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2006 Values Voters Summit

TOPICS INCLUDE

Larger than Life: How the Abortion Debate Continues to Shape American
Politics

This is total crap since 1973. Move on!

The Role of the Church in Political Issues

IT HAS NONE

Does Religion Have a Prayer in Public Schools?

GOD I HOPE NOT

The Preservation of Marriage: Why Children Need It

Like it or not 50% of children aren't getting it

Liberal Sisters of Doom: Are They a Thing of the Past?

What in the hell does this even mean? Are they talking about Star Jones?

Courts Gone Wild: The Rightful Place of Judges in Our Republic

The Courts are wild when they rule against Republicans. Where is that Republican Judge and his 10 ton rock these days? Still traveling around the country taking in love offerings. Bet he's a millionaire by now.

Left Out: Exposing Liberal Groups

Exposing them stopping corrupt Republicans in their tracks?

2006 and 2008 Elections: The Political Pundits' Preview

Only if the pundits are from Fox News.

Hollywood in the Heartland: The Passion v. The Da Vinci Code--Why Can't
Hollywood 'Get It'?

Won't play in Kansas, they hate Catholics. Snuff film vs. Pure Fiction
Who cares?

The New Media's Impact on America's Political Climate

If we have a new media, they must be talking about the liars bought and paid for by the Republican Party.

Democracy in Action: Voting at the Polling Booth and With Your Pocketbook

This is simple, we go vote and then Republican money pays Diebold to give the Republicans 51% no matter. We've seen this movie twice. Will we see it a 3rd time soon?

Combine not very intelligent, with greed and hate, throw in some snake handling religion, you've just made a Republican. Huckabee should be met at the airport by 10,000 Arkansans laughing and pointing as he steps off the Lord's Ranch jet.

2006 Values Voters Summit
TOPICS INCLUDE...

This list should be read aloud at all Democratic Party gatherings. It will energize the party (something much needed) and increase contributions (also much needed).

2006 Values Voters Summit
TOPICS INCLUDE...

This list should be read aloud at all Democratic Party gatherings. It will energize the party (something much needed) and increase contributions (also much needed).

A ?Gotcha? Gay Crusade

By Shawn Zeller, CQ Staff

Call it the rapid-response school of gender preference research. A new gay-rights group, Truth Wins Out, is calling out the conservative Christian advocacy group Focus on the Family for mischaracterizing the findings of academic researchers on the causes and social consequences of homosexuality.

Last month, a Focus on the Family Web site featured an article quoting a gender issues analyst for the group, Melissa Fryrear, arguing, among other things, that lesbians are more likely to commit suicide.

Fryrear, a self-described former lesbian, cited research released earlier this year by a Canadian academic institute purportedly demonstrating that lesbians were driven to self-destructive extremes out of pressures of conformity: ?They think they have to embrace homosexuality,? she argued, ?because pro-gay advocates told them that they were born gay.?

When he found Fryrear?s comments, Truth Wins Out executive director Wayne Besen telephoned Elizabeth Saewyc, the associate professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia, who conducted the research.

Saewyc confirmed the basic empirical finding that lesbian girls were three to five times as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to attempt suicide. But she told Besen the research says nothing about root causes. In fact, says Saewyc, her thinking runs directly counter to that of Fryrear: ?One thing we?ve seen in earlier research is that kids who?ve been harassed or discriminated against because people think they are gay are more likely to attempt suicide.?

Truth Wins Out?s Besen was keen to publicize this news, and Beth Gorham, a Washington correspondent for the Canadian Press news service, followed up with more questions for Fryrear. In response, she cited clinical studies by Columbia University psychiatry professor Robert Spitzer that, she said, bolster her case. Spitzer found a link between suicide and unwanted attractions to the same sex, she said.

Besen then contacted that professor, and was again able to cry gotcha, when Spitzer e-mailed his reply: ?Unfortunately, Focus on the Family has once again reported findings of my study out of context to support their fight against gay rights.?

Fryrear, apparently, has cut off further public disputation on the question. She directed calls to the Focus on the Family press office, which did not respond. But Besen is nowhere near so reticent. ?These right-wing groups have gotten a free ride for too long,? he says.

To: pro-law/anti-demagogues

Did they do a study about how many commit suicide trying to conform to heterosexuality?

Huckabee is badly mischaracterizing what the state struck down. "

You were expecting something honest, forthright, and analytical from an ego-tripping, self-serving Baptist preacher? You've been an Episcopal too long.

Look, the Huck is a good Baptist. So, PLEASE don't use the descriptive "pontificating" when writing about His Eminence ('scuse me).

It's about time for politicians to value voters. All that other crap they value only gets them a job with golden perks. About damn time, I say.