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"It is the height of arrogance to judge another's lifestyle,"
Let us open our arms then to all the crackheads robbers and rapists as well. Wouldn't want to judge.
"and it amazes me that while defaming a group of people, someone has NO problem whatsoever taking their money."
Tell that to every business owner who does business with people they disagree with or do not like. That would be every business owner.
Stupid statement yes I agree. You need to step it up a little.
Paule Walnuts
Published by Centre Daily Times, Friday, June 2, 2000
Homosexual behavior increases risk of AIDS
by Brian J. Kopp, DPM
Parental warning: The following "My View" contains graphic medical terminology about sexual activities that may not be suitable for younger readers.
In her May 12 "My View," Mina Yindra makes many errors, but I would like to correct her statements regarding AIDS and "bigotry."
Promiscuous heterosexual sex carries with it a much higher risk for AIDS, primarily because of the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) associated with it, causing a breakdown in the natural barriers of both male and female reproductive tracts. AIDS is primarily concentrated among heterosexuals in Africa because of the high rate of female genital mutilation, leading to much higher than average rates of anal and oral intercourse, and culturally-accepted extramarital sexual activity, including widespread prostitution. Rates of STDs are quite high in these populations.
However, AIDS is by far most common among the homosexual population in the United States, primarily because the type and frequency of sexual contact, combined with STDs, is the perfect method of spreading a body-fluid borne virus.
Public health records demonstrate that homosexuals, representing 2 percent of America's population, suffer vastly disproportionate percentages of several of America's most serious STDs, with incidences among homosexuals of diseases like gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis A and B, cytomegalovirus, shigellosis, giardiasis, amoebic bowel disease and herpes far exceeding their presence in the general population. These are due to common homosexual practices that include fellatio, anilingus, digital stimulation of the rectum and ingestion of urine and feces.
An exhaustive study in The New England Journal of Medicine, medical literature's only study reporting on homosexuals who kept sexual "diaries," indicated the average homosexual ingests the fecal material of 23 different men each year. The same study indicated the number of annual sexual partners averaged nearly 100. Homosexuals averaged, per year, fellating 106 different men and swallowing 50 of their seminal ejaculations, and 72 penile penetrations of the anus. (Corey, L, and Holmes, K.K., "Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis A in Homosexual Men," New England Journal of Medicine, 1980, vol 302: 435-438; as quoted in "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
A study by McKusick, et al., of 655 San Francisco homosexuals reported that only 24 percent of the sample claimed to have been "monogamous" during the past year, and of this 24 percent, 5 percent drank urine, 7 percent engag-ed in sex involving insertion of a fist in their rectums, 33 percent ingested feces, 53 percent swallowed semen and 59 percent received semen in their rectums in the month just previous to the survey ("AIDS and Sexual Behavior Reported by Homosexual Men in San Francisco," American Journal of Public Health, December 1985, 75: 493-496; quoted in "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
Lesbians show similar patterns of high venereal disease incidence relative to the general population. They are 19 times more likely to have had syphilis, twice as likely to have had genital warts, four times as likely to have had scabies, seven times more likely to have had infection from vaginal contact, 29 times more likely to have had oral infection from vaginal contact and 12 times more likely to have had an oral infection from penile contact ("Medical Aspects of Homosexuality," Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, 1985, Jaffe and Keewhan, et al.; quoted in "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
AIDS research by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that the typical homosexual interviewed claimed to have had more than 500 different sexual partners in a lifetime. Considered by themselves, the AIDS victims in this study averaged more than 1,100 lifetime sexual partners. Some reported as many as 20,000. Studies reported by A-P. Bell, M.S. Weinberg and S.K. Hammersmith in the book "Sexual Preference" (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981) indicated that only 3 percent of homosexuals had fewer than 10 lifetime sexual partners. Only about 2 percent could be classified as either monogamous or semi-monogamous (from "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
To the present time, 75 to 85 percent of AIDS cases reported are related to homosexual activity, promiscuous heterosexual sex and IV drug abuse. AIDS stubbornly refuses to spread into the population in general, even 20 years after its discovery, despite dire warnings to the contrary.
These diseases are acquired directly through the sexual behavior homosexual activists are asking Americans to legally endorse and protect. Yet, as professor Jerome Lejeune of Descartes University, Paris, says of AIDS: "Only God can truly pardon the one who violates His laws; man pardons at times; Nature never pardons at all: She is not a person." The brutal consequences of attempting to break the natural law are not bigoted or hateful, nor are those, like Dr. Laura, Cal Thomas or Gary Morella, who try to point out the dangers and simple truths.
We are seeing the natural consequences of violating nature's laws now. They are also a warning to prevent the ultimate eternal consequences. How many will ignore that warning and continue to call the messenger a bigot and continue to shake their fist at God? How many will heed that warning of a loving Father, ready to forgive and reconcile His prodigal children?
That is correct. A simple Google readily produced it. As well as the other links I gave you.
Paule Walnuts
Vera Whisman: Queer by Choice: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Identity
(contains interviews with QueerByChoice Mailing List member Frank Aqueno;
see also the book review by Julia Jones)
Claudia Card: Lesbian Choices
Jan Clausen: Beyond Gay or Straight: Understanding Sexual Orientation, 1996
Kristen G. Esterberg: Lesbian and Bisexual Identities
Marjorie Garber: Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life.
"Garber devotes an entire chapter to a comprehensive trashing of all attempts to
find a genetic basis for human sexualities. We don't, she points out, expect to find
a gene for being attracted to brown eyes, or high heels, or shaved heads—why
do we expect to find one for being attracted to a particular sex?"
—Jo Eadie, book review in Bi Community News, No. 4, U.K., February 1996
Gillian E. Hanscombe and Martin Humphries: Heterosexuality
Fritz Klein: The Bisexual Option
Diane Richardson (editor): Theorizing Heterosexuality
Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (editors): PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions
About Gender And Sexuality
Ashwini Sukthankar (editor): Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writing from India
Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, and Rebecca Kaplan (editors): Bisexual Politics:
Theories, Queries and Visions (See especially the essay "Identity and Ideas" by
QueerByChoice member Liz Highleyman)
Marco Vassi: Metasex, Mirth and Madness
Critiques of "Gay Gene" Studies
The biological, sociological and/or historical evidence against "gay gene" theories, analyzed from a pro-queer point of view.
John P. De Cecco and John P. Elia (editors): If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You
Make Them Gay? Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism
in Gay and Lesbian Identities
John P. De Cecco and David Allen Parker (editors): Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire:
The Biology of Sexual Preference
John P. De Cecco (editor): The Journal of Homosexuality (Practically every issue of it is
relevant to choosing to be queer, and editor John P. De Cecco appeared on The
Donahue Show on January 3, 1992 alongside Frank Aqueno to argue for the "queer
by choice" point of view in a debate against biologists Simon LeVay and James Weinrich
and writer Dotson Rader about the causes of sexual orientation)
Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald: Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information
Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance
Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers
Edward Stein: The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual
Orientation
Jennifer Terry: An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and the Place of
Homosexuality in Modern Society
Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla (editors): Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on
Difference in Science and Popular Culture
Richard R. Troiden: Gay and Lesbian Identity: A Sociological Analysis
Vernon A. Rosario (editor): Science and Homosexualities
Social Constructionist History
These books trace the history of how the modern queer social role was constructed from earlier social roles. Aspects of social constructionism can be taken to heart even by people who believe everyone's sexual orientation is "hardwired" at birth; however, the study of cultures in which virtually all people participate in same-sex sexual activity does tend to undermine the "gay gene" viewpoint.
Dennis Altman: Homosexuality: Which Homosexuality? and The Homosexualization of
America: The Americanization of the Homosexual
David F. Greenberg: The Construction of Homosexuality
Jonathan Ned Katz: The Invention of Heterosexuality
Celia Kitzinger: The Social Construction of Lesbianism
Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. (editors): Hidden From
History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub (editors): Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of
Gender Ambiguity
Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between
Women from the Renaissance to the Present
David Halperin: One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Saint Foucault
Gary P. Leupp: Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan
Chris Nottingham: The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics
R. Jeffrey Ringer (editor): Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the
Construction of Homosexuality
Randolph Trumbach: Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume One: Heterosexuality
and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London
Michael Warner (editor): Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
Jeffrey Weeks: Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality and Identity;
Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty; Sex, Politics, and
Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800; Sexuality and Its Discontents:
Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities; Making Sexual History; Sexual
Cultures: Communities, Values and Intimacy; and Sexuality
Queer Theory
Many people mistakenly believe that the term "queer theory" is just a synonym for "gay & lesbian studies." In reality, queer theory is a very specific subset of gay & lesbian studies which is based on "the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are." For more information, visit the Queer Theory websitefrom which the definition quoted was taken, or read any of the books listed below.
Richard Burt: Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture
Sarah Cooper: Relating to Queer Theory: Rereading Sexual Self-Definition With Irigaray,
Kristeva, Wittig, and Cixous
Teresa de Lauretis: Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities
Ellis Hanson (editor): Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film
Annamarie Jagose: Queer Theory: An Introduction
Shane Phelan: Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories
William F. Pinar (editor): Queer Theory in Education
Steven Seidman (editor): Queer Theory/Sociology
Tamsin Spargo: Foucault and Queer Theory
Calvin Thomas, Joseph O. Aimone and Catherine A. F. Macgillivray (editors): Straight
With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality
William G. Tierney: Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the
Academy
William B. Turner: A Genealogy of Queer Theory
Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor (editors): Feminism Meets Queer Theory
Lesbian-Feminism
The movement known as "lesbian-feminism" which emerged in the 1970s was much more than just a group of lesbians who also happened to be feminists. In fact, the majority of lesbians who consider themselves feminists today would definitelynot consider themselves "lesbian-feminists." The most basic tenet of the lesbian-feminist movement was that lesbianism was "a choice women make in response to society," as Rose Weitz put it in her article from the 1984 lesbian-feminist anthology Women-Identified Women. Lesbian-feminists promoted lesbianism as a choice that all women can and should make in order to resist patriarchy and prevent (as much as is possible) their private love lives from being directly controlled by patriarchal power.
Jeffner Allen: Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations
Claudia Card (editor): Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy
Trudy Darty and Sandra Potter (editors): Women-Identified Women
Carol Anne Douglas: Love and Politics: Radical Feminist and Lesbian Theories
E. M. Ettore: Lesbians, Women, and Society
Sarah F. Green: Urban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyond in the Gender, Sexuality
and Identity Battles of London
Lynne Harne and Elaine Miller (editors): All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian
Lesbian Feminism
Dana A. Heller: Cross-Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance
Sarah Lucia Hoagland: Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value
Annamarie Jagose: Lesbian Utopics
Sheila Jeffreys: The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual
Revolution
Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins: Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and
Psychology
Noretta Koertge (editor): Philosophy and Homosexuality
Susan Krieger: The Family Silver: Essays on Relationships Among Women
Mandy Merck, Naomi Segal and Elizabeth Wright (editors): Coming Out of Feminism?
Lilian Mohin: An Intimacy of Equals: Lesbian Feminist Ethics
Sue O'Sullivan: I Used to Be Nice: Reflections on Feminist and Lesbian Politics
Shane Phelan: Identity Politics: Lesbian-Feminism and the Limits of Community
Paula Claire Rust: Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and
Revolution
Vicinus, Martha (editor): Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader
Tamsin Wilton: Sexual (Dis)Orientation: Sex, Gender and Desire; Unexpected
Pleasures: Leaving Heterosexuality for the Lesbian Life and Lesbian Studies:
Setting an Agenda
Monique Wittig: The Straight Mind and Other Essays
Stephanie...
http://www.queerbychoice.com./
I cannot give you any scientific report that does not have some tie to religion. So I give you gay people claiming they are gay by choice.
Paule Walnuts
StephanieVanbryce'
This is from the same site you obtained your extensive list from...
Also, a small number of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people believe they have - more or less consciously - chosen their sexual orientations, as shown by books such as Vera Whisman's Queer by Choice: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Identity (1996) and websites such as QueerByChoice.com.
These people feel that all human beings have a potential for heterosexual as well as homosexual feelings and that it is a matter of individual choice whether to open oneself to this potential or not. They stress the fluidity of sexuality. Many of them also think that the concept of choice is more promising as a political strategy than biological essentialism. They criticise biological determinists for being apologetic and avoiding the issue of morality. In their view homosexuality is not immoral and therefore does not have to be justified as an inborn orientation that the homosexual "can't help". Some of them fear that a view of homosexuality as grounded in some physical difference will only lead heterosexual conservatives to think of homosexuals as having a biological defect. They don't want to be granted gay rights out of pity for some innate "illness" but expect to be given the same rights as heterosexuals, because it should be immaterial to any free state who they choose to sleep or share their lives with.
In the 1970s, the view that homosexuality could be chosen became a fundamental precept of the lesbian feminist movement.
Some advocates of the choice hypothesis believe that sexual orientation is not a choice that is necessarily made casually or easily changed. Most choice advocates have a negative view of all non-heterosexual orientations. Therefore, they might, for instance, consider homosexuality to be a personal problem not unlike a drug or alcohol addiction. A person might be unable to change their orientation without help, but in the end, their own choices and behaviors are shown to be an integral part of their problem.
StephanieVanbryce.. Is this an honest question?
Idiot.
SoxFan...
"I love sticking the needle into people like you."
I'm not gay thank you. And don't be so hard on yourself; I’m almost sure that a needle is an inaccurate description.
Paule Walnuts
A needle, come-on man there is just no need for that type of self-abuse.
Wow where did this semi-coherent statement come from?
You know that could very well be true, if it weren’t so ridiculously absurd.
Paule Walnuts
well Ok then. Wipe the foam off your mouth and get with it.
I cannot help you there.
I've lost mine a long time ago. But for very different reasons. None of them pertaining to the homosexual issue.
Paule Walnuts
ROFLMAO
You can read?
You know, I believe all gay people think that way about all heterosexuals.
Paule Walnuts
Since this is the level you wish to degenerate to, so I will oblige.
From day 1 I have told you dumbasses that I am a Deist. Nothing new here. As for quoting Paul I have yet to do so.
You are a dishonest liar.
Paule Walnuts
n4807g...Not even close.
I do feel like I'm beating my head against the wall though.
Paule Walnuts
Ha ha ha ha... I must be one of those self hating gays right.
You've lost it.
Paule Walnuts
midas98, I've got them spitting vitriol at me right now, wait a little while for the foam around their lips to go away and they'll calm down.
Paule Walnuts
Thank you Sox. Although Christianity denies homosexuality in every aspect I thank you for not calling me one.
Paule Walnuts
Not a Christian, this is about the 100th time I've told you people. Are you suffering from some sort of learning impediment?
Paule Walnuts
There was more sustenance in that post than anything you’ve offered today.
'Alex G' you are extremely lacking.
'Alex G'
"life is not perfect, shit happens"
Are you calling gay people accidents of nature or Evolutionary mistakes? Because I’m not. And at no time have I not acknowledged homosexuals right to exist and be happy. Just not AT MY EXPENSE!
Are you even capable of understanding this?
Paule Walnuts
Stop misquoting and putting words into my mouth. You are only proving your intellectual inability to refute my positions of contention. Name calling and lies are all you have to offer.
I guess unlike you I’m not afraid to express my beliefs with absolute honesty so that other may scrutinize them to their own satisfaction. I just wish for one time, one single time I could get an honest debate. I have not referred to homosexuals in any sort of derogatory manner what so ever, only that I disagree with their behavioral choices, and that I should not be made to pay for those choices. Unfortunately your side is so full of hate; you are incapable of doing the same.
Paule Walnuts
Like I said standard MO believe the way we do or you are evil and nasty.
SoxFan...
You base this on the false assumption that homosexuals are a minority class of citizen. What special politically correct term do we give a gay Hispanic or a gay black person? A minority within a minority?
Your reasoning is flawed. Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Jews they cannot change who or what they are. Quite frankly gay people can stop being gay. If they wanted to.
Paule Walnuts
'Alex G'..Are you familiar with evolution?
Reading your post I cannot tell if you're being a smartass or just plain stupid.
If in fact there is a gay gene... How is natural selection improving the species by not eliminating it? If it is a recessive gene then natural selection is trying to get rid of it, again for the betterment of the species.
Is homosexuality de-evolution? If this were an internal population control mechanism then a total majority would have to be gay for this method to work.
Of course this is all hypothetical as the gay gene has yet to be found!
Paule Walnuts
I didn't claim all religions; you quote me out of context. Very dishonest. The rest of that statement “that disagree with their point of view.” Several religions that I know of fully accept homosexuality.
You deny the specific attacks on Christianity and the Catholic Church? You pro gay buddies here on this board are already directly accusing me of being ‘religiously bigoted’ and ‘sick minded’
And I quote: “justify typical religious bigotry”
Seems this more proves my point than disproves it. If it is ok to be pro gay, then why is it not ok to be anti gay? I have yet to get an honest answer from any person on this one. I’ve already asked it twice and have only been called names in response.
Paule Walnuts
There is no honest discourse here. Fall in line, or vilification will fall upon you! Standard pro gay rhetoric.
'ergo sum' feel free to elaborate!
What are yours?
'Alex G'... I live in a gay militant state. Being referred to as a 'breeder' is as common as illegal immigrants crossing the border. I interact with gay people daily. My company specifically advertises to gay people. They are a huge portion of my customer base. I respect their rights and freedoms to practice whatever behaviors they desire. Just as long as it does not interfere with mine own.
That does not mean I have to accept their behavior or their agenda as acceptable mine own.
Why I am not allowed to hold a set of core belief that differs from yours without being vilified or classified as evil is incomprehensible? I believe homosexuality is wrong. It is a behavioral choice. There is no evolutionary benefit to homosexuality. You cannot prove to me it is anything other. As an American is this not the very essence of freedom? To be able to have and express a belief without persecution...
If you’re questioning my morality than obviously not and American freedom don’t mean schit!
Paule Walnuts
SoxFan....
"many companies offer help care for significant others"
Not under federal or state mandate.
"They have the very same parental rights as married couples."
Through personal experience, I absolutely disagree with you.
"Gays in many states are forbidden from marrying or having civil unions while non-gays are not."
Not specifically forbidden by the constitution, is this not states rights in practice?
Buying into the normalization of homosexuality is your first mistake. Civil unions are indeed special laws to provide legal benefits to those who normally would not qualify. Homosexuality is a behavioral choice. And people choosing to behave in this manner do not need nor deserve the same benefits that those trying to propagate have traditionally received through marriage vows.
Homosexual marriage is a backdoor avenue to provided healthcare in order for those who live a high risk lifestyle. It’s protection at our expense. I'm currently required to provide healthcare for my gay employee spouse. I neither accept his behavior nor feel I should have to pay the increased insurance rates because of his lifestyle choices. Where are the protections to my beliefs to my rights to my ability to prosper? No, instead I’m vilified and told to keep my mouth shut.
Paule Walnuts
Religion is one of the biggest parts of our culture. You'd rather talk language and borders then let’s do so.
Language, borders and culture.
"Tell me, what anti discrimination laws apply to white heterosexual males?"
Why is it ok for the homosexual or the minority to refer to us as 'breeders' or 'crackers' with impunity while white heterosexual males doing the same have federal law stipulating fives years in jail for the very same actions?
Non married Heterosexual couples with children have no special rights. They cannot acquire health care for their live in partner. Gays through civil unions can. That’s what this whole gay marriage issue is all about.
The whole drive to classify gays as a minority class of citizen was absolutely a political move to cover gays under laws they previously were not.
Paule Walnuts
Well I’m sorry Suzie but,
part of the gay agenda is to banish all religions that disagree with their point of view. In order to get more people to accept a point of view that is currently anathema to them one must attack the base from which their beliefs derive. Little Cheney is doing just that.
If you don't like what I’m saying, tough. It's the absolute truth.
If you want to ignore the religious implications that’s fine with me, but at least respond to my question.
Paule Walnuts
As well as the fact she is Cheney’s daughter, yes I am.
"BTW: Please spare me your religious bs."
This is pure politics. This is how minority groups get legislation passed despite the will of the people. I can just see a bunch of sperm donating men now being sued for child support.
Tell me honestly, what good to the country does today’s fixation on this situation offer? Why is it on the front pages? As the news article suggests most conservatives don't care about the day to day doings of gays and minorities, only the special rights and privileges they receive at everybody else’s expense.
Paule Walnuts
If this doesn't prove that she is actively pushing her cause than I don't know what will. She is being criticized for not pushing hard enough.
AP press.
"Though Joe Solmonese of Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay-rights organization, issued a statement in support of Mary Cheney and her partner Heather Poe, gay marriage advocacy group Family Pride used the occassion to rail against state bans on gay marriage encouraged by the Bush administration. "Unless they move to a handful of less restrictive states, Heather will never be able to have a legal relationship with her child," said Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of the organization. "Grandfather Cheney will no doubt face a lifetime of sleepless nights as he reflects on the irreparable harm he and his administration have done to the millions of American gay and lesbian parents and their children." Some conservatives are even less pleased. Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America called the pregnancy "unconscionable", and Focus on the Family's Carrie Gordon Earli said, "Just because you can conceive a child outside a one-woman, one-man marriage doesn't mean it's a good idea."
Bloggers are weighing in as well. "Mary Cheney" is the ninth most popular search term on blog search engine Technorati today. Here's a look at what a few of those blogs have to say:
***Gay conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan writes: "I'm sure there will be plenty of strong male role models in the child's life, starting with his or her grandfather...these statements, once you see them directed at an actual couple with an actual unborn child, are deeply, deeply hurtful."
***GLBLT activist blog Good As You accuses Conservatives of jumping on the issue in the name of free press: "So glad to hear that Mary's insemination is getting Ms. Crouse bookings! Hey Jan -- we hear Ellen and Portia are planning on saying "I love you" to each other tomorrow. You free?"
***Meanwhile, Republican blogger Scott, at AOL's The Stump accuses liberals of pouncing on the pregnancy to make unwarranted attacks on the other side: "What the left fails to realize is that most Republicans and secular Conservatives couldn't care less...The majority of the party do not have an issue with being gay, they have an issue with special rights that are granted to not only homosexuals, but minorities or any other group."
***On his blog (scroll down past the Dollymobile), Libertarian talk show host Neil Boortz spoke for all of those wondering if this issue really needs to be at the center of national discourse: "Mary Cheney will certainly do a better job of raising a child than Britney Spears will. The weird beards of Iran are about to get a big boost in international status, and become much more dangerous in the process, and we're all caught up in Mary Cheney being pregnant."
Full disclosure: Mary Cheney works for AOL, which also owns and operates Netscape"
Paule Walnuts
Children!