Thursday, September 23, 2010

OPPOSING Gay Marriage DVDs - BENEDICT XVI & NIENSTEDT, Archbishop Mailing to all Minnesota Catholics – UNSUBSTANTIATED content -> Kids Are Being Hurt!!!

Catholics to get DVDs OPPOSING GAY MARRIAGE
By Mary Jane Smetanka,
September 21, 2010
Star Tribune - Minneapolis – St. Paul, Minnesota

Critics say the mailing, from state bishops, is aimed at November voters.

More than 400,000 DVDs are being mailed to the homes of Minnesota Catholics on Wednesday, courtesy of Catholic bishops in the state who want to stop the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in its tracks.

The 18-minute DVD includes an appearance from St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt in which he says it is time for Minnesotans -- not the "ruling elite" of legislators and judges -- to vote on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Thirty-one states have passed such an amendment.

"It is the people themselves and not politicians or judges who should make this decision," Nienstedt says on the DVD. "This is the only way to put the one man, one woman definition of marriage beyond the reach of the courts and politicians."
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/103494984.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ

The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships Deserve Respect
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Vienna
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/cardinal-christoph-schonborn-op-quality.html

Archbishop John Nienstedt on Catholic Church's opposition to same-sex marriage
by Tom Crann,
September 22, 2010 - Minnesota Public Radio
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/22/archbishop-nienstedt-same-sex-marriage-dvd-qa/

Was Cardinal John Henry Newman Gay?
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty - All Things Considered, September 17, 2010
National Public Radio (NPR)

The People Elect Their Bishops - Not Bishops or Popes the "ruling elite"

Early liturgical texts testify to the election and ordination of bishops. The Didache or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, of the second century, states: “You must, then, elect for yourselves bishops and deacons who are a credit to the Lord, men who are gentle, generous, faithful, and well tried.” In the early third century, Hippolytus of Rome, in his Apostolic Tradition, asserted that, “He who is ordained as a bishop, being chosen by all the people, must be irreproachable.”
Read complete paper: Joseph F. O’Callaghan, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History - Fordham University
http://americancatholiccouncil.org/resources/elect-bishops/

Facts About Sexual Orientation
Dr. Gregory Herek,
University of California at Davis & Yale University &
City University of New York

Policy makers and members of the public are routinely confronted with questions about lesbians and gay men. Are they mentally ill? Do so-called conversion therapies change sexual orientation? Are homosexuals more likely than heterosexuals to molest children?

Such questions arise from long-standing cultural stereotypes that depict lesbians and gay men as immoral, criminal, sick, and drastically different from what society considers "normal."

A considerable body of social science data now is available to answer such questions and to separate falsehood from fact. The following links provide an overview of social science theory and empirical research concerning sexual orientation.

Facts About Homosexuality and Mental Health
Facts About Changing Sexual Orientation
Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation
Paul Cameron's Research
Bibliography for Facts About Sexual Orientation
Abstracts for selected publications
Read more:
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts.html
Recent postings and updates:
Beyond Homophobia, Dr. Herek's Blog:
http://www.beyondhomophobia.com/blog/

New study suggests bans on gay marriage hurt mental health of LGB people
 The Sexual Continuum - Dr. Brian Mustanski
March 22, 2010 – Psychology Today

Laws that prevent same-sex couples from getting married deprive them of many benefits and privileges that heterosexual married couples have under federal and state laws. Thus, bans on gay marriage are examples of institutional discrimination- societal-level conditions that constrain the opportunities, resources, and well-being of socially disadvantaged groups. Despite the existence of multiple forms of institutional discrimination toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populations, few studies have examined the consequences of this form of discrimination for the mental health of LGB populations. A new study by my colleague, Mark Hatzenbuehler, and his collaborators does just that…

…This is a landmark study for the understanding of how social conditions impact the health of minority people because it used national longitudinal data that allowed them to observe changes in mental health linked to the timing of a major policy change.

According to a press release by the senior author, Dr. Deborah Hasin, "Before this study, little was known about the impact of institutional discrimination toward lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals in our society. The study highlights the importance of abolishing institutional forms of discrimination, including those leading to disparities in the mental health and well-being of LGB individuals."
Read complete article:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-sexual-continuum/201003/new-study-suggests-bans-gay-marriage-hurt-mental-health-lgb-people
Dr. Brian Mustanski is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research and is an expert in LGBT health and development.
Read more:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/bloggers/brian-mustanski-phd

Anti-gay marriage DVDs - UNSUBSTANTIATED - Nienstedt (Minnesota) & Benedict XVI, gay marriage, like Galileo Against Nature law – “It is Common Sense” ??? -> Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/nienstedt-minnesota-benedict-xvi-gay.html

Hate Crime Bill vs Attacks But No Facts -> Fear And Ignorance Of
The Blind Leading The Blind
October 27, 2009 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
Thalamus Center
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2009/10/hate-crime-bill-vs-fear-and-ignorance.html

Vatican Cardinal [Cardinal Barragan] on Gays and Transsexuals:
No Heaven for You!'
David Gibson
Politics Daily – 2009
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/03/vatican-cardinal-on-gays-and-transsexuals-no-heaven-for-you/


BRAZIL – Cardinals’ HARMFUL HYSTERICAL DECEIT
Report: Bishop says kids ‘spontaneously’ gay – AP
By Bradley Brooks – May 5, 2010 – msnbc.com
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/brazil-cardinals-harmful-hysterical_08.html


Vatican’s Unsubstantiated Antigay Propaganda – Why???
MEXICO - “Decaf versus deCath?” September 8, 2010
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/mexico-decaf-versus-decath-vaticans.html

Hating Gays: An Overview of Scientific Studies
by Gregory M. Herek
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

…It frequently is assumed that feelings of personal threat result in strong negative attitudes toward homosexuality, whereas lack of threat leads to neutral or positive attitudes. This perspective often is associated with the term homophobia, and it derives from a psychodynamic view that prejudiced attitudes serve to reduce tension aroused by unconscious conflicts.

Attitudes are likely to serve a defensive function when an individual perceives some analogy between homosexual persons and her or his own unconscious conflicts. Subsequently, that person responds to gay men and lesbians as a way of externalizing inner conflicts and thereby reducing the anxiety associated with them. The conflicts specific to antihomosexual prejudice presumably involve a person's gender identity, sexual object choice, or both. For example, unconscious conflicts about one's own sexuality or gender identity might be attributed to lesbians and gay men through a process of projection. Such a strategy permits people to externalize the conflicts and to reject their own unacceptable urges by rejecting lesbians and gay men (who symbolize those urges) without consciously recognizing the urges as their own. Since contact with homosexual persons threatens to make conscious those thoughts that have been repressed, it inevitably arouses anxiety in defensive individuals. Consequently, defensive attitudes are likely to be negative…
…Many particular empirical findings I have mentioned make sense if we assume that negative attitudes often are based in part on a defensive function: the finding that people are more negative toward homosexuals of their own sex than toward those of the opposite sex (since same-sex homosexuals presumably are more threatening); the positive correlations between hostile attitudes toward homosexuality and variables such as authoritarianism' cognitive rigidity' intolerance of ambiguity, and dogmatism (all of these personality traits presumably indicate higher levels of defensiveness); and the positive correlations between hostility and sex-guilt sexual conservatism, and nonpermissiveness (all of which might indicate conflicts about sexuality). . . .
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/roots/overview.html

NO EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THESE [homosexual] STEREOTYPES
- Judge Vaughn Walker Ruling - California Prop 8. August 4, 2010
Related Links:
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/no-evidence-supports-these-homosexual.html


[Unsubstantiated] --- RELIGIOUS BELIEFS that gay and lesbian relationships are SINFUL or INFERIOR to heterosexual relationships
HARM gays and lesbians.
Judge Vaughn Walker Ruling - California Prop 8. August 4, 2010
https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf


STEREOTYPES and MISINFORMATION have resulted
in social and legal disadvantages for gays and lesbians.
Judge Vaughn Walker Ruling - California Prop 8. August 4, 2010
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/stereotypes-and-misinformation-have.html

Gay Marriage & Galileo:
Pope described as …"so averse to anything intellectual that everyone has to play dense and ignorant to gain his favor"
The Trial of Galileo - by Douglas O. Linder (2002)
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY (UMKC) SCHOOL OF LAW



VATICAN like TOBACCO COMPANIES
Responsible For
The Lifetime Harm
They Caused Children and Continue to Cause by Their
Unsubstantiated Antigay Teachings
By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

Gay marriage -> Restoring "Hope of Love" To Children In Early Childhood -> Marriage Equality – March 23, 2010 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
Marriage Equality, like Galileo, is the truth about the facts of growing up gay. Marriage Equality will not become a reality until people learn that its most vital purpose is that it restores the “hope of love” to children in early childhood – essential to their development and well-being for life. Without Marriage Equality we teach children how to hate love and how to be mean and indifferent to people as adults. With all due respect, without Marriage Equality we would teach them in much the same way as has been shown by Benedict XVI and the hierarchy, especially in their lack of care and protection of children for decades.
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/03/restoring-hope-of-love-to-children-in_23.html

SEXUAL CONVERSION THERAPIES
Jack Drescher, M.D.
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/sexual-conversion-therapies-jack.html


Prop 8 judgment, August 4, 2010
Gay marriage
“Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or inferior to heterosexual relationships harm gays and lesbians.”
Judge Vaughn Walker
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-religious-beliefs-that-gay.html


On Prop 8, it's the evidence, stupid
By Lisa Bloom
CNN.com -
and related links:
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-prop-8-its-evidence-stupid-by-lisa_18.html


Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional as lacking rational basis
Nan Hunter - Professor, Georgetown Law,
Washington, DC
hunter of justice
http://hunterforjustice.typepad.com/hunter_of_justice/2010/08/prop-8-ruled-unconstitutional-as-lacking-rational-basis.html


Gay Marriage Ruling A Matter of Simple Justice
by Geoffrey R. Stone
law professor at the University of Chicago
Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-oped-0808-stone-20100808,0,2223308.story



ANTI-GAY/LESBIAN VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES
Bianca Cody Murphy 
Peace Psychology for the 21st Century

Experts from:
Christie, D. J., Wagner, R. V., & Winter, D. A. (Eds.). (2001).
Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

CHAPTER 2
ANTI-GAY/LESBIAN VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES
Bianca Cody Murphy
http://academic.marion.ohio-state.edu/dchristie/Peace%20Psychology%20Book_files/Chapter%202%20-%20Anti%20Gay%20%26%20Lesbian%20Violence%20(Cody%20Murphy).pdf

HATE CRIMES
…“Hate crimes are words or actions intended to harm or intimidate an individual because of her or his membership in a minority group; they include violent assaults, murder, rape, and property crimes motivated by prejudice, as well as threats of violence and other acts of intimidation” (Finn & McNeil, 1987, p. 2). In the United States, hate crimes are committed against racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities…

…Hate violence is a form of terrorism. Hate violence traumatizes not only the direct victim but all members of the targeted group. Richard Berk, Elizabeth Boyd, and Karl Hamner (1992) note that a key ingredient of hate-motivated violence is the “symbolic status of the victim” (p. 127). As Greg Herek points out, bias crimes “are especially serious because they potentially victimize an entire class of people…they assail the victim’s identity and intimidate other group members” (1989, p. 948)…

STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
AGAINST GAY MEN AND LESBIAN WOMEN
But overt acts of violence against lesbian women and gay men are only the most visible and heinous offenses in a pattern of discrimination and oppression. Gay men and lesbian women face structural violence as well as direct episodic violence. The structural violence against gay men and lesbian women is the result of heterosexism. Herek (1992) defines heterosexism as “an ideological system that denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any nonheterosexual form of behavior, identity, relationship, or community” (p. 89). Herek distinguishes between psychological heterosexism which is manifested “in individual attitudes and behaviors” and cultural heterosexism which is manifested “in societal customs and institutions, such as religion and the legal system” (p. 89). It is this cultural heterosexism that results in structural violence against lesbian women and gay men.

As a result of cultural heterosexism, gay men, lesbian women, and other sexual minorities suffer discrimination in many areas, including housing and employment…

Only ten states currently offer civil rights protections to lesbian women and gay men. In most 8 states, they have no legal recourse if they are discriminated against. In the last 20 years, with the rise of the gay rights movement, there have been attempts to pass legislation that would protect gay and lesbian civil rights. However, for every effort to increase protections for gay and lesbian civil rights, there have been countermoves to take them away. A recent Vatican statement to U.S. bishops supports discrimination against gay men and lesbian women and urges Catholics to oppose the passage of civil rights for gay men and lesbian women. In 1992, the state of Colorado passed a referendum which prohibits the state and all its agencies from acting on any claim of discrimination by a lesbian or gay man. (Note that the Supreme Court has issued an injunction against it.) That same year, a stronger initiative in Oregon stating that public institutions including the schools “shall assist in setting a standard for Oregon’s youth that recognizes homosexuality…as abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse and…to be discouraged and avoided” [italics added] was defeated but received support from 44 percent of the voters. And, in 1998, opponents of lesbian/gay civil rights successfully sought to repeal a gay civil rights law in Maine.

Not only do gay men and lesbian women have few laws to protect them from discrimination, but many laws themselves are discriminatory. Gary Comstock (1991) points out that U.S. laws have enabled legalized violence against homosexuals. In the past, sodomy laws made same-gendered sex punishable by the death penalty. Although capital punishment for same-sex relations was removed from the books and corporal punishment is no longer in use, engaging in same-gender sexual acts is still illegal in 22 states. In 1986, the Supreme Court upheld the right of states to prosecute adults for engaging in consensual sexual acts with each other in the privacy of their own home (Bowers vs. Hardwick, 1986).

In addition to legal sanctions against lesbians and gays for engaging in same sex acts, there are other discriminatory laws. Gay men and lesbian women have no legal right to marry. Laws prohibit them from disclosing their sexual orientation in the military. They can be denied family health insurance policies and visiting rights in hospitals since they are not legally “family members.”

Theories about Anti-Gay/Lesbian Attitude Formation
…Herek (1984) has defined three functions of attitudes towards homosexuals: ego defensive, experiential, and symbolic. The function of ego defensive attitudes can be seen in the use of the term “homophobia.” It is commonly believed that those who hold negative attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women do so because they feel personally threatened by their own unconscious conflicts about either sexual orientation or gender identity. From a psychodynamic perspective, prejudiced attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women serve to decrease tension aroused by these unconscious conflicts. Franklin (1998) found that many of the perpetrators in her study reported assaulting gay men and lesbian women “to prove their masculine identity by displaying toughness and an endorsement of heterosexuality” (p. 4)…

Experiential attitudes are based on past interactions with known homosexuals. “Experiential attitudes develop when affects and cognitions associated with specific interpersonal interactions are generalized to all lesbians and gay men” (Herek, 1984, p. 8). Herek notes that most people develop their beliefs about gay men and lesbian women from stereotypes and ignorance without any contact with gay men and lesbian women. Franklin found that the largest number of assailants in her study claimed that they were reacting to perceived advances by a person. “Assailants interpret their victims’ words and actions based on their belief that homosexuals are sexual predators….once someone is labeled as homosexual, any glance or conversation by that person is perceived as sexual flirtation. Flirtation, in turn, is viewed as a legitimate reason to assault” (1998, p. 3)…

A POLITICAL EXPLANATION OF ANTI-GAY/LESBIAN VIOLENCE
...A political analysis of violence against lesbian women, gay men, and other sexual minorities considers power dynamics and social institutions rather than just individual attitudes and behaviors...

RESPONSES TO ANTI-GAY/LESBIAN VIOLENCE …

Educational Responses

It is possible to change social norms through educational campaigns. Schools can combat the dominant cultural norm that says that it is okay to harass someone for being different. Franklin suggests a “(p)roactive intervention against school based harassment and violence. Anti-bias curricula must be introduced as early as kindergarten and must continue through high school” (1998, p. 8). Anti-bias curricula help teachers learn how to recognize such violence and intervene to eliminate it. Children are taught how to work collaboratively, how to have empathy for others, and how to handle feelings of frustration and anger...

CONCLUSION
… If the twenty-first century is to see a reduction in hate crimes and violence, then it is essential that people (1) attend to structural violence and the social and power dynamics of the patriarchal system in which such violence occurs; (2) recognize that much of what is considered anti-gay/lesbian violence is in fact based on gender politics; (3) acknowledge and affirm the incredible diversity in the lesbian and gay communities in terms of race, ethnicity, age, class, education, disability, and political ideology; (4) use our psychological knowledge to construct interventions to prevent all forms of violence; and, (5) work in coalitions with other oppressed groups using our strengths and training in human behavior and systems theories to create radical social change.
Read complete chapter:
http://academic.marion.ohio-state.edu/dchristie/Peace%20Psychology%20Book_files/Chapter%202%20-%20Anti%20Gay%20%26%20Lesbian%20Violence%20(Cody%20Murphy).pdf

Sexual Orientation:
Science, Education, and Policy
Dr. Gregory Herek
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/index.html

Peace Psychology Book
http://academic.marion.ohio-state.edu/dchristie/Peace%20Psychology%20Book.html

Peace Psychology 2009 - PowerPoint Presentation
http://www.clarku.edu/peacepsychology/Diaz2009APA.ppt

Dan Christie,
Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University
http://academic.marion.ohio-state.edu/dchristie/Dan%20Christie.html

Threats, Silence, Harm and Disposal of Catholic Personnel Supportive of LGBT Adults and Children - Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s Directives To Hierarchy
By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz



Gay Marriage - WITCH HUNTS ->
The Crucible (1996) -> McCarthyism 1940’s -1950’s, -> Benedict XVI 2005

Puerto Rican Authorities Accused of Tolerating Homophobia
September 21, 2010 - Latin American Herald Tribune
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=367613&CategoryId=14092


Gay Marriage - “SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE”
Does Not Give Churches Or Benedict XVI
The Freedom To Abuse Children or Adults. July 2010 - By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz



Roman Catholic - Hierarchy Child Sexual Abuse “Cover-Ups” Ordered By Benedict XVI To Avoid Public Outrage & Criminal Charges - Falsely Accused Gay Priests - WATERGATE? December 17, 2009 - by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
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Structural Violence: RELIGION AND CONFLICT
Luc Reychler - Introduction: Towards a Religion of World Politics? - 1997
The International Journal of Peace Studies
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/structural-violence-religion-and.html

Institutional homophobia (or heterosexism)
Edith Cowan University Western Australia
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/institutional-homophobia-or.html


Homophobia and Heterosexism, February 6, 2008
Gender Equity Resource Center
University of California, Berkeley
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/homophobia-and-heterosexism-february-6.html
http://students.berkeley.edu/files/osl/Gender_Equity/Homophobia%20and%20Heterosexism.pdf


Three British Golden Angels Greet Benedict XVI
Beatified Cardinal Newman - GAY SAINT… September 2010 – As Benedict XVI Orchestrated … REACTION FORMATION???

Vatican Asking For Male Prostitutes –
“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.”
Though you drive Nature out
with a pitchfork,
she will still find her way back.
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/03/vatican-asking-for-male-prostitutes.htmlhttp://www.blogger.com/goog_958551323


"No sensible person can imagine that the
sexes differ in matters of love
as they do in matters of clothing.
The intelligent lover of beauty will be attracted to beauty in whichever
gender he finds it."
Plutarch
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/no-sensible-person-can-imagine-that_5959.html


The Psychology of the Closet:
Governor McGreevey's New Clothes
by Jack Drescher, M.D. – August 27, 2004
http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20040827.094013&time=10%2018%20PDT&year=2004&public=1


Is It Possible to Be Against Same-Sex Marriage
Without Being Homophobic?
Carlos A. Ball
Professor of Law at Rutgers University
August 24, 2010 – Huffington Post
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-it-possible-to-be-against-same-sex.html


The Closet: Psychological Issues of Being In and Coming Out
By Jack Drescher, M.D.
October 1, 2004
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/47271


The Pope Is Not Gay
Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Dish
The Atlantic
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/pope-is-not-gay-by-andrew-sullivan_17.html


Hitler was gay - and killed to hide it, book says - Kate Connolly – October 7, 2001
The Observer – guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/07/books.booksnews


The Psychology of the Closeted Individual and Coming Out – 2007
by Jack Drescher, M.D.
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/psychology-of-closeted-individual-and.html


Karl Rove… "had been working with Republicans to make sure that anti-gay initiatives and referenda would appear on November ballots in 2004 and 2006 to help Republicans."
Ken Mehlman
August 25, 2010
The Atlantic
Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman:
I'm Gay – by Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/bush-campaign-chief-and-former-rnc-chair-ken-mehlman-im-gay/62065


American Academy of Pediatrics
The Effects of Marriage, Civil Union, and Domestic Partnership Laws on
the Health and Well-being of Children
2006
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/118/1/349


American Medical Association
Policy Regarding Sexual Orientation
GLBT Advisory Committee
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/glbt-advisory-committee/ama-policy-regarding-sexual-orientation.shtml


Children with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parents
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2006
http://www.aglp.org/pages/position.html


National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Calls Proposition 8 Decision
“A Great Day in the Struggle for Human Rights”
August 11, 2010
http://www.naswdc.org/pressroom/2010/080610.asp


Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists
Support of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Civil Marriage
2005
http://www.aglp.org/pages/position.html


Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Marriage - Research Summary
American Psychological Association
2004
http://www.apa.org/about/governance/council/policy/gay-marriage.pdf


Pope Benedict to Beatify a Gay Saint? A Conservative Icon? Maybe Both
by David Gibson – September 18, 2010
Politics Daily


Was a Would-Be Saint Gay?
By Jeff Israely, Aug. 28, 2008
TIME

Ignorance about human sexuality is harmful to children.

“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”
Erik Erikson

…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:6

Protect children and the entire world will be safe.

Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!

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