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		<title>Washington Times Hits Kevin Jennings as Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Buggery Czar&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainline conservatives finally catch up in exposing GLSEN&#8217;s extremist agenda WARNING: OFFENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS Folks, as one who has worked for more than 15 years with other pro-family groups to expose the insidious and child-corrupting agenda of Kevin Jennings and GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network), I&#8217;m overjoyed that conservatives and right-leaning media are finally helping [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Mainline conservatives finally catch up in exposing GLSEN&#8217;s extremist agenda</em></span></h4>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>WARNING: OFFENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_3708" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 126px"><img class="size-full wp-image-3708" style="margin: 10px;" title="Queer_13-thumbnail" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/12/Queer_13-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Queer_13-thumbnail" width="116" height="176" /><p class="wp-caption-text">In the GLSEN-recommended book &quot;Queer 13,&quot; a 13-year-old boy graphically describes sexual &quot;tricking&quot; (prostitution) with adult men.</p></div>
<p>Folks, as one who has worked for more than 15 years with other pro-family groups  to expose the insidious and child-corrupting agenda of Kevin Jennings and GLSEN (<a href="http://www.glsen.org">Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network</a>), I&#8217;m overjoyed that conservatives and right-leaning media are finally helping to expose this organization&#8217;s truly radical and evil agenda to millions of outraged Americans.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s one point of clarification, though, for the record: my good friend <a href="http://www.missionamerica.com/oldagenda26.php">Linda Harvey of Mission America</a>, a Christian pro-family organization, broke the story about GLSEN&#8217;s twisted &#8220;Reading Recommendations&#8221; way back in 2002, yet few people are citing her work today even as they borrow heavily from it. I stood with Linda as a speaker at a <a href="http://www.cwfa.org">Concerned Women for America</a> conference that year when she began her speech, &#8220;I&#8217;m here to tell you what I did on my summer vacation.&#8221; We chuckled as she began holding up book after GLSEN-recommended book that she had read, while describing&#8211;as delicately as possible before a Christian audience&#8211;their perverse contents.</p>
<div id="attachment_3713" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-3713" style="margin: 10px;" title="Linda_Harvey_small" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/12/Linda_Harvey_small-150x150.jpg" alt="Linda_Harvey_small" width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Linda Harvey (www.missionamerica.com) spent a whole summer reading perverse books on GLSEN&#39;s Recommended Reading list in 2002. </p></div>
<p>If only the media and mainline conservatives had paid attention and helped expose GLSEN&#8217;s dangerous agenda and reading list back when <a href="http://www.missionamerica.com/oldagenda26.php">Linda did seven years ago</a>! Turns out the much-maligned &#8220;Religious Right&#8221; was right after all about the LGBT movement&#8217;s sinister agenda to push perversion on children in the name of tolerance. <em>Religious-Right</em>-bashing &#8220;conservatives&#8221;: take note.</p>
<p><strong>One more point:</strong> it is now common for conservatives &#8212; especially non-religiously-affiliated media leaders like <strong>Sean Hannity</strong> (who should be applauded for his yeoman&#8217;s work exposing Jennings) &#8212; to make the odd disclaimer that the GLSEN/Jennings controversy (or whatever &#8220;gay&#8221;-related culture-war story they are discussing) <strong>&#8220;is not about homosexuality.&#8221;</strong> Baloney. This is all about homosexuality and the &#8220;gay&#8221; activist agenda whose singular goal is to normalize homosexuality as a &#8220;civil right.&#8221;</p>
<p><span id="more-3722"></span>Jennings&#8217; role in the wider GLBT movement is to promote homosexuality and gender confusion (transgenderism: cross-dressing, etc.) to impressionable youth through the schools (public and private). It is absurd and intellectually dishonest to claim that this highly organized and well-funded campaign is somehow not about &#8230; <em>homosexuality</em>! (Which is not to deny that some or even many homosexuals agree with us that Jennings&#8217; &#8220;gay-youth&#8221; agenda is reckless.)</p>
<p>Only a Homosexual Movement unified by a morality- and normality-rejecting ideology that aims to mainstream sinful, deviant, and once-taboo behaviors could produce such perverse &#8216;Recommended Readings&#8217; for  students as GLSEN  &#8212; complete with fictional, &#8220;non-judgmental&#8221; accounts of man-boy sex. Only a movement that defiantly calls itself &#8220;queer&#8221; could produce <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/index.html">&#8220;Fistgate&#8221; &#8212; a GLSEN-sponsored  youth conference</a> at Tufts University in 2000, at which underage children were verbally guided by homosexual adults on how to engage in the vile, sadomasochistic act of  &#8216;fisting&#8217; &#8212; hand-anal penetration (yes, truth <em>is</em> stranger than fiction).</p>
<p>The politically correct &#8220;not-about-gays&#8221; caveat is about as illogical as claiming that the effort to expose systematic human rights abuses in China and North Korea &#8220;has nothing to with Communism.&#8221; Anyone who calls himself &#8220;conservative&#8221; should know better. Besides, true conservatives should not be ashamed of enthusiastically <strong><em>conserving</em></strong> the age-old Judeo-Christian sexual/marriage ethic &#8212; which has served mankind well and which rejects all efforts to approve of unnatural and <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/fda-policy-banning-blood-donations-from-gay-men.html">destructive sexual behaviors</a> condemned by <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/happy-thanksgiving-pray-that-america-would-return-to-god.html#more-3627">God</a>. &#8212; <strong>Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org/">www.aftah.org</a></strong></p>
<p><em>[See Wikipedia entry on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggery">"buggery" HERE</a>.</em><em>]</em><strong><br />
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<p><em>Links were added to the following <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/obamas-buggery-czar/">Washington Times editorial</a>:</em></p>
<h4><strong>EDITORIAL: Obama&#8217;s Buggery Czar</strong></h4>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Jennings&#8217; group made sex between children and adults look normal</em></span></strong></p>
<p>By THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Dec. 8, 2009</p>
<p>The media is trying to keep this story in the closet, but it&#8217;s important not to wink at all the serious problems surrounding President Obama&#8217;s controversial &#8220;safe schools czar,&#8221; Kevin Jennings.</p>
<p>Mr. Jennings is the moral malefactor who gave a speech about how he merely advised a 15-year-old high-school sophomore who was having sex with an older man that, &#8220;I hope you knew to use a condom.&#8221; He knew the boy had met the adult in a bus-station restroom. Mr. Jennings also expressed admiration for Harry Hay, a notorious and extremely prominent supporter of the North American Man Boy Love Association. &#8220;One of the people that&#8217;s always inspired me is Harry Hay,&#8221; he said. Despite numerous requests to the Obama administration and Mr. Jennings, we have not received any answers to inquiries about these troubling issues.</p>
<p>Now revelations have surfaced that Mr. Jennings not only thought there was nothing wrong with boys having sex with older men (or girls having sex with older women), but he also played a role in promoting such relationships.</p>
<p>In 1990, Mr. Jennings founded the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network, which later became the <a href="http://www.glsen.org">Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)</a>. He was the group&#8217;s first full-time staffer and executive director, a position he held until August 2008. One of GLSEN&#8217;s tasks was to put together lists of suggested readings for K-through-12 students and their teachers. The reading lists categorize books by the ages for which they purportedly are appropriate. The organization Web site reassures us, &#8220;All BookLink items are reviewed by GLSEN staff for quality and appropriateness of content.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some of these shocking readings clearly promote homosexuality and promiscuity. Consider what GLSEN put forward as appropriate for children 13 years or older. Eleven of the recommended books were examined by Scott Baker from Breitbart.tv and re-examined by The Washington Times. Numerous passages discuss kids having sex with adults. Many of the sexual discussions and scenes are too explicit for us to publish, so what follows are greatly sanitized versions.</p>
<p>In<strong> &#8220;Queer 13,&#8221;</strong> the book describes a 13-year-old boy who has sexual encounters with older men. His experience caused him to desperately want sex. &#8220;While my classmates wondered what sex was like, content to masturbate over pinups, I was out there having my [explicit descriptions of having oral sex and being sodomized]. These were grown men I was <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tricking%20&amp;defid=3753800">tricking</a> with. Some were nice, grateful for a young boy to have their way with. Some were harsh and mean. &#8230; That feeling of doing it to them and them doing the same for me was just too damn good.&#8221;</p>
<p>In <strong>&#8220;Passages of Pride,&#8221;</strong> a 15-year-old boy has sex with a much older man. The boy says, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a bad thing. I didn&#8217;t necessarily know it would turn into sex. But I knew what I was doing.&#8221; The boy claims that he was &#8220;not intimidated by the discrepancy in their ages.&#8221; &#8230; [editorial continues at <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/obamas-buggery-czar/"><em>Washington Times</em> website</a>]</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Click <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/obamas-buggery-czar/">HERE</a> to read the rest of the Washington Times editorial: <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/obamas-buggery-czar/">&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Buggery Czar&#8221;</a></strong></p>
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		<title>So Many Gender Identities, So Little Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter LaBarbera The graphic below is a question (one of 70) from the &#8220;National Survey on Transgender Experiences of Discrimination in the U.S.,&#8221; sponsored by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Sort of makes you yearn for the good old days when people were either [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p>The graphic below is a question (one of 70) from the <a href="http://www.nctequality.org/Resources/Trans%20Survey%20Paper%20Version.pdf">&#8220;National Survey on Transgender Experiences of Discrimination in the U.S.,&#8221;</a> sponsored by the <a href="http://www.nctequality.org/survey.html">National Center for Transgender Equality</a> (NCTE) and the <a href="http://www.thetaskforce.org">National Gay and Lesbian Task Force</a>. Sort of makes you yearn for the good old days when people were either &#8220;male&#8221; or &#8220;female.&#8221; Come to think of it, they still are. You would practically need a PhD., to keep up with the ever-expanding array of gender identities that fall under the &#8220;T&#8221; umbrella in the &#8220;GLBT&#8221; (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) equation. Check out this mind-numbing Wikipedia entry attempting to define <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer">&#8220;Genderqueer.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Note that the choices offered below do not comprise a comprehensive list of identities associated with GLBT movement, leading to an expansion of that acronym to &#8220;GLBTQQ&#8221; (the &#8220;QQ&#8221; stands for &#8220;Queer&#8221; and &#8220;Questioning&#8221;) and even longer combinations of letters. (Check out this <a href="http://www.uua.org/documents/youthoffice/bglqqt-youth.pdf">Unitarian Universalists document</a>, which on its front page also encourages <a href="http://www.uua.org/documents/youthoffice/bglqqt-youth.pdf">sadomasochistic, prostitution and &#8220;non-monogamous&#8221; identities for young &#8220;queers.&#8221;</a> Pure evil.) Here is the NCTE survey question:</p>
<p><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/02/transgender_identities.jpg" title="transgender_identities.jpg"><img src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/02/transgender_identities.jpg" alt="transgender_identities.jpg" width="735" height="368" /></a></p>
<p><span id="more-2585"></span>The report states, &#8220;The results of the survey will be part of an important report on discrimination against transgender people by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to help create better opportunities for transgender and gender non-conforming people. We are grateful to Penn State University’s Center for the Study of Higher Education for hosting the survey and maintaining the integrity of our data.&#8221;</p>
<p>The survey will be used to support <a href="http://www.nctequality.org/survey.html">pro-&#8221;transgender&#8221; legislative goals</a>, including &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; legislation and &#8220;working to include transgender provisions in a federal bill to protect lesbian, gay and bisexual workers from discrimination in employment.&#8221; The latter refers to including &#8220;gender identity&#8221; provisions in the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/13-good-reasons-to-oppose-hr-3685-the-enda-our-freedom-bill-bush-staffers-helped-craft-enda-exemption.html">Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) bill</a>, which would federalize &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; law for businesses and organizations.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Transgender Etiquette&#8217; at Creating Change 2009 in Detroit &#8211; &#8216;Each of Us Can Decide for Ourselves in which Bathroom We Belong&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating Change or Creating Confusion? (This is a woman.) Radical author Patrick Califia embodies the &#8220;transgender&#8221; chaos at the National Gay &#38; Lesbian Task Force&#8217;s annual activists&#8217; &#8220;Creating Change&#8221;  conference, to be held in Detroit Feb. 6-10. The biologically female Califia once considered herself a butch lesbian, but then opted for a &#8220;female-to-male&#8221; transgender identity, ending [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="pat_califia_highly_confused_woman.jpg" href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2008/02/pat_califia_highly_confused_woman.jpg"></a><a title="pat_califia_2.JPG" href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2008/02/pat_califia_2.JPG"><img src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2008/02/pat_califia_2.JPG" alt="pat_califia_2.JPG" /></a> <em><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Creating Change or Creating Confusion?</span> (This is a woman.) Radical author Patrick Califia embodies the &#8220;transgender&#8221; chaos at the National Gay &amp; Lesbian Task Force&#8217;s annual activists&#8217; &#8220;Creating Change&#8221;  conference, to be held in Detroit Feb. 6-10. The biologically female Califia once considered herself a butch lesbian, but then opted for a &#8220;female-to-male&#8221; transgender identity, </strong></em><a href="http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioc1/cali2.html"><em><strong>ending up as a self-described &#8221;gay man&#8221;</strong></em></a><em><strong> &#8212; which would make her a &#8216;gay man trapped in a lesbian&#8217;s body.&#8217; In order to minimize &#8220;transphobic situations,&#8221; the Task Force is warning Creating Change attendees that &#8220;a person’s external appearance may not match their internal gender identity.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p>Folks, it simply doesn&#8217;t get any loonier on the Left than the National Lesbian &amp; Gay Task Force&#8217;s annual &#8220;Creating Change&#8221; conference for grassroots LGBTIQQ (which I think stands for &#8220;Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer and Questioning&#8221; &#8212; but it&#8217;s hard to keep track). This year&#8217;s &#8220;Creating Change&#8221; event is being held in Detroit Feb. 6-10 [2009].</p>
<p>How loony, you ask?  Well, on page 17 of <a href="http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/creating_change/CC08PrgrmNoAds.pdf">this year&#8217;s Creating Change program</a> is this advisory piece on <strong>&#8220;Transgender Etiquette,&#8221;</strong> as the Task Force endeavors to snuff out &#8220;transphobia&#8221; within its activist ranks. If you gathered 20 witty foes of homosexuality in a room and instructed them to make up something to embarrass the &#8220;gay&#8221; movement, they couldn&#8217;t come up with anything this bizarre.  And yet, Creating Change is a serious affair &#8212; funded by the <strong>Democratic National Committee</strong> and the <strong>Ford Foundation</strong> alike &#8212; where sexual revolutionaries learn how to work the political system to break down America&#8217;s traditional sexual and gender norms.</p>
<p>Reading the notice below, is it any wonder that when the Homosexual &#8216;Task Force&#8217; comes to town, simple &#8220;Male/Female&#8221; restrooms won&#8217;t do?  We&#8217;ll have more on Creating Change in future posts.&#8211;<em>Peter LaBarbera</em></p>
<p>This is reprinted verbatim from the <a href="http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/creating_change/CC08PrgrmNoAds.pdf">online Creating Change program</a>, with our emphasis added in bold:</p>
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<h3>TRANSGENDER ETIQUETTE</h3>
<p><em>Adapted from The 2002 Portland Creating Change™ Host Committee</em></p>
<p>There are many transgender people at Creating Change™. To be inclusive and improve the quality of life for transgender people here, please read and act upon the following.</p>
<p>Please do not assume anyone’s gender, even people you may have met in the past. <strong>A person’s external appearance may not match their internal gender identity. You cannot know the gender or sex of someone by their physical body, voice, appearance or mannerisms.</strong> Pay attention to a person’s purposeful gender expression. We consider it polite to ask: <strong>“What pronoun do you prefer?”</strong> or “How do you identify?” before using pronouns or gendered words for anyone. When you are unsure of a person’s gender identity and you don’t have an opportunity to ask someone what words they prefer, try using that person’s name or <strong>gender-neutral phrases</strong> like “the person in the red shirt,” instead of “that woman or man.”</p>
<p>One way of acknowledging transgender people’s needs is to designate restrooms gender neutral. In bathrooms, many transgender people face harassment that can lead to anything from deep discomfort to arrest or death. <strong>Regardless of what bathroom you are in, please let everyone pee in peace. Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong.</strong></p>
<p>Please listen to transgender people’s needs and stories when they are volunteered; yet please respect people’s privacy and boundaries and do not ask unnecessary questions. Educate yourself through books, web sites, and transgender workshops. Then please join the many hardworking allies who are working to respond appropriately to <strong>transphobic situations.</strong> Respectful allies, who learn from and with transgender people and then educate others, are important for successful transgender liberation.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help and have a great conference!</p>
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		<title>OUT Magazine Lists 50 Most Influential &#8216;Homos&#8217;; &#8216;Outs&#8217; CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper, Jodie Foster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peterlab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the homosexual magazine OUT&#8216;s list of its &#8220;Power 50&#8243; of influential homosexuals. OUT calls it &#8221;our first annual ranking of the homos who really make the world go round. These are queers you don’t want to mess with.the 50 most influential homosexuals in America.&#8221; (PC language lesson 101: they can use words like &#8220;homos&#8221; and &#8220;queers&#8221;; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Below is the homosexual magazine <em>OUT</em>&#8216;s list of its &#8220;Power 50&#8243; of influential homosexuals. <em>OUT</em> calls it &#8221;our first annual ranking of the homos who really make the world go round. These are queers you don’t want to mess with.the 50 most influential homosexuals in America.&#8221; (<em>PC language lesson 101</em>: they can use words like &#8220;homos&#8221; and &#8220;queers&#8221;; we can&#8217;t.)</p>
<p>We are intrigued by the fact that the same movement that once cried out for &#8220;privacy&#8221; and &#8220;to be left alone&#8221; feels free to publicly declare people&#8217;s homosexuality for them (Anderson Cooper, No. 2, and Jodie Foster, No. 43). On the other hand, if <em>OUT</em> is right, it might explain Cooper&#8217;s bias in his reporting on the homosexual issue: in a recent interview that the CNN host did with pro and con advocates on a &#8221;gay parenting&#8221; story, he blatantly favored the &#8220;gay&#8221; side in his questioning.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether Cooper practices homosexuality, as a professional he should be completely even-handed in his treatment of this controversial moral question. So, by the way, should the <em>New York Times</em> &#8212; Gay Mafia (No. 7) or no Gay Mafia. &#8212; <em>Peter LaBarbera</em></p>
<p>1. David Geffen<br />
2. Anderson Cooper<br />
3. Ellen DeGeneres<br />
4. Tim Gill<br />
5. Barney Frank<br />
6. Rosie O’Donnell<br />
7. <em>The New York Times</em> Gay Mafia: Richard Berke, Ben Brantley, Frank Bruni, Stuart Elliott, Adam Nagourney, Stefano Tonchi, and Eric Wilson<br />
8. Marc Jacobs<br />
9. Andrew Tobias<br />
10. Brian Graden<br />
11. Jann Wenner<br />
12. Andrew Sullivan<br />
13. Suze Orman<br />
14. Joe Solmonese<br />
15. Fred Hochberg<br />
16. Christine Quinn<br />
17. Perez Hilton<br />
18. Scott Rudin<br />
19. John Aravosis<br />
20. Sheila Kuehl<br />
21. James B. Stewart<br />
22. Nick Denton<br />
23. Tom Ford<br />
24. Nate Berkus<br />
25. Adam Moss<br />
26. Jim Nelson<br />
27. Lorri L. Jean<br />
28. Adam Rose<br />
29. Annie Leibovitz<br />
30. Simon Halls and Stephen Huvane<br />
31. Bryan Lourd<br />
32. Bryan Singer<br />
33. Jonathan Burnham<br />
34. Brian Swardstrom<br />
35. Robert Greenblatt<br />
36. Chi Chi LaRue<br />
37. Dan Mathews<br />
38. Neil Meron and Craig Zadan<br />
39. Ingrid Sischy<br />
40. Marc Cherry<br />
41. Carolyn Strauss<br />
42. Irshad Manji<br />
43. Jodie Foster<br />
44. Christine Vachon<br />
45. André Leon Talley<br />
46. Hilary Rosen<br />
47. Matthew Marks<br />
48. Benny Medina<br />
49. Mitchell Gold<br />
50. David Kuhn</p>
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		<title>Responding to a &#8220;Trans&#8221; Activist: Unfamiliar With Scriptural Authority?  Open a Bible</title>
		<link>http://americansfortruth.com/2007/03/03/unfamiliar-with-scriptural-authority-open-a-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sonja Dalton A gender confusion activist responds to the firing of a &#8220;transgendered&#8221; faculty member &#8212; a male now living/dressing as a woman &#8212; by a private Christian university: &#8220;We are unfamiliar with any scriptural authority that addresses changing genders.&#8221; &#8211; Danny Baker of &#8220;transgender&#8221; advocate group GenderPAC, as quoted in US University Fires [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By Sonja Dalton</p>
<p>A gender confusion activist responds to the firing of a &#8220;transgendered&#8221; faculty member &#8212; a male now living/dressing as a woman &#8212; <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/john-becomes-julie-complains-over-firing-by-christian-school.html">by a private Christian university</a>:</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong><font size="4">&#8220;We are unfamiliar with any scriptural authority<br />
that addresses changing genders.&#8221;</font></strong></p>
<p><img alt="danny-baker.gif" id="image981" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2007/03/danny-baker.gif" /></p>
<p>&#8211; Danny Baker of &#8220;transgender&#8221; advocate group <strong><a href="http://www.gpac.org/about/staff.html">GenderPAC</a></strong>,<br />
as quoted in <a href="http://www.gaynz.com/news/default.asp?dismode=article&#038;artid=4425"><em>US University Fires Transgender Professor</em></a>,<br />
published Mar 3, 2007, in GayNZ</p></blockquote>
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<p>Dr. Albert Mohler is quoted in <a href="http://www.gender-news.net/article.php?id=46"><em>Gender Issues at the Heart of Culture War</em></a> (published Nov 23, 2004, by the <a href="http://cbmw.org/index.php">Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood</a>) as saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The issue of gender, in my estimation, is at the very center of the target of our secular age and postmodern world,&#8221; Mohler said. &#8220;It is also at the very center of the target of where we see theological accommodation is taking us, not only in the body of divinity, but also in the complex of the comprehensive truthfulness of God’s Word. <strong>What we are looking at here is an assault upon God’s glory.</strong>&#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>So, Danny Baker, we offer you a few examples of Scriptural authority that address &#8220;changing genders&#8221; and we pray that you will consider them soberly:</p>
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<p align="center"><strong><font color="#990099"><font size="3">So God created man in His own image,<br />
in the image of God He created him;<br />
<em>male</em> and <em>female</em> He created them.</font></font></strong></p>
<p align="center">&#8211; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:27;&#038;version=47;">Genesis 1:27<br />
</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#990099"><font size="3">When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.<br />
He created them <em>male</em> and <em>female</em> and <em>blessed them.</em><br />
And when they were created, He called them &#8220;man.&#8221;</font></font></strong></p>
<p>&#8211; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%205:1-2;&#038;version=31;">Genesis 5:1-2</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Bible describes a strict gender binary &#8212; only two sexes, male and female. God did not create a &#8220;FTM trans-male&#8221; and a &#8220;MTF trans-female&#8221; or a &#8220;genderqueer&#8221; or a &#8220;two-spirit&#8221; person. He created man and woman, and that is what He blessed.</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#990099"><font size="3">A woman shall not wear a man&#8217;s garment,<br />
nor shall a man put on a woman&#8217;s cloak,<br />
for <em>whoever</em> does these things is<em><br />
an abomination to the LORD your God</em>.</font></font></strong></p>
<p>&#8211; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2022:5;&#038;version=47;">Deuteronomy 22:5</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Notice that Scripture says <a href="http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/whoever"><em><strong>whoever</strong></em></a> &#8212; a completely inclusive term that leaves no room for justifying alternate behavior, even despite confused emotions, discomfort or dissatisfaction, or intense desire. This passage teaches that <strong><em>whoever</em></strong> (i.e., anyone, all, no matter who) cross-dresses, whoever mutilates <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20139:13-14;&#038;version=31;">their natural sexual organs</a> in order to emulate the opposite sex, is an abomination <strong><em>to the LORD your God</em></strong> &#8212; not to &#8220;trans-phobic, hateful, judgmental Christians,&#8221; but to Jehovah God who created them.</p>
<p>After all, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201:21-23;&#038;version=31;">Christians are merely repentant sinners, formerly alienated, enemies of God ourselves</a>, so how could we as redeemed sinners rightly look at another sinner as an abomination to us? No, we as Christians look with <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20103:2-4;&#038;version=31;">compassion</a>, we warn of <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010:26-27;&#038;version=47;">God&#8217;s impending final judgment</a>, and we <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%204:14;&#038;version=47;">urgently</a> invite all to share in the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Titus%203:4-6;&#038;version=31;">mercy</a> which we ourselves so desperately need and for which we are so grateful: <strong>Come and see how Jesus Christ can <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=54&#038;chapter=3&#038;verse=17&#038;version=31&#038;context=verse">transform</a> your mind and your life!</strong></p>
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		<title>Toronto School Board to Ask All High School Students Their Sexual Orientation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from Toronto School Board to Ask All High School Students Their Sexual Orientation, by Gudrun Schultz, published Sept 5, 2006, by LifeSite News The Toronto District School Board is introducing a survey asking high school students to self-identify their sexual orientation, the Canadian Press reported last week. Ontario students will be asked to provide [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06090604.html"><em>Toronto School Board to Ask All High School Students Their Sexual Orientation</em></a>, by Gudrun Schultz, published Sept 5, 2006, by LifeSite News</p>
<p>The Toronto District School Board is introducing a survey asking high school students to self-identify their sexual orientation, the Canadian Press reported last week.</p>
<p>Ontario students will be asked to provide voluntary information on a variety of questions—<strong>for students in grades nine to twelve, those questions will include whether they  identify as straight, gay, “lesbian, transgendered, bisexual, queer or two-spirited (an aboriginal term).”</strong></p>
<p>Experts in the field of children&#8217;s mental health have suggested the trend in schools toward determining child sexual orientation is <strong>dangerously misplaced.</strong> George A. Rekers, Ph. D., research director for child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, stated that children are particularly vulnerable to confusion in the development of their sexual identity.</p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06090604.html"><strong>Continue reading at LifeSite News&#8230; </strong></a></p>
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