DPS Trooper killed

A statewide search continues for a suspect in the shooting death of a Texas Public Safety trooper in East Texas.
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The DPS identifies the slain trooper as 39 year-old James Scott Burns. A DPS statement says they are searching for 37 year-old Brandon Robertson of Tyler. A DPS spokeswoman says, the shooting happened at the end of a chase last night near a rural crossroads just west of Kellyville.

Funeral arrangements set for slain trooper

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The funeral for a trooper who was shot and killed Tuesday night in Marion County will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Linden. Burial will follow at the Shiloh Cemetery on U.S. 59 South, under the direction of Reeder-Davis-Schindler Funeral Home in Linden.

Visitation for slain DPS Trooper James Scott Burns, who was killed during a traffic stop, is from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in the Fellowship Hall at the First Baptist Church.

Actually, we’ve learned quite a bit - even beyond the content of this video. What it is we’ve learned is not the story he is telling.

Congressman Ramstad comes out in opposition to the Flight 93 memorial

Congressman Jim Ramstad (R-MN) gave a House speech this month, supporting Mr. Burnett’s opposition to the crescent design. The speech is entered in the Congressional Record here, along with supporting statements from Tom Burnett Sr. (father of murdered Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett Jr.).

That makes two Congressmen now who have come out publicly against the crescent memorial. (Tom Tancredo took the lead last November, asking the Park Service to choose a completely new design.)

News coverage revs up confrontation at this Saturday’s public meeting

Ramstad’s speech, and our ongoing petition drive, netted a full width banner headline on the front page of the Somerset Daily American, with the story continuing full width on an inside page as well. This high profile local news coverage should make for an interesting Memorial Project meeting at the Somerset County Courthouse this Saturday. Several critics will be speaking during the public comment period, and the first batch of petitions will be delivered in bulk (over 5000 signatures to date, 4700 online and 500 on paper).

The Daily American article includes lots of powerful language from Mr. Burnett and other critics of the crescent design, along with some remarkably disingenuous evasions from the usual defenders. Most egregious is Patrick White, vice president of Families of Flight 93, who tries to pretend that the criticisms of the design are all about Mr. Burnett trying to get an undemocratic “do over” after failing to stop the Crescent of Embrace design when he served on the design competition jury.

While on the jury, Mr. Burnett only complained about the giant Islamic shaped crescent and the minaret-like Tower of Voices. No one on the jury, including Mr. Burnett, knew anything about the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent; or about the placementof the 9/11 date in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag; or about the 44 glass blocks on the flight path; or about the fact that the Tower of Voices turns out to be a year-round accurate Islamic prayer-time sundial.

Not that the jury is beyond reproach. It was bizarre for these family members and design professionals to plant a bare naked crescent and star flag on the graves of our murdered heroes, but given everything that the jurors did NOT know, this configuration at least COULD have been an accident. What came out after the design was selected is absolute proof of terrorist memorializing intent, with every Islamic and terrorist memorializing feature being repeated in the Tower of Voices portion of the memorial.

One example is the 38 Memorial Groves. (There were supposed to be 40.) By itself, it is merely suspicious that the arc of 38 groves can be seen as a set of 19 nested crescents: one for each 9/11 hijacker. But architect Paul Murdoch proves this terrorist memorializing intent by surrounding the Tower of Voices with a second set of 19 nested crescents. And on it goes. EVERYTHING gets repeated in the Tower of Voices, and the 93 foot tall Islamic sundial is itself a very precise structure that could NEVER occur by accident.

Patrick White wants to dodge all this by pretending that the controversy is about the initial jury decision, instead of the ensuing blindness to voluminous evidence of terrorist memorializing intent. No one exemplifies this willful blindness better than Patrick White himself.

Patrick White denies the Mecca orientation in public while admitting it in private

At the July 2007 Memorial Project meeting, a critic of the crescent design engaged Mr. White in private conversation, asking how he could be unconcerned about the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent. White’s reply was to suggest that this orientation cannot be seen as a tribute to Islam because the inexactness of it would be “disrespectful to Islam.” (The crescent points 1.8° north of Mecca, ±.1°.)

But this isn’t what White was telling the public. That same week, Patrick White told the press that all of the claims about Islamic symbolism had been thoroughly investigated and been found to be untrue and “preposterous.” In private, White was acknowledging the almost exact Mecca orientation of the crescent and making excuses for it, while issuing sweeping denials in public.

He is still doing the same thing. He KNOWS that the giant crescent points almost exactly to Mecca, yet claims that such “assumptions,” have been “repeatedly shown-to-be-false.” In fact, not a single factual claim about what is in the design has ever been rebutted. If the crescent did not point to Mecca, it would be trivially easy to demonstrate. This is a simple geometric claim. But all the Memorial Project has ever offered is unsupported denials, denials that they acknowledge in private to be FALSE.

Patrick White’s dishonest attack on Tom Burnett

The jury process is irrelevant. No one is criticizing it. The jurors bear no responsibility for hidden Islamic and terrorist-memorializing features that they knew nothing about when they chose the crescent design. If it were not for two ugly bits of misinformation, put forward by Patrick White in his effort to make the jury process the issue, there would be no reason to mention the jury process at all. Both of White’s falsehoods are aimed at discrediting Tom Burnett Sr.

1. In the Daily American article (half way down) White claims that Mr. Burnett: “gave his consent to support what the majority picked.”

Mr. Burnett was incensed in 2005 when the Memorial Project announced that the jurors had united behind the majority choice. Without ever consulting with Mr. Burnett, the Memorial Project wrote in their jury report that: “By consensus the Stage Two jury forwards this section of the Flight 93 memorial to the partner [Paul Murdoch] with the full and unqualified support of each juror.” Tom has been trying to correct the record ever since, and Patrick White OUGHT to know it.

2. White also claims that: “No one agreed then with Mr. Burnett’s preferred choice for a final design.”

“To the contrary” says Mr. Burnett, “the vote not unanimous; it was 9 to 6.” Five people were with Mr. Burnett in rejecting the crescent design. This on a jury made up of 8 design professionals and 7 family members. It could even be that a majority of family members opposed the Crescent of Embrace. Tom requested the vote tally in a formal letter to the Memorial Project which was never answered. Now Patrick White throws the vote tally in Tom’s face, and completely misrepresents it.

3. Bonus badness. White claims that: “Jurors gave all of Mr. Burnett’s concerns a complete airing.”

In fact, the design professionals on the jury tried to shut Mr. Burnett up. Tom Sokolowski, director of Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum called Mr. Burnett “asinine” just for noticing that the crescent is a traditional symbol of Islam. This overt hostility to Mr. Burnett’s concerns is not what most of us would call “a complete airing.”

So no, the jury process is not the issue here, but if it were, it couldn’t stand up to scrutiny either.

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The seduction of Hannah Montana

In a secret undisclosed location, the bubble artist was scheduled to perform the feat.

Bubble artist Fan Yang’s earlier plan to perform the world-record-setting feat at the Santa Ana Discovery Science Center’s Bubblefest fell apart when the science institution came under fire from animal-rights groups for using a critically endangered species in a “trivial and sensationalist manner.”

I can’t imagine that the elephant would be harmed by such a thing.

Yang said he plans to embark on the stunt at a secret location to prevent any intrusion from disapproving animal-rights activists.

“We canceled before because we had a concern that the animal extremists would jeopardize our event, and for the public safety,” said Yang, who tours his Mega-Bubble spectacles around the world as well as performing regularly in New York and Las Vegas.

Yang said along with wrapping bubbles around people of all ages, he has previously put an elephant in a bubble in India.

His observation: “The elephants love the bubbles just like children do. They understand a lot of things.”

However, some animal-rights advocates who initially took issue with the Discovery Science Center for endorsing a stunt with a wild animal, said they were just as disturbed by Yang’s independent elephant venture.

Animal rights activists claim animal exploitation starts with a ‘mindset’, that ‘they’re here to use in any way we want’.

“If you’re going to look at an endangered elephant as just a stage prop and something that’s just here for our amusement, how are you going to have any respect for them as a species?”

Sometimes I think it’s valuable to have a closer look at these animals; it gives us a greater appreciation for their sensitivity and intelligence.

Kari Johnson and her husband have spent 30 years raising and training Tai, the 39-year-old female Asian elephant scheduled to appear in the event.

She said it’s not the first time they and their show elephants have stirred controversy.

Tai has performed stunts in several movies, including “Operation: Dumbo Drop,” the 1995 Disney production that features an elephant parachuting out of a cargo plane.

“We didn’t think it was fair that a group of animal-rights extremists were using this to push their agenda of taking elephants out of human care,” Johnson said. “Nothing about putting Tai in the bubble would cause her any harm. The elephants like the bubbles, especially the babies they touch and walk after them.”

This video shows an elephant painting a self-portrait. It appears as though it’s having a good time. The crowd certainly expresses awe and appreciation.

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(CNN) — A 30-year-old dolphin at Sea World has died after colliding with another dolphin while performing aerial tricks, the Orlando, Florida, amusement park said Monday.

Naturally, environmentalists and animal rights activists blame the accident on the dolphins’ captivity.

Discovery Cove is a sister park of the famous SeaWorld, which has long been a target for animal rights activists who think marine parks are cruel. -Ted Moore

This is a very sickening story.

This is the story of a controlling father, who hid a horrible secret for 24 years. Due to an interesting set of circumstances, his daughter and the mother of his six children, was recently set free. Some of the children were with her, other children were being raised upstairs as though they were his grandchildren, by him and his unsuspecting wife. The story he gave to people was that these were his grandchildren, dropped off on his doorstep by his daughter, who had joined a “sect” and couldn’t care for them. Little did anyone know what was really going on! For 24 years these people were separated by a concrete wall.

The children had never been to see a doctor or dentist, and the 19-year old had lost most of her teeth.

Incestuous Austrian proved to have fathered his daughter’s children

According to Elisabeth, she was firstly sexual abused by her father Josef when she was 11 years old and had been locked in the basement since she was 18. And 24 years ago Josef allured her into the cellar, drugged and handcuffed her.

Soon after that, he even forced her to write a letter, saying that she had decided to run away from home. She since then has been registered as missing.

There really is evil in the world. It reminds me of the story of Natascha Kampusch from Vienna. She was held in an underground cellar for eight years, but at least she wasn’t being held by her FATHER.

At Victor Davis Hansen’s website, by Bruce Thornton, is a review on Peter Schweitzer’s Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, (Doubleday, 2005, 272 pp.).

Interestingly enough, I received a forwarded email that held similar content.

Naom Chomsky, called capitalism a

“‘grotesque catastrophe’ and a doctrine ‘crafted to induce hopelessness, resignation, and despair.’” Yet Chomsky is “himself a shrew capitalist, worth millions, with money in the dreaded and evil stock market, and at least one tax haven to cut down on those pesky inheritance taxes that he says are so important.” Apostles of economic redistribution via the income tax like Chomsky are very clever at making sure that somebody else’s nickel will fund their utopian schemes. Chomsky has set up an irrevocable trust to shelter his money, with his tax attorney and his daughter as trustees.

The examples continue in the email regarding Schweitzer’s book:

Michael Moore denounces oil and defense contractors as war profiteers. He also claims to have no stock portfolio, yet he owns shares in Halliburton, Boeing, and Honeywell and does his postproduction work in Canada to avoid paying union wages in the United States.

Ted Kennedy’s closets are chock full of hypocrisy. For example, Schweizer reveals how Ted and the Kennedy clan have protected their assets from estate taxes – as Kennedy fights to keep this tax on other Americans! Kennedy also has fought an environmental program near his Cape Cod home.

Noam Chomsky opposes the very concept of private property and calls the Pentagon “the worst institution in human history,” yet he and his wife have made millions of dollars in contract work for the Department of Defense and own two luxurious homes.

Barbra Streisand prides herself as an environmental activist, yet she owns shares in a notorious strip-mining company.

Hillary Clinton supports the right of thirteen-year-old girls to have abortions without parental consent, yet she forbade thirteen-year-old Chelsea to pierce her ears and enrolled her in a school that would not distribute condoms to minors.

Nancy Pelosi received the 2002 Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farm Workers, yet she and her husband own a Napa Valley vineyard that uses nonunion labor.

Schweizer’s conclusion is simple: liberalism in the end forces its adherents to become hypocrites. They adopt one pose in public, but when it comes to what matters most in their own lives-their property, their privacy, and their children-they jettison their liberal principles and embrace conservative ones. Schweizer thus exposes the contradiction at the core of liberalism: if these ideas don’t work for the very individuals who promote them, how can they work for the rest of us?

Yet here again we have an example of Obama going off into fantasyland when trying to explain away Reverend Wright’s ‘goddam America’. He claims that all blacks of Wright’s generation that had it tough are bitter and angry because of their meager beginnings. But I thought it was those folks that are hanging onto their guns and religion that were bitter and angry? He just likes using those words, I guess.

Wright didn’t come from an underprivileged home; he grew up in a middle class neighborhood; just like Bill Cosby. In fact, he even went to the same High School as Cosby, and Cosby has denounced Wright’s extremism.

It’s too bad Obama hasn’t had the sense to do that, because he looks like he’s driving himself further downstream out of the mainstream, if you catch my drift. I have confidence it won’t be long before everyone else catches up to it. You don’t have to look far to catch a glimpse of the lunacy that is attached to Obama. Look a little deeper and there is a lot of fishy stuff going on, not to mention terrorists of all different stripes - like Ayers, for example. Ayers might live in Hyde Park, but he still hates America.

What I don’t understand is if people hate it so much, why don’t they just leave?

I am by no means a Hillary supporter, but this is a funny video.

These flyers are incredible! Kudos to whoever thought them up! (The screengrab above is from the “Obama Come Clean about Larry Sinclair” flyer, click here.

FLYERS (Download for Printing & Distribution)

* Bad/Mad Magazine Flyer
* Hand-Held Placard
* HOPE YOU’VE CHANGED FLYER
* Limo Flyer B/W
* Limo Flyer Color
* LS Flyer
* Obama Come Clean about Larry Sinclair

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I’m speaking the Truth to break the silence.
True tolerance means that people with differing — even opposing — viewpoints can freely exchange ideas and respectfully listen to each other.
It’s time for an honest conversation about homosexuality.
There’s freedom to change if you want to.
Let’s talk.

From Stacy’s post from today, April 28th, and the ADF website, here. Every day should be the Day of Truth, in my opinion.

However, those who are hammering on the ‘tolerance’ meme don’t truly believe in tolerance for other people who have differing viewpoints:

You have got to be the ugliest piece of shit I’ve ever encountered. Your obsession with gay men is really bizarre. I guess you’re just another fag-hag who can’t make it with a straight men so you focus your anger on gay ones. Here’s a little clue sister…I don’t give a shit about your holy-roller attitude…and…if we ever encounter each other in public….I guarantee you’ll find out what it feels like to get some of that good old “hatred” right back in your ugly mug! BTW….I’d rather piss on your grave than give you the time of day! CUNT!

You’d think that they’d be smart enough to realize they are not showing up very well when they send emails like this to people. (And could that “p*** on your grave” comment be construed as a death threat?) That was an email sent by Timothy Smith to Stacy Harp of Active Christian Media, see her post about it here.

GENERAL RESOURCES:

Day of Truth manual (.pdf)
Enclosed are many ideas and suggestions for how the Day of Truth can have the maximum impact at your school.

Common questions about the Day of Truth (.pdf) (or visit this page)
Find answers to some of the most common questions you might have about participating in the upcoming Day of Truth.

Hostile questions about the Day of Truth (.pdf) (or visit this page)
You may encounter some hostile questions while participating in the Day of Truth. These tips will help you better address those questions.

Day of Truth PowerPoint
Use this PowerPoint presentation to promote the Day of Truth.

Day of Truth snapshot (.pdf)
A quick overview of the Day of Truth to share with friends and classmates.

Day of Truth press release (.doc)
Download this sample press release if you are interested in contacting the media about the Day of Truth.

Student Rights Handbook
This handbook is a helpful guide for Christian students around the country.

LEGAL RESOURCES

Day of Truth legal rights memo (.pdf)
Helpful tips in understanding your legal rights.

Adult involvement in the Day of Truth (.pdf)
While the Day of Truth is meant to be a student-led, student-initiated event, there are things that parents, youth pastors, and other concerned adults can do to get involved.

Teacher involvement in the Day of Truth (.pdf)
Learn about the ways that teachers can participate in the Day of Truth.

SOCIAL, RESOURCE AND MINISTRY RESOURCES

Tolerance, Diversity and the Freedom to to Choose
Focus on the Family examines the true meaning of tolerance.

Are people ‘born gay’?
Focus on the Family examines this controversial question.

The End of the Culture Wars (.pdf)
This resource, provided by Exodus, talks about the true meaning of tolerance.

Gender and Sexuality: Fluid or Solid? (.pdf)
Exodus’ Mike Ensley shares the Truth about “fluid” sex and gender.

Homosexuality Isn’t the Answer (.pdf)
Mike Ensley, with Exodus, explains how his personal experiences revealed the Truth: homesexuality isn’t the answer.

Sex and Gender (.pdf)
This resource, provided by Exodus, discusses God’s plan for sexuality.

What if I’m Still Struggling? (.pdf)
Exodus’ Mike Ensley shatters the lies, and shares how God’s plan is best.

Homosexuality FAQ sheet (.pdf)
This resource, provided by Exodus, answers some common questions about homosexuality.

The ten big myths of homosexual behavior (.pdf)
This resource, provided by Mission America, explains the truth behind common myths about homosexual behavior.

This is an important question, because to my way of thinking, you have to be a very hateful person in order to commit murder. That’s why there are laws against it. I don’t think we need to pass any ‘hate crime’ laws. I think ‘hate crime laws’ are discriminatory, as is clearly spelled out in this article.

Please note this content and associated stories and statistics are extremely disturbing; if you are a squeamish type, do not read further. You may, as I did, have a hard time sleeping afterwards.

Jesse Dirkhising

Media Ignored Homosexual Murder

Horrible Coverage of a Horrible Murder

The tragic story of Jesse Dirkhising: How confused 13-year-old died brutal death as a sex toy

As I’ve been trying to point out about homosexual activists, there needs to be some balance in this debate. Rather than cry “victim” about the zillions of homosexuals who are being brutally beaten for the “crime” of being homosexual, they ought to take a look around them at the crimes their fellow gays have committed. After looking at the statistics, it would seem that regular people are the ones who need to be afraid.

Jesse Dirkhising was a 13-year old boy who was not shot like Lawrence King was. Instead, he was bound, drugged, tortured and raped (sodomized) for five horrible hours with various implements and then died. Davis Don Carpenter, then 38, and Joshua Macabe Brown, then 22, were the men responsible, two ‘gay’ men who lured Dirkhising to their apartment in Rogers, Ark., but with the full knowledge and even consent- of his parents.

During the five-hour assault that began around midnight in the couple’s bedroom, Brown, acting on written instructions from Carpenter, bound the seventh-grader with nylon rope, placed a T-shirt blindfold over his head, and gagged his mouth with a pair of dirty underwear secured by a bandana and duct tape.

After propping pillows beneath Dirkhising’s abdomen, Brown sodomized him with three fingers, his penis, a frozen banana, and a urine enema laced with the sedative drug amitryptiline while Carpenter watched, masturbating, in the bedroom doorway.

Midway through the assault, Carpenter went to an all-night grocery store to purchase additional rape implements. A receipt later found by police, time-stamped 3:07 a.m., showed “Eckrich” sausage, cucumbers, “tape” and “deli” sandwiches.

Upon Carpenter’s return from the store, Brown continued sodomizing Jesse with the sausage and cucumber, using Vaseline. He then left the room to eat a sandwich. When he returned, the boy was no longer breathing. Frantic, he woke Carpenter who by that time had fallen asleep on the living room sofa.

After the men attempted unsuccessfully to administer CPR, Carpenter called 911. When police arrived at the apartment, they found Dirkhising naked and near death on the bedroom floor. His face was blue, there was blood in his mouth, and his body was smeared with feces.

Patrolman Ian Smith later testified, “The smell was unbearable. It was horrible. I couldn’t explain it to you.” Another detective testified that Brown had fecal matter in the web of his fingers when he was arrested.

Jesse was pronounced dead after being rushed to nearby St. Mary’s Hospital. Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Erickson later testified that the boy died as a result of “suffocation, positional asphyxiation and acute amitryptiline intoxication.”

In a post-conviction interview, Robert C. Balfe, Benton County, Ark., lead prosecutor, said, “The evidence shows the last thing that occurred to Jesse when he was alive was that he was being anally raped with the cucumber by Brown. Carpenter was so concerned over the aggressiveness of the rape, that he wrote a note to Brown telling him to back the cucumber out to 3 inches because it could cause ’serious damage.’ They then duct taped the cucumber in Jesse’s anus and went to eat their sandwiches. I believe that this last violent act was more than Jesse could endure and he gave up and died.” -WND

What happened to the perps? This crime occurred in 1999. They should have received the death penalty, IMO, yet the media and others give them almost a complete pass.

Oh, here it is. Both of them were sentenced to life without the possibility parole. Apparently the jury rejected the lame defense that the 13-year-old boy wanted to be bound, gagged and sodomized.

Brent Bozell said, “Had Jesse Dirkhising been shot inside his Arkansas school, he would have been an immediate national news story. Had he been openly gay and his attackers heterosexual, the crime would have led all the networks. But no liberal media outlet would dare be the first to tell a grisly murder story which has as its villains two gay men.”

ACM:

Visit all the homosexual activist blogs you can and search You Tube for videos about Jesse. Then tell me what you find. I found one video about Jesse on YouTube, and I was wondering how come there wasn’t a ton like there were for Lawrence (King). I think the homosexual community has double standards. Which is exactly the point of this post.

When you remember Lawrence (King), remember that Jesse went through way more suffering than Lawrence did and it was at the hands of wicked homosexuals.

There is no other way to describe what happened to this confused young boy in 1999…there was a long string of incredibly evil, wicked acts committed on this young boy- that lasted a devastatingly long five hours before he died.

Lawrence King, by the way, is the young man who was shot to death by a boy who was apparently offended when Lawrence wanted him to be his ‘valentine’. In Lawrence’s honor, memorials have been put up, and a ‘day of silence’ is being observed in schools in order to recognize how ‘persecuted’ gays are. This is in stark contrast to the silence from activists about crimes perpetrated by gays on others, and additional pathological behavior.

See Violence and homosexuality

In 1992 two Jeffersonville, Indiana lesbians, aged 17 and 16, abducted a 12-year-old girl whom they accused of trying to “steal a girlfriend.” The little girl was pushed into the trunk of a car, stabbed repeatedly, and beaten with a heavy metal bar. While still struggling, they poured gasoline on her and set her ablaze. Later that year a Fort Lauderdale, Florida 14-year-old was convicted of first-degree murder for helping to kill his 40-year-old father. The father “was stabbed 45 times and beaten so badly with an iron skillet that the skillet shattered.” The boy confessed that he helped his father’s former homosexual lover and roommate kill him so he and the 31-year-old “could live together.”

These murders fit traditional psychiatric opinion: excessive violence is naturally associated with other forms of social pathology. From this perspective, those who rebel against society’s norms – homosexuals, prostitutes, alcoholics, etc. – are more apt to be violent also. Gay leaders reply that they are not pathological, rebellious, or sexually deviant. They contend that gays are gentle, loving people and that the violence they experience proves that they need special ‘hate crime’ laws to protect them from non-homosexual ‘gay bashers.’

“Deviant” is simply an aberration from the norm. While gays try to sell the gay behavior as ‘normal’, it would appear as though there are some things they are purposely ommitting in order to force acceptance of the behavior. For example:

Although the total number of victims dispatched by a given killer is often in doubt, (e.g., homosexual Henry Lucas claimed that he killed 350), it appears that the modern world record for serial killing is held by a Russian homosexual, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of raping, murdering and eating parts of at least 21 boys, 17 women and 14 girls. The pathology of eating one’s sexual victims also characterized Milwaukee’s Jeffrey Dahmer in 1992. He not only killed 17 young men and boys, but cooked and ate their body parts.

The top six U.S. male serial killers were all gay:

• Donald Harvey claimed 37 victims in Kentucky;

• John Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 boys in Chicago, burying them under his house and in his yard;

• Patrick Kearney accounted for 32, cutting his victims into small pieces after sex and leaving them in trash bags along the Los Angeles freeways;

• Bruce Davis molested and killed 27 young men and boys in Illinois;

• A gay sex-murder-torture ring (Corll-Henley-Brooks) sent 27 Texas men and boys to their grave; and

• Juan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 migrant workers (he “made love” with their corpses).

The list is even longer than that: David Maust,, Paul Bateson, David Bullock, Francisco Das Chagas, Daniel Conahan, Larry Eyler, Donald Harvey, Colin Ireland, Patrick Kearney, Randy Kraft, Michael Lupo, Dennis Nilsen, Michael Terry.

Although murder and rape of children are not common events, they are extremely frightening and can greatly impact the communities in which they occur. As its most precious resource, our society takes great pains to protect children and to ensure their safety. Amazingly, our society is also at the vanguard of the pro-gay rights movement. But consider: a group constituting perhaps 1% to 5% of men (1.3% in the 1996 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse; higher in Black, et al., Anderson & Stall, and Cameron & Cameron) generated 43% of those who were recorded in the most recent 14 years of news stories as having raped and killed children. That this group also accounts for around a third of child molesters, commits between a third to two-thirds of child rapes, and may be involved in up to half of all murders, adds substance to the traditional belief that participation in homosexual activity is anti-social.¹

So if homosexuals are being so victimized by vicious heterosexuals, why aren’t we seeing the scores of alleged hetero on homo crimes hitting this list? The empirical evidence simply doesn’t match up to their claims.

From Accuracy in the Media:

We were told that this University of Wyoming student (Matthew Shepherd) was murdered simply because he was a homosexual. The truth is that he was the victim of a robbery gone bad by two drug addicts. What’s more, Shepard was also a heavy drug user who was HIV-positive. Not only were the perpetrators of this brutal crime not “homophobes,” but one of them knew Shepherd and was allegedly bisexual. The real story of the Matthew Shepard case, as the prosecutor says on “20/20,” concerns the dangers of methamphetamine. The two killers and Shepard were big meth users.

Why were the stories about this crime so wrong? The gay rights movement wanted to depict Shepard as an innocent victim of a homophobic society. This played into their demands for legislation to curb so-called “hate crimes.” One of the perpetrators used that to his advantage, arguing when he went on trial that he went into a panic when Shepard tried to proposition him at a bar. His girlfriend made the same claim in the media, including on “20/20.” But now they say it was all a ruse, designed to get him a reduced sentence by suggesting that he wasn’t in control of his faculties when the murder occurred. The ploy failed. Both of those involved in the murder got life in prison.

ABC and correspondent Elizabeth Vargas are now under heavy fire from the homosexual lobby for dispelling the Shepard myth. But ABC and Vargas ALSO show Shepard to be a very depressed young man, on the verge of suicide, because of his homosexual lifestyle. The “gay rights” lobby doesn’t want to face up to that. Matthew wasn’t “gay” and “proud.” He was profoundly troubled.

We should be allowed to talk about this. It turns out that while Jesse Dirkhising’s story received little coverage, the lie showing Matthew Shepherd as the poster child for heterosexual “hate crimes” against homosexuals has received far more coverage and national attention. It is as Lenin said; a lie repeated often enough becomes truth.

How many of these child killers were not only “fond of children”, but gay? Arthur Bishop, Andrei Chikatilo, Westley Allen Dodd, Albert Fish, Pee Wee Gaskins, Fritz Haarmann, Jean Joubert, Peter Kurten, Pedro Alfonso Lopez, Johannes Mashiane, Robert Clifford Olson, Thomas Piper, Wayne Williams

And where is the ire in response to these horrific crimes- and where are the memorials to the the homosexuals’ victims? Where is the outrage, and why aren’t we allowed to talk about it? Remembering that homosexuals are a very small percentage of the population, these statistics are extremely disturbing.

God bless all the victims and their families - and grant them some kind of peace despite the horrible knowledge of what their loved ones endured in their last hours on earth.

I pray that parents will stop to think through what could happen before they let their adolescent children go and spend time playing games with homosexual couples.

For those who say that homosexuality is not about sex…have you seen Corey Chambers’ channel on youtube? Village GAYTV is all about sex, and is so disturbing to me I had to stop watching it. It’s odd that they’re only interested in their own oversensitivity - the rest of us are supposed to remain silent.

1. Family Research Institute, Vol. 18 No.1. Feb 2003[back]

Letting everyone know that Eagles Up “the Talon” is up and I will be writing there once a week.

Monday - Rurik

Tuesday - Rosemary and Concrete Bob

Wednesday - Wednesday Hero and John Lilyea

Thursday - Cao and Dave Jeffers

Friday - Ron Winter

Warner Todd Huston joins us. His conservative political writing has appeared at stoptheaclu.com, newsbusters.org, townhall.com, mensnewsdaily.com and americandaily.com, among numerous others. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture”. He owns and runs the website, Publiusforum.com. He will talk about the Media Research Center’s dishonor awards, among other things.

The segment is here.

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from bible.org

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Matthew 10:16, KJV). Their serpent-like wisdom would govern the words they spoke as well as the activities they carried out. Jesus wanted them to communicate His message wisely, but without hurting the people who heard it—as harmless as doves.

Solomon had linked wisdom with words hundreds of years earlier. “The heart of the wise teaches his mouth,” he said (Proverbs 16:23). True wisdom affects the way we speak. Again, “The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable” (Proverbs 15:2). A person may have a head full of knowledge, but wisdom helps his tongue to express it in an appropriate and acceptable way. “But the tongue of the wise brings healing” (Proverbs 12:18). God’s wisdom, expressed through the tongue, results in healing rather than harm, just as the Lord Jesus said.

Some folks consider themselves to be wise, but their words hurt rather than heal. That leads us to believe there is another kind of wisdom besides God’s, and the Apostle James confirmed that. He, like Solomon, linked wisdom to the way we use our tongues. Immediately after twelve verses on the tongue, he wrote, “Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom” (James 3:13). He is talking about our entire manner of life, not just words. But we cannot eliminate words from what he said. He goes on to mention bitter jealousy and selfish ambition (v. 14), things which are normally expressed by destructive communication. “And where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing” (James 3:16). Unwise words harm rather than heal.

See also: Jesus must come first

“Secular” discrimination against religion is a great article at Townhall.com about the cherry-picked phrase that people keep bringing up in comments here: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” but what they leave out is the rest of it: “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech….”

Sadly, these freedoms of the individual are no longer respected. The ultimate freedom is no longer the freedom to speak or practice one’s religion, but the freedom to not be offended by anyone else. It is now seen as rude if one person defends their religious beliefs publicly. Beliefs about morality are no longer welcome in the public sphere. The only place left for religion is within the walls of a person’s home or church. This new understanding of religion’s place in culture has destroyed the freedom of religion which the Founder’s sought to protect. Worse yet, Americans have ceased to understand religion altogether.

This seems to be particularly prevalent in those who entered the liberal indoctrination centers after the Bible was removed from the public schools, prayer was removed, and even the pledge of allegiance attacked, because it dared to mention that we are ‘one nation under God’. This sounds more like the Soviet Union rather than America, but this is happening all over the world.

People do not realize that a “secular” public sphere inherently assumes that there is no God. Since every person’s religious beliefs impact the way they view the world, a secular sphere discriminates against those whose opinions are rooted in their belief in God. The secular sphere accepts the beliefs of the atheist—that God does not have an impact on public life. For instance, a Christian will often differ from an Atheist in his or her view of public law because their core beliefs are different. One example of this is Christians who oppose euthanasia on the basis that God gives humans life and does not give them the discretion to end their lives. In contrast, many atheists would argue that, since there is no God, humans are free to end their own lives whenever they deem appropriate. By removing God from the public debate on euthanasia, secularism discriminates against the opinions of the Christian.

It reminds me of how Hitler sought not only to destroy Jews, but went after Christians and the Christian church. He saw Christianity as an extension of Judaeism, which he felt also needed to be destroyed. So much so, in fact, that he agreed more with Islam; which teaches its adherents that Christians are the descendants of pigs and monkeys, and are less-than-human. This makes it easier to whip up a frenzy among the masses to kill the infidel.

The religion of the evolutionist that denies the existence of God is still religious, and paves the way to justify genocide.

This kind of religious discrimination is seen clearly in a recent lawsuit filed in the UK by The Christian Institute against Google. The Christian Institute sought to purchase an advertisement from Google, “so that whenever the word ‘abortion’ was typed into the popular search engine, its link would appear on the side of the screen.” Google refused this request, stating, “At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of web sites that contain ‘abortion and religion-related content’”.

If Google had simply declined to allow advertisements involving the controversial topic of abortion, their decision would be completely understandable and fully within their rights as a private company. By removing a controversial topic from their advertisements they would not be discriminating against one religious view in favor of another. But this is not what they did.

Instead, Google accepted “adverts for abortion clinics, secular pro-abortion sites and secularist sites which attack religion,” while refusing to accept The Christian Institute’s “religious” ad. They did not shun the topic of abortion—just the “religious” view on abortion. In other words, they have discriminated against those whose view on abortion is influenced by their belief in God in favor of those whose view on abortion is influenced by their belief that God does not exist. This is a clear case of a company choosing to discriminate against one religious view in favor of another, and it is unsurprising that The Christian Institute filed suit against Google, claiming they had violated the UK’s Equality Act 2006 which outlaws discrimination “on grounds of religion or belief”.

Google’s policy is yet another example of the modern embracing of secularism. People no longer understand that everyone is religious.

An atheist’s viewpoint should not be promoted as that which everyone should accept, as this is discrimination against everyone else. Secular humanism is also a religion. And what’s worse is, the majority still believe there is a God, and 70% or more believe as Christians do, so this is discrimination against the majority of people in order to promote their silence in the public square.

I was thinking of this in terms of the ‘day of silence’ that the gay activists promoted in schools here in the US, which took place this past Friday here in the US. What it really represents is how public schools, with our tax dollars, are forcing the secular humanist belief system on Christian believers. This is forcing silence in the public square on those who believe in God. Because although they claimed it was a ‘day of silence’, activists were allowed to hand out pamphlets and propaganda promoting their view, and the majority were told to ‘be silent’. What are they afraid of? If their view is infallible, why not invite conversation on the topic?

Liberals expect that certain protected groups be given preferential treatment over everyone else, and this is why they are promoting the idea of some groups being ‘more equal’ than others. This is communism; a world without God; which turns it into a vicious world of narcissism where every man thinks only of himself.

See also: Jesus must come first