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REPEAL OF DON”T ASK, DON’T TELL
FRC Criticizes Pentagon’s CRWG Report on Open Homosexuality in the Military.
No Level of Risk Should be Acceptable Merely to Advance a Liberal Social Agenda says FRC
Most Catholics in US Congress voted to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” – Catholic Culture
Of the 160 Catholics serving in the current US Congress (135 in the House of Representatives, 25 in the Senate), 117 voted to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that had barred homosexuals from serving openly in the military.
Democrats Rush to Make Money Off DADT Repeal – CNS
Wasting no time to raise funds, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is selling a photo of President Obama signing the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Supporters of the legislation are urged to “celebrate the repeal” by purchasing an unframed print for $25 or a “beautiful framed version” for $50.
Expert: Open homosexuality in military being ‘rushed’ – WorldNetDaily
Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly said “gay” advocates are “rushing” Defense Secretary Robert Gates to implement the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy before he is able to certify properly that permitting open homosexuality will not harm the military. “It’s like Nancy Pelosi saying we have to pass this health care bill so people can find out what’s in it,” Donnelly told WND.
Ban homosexuals from National Guard – Washington Times
States have power to block Obama’s social policy. President Obama supported repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” ending 232 years of American military policy, going back to George Washington, that prohibited persons who engage in homosexual behavior from serving in our armed services.
CATHOLIC CHURCH AND DADT
What the Military Must Learn from the Church by Tim Drake – National Catholic Register
In Michael Rose’s 2002 book Goodbye! Good Men: How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations From the Priesthood, he explores the Church’s own period of openly accepting homosexual seminary candidates. Many seminaries celebrated the intimacies of homosexual relations, which are directly opposed to true “brotherhood.” It is this culture that gave rise to the ordination of homosexuals who later went on to become serial abusers.
The connection between homosexuality and abuse was clearly demonstrated in 2004’s The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, otherwise known as the John Jay Report. Fitzgibbons told Catholic News Agency that “every priest whom I treated who was involved with children sexually had previously been involved in adult homosexual relationships.”
What will be the result once the military has been compromised by disordered love? What will happen when an 18-year-old recruit finds himself in an unequal power differential with a superior officer who wants something more than push-ups? Disordered love leads to disordered loyalties.
Officer won’t sign order for troop indoctrination – WorldNetDaily
Asks to be relieved of command over repeal of ‘gay’ ban in military. Currently the commander of a battalion-sized unit in the Army National Guard, the officer also has threatened to resign his commission rather than undergo “behavior modification” training intended to counter his religious convictions about homosexuality.
Military watchdog: Catholic Church silent at wrong time – onenewsnow.com
An advocate for America’s fighting men and women says she’s disappointed the Catholic Church didn’t take a stronger stance against the recent lame-duck Congress’s reckless decision to repeal the law that banned homosexuals from military service. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, says it appeared that Wuerl was not prepared for the question.
“…And he should have been [prepared], because the archbishop who is in charge of military services based in Washington, DC, did issue a statement back in June recommending that the law not be repealed,” Donnelly points out.
Where is the USCCB on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? – Examiner
Fueling the belief that the pro-homosexual Lavender Mafia is alive and well within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in America, the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) has been conspicuously silent on condemning the Obama Administration and the overwhelmingly Democrat support in Congresss for the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulation that prohibited openly homosexual individuals from serving in the Armed Forces.
One of the few, if not only, Catholic prelate to speak out against the repeal has been the leader of the Archdiocese of the Military Services, Archbishop Timothy Broglio. The same individual who refuses to withhold Holy Communion from the notoriously pro-homosexual and pro-abortion lawmaker Nancy Pelosi, the Archbishop of Washington, DC, Donald Cardinal Wuerl, recently stated that “there isn’t a specific Catholic Church position” on the issue of homosexuals serving in the military.
However, in 1992, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (then headed by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the current Pope Benedict XVI) taught; “there are areas in which it is not unjust discrimination to take sexual orientation into account, for example, in the placement of children for adoption
MISCELLANEOUS
Elton John: named as father on birth certificate of baby Zachary – Telegraph
His civil partner David Furnish has been named as the “mother” on computer documentation for Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John. The child was born on Christmas Day to a surrogate mother in California at a cost of more than £100,000.
American Conservative Union Board Approves Homosexual Republican Group in CPAC – CNS
The board of the American Conservative Union has approved a homosexual Republican group for a planning role in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a major annual event in Washington, D.C., that draws conservatives from across the country.
Although the ACU is officially saying the matter is still open, an informed source told CNSNews.com that the 31-member board has in fact voted to approve GOProud as a participating organization in the 2011 CPAC, and GOProud itself is saying that it has been approved as a participating organization.
Barney Frank: ‘Let Me Own Up’ to the ‘Radical Homosexual Agenda’ – CNS
Lesbian Chai Feldblum Confirmed as Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner
…the homosexual activist who rightly acknowledges that “rights” based on homosexuality and the religious freedom to live out one’s opposition to homosexuality cannot peacefully coexist in the law – has been confirmed as a Commissioner of the EEOC. A lesbian and top homosexual legal strategist, Feldblum calls the battle between religious freedom and homosexuality-based “rights” a “zero-sum game” – in which homosexuals usually should win and Christians should lose.
Gay lobbyists demand meeting with Sydney Cardinal George Pell
Gay rights advocates want to meet with the head of the Catholic church in Australia to discuss why parishioners are being told to oppose same-sex marriage. They have written to the Archbishop, concerned about what they call a “destructive” church campaign against same-sex marriage
Apple Says “No” to Manhattan Declaration App 2.0 – manhattandeclaration.org
We received notice from Apple last evening regarding their rejection of our resubmission of the Manhattan Declaration iPhone/iPad app to the Apple App Store. This is an appalling response from Apple. Nearly 500,000 Christians have signed the Manhattan Declaration including representatives from many major Protestant denominations, leading Catholic Bishops and leaders of the Orthodox Church.
Apple is telling us that the apps’ content is considered “likely to expose a group to harm” and “to be objectionable and potentially harmful to others.” Inasmuch as the Manhattan Declaration simply reaffirms the moral teachings of our Christian faith on the sanctity of human life, marriage and sexual morality, and religious freedom and the rights of conscience, Apple’s statement amounts to the charge that our faith is “potentially harmful to others.”
Gender games – Mercator
When a woman claims to be a man, should the university and the press play along?
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Publicly funded censorship By Rory Leishman
Day in and day out, our national broadcaster serves up an unrelenting drumbeat of propaganda for homosexual acts, promiscuity, abortion and a range of other perversions. Of late, the corporation has even started slanting its news broadcasts in favour of legalized prostitution.