The Gaytheist Agenda

I’m glad Giggle-Blizzard made it home, though somewhat worse for wear.

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The cat disappeared from his Spring Hill home Nov. 15.

Eleven days later, on Thanksgiving Day, owner Tracie Steger heard a faint meow on her front porch.

“My niece opened the door and he came hobbling in, two legs forward, and then baby steps with his back legs,” she said.

Giggle-Blizzard was home – but with broken hind legs.

Steger has 13 pets, and on the night her cat went missing, she had called for her animals to come inside. They all came, except Giggle-Blizzard.
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After about 10 days, some bad news: A neighbor said she’d seen Giggle-Blizzard get hit by a car the previous Saturday more than a mile from home.
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Steger didn’t give up hope. She and Christopher spent the afternoon looking in the area where her cat had been hit.

The next day, Giggle-Blizzard arrived back home.

“I really believe if we didn’t go out on Wednesday and leave our scent trail, he wouldn’t have found his way home,” Steger said.
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Giggle-Blizzard had two severe fractures. He has had two surgeries to set the bones and now wears two green casts. Veterinarian Mike Kern of the Animal Care Center of Weeki Wachee describes the injuries as serious but isn’t surprised Giggle-Blizzard made it home.

“They do very, very amazing things,” he said.
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In an ultimate bid to eradicate the rights of women to control their reproductive systems and their lives, a group called Personhood Florida, Inc. has proposed the following amendment to the Florida constitution:

The words “person” and “natural person” apply to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, health, function, condition of physical and/or mental dependency and/or disability, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.

Last year, Colorado voters rejected a proposal which would have defined a fertilized human egg as a person. Similarly, voters in Montana, Oregon, Georgia and Mississippi had rejected like proposals. This year in Montana and Colorado, like in Florida, backers are instead pushing a proposal that refers to “the beginning of the biological development of that human being.” The result would be the same. All abortions would be barred because, under that definition, the “beginning of the biological development” would include fetus, embryo and zygote. While this is the position of the Catholic Church and others, it is no means that of most others. Also to be banned, according to Personhood Florida and the American Life league would be all forms of stem-cell research and in vitro fertilization clinics because of the failure of the latter to bring each fertilized egg to actual birth.

So who is going to pay the medical bills for all of the women who become pregnant if they can no longer get birth control pills? (And what of the women for whom pregnancy is a health risk, even potentially deadly? Why are they less of a “person” than a blastocyst?) Who is going to shoulder the increased costs for social service programs when scores of poor women who would have otherwise had abortions instead have children? Are all these “personhood” advocates going to do what is necessary for the millions of actual persons that result from their efforts? Or are they, as usual, going to stop caring once fetus becomes a born human and begins costing society precious tax dollars?

I suspect it’s the latter, and I need only look to the search queries in my server logs for the evidence:
“if medicaid covers abortion why do so many welfare mothers keep having kids”

They don’t care one whit about people. They care only about controlling them. This “pro-life” save the babies nonsense is just another smokescreen they use as a means of doing so.

 

No, I don’t feel guilty for enjoying this news. Though he’s been painted as some sort of martyr for his religious beliefs, Kent Hovind brought this mess on himself. He’s yet another person who thinks his religious beliefs and his theism put him above the laws that all others have to follow.

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A ruling this week says the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land, and two bank accounts associated with the park will be used to satisfy $430,400 in restitution owed to the federal government.

Kent Hovind, who founded the park and his ministry, Creation Science Evangelism, is serving 10 years in federal prison as a result of a tax-fraud conviction for failing to pay more than $470,000 in employee taxes in a long-running dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.

Kent Hovind was found guilty in November 2006 on 58 counts, including failure to pay employee taxes and making threats against investigators.

The East Peoria, Ill. native sparred with the IRS for 17 years before his conviction. He claimed no income or property since he was employed by God and said that his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes.

Hovind is incarcerated at the Edgefield Federal Correction Institution in South Carolina.
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U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers’ 16-page order released late Thursday gives the government the green light to divide up the nine properties in and around the 5800 block of North Palafox Street and begin to sell them until the $430,400 forfeiture amount is satisfied.

The properties have a combined value of more than what the Hovinds owe, according to Rodgers’ order, and any excess property available after the sales will be returned to the Hovinds.

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Stoll said he owned nine of the 10 properties in question, according to a motion filed with the court. Eric Hovind claimed ownership of a single property, where he lives with his family. He will be allowed to keep the Cummings Road home.

Kent Hovind made a series of quick transfers to conceal his ownership of the properties at risk for seizure, according to court documents filed by the U.S. attorney’s office.
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Given that Hovind is three years into a ten year prison sentence he has up to seven years to develop another sheep fleecing money making scheme. It would behoove him, however, to pay his taxes next time. I do recall Jesus saying something about that in the Bible.

 

As you may know, Bryce Faulkner is a pre-med student suspected to have been coerced by his parents into a 14-month “ex-gay” program. Bryce hasn’t been heard from since he entered that program more than 40 days ago.

His parents have spoken to Fox News and have threatened to sue Brett A. Harris who runs the Save Bryce site. Says Mrs. Faulkner:

“He’s fine,” Debra Faulkner told FOXNews.com. “All the stories you’ve been told are not true.”
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“[Bryce] got caught up with friends who were pulling him that way,” she said. “He just wants to take some time and figure out what he wants to do with his life.”

Yes, always people “turn gay” because they fell in with the wrong crowd. Homosexuality is a form of juvenile delinquency. Now Bryce is off being re-programmed by the Righteous Ones so he can emerge a Heterosexual Lifestyle Simulator.

Through a family representative, her son denied being coerced into attending counseling.

“Every decision that I’ve made has been based solely upon my beliefs and I have not been manipulated or coerced by anyone to do anything,” Bryce Faulkner’s statement read. He declined further comment.

If that was Bryce’s statement why did he not make it himself? Why did a “family representative” read it for him? If he was truly there of his own volition and his family was not trying to hide anything it would take just one minute of his own presence to make a statement in person. It might not quell all suspicions but it would do more than proxy statements by the people who allegedly put him where he is. In other words, I don’t believe for a minute that statement came from Bryce Faulkner.

[Travis] Swanson, of Oshkosh, Wis., told FOXNews.com that he met Faulkner at a bar in Panama City, Fla., during spring break in March. The two quickly hit it off, he said.
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“Things started getting serious in the months of April and May,” said Swanson. “He told me that he loved me.”
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He said the relationship flourished until mid-June, when Debra Faulkner gained access to her son’s e-mail account and discovered Bryce’s secret.

The next time they spoke, Swanson said, Bryce was inconsolable.

“He was crying really, really bad, I mean, like uncontrollably crying,” he said. “He said [Bryce’s parents] made him read quotes aloud from the Bible and said that he’s going to hell.”

The following day, Swanson said he received a text from Faulkner indicating that his parents wanted to take him to a “place in Pensacola” to address his sexuality. Swanson would later call the Union County Sheriff’s Department to say that Faulkner was being taken against his will by his “fundamental Baptist” parents.

That doesn’t sound to me like somebody who decided, willingly, to endure 14 months of abuse .

Meanwhile, Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, says roughly 250 local ministries affiliated with the Orlando-based organization continue to counsel people who are struggling with homosexuality. Chambers is aware of Faulkner’s story, but as a matter of policy, he declined to confirm or deny whether Faulkner has attended Exodus’ programs. (According to its Web site, Harvest Outreach Church in Pensacola, Fla., is an affiliate church to Exodus International.)

“We believe that [homosexuality] wasn’t God’s design,” Chambers told FOXNews.com. “We have a decision to make when it comes to how we steward our sexuality.”

Too bad Chambers and his ilk think they have the right to force their decisions about sexual “stewardship” on everyone else, regardless of how harmful the consequences.

Bryce Faulkner is just one of the many victims of the “ex-gay” industry, albeit a very high profile victim. The clock is ticking for him, and only time will tell how spiritually, psychologically and even physically damaged he will emerge from his experience.

 
For more information:
Truth Wins Out

Ex-Gay Watch

Beyond Ex-Gay

 

Many adults think if they teach children about sex and instruct them in methods of birth control it “gives them license” to have sex. So instead they decide to tell children “don’t do it” and either avoid mentioning birth control at all or worse yet tell children lies like “condoms spread disease”. Some add in religious admonishments and even threats. Does that stop the kids from having sex? Of course not. It just puts them at greater risk when they do because they’re more likely to do it without benefit of condoms and other forms of birth control (which increases risk of pregnancy and/or STDs/HIV). They’re also more likely to engage unprotected oral and anal sex because they consider this “not real sex”. Unfortunately such acts still carry risks. And when they’re not provided facts they rely on rumors they hear from their friends–some of which can kill.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida teens who believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy have prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state.

Another myth is that Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will prevent a person from getting pregnant, Local 6 reported.

State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida’s abstinence-only sex education, Local 6 reported.

They are proposing a bill that would require a more comprehensive approach, the report said.

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Thankfully Orlando has seen the light, as have many cities, counties and states before it. I wonder how long it will be before this abomination known as “abstinence only sex education” is but a distant memory. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is dangerous and potentially deadly.

 
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“Just Say No” is Just Plain Stupid. It’s Also a Massive Propaganda Campaign.

 

The Florida Atheist and Secular Humanist Society put up a billboard in Ft. Lauderdale to promote their group. Of course area residents are rending their garments.

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The members of the community cite two main problems: born-again Christians own the business right next to the sign, and the billboard is located right in the middle of an African-American community.
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Why should it matter that born-again Christians own the business right next to the sign? Do born-again Christians care who might be living or running businesses near their countless signs and billboards? So why is it always a huge issue when atheists, LGBT groups or non-Christian groups put up a sign? Why do Christians need such heavy protection for their delicate faith, particularly when–as they incessantly remind us–it is the majority faith in this country.

Furthermore what is the significance of the fact that the neighborhood is an “African-American community”? If anybody has insight into that please fill me in because it’s a complete non-sequitur as far as I’m concerned.

Neighboring businesses have called to try to get the sign removed. “Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Christian, whoever you are, we all believe in a spiritual higher being. When you have something like this here, people don’t want to come and patronize us anymore,” said Theodore Hamilton, an employee at a nearby business. “We don’t agree with this. We don’t like this here in our community, and this is a spiritual based community.”

People need to grow thicker skins. Atheists, agnostics and other non-Christians have been exposed to Christian billboards, signs and proselytizing for centuries. If we can take it they can certainly do so. At least this billboard isn’t threatening anybody with “hell”, laying guilt-trips on people, or resorting to subtle threats the way many church signs do.

After seeing the billboard, Team of Life community activist Essie “Big Mama” Reed brought her students out to protest it Wednesday afternoon. “Nothing else matters, but that sign needs to come down. In the name of Jesus,” Big Mama chanted, as she led her students in protest.

She said the sign affects something much deeper than business. “I don’t know the reason for putting this sign up,” said Big Mama. “It says ‘Do not believe in God.’ How are we going to make it? Look at our schools, everyday. Everyday there’s something going on. Kids are out here killing each other, kids are here using drugs. Who else are they going to believe in?”

Big Mama needs to work on her reading comprehension. The billboard does not say “Do not believe in God”. But maybe that’s why so many people have bees in their bonnets. They don’t read properly, they misinterpret and they flat out refuse to consider (or allow) the existence of viewpoints other than their own.

Big Mama might also want to reconsider her insistence that “believing in something” is the antidote to all the crime out there. Study after study has shown that both in the US and around the world the higher the rate of religiosity, the higher the rates of societal ills like teen pregnancy, violent crime, divorce, STDs/HIV, and so on. It would be better to recommend more education and cooperation rather than dependence on divisive dogmas/gods. And that is exactly what groups like FLASH are promoting.

 

From The Smoking Gun

MARCH 16–A Florida man wearing an “I ♥ My Marriage” t-shirt was arrested last night for allegedly choking his wife during an argument in their Tampa-area home. Bradley Gellert, a 32-year-old financial consultant, was busted by Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies and booked into jail on a felony domestic battery by strangulation charge. According to a police report, Gellert, pictured in the below mug shot, got into an argument with his wife and “screamed at the victim and threw numerous items.” He then allegedly “grabbed the victim’s neck and strangled her,” which “prevented the victim from breathing normally.” Gellert’s wife subsequently fled the couple’s Apollo Beach home and went to a nearby sheriff’s office to report the incident. Investigators noted that the woman had been “taken to the ground by the arrestee and suffered an abrasion to her knee and red marks on her neck.” The “I ♥ My Marriage” shirt was a promotional item tied to the 2008 movie “Fireproof,” a Christian-themed film starring Kirk Cameron. The movie, a hit in evangelical circles, centers on a fireman’s religious awakening and his simultaneous effort to save a failing marriage.

 
Sometimes I just feel like .

 

Considering the recent passage of Proposition 8, Proposition 102, Proposition 2, the AK Adoption ban and the death of all five LGBT rights bills in Utah this really makes me roll my eyes.

USA joins UN’s LGBT equality pact

At the United Nations’ Durban Review Conference on racism and xenophonia in Geneva this week, the United States has supported a motion to condemn “all forms of discrimination and all other human rights violations based on sexual orientation.”

“The Czech Republic on behalf of the E.U., with the support of New Zealand, the United States, Colombia, Chili on behalf of the South American states, the Netherlands, Argentina and a few others, took the floor in support,” reports UN Watch.
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However, the United States’ support is a large step forward for on LGBT issues in the UN. Back in December, the United States refused to sign up to a similar statement condemning criminal penalties against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Perhaps the US just doesn’t consider denying equal access to marriage, adoption, employment, housing and other such things to LGBT people discrimination or a violation of human rights. It certainly doesn’t seem that it does considering such things are allowed to go on right here within its borders. Apparently they’re only violations when they occur elsewhere, and only then does the US denounce them.

How very sad.

 

Why aren’t you rending your garments over AshleyMadison.com ? It’s an online service with more than 3 million heterosexual married members who hook up to have affairs. Their company motto? Life’s short, have an affair. How’s that for family values? Watch the ad they tried to have aired during the Superbowl.

Yeah, but gay people can’t get married because it would “ruin traditional marriage”. What a crock.

 

Gainesville, FL, has a perfectly reasonable ordinance that allows transgender individuals to use the restroom they feel is most appropriate for them based on their gender identity. But of course the ignorant and bigoted have to go off the deep end and use children to invoke hysteria in an attempt to get the ordinance overturned.

Anybody who knows anything about transgender people would know that a MTF (Male-To-Female) would not look like that, and therefore would be using the Mens’ restroom. Therefore the authorities would be perfectly justified in arresting him. A FTM (Female-To-Male), on the other hand, might very well look like that, and he would be far better off using the Mens’ room (which is what this ordinance is designed for), so people don’t mistakenly think it’s a situation like that depicted in the video.

The reality is that transgender individuals are far more likely to be victims of crimes than perpetrators. No actual statistics are kept, even by the FBI, so we have no way of knowing how many victims there are per year.

This is what a MTF transgender individual looks like. Would you expect this person to use the Mens’ room? This was Gwen Araujo, who was brutally murdered by three men when they found out she was a MTF who hadn’t yet undergone surgery. Sadly bigots like those who want to overturn Gainesville’s ordinance would be perfectly happy to let others like Gwen suffer the same fate so they can continue to revel in their ignorance and hatred of people who pose no threat to them, and about whom they have no desire to learn anything.

Children are in no danger from transgender people. But transgender people are definitely in danger from the ignorant and intolerant.