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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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Let's start with the address of the bigot:
Please help me overwhelm this "gentleman" with email.
Sen. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta)
302-A Legislative Office Building
Atlanta , Ga. 30334
404-463-8055
e-mail: JPGMD@mindspring.com
This man needs to receive well worded arguments about why Paedophilia and Homosexuality are not related items. Of course some homosexuals are paedophiles. So are some heterosexual people. And paedophilia is not confined tothe abuse of boys, but is a universal power trip resulting in the physical and emotional damage to kids for the benefit of the abuser. The paedophile does not "Love children" as the label says, but gets his (or HER) jollies by the power trip and the fear.
The following people are supportive, and should be copied in the email. Their track record is in the support of all kids:
Rep. Karla Drenner kdrenner@legis.state.ga.us
Rep. Georganna Sinkfield gsinkfie@legis.state.ga.us
And now to the artcile itself. Please DO act. And yes, I know some of you wil simply unsubscribe from the mailng list. That is not the action I meant
by Jennifer J. Smith
Southern Voice
Speaking in front of the full Georgia Senate Monday, Sen. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) argued his currently stalled Fairness to Scouting Act is about "protecting our children from sexual abuse by adult leaders, who because of their deviant behavior . prey on innocent youth" and said homosexuality leads to "a lifetime of physical and emotional turmoil and personal disaster."
Gingrey's legislation, strongly opposed by gay rights advocates, could come up for a House vote as quickly as this week, according to Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates), Georgia's only openly gay state legislator.
Citing the current sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, Gingrey paralleled his call for a House vote on the Boy Scouts measure to protecting Catholic altar boys from "the frequency of child molestations by pedophile homosexual priests on young boys."
Gingrey's bill, better known as the Defense of Scouting Act, passed the Senate on Feb. 7, and was sent to the House where it was assigned to the Children & Youth Committee, chaired by Rep. Georganna Sinkfield (D-Atlanta).
Sinkfield has refused to call up the bill for a vote, according to Gingrey.
"For God's sake, and the sake of the children . Madam Chairman . I beg you to do the right thing and protect our children," Gingrey said.
Sinkfield did not respond to interview requests by press time.
After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Boys Scouts' right to ban gays, some activists called on public schools and other government entities to sever ties with the Scouts. But such efforts gathered little steam in Georgia, leading some gay activists to call Gingrey's bill a gratuitous "slap in the face" to gay citizens.
The bill would forbid schools and other government entities from denying meeting space to youth organizations, and would duplicate federal legislation passed in 2001.
Gingrey never specifically stated in his speech how allowing the Boy Scouts to meet in public schools would prevent sexual abuse like the cases in the Catholic Church.
But at the end of his five minute speech, Gingrey said that while he is "no homophobic or gay basher," he believes "that homosexuality is not an alternate lifestyle to be depicted as such to unsuspecting youths, but rather one that leads in many cases to a lifetime of physical and emotional turmoil and personal disaster."
"He literally made me sick," Drenner said, noting that she had complained about Gingrey's remarks to both the Speaker of the House and Senate leadership.
"He was calling me and every other gay or lesbian a pedophile," she said. "That shouldn't be allowed on the floor of the Georgia General Assembly, and he certainly shouldn't be allowed to lie about what the bill does."
Saralyn Chesnut, a board member for gay rights lobby Georgia Equality, called the speech "unbelievable" and urged gay voters "to remember how this senator truly feels about us during the next election."
"Even if it were true that [the bill] would protect anyone from sexual abuse -- which it of course doesn't -- it certainly doesn't protect those that are actually being discriminated against every day in our state: gay and lesbian youth," she said.
But Gingrey defended the comments, including his characterization of homosexuality as leading to "physical and emotional turmoil and personal disaster," in an extensive phone interview from the Senate floor on Tuesday.
"I certainly don't know how anyone could disagree with that with AIDS and premature suffering and the death of the young men and sometimes even women," Gingrey said.
"Often times gay and lesbian youth . their lifestyle, whether it's inherited or chosen or whatever . it's certainly one that's very painful," he said.
Gingrey also said he believes the Catholic priests accused of molesting children are "all definitely gay," and that gays are "more likely to molest children than heterosexuals."
He did, however, acknowledge that his Scouting bill wouldn't really have an impact on the issue. The bill "doesn't really have anything to do with preventing child abuse, I was just making a parallel with that," he said.
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