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icon13.gif "Gay" Lobby Shamelessly Exploits Teen Suicides  [message #64249] Wed, 06 October 2010 23:05 Go to next message
Brody Levesque is currently offline  Brody Levesque

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Lynchburg, VA - Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel, released the following statement today on the series of recent highly publicized suicides committed by allegedly "gay" identified teenagers:

"Anyone with a heart grieves deeply over these needless suicides. Taking one's own life is never the right choice. There are thousands of teen suicides each year. Some kids just don't seem to understand the permanence of it, or how it destroys the lives of those they leave behind.

"We all agree: harassment and bullying of children should always be dealt with immediately and firmly. And if laws are broken, offenders should be prosecuted - period. This is true whether kids are targeted because they're perceived to be homosexual, conservative, Christian or for any other reason.

"Unfortunately - though not surprisingly - extremist ‘gay' pressure groups, like the incongruously named ‘Human Rights Campaign,' Ellen DeGeneres and other liberal activists are shamelessly exploiting these tragedies as a means to achieve their own selfish political ends.

"In a recent statement, Ms. DeGeneres said: ‘There are messages everywhere that validate this sort of bullying and taunting and we need to make it stop. We can't let intolerance and ignorance take another kids life.'

"Indeed, actual bullying and taunting must not be tolerated. But what ‘messages' is Ms. DeGeneres referring to, and how do ‘we...make [them] stop?' I'll translate from liberalese to plain English. What Ellen meant was this: ‘Public defense of God's express, self-evident and unequivocal design for human sexuality must be stopped under force of law. Proponents of the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic are murdering ‘gay' kids with their words.'

"Not only is this propagandist line of reasoning disingenuous, offensive and Orwellian, it's utter nonsense.

"Joe Solmonese, president of HRC, took it a step further, directly blaming for these suicides Christians and the Mormon Church. To him, opposition to so-called ‘same-sex marriage,' and defense of biblical sexual morality are the culprits: ‘Words have consequences,' said Solmonese, ‘particularly when they come from a faith leader. This is exactly the kind of statement that can lead some kids to bully and others to commit suicide.'

"As Rahm Emanuel famously said: 'You never let a serious crisis go to waste. [I]t's an opportunity to do things you could not do before.' It makes me physically ill to watch as the HRC and other ‘gay' militants lick their chops and rub their hands together over the tragic suicides of these troubled, sexually confused young men," continued Barber. "Before they were even laid to rest, the radical homosexual lobby pounced leveraging these suicides to demand that government codify each of their extremist, social engineering demands. This is political exploitation at its slimiest and it pours salt on the wounds of loved ones.

"God's message to young people struggling with same sex temptation or to those who feel the shame that naturally accompanies sexual sin is that suicide is never the way out. But there is a way out. It comes first through belief in Jesus Christ, and then through confession of sin; finally, repentance. As Jesus said to the repentant sexual sinner at the well, ‘Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.'

"The families of these precious young people should know that Christians around the country are praying for them and will continue to pray for them in their time of loss. Scripture says ‘blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.'

"But Christians are also praying that these wicked and callous political vultures who seek to exploit these suicides become confounded and fail fantastically. Their mission is not one of ‘tolerance' or ‘diversity.' Quite the opposite: Their goal is to fan flames of anti-Christian bigotry and discrimination, evangelizing on behalf of their own perverted god: moral relativism. We simply won't let them get away with it," concluded Barber.
Re: "Gay" Lobby Shamelessly Exploits Teen Suicides  [message #64251 is a reply to message #64249] Wed, 06 October 2010 23:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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Yes, the suicides are being exploited. But is this so very wrong?

We are pointing out why these kids chose to die and asking that the causes be stopped by education and yes, if necessary by legislation.

How many more must die before this happens?



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icon13.gif Re: "Gay" Lobby Shamelessly Exploits Teen Suicides  [message #64252 is a reply to message #64249] Wed, 06 October 2010 23:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Another one of Jerry Falwell's minions speaks out, I imagine this will make him quite popular at Liberty Baptist College next week. If anyone has a political agenda it's these assholes.

I will never understand Christians...never ever. Jesus had nothing to say about homosexuality...nothing, so they have to make something up. I love all these Jesus wannabies who purport to speak for God.

I suggest if they really want to bring media attention to themselves that they construct a large wooden cross and get a handful of long nails...you don't need me to tell you the rest.



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icon4.gif Re: "Gay" Lobby Shamelessly Exploits Teen Suicides  [message #64254 is a reply to message #64249] Wed, 06 October 2010 23:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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[Updated on: Wed, 06 October 2010 23:57]

Lynchburg?  [message #64255 is a reply to message #64249] Thu, 07 October 2010 04:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
saben is currently offline  saben

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Are you serious?!

What a name for a place spouting that kind of message.



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icon5.gif Are politicians shamelessly Exploiting Teen Suicides?  [message #64256 is a reply to message #64249] Thu, 07 October 2010 12:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
chrisjames147 is currently offline  chrisjames147

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I'll grant you the cause of bullying is varied, but so is the response in the aftermath of these tragic deaths.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_student_taped_sex

I understand the need to establish laws to protect students, but this man's goals are too narrow. By college age students are adults and that brings into play all kinds of civil and criminal laws. Where is the protection and justice for those under the age of eighteen?

This might just seem like a political opportunity for a handful of straight politicians. If it wasn't for Senator Lautenberg's past record in Congress I would be suspicious. But he did push for AIDS legislation and authored the Ryan White Care Act, this and his support for gay marriage does make him a friend of the gay community in more than word.

But I cannot see into their minds, I don't know what inspires them. It will be interesting to see what the Christian lobby does with this attempt to level the playing field. The more ranting and raving I see from the Christian Right the further left I swing.

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Re: Are politicians shamelessly Exploiting Teen Suicides?  [message #64258 is a reply to message #64256] Thu, 07 October 2010 12:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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The user comments of the fuckwitted are awful after that article.



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Re: Are politicians shamelessly Exploiting Teen Suicides?  [message #64279 is a reply to message #64258] Fri, 08 October 2010 07:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
DesDownunder is currently offline  DesDownunder

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They are more than awful Tim, they are devastating and reprehensible.

The Internet can expose us to the most horrid people, whom we might otherwise believe to no longer exist in the modern world.



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Re: Are politicians shamelessly Exploiting Teen Suicides?  [message #64280 is a reply to message #64279] Fri, 08 October 2010 08:05 Go to previous message
timmy

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Some of these people make one believe in eugenics. But who would be in charge?



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