Lynn Stanley, Anti-Gay Marriage Leader (Wife Of Fred Stanley, Former New York Yankee)
Bill Schenley
FROM: The Arizona Republic
By Matthew Benson
The head of the ballot effort to prohibit gay marriage and define
traditional unions in Arizona was killed in a car wreck early Monday.
Lynn Stanley, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition, died in
a crash on Interstate 40 while returning to Phoenix from Las Vegas, where
she was visiting two sisters.
A state Department of Public Safety official said Stanley, 58, was killed in
a single-car rollover about 6:30 a.m. outside Seligman. Stanley was driving
east when her car went into the median and she tried to correct but the car
flipped several times, the official said.
"The only thing I know for sure is she's gone," said Cathi Herrod, a friend
of Stanley's and interim president of the Center for Arizona Policy, which
also supports the initiative.
Stanley's death cast a pall over what was to be a joyous time for the
Protect Marriage coalition. The group collected roughly 300,000 signatures
to place its measure on the November ballot, said Nathan Sproul, a political
consultant for the effort. Amending the state Constitution, as the Protect
Marriage coalition intends, requires at least 183,917 valid signatures.
The group planned to submit its petitions Wednesday, with Stanley on hand to
celebrate the accomplishment. Her death has led the initiative to delay its
submittal until Thursday, the deadline to turn in signatures.
Herrod acknowledged that t will be a "bittersweet" occasion. The two women
had known each other for several years through their work on behalf of
socially conservative issues. Stanley, a Scottsdale wife and mother of two,
wasn't active in politics before the anti-gay marriage amendment.
"She was passionate on behalf of the family," Herrod said.
"We in the pro-family, pro-marriage movement have lost a true friend and
champion. She'll be terribly missed."
In an opinion piece written for The Arizona Republic in 2005, Stanley said
the intent of the ballot initiative is to preserve "the special status of
marriage by enshrining the definition of marriage in the state Constitution
and preventing any part of Arizona's government from undermining that
definition by creating or recognizing marriage counterfeits."
Stanley was a wife of 38 years and longtime Arizona resident, daughter
Tracie said. Stanley's husband, Fred, is a former major-league baseball
player who played for the New York Yankees and other teams.
Lynn also was an artist and published author, and taught Bible study classes
at Scottsdale Bible Church.
"She was just a good friend to everybody," Tracie said. "She loved my dad
more than anything, and her kids."
<Note: Lynn Stanley wrote a series of Christian books call "The Fruit of
the Spirit Is ... (Love, Patience, Peace, Self-Control, etc.). She also
wrote "The Blame Game: Why People Persecute Christians," "Change of
Heart," "Reason for Living" and "Combat Ready: How to Fight the Culture
War." In addition, she helped her husband write "The Complete Instructional
Baseball Manual.">
Hyfler/Rosner
"Bill Schenley" <stra...@ma.rr.com> wrote in message
news:CWEqg.16189$u11....@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
> Anti-Gay Marriage Leader Dies
>
> <Note: Lynn Stanley wrote a series of Christian books
> call "The Fruit of the Spirit Is ... (Love, Patience,
> Peace, Self-Control, etc.). She also wrote "The Blame
> Game: Why People Persecute Christians," "Change of
> Heart," "Reason for Living" and "Combat Ready: How to
> Fight the Culture War." In addition, she helped her
> husband write "The Complete Instructional Baseball
> Manual.">
I never liked Fred Stanley. Now I know why.
Laurie Mann
> Anti-Gay Marriage Leader Dies
> She also
> wrote "The Blame Game: Why People Persecute Christians,"
Ahh, a fantasy writer like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly!
So when is someone going to write "Why Christians Persecute Everyone
Else"?
Laurie Mann
Dead People Server
http://www.deadpeople.info
danny burstein
>> Bill Schenley wrote:
>> Anti-Gay Marriage Leader Dies
>> She also
>> wrote "The Blame Game: Why People Persecute Christians,"
>Ahh, a fantasy writer like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly!
>So when is someone going to write "Why Christians Persecute Everyone
>Else"?
i dunno. Back when I was a paramedic, everytime i responded
to the arena it was to treat, o more typically, remove,
a christian. I never had to do anything more for a lion
than get out some dental floss.
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Brad Ferguson
<rel...@rcn.com> wrote:
You and me both.
How can an outfit that wants to ban marriages be called "pro-marriage"?
I see this double-think bullshit all the time.
King Daevid MacKenzie
> How can an outfit that wants to ban marriages be called "pro-marriage"?
> I see this double-think bullshit all the time.
...I think it's a matter of jealousy. Those who worry about how
strangers achieve orgasm usually have a problem achieving orgasm
themselves. It's something like, "If I have to jump through these damn
many hoops to hit the spot, so will you, dammit"...
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Charlene
It's quite simple. They don't want to ban gay marriage: they really
want to ban gays. If they could just stop those nasty, nasty, horrible
people from existing, or at least convince them that it's all just in
their mind, that they're gay because Satan has convinced them that they
WANT to be that way and if they'd only SEE THE TRUTH and see that God
wants them to lead a normal heterosexual life, wouldn't it be
wonderful?
For them, not for the gays, of course. Because in the end it's not
about God, not about Jesus, not about the gays. It's 100% about their
own inability to tolerate anybody who isn't Exactly. Like. Them. Couple
that with a control freak personality and you get somebody like Lynn
Stanley.
Instead of accepting that they themselves are the problem, though, like
any sane person would, they drag out the Biblical misinterpretations
and the brimstone and the screaming and the denials. Oh no, they say,
pointing at Leviticus; it's about the Bible. But you'll note that very
few if any of these Biblical warriors eschew shellfish or mixed-fiber
clothing or follow any of the sexual purification rituals detailed in
the same chapters of Leviticus and considered to be of exactly the same
importance. Why not? Because you don't make money that way. Nobody's
going to raise $50 million in donations for a Constitutional amendment
banning shrimp or linen-wool suits or having sex during a woman's
period.
Control freaks who can't stand people being different is what it's
about. Fifty years ago they had mixed-race marriages to bitch about; I
wonder what they'll be bitching about in fifty years' time. They'll
find something, they always do. Nobody of that ilk can let other people
live their lives. They always have to find some way to shove their
noses in where they're not wanted.
wd42
Brigid Nelson
I'm not a Christian, but I am a Fan of Jesus (tm). I can only wonder
what he would have to say about these acts that are perpetrated in his
name.
b
John M.
>Charlene wrote:
>> Control freaks who can't stand people being different is what it's
>> about. Fifty years ago they had mixed-race marriages to bitch about; I
>> wonder what they'll be bitching about in fifty years' time. They'll
>> find something, they always do. Nobody of that ilk can let other people
>> live their lives. They always have to find some way to shove their
>> noses in where they're not wanted.
>>
>
>
>I'm not a Christian, but I am a Fan of Jesus (tm). I can only wonder
>what he would have to say about these acts that are perpetrated in his
>name.
Oh,.....my....God!
--
John M.
Louis Epstein
: In article <ZOCdnQU9EJDovjbZ...@rcn.net>, Hyfler/Rosner
They are quite correctly demanding that "marriage" not be redefined
to include relationships unfit to be so described.Now if only they
would understand that "human life" should not be redefined to include
foetal life...
-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
Jed
<t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:22:10 -0500, Osama bin Cock-Squatter
><l...@main.put.com> wrote:
>
>>They are quite correctly demanding that "marriage" not be redefined
>>to include relationships unfit to be so described.
>
>Now, now. Did Mommy say it was OK to play on the computer?
Wait a minute! The AO master of well-tuned maledicta comes up with
this pale shade of a reposte.
Are you feeling yourself today?
Bill Schenley
> > > "marriage" not be redefined to include
> > > relationships unfit to be so described.
> > Now, now. Did Mommy say it was OK to
> > play on the computer?
> Wait a minute! The AO master of well-tuned
> maledicta comes up with this pale shade of a
> reposte.
I gotta' go with Jed on this one, T.
I would'a at least gone with the old standard ... "Blow me, you retarded
motherfucker," before I used the "mommy-computer" thingy ...
MGW
<t_del...@hotmail.com> scrawled:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:01:16 -0500, King Daevid MacKenzie
> <echoes...@charter.net> wrote:
>
> >...I think it's a matter of jealousy. Those who worry about how
> >strangers achieve orgasm usually have a problem achieving orgasm
> >themselves. It's something like, "If I have to jump through these damn
> >many hoops to hit the spot, so will you, dammit"...
>
> There really is something mystifying to me about it all. I deal with
> people of all persuasions all day and, oddly enough, "How do they have
> sex?" just doesn't enter my mind. Though I did once have a gay male
> co-worker who liked to bring it up just for the annoying shock value.
> A couple years later I had a straight female *manager* who enjoyed
> talking about her husband's and son's penises because she was
> completely out of her mind.
One of the reasons I couldn't stand the last place I worked (before I
became self-employed) was because there was too much discussion of
people's sex lives. The worst offender was heterosexual - his crude
comments towards others drove me off the wall (not to mention ethnic
slurs, etc.) We had one openly gay co-worker who, while he
occasionally told stories that included references to his sex life,
never made comments directed at other people in the office and only
told the cruder stories in front of people he was sure wouldn't mind.
No question which one I found more offensive.
> That aside, I think there's also jealousy/envy over a [mis-?]perceived
> freer life. I wonder if the increase in the number of same-sex
> parents will change that.
Be interesting to see. On my son's soccer team a few years ago, one
of the coaches was part of a gay couple - they had an adopted son who
was on the team. The two men were the nicest parents in the bunch and
I always had interesting discussions with the one who was a theology
professor.
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Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even
when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. - Douglas Hofstadter