Catholic high schools have adjusted their curricula to include gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered ideology in most classes, including history, literature, science, religion, and even math.."

American Center for Law and Justice Fall 1998 "...Thanks to your support, the ACLJ has stopped an appalling attempt to make homosexuality part of a Connecticut high school's program for "minority students." Vince McCarthy, our ACLJ Northeastern regional counsel, appeared before the Brookfield High School board to denounce the Pink Triangle program, which encouraged "sexually confused" teens to discuss their feelings with designated faculty members. Following his presentation, the school board voted to ban the program. Pink triangle decals, posted on several classroom doors, would have designated "safe zones" for students who are homosexual, bisexual, or confused about their sexuality. That was the shocking message that a public schoolteacher delivered to her class of teenagers in announcing the program. The Connecticut school was literally going to provide sexually troubled kids with adult counseling that condoned and encouraged the homosexual lifestyle...."

American Family Association (AFA.net) 3/2/99 "…The battle in this country between those holding to traditional morality and those espousing hedonism has reached a fever pitch, manifested in no clearer terms that the ideological conflict over homosexuality…. There may be no area of debate that causes blood pressures to escalate more rapidly than the question of whether public schools should teach children about homosexuality. Now the homosexual community has thrown down the gauntlet by unveiling a video entitled It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In School, and as its title implies, the video is aimed at the educational establishment. The video is produced by Helen Cohen and Debra Chasnoff, the latter an Academy Award-winning documentary producer. In 1992 Chasnoff became the first woman to openly declare her lesbianism at the Oscars. The producers went into six elementary and middle schools where teachers and principals are already force-feeding children with pro-gay grist. The narrator says the educators allowed the filming "in the hope of inspiring other educators and parents to take the next step in their own school communities to teach children respect for all." …When It’s Elementary is not pointing the finger at bigoted parents in general, it zeroes in on Christians in particular: the Christian view of homosexuality is highlighted as an example of outrageous bigotry. In one sequence of clips from TV talks shows, two apparent Christians present the view of their faith. One says, "God hates fags." The other: "The Bible that I read says homosexuals should be put to death." …"

Clinton spokesman Mike McMurry said that Senator Lott and those who agreed with him that homosexual conduct is a sin are "backward in their thinking" and "incorrect."

Washington Times 3/23/99 Julia Duin "…A study on pedophilia that claims child sexual abuse does not cause lasting psychological harm to its victims has set off a furor on the Internet and talk radio. The angry public reaction, fueled by Internet reports and conservative activists, comes nine months after the study was first released by the influential American Psychological Association. Sex between adults and willing minors should be described in more positive terms, the study suggests. "A willing encounter ... would be labeled simply 'adult-child sex,' a value-neutral term," the authors advised. "A willing encounter between an adolescent and an adult with positive reactions ... would be labeled scientifically as 'adult-adolescent sex.'" The report, titled "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples," is a compilation of 59 studies on how college students cope with child sexual abuse. The article was written by Bruce Rind, a psychology professor at Temple University in Pennsylvania, Philip Tromovitch of the University of Pennsylvania graduate school of education and Robert Bauserman, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan. Mr. Bauserman was also a contributor to a special issue on sex between men and boys published in 1990 by the Journal of Homosexuality, a scholarly journal. His article on "Male Intergenerational Intimacy" in that journal questioned the "taboo" against "man-boy sexual relationships." Mr. Bauserman dismissed criticism of these relationships as "irrelevant or else biased."…"

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4/7/99 Helen Louise Herndon "…To think that San Francisco is named for a Catholic saint is ironic in today's climate. On Easter Sunday the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" partied and celebrated their 20th anniversary by ridiculing nuns. This is not only a mockery of the Roman Catholic Faith but a mockery of historical Christianity as well. Though I am not Roman Catholic and not a proponent of monastic life as exemplified by cloistered nuns, I recognize that such an attempted bashing of an institution held precious and sacred to another religious group is basically a slap in the face to all religions that hold dear their doctrines and practices. When the "Sisters" claim to be merely irreverent, they fail to recognize their act goes beyond irreverence. Their behavior and mockery of the religious is a manifestation of stark prejudice and bigotry against a particular group of people. The fact that they chose Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar, only bolsters its outrageous behavior as bigotry. Would the city officials of San Francisco permit a group such as the "Sisters" to dress up on the feast day of the Eid ul-Adha and make a mockery of the faith of Muslim pilgrims on their journey to Mecca? I hardly think so. In fact, they would run the risk of a violent retaliation because most Muslims hold sacred their doctrines and practices. ….Do gays really think Christianity alone prohibits homosexual acts? How would San Francisco's city officials react if a group planned to dress up as Orthodox rabbis or Orthodox Jewish men and women to make a mockery of the Orthodox Jewish faith on Yom Kippur or during Passover? There would be outrage across this nation that any group would show itself so bigoted. Most people, regardless of religious affiliation, would be offended that any group purported to make fun of this very religious group of people. The holy writings of Muslims and Orthodox Jews strongly condemn homosexuality. Yet these groups are spared the ridicule by gay activists that Christianity, and particularly the Roman Catholic faith, experiences…."

WorldNetDaily.com 4/9/99 Stephan Archer "...Assembly Bill 222, a piece of legislation calling for the addition of "sexual orientation" to the existing non-discrimination laws of the California Education Code, may soon be challenged in the courts if state lawmakers vote to pass the bill.... The California Education Code currently recognizes the right of every student to educational opportunity without regard to "race, creed, color, national origin, sex, or economic status." The legislation, Kuehl said, would simply add "sexual orientation" to those sections of the Education Code that now protect students from other forms of discrimination..... In one of the controversial portions of the bill, Kuehl said that private schools controlled by religious organizations, such as churches, will be exempted from adopting policies contrary to any religious beliefs they might hold. Although appearing to be private school-friendly on the surface, Dacus explained that many private and religious schools are not directly affiliated with churches and thus will have to comply with the proposed law in the bill or face consequences for non-compliance. Another controversial aspect of the bill deals with interscholastic athletic participation. According to Kuehl, private schools that are currently participating in interscholastic athletics with public schools wouldn't be adversely affected by the bill. However, Dacus believes that the bill would effectively ban private schools from participating in public school athletic leagues unless they adhere to the sexual orientation measure in the bill..... Another concern that Dacus has concerning the bill has to do with the fact that the bill would make it impossible for students who want to attend most religious colleges to receive Cal Grants because according to the bill, Cal Grant funds cannot go to universities that don't have sexual orientation policies allowing professing homosexuals to teach. Speaking of possible ramifications of the bill, Dacus said, "It basically opens the door for justification of homosexual acceptance -- not just tolerance -- of homosexual policies and programs throughout public schools because it specifically states that all curriculum cannot 'reflect adversely' upon homosexuality. This would inherently include class instruction dealing with homosexuality and its association with HIV and AIDS." ..."

ConservativeNews.org 5/12/99 Justin Torres "...As hate crime legislation winds its way through the Congress, conservative and family activists have begun to accuse those pushing the bills of having a non-traditional family, pro-homosexual agenda that they wish to ensconce in public schools-using public money to pay for the effort. To date, the effort has yielded public school curricula and programs that teach grade school students about homosexuality and encourage high school students to lobby lawmakers on a variety of homosexual issues. The selectivity of the material also neglects thousands of years of religious conviction by every major denomination on Earth-and overlooks the statistics on hate crime, which account for a minute percentage of total crime in America-describing homosexuality as "normal."..."

www.ConservativeNews.org 5/13/99 Justin Torres "....Hate crime legislation presently before the U.S. Congress sets up funding structures for "hate prevention" programs and youth advocacy groups in American schools. These programs are designed and required by federal mandate to "support" homosexual students rather than advocate the normalization of homosexuality. They are hoped to ease an assortment of mental and psychological difficulties claimed to be caused by alleged discrimination and homophobia in schools. But there is a thin line between "support" and "advocacy," and many private programs have surfaced around the nation, such as Gay/Straight Alliances (GSAs) and other such groups that are products of coordinated efforts between government policy makers, teachers, and homosexual advocacy groups, including the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD); Parents, Friends, and Families of Gays and Lesbians (PFLAG); the Lambda Legal Defense Education Fund (LLDEF); and the Gay/Lesbian/Straight Education Network (GLSEN). These groups have used GSAs and other student organizations for lobbying in favor of a variety of homosexual causes. They're also often used as conduits for federal and state tax money, and as springboards for lawsuits against school districts and administrators accused of insensitivity to homosexual concerns, raising questions about whether such activity is advocacy or support...."

Conservative News 5/12/99 Lawrence Morahan "...The publication in a prestigious psychological bulletin of a sex study that medical experts say is a trial balloon for the normalization of pedophilia has prompted a group of conservative lawmakers to call on President Clinton to condemn the suggestion that sex between adults and children is harmless. "I'm outraged," Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), a leading advocate of stiffer sentences for sexual predators, told a coalition of leading conservative lawmakers, victims of pedophilia and family groups at a forum on sex abuse hosted by the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. Wednesday. Salmon was referring to an article that appeared in the July 1998 volume of the Psychological Bulletin, a bi-monthly publication of the American Psychological Association (APA), in which the authors say it's all right for an adult to sodomize a child so long as the child doesn't develop psychological problems because of it. The article, "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples," by Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman, unleashed a firestorm for asserting, among other things, that there is scant evidence that little boys suffer from having been sodomized by adult males......"I don't want to understand them. I want to put them in prison," Salmon said of pedophiles..."

AP 5/7/99 Freeper Buffalo Bob "...A beer advertisement in a free magazine for gays and lesbians that shows two men holding hands has drawn so much response that Anheuser-Busch Inc. set up special hot lines to handle calls...."

The Indian Express 5/8/99 Reuters Freeper Jai "...San Franciscans held a party Friday ``to de-stigmatize and celebrate the under-recognized activity of self-love.'' The occasion being marked at a local sex shop was ``National Masturbation Day,'' and the San Francisco sex campaigners who organized the erotic festival and ``Masturbate-a-thon'' said it was part of a drive to liberate people's sexuality, reports Reuters. . . . "

New York Post 5/15/99 Uncredited Editorial "...Wesleyan is offering a course in porn. The final exam is quite simple, explains Professor Hope Weissman: "Just create your own work of pornography." ....One took photos of herself and her boyfriend engaging in oral sex. Another made a video of a fellow student's eyes as he pleasured himself..... The course catalogue describes Weissman's seminar as a serious examination of the "implication of pornography in so-called [sic] perverse practices such as voyeurism, bestiality, sadism and masochism." (Thesyllabus includes Hustler magazine and the Marquis de Sade.) ..."

EWTN 5/18/99 "...Pro-family advocates and reformed ex-homosexuals called on the American Psychiatric Association on Monday to revisit its policy on whether homosexuals can change their orientation, as the group opened its annual convention. The groups called on the APA to change its policy on homosexuality within its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to reflect the ability of homosexuals to change and to stop condemning therapists who treat them. "Instead of condemning and interfering with treatment that has proven to be successful in the lives of hundreds of men and women who have benefited by it, the APA should be supporting the work of NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) members and referring individuals seeking help to them," Jan LaRue of the Family Research Council said. APA has changed its policies in recent years, revoking the designation of homosexuality as a mental illness or disease. Moreover, therapists and psychiatrists who treat the orientation as disease are often ostracized or penalized by their colleagues, according to the advocates...."

Augusta Chronicle 6/6/99 Editorial "...Bill Clinton is the first president to go beyond tolerating homosexuality to promoting it as an acceptable alternative lifestyle. He has ignored the constitutional veto of the Senate by naming, during the congressional recess, homosexual activist James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg. (This country, 97 percent Roman Catholic, was insulted when his name was first announced -- and this was after the Democratic donor was to be ambassador to Fiji, but couldn't serve because homosexuality is a crime there.) Hormel was a ``commentator'' for San Francisco's ``Gay Pride Parade,'' which mocks Christianity -- and Catholicism in particular. He also funds a library collection in that city featuring perverted documents from the ``North American Man/Boy Love Association.'' How low can Clinton go? ..."

Kansas City Star 6/6/99 "....Saturday night's prom at midtown's Metropolitan Community Church was the first gay prom in the Kansas City area, organizers said...The event was organized by Passages, a social and support group for gays, lesbians and other youths between the ages of 14 and 21. "We wanted an event where the atmosphere is very affirming, not that thin gruel of tolerance," said Bruce Hall, a Passages board member...."

Associated Press 6/17/99 Julia Lieblich "...Homosexuality dominated the final day of the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting, as members criticized the appointment of the nation's first openly gay ambassador and cheered football great Reggie White for again condemning the gay lifestyle. ``God said it not -- Reggie White,'' the player-turned-preacher told the audience Wednesday. ``Leviticus 18.22 says, `Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman.''' The applause at the Georgia Dome was thunderous. Last year, White declared homosexuality a sin when he addressed the Wisconsin Legislature. Earlier Wednesday, members of the nation's largest Protestant denomination voted overwhelmingly to urge President Clinton to rescind James Hormel's appointment as ambassador to Luxembourg. ....The convention also rebuked Clinton -- who is a Southern Baptist -- for proclaiming June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month...."

www.conservativenews.org 6/8/99 Justin Torres Freeper buffalo bob "...Emily: "My mothers mean so, so, so, so, so much to me. I have two mothers. Two moms is pretty nice. Well, it's more than pretty nice, it's really nice. You can't imagine. Although having two mothers is a problem to others, I respect that that's the way they think, and I can't do anything about it. I still think that those people think stupidly. This once happened with a boy in my class who couldn't come to my house because my parents were lesbians. One night I called their house and their mother told me their version of the Bible. I stood up for my mothers and knew that many kids in my class were supporting me and calling me to see how I was. I am proud of my moms and enjoy marching in the gay pride march every single year with my moms." Teacher: "Wasn't that a nice essay? Shouldn't we give Emily a round of applause?" ...."

U.S. Newswire 6/11/99 Freeeper Brian Mosely "...Thirty years ago this month, at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a courageous group of citizens resisted harassment and mistreatment, setting in motion a chain of events that would become known as the Stonewall Uprising and the birth of the modern gay and lesbian civil rights movement. Gays and lesbians, their families and friends, celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June in America as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month; and, earlier this month, the National Park Service added the Stonewall Inn, as well as the nearby park and neighborhood streets surrounding it, to the National Register of Historic Places...."

CNSNews.com 8/24/99 Susan Jones "…The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD), following the lead of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says 28 gay, bisexual or transgender characters on the networks' new fall TV shows is not enough. The group is disappointed that most of the characters are white males, who are gay in name only and have only minor, recurring roles - usually as the butt of jokes, or to provide comic relief. The only gay lead on prime-time television is the character Will Truman of NBC's "Will & Grace." GLADD's media director, Scott Seomin, tells the New York Daily News, "If Will Truman doesn't have a date on "Will & Grace" this season, then the network has failed to realistically deliver that sitcom's premise of the life of a gay man." …"

The Associated Press 6/25/99 Katie Fairbank "...Presbyterian leaders Friday rejected a measure that could have opened the door to the ordination of non-celibate gays and lesbians. At the annual meeting of the 2.6-million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), delegates decided 389 to 198 not to allow the church's regional governing bodies to vote on the issue. For now, the vote ends an attempt to strike the constitutional clause that requires clergy to maintain ``fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness.'' That prohibits single, non-celibate heterosexuals or homosexuals from being ministers...."

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 6/24/99 Julia duin "...The Clinton administration quietly awarded a homosexual bar with a coveted place on the National Register of Historic Places in an emotional ceremony this week at a party in New York. On Monday, the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar that was ground zero in a series of riots in June 1969, was honored with a National Register plaque by John Berry, an assistant secretary for the Department of the Interior. In a speech, he likened the riots to the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence and the Battle of Gettysburg...."

Fox News 7/13/99 Reuters "…The Vatican Tuesday punished an American nun and priest, both long-time gay activists, for propagating "erroneous and dangerous'' views and refusing to toe the Roman Catholic Church's line on homosexuality. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which controls the orthodoxy of Catholic teaching, said in a statement it had banned Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent permanently from pastoral work involving homosexuals…."

Worldnetdaily 7/26/99 J R Nyquist "...This letter is important because it contains an error which needs to be corrected. The error is to think that conservatives use dictatorial methods. But the reality is, the whole conservative movement is committed to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This is its point of departure. It is therefore the worst possible misunderstanding to imagine that conservatives are engaged in some kind of sinister or criminal plot. This accusation is unfair. All that conservatives have done is use the ballot box -- the democratic process. Conservatives are merely campaigning and voting for what they believe in. Perhaps the left doesn't pay attention to what conservatives say and do. Perhaps they would understand us better if they did. American conservatives want to uphold freedom and republican institutions. That is what they are struggling for. Perhaps there are those on the left who would point to the "Christian right," and say that this is the group that is threatening to send the sex police on a rampage. But if you listen closely to what the "Christian right" is saying, there is no plan to police people's bedrooms. The fact that Christians uphold moral values does not mean they intend to send the police to effect moral changes in our society. Cultural conservatives and Christians are sophisticated enough to know that sheer police power cannot bring positive moral change. The person who wants a national police force, on the other hand, is Bill Clinton. That is something he's been advocating since 1992. But none of the cultural conservatives or Christians I know are advocating the use of police agencies to punish fornication, homosexuality, or adultery. Certainly the conservatives are worried about the decline in moral standards. Certainly the conservatives want to elect leaders who exemplify these standards. But there has been no call for chastity belt legislation. In this matter, left wing paranoia has created, out of whole cloth, an imaginary right wing monster. It is a mad, delusional notion that should have no place in rational political discussion..... Today, if Christians act to preserve the basis of Western civilization by voting to support their values, then they are usurpers and dictators. How odd, indeed, that the moral basis of a civilization should suddenly become a threat to that civilization. The logic of the secular left is not logic at all. It is blindness and irrationality. Christ taught us to love other people and to love God. He taught mercy and forgiveness. For this teaching he was crucified. In this context, I cannot imagine what the left could possibly be thinking when it likens Christianity to Marxism or Nazism -- which are doctrines of hate...."

Claremont Institute 8/5/99 Larry Arnn "...First, New Jersey's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in favor of James Dale. Dale, you may recall, is the Boy Scout leader who was dismissed from that position nine years ago because of his homosexuality. He sued the Scouts, a private organization, to get his place back. This is one of several such suits that have been filed against the Boy Scouts of America and local scouting organizations. But it is the first to succeed in any state Supreme Court. Now it will go to the United States Supreme Court. We will both work and pray that the highest court of all, the one over which "the Supreme Judge of the World" presides, will remember their duty to uphold the "laws of nature and of nature's God."...."

Florida Times-Union 8/10/99 "...New Jersey's Supreme Court was on dubious legal ground when it declared the Boy Scout ''gay ban'' unlawful under a state statute. The Scout organization teaches traditional family values and requires its young members to take an oath to be ''morally straight.'' It therefore would be hypocritical, Scout officials maintain, to allow homosexual leaders or members. .... The Scouts replied that, as a private and voluntary group, they could tailor membership and leadership criteria to fit their values. The court disagreed, however, saying the Scouts were a public accommodation subject to that law. Legal precedent suggests something entirely different. The homosexual ban has been upheld by the supreme courts of four other states - California, Oregon, Kansas and Connecticut...."

The Washington Times 8/10/99 Wes Pruden "...If you don't subscribe to the notion that gay is as good as it gets, you're a bigot. The New Jersey Supreme Court says so. The judges of the court, finding the Boy Scouts of America guilty of "illegal discrimination" because the Scouts won't countenance assigning little boys to the care of homosexual Scoutmasters, say anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot. The logical implications of the ruling, which applies only to New Jersey and is likely to be overturned by higher courts, are breathtaking. Deborah T. Poritz, the chief justice who wrote the opinion in the name of a unanimous court, says the Scouts' dismissal of James Dale, the homosexual assistant Scoutmaster, was "based on little more than prejudice," and "the sad truth is that excluded groups and individuals have been prevented from full participation in the social, economic and political life of our country. The human price of this bigotry has been enormous.".... In a concurring opinion, Justice Alan B. Handler says: "One particular stereotype that we renounce today is that homosexuals are inherently immoral. That myth is repudiated by decades of social science data that convincingly establish that being homosexual does not, in itself, derogate from one's ability to participate in and contribute responsibly and positively to society. In short, a lesbian and gay person, merely because he or she is a homosexual, is no more or less likely to be moral than a person who is heterosexual." Maybe, maybe not. The Jersey judges carefully avoid saying whether the practice of the love rites of the nether region is immoral, only that mooning about it isn't. But the teaching that homosexuals individually are immoral "is a myth." This careful straddle is meant to give them a little wiggle room, but the judges can't resist showing their contempt for the religious teachings of every major religious denomination in America -- Protestant, Catholic, Jewish....."

CNSNews.com 8/12/99 Nicholas Sanchez "...As the American culture increasingly retreats from its Judeo-Christian heritage, I think it is important for traditionalists to reflect upon the past of the Christian Church... For the first three hundred years following the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the great Church of Christ was known as the "Church of the Catacombs." It was termed as such because the adherents of the orthodox Christian Faith were forced to congregate in the catacombs, atop the bodies of Christian martyrs. Christianity was a persecuted and outlawed religion. Then a cataclysmic event occurred in the early life of the Church: the Roman Emperor, Constantine, a nonbeliever at the time, issued his "Edict of Milan." This decree legalized the Christian Church. Overnight, the Church of the Catacombs became the Church of the Empire....We religious, especially we Christians, have been so beaten down by the government's assaults of recent decades that we are very much in danger of once again becoming the Church of the Catacombs. Don't laugh or accuse me of being too melodramatic. Consider these latest cases: Just recently, the Wiccan rites were approved to be served on U.S. Army bases. At this same time, a married Catholic serving in the Air Force, Lt. Ryan Berry, was severely reprimanded for refusing to share a confined quarter with a female officer to avoid the appearance of sin. Imagine, the U.S. military, one of the oldest and most venerable institutions in this relatively young country has decided to side with pagans over Christians. The next thing you know school children will be forbidden from praying in school, the Ten Commandments will be taken from our public buildings, homosexuals will be allowed adoption rights, and tax laws will be made to favor unmarried couples instead of married ones. Oh, wait, sorry - my mistake. I forgot that we had already begun to slip down that path..... What I do want is a peaceful co-existence between the government and those who are professed Christians. This country has decided to place a wall between such a relationship, but only in the case of Christianity - New Agers are in the midst of their halcyon days...."

Washington Post 8/15/99 George Will "...New Jersey's Supreme Court has unanimously issued a ruling that deserves to be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which four years ago issued a unanimous ruling that may be incompatible with the New Jersey ruling that the Boy Scouts cannot discriminate against homosexuals. The controversy, with wide ramifications for American freedom, is not about whether the Scouts' policy is right but whether the Scouts have a right to it. The Scouts will take to the U.S. Supreme Court the argument that their constitutional (First Amendment) right of "expressive association" trumps New Jersey's statute...."

Chuck Baldwin Live 8/18/99 "…Without question, we live in the most hypersensitive generation in history. In this atmosphere of politically correct sensitivity a man was fired job for using the word "niggardly." The word has nothing to do with insulting a particular minority race, of course, but simply means, "miserly, stingy, covetous." No matter. The man was fired posthaste. Just this week Sen. Robert Bennett from Utah was told to apologize for quipping that unless Gov. G.W. Bush did something stupid, like have an affair with a black woman, he was certain to win the Republican nomination for president. He did. Americans are told that they had better not offend black people, Jewish people, homosexuals, Asians, Muslims, Indians, handicap people, short people, fat people, near-sighted people, ugly people or any other people. Any other people except Christian people, that is. Christians are routinely impugned, denigrated and held up to scorn from practically every quarter of society. In movies they are pictured as maniacal murderers, serial rapists and the like. They are favored targets of every late night TV comedian. Christians are routinely told that if they are offended by the content of television programs to "turn the channel". Christian chaplains in our military services are categorically instructed to not mention the name of Jesus. The leaders of public education tell Christian valedictorians the same thing. Christian schoolteachers are told to check their faith at the entrance to the school. Christians must listen to profanity, look at co-worker’s girlie magazines but are threatened with their jobs if they bring a Bible or gospel tract to work….."

Augusta Chronicle 8/20/99 Editorial "…I would like to make some comments about the young man who appeared Aug. 4 on ``Good Morning America.'' I could not believe this show would reduce itself to air this! The young man stated that he was removed from the Boy Scouts of America due to the fact that he is a homosexual. That fact is true! BSA teaches duty to Self, Family, Country and God. Homosexuality is a sin! God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. The majority of sponsoring organizations for BSA are churches. This man also stated that homosexuals being barred from Scouting is not stated anywhere in BSA literature but in the beginning of the BSA handbook for Scouts stipulates ``traditional American family values.'' That means a father (male) and mother (female) and this is taught from the very beginning of any Scouting career. I have been in Scouting since 1971 as a youth and adult leader. If this change is forced upon us, it will kill Scouting…. It is hard now to keep track of 25 young men on a camping trip without having to worry about if a leader is missing. If the homosexual community wants Scouting, then start your own, do not force your way of life on us and devalue the Eagle Scout Award…."

AP 8/20/99 "…Several Republican presidential candidates have pledged to oppose allowing gay or lesbian couples to adopt and to promote the rights of organizations such as the Boy Scouts to exclude homosexuals, a gay rights group said Friday. Human Rights Campaign said former Vice President Dan Quayle, radio host Alan Keyes, publisher Steve Forbes, conservative activist Gary Bauer, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and commentator Pat Buchanan signed the pledge before last week's Iowa straw poll…."

Joseph Sobran 8/20/99 "…The New Jersey court's opinions confirm that homosexual "rights" are injurious to our traditional rights. Orthodox Judaism and Christianity have always condemned homosexuality. But this ancient teaching, says the court, is nothing but "bigotry." Why? Because "social science data" have revealed that homosexuals may act "responsibly" and "positively." So religious and traditional teachings -- as well as the freedoms of religion, speech and association -- must be subordinated to "social science data." But no neutral social science presumes to pass judgment on moral and religious teachings. The whole method of social science is to suspend moral judgments in the study of phenomena. The court, however, has ruled that the Boy Scouts must subordinate their own moral judgments to the court's supposedly "scientific" finding that homosexuals are morally entitled to forced association with people who would freely choose to avoid their company…..Well, well. So that's "tolerance." Neither the New Jersey court nor the tolerant Times argues from the purely legal merits of the case. Both are on a moral mission to force the Boy Scouts, on any pretext, to conform to the liberal agenda. And their flimsy arguments could just as well be applied to churches and synagogues, the foundations of our civic culture. Yes, this case involves bigotry, but it isn't on the side of the Scouts….What, after all, are the characteristics of bigotry? A venomous rejection of any view contrary to one's own, a refusal even to entertain an opposing view with detachment, a denial of the legitimacy of disagreement, a total contempt for ancient tradition, and a militant eagerness to coerce those who disagree -- such attitudes are the very essence of bigotry, liberal-style…."

World Magazine 8/28/99 Gene Edward Veith "…The 2000 head count takes a "don't ask, don't tell" attitude toward marriage-and why that's tragic The new census, planned for the year 2000, will gather tons of information about Americans for the use of the federal government, policymakers, and social scientists. But a bit of information that the being counters do not much care about is whether you are married. The short form of the census process, which will be filled out by more than 80 percent of American households, will now omit any questions about marital status (although "Relationship to household" is included). Citizens will find no box to check to indicate whether they are married, single, widowed, or divorced. Nor will the census takers collect data on the living arrangements that are unprecedented in any culture: men and women living together without being married or homosexuals cohabiting with a "domestic partner." It isn't because the era of big government is over. The Census Bureau has not redesigned its short form simply to count the citizens, as the Constitution requires, to help divvy up the House of Representatives. The short form asks lots of questions about race, going into more detail than ever before. But when it comes to marriage, the federal government is adopting a policy of "don't ask, don't tell." …."

Washington Times 8/26/99 Andrea Billups "…A Minnesota teacher is calling on the state's Department of Human Rights to stop a male teacher at her school who dresses like a woman from using restrooms at the school designated for females. Computer instructor Carla Cruzan of Minneapolis filed a grievance last fall with state officials after she found Debra Davis, a "transgendered" librarian who is physically a man but wears women's clothing, using the women's faculty restroom…."

Houston Chronicle 9/1/99 Cal Thomas "…"Bigotry," like "racism," is one of those bazooka words used by the protected classes to silence people who disagree with them. The prospect of being called a bigot simply because one has a different opinion intimidates television network executives, military commanders, politicians and the medical profession, all of whom have tailored their beliefs and policies to avoid the brand of the scarlet or, in this case, the lavender B. But not radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Because of her fervent belief that homosexual practice is wrong and that homosexuals, like fornicating heterosexuals, can change their behavior if they want to (and evidence of those who have successfully done so is available for anyone who is not a bigot), gay rights activists are targeting stations that carry her program and its sponsors for special intimidation in an effort to censor her…… Why are gay rights activists fearful of a single voice, especially her voice, in the face of such a huge media barrage? What happened to our cherished freedom to dissent from accepted orthodoxies? Homosexuals have demanded to be heard, and they are being heard. They have complained of efforts to silence them. Why do they now practice the same censorship they deplore in others? ….."

The Green Bay News-Chronicle 9/5/99 Cal Thomas "…."Bigotry," like "racism," is one of those bazooka words used by the protected classes to silence people who disagree with them. The prospect of being called a bigot simply because one has a different opinion intimidates television network executives, military commanders, politicians and the medical profession, all of whom have tailored their beliefs and policies to avoid the brand of the scarlet or, in this case, the lavender B. But not radio talk-show host Laura Schlessinger. Because of her fervent belief that homosexual practice is wrong and that homosexuals, like fornicating heterosexuals, can change theri behavior if they want to (and evidence of those who have successfully done so is available for anyone who is not a bigot), gay rights activists are targeting stations that carry her program and its sponsors for special intimidation in an effort to censor her. …."

Reuters 9/17/99 Washington Times Andrea Billups "…."I believe there is a growing climate of hostility that is directed against Christians .. . who find themselves as the targets of a great hostility in this culture," said William Merrell, a spokesman for the Southern BaptistConvention. A "disturbing double standard" is evident in the way attacks on Christians are viewed compared with crimes against other groups, a spokesman for the Family Research Council said. -- Continued from Front Page -- From the Matthew Shepard murder in Wyoming last year to the shootings last month at a Jewish community center in California, the media and many politicians moved swiftly to label those episodes of violence "hate crimes," said Robert Regnier, a cultural studies writer at the FRC. In the Texas church shootings, he said, "I just don't see any of that." …… " In recent years, politicians and others have frequently blamed "hatred" for headline-making crimes. After the April 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, President Clinton named G. Gordon Liddy among the conservative talk-show hosts he called "purveyors of hatred and division," saying they were "encouraging violence." Concerned over arson attacks on black churches in 1996, civil rights leader Joseph Lowery accused the Christian Coalition of fostering an "extremist climate." Gay-rights advocate Joan M. Garry suggested last fall's murder of Mr. Shepard, a homosexual university student, was the result of a conservative anti-homosexuality campaign she said "fuels the fires of bigotry. " Anti-Christian bias as a crime motive is routinely ignored by the news media, said Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Council. "The media were very quick in August to draw the conclusion that the shooter at the Los Angeles Jewish community center was motivated by anti-Semitism," Mr. Baker said, but with Wednesday's shootings at the Texas church, reporters are "being much more hesitant to assign a motive…."

Chuck Baldwin Live 9/17/99 "…. Conservative political activist, Paul Weyrich, recently asked the question, "Is America becoming a pagan nation?" The answer is a resounding, "Yes." Some would argue that America has already become a pagan nation. The Judeo/Christian value system that formed and guided our nation is no longer the dominant belief system of America’s mainstream culture. Granted, hundreds of thousands of churches dot America’s landscape. And, there are yet millions of people in this country that identify themselves as Christians. Yet, for all practical purposes, most of these churches have become relics and museums of a by gone era, and Christians now find themselves part of America’s sub-culture. Virtually every major body of cultural influence today is decidedly pagan. The entertainment industry routinely impugns and demonizes Christians and Christian values. The same is true for many public school classrooms. Military chaplains are instructed to not mention the name of Jesus. Some are even expected to perform pagan ceremonies…… Any pagan society is unsafe. In today’s pagan America babies are not safe in the wombs of their mothers, teens are not safe in their schools and people are not safe in their houses of worship. Another element of a pagan society is the intolerance demonstrated toward people of faith. In at least five of the last massacres to take place in this nation the victims were specifically targeted because they were Christians. Yet, in no instance did President Clinton or Attorney General Janet Reno identify these murders as "hate crimes." Can you imagine what their reaction would be if that instead of a Baptist church it would have been a homosexual congregation? Many newspapers didn't even bother to report the anti-Christian venom that the killer spewed out of his mouth as he slaughtered people in that Fort Worth church. Instead, the leaders of this new pagan America use the tragedy to argue for more gun control. Some are even calling for gun confiscation. …… "

Los Angeles Times Via Washington Post 9/19/99 "....From Jerry Falwell to Pat Robertson, James Dobson and D. James Kennedy, leaders of the Christian right uniformly decried last week what they called a double standard in treating Christian victims of violence. The recent shooting at a Granada Hills, Calif., Jewish community center and last year's murders of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming and James Byrd Jr. in Texas were rightly labeled as hate crimes against Jews, gays and blacks, respectively, the leaders said. But no such declaration has been made, they said, in the case of Wedgwood Baptist Church, where Larry Gene Ashbrook reportedly screamed anti-Christian expletives as he killed seven churchgoers. Nor, religious leaders say, were anti-Christian motives highlighted in the attacks on a high school prayer circle in West Paducah, Ky., in 1997 or this year at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., where the majority of victims were born-again Christians--including Cassie Bernall, who became a symbol of martyrdom when she was killed after reportedly affirming her faith in God. "There is a total absence of outrage over the killings at the Baptist church and in Colorado, as far as the religious aspect is concerned," televangelist Falwell said. "We have, whether intentional or not, built up a reservoir of hostility toward people of faith, particularly evangelical people." Evangelical leaders say Christians are suffering unparalleled persecution worldwide. Now, they argue, the attacks are taking place in America. "It would seem that killing Christians is on a far lower level of seriousness than anyone else being killed," said Kennedy. "Is that where we've come to as a Christian nation?" ...."

Ft. Worth Star Telegram 9/19/99 Bill Thompson ".....If Ashbrook gunned down churchgoers for no reason except that they were engaged in the practice of religion, then the shootings should qualify as a hate crime under any conceivable definition of the term. But let's face it: The hate-crime laws that are so popular nowadays are not being adopted for the benefit of Baptists. The laws have been prompted by violence against groups and individuals that have historically been targets of violent bigotry: racial minorities, Jews, homosexuals, women . . . Mainstream Christian religious organizations simply aren't thought of as victims of oppression in this country -- or they weren't before Wednesday. Larry Ashbrook may have changed all that....... One of the vicious bigots who dragged Texas resident James Byrd Jr. to his death in 1998 has already been convicted and sentenced to death. Would that killer's eventual lethal injection be any more deadly if he had been convicted under a hate-crime law? And if Ashbrook hadn't taken his own life after shooting 14 churchgoers, would Texas need a hate-crime law to prosecute him for a mass murder that may have been motivated by his apparent enmity for Christians? Of course not. Capital murder is capital murder, no matter what the motivation. .....Like so many laws passed by legislative bodies in this country, hate-crime laws are totally unnecessary....."

CNSNews.com 9/22/99 Thomas Jipping "...Why has this cultural jihad occurred all of a sudden? According to the Associated Press, officials of the pageant organization, which is headquartered in New Jersey, are afraid of violating the state's anti-discrimination law. What judges did to the Boy Scouts they could do to Miss America.... If you think that judges' decisions don't matter, just read the papers and look around your neighborhood. Judges told the people they cannot protect preborn children. Judges told the people they must tolerate pornography flowing through their communities, across their television screens, and even sold on military bases. Judges told school children they could not even look at the Ten Commandments, could not participate in prayer even if they wanted to, could not hear a passage from the Bible, and could not have God's blessing when they graduated. Judges have now told school children they may not pray before football game and told their parents they may not pray before school board meetings. Judges told the people they may not encourage citizen legislatures with term limits and must use their tax dollars for welfare for illegal aliens. Judges told people who do not want to discriminate by race that they must do so. Judges told the people that the only explanation about human origins that may be taught is Darwinian evolution. Judges told the people that men and women are the same and that any other view is an impermissible stereotype. Judges told the people that any moral objection to homosexuality is nothing but hate. And judges are telling the people that the last vestiges of morality, propriety, and tradition are simply exercises in discrimination and have to go as well. Folks, the most damaging cultural, social, economic, and political developments of the last two generations have come not from the statehouse but from the courthouse. Judges are twiddling while our culture is burning. I hope it's not too late....."

The Claremont Institute 9/22/99 Larry Arnn No 192 "....One of the high rules of public controversy is never torepeat criticism of oneself. But we have been attacked in the pages of Penthouse Magazine, and we cannot let thehonor pass. Penthouse is, of course, a high moral authority, second perhaps only to Larry Flynt's Hustler. That priest of the New Order has even been celebrated in a movie produced by another high cleric, Oliver Stone...In this New Order, Penthouse and Hustler now take on moral authority from the feature that has long made them popular: They are full of pictures of naked women. This is brave. This is free. This is good. No longer is it necessary to apologize that one "only reads the articles." ..... In the New Order, family is slavery. Husbands and fathers are the slave masters. Wives are brood cattle, unless they do not have children, in which case through the wonders of cosmetic surgery they can be happy, or anyway widely admired. Sex is purely private, and because of this, its public performance is good--or at least necessary.....In a development that will please our own fathers and mothers, who labored to keep us away from Penthouse and its like, we have run afoul of this New Order. In a recent article, "Out of God's Sight," Penthouse purports to expose a conservative conspiracy to incite violence against homosexuals and defeat hate-crimes legislation. ....And so we invite Mr. Rosen and Penthouse's editors to read a little about the condition of children who lack the loveof parents; the condition of women so commonly abused by others, not their husbands, with whom they have sex; the spread of disease that is the natural concomitant of promiscuity; the sadness of a person used by many and loved by none. Finally, we invite them to compare the weak and self destructive pleasures of Penthouse, to those deeper, higher, and more enduring pleasures of marriage. In the 4th century B.C., the old fogey Aristotle knew that happiness means more pleasure, too. Regarding even pleasure, the avant garde Penthouse itself is a promise not kept....."

Voice of America, via News Plus 9/24/99 Michael Leland "….Last year, a series of advertisements in many large newspapers in the United States suggested homosexuals could become heterosexual through counseling and prayer. The ads were run on behalf of Exodus International, a Christian-based organization that provides such counseling. The organization's leadership credits those advertisements for the large turnout at this year's convention, held near Chicago. Gay and lesbian support organizations say the messages of the advertisements, and of Exodus International, are dangerous. ……"I thought that I was hopelessly gay. I thought that I would never change, that I would never be happy. Now I know the truth. I am learning the truth." Exodus International is headed by Bob Davies, who says he was homosexual, but is now married. He likens his organization to Alcoholics Anonymous, which uses counseling and support to help those with drinking problems. Davies: "We are here basically as an option for men and women who want our support. Just like AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) does not go into bars and drag people kicking and screaming into their meetings. They are simply there as a resource for people who want to stop drinking. Similarly, we exist as a support for people who want to change their sexual orientation." But Exodus International message is upsetting to gay and lesbian organizations. Rick Garcia directs the Chicago-based Illinois Federation for Human Rights, the state's largest gay-rights group. Garcia: "The suggestion that one can change their sexual orientation is not only inaccurate, it is also extremely offensive to gay and lesbian people and right-thinking people." …."

World Net Daily 10/4/99 David Bresnahan "....Despite heavy criticism and controversy, as well as an expensive lawsuit, one church refuses to back down from a controversial stand on homosexual marriage. There can be no compromise when it comes to defending truth and right, according to President Gordon B. Hinckley of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hinckley is regarded as a modern prophet of God by more than 10 million members of the church worldwide...."

CNSNews.com (Conservative News Service) 10/4/99 Justin Torres "....At the recent Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network national conference, entitled attendees and organizers used strong rhetoric in describing the "Religious Right," or "wingers, as one presenter termed religious conservatives. Steven K. Green, general counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, distributed a factsheet on "Leading Religious Right Organizations," including the American Family Association, the Christian Coalition, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, and the Eagle Forum.....Green laid out his views on the priorities of the Religious Right, including "watering down" sex education, school vouchers, the defeat of anti-harassment policies, and parental rights amendments, which he called "extremely pernicious. . . . They allow parents to interject their religious feelings and philosophies into school curriculum." Added Green, "[The Religious Right] is not about to admit that they just want to bash gays if they can. . . . You have to remember, Sunday after Sunday millions of people come to church to hear the diatribes."....."

CNSNews.com 10/4/99 Justin Torres "....More than 700 teachers, administrators, high school and college students, and homosexual activists gathered in downtown Atlanta this weekend to strategize on how to make schools around the nation more homosexual-friendly. The third annual national conference of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) featured a keynote address by civil rights activist and Georgia Democrat Rep. John Lewis, comic relief by comedienne Margaret Cho, a "prom" for homosexual youth, and symposia on topics such as "Responding to the Religious Right" and "Addressing GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered) Issues in Middle School." ...... "The fear of the Religious Right is that the schools of today are the governments of tomorrow," said Deanna Duby of the National Education Association at a symposium. "And you know what, they're right." "If we do our jobs right," added James Anderson, director of communications for GLSEN, " we're going to raise a generation of kids who don't believe [the claims of] the Religious Right." ...."

CNSNews.com 10/5/99 "....While New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was taking a pounding this past weekend over bogus accusations of trying to gut the 1st Amendment because of an art exhibit that violates the taxpayer-financed Brooklyn Museum's lease with the city, a genuine and far more frightening assault on freedom of the press was launched in Atlanta. More than 700 homosexual activists gathered in that city to outline their plan to advance the homosexual agenda. Among their primary targets are reporters and the news media, which according to some, are just too hung up on getting all sides of the story. The Atlanta conference, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, included a symposium on how to respond to people who oppose homosexuality based on millennia-old cultural and religious beliefs. One particular activist counseled attendees to "have those tough conversations with journalists," and disabuse them of their "misguided notions of balance," in reporting stories about the homosexual agenda. The goal, according to Cathy Renna, who works as the director of community relations for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is to "convince (journalists) that there is no other side to these issues." ...."

AP wire 10/12/99 Jordan Lite "……Activists accused the Rev. Jerry Falwell of promoting violence such as the beating death of a gay Wyoming college student as he led conservative Christians in urging gays to renounce homosexuality. ``Christian bigots out of our city!'' cried Josh Trenter, who was hauled away by police after allegedly tossing a blueberry pie during Monday's ``Come Out of Homosexuality'' event. He and another member of a gay rights group were cited for battery and released. Declaring that ``God loves you and so do I,'' Falwell, who appeared via satellite, told the audience of about 60 that ``just as people can come out of the closet, so can people choose to come out against a sinful lifestyle.'' The presentation was designed ``to reach out to the homosexual community in a spirit of love,'' said Allen Wildmon, a spokesman for the American Family Association, a conservative Christian group that sponsored the event with Falwell, the former leader of the now-defunct Moral Majority. ….."

Freeper sinkspur 9/1/99 "…LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Roman Catholic bishop and a priest have resigned from a national gay and lesbian ministries association after disciplinary action by the Vatican against two East Coast Catholic ministers to gays. Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala and the Rev. Peter Liuzzi, director of the Los Angeles archdiocese's gay and lesbian ministry, confirmed Monday that they had resigned from the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries….."

The Weekly Standard 9/20/99 Pia Nordlinger "….THE CULTURAL LEFT IS TIRED of getting beat up for being anti-family. So, a small but influential number of academics, social critics, and policy types have come up with a new gambit: They are anti-marriage but pro-parenthood. They are pro-parenthood because they are unable any longer to deny that parents are important to the well-being of children. They are anti-marriage because they are deeply committed to denying any privileged status to the traditional family, with its two parents of opposite sexes who are married to each other. Parents, according to this new line of thought, can be single, divorced, married, "cohabiting," gay, lesbian, whatever. The result will be the same, provided that they are committed to the child; children need parents, but the existence and nature of any commitment to each other is beside the point. This argument recently attracted attention when American Psychologist published "Deconstructing the Essential Father," a study that attempted to prove that "a wide variety of family structures can support positive child outcomes." The authors, Louise B. Silverstein and Carl E. Auerbach, professors at Yeshiva University, were candid about their intentions: "We do not believe that the data support the conclusion that fathers are essential to child well-being and that heterosexual marriage is the social context in which responsible fathering is most likely to occur." Public policy that favors the traditional family, Silverstein and Auerbach argue, "discriminates against cohabiting couples, single mothers, and gay and lesbian parents." The authors are therefore "interested in encouraging public policy that supports the legitimacy of diverse family structures, rather than policy that privileges the two-parent heterosexual, married family. …."

San Francisco Chronicle 10/5/99 Carla Marinucci, Ed Epstein "....The battle over the state initiative defining marriage as a one-man, one-woman relationship flared in the presidential campaign yesterday when San Francisco supervisors called for an investigation of the Mormon Church's tax-exempt status -- an action Republican presidential hopeful Orrin Hatch called ``bigoted and prejudiced.'' Hatch, 65, a U.S. senator from Utah and a devout Mormon, spoke in San Francisco as supervisors unanimously passed a resolution calling on the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some church leaders have urged members to financially support California's Knight Initiative. Hatch, in an interview with The Chronicle, said he strongly supports the initiative, a measure on the March 2000 ballot that would bar the state from recognizing gay or lesbian marriage. But the senator also said he believes that gays and lesbians deserve respect and may ``need some sort of recognition for a monogamous relationship.'' Still, the powerful chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee lambasted as idiotic the vote by the San Francisco board, which charges that the Mormon Church has been so outspoken on the Knight Initiative that it could be violating IRS rules forbidding churches to engage in ``substantial lobbying or political activity.'' ....."

Fox news 10/14/99 Reuters "….A state senator who is sponsoring a ballot measure that would ban gay marriages in California was criticized Thursday by his gay son, who called the measure "blind'' and "uncaring.'' David Knight, a cabinet maker in Baltimore, wrote an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times attacking Republican Pete Knight's initiative. "I believe, based on my experience, that his is a blind, uncaring, uninformed, knee-jerk reaction to a subject about which he knows nothing and wants to know nothing, but which serves his political career,'' he wrote. A spokesman for the senator said he was not immediately available for comment. The senator acknowledged publicly in 1996 that his son, who like him is a former fighter pilot, is gay and that the senator's brother died of AIDS. …"

NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE 10/14/99 David Elliot "….A central part of this new emphasis will be the Body Politic Workout, a series of day-long seminars that will focus on individual and team leadership development, fundraising, media skills, grassroots organizing, lobbying, electoral strategies and organizational planning. The entire Body Politic Workout will take place during the Creating Change conference, and is free to conference registrants. "The Body Politic Workout reflects the core mission of Creating Change: to train and build the skills of the activists that staff the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement's many organizations and projects," said Sue Hyde, NGLTF field organizer and director of Creating Change. "Through increased training and organizing, we flex our collective political muscle. That is what the Body Politic Workout is all about."….. NGLTF thanks the 1999 Creating Change Corporate Sponsors: Pacific Bell, Wells Fargo Foundation, Gay.com, PlanetOut, HERO Magazine, Harvey Milk Institute, BREATH-The California Smoke-Free Bar Program/A Statewide Project of the American Lung Association, the Advocate, and Olivia Cruises and Resorts. American Airlines is the official carrier for the Creating Change Conference…."

AP 10/14/99 "….Republicans would like to remove legislation that would expand federal civil rights law to cover homosexuals from a larger bill, but Democrats say they'll fight to keep it in. ``Hate crimes are modern-day lynchings,'' Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said Wednesday. ``Congress has a responsibility to act this year.'' Senate Democrats succeeded in July in adding the measure to a spending bill for the Commerce, Justice and State departments. The House version of the bill does not include the gay rights measure…."

Chattanooga Free Press 10/14/99 "....Regular readers of Dr. Laura's Sunday column in this newspaper may remember reading about how the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution last summer condemning an article published by the American Psychological Association. It argued shockingly that sex between adults and "willing" children might not be so bad after all. The House resolution passed 355-0 with 13 abstentions, 11 of those being Democrats. There's hope for the Democrats yet, if only 11 of them are soft on child molestation. But what about the leader of their party, our Oval Office Lothario, President Bill Clinton? White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, when asked about the House resolution, responded: "Once we've had a chance to review it, I'm sure we'll take a position." One week later, Mr. Clinton's "position" on child molestation was still not forthcoming, so, naturally, the Republicans made something of it. Then, at the daily White House press briefing, a radio reporter named Les Kinsolving quoted from a Republican National Committee press release about Mr. Clinton's silence and asked Mr. Lockhart, "Does this motivate you into another evasion, or not?" Mr. Lockhart said, "It motivates me not to call on you anymore." The follow-up question: "Are you serious?" Mr. Lockhart: "Yes. And go ahead and tell your viewers, your listeners -- that will be fine. Call the RNC and fill them in -- I'm sure there's some more paper they can churn out tomorrow." ....."

Salon.com 10/11/99 Sara Douglas Hart ".....More than 1,800 lesbians, gay men and more than a few heterosexual supporters poured into the Sheraton New York Hotel to hear the first U.S. president ever to address a gay and lesbian group in New York state. Guests paid at least $350 for the privilege of hearing Clinton speak to them. The dinner and live auction took in a reported $1 million, the largest sum ever raised in a single event (not related to AIDS) by a lesbian and gay group in the United States. And they were richly rewarded with a speech that catered more to his audience than the one he gave at a better-publicized event honoring Clinton in Los Angeles last week. In his speech, Clinton rattled off a laundry list of laudable achievements his administration has made on behalf of the gay and lesbian community. During his two terms, Clinton has tapped more than 200 gays and lesbians for federally appointed positions -- including James Hormel, who became the country's first openly gay ambassador. He inked an executive order prohibiting discrimination in the federal work force and mandated that federal security clearances no longer be denied based on sexual orientation. The Clinton administration also increased AIDS drug assistance from $52 million to $461, and funding for Ryan White CARE programs has increased by 290 percent. He also addressed one of his biggest policy failures: "That awful battle that I waged and didn't win over the military service issue," which ultimately resulted in the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy that has dramatically increased the number of gays and lesbians discharged from the military because of their sexual orientation. But there was nary a mention of Clinton's support for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act prohibiting same-sex marriages....."

Des Moines Register 10/16/99 Perry Beeman David Yepsen "….Republican leaders in the Iowa Legislature blasted Gov. Tom Vilsack's gay civil-rights order Friday, and one asked the governor to scrap the special anti-discrimination effort in state government. "Iowa should be on the cutting edge of educating our children, not the cutting edge of extending civil rights to transsexuals," Senate Majority Leader Stewart Iverson, a Republican from Dows, said in a statement. In an interview, he added: "I have friends who are homosexual, but they do their job and that isn"t the issue. When you talk about gender identity and transsexuals, that is unbelievable. I believe every American should not be discriminated against, but how far do you go in setting up special classes of people?" Vilsack, a Democrat, defended the order on a WHO radio program and in an interview. The measure bans discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in state government jobs; protection he said was needed to make Iowa more attractive to a diverse work force….."

AP via Newsday.com 10/17/99 David Crary "....With a mother's love, Kathleen Crandell writes every week to two girls she cannot visit. Whether they get the letters, she doesn't know. Crandell helped raise the girls before splitting with her lesbian partner and considers them her daughters. Distraught when excluded from their lives, she sued for visitation rights -- and lost. Under California law, she has no greater right to access than a stranger....... ``The courts aren't used to looking at people without a biological relationship as being a child's parent,'' says Michael Adams, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union's lesbian and gay rights project. ``We are forced to work within laws passed by legislatures that simply never considered these circumstances, and we can get some very unfortunate results.'' ....... Kauffman is frustrated by the tactics some lesbian mothers use to oppose visitation rights. ``We've been working so hard for so many decades to gain respect,'' she says. ``Then to have people within our own community use homophobic law against other gay and lesbian people -- that really troubles me. If we don't respect our own relationships, how can we expect other people to respect them?'' ...."

Boston Globe 10/19/99 Judith Gaines "....In 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village, its gay patrons believed they were harassed because of their lifestyle and vowed not to let it happen again. It was a watershed event that helped to politicize gays and lesbians around the country. Some say Boston will soon be the site of another defining moment in gay and lesbian history: Stonewall Communities, a retirement community like no other. ''This project will give gays and lesbians one of the first visionary models for a community that draws on the best in retirement thinking done to this point, and tailors it to us,'' said Janet Stambolian, 51, director of a design and construction company in Burlington, Vt., and one of the organizers of the new community...... Plans for the development grew out of a survey done in conjunction with Gerontological Services, Inc., and sent to 3,600 gays and lesbians, age 40 and older, in the six New England states and upstate New York. Of the 328 who responded, 86 percent said they would like to live in a gay and lesbian environment as they age. Some had heard stories about harassment of homosexuals at places like Sun City, Ariz., and some senior housing facilities in the South...."

NewsMax.com 10/19/99 Kim Bonney "..... Sex in study hall? Sex on the school bus? Sound far-fetched. Not to a group of middle school parents in Northern, Virginia, who recently found out their middle schoolers were engaging in oral sex. Nationwide, educators says it's happening more than you think. Just ask your average middle schooler. "Definitely, I think that it's been done forever. I don't think that it's just now, oh my God, oral sex," says one girl. "A lot of people don't consider that having sex, so they still say they're a virgin but they will do that," adds another. Kids call it the "anything but intercourse" approach to sex. Oral sex is a growing trend among many of today's young people. Recently, officials at an Arlington, Virginia middle school found out a group of 13 and 14 year olds had been engaging in oral sex parties in parents' homes and local parks......"What we have lost and what is missing from virtually every sex education curriculum across the country is some notion that sexuality for everybody, for adults as well as kids, is not just a physical act. It is also a spiritual act and a moral act with enormous consequences," says cultural critic Michael Medved. Consequences like the highest rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia of any age group. Already, one out of four young people will acquire a sexually transmitted disease before the age of 20....... But this "anything goes" sex ed approach is nothing new -- and is even subsidized by taxpayer's money. Organizations like Planned Parenthood and SIECUS, the Sex Information and Education Council, in their literature encourage young people to experiment sexually. Planned Parenthood, which received $165-million federal tax dollars in 1998, recommends on its web site, Teenwire, "Outercourse with many partners can be safer than intercourse with only one." SIECUS, which was awarded a five-year grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to develop guidelines for sex education, among other things, says, "Starting at age nine, children should be taught that there are many ways -- such as mutual masturbation and oral sex -- to give and receive sexual pleasure." "Who writes something like that to children? Only someone who chooses to exploit them, or someone who just hates innocence for it's own sake," says Reisman. ....."

Investors Business Daily 10/22/99 ".... In an uncommon display of rationality, Congress has dropped a proposal to expand federal hate crimes. It's a refreshing development, given Washington's penchant for federalizing everything in sight...... By the expanded definition, offenses against victims who are targeted because of their sexual preference, gender or disability would have been considered hate crimes. Federal hate crimes apply now only when the victim is chosen because of race, religion or national origin..... First, crime is a local responsibility. Federal jurisdiction over crime is confined by the Constitution to a limited number of offenses. Clearly, the states don't need federal intrusion.....Second, establishing higher punishment for similar offenses based on the victim is preferential treatment under the law. The 14th Amendment requires that laws be applied equally.....Robberies, kidnappings, rapes, murders - they're all depraved. Those who commit them should be severely punished. That doesn't mean the government should play favorites in prosecuting crime. The life, liberty and property of a gay minority female are no more valuable - or less valuable - than those of a straight white male. Similar crimes should carry similar punishment, regardless of who's the victim....."

The Washington Times 10/22/99 Joyce Howard Price "..... Most of the nation has not heard about two homosexual men who face the death penalty in Arkansas, charged with raping and torturing a 13-year-old boy to death last month. The brutal crime against Prairie Grove, Ark., seventh-grader Jesse Dirkhising -- who was raped repeatedly and suffocated with his own underwear in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 26 -- was reported by news organizations in Arkansas and also covered by newspapers in Oklahoma and Tennessee. But the boy's death did not receive national media attention. Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said he is not surprised. "Nobody wants to say anything negative about homosexuals. Nobody wants to be seen on the wrong side of that issue," said Mr. Gra-ham, who sees "political correctness" at work....."

The Washington Post 10/22/99 Caryle Murphy ".... Sharone Belt last visited the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg 20 years ago, when her father's Riverdale Baptist Church sent its youth choir for a guest appearance. Then a teenager, Belt's conservative Christian upbringing had convinced her that being homosexual was "following the devil's path." Tomorrow, the Annandale resident will return to Falwell's church. But this time, the 33-year-old lesbian will be part of what organizers are calling a historic event: a meeting between Falwell and 200 other evangelical Christians and 200 gays and lesbians led by the Rev. Mel White, a gay rights advocate who was once Falwell's ghostwriter. Both Falwell and White are billing the 90-minute "Anti-Violence Forum," in which participants will discuss violence directed against both gays and Christians, as a breakthrough in the long-running hostility between evangelical Christians and gay rights advocates. ...."Through the years, evangelicals, Jerry Falwell included, have been too strident in their condemnations of the [homosexual] lifestyle to the point that we were not communicating adequate love to the gays and lesbians themselves," Falwell said....."

WorldNetDaily 10/22/99 Joseph Farah ".....But when Prairie Grove, Ark., police responded to a 911 emergency call at 5 a.m. Sept. 26, they found 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising on the floor, unconscious, near death, one of his wrists bound with duct tape. A half-hour later, he was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Hospital in Roger. A police investigation determined young Jesse was repeatedly raped over a period of hours, including with foreign objects. While enduring this ordeal, his ankles, knees and wrists were bound in duct tape and he was gagged and blindfolded. He was tied to a mattress. He may have been drugged, police say. A sedative called amitryptiline was found in the home of two men -- Joshua Brown, 22, and David Don Carpenter, 38 -- along with Jesse's body. There were other drugs, too -- and items commonly used in sexual bondage. .....It was big news in Northwest Arkansas, but the story of Jesse Dirkhising hasn't made a ripple in the national news. I wonder why? I wonder if it's because the victim is not a part of some politically protected sub-group, a special class deserving of extra government privileges? I wonder if it is because the suspects are, indeed, members of such a group. Remember how the nation stood riveted to the details of a hideous murder that took place in Wyoming when a homosexual was tortured to death? Never mind that the crime had little or nothing to do with the victim's sexual proclivities. Uh-uh. That didn't matter. This was a hate crime. New laws were needed. New brainwashing programs must be introduced into the schools. New sensitivity outreach projects were required by all media outlets. Bill Clinton sounded off. Janet Reno chimed in....."

CNSNews.com 10/27/99 Lawrence Morahan "….The rape and murder of a 13-year-old Arkansas boy allegedly at the hands of a homosexual couple was a "horrible death that could have been prevented," the boy's grandmother told CNSNews.com. Betty Yates, the grandmother of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising, said the boy's parents never should have allowed the child to stay overnight with the two men. "The parents put him in a situation he shouldn't have been in," Yates told CNSNews.com. "They knowingly let him spend weekends with the two guys knowing they were gay." Yates' comments concur with a statement by Joshua Macave Brown, 22, who told police he and the victim had been sexually involved for approximately two months, and the boy died during sex "games," according to a police affidavit released to CNSNews.com….."

CNSNews.com 10/27/99 Lawrence Morahan "….According to the affidavit, Brown told police that on the morning of September 26, he sneaked up on the boy, tied his hands behind his back, placed a pair of undershorts in the teen's mouth and secured the briefs with a bandana and duct tape. He said he blindfolded the youth, bound him to a bed and repeatedly sodomized him while Carpenter watched. "Jesse was a typical 13-year-old good kid," Yates said. "You do not put a 13-year-old child into a situation like that. It had been going on for about two months and he had told them he did not want to go back." Yates, who told CNSNews.com that relations between her and the boy's mother, Tina Yates, were strained even before she learned of her grandson's death, said that during a family visit some months previously, Tina Yates said she was excited that the gay couple had taken an interest in her son….."

Washington Post 10/27/99 Charles Babington "....President Clinton is using his 11th-hour budget battle with Congress to try to broaden the federal "hate crimes" law, primarily by adding homosexuals to its category of protected groups. The proposal, a goal of many gay rights groups, would authorize federal prosecution of persons accused of violent crimes motivated by the victim's sexual orientation, gender or disability. Currently, only a victim's race or religion can trigger a federal intervention. The proposed legislation would also broaden the circumstances under which federal prosecutors could get involved in cases classified as hate crimes, typically when local prosecutors either invite them in or, conversely, decline to prosecute an alleged crime themselves....."

WHITE HOUSE 10/25/99 "…..Q Joe, since the President spoke out so commendably about the murder of adult homosexual Matt Shepard in Wyoming, I'm wondering what was his reaction to the repeated rape and murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising (phonetic) by two adult homosexual men in Arkansas?

MR. LOCKHART: I don't know that the President is aware of that circumstance.

Q It was page one of the Washington Times on Saturday. Don't you read that paper, Joe?

MR. LOCKHART: No, I don't normally do, nor do I think the President. But I think --

Q Could you possibly -- could you ask him?

MR. LOCKHART: I think as a matter of general principle, the President abhors any kind of violent act. And we have worked very hard over the last seven years in a very productive way to reduce crime in this country.

Q As his media advisor, were you surprised that while the murder of an adult, Shepard, received enormous coverage in the big media, this multiple rape and murder of a child went so widely unreported ?

MR. LOCKHART: I try to keep my media criticisms to myself. …"

ABCNews 11/1/99 AP "…..The judge in the Matthew Shepard murder case barred the man on trial Monday from using a "gay panic" defense. Lawyers for Aaron McKinney rested their case several hours later. District Judge Barton Voigt ruled that the strategy adopted by McKinney's lawyers in the beating death of the gay college student is akin to temporary insanity or a diminished-capacity defense-both of which are prohibited under Wyoming law….. A "gay panic" or "homosexual panic" defense is built on the theory that a person with latent gay tendencies will have an uncontrollable, violent reaction when propositioned by a homosexual……Some gay rights leaders have condemned the "gay panic" defense as a blame-the-victim strategy. However, Bill Dobbs, a gay New York lawyer and civil rights advocate, said the defense should be allowed wide latitude in death penalty cases….."Gay panic exists and any gay man knows that just holding the gaze of a straight man on the street and giving him the idea that you might be sexually interested can create a dangerous situation," he said……"

CNSNews.com 11/1/99 Lawrence Morahan "….Commenting on the rape and murder of a 13-year-old Arkansas boy allegedly at the hands of a homosexual couple, gay groups told CNSNews.com that in the interests of justice, investigators and the media should focus on the crime and not on the sexual orientation of the alleged perpetrators. "It's a tragedy when anyone dies in this way, and anyone who kills them should suffer the severest consequences of the law, no matter what 'side' they are," Mel White, a gay minister and author, told CNSNews.com. White said the media attention surrounding the killing of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising in Arkansas and that of homosexual student Matthew Shepard, 22, in Wyoming last year "mustn't be our indicator of how deeply people mourn the losses." …… The Shepard slaying received broad coverage in the media, and reinvigorated the national debate on the need for special legislation for hate crimes, which are defined as anything from murder to assault against a citizen because of his or her race, religion, gender, national origin or sexual orientation. By contrast, the Dirkhising murder received scant national coverage. The boy was found close to death at the apartment of two men, who police also described as homosexual lovers. …..Christopher D. Plumlee, deputy prosecuting attorney for Benton County, Ark., who investigated Jesse's death, told reporters he was a "little surprised" at the limited coverage this "horrible crime against a child" received. ….. "

The Associated Press 10/29/99 Donna De la Cruz "….Incidents of domestic violence involving gay couples in the New York City area increased nearly 25 percent in 1998 from the previous year, according to a report released Thursday by the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Diane Soto, the program's domestic violence program coordinator, said there were 506 reported incidents in 1998, up from 421 in 1997….."

Associated Press 10/29/99 David Lieb "….Something so unspeakable is said to have taken place in Apartment 1207 that half the neighbors have moved out. It was in 1207 that police say a 13-year-old boy was sexually brutalized and murdered last month by the two men who lived there. According to police, Davis Carpenter Jr., 38, and Joshua Brown, 22, drugged and blindfolded Jesse Dirkhising, gagged him with underwear and strapped him to a mattress face-down with duct tape and belts. Then the boy was repeatedly raped and sodomized with various objects before he suffocated because of the position he was in, investigators said. At the apartment, police found handwritten instructions and a diagram of how to position the boy. Other notes described apparently unfulfilled fantasies of molesting other children……. The allegations are so shocking that half the tenants in the six-unit apartment building - situated across the street from a park with baseball fields and tennis courts - have moved out…..Jesse's mother, Tina Yates, said Carpenter had been friends with her husband - the boy's stepfather - for about seven years….."

Associated Press 10/30/99 Rachel Collins "….After serving nearly 10 years in a Texas prison for molesting an 11-year-old boy, Jon Savarino Schillaci wanted to start a new life. And a Deerfield family that had been writing to him since he was convicted wanted to help him. So when he was released two months ago, they let him move in with them. But police say Mr. Schillaci's past wasn't so easily left behind. On Monday the family's 5-year-old boy told his parents that he and Jon "have a secret," according to Deerfield police Sgt. Steve Turner. That secret resulted in Mr. Schillaci being charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault. But he disappeared before police could arrest him, and now authorities nationwide are searching for him…..Sgt. Turner said the couple apparently was aware of Mr. Schillaci's criminal record. He said authorities are not pursuing any charges - such as endangering a child - against the parents at this time….."

Associated Press 10/30/99 "….A man testified Friday that he was the object of a sexual advance by Matthew Shepard hours before the gay college student was pistol-whipped into a coma and left to die. "It was really offensive to me," Michael St. Clair told jurors as the defense opened its case in Aaron McKinney's murder trial. "It set off something inside. It made me angry." McKinney, 22, is charged with robbery, kidnapping, and murder, and could be sentenced to death if convicted….."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....On a recent evening, Martha Hovie was sitting in a local nightclub waiting to see a band called Gender Bender. As Hovey looked over at the table next to her, she saw something strange going on. She looked again, making sure she was seeing right. At the table, a skinny guy was kneeling between the legs of a larger, leather-jacketed fellow, fellating him. Shocked, Hovie pointed this out to the couple sharing her table.... "What I didn't realize at the time was that almost the entire room was gay" Hovie said. It didn't take her long, however. People started yelling obscenities at her. Hovie yelled back. The fervor increased. A flying ashtray hit her in the forehead, opening a bloody gash. She ran to get a bouncer, who refused to help. Finally, Hovie was literally driven from the club (which is not known as a homosexual nightspot), people shouting cries of "kill the bitch!" at her back. As she made her way through the hostile crowd, the guy who'd been on the receiving end of the act of fellatio confronted her and spit in her face. "I'm normally not someone who'll take that stuff," said Hovie, "but frankly, I was scared for my life. I'd never experienced a bunch of militant gays, and lemme tell you -- it was really frightening. That place was like a war zone." Hovie's comments are right on target....."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....I know that this issue may seem old hat. Today, homosexuality is -- except by a small minority -- largely accepted as an "alternative lifestyle." It is no longer thought of as what it actually is -- a spiritual disease and a total perversion of life. Because of this, I believe it is important that we look at this issue afresh. Because if we're not appalled at the behavior of homosexuals, we've been brainwashed. Homosexuals and their allies have a whole battery of verbal artillery which is implicitly designed to condone their behavior. In its mildest form, this gayspeak is a subtle, but highly effective method of conditioning. In its most blatant form, it is nothing less than brainwashing. The prime word, of course, is "homophobic." By classifying heterosexuals who don't approve of them as "phobic," homosexuals have effectively shifted the burden of proof, as it were, upon their critics. The implication is that homophobia is something to be overcome, rather than a normal reaction to behavior which, throughout history, has been considered by the populace at large to be deviant. Generally, one doesn't hear heterosexuals calling homosexuals "heterophobic," though -- in light of current societal standards -- this would be more correct...."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....If you disapprove of homosexuals, you are called "prejudiced" or branded a "sexist." If you condemn their acts as unnatural you are the victim of "negative programming." If you openly state your anti-homosexual beliefs you are "bigoted." With enough repetition of these emotionally loaded terms, people ultimately become psychologically bullied into accepting behavior that they once considered abnormal. This is precisely the desired effect that the militant homosexuals hope for. Of course, homosexuals will attempt to use this same logic regarding people who classify their acts as unnatural. But heterosexuals have biological and scientific data as a foundation for their beliefs, whereas homosexual gayspeak has no basis in reality. Rather, it is specifically designed to play upon the emotions. Given the amount of sympathy in evidence for homosexuals today, it's quite evident that these propagandistic techniques have been highly effective

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....Yet the reason they are categorized homosexuals, is precisely because of their sexual proclivities. Terms like "gay pride," or "positive gay self-image," are specifically designed to obfuscate the central issue, which is sex. In gayspeak, "gay lifestyle," means a lifestyle in which two men perform sodomy and oral intercourse on one another. Similarly, "gay pride" literally means pride in sodomy, anilingus, fistf---ing, etc. ...... Homosexuality is described by their apologists as simply a "variant" of normal sexual behavior. However, upon closer inspection, this statement is meaningless. Using that same where-do-we-draw-the-line rhetoric, any behavior -- including incest, pedophilia and bestiality -- could be designated as a "variant" of normal human behavior....."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....Consider this in light of the statement made by Dr. Harold Feinstein of the Centers For Disease Control: "From a purely biological perspective, sodomy is an intrinsically unsanitary and pathological act. Empirical medical evidence clearly demonstrates that the rectum is not designed for intromission by penises, fists, forearms, etc. Physiologically, the rectum is designed for the expulsion of feces. When sodomy is performed, the peculiar forced inward expansion of the anal canal results in a tearing of the lining as well as bleeding anal fissure. "The damage to the rectal wall facilitates access to the bloodstream of AIDS-infected sperm and other disease causing organisms." The result of engaging in sodomy -- as well as the other grossly unsanitary acts commonly practiced by homosexuals -- is that STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) are higher among homosexuals than in any other subculture. Many diseases are endemic to that group. The diseases commonly found (40 percent or higher) among homosexuals include: gonorrhea, nonspecific urethritis, syphilis, hepatitis, amebic dysentery, salmonella, intestinal parasites, shigellosis, venereal warts, incurable genital herpes, and the Big Daddy -- AIDS, which has clearly been linked to homosexual behavior...."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....Incredibly, even with the evidence staring them in the face, the medical community -- and homosexual doctors in particular -- continue to employ doubletalk or to impart outright misinformation regarding the transmission of the AIDS virus. "We can't really say for certain that AIDS is transmitted sexually," said one homosexual physician. "It's just that it appears to be." What? Besides anal intercourse, other behavior commonly engaged in by homosexuals include various sadomasochistic acts, bondage and discipline (master and slave games), golden showers (urinating on one's partner or drinking urine), scat (eating human feces), sticking various items (everything from butter knives to Polish sausage to gerbils) up each other's rectums, fistf---ing (shoving the fist and sometimes the entire arm up the partner's rectum) and bestiality....."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....One group that still continues to function within the homosexual community is the Fistf---ers Of America. Despite the fact that the death rate has been as high as 50 percent among men who practice it, proponents of this subhuman act of perversion continue to make a case for its pleasurable effects. "It's so relaxing," one homosexual told the Advocate. "We all carry a lot of tension in our anus, and to break that up is tremendous. To me, getting fistf---ed is like getting a heavy massage. The relaxation lasts all day long." When regarded in the cold, clinical light of reality, it is clear that none of these are acts of love. Rather, they are acts of degradation, pain and hate. They are anti-life. For people who engage in these acts to call themselves "lovers" is pure blasphemy....."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....Another spurious notion currently in vogue is that education is the key to solving the AIDS crisis. This idea makes the false assumption that because people know the facts, they will change their behavior. On the contrary. A recent issue of The American Journal Of Public Health presented a study of sexual behavior taken from a cross section of homosexuals in San Francisco, Calif., which revealed a rather grim scenario: 92 percent of the men asserted they were still not taking the most basic prophylactic measures. 35 percent said they'd had sex with more than five partners the month prior to the sampling; 69 percent said, "It's hard to change my behavior because being gay means doing what I want sexually." ...... "Gays put pressure on the Board Of Health to forbid the (blood screening) test," said Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan, head of the Human Sexuality Program at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "We could stop AIDS today if these stupid Typhoid Marys would stop spreading the disease. As a physician I'm appalled at their wildly having sex and spreading AIDS." ....."

Worldnet Daily 8/28/99 S L Goldman ".....The media has also played a large part in blunting the realities of the homosexual lifestyle. Programs such The AIDS Show -- aired on the liberal and homosexual backed KCET -- which plugged itself as a "frank representation" of the AIDS crisis never once dealt directly with any of the specifics of the disease. The show, which included maudlin skits about dying lovers as well as song and dance routines about AIDS -- played up the role of the homosexual-as-victim, while the issue of responsibility was totally avoided......Said TV producer James Comack, "Do you know the most powerful lobby in the entertainment business? Bigger than blacks or women's lib or any nationalist or racial group? It's the gays. If you don't have the approval of the Gay Media Task Force, you don't go on the air."

Augusta Chronicle 11/3/99 "….Hold on to your pocketbooks, Georgia taxpayers. State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, after losing every court round in his bid to stop Atlanta's government from providing ``domestic partner'' benefits to city employees, is throwing in the towel. We don't blame him. It was a lost cause. What it means, though, is that state and local governments, including Augusta, could come under increasing pressure to offer similar benefit packages to homosexual/lesbian partners. Politically, there's no public demand to make such offers to unnatural couples, but legally the door's wide….."

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/11/99 Suzanne Fields "…..We all know about ''Clinton fatigue.'' How about ''sex fatigue''? They're not unrelated. It used to be the intriguers of the ''right-wing conspiracy'' and the Grandma Grundies of the Moral Majority who had dirty minds who plotted to turn back the clock. But a craving for at least a little of the Victorian sensibility is becoming mainstream chic. The New York Observer, known for observing hip trends in the worlds of the trendy hip, ran this headline: ''Enough! The Overexposure of Sex Is Ruining the Mood for Everybody.'' The Culprit? The ''Big He'' himself. Talk about a legacy: ''One doesn't have to look too far in the past to discover who is partly to blame for the sick-of-sex feeling,'' writes Alexandra Jacobs in a front page story in the Observer. ''When America read the details of the Starr report, it was not just the fact that the president was indulging in a 21-year-old intern that sickened, it was the grossness of the sex, the stomach-churning ickiness of the whole affair, that lingered in one's mind. In a certain way, one could say, Bill Clinton ruined sex for America.'' ….."

The Wanderer 11/4/99 Paul Likoudis "….Bill Clinton as the first boomer president brought his sexual politics into the Oval Office and undercut his political leadership with immorality (and immaturity). The consensus of the citizenry was that he should get a pass on his sexual tackiness. The Senate ultimately chose to separate the personal from the political. He remained leader, such as he was, of the free world, but at considerable cost. Clinton's sexual excesses reflected and encouraged cultural excesses. But they also brought a new awareness that there was something better, both personally and publicly, even if it looked a lot like our parents' morality……"

CNSNews.com 11/9/99 Scott Hogenson "..... The September murder of Jesse Dirkhising has created some discussion in a few quarters of America, but the story has, for the most part, been ignored by the media at large. Dirkhising is the 13-year-old Arkansas boy who died after being repeatedly raped. Two men are being held without bond, both charged with capital murder and six counts each of rape. I've heard a few explanations as to why this story has been ignored, but the rationale that appeared on Time magazine's Internet website this week was positively jaw dropping. Time.com's Closer Look essay by Jonathan Gregg tells us that the media has spiked the Jesse Dirkhising story because "a red herring worth addressing at the outset is the failure to distinguish between homosexuality and pedophilia, which creates a false parallel." He goes on to explain that "the reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is because it offered no lessons." ....."

CNSNews.com 11/4/99 Justin Torres "…..A new study from the World Congress of Families, meeting this month in Geneva, finds that across the globe people are concerned about the state of the family and support a traditional understanding of it. The study, conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide polling, found remarkable consistency across the globe in attitudes toward family life. For example, 84 percent of people polled agreed that marriage is defined as "one man and one woman," and 78 percent agreed that families were the "fundamental unit of society." "These findings clearly and emphatically reveal that, despite efforts to undermine the natural family in the United Nations . . . the people of the world [agree] . . . that the natural family is the fundamental social unit," said Allan Carlson, president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society and general secretary of the World Congress of Families….."

Chattanooga Free Press 11/6/99 "..... Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney apparently singled out Mr. Shepard as a homosexual, lured him from a Laramie bar, robbed him of $20, then tied him to a fence and bashed him on the head with a pistol, leaving him in cold weather to die. It was an atrocious, disgusting, outrageous crime. The perpetrators rightly have been given lifetime prison sentences. But while that horrible case has received much attention, another case has not. Comparatively ignored was the atrocity in Arkansas last September in which Jesse Dirkhising, who was only 13, was seized, blindfolded, taped to a bed, gagged with his own underwear and was sodomized by one homosexual man while another homosexual man watched. The victimized boy choked to death on the gag his tormentors forced into his mouth....."

FOX News 9/6/99 Hannah Wolfson AP "….The Salt Lake City School District did not violate high school students' First Amendment rights by preventing them from forming a homosexual club, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins on Friday ruled that the district's current policy sufficiently safeguards students' rights to free expression. The policy barred a group of East High School students from forming a school-approved club, the judge said, not from expressing their point of view in one of the school's existing clubs..."

New York Times 11/6/99 Frank Rich "….By chance, the verdict in the Matthew Shepard murder trial was announced in Laramie, Wyo., on Wednesday just before my interview with the Rev. Jerry Falwell. He hadn't heard the news, so I told him of Aaron McKinney's conviction and asked his response. Mr. Falwell's reply was instantaneous. After saying that the "horrific crime" deserved "the severest of punishments allowed by law," he volunteered: "I could never accept 'gay panic' or any other excuse as grounds for what he did." ….. Two weekends ago his Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., was the setting for an anti-violence meeting between 200 of his flock and 200 gay civil rights advocates recruited nationwide by Soulforce, an ecumenical group based in Laguna Beach, Calif. The meeting came about thanks to one of those only-in-America stories that make this country eternally unpredictable. The founder of Soulforce, the Rev. Mel White, was the favorite ghostwriter of the religious right -- he wrote Mr. Falwell's autobiography as well as books for Pat Robertson and speeches for Oliver North -- until he declared his previously closeted homosexuality in 1991. Since then, Mr. White has become a campaigner for gay rights and has engaged in loud public battles with his former allies. But Mr. Falwell never entirely tuned his old friend out, and their continued contacts, however acrimonious at times, led to the conference in Lynchburg. To make it happen, the two men agreed to disagree about Mr. Falwell's rock-ribbed conviction that homosexuality is a sin akin to alcoholism or drug addiction that can be reversed with spiritual treatment….."

National Post 11/4/99 "….Young men are killed every day in the U.S., but 21-year-old Matthew Shepard's murder was different. When he was beaten to death last October in Wyoming, it was by two men who didn't like the fact that he was gay. In the year since his death, the big American TV networks have regularly carried stories about Matthew, his murder, and what it says about America. Court TV covered the trial, which yielded its final conviction yesterday. CNN and ABC news have run nearly 200 stories between them about it. President Bill Clinton immediately called for tough new laws against such hate-motivated crimes. A Matthew Shepard Foundation has been set up, and so have more than 14,000 memorial Web sites. Amidst all this national soul-searching, another American youngster has been killed, this time in the president's own state of Arkansas. Police say 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising was raped and tortured before he was murdered. And, as in Matthew's case, sexual orientation is alleged to be a factor. But no Web sites are dedicated to Jesse; as of last night, neither CNN nor ABC had reported on his murder. When the president's spokesman, Joe Lockhart, was asked about Jesse, he said the president had not heard of him. Strangely, Mr. Lockhart avoided the question and instead derided the Washington newspaper that had published Jesse's story……"

Focus On The Family 11/17/99 John Paulk "…."We can have honest differences, but we can't have honest differences about whether we share a common humanity." Who said those words and what do they mean? With those words to gay activists recently in Beverly Hills, President Bill Clinton set the tone for the fight in Congress