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December 10, 2009

Rick Warren, Other Pastors Denounce Proposed Death Penalty for Gays in Uganda

Bloomberg reports that Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of the bill.

Saddleback pastor Rick Warren has denounced the proposed legislation in Uganda that would execute homosexuals who are infected with HIV, a law Warren says "I had nothing to do with, completely oppose and vigorously condemn."

Several media outlets have connected Warren to the bill because of his work combating AIDS, partnering with a pastor named Martin Ssempa. He responds in what he calls an "encyclical video."

"As a pastor, I’ve found the most effective way to build consensus for social change is usually through direct quiet diplomacy and behind-the-scenes dialogue, rather than through media. But because I didn’t rush to make a public statement, some erroneously concluded that I supported this terrible bill, and some even claimed I was a sponsor of the bill," Warren said in a statement. "You in Uganda know that is untrue."

A tweet from Warren earlier today suggests he had been working to kill the bill. "DThanks Bob! It seem our quiet effort helped kill part of the Uganda b so it was worth being misjudged, but our job isnt done yet."

On December 4, Warren had tweeted, "DJoe,I feel no need to tell reporters &bloggers what I've done behind the scenes on this.They never admit their misreporting anyway.Pr.15:12"

Bloomberg is reporting that Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of the bill.

The Ugandan government supports the bill because homosexuality and lesbianism are “repugnant to the Ugandan culture,” Buturo said. Still, it favors a more refined set of punishments, he said.

In addition to formulating punishments for the gay people, the bill will also promote counseling to help “attract errant people to acceptable sexual orientation,” said Buturo.

The Daily Monitor reports that at least 200 clerics from the Inter-religious Council of Uganda, which includes Bishops from the Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, Seventh Day Adventist, and Muslim leaders agreed to defend the bill.

The Secretary General of IRC, Mr Joshua Kitakule told Daily Monitor that development partners should not interfere in the process of legislation in Uganda.

“Those countries should respect our spiritual values. They shouldn’t interfere,” he said. “All senior religious leaders have been given copies of the Bill to read and educate people in the churches and mosques,” he added.

Grove City psychology professor Warren Throckmorton has been covering this bill for several months. Throckmorton has set up a Facebook group titled "Speak out against Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009," which has almost 10,000 members. In October, he received a statement from Warren about his connection to Ssempa.

Martin Ssempa does not represent me, my wife Kay, Saddleback Church, nor the Global PEACE Plan strategy. In 2007, we completely severed contact with Mr. Ssempa when we learned that his views and actions were in serious conflict with our own. Our role, and the role of the PEACE Plan, whether in Uganda or any other country, is always pastoral and never political. We vigorously oppose anything that hinders the goals of the PEACE Plan: Promoting reconciliation, Equipping ethical leaders, Assisting the poor, Caring for the sick, and Educating the next generation.

Uganda MP David Bahati defended the legislation in an interview with the BBC.

A Ugandan MP accused of calling for a "gay death penalty" says he has been misrepresented and is only trying to criminalise child abusers.

David Bahati says the new offence of "aggravated homosexuality" is a penalty against "defilement" of under-18s.

"There has been a distortion in the media that we are providing death for gays. That is not true," he said.

"When a homosexual defiles a kid of less than 18 years old, we are providing a penalty for this."

Several Christian groups and individuals have denounced the bill, including the ex-gay ministry Exodus International, Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, and Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

Charisma magazine reporter Adrienne S. Gaines also has more about how charismatic leaders are responding, including theologian Peter Wagner.

Although he commended Ugandan lawmakers for attempting to stand for biblical principles, he said legislating morality is not feasible. If Uganda wanted to legislate biblical principles, it would have to criminalize adultery and premarital sex and not single out homosexuality, he said.

"My position is that this is not a good way to do it," Wagner said. "To legislate against sexual orientation is probably crossing the line. It's like making a law whether parents can spank their children or not. It's much too much of a personal ethical issue. ... I would support raising up a national conscience against homosexuality and allowing the Holy Spirit to work that way."

Comments

If they were killing Christian's he would have made a statement about it LONG ago.
Wonder why that is?

As usual, too little, too late, 'Christians.'

You will have the blood of innocent people's lives on your hands.

The tarnish on your 'What Would Jesus Do?' lapel pins is visible from outer space.

This proposed legislation is DIRECTLY linked to elected officials in the United States as well as many well-known 'religious' leaders.

Their efforts in Uganda directly led to this porposed legislation.

Jesus Christ is weeping. And as usual, his followers are silent until it is too late.

Bill,
Do you have links that suggest the legislation is directly linked to elected officials? That would be helpful. Thanks.

Bill - This isn't too little too late. The bill has not even had a second reading. In Uganda, a private member's bill must have three readings. This bill has had only one. With evangelicals here speaking out along with glbt people, there has been a willingness to rethink the issue in Uganda. Rev. Warren's statement is a very vital aspect of advocacy.

Bill, Instead of condemning and complaining, why don't you do something more productive and let your voice be heard to the Ugandan officials? Your hatred towards Christians would be better directed to those responsible for this terrible piece of legislation. Same with Daniel's comments.

I may condemn homosexuality as an abhorrent and damaging lifestyle, but any Christian who would bless killing those living in this sin should look once agin at their own salvation and whether or not it's valid.

If they were killing Christian's he would have made a statement about it LONG ago.

Wonder why that is?

Posted by: daniel at December 10, 2009

Daniel...

How do you know this to be true?

Or is it just vociferous factoidal conjecture?

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As usual, too little, too late, 'Christians.'

You will have the blood of innocent people's lives on your hands.

The tarnish on your 'What Would Jesus Do?' lapel pins is visible from outer space.

Posted by: Bill at December 10, 2009

Bill...

Please explain how Christians are responsible for this...

Please quote, reference and cite the sources of your allegations...

Lest your credibilty becomes that of a willful prevaricator...

Thank you in advance...

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I am a believer in Christ & I also have a strong following through my music! I'd like to assist in any way to stop this bill, can someone plz point me in the right direction? My email is dremarshall@gmail.com or http://myspace.com/dremarshall

Taking a page from the Lib handbook, regarding the war on terrorism in Iraq...

There are no terrorists in Uganda. None that are terrorizing the United States. Therefore, we shouldn't get involved.

... 'Christians'...You will have the blood of innocent people's lives on your hands. -- Posted by: Bill at December 10, 2009
Please explain how Christians are responsible for this... -- Posted by: David Hardy at December 10, 2009

How can he explain what he doesn't know? He's making mere accusations.

The tarnish on your 'What Would Jesus Do?' lapel pins is visible from outer space. -- Posted by: Bill at December 10, 2009

Where DO you come up with this c r a p?

Those who are born again wouldn't wear such a pin cuz nobody knows
what Jesus would do. All we know is what He said, and continues to say.

This proposed legislation is DIRECTLY linked to elected officials in the United States as well as many well-known 'religious' leaders. -- Posted by: Bill at December 10, 2009

Then, you must know where to find information on that link. Feel free to post it, when you have sufficiently made it up.

Their efforts in Uganda directly led to this porposed legislation.-- Posted by: Bill at December 10, 2009

So what? Those who claim to be homosexual, their activists, advocates and supporters cross state lines to influence legislation" in other states.

Jesus Christ is weeping.-- Posted by: Bill at December 10, 2009

How do YOU know?

I'd like to assist in any way to stop this bill... -- Posted by: Dre Marshall at December 10, 2009

Bill just told us that it inappropriate for what HE would call "right wingers" to go to Uganda and influence this legislation.

Now YOU come along and wanna do precisely what he wants you not to do.

Which is it?

can someone plz point me in the right direction? -- Posted by: Dre Marshall at December 10, 2009

Yes. I can.

Seek the Gospel of Christ, not some other gospel that tells you to support what God detests.

The tarnish on your 'What Would Jesus Do?' lapel pins is visible from outer space. -- Posted by: Bill at December 10, 2009

What, are you in orbit?

Wha' happened to that "live one" you had all up'n'here?

So, CT chose not to report on this until they could report that Warren had FINALLY come out in opposition to this horrific bill. But this story makes it sound like Warren has been opposed to the bill for some time. Warren didn't just "fail to rush out." He actively passed up on chances to speak out against the bill. And, the notion that he's been working behind the scenes to oppose it is in direct contradiction to what he said on Meet the Press this weekend: "As a pastor, my job is to encourage, to support. I never take sides." http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2009/12/ugandas_anti-gay_law_rile_us.html

This is just one more example of Warren trying to be all things to all people, as he did on Prop 8. Any human being, let alone a professed man of God, who, when asked about a bill to put gay people to death and to imprison any friends and family who refuse to turn them into the police, doesn't respond with an IMMEDIATE and STRONG condemnation does not deserve a nanosecond more of attention or respect.

DH: "Please explain how Christians are responsible for this...Please quote, reference and cite the sources of your allegations...Lest your credibilty becomes that of a willful prevaricator..."

-- Willful blindness is a particularly foul type of prevarication. Here are a few of the hundreds of references.

"The bill has an American genesis of sorts, inspired to a large extent by the visits of U.S. evangelicals who are involved with a movement that promotes Christianity's role in getting homosexuals to become "ex-gays" through prayer and faith. Ugandan supporters of the bill appear to be particularly impressed by the ideas of Scott Lively, a California conservative preacher who has written a book, The Pink Swastika, about what he calls the links between Nazism and a gay agenda for world domination, which, by itself, would have raised the anti-colonial sensitivities of Ugandan society. Says the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, an Episcopalian priest from Zambia who authored a recent report on anti-gay politics in Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya: "The U.S. culture wars have been exported to Africa."

One of the bill's loudest supporters is a charismatic pastor, Martin Ssempa, who heads a Ugandan campus AIDS eradication organization that is funded in part by the U.S. and who was associated with the global outreach of Southern California's Saddleback Church, run by Rick Warren, author of best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life. Ssempa has a penchant for burning condoms. In 2007, he organized a rally against homosexuality to protest "homosexual agents and activists" who were "infiltrating Uganda." Asked how the anti-homosexuality bill might affect the fight against HIV and AIDS, Ssempa seemed bemused. "I don't see what this bill has to do with HIV," he told TIME. Warren, who has called Uganda a "purpose-driven nation," cut ties with Ssempa in October as controversy over the bill grew." http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946645,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

"The story of a bill before the Ugandan parliament that would punish homosexual acts with life in prison—or, in some cases, death—has been gaining media attention in the United States. The bill has been pushed by conservative Christian leaders in Uganda, and the coverage has raised the question of how much, if any, responsibility American religious leaders who denounce homosexuality have to oppose it.

Three conservative American Christian activists attended a conference in Uganda earlier this year that helped lay the groundwork for the bill, and one has unequivocally denounced it....Rick Warren, who was once close to a prominent Uganda minister who's pushing the bill, recently announced that he had "completely severed contact" with that pastor, Martin Ssempa, in 2007. But Warren has declined calls to denounce the bill. "The fundamental dignity of every person, our right to be free, and the freedom to make moral choices are gifts endowed by God, our creator," he said in response to a recent request for comment from Newsweek. "However, it is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations."" http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/12/07/should-us-religious-conservatives-denounce-ugandas-anti-gay-bill.html

"First to speak was David Bahati, the young parliamentarian who sponsored the bill. He received a warm reception from the audience of a few hundred people, many of them students. "They say that if you are a homosexual, you are more likely to contract AIDS," Bahati said, to applause and laughter. "If you are a homo, you can reduce your life span by close to 20 years!" Bahati is a member of the Family, a fundamentalist Washington group that has been criticized for allegedly sending influential U.S. Senators and Representatives overseas to promote anti-gay and antiabortion policies, according to Jeff Sharlet, a journalist who wrote a book on the Family.
(See the struggle in the U.S. for gay rights.)

Bahati was followed at the podium by Pastor Stephen Langa, who made a PowerPoint presentation on "The Gay Agenda," a homosexual plot to take over the world. The presentation included pictures of gay-pride parades and graphics that purported to show how past civilizations declined because of the deterioration of traditional marriage. In March, Langa's Family Life Network held a three-day conference on homosexuality, taught by anti-gay activists Scott Lively, Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge, all three of whom are prominent in the anti-gay movement in the U.S." http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946648,00.html

DH: "Please explain how Christians are responsible for this...Please quote, reference and cite the sources of your allegations...Lest your credibilty becomes that of a willful prevaricator..."

-- Here you go. That Christians both here and in Uganda are pushing for this legislation has been widely reported. BTW, willful blindness is one of the foulest types of prevarication. Did you even read the links in the CT post above?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946648,00.html

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/decemberweb-only/150-22.0.html

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/28/ugandas_do_ask_do_tell

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946645,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar

The ‘Catalyst’ Behind Warren’s About Face on Anti-Gay Ugandan Law
By Candace Chellew-Hodge
December 10, 2009

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/2102/the_‘catalyst’_behind_warren’s_about_face_on_anti-gay_ugandan_law/

Any human being, let alone a professed man of God, who, when asked about a bill to put gay people to death and to imprison any friends and family who refuse to turn them into the police, doesn't respond with an IMMEDIATE and STRONG condemnation does not deserve a nanosecond more of attention or respect.

Posted by: Christian Lawyer at December 10, 2009

And we thank you for your left-handed apology...

I have a rebuttal... My most esteemed adversary...

Any professed Christian who actively supports the ungodly practice of unrepentant homosexuality and "doesn't respond with an IMMEDIATE and STRONG condemnation does not deserve a nanosecond more of attention or respect."

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Hm. Seems someone has a God complex.
Everyone deeserves to have their dignity respected.
Just because someone has a different opinion or understanding of the word than you , does not mean they should be disrespected.

That is a sad representation of Christian response to something as outrageous as the death penalty for being homosexual.

Ridonkulous!

Posted by: daniel: That is a sad representation of Christian response to something as outrageous as the death penalty for being homosexual.

Ridonkulous!

Posted by: daniel at December 11, 2009

Daniel...

You are either ignorant of the pending legislation in Uganda, willfully ignorant of it, or a prevaricator with an agenda...

The law targets pre-meditated murderers, not garden variety homosexuals...

For your convienience...

Ugandans can't stop talking about the very thing many argue should be taboo: homosexuality. On Oct. 14, Ugandan Parliamentarian David Bahati introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, an effort, he says, to protect Ugandan families from what he terms the "creeping evil" of homosexuality. It's not the first attempt by an African country to outlaw homosexuality, but it may well be the most extreme. Included in the draft text are not only condemnations of same-sex relations, but a new crime that carries the death penalty, and a criminal sentence for having sex while HIV positive. Human rights advocates say it's illegal, not to mention an outrage. Gay activists say they will live in fear even more than they do now. But the vast majority of Ugandans, sadly, may agree with the law; a 2007 poll found that 95 percent of those surveyed strongly opposed legalizing same-sex relations, period.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/28/ugandas_do_ask_do_tell

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How about you guys defend defilers of girls and advocate that they scarp the imprisonment and death penalty for them also, I smell a lot of hypocrisy because of late there is so much hate for the boy child, the boy who is abused must not be protected yet a girl his age is protected, what kind of injustice is this? Are we really talking about human rights or are we on a discrimination against boys campaign. Homosexuals are busy recruiting and abusing boys in Uganda, infecting tem with HIV and wasting thei future, i personally know some boys whose future has been shattered and their confidence trodden on, the would be great guys have been trampled down because some powerful man sodomized them and wasted them, lets be realistic and defend both boys and girls and stop behaving like we have a hidden agenda to destroy the world.

You certianly jump to a lot of conclusions David Hardy.

Posted by: daniel:You certianly jump to a lot of conclusions David Hardy.

Posted by: daniel at December 11, 2009

It is no jump...


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During my vacations in Europe, I visited Jewish ghettos where Jews were forced to live in crammed spaces and saw the walls that the townspeople built to enclose them. I visited tiny Jewish cemeteries where tombs were crammed on top of each other because that was all the space Jews were allowed to bury their dead. I visited Holocaust museums and could not understand how such inhumanity could be directed by ordinary people in Christian countries to their fellow man. Now hearing the indeference or, worse, complicitness, of Christians in the potential execution of homosexuals, now I understand. It starts with dehumanization, and then the killing becomes justfiable.

In talking about religion, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg said, "With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Posted by: Eriic Forte: I visited Holocaust museums and could not understand how such inhumanity could be directed by ordinary people in Christian countries to their fellow man. Now hearing the indeference or, worse, complicitness, of Christians in the potential execution of homosexuals, now I understand. It starts with dehumanization, and then the killing becomes justfiable.

In talking about religion, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg said, "With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Posted by: Eriic Forte at December 11, 2009


Eriic...

The pre-meditated willful actions of HIV/AIDS infected homosexuals who knowingly infect other human beings with HIV/AIDS has much more in common with the perpetrators of the Jewish Holocaust, than the willingness of anyone who wishes those murdering criminals be brought to justice...

The willful spread of the plague of HIV/AIDS is a modern day atrocity...

And the huge majority of the perpetrators ar homosexuals...

The doctors at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta called him "Patient Zero." A stunningly handsome French-Canadian airline steward, Gaetan Dugas had over 2,500 male sexual partners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean by the time he died at age 31.

It was in France, the doctors think, that he picked up the AIDS virus. Thence he brought the virus to both San Francisco and New York, where he infected partners through anonymous bathhouse sex and pickups from gay bars. At least forty of the first 248 homosexuals diagnosed with AIDS as of April 12, 1982 had had sex either with Dugas or with someone who had. ("Typhoid Mary" Mallon, by contrast, had fifty-three confirmed cases attributed to her, of whom three died.)

Long after his diagnosis, Dugas would sodomize willing partners in dimly lit cubicles, then turn up the lights and point to the purplish Kaposi's sarcoma lesions on his skin. "I've got gay cancer," he would say. "I'm going to die, and so are you."

No one will ever be certain whether Dugas was the one who began the AIDS epidemic in the United States, but it would be fitting if he was. For the way he continued business as usual – or pleasure, as it were – even after his diagnosis is representative of the larger tale of miscreants and fools told in Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On, a remarkable feat of investigative journalism that traces the AIDS epidemic from the death of Danish physician Margrethe Rask, a lesbian who contracted AIDS in Africa in 1976, up to mid-1985 and the death of Rock Hudson.

An openly homosexual writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and the nation' s first full-time AIDS reporter, Shilts names names, slams reputations, and yet poignantly testifies to those few who fought desperately to get the band's attention and those who died horribly while it continued to play.

http://www.fumento.com/shilts.html

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Some of you critize Rick Warren for not publicly opposing the bill in Uganda when it was first in the news in October. Emerging countries such as Uganda resent other countries especially the United States criticizing what they do or not do. Rick was trying to discourage this bill behind the scene because he was being sensitive and respectful to Unganda and not appear as a bully. To Daniel and Bill: not until you have walked in the shoes of those like Rick Warren; visited countries like Uganda or lived in those countries as a career missionary who have been told by their mission agency that they are there to help change lives and not to meddle in politics because missionaries are not a citizen of that country. Christians are there to change hearts which in turn will change lives, which will change families, which will change clans, which will change villiages then towns.

Eriic, Christians were not responsible for the Holocaust; Hitler and his Nazis were responsible for the Holocaust. They were far from Christian. Hitler was actually known to be obsessed with the occult; he wasn't Christian. I have some questions for you, though. How many true Christians, pastors, missionaries, etc., have you actually spoken with about their beliefs? How much do you really know about Christianity? I ask because it seems to me that your statements are nothing but false assumptions about us. As for the bill, which is clearly unjust and un-Christian, how many Christians in Uganda, or anywhere for that matter, actually supported the original version of it? Honestly, I think Atheists dehumanize us Christians more often than any Christian dehumanizes anyone, which would go against one of the greatest commandments given to us by Christ Himself (in case you didn't know that).

Christian Student: Many prominent evangelical Christians in Uganda were both involved in getting this legislation written and in condemning anyone who opposed it. This was BEFORE removal of the death penalty provision. Here are the links. (You have to cut and paste the links because when I make them hyperlinks, CT's "captcha" system won't let it post.)

www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946648,00.html

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2009/12/ugandas_anti-gay_law_rile_us.html

www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/28/ugandas_do_ask_do_tell

www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946645,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar

Even without the death penalty for HIV+ gays, the bill still proivdes for life in prison for what David Hardy dehumanizingly calls "garden variety homosexuals," and for severe prison sentences for friends, family and colleagues of gays who fail to immediately turn in to the police any/all of the gay people they know. One of the chief supporters of the bill BEFORE the death penalty was removed was the Anglican Bishop of Uganda, one of the African prelates to whom some break-away conservative Episcopalians in this country have aligned. All of this has been widely reported, see the links above, for anyone who cares to know which of our so-called leaders is supporting what. The legislation remains horrific, even without the death penalty.

Rick Warren didn't have any trouble speaking out publicly when the Ugandans were doing things he wanted. Some things are just so objectively horrific that "I don't take sides" can only be seen as moral surrender to evil.

BTW, now that we know that David Hardy s

Posted by: Christian Lawyer: BTW, now that we know that David Hardy supports the death penalty for HIV+ gays, let alone the mideval remaining provisions, we know exactly the nature of the fruits his spirit produces. And, they are NOT any of the Fruits of the Spirit.

Posted by: Christian Lawyer at December 13, 2009

cl.....

Making it a crime to willfully infect or expose another human being with HIV/AIDS, which is in effect, pre-meditated murder,or at the very least attempted first degree murder, as well as,
passing legal sanctions against those who aid and abet those who commit pre-meditated murder, is not at all a godless concept...

The same principal is in effect here in the USA for cold-blooded murderers and those who are complicitous...

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post-modern progressive christian lawyer...

For your convienience...

The doctors at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta called him "Patient Zero." A stunningly handsome French-Canadian airline steward, Gaetan Dugas had over 2,500 male sexual partners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean by the time he died at age 31.

It was in France, the doctors think, that he picked up the AIDS virus. Thence he brought the virus to both San Francisco and New York, where he infected partners through anonymous bathhouse sex and pickups from gay bars. At least forty of the first 248 homosexuals diagnosed with AIDS as of April 12, 1982 had had sex either with Dugas or with someone who had. ("Typhoid Mary" Mallon, by contrast, had fifty-three confirmed cases attributed to her, of whom three died.)

Long after his diagnosis, Dugas would sodomize willing partners in dimly lit cubicles, then turn up the lights and point to the purplish Kaposi's sarcoma lesions on his skin. "I've got gay cancer," he would say. "I'm going to die, and so are you."


No one will ever be certain whether Dugas was the one who began the AIDS epidemic in the United States, but it would be fitting if he was. For the way he continued business as usual – or pleasure, as it were – even after his diagnosis is representative of the larger tale of miscreants and fools told in Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On, a remarkable feat of investigative journalism that traces the AIDS epidemic from the death of Danish physician Margrethe Rask, a lesbian who contracted AIDS in Africa in 1976, up to mid-1985 and the death of Rock Hudson.

An openly homosexual writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and the nation' s first full-time AIDS reporter, Shilts names names, slams reputations, and yet poignantly testifies to those few who fought desperately to get the band's attention and those who died horribly while it continued to play.


http://www.fumento.com/shilts.html

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Following is from the Wikipedia articel on Gaetan Dugas at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas#cite_note-1

Genetic analysis of HIV provides some support for the Patient Zero theory. But Dugas probably was not exclusively or even largely responsible for the initial spread of the virus in the United States; instead, he is now believed to be part of a cluster of homosexual men who traveled frequently, were extremely sexually active, and died of AIDS at a very early stage in the epidemic (around 1980–1982).

The following is from the US National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6608269?dopt=Citation

Am J Med. 1984 Mar;76(3):487-92.

Cluster of cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Patients linked by sexual contact.
Auerbach DM, Darrow WW, Jaffe HW, Curran JW.

The possibility that homosexual men with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) had been sexual partners of each other was studied. Of the first 19 homosexual male AIDS patients reported from southern California, names of sexual partners were obtained for 13. Nine of the 13 patients had sexual contact with one or more AIDS patients within five years of the onset of symptoms. Four of the patients from southern California had contact with a non-Californian AIDS patient, who was also the sexual partner of four AIDS patients from New York City. Ultimately, 40 patients in 10 cities were linked by sexual contact. On the basis of six pairs of patients, a mean latency period of 10.5 months (range seven to 14 months) is estimated between sexual contact and symptom onset. The finding of a cluster of AIDS patients linked by sexual contact is consistent with the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by an infectious agent.

So we have then to conclude that this choosen lifestyle which really should be called deathstyle is not only Unatural -- Anti-natural but also sickening and in many ways filthy. Some sexual practices even if done by Heterosexual couples is a health risk at the very least.

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The last paragraph in the above post is mine, and not part of the original piece at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6608269?dopt=Citation.
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Posted by: Salero21: So we have then to conclude that this choosen lifestyle which really should be called deathstyle is not only Unatural -- Anti-natural but also sickening and in many ways filthy. Some sexual practices even if done by Heterosexual couples is a health risk at the very least.

Posted by: Salero21 at December 13, 2009

Salero...

Amen!

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).

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?


http://www.marysremnant.org/Friends/DBK/BKHomAids.html

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Good research David Hardy, Kudos! I think professor Lejeune is right on target when he said, ..."Nature never pardons at all: She is not a person."

Is funny if not phony! That some people who will, and do reject and refuse any good advice, especially if it comes from Christians. Then want to turn the table around and pretend and even demand, that christian men like Rick Warren et al. come to their rescue when things go really wrong. As it was also previously advice things were going to be.

The homosexual "lifestyle" as is euphemistically call. Is in all reality an accelerated Deathstyle.

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Posted by: Shock and awe: The bill proposed execution for gays who were HIV+, even if they were not having sex with anyone. This fact is widely reported and even cited repeatedly above by Christian Lawyer. Wow. Christians either lying or retarded, AND advocating genocide. Not surprised.

Posted by: Shock and awe at December 14, 2009

Shock...

Where have I or any other believers here, supported the wholesale slaughter of homosexuals?

Please quote, reference and cite, lest you postulations be proven to be nothing more than vitriolic factoidal conjecture...

Thank you in advance


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Christian Leaders have supported the slaughter of homosexuals by not saying anything about Uganda or Iran... if this was happening to anyone professing to be a Christian.. NA Chrisitan Leaders would be syaing a heck of a lot more.


Daniel…

Here’s something for you to consider…

The only Christian leader that I have allegiance to is Jesus… All others are merely humans…

I have absolutely no use whatsoever for institutional organized Christianity… It is nothing more than a corrupted part of a corrupted world…

Jesus cannot and will not be put into a box…

The only one who can save you is Jesus…

All others are not to be trusted…

They are just like this…

John 10:12 A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will leave the sheep because they aren't his and he isn't their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.

John 10:13 The hired hand runs away because he is merely hired and has no real concern for the sheep.


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Thanks for that David.

I know and believe in Jesus.
I appreciate your consideration...

Posted by: daniel: Thanks for that David.

I know and believe in Jesus.
I appreciate your consideration...

Posted by: daniel at December 15, 2009

Daniel...

You are welcome...

It is to Jesus that we shall all give an accounting of ourselves...

Keep your eyes focused on him...

You nose buried in the Bible...

And be obedient to the Holy Spirit...

All else is white noise and window dressing...

With it's hand in your wallet...

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I now that this might be a bit off topic. (But related to Christian leaders) I few minutes ago I read that Oral Roberts has passed away at 91 years. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9344860

Rick Warren and the other American evangelicals that have preached against homosexuality in Africa are absolutely correct to denounce Uganda's proposed legislation.
Imagine being the parent of a child who identifies as gay in Uganda. The suicide rate in the USA for GLBT youth is alarming; what must it be like there?
Warren et al's "homosexuals do not deserve equal rights" routine is heard loud and clear around the world, and empowers and encourages those who would strip basic civil rights from one of God's beloved minorities. Africa must be confused at their recent "We denounce this" statement. You can't have it both ways, people -- you're either on one side or the other.

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If is not a Phony is at least a ridiculous charade, on the part of so many people, to pretend and even demand that church leaders like Warren and others act as proxi ambassadors or political gurus of foreign affairs.

Sorry, but that is not in the "job" description of any Minister/pastor as far as I know.

Ministers Pastors etc are hired by the local churches to "work" with and for the Church first. Ministers/pastors are like sheperds of sheep, they are not like cowboys who work with cattle or with any other type of farm animals. Neither are they [pastors] hired to do a work similar to a Zoo keeper.

Jesus compared himself with a sheperd. In fact the Good sheperd. He did also compare his followers with sheep. Now, granted sheep are not the smartest of animals; but they have one atribute. They do follow the sheperd.

Others like Herod Jesus compared them with a Fox etc. Therefore is totally Ludicruous that now, after refusing time and again the call to repentance and conversion of so many christians, churches and Ministers.

The very same want Warren and even demand, that he or others do something about what is going on in a foreign land and country. Like if the Saddleback church ever hired and pay Warren to do that as his first duty.

Churches do hire men and some hire women to work for them and with them. To do the preaching and teaching of the Word of God first and above anything else. They are paid a Salary or compensation by the church. They are not paid by the Government, (at least in this country) neither they are paid by any Political party or institution or whatever have you.

If a Minister/pastor involves himself/herself in any other endeavor. Like a form of Social-gospel he may do it on his/her own. But other than practicing hospitality there is nothing in Scriptures demanding the such.

So again I find these pretensions and demands on the part of some to be a phony and nothing else. That is not the "job" of Ministers/pastors. God did not call them to be cowboys or zoo keepers, but to be sheperds of the sheep. Those who care for goats, pigs, dogs, chickens, horses etc don't go by the name of sheperds. They can be Farmers or Ranchers.

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Doranna writes: "Rick was trying to discourage this bill behind the scene because he was being sensitive and respectful to Unganda and not appear as a bully."

Can Doranna produce evidence of a single thing Rick Warren did to stop or oppose this horrific bill? Rick Warren -- EVEN when asked directly about the bill which he knew called for the death penalty for gay people -- failed to say a single word against it. He tacitly endorsed it with his silence ..and now, after all the public outrage about the bill (thansk to the efforts of MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow who shined a spotlight into the dark corners where people like Warren are found) has pushed the issue front and center, he suddenly issues a statement opposing it. So, tell us, Doranna about how sensitive and respectful Warren is to Ugandans who would jail and kill other people as long as those killers share the same prejudices Warren does.

Rick Warren is a superb example of a man without a brain, a conscience or a spine -- and millions of Christians are content to follow him. T

My, my, my...

Homosexuals wish to revoke tax-exemption for all Christian ministers who dare to mention a negative view of homosexuality and then they turn right around and castigate ministers for not being more politically active...

It looks like homosexuals should work towards taking off the muzzle that they were instrumental in clamping on in the first place...

You have sown the wind and you are reaping the whirlwind...

The sword of censorship cuts both ways...

The IRS has published Revenue Ruling 2007-41, which outlines how churches, and all 501(c)(3) organizations, can stay within the law regarding the ban on political activity. Also, the ban by Congress is on political campaign activity regarding a candidate; churches and other 501(c)(3) organizations can engage in a limited amount of lobbying (including ballot measures) and advocate for or against issues that are in the political arena. The IRS also has provided guidance regarding the difference between advocating for a candidate and advocating for legislation. See political and lobbying activities.

Earlier this year, the IRS released the results of its 2006 Political Activity Compliance Initiative which investigated allegations of political campaign activity by 501(c)(3) organizations during the 2006 campaign season. For the 2006 election cycle, the IRS received 237 referals and selected 100 (44 churches, 56 nonchurches) for examination. More than half of these cases are still under investigation. However, the IRS did substantiate improper political activity in 26 cases and issued written advisories. So far, there are no revocation recommendations. (In 2004, the IRS selected 110 cases for examination, issued 69 written advisories, revoked the tax-exempt status of five organizations and proposed revocation for two others.)

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=161131,00.html

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Posted by: Shock and awe: Well, who do you think helped craft and is advocating this legislation in Uganda? Let me give you a hint, it's not Budddhists. And it wasn't US Buddhist missionaries who went over to Uganda to spread what is now apparently their murderous intent on homosexuals. It looks like evangelicals, if they were not restrained by a civilized state, will work towards the genocide of homosexuals.

Posted by: Shock and awe at December 16, 2009

Shock...

After reading your latest posting I have two questions...

Do you shout Fire! in crowded buildings too?

Or do you just write melodramas for Broadway?

Either way, you certainly appear to have a whole lot of vitrolic factoidal conjecture bottled up inside of you

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In a nation which sanctions abortion, why would Christians feel the need to be seen as essentially lobbying for homosexual rights? We need to remember if we were all magically transported back to the good old days of Old Testament Israel, we would probally pay scant attention to those stoned for adultery, or homsexuality.....Its the law isn't it, or thats what most of Americans say concering abortion.........American Christians are a confusing lot, we supposedly make up almost 80% of the population, yet our nation is drowing in divorce, drug and alcohol abuse, rampant sex with almost anyone, anytime, and crime, and etc, etc, etc, and apparetnly all done by the 20% non Christians..........Yea right...

Um, the fact is that heterosexual women contract AIDS with regular frequency, while lesbians are virtually untounched by AIDS. So, if AIDs is the natural consquence of unhealthy behavior, it looks like God really hates heterosexualy (in females, at least).

Women are infected more because they have sex with men who are bisexual or who engage in needle sharing. Not because God hates them (which is a stupid statement).In the black community, black women are infected at a higher rate than white women because of black men who are on the "down low". That's men who sleep with both women and men. Also, More magazine did an article about the fact that middle aged women (black & white) are now being infected at high rates. Why? because they slept with men who were secretly gay. Lesbians don't get infected because they sleep with each other. As long as they don't make the mistake of sleeping with a man, their chances of getting infected are zero. Same for those who are abstinent or for virgins who marry and stay committed.

Heterosexual women get infected with HIV/AIDs because they have sex with males, i.e. heterosexual intercourse is an effective transmittor of disease. Semen carries the AIDS virus. No semen, no AIDS transmission. That's why lesbians are virtually free of AIDS, but gay men (like heterosexual women) can be infected.

•Sexual Health. Lesbian women are at risk for many of the same STIs as heterosexual women. Lesbian women can transmit STIs to each other through skin-to-skin contact, mucosa contact, vaginal fluids, and menstrual blood. Sharing sex toys is another method of transmitting STIs. These are common STIs that can be passed between women:

•Bacterial vaginosis (BV). Although we don’t know for sure that BV is caused by a sexually transmitted agent, BV occurs more commonly among women who have recently acquired other STI’s, or who have recently had unprotected sex. For reasons that are unclear, BV is more common in lesbian and bisexual women than heterosexual women, and frequently occurs in both members of lesbian couples. BV happens when the normal bacteria in the vagina get out of balance. Sometimes, BV causes no symptoms, but over half of affected women have a vaginal discharge with a fishy odor or vaginal itching. If left untreated, BV can increase a woman’s chances of getting other STIs such as HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and pelvic inflammatory disease.

•Human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV can cause genital warts and abnormal changes on the cervix that can lead to cancer, if it is not treated. Most people with HPV or genital warts don’t know they are infected until they have had a Pap test because they may not have symptoms, but the virus can still be spread by contact. Lesbians can transmit HPV through direct genital skin-to-skin contact or by the virus traveling on hands or sex toys. Some women and their doctors wrongly assume that lesbian women do not need a regular Pap test. However, the virus can be spread by lesbian sexual activity, and many lesbians have been sexual with men so it is recommended that lesbian women have a Pap test. This simple test is an effective method of detecting abnormal cells on the cervix that can lead to cancer. Begin getting Pap tests no later than age 21 or sooner if you’re sexually active. These recommendations apply equally to lesbians who’ve never had sex with men, as cervical cancer caused by HPV has been seen in this group of women.

•Trichomoniasis “Trich”. It is caused by a parasite that can be passed from one person to another during sexual contact. It can also be picked up from contact with damp, moist objects such as towels or wet clothing. Trich is spread through sexual contact with an infected person. Signs include yellow, green, or gray vaginal discharge (often foamy) with a strong odor; discomfort during sex and when urinating; irritation and itching of the genital area; and lower abdominal pain in rare cases. To tell if you have trich, your doctor or nurse will do a pelvic exam and lab test. A pelvic exam can show small red sores, or ulcerations, on the wall of the vagina or on the cervix. Trich is treated with antibiotics.

•Herpes. Herpes is a virus that can produce sores (also called lesions) in and around the vaginal area, on the penis, around the anal opening, and on the buttocks or thighs. Occasionally, sores also appear on other parts of the body where the virus has entered through broken skin. Most people get genital herpes by having sex with someone who is shedding the herpes virus during periods when an outbreak is not visible. The most common cause of recurrent genital herpes is HSV-2, which is transmitted through direct genital contact. HSV-1 is another herpes virus that usually infects the mouth and causes oral cold sores, but can also be transmitted to the genital area through oral sex. Lesbians can transmit this virus to each other if they have intimate contact with someone with a lesion or touching infected skin even when an outbreak is not visible.

•Syphilis. Syphilis is an STI caused by bacteria. Syphilis is passed through direct contact with a syphilis sore during vaginal, anal, or oral sex. If untreated, syphilis can infect other parts of the body. Syphilis remains uncommon in the general population, but has been increasing in men who have sex with men. It is extremely rare among lesbians. However, lesbians should talk to their doctor if they have any non-healing ulcers.


What other STIs can lesbian women get?

Symptoms Of STIs STI Symptoms

Chlamydia Most women have no symptoms. Women with symptoms may have:

•abnormal vaginal discharge
•burning when urinating
•bleeding between menstrual periods
Infections that are not treated, even if there are no symptoms, can lead to:

•lower abdominal pain
•low back pain
•nausea
•fever
•pain during sex
•bleeding between periods

Gonorrhea Symptoms are often mild, but most women have no symptoms. Even when women have symptoms, they can sometimes be mistaken for a bladder or other vaginal infection. Symptoms are:

•pain or burning when urinating
•yellowish and sometimes bloody vaginal discharge
•bleeding between menstrual periods

Hepatitis B Some women have no symptoms. Women with symptoms may have:

•mild fever
•headache and muscle aches
•tiredness
•loss of appetite
•nausea or vomiting
•diarrhea
•dark-colored urine and pale bowel movements
•stomach pain
•skin and whites of eyes turning yellow

HIV/AIDS Some women may have no symptoms for 10 years or more. Women with symptoms may have:

•extreme fatigue
•rapid weight loss
•frequent low-grade fevers and night sweats
•frequent yeast infections (in the mouth)
•vaginal yeast infections and other STIs
•pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
•menstrual cycle changes
•red, brown, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids

Pubic Lice
•itching
•finding lice

Lesbian Health

Rick Warren, like he has done so many times before, has ignored what our LORD has said. Homosexuals are saying our LORD did not say anything about H but HE did speak about Sodomy re Sodom and Gomorrah. Our LORD is NOT a liar HE says what HE means and means what HE has said. Rick Warren does not give the Word of Warning that Hs will NEVER enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. When we give the warning we are to hate the sin with all our hearts but still the sinner love (with the Love of Yahweh not with human love). Rick Warren will not do this.

These STI's are not exclusive to homosexuals.
Anyone who is sexually active can contract these.

Posted by: daniel These STI's are not exclusive to homosexuals.
Anyone who is sexually active can contract these.

Posted by: daniel at December 20, 2009

Great point!

Thank you for reminding us of that important truth Daniel...

That would be a very good reason to abstain from sexual promiscuity and all other forms of fornication, adultery and sexual immorality…

This is in keeping with the teachings of Jesus…

Mark 7:20 And then he added, "It is the thought-life that defiles you.

Mark7:21 For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Mark7:22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, eagerness for lustful pleasure, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

Mar k7:23 All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you and make you unacceptable to God."

And this is also important to remember…

Hebrews 13:4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

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Absoolutely,
Sexual Pomiscuity I do not promote.
I do stand up against the gross generalization the homosexuals are all promiscuious..

Here is something to hopefully help educate the ill informed about conditions in Africa...


A typical story reveals the horror.

On a poor Johannesburg estate, a family of eight sleep in one dirty bedroom.

Last week a neighbour seized the nine year old daughter, showed her pornographic
magazines and then raped and indecently assaulted her. He gave her a few coins, and said sorry.

The little girl needed extensive surgery - her mother and father are inconsolable.
"I'm very angry, I'm very angry, I don't know how to take my anger out. I don't know why he did this, he used to come here and play with my children..." said the mother.

The father said he wanted to hunt down the rapists.

"How many parents' hearts must be broken?"

He is not alone in his rage.

Last weekend in Soweto a suspected child rapist was stoned to death.
The government is appealing for calm.

Myths

It is also trying to dispel a widespread rumour - that having sex with a virgin cures Aids.
Traditional healers, or witchdoctors, are blamed for spreading this idea, and encouraging child rape.

A sociologist, Lisa Vetton, draws a parallel with Europe, when child prostitution was rampant

"At that time venereal disease like Aids today was incurable. If you had gonorrhea or syphilis you were going to die. And exactly the same myth emerged, that sex with a virgin is going to cure you - so it seems like a very old response whenever sex and death are combined. Suddenly women - girls - get attributed with magical healing powers".

Baby rapes shock South Africa


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Baby rapes shock South Africa

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1703595.stm

Here is proof that the virlent homosexual fleas are very capable of transmitting the incurable BLACK PLAGUEof HIV/AIDS with murder in their hearts…

The doctors at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta called him "Patient Zero." A stunningly handsome French-Canadian airline steward, Gaetan Dugas had over 2,500 male sexual partners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean by the time he died at age 31.

It was in France, the doctors think, that he picked up the AIDS virus. Thence he brought the virus to both San Francisco and New York, where he infected partners through anonymous bathhouse sex and pickups from gay bars. At least forty of the first 248 homosexuals diagnosed with AIDS as of April 12, 1982 had had sex either with Dugas or with someone who had. ("Typhoid Mary" Mallon, by contrast, had fifty-three confirmed cases attributed to her, of whom three died.)

Long after his diagnosis, Dugas would sodomize willing partners in dimly lit cubicles, then turn up the lights and point to the purplish Kaposi's sarcoma lesions on his skin. "I've got gay cancer," he would say. "I'm going to die, and so are you."

http://www.fumento.com/shilts.html

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Michael Swift: Author

Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987

This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.

We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.

We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence--will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.

Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.

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And there are those organizations who claim Christ and have invited the practicing homosexual element into their leadership….

How appalling…


A bizarre belief among many African black men that sex with a virgin -- even a child or baby -- can cure HIV/AIDS is fueling what is already one of the highest child sexual exploitation rates in the world.

According to the latest report by South Africa's Police Service, children are the victims of 41 percent of all rapes and attempted rapes reported in the country. Over 15 percent of all reported rapes are against children under 11, and another 26 percent against children 12-17. For the year 2000, some 58 children were raped or the victims of rape attempts in South Africa every single day.

The trend is worsening. Babies as young as only a few months old are being raped almost daily. Many black South African men infected with AIDS erroneously believe that by having sex with a virgin -- even a baby -- they will be cured of AIDS or their HIV infection.

South African police statistics show that last year alone, 21,538 rapes and attempted rapes of children under the age of 18 were reported. The KwaZulu-Natal province, which includes Durban, where concern has already been expressed over the sharp rise in child abuse cases, was top of the list with 4,797 reported cases in 2000, followed by Gauteng province (formerly Transvaal, which includes Johannesburg) with 4,316.

For the first six months of 2001, some 10,242 cases were reported, and once again KwaZulu-Natal recorded the highest figure with 2,236, followed by Gauteng with 2,076.
This level of crime contrasts with 1994, for example, when a total of 7,559 cases were reported – about one third of the current level. The figure increased dramatically over the next three years and in 1997 stood at 15,336.

It is believed that a large percentage of incidents go unreported, and police have launched extensive campaigns to inform women and children of their rights.

Police said research conducted over the past five years indicated that in 83 percent of sexual abuse cases, the perpetrators were known to their victims.

"This story has been largely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States and the Western world, in order to perpetuate the Mandela myth of the wonderful New South Africa," said former Republic of South Africa military intelligence officer Koos Ven der Merwe.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25806

to Michael Swift....thank you for your writing of the Agenda of Satan...so clearly put out there for all to see for themselves the maliciouss heart of Satan and those who worship him.....Now I ask in the Mighty Name Of Jesus, My Saviour, to use this letter of Michael's for Your Glory.....You Love People..all people.....we all were born into a race of sin and self-love....but Your Life on earth and Death on the Cross of Calvary made a New Way Out for us....who chose You as their Salvation......Lord, open their eyes to the evil ones intention to kill and destroy.....for those who love and profess evil as Michael did so poetically..Lord, You died for him..and You love him.......he is not beyond Your Arms.....and so I pray for Michael now with the Truth Of Your Person behind me and within me.....to be light to the detestable acts of satan and his workers.....please be with those infected with aids...bring Truth to their hearts and minds....so they will one day see Your face in heaven...for nonone is beyond Your love and forgiveness....I praise Your for loving them and me....for giving me a heart of compassion....especially as I too will be in Uganda soon bringing Your Love and Gospel which is Greater than any other small god.....Thank you, Jesus, Amen

I think people nee to give Rick Warren a break. Just because we disagree with him on the gay marriage thing doesn't mean that everything he does is wrong. This right here: GOOD. Don't just continue attacking him for "taking too long" or because you think he's only doing it to make himself look better. Who knows why it took so long. It doesn't matter. He did it now. Be happy.

Death penalty?! Wow glad we live in the country we do.

Are we really talking about human rights or are we on a discrimination against boys campaign. Homosexuals are busy recruiting and abusing boys in Uganda, infecting tem with HIV and wasting theyr future!

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