[GN] Fwd: Ted Kennedy Deluged With Signatures Urging Support for Scouts
Butt Plug
> for Scouts
> By Jason Pierce
> CNSNews.com Staff Writer
> August 15, 2001
>
> Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - A coalition of family
> groups Wednesday
> demonstrated their support of the Boy Scouts of
> America outside Senate
> offices and delivered 304,000 signatures supporting
> the Scouts' "right
> to set standards for leadership and morality" to
> Sen. Ted Kennedy
> (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Committee on
> Education, Health and
> Welfare.
>
> Demonstrators urged a Senate joint conference
> committee on education,
> which is chaired by Kennedy, to pass an amendment to
> President Bush's
> education bill that would allow the government to
> withhold federal
> education funds from public elementary and secondary
> schools that bar
> the Scouts from using school facilities.
>
> The Senate passed the measure, sponsored by Sen.
> Jesse Helms (R-NC), in
> June by 51 - 49. A similar measure, sponsored by
> Rep. Van Hilleary
> (R-Tenn.), passed in the House.
>
> Helms said the amendment was necessary because local
> schools and school
> districts have been bowing to pressure by homosexual
> activists by
> discriminating against the Scouts in the use of
> their facilities.
>
> The family groups, which were led by The Public
> Advocate, a grassroots
> organization, also called on the committee to reject
> a counter proposal
> to the Helms amendment by Sen. Barbara Boxer
> (D-Calif.) that would
> extend the protection afforded the Scouts to
> homosexual advocacy groups
> for youth.
>
> Boxer called the Helms amendment "unnecessarily
> gratuitous. It is
> hurtful to a group of people. It divides us again in
> this country."
>
> The Boxer amendment provides that "public elementary
> or secondary
> schools and local or state educational agencies may
> not deny specified
> youth groups, including the Boy Scouts, access to
> meet after school in
> a designated open forum based on their position on
> sexual orientation."
>
> "The problem with that is, if that language is
> adopted into the present
> bill structure, that basically negates the entire
> Helms-Hilleary
> amendment," said Paul Beaumont, a spokesman for
> Grassfire.net, a
> coalition urging the adoption of the Helms amendment
> over the Boxer
> amendment.
>
> If passed, the Boxer amendment would require every
> school that allows
> the Boy Scouts to use its facilities to provide the
> same access to
> homosexual advocacy groups - regardless of civil
> liability or state
> laws on sodomy, pedophilia or sexual abuse of
> minors, family groups
> said.
>
> Seven senators - Zell Miller (D-Ga.), John Breaux
> (D-La.), Jean
> Carnahan (D-Mo.), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Byron Dorgan
> (D-ND), Tim Johnson
> (D-ND), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) - voted
> for both amendments.
>
> In recent months, school districts across the
> country have restricted
> the Scouts' access to school facilities, saying the
> group's ban on
> homosexual scout leaders violates the districts'
> anti-discrimination
> policies.
>
> These actions began after the Supreme Court ruled in
> June 2000 that the
> Scouts, as a private organization, has the right to
> exclude homosexuals
> as leaders.
>
> Kristine Nicholls, who took part in the
> demonstration as the mother of
> a Boy Scout, said she knew people who were molested
> by Boy Scout
> leaders, "so I have a personal interest in seeing
> that my son is safe."
>
> "I understand that not all gay people are
> pedophiles, but it is a sub
> set and that's one of the problems. But also I don't
> want certain
> groups having their freedom to meet in public
> schools taken away from
> them," she said.
>
> Jim Manship, a former Eagle Scout, said the issue
> largely centered on
> freedom of speech and freedom of association.
>
> "The principle that inspired the Founding Fathers
> was, 'I may not agree
> with what you say, but I'll fight for your right to
> say it.' In
> politically correct America, we say, 'not only can
> you not say it,
> we're going to arrest you and throw you in jail if
> you try.' That's how
> far we've fallen from the standards of our Founding
> Fathers," he said.
>
> "The Boy Scouts are the front line in trying to save
> the America of
> greatness," he added.
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Chief Thracian
<ludej...@yahoo.com> quoted:
<<
"The Boy Scouts are the front line in trying to save the America of
greatness," he added.
>>
The writing is on the wall: death to homosexuals. I mean, if you can't
read between the lines on what these hateful people are saying, you
might become an OBSTRUCTION towards the gay family resisting this
tidal wave of evil about to sweep our nation.
Those who go "Pooh! there is no war going on...you don't know what war
is REALLY like"...please, step aside, and let us more effectively
build our arsenal of resistance, our troops of great devotion, our
blueprint for victory. And those who equate vocal gay dissent as
"spiritual violence" when performed in churches...totally IGNORE the
fact that SPIRITUAL RAPE is done upon gays in most every church and
affilitiated media outlets, 24/7...and thus, may be regarded as no
more than "friendly fire". They must step aside, too, or go down with
our enemies.
Soon, very soon, the Dark Veil of Opression will blanket us all...and
the only way for LGBT's to communicate and congregate is in secret,
with surreptitious language and signs. Use of words "homosexual",
"lesbian" and "gay" will be forbidden under threat of death...along
with the wearing of the pink triangle or any other symbol perceived by
heteros, to be "gay". Of course, NO presence of gays will be present
any more, anywhere on the Internet. The Ban will soon start, with a
declaration by Prez-wannabe Bush, and associate Ashcroft...bolstered
by their dear friends of SCOTUS.
My visions show me that Northern California will become the ONLY safe
haven for LGBT's, in the ENTIRE WORLD, soon. Even brave Holland will
go under. We are prepared to accept one and all, who are true sisters
and brothers of our Queer Community. You need only bring yourself, and
the clothes on your back; do not worry about your possessions: they
will only drag you down, and perhaps ensnare you into the enemy's
trap.
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Zeke Krahlin, Chief Thracian
Lavender-Velvet Revolution
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