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Gay DNA Found
(Chicago, Illinois) In the first-ever study combing the entire human genome for genetic determinants of male sexual orientation, a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has identified several areas that appear to influence whether a man is straight or gay.
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Bush administration paying independent commentators
The controversy over the Bush administration paying money to supposedly independent commentators reignited yesterday when it was revealed that another syndicated columnist had been paid to promote the president's policies. Maggie Gallagher, a regular media commentator on so-called family values, admitted she had received an undisclosed payment of $21,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services to promote Mr Bush's $300m initiative to encourage marriage. She received a further $20,000 to write a report about the government initiative for a private organisation. Writing in 2002, for instance, for the right-wing National Review Online, she said: "The Bush marriage initiative would emphasise the importance of marriage to poor couples and educate teens on the value of delaying child-bearing until marriage. [This could] carry big payoffs down the road for tax-payers and children." Last year, in appearances on television, in columns and with newspapers she defended Mr Bush's proposal for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Her website currently carries an article which claims evidence from Sweden suggests gay and lesbian married couples are more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples.
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Just a question.......
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Conservative Republicans Oppose Diversity
current terror alert level:
First Iraq, Iran next?
Bush “Freedom” Rhetoric Belies Dismal Record Bush leads a Saudi Crown Prince on a tour of his ranch during his first term. In an inaugural speech characterized by calls for “freedom” around the world, President George W. Bush touched upon foreign policy objectives that little resemble his actions in the past four years. Addressing the world at large, Bush said, “All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.” As a Washington Post analysis pointed out, “President Bush’s soaring rhetoric… is at odds with the administration’s increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world.” Without mentioning the Iraq occupation Bush depicted the conflict there “as part of a much broader mission, which he phrased in almost messianic terms.” Despite his disregard for international human rights conventions and endorsement of the use of torture against detainees, Bush declared that “In the long run, there is no justice without freedom, and there can be no human rights without human liberty.” Bush’s “empty exercise in deceit” was delivered while police were “removing peaceful protesters from the regal one’s line of sight and “gassing” protesters with pepper spray. Cable news coverage of the inauguration on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC was tilted with viewers hearing from an overwhelming number of conservative guests and commentators. According to Media Matters for America, “Between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Republican and conservative guests and commentators outnumbered Democrats and progressives 17 to 6 on FOX, 10 to 1 on CNN… and 13 to 2 on MSNBC.” In a pre-inaugural interview with Don Imus, Vice President Dick Cheney attributed the chaotic situation in Iraq to the inability of its people to recover from the trauma of Saddam Hussein’s rule. Cheney said, the old regime “made the situation tougher than I would have thought. I would chalk that one up as a miscalculation, where I thought things would have recovered more quickly.” Reinforcing the increasingly warlike rumblings in the administration towards Iran, Cheney declared it “a top threat to world peace and Middle East stability, accusing Tehran of sponsoring terrorism against Americans and building a ‘fairly robust new nuclear program.’” In remarks reminiscent of administration threats before the Iraq invasion, Cheney said that if current negotiations fail, the United States would ask the U.N. Security Council to impose international sanctions on Iran. Bush sought U.N action shortly before invading Iraq. |
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Military OKs gay weddings
Col. Stan Johnstone, a military chaplain who helped draft the policy, said the guidelines reflect the primary role of ministering to all CF members and their families.
He said chaplains vary on personal convictions and points of theology, but don't discriminate against anyone in need of counsel.
"No one is being put under any constraint to do something they wouldn't normally do."
The roughly 150 military chaplains who work on bases across the country aren't required to perform same-sex marriages if it's against their religious beliefs, but they have the responsibility to find another clergyman to conduct the ceremony.
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We Disagree!
Guest Opinion
Gay marriage threatens future of mankind
January 19, 2005
Nothing is more important to the future of civilization than man, woman and child. Nothing!
Marriage and family have been the heart of society from ancient times. Ceremony and documentation are a recent, civilizing innovation. No doubt, most of those ancient "marriages" were cruel by modern standards, yet without them there would be no us: no shopping malls, no symphony orchestras, no Iraq, no America -- no homo sapiens. And to those who rail about it, dysfunctional marriages do not delegitimize family.
Marriage has had many variants, many innovations, many abuses in its thousands of years of existence, yet it persists as the single assurance of a tomorrow for mankind. No one can make successful quarrel with that.
As society became more successful economically, governments became more intrusive, extorting resources from some to reward others. The institution of marriage has been a beneficiary of such rewards in modern America. Whether or not such benefits are legitimate in a free-enterprise nation is a topic outside the parameters of this discussion.
But the existence of such spousal benefits is at the center of a disquieting controversy in America today. The homosexual community, clamoring for social acceptance after centuries of secluded existence, has expanded its demands to include marital similitude in complete disregard of physiological reality. Their purpose is obvious: They want their share, though their relationships can never meet the definition of family.
Gays and lesbians will refute this argument, insisting that they love their partners, that they simply want recognition of that love under law, as if law could enforce love. Realistically? Their proclaimed love can exist very nicely under the Declaration's "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" proviso. But love is not the issue here.
Benefits awarded by government are an obvious attempt to strengthen the institution of marriage in recognition of the vital importance of children and family. Gay families, necessarily populated by adopted children, can do little more than detract from the gender balance of genuine family by removing either the masculine or feminine influence from such arrangements, consequently raising children with but half an insight into an already-complex world.
Certain jurisdictions have extended an ersatz legitimacy to gay marriage. But it must be said that, having once capitulated to deviance, how could we deny the next subset of supplicants -- the woman who would like to marry her brother, or the man in love with two or more women?
Many persons of normal sexual appetite have aligned themselves with the gay community out of a misguided kindness. They should reconsider. Gay marriage is a perverted concept. We must say no.
Harry Neuwirth of Salem is a retired mail carrier. He can be reached at (503) 585-1640.
Report: Gay marriage backers got re-elected
Bowling For Soup - 1985 Lyrics
[i]Cyndi Lauper, 80's Icon Above.[/i]
I just love this song.....sometimes I feel I am still stuck in 85. I miss the 80's wahhhhhh! --Dave
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husbands a CPA
Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty four
Only been with one man
What happen to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of White Snake's car
Her yellow SUV, is now the enemy
Looks at her average life
And nothing, has been, alright
Since Bruce Springstein, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2, and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids, in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
But she still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
1985
She's seen all the classics
She knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
Even Saint Elmo's Fire
She rocked out to wham
Not a big Limp Biscuit fan
Thought she'd get a hand
On a member of Duran Duran
Where's the mini-skirt made of snake skin
And who's the other guy singing in Van Halen
When did reality, become T.V.
What ever happen to sitcoms, game shows
On the radio was
Springstein, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2, and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids, in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
But she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
She hates time, make it stop
When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop!
Stop!
Stop!
And bring back
Springstein, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2, and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids, in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
But she's still preoccupied
With 1985
Bruce Springstein, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2, and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids, in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
But she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985