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		<title>Iranian Parliament Discovers Lots and Lots of Gays in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[17% of the  students said that they were homosexual.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483746/We-dont-gays-Iran-Iranian-president-tells-Ivy-League-audience.html">Well it took a while</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In Iran we don&#8217;t have homosexuals like in your country,&#8221; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at Columbia University last night in response to a question about the recent execution of two gay men there.</p>
<p>&#8220;In Iran we do not have this phenomenon,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I do not know who has told you we have it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Fareed Zakaria claimed that Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari was sentenced to prison in part for posting this photo on his Facebook page.</p>
<p>And now<a href="http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21611117-official-report-blows-lid-secret-world-sex-throwing"> they&#8217;ve been discovered</a> in Iran. (via<a href="http://thereligionofpeace.com/"> Religion of Peace</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>An 82-page document recently issued by Iran’s parliamentary research department is stark in its findings. Not only are young adults sexually active, with 80% of unmarried females having boyfriends, but secondary-school pupils are, too. Illicit unions are not just between girls and boys; 17% of the 142,000 students who were surveyed said that they were homosexual.</p></blockquote>
<p>At 17% Iran would be far gayer than America. Or most places.</p>
<p>While the Middle East does have a higher prevalence of homosexual behavior (which is really not the same as our construct of gay as a permanent genetic identity, itself an unscientific notion) it&#8217;s doubtful that these numbers are accurate.</p>
<p>In a country where homosexual behavior is illegal, it&#8217;s doubtful that students who really thought they were gay would admit it to any kind of research study. However Iran&#8217;s government is looking for excuses to crack down further and numbers like these give them ammunition.</p>
<p>The 17 percent figure suggests that the numbers were made up. But then again even in the West distorted figures like these happen because the students are messing around. It&#8217;s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/study-that-claimed-5-of-students-were-gay-was-based-on-student-prank/">one reason we have wildly inflated numbers</a> of the gay population.</p>
<blockquote><p>Preliminary results from the landmark study — known as “Add Health” — stunned researchers, parents and educators alike, recalls Cornell’s Ritch C. Savin-Williams, professor of human development, licensed clinical psychologist, author and director of the university’s Sex and Gender Lab.</p>
<p>The landmark study was cited across academia, spawning over 1900 peer-reviewed publications, and became one of the largest longitudinal surveys on the psychological and physical well being of 7-12th graders.</p>
<p>Previous estimates of homosexuality and bisexuality among high schoolers had been around 1 percent. So imagine the surprise and confusion when subsequent revisits to the same research subjects found more than 70 percent of the self-reported adolescent nonheterosexuals had somehow gone “straight” as older teens and young adults.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, when given a chance to prank a research, 5-7 percent of students chose to do just that.</p></blockquote>
<p>It looks like in Iran the figure is more like 17 percent.</p>
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		<title>Another Gay Rights Victory: Sentence for Man Who Exposed Other Man to HIV Thrown Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["HIV transmission should not be criminalized—ever." ]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;m not sure how a ruling that frees gay men to expose their sex partners to a deadly virus is a gay rights victory, but clearly I&#8217;m not keeping pace with the frenzied rush of liberalism through the gates of madness.</p>
<p>If gay marriage was marriage equality, what&#8217;s this? <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/06/13/68725.htm">Viral equality</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>State Sen. Matt McCoy of Des Moines cut off Nick Rhoades&#8217; ankle bracelet at a gathering in Grinnell. The crowd was cheering. People were crying.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was totally moving and made all the work worthwhile,&#8221; said Terry Lowman, who attended the event. &#8220;To me, the drama played like Jesus washing the feet of the poor. I was so totally moved.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure. Except the &#8220;poor&#8221; in this case was a man with HIV who had sex with another man without telling him he had it. In his defense, the other man didn&#8217;t actually come down with it.</p>
<p>So <a href="http://wcfcourier.com/rhoades-vs-iowa-ruling/pdf_08857649-d5fb-5021-91b7-9bceb74e3280.html">clearly he&#8217;s the innocent victim here</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In Cedar Falls, Rhoades and A.P. engaged in consensual unprotected oral and protected anal sex. Several days later, A.P. learned Rhoades was potentially HIV positive. A.P. contacted the police, and subsequently the State charged Rhoades with criminal transmission of HIV in violation of Iowa Code section 709C.1</p>
<p>Rhoades knew he had HIV since 1998 but he described himself as HIV-negative on the social network website where he met A.P. in 2008.</p>
<p>Any jury in the case would have heard evidence that &#8220;A.P. performed unprotected oral sex on Rhoades, that there was a possibility of failed protection during anal sex, and that Rhoades later apologized to the victim,&#8221; he added.</p></blockquote>
<p>The complaint was made by a gay man against Rhoades. Rhoades was not the victim here, he was the perpetrator.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2014/06/14/iowa-court-voids-sentence-hiv-transmission-case/10514725/">Des Moines Register</a> stories on this are a mix between propaganda and crazy lies.</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2009 Rhoades pleaded guilty to criminal transmission of HIV, and while his 25-year prison sentence was later reduced to probation for five years, he still has a felony criminal record and is required to be on the state&#8217;s sex-offender registry. In the meantime, advocates of equal rights for gays and lesbians took up his cause, the Iowa Legislature this year changed the state law on which he was convicted and Gov. Terry Branstad recently signed the bill into law.</p></blockquote>
<p>Good news for gay men with HIV. Not so much for gay men without HIV. But the latter category should probably rethink their HIV-free privilege.</p>
<blockquote><p>This Iowa man had consensual sex with another adult who didn&#8217;t contract HIV, yet he was prohibited from being around minors without supervision. The punishment imposed on Rhoades was horrific, and state lawmakers knew it.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s not a horrific punishment. A horrific punishment is knowingly exposing someone else to a deadly virus.</p>
<p>Liberals are obsessed with rape culture. They have defined rape down quite a bit. But when it comes to gay men, suddenly this is considered consensual sex.</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/06/16/iowa_reformed_its_hiv_criminalization_law_but_it_s_still_bad.html">gay activists are still unhappy</a> with any legal ban for knowingly infecting someone else.</p>
<blockquote><p>HIV transmission should not be criminalized—ever. HIV criminalization laws do absolutely nothing to prevent the spread of the virus. They stigmatize HIV-positive people, dissuade people from getting tested, and undermine public health goals. They are exceedingly difficult to enforce and based on junk science. They should all be repealed, entirely, immediately.</p></blockquote>
<p>There you have liberalism in all its glory.</p>
<blockquote><p>All of this is certainly progress. But LGBTQ activists should resist the urge to ballyhoo Iowa’s new law as a model for the other 34 states that criminalize HIV exposure or transmission. The revised Iowa law may have removed the bizarrely harsh, unscientific penalty that Rhoades initially faced, which slapped him with a 25-year prison sentence for theoretically exposing a partner to HIV without actually transmitting the virus. But an HIV-positive person who knows he’s positive and transmits the virus to a partner “with reckless disregard” still faces five years in prison.</p></blockquote>
<p>When there&#8217;s real progress, then gay men will be able to spread AIDS as much as they like without ever being prosecuted. Disagreeing will be a hate crime&#8230; because this is liberalism.</p>
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		<title>Another Day, Another Fake Anti-Gay Hate Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seem to be more fake gay hate crimes than real ones.]]></description>
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<p>Between the homophobic birthday invitation (fake), the lesbian waitress receipt (fake) and <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2014-03-11/entertainment/48122614_1_matthew-shepard-gay-panic-defense-russell-henderson">Matthew Shepard</a> (fake)&#8230; there seem to be <a href="http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/02/16/lying-coercing-manipulating-defrauding-and-scheming-for-marriage-equality/">more fake gay hate crimes</a> than real ones.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/04/12/1124145/unc-investigating-assault-on-student.html">A UNC-Chapel Hill freshman who told police</a> he was attacked by a man who burned his hand and called him an anti-gay slur made a false report,</p>
<p>A lesbian couple spray painted the phrase “kill the gay” on their own garage</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kmbc.com/Man-Admits-Hate-Crime-Attack-Was-False/12252974">Floyd Elliott, of Independence,</a> told police that two attackers cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot knife, and attempted to carve the word &#8220;Fag&#8221; on his forehead. Later, Elliott admitted to police that the injuries were self-inflicted.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/26/report-man-falsified-police-report-in-alleged-anti-gay-attack/">A Tennessee health food store owne</a>r who claimed that three men beat him and robbed his store in an anti-gay attack was arrested for filing a false police report</p>
<p>A<a href="http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/080466.php"> rash of gay-bashing incidents at Tamalpais </a>High School was the work of a student gay leader who claimed she was the victim of hate crimes,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15467/">A series of “hate crimes” at Vassar College</a> were an elaborate hoax, carried out by the left-wing leader of the school’s official “Bias Incident Response Team.” Messages included “Hey Tranny. Know Your Place.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/07/03/bias-hoax-central-connecticut">In March, hundreds of students</a> at Central Connecticut State University held a rally to back Alexandra Pennell, a student who told the crowd that she had been receiving notes in her dormitory room attacking her for being a lesbian. Now Pennell has been expelled from the university and faces numerous criminal charges that she faked the notes,</p>
<p><a href="http://articles.philly.com/2001-08-23/news/25298518_1_gay-union-national-gay-lesbian-task-force">An openly gay student at the College </a>of New Jersey who told a campus gathering last spring that he received death threats and hate mail has confessed to fabricating the messages</p>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-investigate-assault-transgender-teen-22770897">A 15-year-old transgender studen</a>t in California who claimed to have been beaten and sexually assaulted in a school bathroom recanted after a police investigation</p></blockquote>
<p>And that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg. But <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185852/Joseph-Baken-claimed-beaten-gay-admits-police-receive-video-hitting-HIS-OWN-head-flipping-curb.html">here&#8217;s one from 2012</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A young man who told police he was beaten up in a would-be hate crime appeared in court today admitting that he made the entire incident up.</p>
<p>The story of Joseph Baken travelled from Missoula, Montana across the country when a picture of his scratched and bruised face made waves on the internet.</p>
<p>Now, Baken has declared in court that he made the false police report after video surfaced of him attempting to do a back flip and failing.</p></blockquote>
<p>So it was really an anti-somersault hate crime. And <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579192/Gay-theatre-student-claimed-beaten-homophobic-thugs-admits-got-injuries-fell-WONT-face-action-wasting-police-time.html">now here it comes again</a> (graphic content at link), except this time it&#8217;s from the UK.</p>
<blockquote><p> A drama student who became an internet sensation after claiming he was savagely beaten up for being gay has admitted he caused his injuries himself when he tripped on the pavement.</p>
<p>Richard Kennedy, 18, from Blackpool, told police he was set upon by a gang of homophobes when he left a gay nightclub in Preston, Lancashire,.</p>
<p>He posted photographs on Facebook of his battered and bleeding face, dislodged teeth, and gaping knee wound, with the caption &#8216;An example [of] why homophobia is wrong and it&#8217;s disgusting that it&#8217;s still around in 2014&#8242;.</p>
<p>&#8220;A sex life is private and has nothing to do with no one, needless to say it’s absolutely disgraceful to violently attack someone because of who they are. My confidence has gone, im utterly embarrassed to be seen in public, the only reason I am putting this picture up is because I want you to see me as an example. An example why homophobia is wrong and it’s disgusting that it’s still around in 2014.&#8221;</p>
<p>The post was shared by more than 182,000 well-wishers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even though Kennedy had given a fairly detailed description of what happened, writing, &#8220;got violently assaulted last night by a group of c___s, all because of my sexuality, covered in blood and literally stomped on my face causing my teeth to go into my gums,&#8221; the police decided to pretend that it was all a big misunderstanding.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is just another homophobic attack that happens every day, but it needs to stop, this is wrong, this is disgusting and using sexual preference as a motive to be violent and abusive is utter inhumane,&#8221; Kennedy wrote.</p>
<p>I agree. This rash of fake homophobic crimes is disgusting, abusive and needs to stop.</p>
<p>But just wait. Tomorrow there will be another one and that Drama major you went to college with will share it along with a rainbow flag and some nasty comment about Republicans.</p>
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		<title>Does the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade Need Mayors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio's popularity rating is down to 51%]]></description>
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<p>The left-wing mayors of New York and Boston have announced that they won&#8217;t march in the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parades of their respective cities unless those parades get turned into gay pride parades.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio may instead march in an alternative drag queen parade which sounds about right. Mayor Walsh will spend the day trying to get the foot out of his mouth.</p>
<p>Somewhere along the way radical buffoons like Bill de Blasio (aka William Wilhelm Jr.) and Martin Walsh have forgotten why mayors march in parades. The mayors aren&#8217;t honoring the parade by showing up, they&#8217;re soliciting support and trying to win the goodwill of whichever ethnic community they&#8217;re pandering to on that given day.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio and Martin Walsh have decided that their positions are secure enough that they can tell traditional Irish Catholics to go to hell. That&#8217;s their choice and they&#8217;ll lose or gain from it. The choice will not affect the parade in any way.</p>
<p>Parades don&#8217;t benefit from mayors showing up. Mayors benefit from showing up to parades. Mayor Walsh and Bill de Blasio have decided that New York and Boston are no longer working class and they can ignore the people and focus on their wealthy gay donors. Maybe they&#8217;re right, but more likely they&#8217;re wrong.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio&#8217;s popularity rating is down to 51%. The parade doesn&#8217;t need him. He needs it. The St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade organizers would be doing William Wilhelm Jr. a favor by letting him march, but Bill de Blasio acted like he was the the one doing them a favor.</p>
<p>And like most left-wing fanatics, he won&#8217;t realize that until it&#8217;s too late.</p>
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		<title>No, Arizona Protecting Religious Freedom is Not &#8220;Jim Crow&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one should be jailed for not participating in a gay wedding.]]></description>
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<p>Back when gay rights advocates were first pushing for gay marriage, they claimed that they only wanted equality and that no one would be compelled to participate in gay marriage events.</p>
<p>They lied.</p>
<p>As soon as gay marriage went on the books, and in some states where it wasn&#8217;t even on the books, religious bakeries and photographers were assaulted with demands that they participate in gay ceremonies, sued if they didn&#8217;t and ordered to take part in gay ceremonies or face fines&#8230; and even jail time.</p>
<p>States have responded by trying to pass measures that will protect religious freedom and freedom of speech. That means preventing <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/participate-in-gay-wedding-or-go-to-jail-for-a-year/">incredible abuses of power by the gay rights</a> lobby like this&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Participate in Gay Wedding… or Go to Jail for a Year</p>
<p>A Colorado bakery owner illegally discriminated against a gay couple when he refused to bake a wedding cake for the pair last year because of his Christian religious beliefs, a judge ruled on Friday.</p>
<p>Phillips is a devoted Christian who has an unwavering faith. She said he is a person of such deep faith that he won’t even bake Halloween-themed treats – at all.</p>
<p>Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer ordered Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, to accommodate sex-couples or face fines and other possible penalties.</p>
<p>“The complainants can sue him civilly in the regular courts system or he can potentially be prosecuted by the district attorney for up to twelve months in jail.”</p>
<p>“At first blush, it may seem reasonable that a private business should be able to refuse service to anyone it chooses,” Spencer wrote in his 13-page ruling. “This view, however, fails to take into account the cost to society and the hurt caused to persons who are denied service simply because of who they are.”</p></blockquote>
<p>No one in this country should be sent to jail for a year because their religious beliefs prevent them from participating in a gay ceremony.</p>
<p>Cases <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/new-mexico-rules-christian-photographers-must-compromise-their-religious-values-for-gay-wedding/">like these should not be happening</a><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nm-supreme-court-justice-compromising-religion-on-gay-marriage-is-the-price"> in a free country</a>. This is about protecting the First Amendment which was here before gay marriage&#8230; and will hopefully still exist after gay marriage is done.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court of New Mexico has ruled that Christian photographers do not have the right to decline photographing a gay “wedding,” even if doing so violates their religious beliefs.</p>
<p>The case began in 2006, when Vanessa Willock approached the Albuquerque-based business to take pictures of her ceremony with girlfriend Misti Collinsworth and was politely declined. She found another photographer for the event but pursued legal action anyway.</p>
<p>The Huguenins argued they did not discriminate against homosexuals but “did not want to convey through [Huguenin]’s pictures the story of an event celebrating an understanding of marriage that conflicts with [the owners’] beliefs.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Cases <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/aclu-sues-70-year-old-christian-flower-shop-owner-for-refusing-to-participate-in-gay-wedding/">like these do not belong in America</a>. And the only way to stop them is by reinforcing the First Amendment.</p>
<blockquote><p>The ACLU took in 63 million dollars in 2011. It has net assets of almost 300 million dollars. Anthony Romero, its Exec Director, takes in 342,858 dollars.</p>
<p>And like most bullies, the ACLU picked a target its own size, Barronelle Stutzman, a 70-year-old woman who runs a flower shop. For those who think that gay marriage can be folded on, the case of Arlene’s Flowers provides another sobering wake-up call.</p>
<p>Homosexual activists are not looking to live and let live. They are out to force their way on everyone else at any cost. Even shamelessly going after a 70-year-old woman who was only following her faith.</p>
<p>The American Civil Liberties Union also stepped into the fray, sending Stutzman a letter announcing it would file a separate civil suit for damages on behalf of the engaged couple unless she agrees to provide flowers without discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, publish a letter of apology in the newspaper and donate $5,000 to a local youth center, in lieu of attorneys’ fees.</p>
<p>“Your refusal to sell flowers to Mr. Ingersoll and Mr. Freed for their wedding has hurt them very deeply. It is a disturbing reminder of the history of discrimination and disparate treatment that they and other gay men and women have experienced over the years,” ACLU attorney Michael R. Scott said in the letter.</p></blockquote>
<p>Gay rights activists have responded to these attempts to protect the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights from their assault by crying &#8220;Jim Crow.&#8221;</p>
<p>Protecting religious freedom is not Jim Crow. It&#8217;s the right of people to opt out of a religious ceremony whose premise their religion does not accept. The United States has Separation of Church and State, something that liberals insist upon. It ought to have a separation of Unitarian Church and State as well.</p>
<p>No American should be jailed for a year for not participating in a gay wedding. Any gay rights group that demands this isn&#8217;t protecting Jim Crow, it&#8217;s attacking the basic civil rights of every traditional American.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Leaders Praise Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muslim Council has urged a national support for the president.]]></description>
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<p>American progressive love to harp on Uganda&#8217;s anti-gay legislation while paying very little attention to Muslim Gambia whose rhetoric is just as bad, never mind Iran or Pakistan. For the same reason, progs focused on Nigeria recently while overlooking the fact that the push for anti-gay measures came from Muslims.</p>
<p>(Ironically, Obama Inc. and progs had insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan needed to fight terrorism by giving Muslims more of a role. And then they got what they wanted.)</p>
<p>In the latest news from Uganda, Muslim leaders <a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/news/africa/469431-uganda-muslims-laud-anti-gay-bill.html">there are thrilled by the anti-gay laws</a>. (via <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">Religion of Peace</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Uganda Muslims have welcomed the decision of President Yoweri Museveni to back an anti-gay bill that imposes life sentences for some homosexual acts, risking ties between western donors and the east African country.</p>
<p>“It takes a courageous leader to defy all the western powers who have gone as far a threatening to cut off aid to Uganda incase the president signs the anti-gay bill,&#8221; said Hajji Nsereko Mutumba, the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) Public Relations Officer, in statement cited on Wednesday, February 19.</p>
<p>“I would like to commend President Museveni for his decision to sign the anti-gay bill,&#8221; Mutumba said.</p>
<p>Appreciating Museveni&#8217;s decision, the Muslim Council has urged a national support for the president.</p>
<p>It is now the duty of all Ugandans to rally behind the President because “the coming days, weeks, months and years may not be easy for the country,&#8221; UMSC&#8217;s Public Relations Officer urged.</p></blockquote>
<p>Look for Western progressives to ignore this while they continue lambasting Uganda, while ignoring the fact that the most dangerous countries in the world for homosexuals are Muslim countries.</p>
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		<title>Social Justice Teens Carve Swastika into Teen Boy&#8217;s Head for Calling Them &#8220;Gay&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["They beat him without compassion."]]></description>
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<p>The<a href="http://www.katu.com/news/investigators/KATU-Exclusive-Mother-of-tortured-teen-says-her-son-was-no-bully-245649901.html"> war on bullying</a> is really going well.<a href="http://www.katu.com/news/investigators/KATU-Exclusive-Mother-of-tortured-teen-says-her-son-was-no-bully-245649901.html?tab=video&amp;c=y"> It&#8217;s getting better in Portlan</a>d where the Red Guard appears to be working overtime.</p>
<blockquote><p>Three teenagers accused of torturing another teenager in a backyard shed appeared in court Wednesday.</p>
<p>Jenna Montgomery, 15, Jess Taylor, 17, and Blue Kalmbach, 15, face a long list of charges, including kidnapping, robbery, assault and menacing. Another teenager, a 14-year-old boy, is charged as a juvenile.</p>
<p>Dustyn Murrain was lured to the shed in the backyard of a S.E. Portland home, beaten over the head with a crow bar and shot with a bb gun in his chest and groin. One of the four teenagers charged in the attack is also accused of carving a swastika into Murrain&#8217;s forehead with a box cutter.</p>
<p>Before the attack was planned out, at least one day before it transpired, the victim allegedly called one of the other teens &#8220;gay,&#8221; possibly fueling the senseless abuse, KATU reported.</p>
<p>Murrain&#8217;s mother said she can&#8217;t understand how anyone could think it was OK to kidnap and torture her son regardless of what he might have said about them.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s the first to admit her son is no angel &#8211; she said he&#8217;s struggled academically.</p>
<p>But she doesn&#8217;t buy the accused teenagers claims, that Dustyn had bullied them by calling someone gay.</p>
<p>And even if it were true?</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been called lots of names and I never went out and shot anybody or beat them in the head with a crowbar,&#8221; she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>But we&#8217;re in the gay rights Renaissance and in Portland, it&#8217;s a whole other game. Here&#8217;s a picture from Kalmbach&#8217;s Facebook profile.</p>
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<div>Murrain says her son had emergency surgery Monday night for the BB shot that went through his groin area. He has staples in his head from getting hit with a crowbar.</div>
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<div>Alex Montoya will never forget seeing Dustyn walk into his auto shop on S.E. Powell.</div>
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<div>It was Montoya who called 911.</div>
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<div>&#8220;There was like a BB gun little bullets all over his body, and scratches and bruises on the head. They beat him without compassion,&#8221; Montoya said.</div>
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<div>Compassion isn&#8217;t a trait inculcated in liberals except for official oppressed minorities.</div>
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		<title>New York Times&#8217; Biased Coverage on Muslim Persecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 05:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leftist script must always prevail.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nyt.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-219053" alt="nyt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nyt.jpg" width="275" height="183" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/world/africa/nigeria-uses-law-and-whip-to-sanitize-gays.html?_r=1"><i>New York Times</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> has finally found a victim of Islamic aggression in Nigeria worth reporting on: homosexuals.   In a big spread complete with pictures appearing last week, the NYT’s Adam Nossiter wrote “Wielding Whip and a Hard New Law, Nigeria Tries to ‘Sanitize’ Itself of Gays.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While it’s all well and good to expose the persecution of any group, why does the NYT remain silent about the much more endemic and savage jihad to “sanitize” Nigeria of Christians—a jihad that has seen countless Christians butchered and countless churches destroyed?  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A 2012 meeting of Nigerian church heads concluded that “the pattern of these killings [of Christians] does suggest to us a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/01/08/Nigeria-Christians-Liken-Attacks-to-Civil-War-Run-Up">systematic ethnic and religious cleansing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Among other things in the group’s bid to cleanse the Muslim-majority north of all Christian presence, it has threatened to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://global.christianpost.com/news/nigerian-christian-leader-claims-boko-haram-to-launch-jihad-with-poisoned-meat-76949/">poison the food eaten by Christians</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and “to strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.persecution.org/2012/03/06/nigerias-boko-haram-wants-to-kidnap-christian-women-says-spokesman/">kidnapping their women</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.” The group frequently storms areas where Christians and Muslims are intermingled—from villages to colleges—and singles the Christians out before </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-students-executed-by-boko-haram-in-nigeria-believers-pray-for-change-of-heart-82646/">slitting their throats</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.acnuk.org/countries.php/25/nigeria">2011</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> hundreds of Christians were killed and 430 churches destroyed or damaged. In </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.persecution.org/2013/05/05/900-christians-slaughtered-in-nigeria-in-2012/">2012</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, 900 Christians were slaughtered.  Indeed, of all Christians killed around the world in 2012, 70% were killed in the west African nation.  In </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.worldwatchlist.us/world-watch-list-countries/nigeria/">2013</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, 612 Christians were killed and some 300 churches destroyed.  The year 2014 promises to be the same.  Just the other day, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/interfaith-outreach-in-nigeria-chanting-allahu-akbar-muslims-murder-over-50-christians">over 50 Christians were slaughtered</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by “Allahu Akbar” screaming jihadis.</span></p>
<p>Thus, from a purely demographical point of view, we may deduce that for every one man who gets exposed as a homosexual in the privacy of his own home, and killed for it, thousands of Christians expose themselves as infidels whenever they openly congregate and worship inside churches, as they do every Sunday, and get killed for it.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Based on numbers alone, then—assuming the NYT can agree that all human lives are equal, that the life of the Christian is equal in value to the life of the homosexual—the dramatically much bigger story has long been the relentless and genocidal jihad on Nigeria’s millions of Christians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But of course, it’s not surprising that the NYT in general, reporter Adam Nossiter in particular, are biased concerning whose plight to highlight.  The NYT and Nossiter are the very ones who, on December 25, 2011—the day after Boko Haram bombed several churches during Christmas Eve services, leaving some 40 dead—published a spread equivocating the truth concerning the Muslim persecution of Christians in the African nation.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then, on Christmas Day, 2011, the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/world/africa/explosion-rips-through-catholic-church-in-nigeria.html?hp">NYT’s Nossiter</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> declared:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>The sect, known as Boko Haram, <i>until now</i> mostly targeted the police, government and military in its insurgency effort, but the bombings on Sunday <i>represented a new, religion-tinged front</i>, a tactic that threatens to exploit the <i>already frayed relations</i> between Nigeria’s nearly evenly split populations of Christians and Muslims…(emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Until now”?  The fact is Boko Haram had been terrorizing and killing Nigerian Christians and destroying their churches  several years before the 2011 Christmas church bombings. Indeed, Christmas Eve 2010—one year to the day before the 2011 Christmas Eve church attacks—</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/28/islamist-sect-responsibility-nigeria-attacks">Boko Haram bombed several churches, killing 38 Christian worshippers</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thus Nossiter’s</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">characterization of the 2011 attacks as “represent[ing] a new, religion-tinged front” is not only inaccurate but unconscionable.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Moreover, whereas the NYT’s Nossiter asserted that there are “already frayed relations” between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, he talks of no “frayed relations” between Muslims and homosexuals: he correctly knows that the “fraying” comes from one direction. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And it’s the same concerning Nigeria’s Muslims and Christians—the “fraying” comes from one direction.  Yet, due to Nossiter’s prevarications, the reader is left with the impression that Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims are equally motivated by religious hostility—even as one seeks in vain for Christian terror organizations that bomb mosques in Nigeria every Friday to screams of “Christ is Great!”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When talking about Boko Haram’s jihad on Christians, the NYT’s Nossiter managed to insert another mainstream media favorite: the “poverty-causes-terrorism” meme: “The sect’s attacks [on Christian churches] have been further bolstered by festering economic resentment in the impoverished and relatively neglected north, which has an exploding birthrate, low levels of literacy and mass unemployment.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Needless to say, when writing about the persecution of homosexuals, “festering economic resentment in the impoverished and relatively neglected north”—precisely where homosexuals are most persecuted—is never cited as a contributing factor.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such are the ways that “reality” is created or evaded by the mainstream media and, from there, to the unsuspecting masses of the West. The script must always prevail—reality be damned. </span></p>
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		<title>California Supreme Court May Ban Judges from Being Boy Scouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Being Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent will actually <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Proposal-would-bar-California-judges-from-Scout-5211428.php">disqualify you from being a California</a> judge.</p>
<blockquote><p>The state Supreme Court&#8217;s ethics advisory committee wants the court to prohibit California judges from membership in the Boy Scouts because the 2.7 million-member youth organization bars gays and lesbians from becoming troop leaders.</p>
<p>Banning scout membership would &#8220;promote the integrity of the judiciary&#8221; and &#8220;enhance public confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary,&#8221; the ethics committee said Wednesday.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, nothing promotes the integrity of the judiciary like banning judges from participating in a children&#8217;s organization because it doesn&#8217;t cater to gays.</p>
<p>Naturally being a member of La Raza or GLAAD would in no way undermine public confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary, because&#8230; crickets.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure when exactly the line between Communism and California blurred this badly, but it&#8217;s certainly getting hard to see the difference.</p>
<blockquote><p>The ethics committee&#8217;s unanimous recommendation is another sign of a changing climate that has included increasing public, political and judicial support for same-sex marriage. Six of the advisory committee&#8217;s eight members are judges, and the chairman is Richard Fybel, a state appeals court justice in Santa Ana.</p></blockquote>
<p>The changing climate though isn&#8217;t making life better, it&#8217;s making life worse. It isn&#8217;t setting people free, it&#8217;s telling them what they can&#8217;t do or be.</p>
<blockquote><p>In response, Deron Smith, a spokesman at Boy Scouts headquarters in Irving, Texas, said the Scouts &#8220;would be disappointed with anything that limits our volunteers&#8217; ability to serve more youth. &#8230; Today, more than ever, youth need the character and leadership programs of Scouting.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Not in California. Its leaders are doing just fine being untrustworthy, disloyal, dirty, unhelpful, hostile, rude, cruel, frivolous, cowardly and contemptuous.</p>
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		<title>Bill de Blasio to Boycott St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizers predict more than 1 million people will attend]]></description>
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<p>After boycotting snow removal, William Wilhelm Jr. aka Bill de Blasio will be boycotting the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio doesn&#8217;t seem like a fan of parades in general. Before the election <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/bill-de-blasio-attends-columbus-day-parade-attacks-columbus/">he showed up at the Columbus Day Parade</a> and claimed that he wasn&#8217;t doing it to support Columbus.</p>
<p>Wilhelm Jr. i<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/4/de-blasio-boycotting-st-patricks-day-parade/">sn&#8217;t a fan of St. Patrick </a>either because the parade doesn&#8217;t allow gay rights signs. That will make Bill de Blasio the first mayor since Dinkins to pull this stunt.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he won’t be marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade this year in protest for gay rights.</p>
<p>The Democrat said he won’t march along Fifth Avenue because of organizers’ refusal to allow gay-pride signs in the parade, the Associated Press reported.</p>
<p>Organizers said gay-rights activists are allowed to march but cannot carry signs because it could take away from the parade’s focus on honoring Irish tradition.</p>
<p>Organizers predict more than 1 million people will attend on March 17.</p></blockquote>
<p>And how many of them voted for Bill de Blasio?But you can sympathize with Bill&#8217;s position. His wife is a lesbian after all.</p>
<p>The Sandinista mayor&#8217;s position though isn&#8217;t radical enough for the even more radical left.</p>
<blockquote><p>LGBT leaders and other officials, including Public Advocate Tish James, wrote an open letter to the mayor yesterday in the Gay City News calling on him to “Ban Uniformed City Personnel in Discriminatory St. Pat’s Parade.” The police commissioner and uniformed police, firefighters and other city personnel typically march in the parade down Fifth Avenue every year.</p>
<p>“The presence of uniformed police and firefighters in such a procession sends a clear signal to LGBTQ New Yorkers that these personnel, who are charged with serving and protecting all New Yorkers, do not respect the lives or safety of LGBT people,” they wrote. “We are asking you to direct all City departments not to organize marchers for or allow personnel to participate in this anti-LGBTQ procession either in uniform or with any banner that identifies them with the City.”</p></blockquote>
<p>And then maybe compel the NYPD&#8217;s Irish cops to march in the Gay Pride Parade instead.</p>
<p>The St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade predated New York City. It will be around long after Bill de Blasio is sleeping in one of those specialized nursing homes for old leftists.</p>
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		<title>Maine Court says Banning Men from Using the Ladies Room is Discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be illegal for a restaurant to prohibit a man from using the women’s bathroom]]></description>
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<p>That&#8217;s not just the literal meaning of the ruling which states that a Maine school forbidding a boy who claims that his gender identity is that of a girl from using the bathroom is discrimination, but also the practical effect of the ruling which uses discrimination law to argue that, effectively, gender segregated bathrooms are illegal.</p>
<p>The school directed Maines, the boy in question, to use the staff bathroom, after complaints by family members of students.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that banned a transgender boy from using the girls’ bathroom in Orono schools.</p>
<p>In a 5-1 decision, the justices said that Superior Court Justice William Anderson erred when he ruled in favor of what is now Riverside RSU 26.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/30/barring-transgender-student-from-using-girls-bathroom-violates-maine-law/?tid=up_next">Chief Justice dissented by pointing</a> out the obvious implications of this ridiculous decision.</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he Court has concluded, as it must based on the statutes, that discrimination in the public accommodation of communal bathrooms is prohibited based on sexual orientation. The statute requiring that result also prohibits discrimination based simply on “sex.”</p>
<p>Thus, the next logical step given the Court’s inevitable interpretation of the existing statute is, as the dissent points out, the assertion that access to the public accommodation of designated communal bathrooms cannot be denied based on a person’s sex.</p>
<p>Put simply, it could now be argued that it would be illegal discrimination for a restaurant, for example, to prohibit a man from using the women’s communal bathroom, and vice versa.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s exactly the outcome. The idiotic logic of discrimination law has led us step by step to this point. If any form of separation is illegal, then so are gender segregated bathrooms.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve gone from lunch counter equality to bathroom equality.</p>
<p>Justice Mead points out that,</p>
<blockquote><p>The broad principle established by the Court’s interpretation of the MHRA is that access to multiple-user public bathrooms may not be denied based upon sexual orientation. That principle, by implication, applies equally to the other categories enumerated in the MHRA.</p>
<p>Specifically, it means that no person may be denied access to a public bathroom in a school or other place of public accommodation on the basis of their race, color, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry, national origin, or sex. Thus, the MHRA, as construed by the Court today, prevents the denial of access to any public bathroom on the basis of a  person’s sex.</p>
<p>Obviously this result is an extraordinary departure from the well-established custom that public bathrooms are typically segregated by sex.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ah, but that custom is discriminatory. It also offends transgender men who hate being reminded that they aren&#8217;t really women.</p>
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		<title>Study that Claimed 5% of Students Were Gay was Based on Student Prank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 70 percent of the self-reported homosexuals had gone "straight]]></description>
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<p>There&#8217;s nothing like rigorous research to establish the facts. Especially when it comes to sexual orientation.</p>
<p>There was the Kinsey Report which had worse methodology than a Geocities page by a Portuguese 9/11 Truther who thinks the World Trade Center was in Taiwan. But if you&#8217;ve <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=222378#more-222378">seen a 5-7 percent figure quoted </a>for the percentage of gay students, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140114130729.htm">then this is where it came from</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Preliminary results from the landmark study &#8212; known as &#8220;Add Health&#8221; &#8212; stunned researchers, parents and educators alike, recalls Cornell&#8217;s Ritch C. Savin-Williams, professor of human development, licensed clinical psychologist, author and director of the university&#8217;s Sex and Gender Lab.</p>
<p>The landmark study was cited across academia, spawning over 1900 peer-reviewed publications, and became one of the largest longitudinal surveys on the psychological and physical well being of 7-12th graders.</p>
<p>Previous estimates of homosexuality and bisexuality among high schoolers had been around 1 percent. So imagine the surprise and confusion when subsequent revisits to the same research subjects found more than 70 percent of the self-reported adolescent nonheterosexuals had somehow gone &#8220;straight&#8221; as older teens and young adults.</p></blockquote>
<p>Surprisingly, when given a chance to prank a research, 5-7 percent of students chose to do just that. There are various interpretations of these findings.</p>
<p>The most controversial one would be that the 70 percent may have thought that they were gay, but weren&#8217;t actually. This is a dangerous idea because it destroys the gay rights lobby claim that sexual orientation change therapies should be banned because they don&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easier to put it down to a prank, which it may well have been considering this&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We should have known something was amiss,&#8221; Savin-Williams said. &#8220;One clue was that most of the kids who first claimed to have artificial limbs miraculously regrew arms and legs when researchers came back to interview them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Really? None of the researchers realized that they didn&#8217;t back when they were interviewing them?</p>
<p>Either way studies about human sexuality should be trusted about as far as you can throw them after first making a paper airplane out of them.</p>
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		<title>Secretary of Defense: Only Military Issue Obama Cared About was Gays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only military matter which I sensed deep passion was 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' ]]></description>
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<p>Obama sent 1,600 Americans to die in Afghanistan but never believed in it or cared about it. The only military issue he did care about was gays in the military. And that&#8217;s<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/12/gates-dont-ask-dont-tell-fight-was-only-time-obama-showed-passion-for-military/"> according to his own Secretary of Defense</a>.</p>
<p>This is what a liberal at war looks like.</p>
<blockquote><p>Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates sharply questions President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;passion&#8221; for military matters in his forthcoming memoir, and claims that practically the only time he saw that in the president was during his push to repeal &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;One quality I missed in Obama was passion, especially when it came to the two wars,&#8221; Gates wrote. &#8220;In my presence, Bush &#8212; very unlike his father &#8212; was pretty unsentimental. But he was passionate about the war in Iraq; on occasion, at a Medal of Honor ceremony or the like, I would see his eyes well up. I worked for Obama longer than Bush, and I never saw his eyes well up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gates went on to suggest that the president was far more emotional about repealing &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; &#8212; the policy barring openly gay people from serving in the military.</p>
<p>He wrote that &#8220;the only military matter, apart from leaks, about which I ever sensed deep passion on his part was &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8217; For him, changing the law seemed to be the inevitable next step in the civil rights movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gates went on to write about how he believes that the president cares about the troops, but over the next few years gave few public speeches about the stakes in Afghanistan and did not show the troops he was really in the fight to win.</p>
<p>&#8220;Given his campaign rhetoric about Afghanistan, I think I myself, our commanders, and our troops had expected more commitment to the cause and more passion for it from him,&#8221; Gates wrote.</p></blockquote>
<p>If only Obama had been told that the Taliban stone gays to death, he might have been in it to win it.</p>
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		<title>Lib Mag: Women&#8217;s Bathrooms &#8220;Privilege&#8221; Female Rape Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bathroom divide minimizes the existence of sexual assault that is not male-on-female.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_214096" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AllGenderRestroomNSchoolBanner.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-214096" alt="This is not a joke. This is liberalism." src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AllGenderRestroomNSchoolBanner-450x210.jpg" width="450" height="210" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This is not a joke. This is liberalism.</p></div>
<p>In what may be the most convoluted politically correct argument of the decade, a Slate intern grubs for traffic with a gay rights argument condemning separate bathrooms for men and women to protect women from being raped for discriminating against the victims of gay rape.</p>
<p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/?p=165828">Convoluted doesn&#8217;t even begin</a> to sum this up.</p>
<blockquote><p>Choosing not to rid society of the bathroom divide because of an assumption that sexual assault survivors are all women who have been assaulted by men perpetuates a culture that embraces this as inevitable. This opposition also minimizes the existence of sexual assault that is not male-on-female.</p></blockquote>
<p>The horrors of bathroom apartheid apparently minimizes gay rape. And while I agree that gay rape is a valid issue, I don&#8217;t think anyone is going to allow mandatory separate bathrooms for gay men.</p>
<p>That one just seems like a non-starter.</p>
<p>The core issue seems to be that trannies want to be able to use any bathroom they like and if they can&#8217;t, then they want to pile everyone into one bathroom because gendered bathrooms are the new racism.</p>
<blockquote><p>Why is the bathroom seen as an untouchable, unchangeable safe space? Naturally, everyone wants to be comfortable when taking care of bathroom business, but how is a restroom different than other public spaces in which people want to be left alone? Is it simply a social construction? If comfort is the main concern, why is the comfort of some people privileged over that of others? And are we comfortable with that?</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s actually a good question. Not the part about &#8220;how is a restroom different than other public spaces&#8221;. It would take a liberal to ask that particular question.</p>
<p>But if we&#8217;re going to privilege some people&#8217;s comfort, then why not privilege the vast majority that wants separate bathrooms over a tiny minority of mentally ill men who wear dresses?</p>
<p>Should the vast majority be threatened for the comfort of a tiny aberrant and disturbed minority?</p>
<p>Should women have to worry about being raped so a few trannies can be comfortable in non-gendered bathrooms?</p>
<p>The question has larger implications. Should Christian bakers and photographers lose their religious freedom so that a tiny minority of homosexuals can enjoy the privilege of forcing anyone they like to service them? Should society be turned upside down for the benefit of a tiny wealthy minority and its privileged sexual lifestyle?</p>
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		<title>The Absurdity of A&amp;E&#8217;s Duck Dynasty Actions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2013 01:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's entirely possible that A&#038;E wanted all this to happen]]></description>
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<p>1. A&amp;E had a media rep during the GQ interview. The media rep&#8217;s job is to prevent his subject from being asked questions or make statements that will make him look bad. Curiously enough, the A&amp;E rep did not decide to cut in at the right time. I&#8217;m not saying that he should have stepped in from my perspective, but from the perspective of a cable net looking to protect a valuable property that would have been the exact moment to step in.</p>
<p>So either the rep was incompetent or he deliberately allowed this to happen.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>2. A&amp;E&#8217;s &#8220;punishment&#8221; of Phil Robertson was meaningless. It put him on hiatus while the show was on hiatus. This is a little like suspending a teacher over the summer. It did it to cover its ass from the gay lobby backlash. Instead it ended up on the receiving end of a backlash that it completely did not expect from the family and from conservative viewers.</p>
<p>The network&#8217;s priorities were taking place in a bubble in which the opinion of GLAAD on Duck Dynasty mattered more than its viewers.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>3. Phil Robertson is now &#8220;back&#8221;, officially, even though it&#8217;s quite clear that he was never really away. A&amp;E had no intention of tampering with its moneymaker. But if things had gone according to plan, it would have made that announcement quietly after a statement from Phil Robertson about learning to like gay people.</p>
<p>Instead A&amp;E is forced to concede defeat and GLAAD is now angrier than ever. A&amp;E&#8217;s statement is ridiculously contorted, blaming GQ while appearing to place some responsibility, sort of, on Phil, and promising pro-gay programming and PSAs as a payoff. And probably money.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>4. A&amp;E screwed this up at the interview stage. Or it solicited exactly this reaction. It got a huge amount of publicity from Duck Dynasty&#8217;s core audience. And that is likely to lead to a viewership increase.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s entirely possible that A&amp;E wanted all this to happen and that it got exactly what it wanted, milking a culture war for cold hard cash.</p>
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		<title>We Can Have Gay Rights or Freedom of Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the left talks about tolerance, it means intolerance.]]></description>
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<p>What do a reality show star, a cakemaker and a photographer have in common? They&#8217;re all victims of a political system in which the mandate to not merely recognize gay marriage, but to celebrate it, has completely displaced freedom of speech.</p>
<p>The issues at stake in all three cases did not involve the Orwellian absurdity of &#8220;Marriage Equality&#8221;. The cases of a Christian cakemaker and a Christian photographer whom state courts have ruled must participate in gay weddings or face fines and jail time were blatant violations of both Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion in the name of outlawing any dissent from gay marriage.</p>
<p>That is why Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty was suspended. Robertson, unlike Bashir, didn&#8217;t take to the air to make violent threats against an individual. He expressed in plain language that he believes homosexuality is wrong. And that is something that you aren&#8217;t allowed to do anymore.</p>
<p>The left sneers that A&amp;E isn&#8217;t subject to Freedom of Speech because it&#8217;s a private company. And they&#8217;re right. But then they insist that a cakemaker and a photographer aren&#8217;t protected by Freedom of Speech or Religion because they&#8217;re private businesses.</p>
<p>In their constitutional universe, companies have the right to punish speech in the name of gay rights, but not to engage in protected speech in dissent from gay rights. And that&#8217;s exactly the problem. It&#8217;s not just gays who have been made into a protected class, but homosexuality itself. To dissent from it is bigotry that you can be fired for, fined for and even jailed for.</p>
<p>Gay rights were not settled by legalizing gay marriage. We are facing an ugly choice between freedom of speech and gay rights.</p>
<p>In these three cases, gay rights activists have made it clear that we can have one or the other. But we can&#8217;t have a country where we have both gay weddings and people who disagree with them.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s unfortunate because even the most generous interpretation of the benefits of two men marrying each other would struggle to prove that it is more beneficial to a society than the ability to speak your own mind and to practice your own religion without being compelled to violate it.</p>
<p>If we have to choose between gay rights and the First Amendment, the moral arc of the universe that liberals like to invoke so often will not swing toward the bullies who insist on dealing with their self-esteem problems by forcing everyone to consent and approve of their lifestyle.</p>
<p>Gay marriage was sold to Americans by cunningly crafted &#8220;gay families&#8221; on popular sitcoms. Now Americans are discovering that real gay activists aren&#8217;t friendly people who just want to make jokes between commercial breaks, but are neurotic and insecure bullies who attack others from behind the safety of the politicians that they bribed with the massive disposable incomes that comes from not having families or long-term relationships.</p>
<p>Most Americans still believe that homosexuality, adultery and a range of other deviant sexual behaviors are sins. They also, like Phil Robertson, believe that disapproving of a behavior does not mean rejecting the person. That&#8217;s where they part company with gay activists who are unable to tolerate Phil Robertson as a person if they are also unable to tolerate his opinion of their sexual habits.</p>
<p>The American tolerance for things like homosexuality comes from a mindset that is a lot closer to Phil Robertson than it is to Barack Obama. It&#8217;s that very Phil Robertson attitude which allows Americans to disapprove of homosexuality, while accepting that homosexuals should have spaces for expressing their need for political identity ceremonies. That tolerance led to civil unions and then gay marriage. And that tolerance has been woefully abused.</p>
<p>Americans are far more tolerant of sexual misbehavior than they are of people trying to take away their civil rights. And that is something that gay rights activists need to consider carefully.</p>
<p>American tolerance for homosexuality is not a blank check. It&#8217;s not the &#8220;progressive&#8221; endgame that the left believes it is in which tolerance for a thing is mistaken for the Stalinist willingness to punish dissent from that very thing.</p>
<p>When ordinary Americans talk about tolerance, they mean tolerance. When the left talks about tolerance, it means intolerance.</p>
<p>Now the gay rights movement, which is just another pimple on the bony arm of the left, is showing its true colors. It is showing that its calls for tolerance are really mandates for intolerance.</p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t looking for public spaces in which to be gay, but the elimination of public and even private spaces that reject homosexuality. It&#8217;s not gay rights that we are talking about, but gay mandates.</p>
<p>If Americans are forced to choose between Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion and gay rights; gay rights activists may not like which way they will vote.</p>
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		<title>Center for American Progress Uses Drag Queens to Promote ObamaCare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is chasing gays for the same reason that he's chasing young invincibles. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_213380" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Wednesday-Night-Tea-2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-213380" alt="Wednesday-Night-Tea-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Wednesday-Night-Tea-2-450x299.jpg" width="450" height="299" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sic transit Gloria Obamacare</p></div>
<p>Quick. What&#8217;s less off-putting than George Soros and ObamaCare? Men in dresses. When your product is this toxic, then anything off-putting but less toxic, counts as promotion.</p>
<p>So the Center for American Progress, our actual government of liberal billionaires that uses Obama as their hand puppet,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/on-health-care-white-house-and-others-reach-out-to-lgbt-americans/2013/12/16/6223d136-667c-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines"> is desperately trying to salvage ObamaCare</a> by putting on a show. A drag show.</p>
<blockquote><p>As a critical deadline for signing up for insurance under President Obama’s health-care law approaches, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has emerged as a major target for the White House and outside groups.</p>
<p>A disproportionate number of LGBT Americans are uninsured and qualify for federal premium subsidies to help buy coverage, and the administration is intensifying its efforts to get them enrolled before the end of the year.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nope. Gay incomes are three to five times that of normal Americans. Few of them are going to be eligible for subsidies.</p>
<p>The reason that Obama is chasing men in dresses is because they avoid insurance since they earn more and are more likely to work freelance. And a lot less likely to have families.</p>
<p>Obama is chasing gays for the same reason that he&#8217;s chasing young invincibles. He needs them to subsidize his program.</p>
<blockquote><p>There are several reasons for this disparity, among them that same-sex partners often don’t qualify as family members for employer-based insurance plans and that individuals sometimes lose coverage when they are fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a lot of people being fired. Does the Washington Post really believe the nonsense it prints?</p>
<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, several outside groups are pitching in for the LGBT outreach, including Out2Enroll, a collaboration among the Sellers Dorsey Foundation, the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the Federal Agencies Project.</p>
<p>Some of the pitches are decidedly less conventional. Wednesday Night Tea, a drag show in Shreveport, La., has started promoting the health-care law as part of its act. And Out2Enroll is launching a social media campaign this week that will have “naughty” elements as well as holiday cheer, according to Kellan Baker, associate director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at CAP.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama and his backers have been reduced to sponsoring drag acts. That&#8217;s a step down even from Colorado&#8217;s desperately pathetic efforts to interest young people with their Bro ads and underwear <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/03/obama-hires-half-naked-people-promote-obamacare">models</a>.</p>
<p>The Wednesday Night Tea cast, of &#8220;the ever-lovely Vanessa LeRoux, Feenyx Styles, The Ladi Phat Kat (who recently placed 7th at the National Miss USofA Pageant At-Large), Mya Andrews, and Jax Hannigan – is also working on videos that will be posted on our YouTube page. These videos will focus on the need for insurance, the issues our cast has faced because they were uninsured&#8221;.</p>
<p>Apparently it&#8217;s hard to get insurance when your job consists of living out a bad imitation of the last days of the Weimar Republic.</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;re still not convinced, there&#8217;s a Tumblr that <a href="http://out2enroll.tumblr.com/">looks like brain damage in acti</a>on. The motto is &#8220;We&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re queer and we want coverage.&#8221;</p>
<p>And if the drag act doesn&#8217;t work, they can always auction off a date with Obama.</p>
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		<title>Participate in Gay Wedding&#8230; or Go to Jail for a Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because freedom isn't free. It has to be taken away.]]></description>
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<p>Because freedom isn&#8217;t free. It has to be taken away. And then redistributed to persecuted groups like two bored gay men whose idea of love involves suing people.</p>
<p>Once upon a time there was a country with freedom of religion. A country where you couldn&#8217;t just compel someone to violate their religion because some member of a designated victim insisted that it <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/06/judge-orders-baker-to-serve-gay-couples-despite-his-religious-beliefs/">had a compelling need to violate someone else&#8217;s</a> religious freedom.</p>
<p>That was America. It was a nice place. Unfortunately we all seem to live in Sweden now with moral panics about guns <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/12/co-baker-found-guilty-for-denying-gay-couple-wedding-cake-may-face-a-year-in-jail-video/">and shotgun gay weddings</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Colorado bakery owner illegally discriminated against a gay couple when he refused to bake a wedding cake for the pair last year because of his Christian religious beliefs, a judge ruled on Friday.</p>
<p>Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer ordered Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, to accommodate sex-couples or face fines and other possible penalties.</p>
<p>“The complainants can sue him civilly in the regular courts system or he can potentially be prosecuted by the district attorney for up to twelve months in jail.”</p>
<p>“At first blush, it may seem reasonable that a private business should be able to refuse service to anyone it chooses,” Spencer wrote in his 13-page ruling. “This view, however, fails to take into account the cost to society and the hurt caused to persons who are denied service simply because of who they are.”</p></blockquote>
<p>What exactly is the cost to society of a business informing people who want to engage in something that isn&#8217;t a marriage that they can just hit up any of the large number of bakeries who will be happy to make a cake<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/marriage-equality-enters-new-frontier-as-woman-marries-600-year-old-bridge/"> for their marriage to a bridge</a>, another <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/environmentalist-hugs-tree-then-marries-it/">man, a tree</a> <a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/07/woman-marries-herself/">or themselves</a>?</p>
<p>(Yes, all of those are actual things.)</p>
<p>And should the &#8220;hurt&#8221; really outbalance the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights?</p>
<p>But Masterpiece Cakeshop&#8217;s <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/06/judge-orders-baker-to-serve-gay-couples-despite-his-religious-beliefs/">horrifying wave of discrimination </a>doesn&#8217;t end there.</p>
<blockquote><p>Martin added that Phillips is a devoted Christian who has an unwavering faith. She said he is a person of such deep faith that he won’t even bake Halloween-themed treats – at all.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure, at first blush you might think that a baker should be allowed to refuse to bake Halloween-themed treats. But think of the hurt feelings of the witches and warlocks who come in wanting them&#8230; and the cost to society.</p>
<p>If Philips can be forced to bake a gay wedding cake&#8230; why not a cake with a pentagram on it? Why not a cake that says Allah Akbar or God is Dead?</p>
<p>If we&#8217;ve decided that religious freedom doesn&#8217;t exist except to protect mosques from government surveillance, then where is the line drawn?</p>
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		<title>Marriage Equality: Unprotected Gay Sex Increases 20%</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If every other magazine, TV show and movie were promoting smoking... ]]></description>
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<p>If every other magazine, TV show and movie were promoting smoking&#8230; there would be a lot more lung cancer cases.</p>
<p>Some would say that the media<a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=215278"> repeatedly promoting a notoriously unhealthy</a> lifestyle, which despite the claims of gay rights advocates, is as monogamous as Hugh Hefner,  might lead to a second AIDS outbreak wave.</p>
<p>But those people<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6247a4.htm?s_cid=mm6247a4_w"> are clearly ignorant homophobes</a>. And by those people I mean the Centers for Disease Control.</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2011, MSM (male homosexuality) accounted for at least half of persons diagnosed with HIV in all but two states. Unprotected anal sex at least once in the past 12 months increased from 48% in 2005 to 57% in 2011.</p>
<p>Although MSM (male homosexuals) are a small proportion of the population, they represent the majority of persons diagnosed with HIV in nearly every U.S. state. Unprotected anal sex in the last 12 months increased nearly 20% among MSM from 2005 to 2011.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s almost like AIDS was a gay disease all along.</p>
<blockquote><p>One third of HIV-positive MSM in NHBS did not know that they were infected with HIV, and a high percentage of them reported recent unprotected discordant anal sex with a partner of HIV-negative or unknown status.</p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly this gay marriage thing is working great. When those last final intolerant states legalize it, enabling gleeful couples to sue <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/06/21795833-judge-orders-colorado-baker-to-serve-gay-couples?lite">Christian bakerie</a>s and photographers, then surely these numbers will turn around.</p>
<p>Gay marriage has been fully legal i<a href="http://www.marriagedebate.com/pdf/iMAPP.May2011-rev.pdf">n the Netherlands</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Just  20 percent  of  Dutch  homosexual  couples  are married,  compared  with  80  percent  of heterosexual  couples  ‐ this  is  according to new  figures  published  by  Statistics Netherlands as the country marks ten years of officially  sanctioned same‐sex marriage.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The actual number of gays marrying there appears to be about 8 percent.And the news for &#8220;<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299944/gay-divorcees-charles-c-w-cooke">gay marriage</a>&#8221; is no better anywhere else.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In Norway, male same-sex marriages are 50 percent more likely to end in divorce than heterosexual marriages, and female same-sex marriages are an astonishing 167 percent more likely to be dissolved. In Sweden, the divorce risk for male-male partnerships is 50 percent higher than for heterosexual marriages, and the divorce risk for female partnerships is nearly double that for men.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Gay marriage has never been anything other than a false front for gay rights. And gay rights leads to numbers like these from the CDC.</p>
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		<title>Do Gay Rights Trump the First Amendment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The equal treatment of gay couples is more important than the free speech rights of photographers]]></description>
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<p>And if gay rights do indeed trump the First Amendment when it comes to compelling a photographer to photograph a gay wedding, then it would also compel a writer to write about gay marriage or a director to make a movie about gay marriage.</p>
<p>There <a href="http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/11/24/a-tattoo-artist-should-not-be-forced-to-put-a-swastika-on-an-aryan-nation-guy/">would essentially be no more First Amendment for</a> anyone engaged in any creative speech that he or she earns a living doing.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In asking the Supreme Court to hear her challenge to the law, Ms. Huguenin said that she would “gladly serve gays and lesbians — by, for example, providing them with portrait photography,” but that she did not want to tell the stories of same-sex weddings. To make her celebrate something her religion tells her is wrong, she said, would hijack her right to free speech.</p>
<p>So she turned down a request from a lesbian couple, Vanessa Willock and Misti Collinsworth, to document their commitment ceremony. The women, who hired another photographer, filed a discrimination complaint against Ms. Huguenin’s studio, Elane Photography. So far, the studio has lost in the courts.</p>
<p>There are constitutional values on both sides of the case: the couple’s right to equal treatment and Ms. Huguenin’s right to free speech. I asked Louise Melling, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has a distinguished history of championing free speech, how the group had evaluated the case.</p>
<p>Ms. Melling said the evaluation had required difficult choices. Photography is expression protected by the Constitution, she said, and Ms. Huguenin acted from “heartfelt convictions.”</p>
<p>But the equal treatment of gay couples is more important than the free speech rights of commercial photographers, she said, explaining why the A.C.L.U. filed a brief in the New Mexico Supreme Court supporting the couple.</p></blockquote>
<p>There is a First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech. It should trump any invented right to compel businesses to accept your business.</p>
<p>This goes back to JFK&#8217;s invention of a right to be served anywhere leading to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While people should be served everywhere equally, there is no such right, nor does government have the right to compel such a thing.</p>
<p>Title II of the Civil Rights Act specified public accommodations, such as hotels and lunch counters. And now we somehow end up compelling photogs to take pictures.</p>
<p>The New Mexico Supreme Court depends on the same definition of public accommodation. Is a wedding photographer really a public accommodation?</p>
<p>The Court argued that creative professionals don&#8217;t have freedom of speech as long as they offer their services for pay. That&#8217;s a roundabout way of saying that the First Amendment is history. If the First Amendment does not apply to creative professionals, then it has no reason to exist.</p>
<p>Professional writers, journalists and artists have more need of First Amendment protection than amateurs do.</p>
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