Thursday, December 22, 2011

Anti-gay Disguised Hate Propaganda – At Christmas For Broadest News Media Coverage – by US Catholic Bishops & Benedict XVI – Mirroring Hitler’s Human Atrocities - The SILENCE of Good People KILLS Human Beings!

Chicago's Cardinal George - under fire for comparing gay rights movement to Ku Klux Klan – December 22, 2011


“KU KLUX KLAN” - Hate Propaganda Disguised – by Minnesota Anti-gay - Nienstedt - Archbishop Issues "marriage prayer" for Catholics to recite at mass – December 15, 2011


*** IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? ***


AUSCHWITZ -- CHRISTMAS 2008
 A flashback far more severe than in --- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
December 26, 2008 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
…I have been so saddened by Pope Benedict XVI's cruel words to LGBTQ people around the world, to their parents, families and friends, most ESPECIALLY TO CHILDREN… Photo
…I am a priest and a clinical psychologist… And for one of my research projects I chose to do a qualitative research project of the recorded verbal accounts of survivors of the Holocaust, 50 years after the event…

…And when I heard what Pope Benedict XVI said about homosexuals and transgendered human beings at Christmas 2008, I felt that same trauma all over again. Because in some way, somehow, he was conveying …the horror of the Holocaust, in what appears to be a traumatized, trance-like, accepted social norm from that period of time dictating that some people just don’t count, aren’t important, and can be easily disposed of. And if you rock the boat, you could be next to be disposed of. Photo

…The horror of the Holocaust is like an atomic bomb with fallout so extensive that it spreads over a radius of more than 150 miles. The horror of the Holocaust began in 1933 and ended in 1945. The psychological fallout would have been far more extensive and more deadly, especially when it is not identified as such…

Chronicle of the Third Reich - Michael Kloft – 2010 The past is still with us and will not go away. (Helmut Schmidt) …The Third Reich lasted for 12 years, 3 months and 9 days. It began with great hopes and unprecedented jubilation and ended after a world war in which 50 million people were killed, Germany was destroyed and the European Jews murdered. To mark the 75th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Nazis, SPIEGEL embarks on a unique journey through the bleakest chapter of German history…  

Part II – Carnival 1938 in Nuremberg – The amateur footage documents the Shrovetide Revelry in the Third Reich.  One of the floats is decorated with the anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew hanging from the gallows as if it were the most natural thing in the world. …


What you cannot do is accept injustice.

From Hitler – or anyone.

You must make the injustice visible

– be prepared to die like a

 soldier to do so.

Mahatma Gandhi


Kids Are Being Hurt!!!





New York - GAY MARRIAGE Bill
Gay Catholic Priest Sends LETTERS to All NY STATE SENATORS - June 7, 2011
 HOW STRONG IS THE VATICAN IN THE USA?
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
Protect Religious Freedom – but not TYRANNY in Religion


As Support for Gay Marriage Increases - Benedict XVI & USA Bishops Panic of Exposure Increases - Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups Accountability - VATICAN RENOUNCES ALL ANTI-GAY TEACHINGS - November 30, 2011


Gov Pat Quinn RIGHT about Catholic conscience - KILLING THE SECRECY - Benedict XVI Sexual Abuse Cases Cover-ups | VATICAN RENOUNCES ALL ANTI-GAY TEACHINGS – December 17, 2011


Cuomo Says He’ll Push for Vote to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
By Thomas Kaplan - February 9, 2011 - The New York Times

Governor Cuomo Is Brushing Off Idiocy & Corruption in the Catholic Church – Not the Catholic Church – March 7, 2011

Catholics Back Cuomo in Church Tiff… By Meredith Bennett-Smith, - March 5, 2011 – NYDailyNnews.com

 

Gillibrand to Albany: Pass Gay Marriage, End ‘Institutionalized Discrimination’ – 20811

http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/02/gillibrand-to-albany-pass-gay-marriage-end-institutionalized-discrimination/


Md.'s top leaders cross Catholic hierarchy on gay marriage - By John Wagner,
February 24, 2011 – The Washington Post

 

Gov. O’Malley - Maryland, archbishop at odds over same-sex marriage, letters show – 80811

http://pewforum.org/Religion-News/O%E2%80%99Malley,-archbishop-at-odds-over-same-sex-marriage,-letters-show.aspx

 

Obama administration shifts legal stance on gay marriage – February 23, 2011

The administration announces it will no longer oppose legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, which it says discriminates against gays and therefore can no longer be accepted as reasonable.


Same-sex marriage: Courts expected to heed Obama move – by Bob Egelko, February 24, 2011 – San Francisco Chronicle


Obama backs bill overturning Defense of Marriage Act – July 19, 2011


NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan Issues Letter to Obama about Gay Marriage – 92211

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/timothy-dolan-issues-letter-to-obama-about-gay-marriage_n_976788.html 


Archbishop Dolan: President Obama Out to Destroy Institute Of Marriage in New York - September 23, 2011

Archbishop Timothy Dolan - Catholics warn of 'national conflict' over gay marriage - September 23, 2011

During his four day trip to Germany, Pope Benedict XVI chose symbolic gestures as opposed to concrete efforts to answer controversial questions facing the Catholic Church, according to Deutsche Welle's Klaus Krämer. – September 26, 2011 

Pope fails to satisfy critics on first state visit 'home'- September 26, 2011

"He's a showman who knows how to hide his toughness"

Research finds - CATHOLICS are among the MOST SUPPORTIVE Christian denominations on SAME-SEX MARRIAGE – so Benedict XVI or Archbishop Dolan - renewed commitment… against same-sex marriage …may not be as successful… 92711

Catholic Bishops Establish Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, Up the Ante in Fight Against Obama – 100311

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/catholic-bishops-establish-ad-hoc-committee-for-religious-liberty_n_992900.html 


Catholic Bishops Endanger Church… Can the marriages of some really "harm" those of others? 101411

Archdiocese plans anti-gay marriage committees in every Minnesota Catholic Church – 101711

http://minnesotaindependent.com/89988/archdiocese-plans-anti-gay-marriage-committees-in-every-minnesota-catholic-church


Archbishop Dolan - of New York VOWS SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR ANY GAY-FRIENDLY PRIESTS – 111111

Catholic bishops prepare to battle Obama over gay marriage – 111411

Catholic Bishops Prepare Religious Liberty Fight - “Many Catholic academics, activists and parishioners say the bishops are overreacting.” – 111311

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/13/catholic-bishops-religious-liberty_n_1091221.html

 

US Bishops mum on economy “...and geared up for fights against gay marriage..." - 111511

US Bishops Behaving Badly – 111411

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Detroit, MI – KILLING THE SECRECY – Testifies in Child Sexual Abuse Case 2006 - Admits being a victim of sexual abuse – Criticizes Bishops Dallas Charter 2002 - "It's not over and it won't be over until we within the church deal with it in a very open, honest and thorough way…”  – VATICAN IMMEDIATE VINDICTIVE RETALIATION – to maintain cover-ups - 11411



Church in worst credibility crisis since Reformation, theologian tells bishops
 HANS KÜNG – April 4, 2010
Pope Benedict has made worse just about everything that is wrong with the Roman Catholic Church and is directly responsible for engineering the global cover-up of child rape perpetrated by priests, according to this open letter to all Catholic bishops

The cruelties of STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE on CHILDREN are often subtle, unspoken, unrecognized, and even normalized, regarded by many people as natural or “just the way things are.”
Daniel J. Christie - Peace, Conflict, and Violence:
Peace Psychology for the 21st Century.


IT'S NOT GAY RIGHTS; IT'S HUMAN RIGHTS 
US President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton to world: Stop gay discrimination - Human Rights Day – December 7, 2011 - | “CHURCH CLEANING” at its Best - Eradicating Structural Violence by EXPLICITLY PROTECTING Children Globally!!!

3 PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTS ABOUT GROWING UP GAY
A partial list:

1.  Sexual orientation is set either just before birth or very soon afterwards 

References:

Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality - American Psychological Association

The Science of Sexual Orientation - Researchers Focus on Twins (Video) 

Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation

Sexual Conversion Therapies - by Jack Drescher, M.D.

Sexual Conversion Therapy - Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives (2002) -
edited by Ariel Shidlo, PhD, Michael Schroeder, PsyD, and Jack Drescher, MD

Sexual Orientation & ‘Reparative Therapy’
by Jack Drescher, MD  – video


Bibliography for Facts about Sexual Orientation

Major - Medical and Mental Heath Associations
 Policies & Position Statements - Regarding Sexual Orientation

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychiatric Association, AGLP

APSAA, American Psychoanalytic Association

American Psychological Association

American Counseling Association

American Medical Association

American Academy of Pediatrics

AFFIRM: Psychologists Affirming their  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family

Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)

Gender Identity Research and Education Society - UK

Kinsey Institute for Research in  Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

National Association of School Psychologists

National Association of Social Workers

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States


2.  Early psychological development – in a social environment that is anti-gay – causes significant harm to the child’s ability to be in relationships, with others, a job, etc.

References:

Sexual orientation is less about sex and more about love, being one with another human being. Attachment Theory - - LOVE & RELIGION

Attachment Theory

Mary Ainsworth: Attachment and the Growth of Love – video
  
ATTACHMENT THEORY - our first relationship with our carers acts as a LIFELONG TEMPLATE, moulding and shaping our capacity to enter into, and maintain, successful subsequent relationships with family, friends and partners...

Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man
Jack Drescher, M.D. in his book Psychoanalytic Therapy & The Gay Man describes the complexities related to growing up gay; from his research of developmental narratives of gay adults retrospectively recalling their feelings being gay began in early childhood. These gay feelings had remained constant, and were resistant to being altered. Dr. Drescher explains the contrast of how social norms impact the psychology of the early childhood developmental years of a heterosexual boy and a homosexual boy.

Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development – by  Richard A. Isay M.D.
Argues that homosexuality is biologically innate, suggests a natural developmental path for homosexuals, and discusses the problems faced in long-term gay relationships

The overstimulation of everyday life: I. New aspects of male homosexuality
Sidney H. Phillips
Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 49:1235-67. 2001
Western heterosexual culture surrounds the homosexually inclined boy in a climate of erotic overstimulation that powerfully affects his development and adult sexual adaptation. This assertion is illustrated through a case presentation of a homosexual man who shared a bed with his brother from childhood into adolescence. Analysis of the patient's transference enactment—repeatedly falling asleep on the couch—gradually revealed the psychic impact of this everyday overstimulation: the creation of a tantalized inner world of longing. The regular occurrence and developmental understanding of adolescent homosexual boys' unrequited love affairs with adolescent heterosexual boys are described and explored. Finally, the overstimulation of everyday life is proposed as a new model for understanding certain behavioral aspects of male homosexuality, such as the avoidance of rough-and-tumble play in childhood and homosexual cruising.

Homosexuality: coming out of the confusion
Sidney H Phillips
Int J Psychoanal 84:1431-50. 2003
In this paper, Dr. Phillips describes the complications of how the historical context of social norms can significantly influence the classification of the components of homosexuality by clinicians causing them to be blind to their own biases. Mindful of our susceptibility to this kind of phenomenon, Dr. Phillips calls to task these biases that pathologize homosexuality simply because it is not consistent with heterosexuality and therefore to be classified as a mental disorder. He offers an alternative description of homosexuality from his clinical research that is consistent with other researchers of early childhood psychological development of children who grow up to be gay.

The Psychology of the Closeted Individual and Coming Out – Jack Drescher, MD
Many LGB individuals report developmental histories with difficulty acknowledging their homosexuality, either to themselves or to others. This is because, starting in childhood, LGB individuals are often subjected to antihomosexual attitudes, not only from strangers, but also from their own families and communities (Drescher, Stein and Byne, 2005). The childhood need to hide may persist into adulthood, leading many LGB individuals to conceal important aspects of themselves…Read more

Gay Conversion | Religious Conversion - Transforms the Damned into the Saved | COVERING - Kenji Yoshino – 2002 - The Yale Law Journal

Resource Links -- Conversion Therapy
Policy Statements of Professional Organizations
Rockway Institute - Alliant International University


3.  Gay teen suicideFamily Acceptance Project  - shows relationship between a lack of family acceptance of a gay child and the rate of substance abuse, suicide and others problems

Groundbreaking Study Finds Family Acceptance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Adolescents Protects Against Depression, Substance Abuse and Suicidal Behavior in Early Adulthood – by Caitlin Ryan, PhD, December 6, 2010 - FAMILY ACCEPTANCE PROJECT

Dr. Caitlin Ryan: Reducing Risk and Promoting Well-Being for LGBT Youth: The Critical Role of Family Support – 2009 – podcast

http://www.socialwork.buffalo.edu/podcast/episode.asp?ep=33


Dr. Caitlin Ryan: Commitment, Intentionality, and Hard Work: What It Takes To Do Culturally Competent, Ground-Breaking Research 2010 – podcast


Family Acceptance Project™ website:

Dr. Caitlin Ryan – Mental Health Matters: How does the “Family Acceptance Project” work? – 2011


Family Acceptance Project™ - Helping diverse families understand how to support their LGBT children – videos

Family Acceptance of LGBT Youth Protects Against Suicide, Depression & Substance Abuse and Predicts Better Health & Self-Esteem

School Victimization of Gender-Nonconforming LGBT Youth Linked with Depression and Quality Of Life In Adulthood

Best Practice Guidelines for Serving LGBT Youth in Out-of-Home Care

Family Acceptance Project™ Resource Links:
San Francisco State University Related Programs
LGBT Family-Related Organizations
LGBT Youth Organizations
School-Related Resources
Gender-Related Resources
LGBT Legal Advocacy Organizations
Online Resources for LGBT Youth
Hotlines
Adolescent Health
National LGBT Organizations
LGBT Health-Related Organizations

Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling - By Caitlin Ryan and Donna Futterman

UA professor Stephen T. Russell to Explore LGBT Suicide Risk – 2008

 

Homophobic families harm gay teenagers, study claims - 2008


Internalized Homophobia and Relationship Quality among Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals - David M. Frost and Ilan H. Meyer - 2009
Journal of Counseling Psychology 2009, Vol. 56, No. 1, 97–109

New Report Shows Inequalities for Children with LGBT Parents



 Talking About Suicide & LGBT Populations - Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)


Preventing Suicide among LGBT Youth by Effie Malley  - Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)

Suicide Prevention among LGBT Youth with Effie Malley – 2009

http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?s=Effie+Malley


Homophobia Is Killing Our Youth – 2009

Gay Bullying Deaths and Religion: Are Believers the Problem or the Solution? 2010

For Many Gay Youth, Bullying Exacts a Deadly Toll – 2010

Gay bullying and Catholic responsibilities – 2010

Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done – 2010

“Most religious denominations continue to condemn homosexuality as sinful and
provide a rationale for marginalizing LGB people.” - Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
Social Environment - Although the social environment itself has not been defined as a risk factor for suicide, widespread discrimination against LGBT people, heterosexist attitudes, and gender bias can lead to risk factors such as isolation, family rejection, and lack of access to care providers. Risk factors may interact in unhealthy ways—for example, internalized homophobia or victimization may lead to stress, which is associated with depression and substance abuse, which can contribute to suicide risk. This risk may be compounded by a lack of protective factors that normally provide resilience, such as strong family connections, peer support, and access to effective health and mental health providers…

Herek and colleagues (2007) describe a framework to understand the social environment for sexual minorities. The framework integrates the sociological idea of stigma with the psychological idea of prejudice. Through stigma, society discredits and invalidates homosexuality relative to heterosexuality. Institutions embodying stigma results in heterosexism, and heterosexual individuals internalizing stigma results in prejudice. The United States legal system has faced challenges by sexual minorities and sympathetic heterosexuals that have led to significant changes. However, the legal system continues to reinforce stigma through discriminatory laws and the absence of laws protecting sexual minorities from discrimination in employment, housing, and services. A minority of states had antidiscrimination laws as of 2005, and most of these only referred to employment and not to housing or services. Most religious denominations continue to condemn homosexuality as sinful and provide a rationale for marginalizing LGB people…

See no Race, See no Gay: What Proponents of a Gay-Blind Approach to Bullying in the Schools can Learn from Race Relations - by Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D. and Nestor L. Lopez-Duran PhD,
2010 - Psychology Today

Bullying, gay teen suicides, and a need for a solution – 2010 - Nestor L. Lopez-Duran, PhD. - clinical child psychologist and researcher, University of Michigan

Bullies and Victims: Boys will be boys or a symptom of distress? 2009 - Child Psychology Research

http://www.child-psych.org/2009/10/bullies-and-victims-a-risk-for-psychopathology.html#comment-47375


The cruelties of STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE on CHILDREN are often subtle, unspoken, unrecognized, and even normalized, regarded by many people as natural or “just the way things are.” Daniel J. Christie - Peace, Conflict, and Violence:
Peace Psychology for the 21st Century.

Pope’s child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims -122110

Related links:

John Jay Report: On Not Blaming Homosexual Priests – 51711

"No public figure talks more about child safety but does little to actually make children safer than Pope Benedict" 112611
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The New John Jay Report on Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church – “The researchers conclude that there is no causative relationship between either celibacy or homosexuality and the sexual victimization of children in the Church.” 51811

Facts about Homosexuality and Child Molestation - Gregory M. Herek, Ph.D.

Roman Catholic Hierarchy child sexual abuse “cover-ups” ordered by Benedict XVI to avoid public outrage & criminal charges falsely accused gay priests, WATERGATE? – January 2, 2010


“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.” 


…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


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!!!

Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition 

Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New International Version)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New American Standard Bible)
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again. 

1 Chronicles 16:30 (New International Version)
30 Tremble before him, all the earth! 
The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
1 Chronicles 16:30 (New American Standard Bible)
30 Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. 

Psalm 93:1 (New International Version)
The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; 
 the LORD is robed in majesty 
 and is armed with strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1 (New American Standard Bible)
1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The LORD has clothed and girded Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. 

Psalm 96:10 (New International Version)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns." 
 The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; 
 he will judge the peoples with equity.
Psalm 96:10 (New American Standard Bible)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity." 

Psalm 104:5 (New International Version)
5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
Psalm 104:5 (New American Standard Bible)
He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever.