-Caveat Lector- This is a hoot. I don't recommend reading it unless you need a smile, and you've got extra time. ______________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "TVC Newsletter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:44 AM Subject: TVC NEWS - July 20, 2001 You are subscribed to the TVC Newsletter; Providing you concise, accurate information that you can use. If you wish to stop receiving these weekly messages, please click here to unsubscribe. http://norm.xenos-systems.net/unsub.php?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&n=307 TRADITIONAL VALUES COALITION TVC NEWS Vol. 4, Issue 29, July 20, 2001 http://www.traditionalvalues.org ========================================================== 1. WASHINGTON UPDATE 2. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN TARGETS HERMAPRODITES FOR POLITICAL EXPLOITATION 3. UPDATE ON JEFFREY CURLEY WRONGFUL-DEATH LAWSUIT AGAINST NAMBLA 4. UNITED WAY FORCES BOY SCOUTS TO COMPROMISE ON HOMOSEXUALITY 5. FRENCH COURT RULES ON "RIGHT NOT TO BE BORN" 6. JOSEPH SOBRAN DESCRIBES THE STALINIST ROOTS OF THE ACLU 7. HOMOSEXUALS SCHEDULE HUMAN DOG SHOW IN MICHIGAN 8. BARNA RESEARCH FINDS MOST PROTESTANTS DON'T WITNESS ========================================================== 1. WASHINGTON UPDATE A. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS IGNORED THE POOR TO PUSH THEIR AGENDA AND GUT THE FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE! TVC is claiming victory for Thursday's House passage of the Community Solutions Act (H.R. 7) President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative. The Act was nearly hijacked by homosexual activists and their allies in Congress who attempted to destroy the President's plan. The vote was 233-198. The Community Solutions Act will work to end anti-religious discrimination in federal funding against faith-based organizations involved in helping the poor and needy in our communities. The Act will allow religious groups to compete for federal grant money on an equal basis with secular organizations involved in meeting the needs of low-income families, drug addicts, the mentally ill, and women in crisis. Homosexuals attempted to amend the Act to turn it into a "special rights for homosexuals" bill. Using the force of law, homosexuals want to prohibit faith-based groups from setting their own hiring standards. Had the militant homosexuals been successful, their amendment would have FORCED religious groups to violate their own religious beliefs by requiring them to hire individuals who do not share the group's faith or moral values. The 1964 Civil Rights Act specifically exempts religious groups from federal employment discrimination statutes. The law recognizes that religious groups have the constitutional right to set their own hiring standards. "I am outraged that homosexuals are willing to destroy an effort to help low-income families," said Andrea Lafferty, Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition. "This shows their true colors. They don't care about the plight of the homeless or those in poverty. It is also clear that they don't care about the religious beliefs of millions of Americans who spend their lives helping the less fortunate in our society. They only care about getting special rights for themselves and their sexual behavior." The Community Solutions Act is about helping people. When it reaches the Senate we hope they will not allow this compassionate legislation to be hijacked by homosexuals and converted into a homosexual special rights law! This is clearly an example of anti-religious bigotry! To read more about TVC's position on this bill, go to: . B. HOUSE/SENATE BEGIN DEBATE ON BUSH EDUCATION BILL The House and Senate conference committee began meeting on Thursday to work out differences between the House version of the education bill versus the Senate version. The education bills, H.R. 1 and S. 1, both contain dangerous hate crime language in them that threaten religious freedom and promote homosexuality in the public schools. This legislation will reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and expand upon it. Section 4124 of S1, "Hate Crimes Prevention" calls for the creation of materials and training materials ostensibly designed to reduce hatred in public schools. In reality, the legislation is designed to promote homosexuality and to silence all principled opposition to homosexual recruitment programs in schools. It will criminalize speech against homosexuality and promote a climate of anti-Christian bigotry. Here is a list of the legislators who will be on the joint House-Senate conference committee to work out differences between the House and Senate versions. The conferees are: Senate conferees: Senators Kennedy, Dodd, Harkin, Mikulski, Jeffords, Bingaman, Wellstone, Murray, Reed, Edwards, Clinton, Lieberman, Bayh; Senators Gregg, Frist, Enzi, Hutchinson, Warner, Bond, Roberts, Collins, Sessions, DeWine, Allard, Ensign. House conferees: Reps. Boehner, Petri, Roukema, McKeon, Castle, Hilleary, Graham, Isakson; Reps. Miller, Kildee, Owens, Andrews, Mink, Roemer. Many of the Senators on this committee are ultra-liberals who will do whatever they can to expand the role of the federal government in education and to promote homosexuality in education programs. Please sign our petition to Congress urging them to drop any hate crimes language in this legislation. In addition, this bill should have language added that specifically protects the religious freedom of children whose religious beliefs view homosexuality as a sin. To sign this petition, go to: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petition.html?name=S_1_hate_crimes. C. CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM ON AGENDA Pro-family groups including TVC just signed a congratulatory letter to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson over his decision to include unborn children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). This decision will provide pre-natal care for low-income women. The letter noted: "Years of research have demonstrated that the health of children is greatly determined by the quality of prenatal care their mothers get during pregnancy. Your decision to include coverage for low-income children before birth is a logical extension of the S-CHIP program and works toward the goal of compassionate conservatism emphasized by President Bush." Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, said this new policy seems to be an attempt to establish the fetus as a person under the law, "leading to the criminalization of all abortions." Michelman and other pro-abortionists are unwilling to even support prenatal care for unborn babies because it recognizes that these are babies, not blobs of tissue to be killed on demand. D. SENATOR SCHUMER SCHEDULES NEW HEARING ON JUDGES The Subcommittee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts will be holding another hearing on July 24. The hearing, conducted by liberal New York Senator Chuck Schumer is designed to provide justification for opposing conservatives to judicial posts. Schumer and his allies are planning on blocking every Bush nominee who believes in judicial restraint and constitutional government. For regular updates on this issue, access the Free Congress' web site: http://www.judicialselection.org/. E. HUMAN CLONING BAN ACT NEEDS SUPPORT Both embryonic stem cell research and human cloning are under currently being debated in Congress. Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL) along with a medical doctor has introduced the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 (H.R. 2505). This legislation will prohibit human cloning and provide for a million dollar fine and 10 years in prison for violating this law. For more insights into the cloning issue, go to: www.scienceministries.org. F. STEM CELL RESEARCH STILL UNDER DEBATE On Wednesday, a House Committee heard from experts on stem cell research urging that the government not fund embryonic stem cell research. Rep. Dave Weldon told his colleagues it is unproven whether or not embryos provide better stem cells than adult cells for research purposes. Dr. David Prentice, a professor of Life Sciences at Indiana State University explained why adult stem cells show promise in finding cures for various diseases. Also in attendance was Marlene Strege, mother of the first adopted embryo, Hannah Strege. She has established an embryo adoption program called Snowflakes that encourages infertile couples to "adopt" embryos for implantation. The Christian Medical and Dental Associations has recently published a number of essays on stem cell research and cloning. To learn more about these controversial issues and what they mean to Christians, go to: http://www.cmdahome.org/?CONTEXT=art&cat=251&art=1105&BISKIT=38002644326 Additional information is available at: www.stemcellresearch.org. G. SENATORS URGE INVESTIGATION OF MISUSE OF AIDS FUNDING Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Max Baucus (D-MT) have recently sent a letter of concern to Miss Janet Rehnquist, Inspector General Designate with the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter asks that Miss Rehnquist begin an investigation into the misuse of AIDS dollars by organizations receiving federal tax dollars. The Senators point out that recent news accounts about the misuse of Ryan White CARE Act money demonstrates the need for such an investigation. According to these Senators, "The host of stories highlighting misuse of Ryan White CARE Act Funds is certainly discouraging because it means that not only are taxpayers' dollars wasted but also thousands of individuals suffering from HIV/AIDS are being denied the care and assistance that they need-and that Congress intended to provide them." Encourage your Congressmen to join with Grassley and Baucus in asking for a thorough investigation into the AIDS funding ripoff. Last month TVC called upon the Bush Administration to open an investigation into the flagrant misuse of tax dollars by homosexual activist groups that have managed to obtain AIDS grant money. We published our findings in a special report and are distributing it to key lawmakers on Capitol Hill. To read our report, go to: http://www.traditionalvalues.org/TVCSpecialRptAIDSFunding.PDF. You can also order printed copies of this report for $4 from our TVC office in California. Send your check to: Traditional Values Coalition, P.O. Box 940, Anaheim, CA 92815. H. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES HUMAN TRAFFICKING REGULATION GUIDELINES Attorney General John Ashcroft has just announced federal guidelines on dealing with victims of human trafficking. The guidelines will help law enforcement officers identify victims of human trafficking and help them more effectively prosecute those who deal in human suffering. "The toll in human suffering caused by human trafficking and forced labor is enormous," said Ashcroft. "The cooperative efforts of federal agencies and law enforcement officials will help provide victims with the tols and services needed to punish traffickers to the fullest extent of the law." (Human trafficking is the modern-day equivalent of slavery and many nations still practice it. Nations like Sudan and Burma routinely enslave populations-many of them Christians. South Korea has failed to crack down on the traffic in young women who are sent to the United States as prostitutes.) I. CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM IN LIMBO In what has been mistakenly called "campaign finance reform," the House last week voted on the Shays-Meehan campaign reform bill. The vote was actually on establishing rules of the debate. Democrats feared that this legislation would hamper their ability to raise money, so they voted against the debate rules. This sends the legislation back to a committee for more discussion. In the Senate, Republicans and Democrats passed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Both bills pose serious threats to freedom of speech for organizations like TVC. If passed, this legislation would cut off an organization's ability to criticize or applaud candidates 60 days before an election. It imposes 300 new rules and regulations on election campaigning. It also intrusive. It would require that as few as 10 people who pooled their resources to print pamphlets on a political candidate would have to register their activities with the Federal Election Commission. This legislation does not reform campaign finance abuses, it stifles the ability of groups like TVC to express their views on candidates! J. CO-SPONSORS NEEDED FOR NATIONAL DAY OF RECONCILIATION Tom DeLay (R-TX), the House Majority Whip has introduced H.Con.Res. 184 calling for a National Day of Reconciliation. This resolution needs more co-sponsors. If passed, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate will meet "to humbly seek the blessings of Providence for forgiveness, reconciliation, unity, and charity for all people of the United States, thereby assisting the Nation to realize its potential as the champion of hope, the vindicator of the defenseless, and the guardian of freedom." ACTION ITEM: Please call your Congressman and urge him or her to co-sponsor H.Con.Res. 184. -------------------------------------------------- 2. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN TARGETS HERMAPHRODITES FOR POLITICAL EXPLOITATION The National Organization for Women has joined forces with activist transgender and hermaphrodite groups to fight for the "right" of hermaphrodite children to avoid having surgery to correct their malformed sex organs. A hermaphrodite has both male and female characteristics. Surgery is used to assign the correct "sex" to the child. NOW has partnered with GenderPac, headed by a male-to-female transgender named Riki Wilchins and the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). Wilchins and ISNA believe that there are more than two sexes and that hermaphrodites are simply another sex. Wilchins has referred to "male" and "female" as being "narrow, outdated, binary gender stereotypes" that must be rejected. The goal is to deconstruct all concepts of male and female in an effort to remold our culture into a society where male and female distinctions are blurred-and every kind of sexual activity is permissible. Rev. Sheldon's July 17 commentary on this topic sheds more light on this perverted cultural trend. To read his commentary, go to: http://www.traditionalvalues.org/oeNOWHermaphrodite.html. Read TVC's special report, "A Gender Identity Goes Mainstream" for more details on this movement: http://www.traditionalvalues.org/TVCSpecialRptTransgenders1234.PDF. ------------------------------------------- 3. UPDATE ON JEFFREY CURLEY WRONGFUL-DEATH LAWSUIT AGAINST NAMBLA On Tuesday in Cambridge Massachusetts, Rev. Lou Sheldon met at length with Robert Curley, father of slain 10-year-old boy Jeffrey Curley. Traditional Values Coalition has been offering Robert and Barbara Curley emotional, spiritual and financial support in their Law suit against NAMBLA (The North American Man Boy Love Association). The Curley's are suing NAMBLA after one of its members, a homosexual named Charles Jaynes and his homosexual lover, Salvatore Sicari tortured, raped, and killed their son Jeffrey. According to Mr. Curley, his son Jeffrey put up a horrific fight against these two homosexuals. One of them then had sex with the boy after he was dead! Mr. Curley expressed outrage to Rev. Sheldon that his own Senator, Ted Kennedy, supports homosexual activism and has never spoken one word of consolation to him for the death of his son at the hands of two homosexuals. "They have placards and streets named after homosexuals around here who have died of AIDS, yet there is not even a mention of Jeffrey's name anywhere. In the fight of good vs. evil, Jeffrey died in the line of duty," said Robert Curley. NAMBLA is being represented by lawyers from the ACLU who asked Judge George O'Toole (Federal District Judge for the first District of Massachusetts) to: 1. Dismiss the case on the jurisdictional grounds. 2. To institute a "gag order" barring attorneys and affiliates of the case from speaking to the press. This motion should make the ACLU win the "Hypocrite of the Year" award. The entire case for the ACLU in defending NAMBLA has been that they (NAMBLA)have the right of "free speech" that allows them to produce volumes on how to rape children. Yet they themselves are asking for "free speech" to be denied in this case to protect their own interest. 3. To suppress the contents of a "pedophile training manual" produced by NAMBLA from the case. The manual teaches pedophiles how to molest children and get away with it. It evens shows them how to flee the country to avoid prosecution. The ACLU doesn't want the public to learn about this child molestation manual. Tradition Values Coalition has joined forces with Larry Frisoli, a prominent Boston Attorney in fighting against the tide of sexual perversion and sin promoted by militant homosexuals and NAMBLA. It is our hope that this litigation will destroy NAMBLA and any other groups that advocate the rape of young boys like Jeffrey Curley. Please keep the Curley family in your prayers. -------------------------------------------------- 4. UNITED WAY FORCES BOY SCOUTS TO COMPROMISE ON HOMOSEXUALITY A report in the Miami Herald on July 18, indicates that the United Way has pressured the Dade County Boy Scouts to give up public funding, stop recruiting at public schools, and develop a training program to help its leaders deal "more sensitively with gay youth." The Scouts will begin working with Miami's Project Yes, a pro-homosexual group that "educates about the needs of gay youth." The Boy Scouts organization in Broward County is also in negotiations with homosexual groups "about a similar compromise." To read more on this, go to: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/frame/direct.aspSITE=www.miami.com/herald/cont ent/news/local/dade/digdocs/025147.htm TAKE ACTION: Contact your local United Way organization to see if they are still helping fund the Boy Scouts-or if they have a pro-homosexual agenda. If they're supporting homosexuals, let them know you will stop giving to United Way campaigns and will donate directly to the Boy Scouts. --------------------------------------------------- 5. FRENCH COURT RULES ON "RIGHT NOT TO BE BORN" Earlier this week, France's highest court of appeals ruled that disabled children are entitled to compensation if their mothers were not provide the chance to abort them. Three families with deformed children argued that if doctors had detected abnormalities in their children, they would have aborted them. The court upheld a decision involving a mentally retarded boy who was awarded damages last year because he had not been aborted. The Collective to Stop Discrimination against the Disabled was outraged by this decision: "This is a real act of phobia. Now parents are going to be attacked and seen as irresponsible because they gave birth to a handicapped child." Yves Richard, a lawyer representing the medical profession noted: "The ruling means that the handicapped have no place in our society." - --------------------------------------------------- 6. JOSEPH SOBRAN DESCRIBES THE STALINIST ROOTS OF THE ACLU Columnist Joseph Sobran has just written an insightful column on the Stalinist beginnings of the ACLU-and criticized it for its continued attacks against the Boy Scouts while promoting the homosexual agenda. Sobran writes: "The American Civil Liberties Union has been in business so long that it's a miracle that we have any civil liberties left....the ACLU has always been devoted to the destruction of the Constitution." To read his entire column, go to: http://www.sobran.com/columns/010628.shtml. ------------------------------------------------- 7. HOMOSEXUALS SCHEDULE "HUMAN DOG SHOW" IN MICHIGAN American Family Association of Michigan leader Gary Glenn has called upon Michigan law enforcement officials to carefully monitor this weekend's homosexual "Wildlife Refuge 2001" event. Glenn expects illegal sex acts to take place at this event. The homosexual male-only event is a sex orgy that includes a sadomasochistic (S&M) "human dog show." Men will be dressed as dogs to serve their masters. One homosexual S&M site describes itself as a resource for the "human dog training community" and touts its site as "The Website for Gay Male Masters/Trainers and Their DogBoys/Pups." This particular web site sells human doggie equipment for sale and shows men dressed as dogs sitting in cages. This is another example of how perverted the homosexual movement is and why we must continue to fight against homosexuals being allowed to indoctrinate our children in public schools. S&M behavior and worse are part of the lifestyle of homosexuals. --------------------------------------------------- 8. BARNA RESEARCH FINDS MOST PROTESTANTS DON'T WITNESS Charisma magazine has reported the findings of the Barna Research Group (BRG) on the witnessing habits of Christians in various denominations. George Barna discovered that only one out of three adults in Protestant churches witnessed to a nonbeliever last year. He discovered that Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, and Mormons were the most active in religious endeavors. When it came to Bible reading, Pentecostals at 75% were the most active. The least active Bible readers were Catholics, Episcopalians, and Lutherans. 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