Southern Baptist Convention, Focus on the Family assault on LGBT civil rights. Richard Land and Karl Rove 'Curing gays' Intelligent design and curing gays. Lonnie Latham on SBC Executive Committee arrested Dobson

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Civil Rights.org lgbt equality Courage Gay.com Human Rights Campaign lgbt equal rights. laws, legislation watch. International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission\ Lambda Legal Moving Ideas Gay and Lesbian issues, links National Gay and Lesbian Task Force help strengthen gay and lesbian movement. Out in San Francisco gay lesbian organization Panda's Thumb Intelligent Design v. Gay Marriage, search terms: Raw Story Religious Right Watch Soulforce Freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious & political oppression through the practise of relentless nonviolent resistance. Wesley Blog, The United Methodist site your Pastor warned you about Observer We 'cure' gays, say born-again radicals ... Homosexuality is just an eroticised need for a father, says group Notes, Love welcomes all,	American Psychiatric Association ExGayWatch blog Findlaw MSNBC Outfront, Minnesota, GLBT, What Mental Health And Medical Experts Say About "Curing Gays" Wikipedia, Lonnie Latham Notes: Bible: ‘No one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one, after drinking the old wine, wants the new, for he says, “The old is better.”’ Luke 5:37–39 (NIV) Notes on "curing gays": sexual orientation cannot be changed, reparative therapy may be harmful, societal prejudices against homosexuality may reinforce self-hatred already experienced by the patient. Homosexuality is not a mental disorder. There is no published scientific evidence supporting the efficacy of 'reparative therapy'. see Outfront, full article from APA.	Desert Stream ministry Evangelical Alliance "God is the Creator of our relationships and our sexuality." Focus on the Family ex-gay men and women, Love Won Out, reparative therapy, Colorado Springs, James Dobson, homosexuality is not innate and can be repaired. New York Times Southern Baptist Convention Northshore Baptist Church Renew America Intelligent design vs. gay marriage Richard Land Southern Baptist Convention, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission SBC Executive Committee

US Attorney's Suspicious Deaths
More murdered US Attorneys? Starting in Seattle 2001, Tom Wales fired by Gonzales, below and in Texas: Michael Bradford, Wes Rivers, Thelma Colbert, Shannon Ross
On September 9, 2003, the former U.S. Attorney for Eastern Texas, Michael Bradford, who served for seven years until April 2001, was found dead near his car in a wooded area in Hardin County, Texas. Bradford was 51 and was appointed U.S. Attorney on the advice of Texas' longtime congressman Jack Brooks, a longtime and no-nonsense investigator of administration scandals, Republican and Democrat. As U.S. Attorney, Bradford successfully sued several large oil companies to recover $400 million in royalty payments due the federal government. Bradford suffered a gunshot wound to his head and police found a shotgun near his body. Police ruled the death a suicide. Bradford's replacement, Wes Rivers, served as U.S. Attorney for East Texas for seven months until being downgraded to Assistant U.S. Attorney in Tyler, Texas. Rivers prosecuted several drug cartel leaders. Last month, Rivers tied suddenly of a brain aneurysm while vacationing with his family on the Bolivar Peninsula, near Galveston. Rivers was 56. During the evening of October 11, 2001, Tom Wales, 49, the Assistant U.S. Attorney for Washington state, was shot through a window in his basement. The assailant fired the shots from Wales' back yard. Wales later died in the hospital. The FBI investigation, code named "SEPROM" [Seattle Prosecutor Murder], remains unsolved. John McKay, the US Attorney for Western Washington, who pressured both the Justice Department and FBI to more vigorously investigate Wales' murder, was, like Maryland U.S. Attorney Tom DiBiagio, fired by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for asking too many questions and not being seen as "loyal Bushies." In 2004, two female federal prosecutors in Texas who were prosecuting cases involving Medicare fraud by Novation LLC and other medical care providers were found dead from suspicious causes. Federal prosecutor in Fort Worth, Thelma Colbert, was found dead in her swimming pool on July 20, 2004, while Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon Ross was found dead in her home on September 13, 2004. The Tarrant County medical examiner ruled Colbert's death an accident. The Dallas County medical examiner determined Ross' death was from "natural causes."

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Washington Roundtable back to page 3 This is the Big Daddy of them all. The Washington Roundtable is Washington State’s de facto government. Its officers include some of the state’s most powerful individuals and some of its biggest scumballs, including Seattle Times mogul Frank Blethen and William Krippaehne, whose media holdings include KOMO TV (the John Stanford Channel) and KVI Radio. in Discovery Institute
Robert M. Helsell,* Chairman & CEO, Wilder Construction Company, Chair John F. Kelly,* Chairman & CEO, Alaska Airlines, Inc., Vice Chair Richard S. Swanson^EC,* Chairman & CEO, Homestreet Bank, Secretary/Treasurer Deborah L. Bevier, President & CEO, Laird Norton Trust Company Frank A. Blethen, Chairman, Publisher & CEO, The Seattle Times Elizabeth F. Brenner^EC, Publisher, The News Tribune Phyllis J. Campbell,* President, U.S. Bank of Washington Robert S. Cline, Chairman & CEO, Airborne Express Craig W. Cole^EC, President & CEO, Brown & Cole Stores Robert L. Collett, President & CEO, Milliman & Robertson, Inc. Philip M. Condit^EC, Chairman & CEO, The Boeing Company W. Stacey Cowles, Vice President, Cowles Publishing Company Gary G. Ely, President & CEO, Avista Corporation Richard T. Fersch, President & CEO, Eddie Bauer, Inc. David M. Fisher^EC, Washington Site Manager, Intel Corporation Robert J. Herbold^EC,* Executive Vice President & COO, Microsoft Corporation Discovery Institute Kerry K. Killinger^EC, President, Chairman & CEO, Washington Mutual Bank William W. Krippaehne, Jr.^{EC (Chair)},* President & CEO, Fisher Companies Inc. Firoz H. Lalji, Chairman, President & CEO, Multiple Zones, Inc.	Tomio Moriguchi^EC, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Uwajimaya, Inc. Colin Moseley, Chairman, Simpson Investment Company Kirk R. Nelson, Vice President – Washington, Qwest Corporation H. Stewart Parker^EC, President & CEO, Targeted Genetics Corporation Michael Phillips, President & CEO, Frank Russell Company Mark C. Pigott, Chairman & CEO, PACCAR Inc. Rick E. Porter, Business Unit Leader, BP Cherry Point Refinery Lura J. Powell, Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mary E. Pugh^EC, President, Pugh Capital Management, Inc. Richard C. Redman, Chairman & CEO, Sellen Construction Company John V. Rindlaub, President, Northwest Banking, Bank of America Steven R. Rogel,* Chairman, President & CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company William D. Ruckelshaus, Principal, Madrona Investment Group, L.L.C. Discovery Institute H. Jon Runstad^EC, Chairman & CEO, Wright Runstad & Company L. Pendleton Siegel^EC, Chairman & CEO, Potlatch Corporation James D. Sinegal^EC, President & CEO, Costco Companies Inc. Orin C. Smith, President & CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company Douglas W. Walker^EC, CEO, WRQ, Inc. William S. Weaver, President & CEO, Puget Sound Energy, Inc. Brett Wilcox, President & Owner, Goldendale Aluminum Company R. P. Wollenberg^EC, Chairman & President, Longview Fibre Company

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Silicon Forest TOM ALBERG as Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group he served as President of LIN Broadcasting Corporation and Executive Vice President of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. prior to co-founding Madrona Investment Group in 1995. He currently serves as a director for Madrona portfolio companies, including Impinj and Wireless Services. In addition, he serves on the boards of two public technology companies (Advanced Digital Information Corporation and Amazon.com).	Discovery Institute articles: internet search: Tom Alberg Iraq Bush Previously, Alberg was Chairman of the Executive Committee and Partner in the Northwest’s largest law firm, Perkins Coie, and was previously an attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Alberg is Chairman of the Washington State Technology Alliance, past Chairman of Discovery Institute, past Chairman of the Pacific Science Center and past President of Intiman Theater in Seattle. He was co-chairman of the capital campaign for the Computer Science Department of the University of Washington. A graduate, cum laude, of Harvard College, Alberg received his law degree from Columbia Law School where he was an editor of the Law Review.
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Rolling Stone Gay cowboy movies, Brokeback Mountain, Bush: "I haven't seen it". repulse Bush constituency, eight academy award nominations,	Findlaw	Answers in Genesis, The Dark side of Evolution * New York Times Southern Baptist Convention
Brokeback Mountain, movie has unearthed the silly question: Are there gay cowboys?		AP Gene Shalit and GLAAD NBC, "The veteran Today show critic has been taken to task by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation over his negative review of the gay cowboy western, in which he referred to Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Jack, as a "sexual predator" who "tracks Ennis down and coaxes him into sporadic trysts."


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Connexion LGBT, same gender couples, families march on Dobson headquarters, DailyKOS "Data From First Two Years Of Same Sex Marriage Proves Christian Right 180 Degrees Wrong On Impact Of Same Sex marriage : IN first two years of legal same sex marriage, Massachusetts retains lead as US state with lowest divorce rate. Meanwhile, US States Most Opposed To Same Sex Marriage Show Possible Divorce Rate Increase" Soulforce Families marching for the Soulforce 1000 Watt March	New York University Judith Stacey, a sociologist at New York University, said her work was manipulated in an attempt to show gays and lesbians do not make good parents. Judith Stacey's report BELOW Notes: Soulforce march begun at state capitol in Colorado Springs Notes gay marriage: Massachusetts has lowest divorce rate in US, above chart from Talk2Action.org	DOMA, Defense of Marriage Act American Family Association preservation of traditional family. Boycott Ford for contributing to gay issues. Culture and Family Institute EMinutemen stop homosexuals from pushing their agenda. Family Research Council religious conservative group. Focus on the Family James Dobson: has stated that gay marriage will bring about the"end of the world". FoxNews Group Claims James Dobson Skewed Research Data on Gay Parents MORE BELOW Traditional Values Coalition

Dobson manipulation of gay parents data?

DENVER — Members of a group supporting parental rights for gays and lesbians accused Focus on the Family founder James Dobson of manipulating research data to say gays and lesbians are not good parents, and began a 65-mile march Monday to confront him at his Colorado Springs headquarters.

A Focus on the Family official denied the allegation.

Soulforce Executive Director Jeff Lutes said Dobson's statements have brought rejection and ridicule on gay and lesbian parents, and the group wants him to stop. "That misinformation has real tragic results. It makes living for families like ours much more difficult. We are rejected sometimes by loved ones, we are shunned by churches and we are discriminated against in every state in this country," Lutes said at a rally before the march.

Judith Stacey, a sociologist at New York University, said her work was manipulated in an attempt to show gays and lesbians do not make good parents. Click here to read Stacey's report. "This is a direct misrepresentation of the research," she said.

Focus on the Family spokesman Glenn Stanton cited other research — including an article co-authored by Mary Parke, a policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, that shows that children need a mother and a father, regardless of the parents' sexual orientation. Click here to read Parke's article.

"We haven't said anything about sexual orientation," he said. Another spokesman, Gary Schneeberger, said Focus on the Family declined to meet privately with members of Virginia-based Soulforce last year but offered to hold a public debate, which Soulforce refused. "This is a public issue. We should have a public debate," he said.

NYU Sociologist Denounces Focus on the Family’s Misuse of Her Research on Development of Children of Same-Sex CouplesDr. Judith Stacey makes statement as Soulforce begins 1000 WATT MARCH, VIGIL & CONCERT to peacefully confront Focus on the Family's blatant anti-gay bigotry and discrimination.

Nine families begin 65-mile relay march from Colorado state capitol to Focus on the Family Headquarters.

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SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: July 17, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Richard Lindsay, Interim Media Director
Cell: 646-258-7193
richard@soulforce.org
(DENVER, CO) -- Wearing orange t-shirts that glowed brightly in the hazy mountain sun, nine Soulforce families gathered today to kick off the 1000 Watt March, Vigil and Concert, confronting the anti-gay misinformation of political power broker James Dobson and his multi-million dollar organization, Focus on the Family. Joining the families for a press conference to kickoff the 65-mile relay march from Denver to the headquarters of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs was Dr. Judith Stacey, a professor of sociology from New York University. Stacey’s research on the children of same-sex parents has been misquoted by Focus on the Family to justify discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their families. Stacey reiterated for the assembled families and news media the basic conclusion of her research: "The sexual orientation or gender combination of the parents raising children does not have much impact on children's development; the quality of the parents' relationship and the quality of their parenting does." Stacey concluded that although there can be slight variations, even advantages, to the development of children of same-sex parents, these were "differences, not deficiencies."

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