Are the New York State Republicans Senators Colluding with Catholic Hierarchy to maintain secrecy and to guarantee Immunity from any future prosecution regarding the Psychological, Physical Violent Child abuse and Teenage suicide caused by their reckless promulgation of unorthodox unsubstantiated anti-gay teachings and attacking religious (such as priests, sisters, etc.) informants to silence them – as found in the Ireland Murphy Report? Photo
The way to begin for us all, not only the NY State Senators, to protect Religious Freedom and not Tyranny in Religion is by obtaining a well-informed conscience. We start by individually approaching and studying in (great detail because it involves the lives of children) from the best and the brightest (1) scripture scholars regarding the references related to homosexuality and (2) scientists in the field of study of human sexuality, in particular, but [not] limited to, the onset of sexual orientation. The prerequisite to the formation of a well-informed conscience is making a thorough study of all sides of the issue from all available authoritative data and research, including opposing views. Then in this way we are better equipped to decide who and what needs government protection in regards to the gay marriage bill. This exhaustive procedure follows to the letter the Gospel quotation about the “plank” and the” speck.”
“How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye”. Luke 6:42
The “plank” for us is ignorance. If we satisfactorily resolve this ignorance, then together we will be able to see more clearly, whether or not, as NY State Senators (government officials) and as citizens we are colluding with the Catholic Hierarchy and are harming children, as was found to be the case in the Ireland Murphy Report…
…gay marriage (human sexuality, sexual orientation) is like Galileo it is about the true facts of science. Condemning Galileo showed real ignorance on the part of the Vatican, which Pope John Paul II confirmed and apologized for in 1992.
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By Charley Honey, -The Grand Rapids Press - March 29, 1997
The Rev. Martin Kurylowicz got lots of hugs after Good Friday services at Sparta's Holy Family Catholic Church…
…He spoke up after attending a national conference on gay issues and the Catholic Church in early March. He was disturbed by accounts of homosexual children feeling isolated and parents feeling they did something wrong.
"I just couldn't walk away from it," he said. "I couldn't deny the pain."
He hopes his admission will raise awareness of violence against homosexuals and teen suicide, and help teach others that homosexuality is not a choice…
By Alan Duke - CNN.com, March 29, 2010
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pop singer Ricky Martin declared publicly this week what he avoided discussing for years: He is gay.
"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Martin wrote on his official Web site. "I am very blessed to be who I am."…
By Thomas Kaplan - The New York Times - February 9, 2011
…Mr. Cuomo, who included legalizing same-sex marriage in his campaign platform, said Wednesday that he intended to ask the Legislature to take up the matter in its current session, which ends in June… Photo
*** 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…
Related link: http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2008/12/perpetuation-of-generational-violence.html
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. ..
Benedict XVI/Vatican - ...thirst for power divides Christianity and damages Catholicism - …Pope Benedict is set on restoring the Roman imperium – Hans Kung - October 27, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/27/catholicism-pope-anglicanism-church
Church in worst credibility crisis since Reformation, theologian tells bishops – Hans Kung - April 4, 2010
…Time and again, this pope has added qualifications to the conciliar texts and interpreted them against the spirit of the council fathers. Time and again, he has taken an express stand against the Ecumenical Council, which according to canon law represents the highest authority in the Catholic Church:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/27/catholicism-pope-anglicanism-church
Church in worst credibility crisis since Reformation, theologian tells bishops – Hans Kung - April 4, 2010
…Time and again, this pope has added qualifications to the conciliar texts and interpreted them against the spirit of the council fathers. Time and again, he has taken an express stand against the Ecumenical Council, which according to canon law represents the highest authority in the Catholic Church:
…In his [Benedict XVI] anti-conciliar policy, the pope receives the full support of the Roman Curia. The Curia does its best to stifle criticism in the episcopate and in the church as a whole and to discredit critics with all the means at its disposal. With a return to pomp and spectacle catching the attention of the media, the reactionary forces in Rome have attempted to present us with a strong church fronted by an absolutistic “Vicar of Christ” who combines the church’s legislative, executive and judicial powers in his hands alone…
…There is no denying the fact that the worldwide system of covering up cases of sexual crimes committed by clerics was engineered by the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger (1981-2005). During the reign of Pope John Paul II, that congregation had already taken charge of all such cases under oath of strictest silence…
3. Act in a collegial way: After heated debate and against the persistent opposition of the Curia, the Second
4. Unconditional obedience is owed to God alone: Although at your episcopal consecration you had to take an oath of unconditional obedience to the pope, you know that unconditional obedience can never be paid to any human authority; it is due to God alone. For this reason, you should not feel impeded by your oath to speak the truth about the current crisis facing the church, your diocese and your country. Your model should be the apostle Paul, who dared to oppose Peter – “to his face since he was manifestly in the wrong! (Galatians 2:11)…
http://fratres.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/full-text-open-letter-to-bishops-by-hans-kung/
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0416/1224268443283.html
Benedict XVI born April 16, 1927 in Bavaria, Germany
Adolf Hitler born April 20, 1889 in Austria
Chronicle of the Third Reich - Michael Kloft – 2010
Part I – January 30, 1933 Hitler is appointed Chancellor… [Hitler] his vision was to rule the entire world...the sensational early successes makes Hitler believe he is infallible… [He wants to] gain power in various states like Bavaria…and to destroy his internal enemies…
They [Nazi Party] stigmatize those who are a threat to the Nation…those who offer resistance to [Hitler’s] dictatorship are mercilessly persecuted by Hitler’s henchmen…Reeducation Centers [are built]…people there are tortured and murdered with his [Hitler’s] consent…
April 26, 1933 – the establishment of the Gestapo, the secret state police [to silence Hitler's political opponents]…
1934 – President Hindenburg died in August 1934. [Hitler then combined the Chancellor’s and President's positions into one.] He [Hitler] takes over, becomes then the head of state…an oath of allegiance is sworn to him [by the whole of the armed forces]… “I swear by God that I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the German Reich and Folk.”
ROMAN CURIA & GESTAPO
Benedict XVI’s ROMAN CURIA
Stifling criticism and discrediting critics
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/02/world/main6166603.shtml
A scandal in Italy's Catholic Church has morphed into a tale of Vatican intrigue complete with forged documents, reports of dueling cardinals and a papal admonishment Tuesday to put the matter to rest.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011023239_apeuvaticanintrigue.htmlVatican intrigue hits new level with leak denial - February 9, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/vatican-intrigue-hits-new-level-with-leak-denial-2010-2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35314296/ns/world_news-europe/
Vatican accuses Italian media of smear campaign - February 10, 2010
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican accused Italian media on Tuesday of waging an "insulting" smear campaign against it and Pope Benedict by running embarrassing stories about palace intrigue and Byzantine plotting inside its walls.
With a rare statement issued by its Secretariat of State, the Vatican broke its silence…
The reports said top Vatican officials had sent an Italian newspaper owned by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's family a false document alleging Boffo had been accused of harassment by a woman with whose husband he was having a homosexual affair.
Since January 23, Vatican officials have seen stories with headlines such as "The Poison of Cardinals," "Vatican Intrigue" and "Hunger for Power in the Vatican."…
http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFTRE61913E20100210February 11, 2010
What lies behind the highly unusual denial this week by Pope Benedict XVI that the Vatican was involved in the smearing of Dino Boffo, a Catholic editor critical of the private life of Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, as a "renowned homosexual"?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7023661.ecehttp://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/0419/1224268630491.html
Priest says he was bullied into taking fall for Pope in abuse scandal – April 18, 2010
The church official who initially said it was his fault that a paedophile priest was given succour in Pope Benedict XVI’s former diocese has broken ranks, alleging he was bullied into taking responsibility to protect the pontiff.
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100418-26613.htmlNew York Governor attacked by Vatican adviser for taking Communion… - February 24, 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360054/New-York-Governor-Andrew-Cuomo-attacked-Vatican-adviser-taking-Communion.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Hitler’s GESTAPO
Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police Force 1933-1945 (2005) DVD
Hermann Goering's Secret State Police were tasked to arrest and torture confessions and information from supposed enemies of the Reich. All the powers of the Judiciary were taken into its hands and the courts rendered superfluous. So infamous were the actions of Nazi Germany's secret state police that the word "Gestapo" has become an ubiquitous catchphrase for any form of unchecked power. Created by Hermann Göring in 1933 and assimilated into the SS under Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo were responsible for investigating, prosecuting, imprisoning, and executing all deemed "enemies of the state" (i.e. Jews, resistance leaders, homosexuals, and other groups of "undesirables") without any oversight from the courts.
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/movie/pid/6922879/a/War+Zone+-+Gestapo%3A+Hitler's+Secret+Police.htmhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1281543078093754455
Hitter’s Youth - brainwashed young Germans into support of their prejudices and policies against homosexuality.” Photo
Shaping the Future: Indoctrinating Youth
Education in the Nazi State
In the classroom and in the Hitler Youth, instruction aimed to produce race-conscious, obedient, self-sacrificing Germans who would be willing to die for Führer and Fatherland. Devotion to Adolf Hitler was a key component of Hitler Youth training. German young people celebrated his birthday (April 20)-a national holiday-for membership inductions. German adolescents swore allegiance to Hitler and pledged to serve the nation and its leader as future soldiers.
“Hidden holocaust?: gay and lesbian persecution in Germany, 1933-45” By Günter Grau, 1995 Photo
...This excerpt from an essay published in a Hitler Youth educational newspaper shows the emphasis placed upon heterosexuality. Nazis kept a close watch on Hitler Youth, and any sign of homosexuality resulted from expulsion and persecution. In accordance with Nazi tendencies, Hitler Youth brainwashed young Germans into support of their prejudices and policies against homosexuality...
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HITLER'S CHILDREN
Hitler's Third Reich Was Responsible For The Betrayal And Exploitation Of An Entire Generation. Even Today, Some Former Members Of The Nazi Youth Organizations Are Unable To Come To Terms With The Part They Played In Germany's Dark Beyond. This Book Is The First Comprehensive History Of The Youth Organizations Used By The Third Reich To Indoctrinate The Young People Of Germany. SKU: 1389336
Hitler’s Children – Videos
Night of the long Knives – DVD 2005 - The History Channel
…The elusive but deadly Brown Shirts (or Sturmabteilung), a crack paramilitary group assembled by the Nazi party, had been a critical force in Hitler's rise to power, but he witnessed their strength gradually evolving into a threat against himself and his closest allies...
The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict's household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting... Photo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal
William Shakespeare: Life of Drama (1996) A&E Biography
Michelangelo: Artist and Man (A&E DVD Archives)
WIDESPREAD HOMOPHOBIA in the Catholic Church
Theologian says much of clergy is gay - November 22, 2010
...“The worst homophobia in the Catholic Church comes from homophile priests, who are desperately fighting their own sexuality,”...
Related links:
Part 1: 'A Large Proportion of Catholic Clerics and Trainee Priests Are Homosexual'
Part 2: 'I Hope that the Church Will at Last Confront the Issue of Homophobia'
SEXUAL CONVERSION THERAPIES
by Jack Drescher, M.D.
Jack Drescher, M.D. is Past Chair (2000-2006) of the Committee on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also a Past President of the New York City District Branch of the APA.
Dr. Drescher has edited two volumes on sexual conversion therapies: Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical, and Research Perspectives and Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics and Culture.
Sexual Conversion Therapy
Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives
(2002)
edited by
Ariel Shidlo, PhD,
Michael Schroeder, PsyD, and
Jack Drescher, MD
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.
Online articles:
Jack Drescher, M.D. website:
The Psychology of the Closeted
Individual and Coming Out
In contemporary gay culture, to hide one sexual identity is referred to as either “closeted” or “in the closet.” Revealing oneself as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) is called “coming out.” 16 Paradigm • Fall 2007 - by Jack Drescher, M.D.
Gay Conversion | Religious Conversion - Transforms The Damned Into The Saved | COVERING - Kenji Yoshino – 2002 - The Yale Law Journal
Excerpts:
A. Gay Conversion
…What does it mean to convert? Generally defined as a “ [c]hange in character [or] nature,” 37 conversion encompasses mundane, value-neutral, and reversible transactions such as changes of measure or currency. Yet as the above account of electroshock therapy suggests, this general definition may fail to capture what conversion denotes for human identities. In such cases, I believe conversion often has a more specific meaning inflected by the instance of religious conversion—“ [t]he turning of sinners to God; a spiritual change from sinfulness, ungodliness, or worldliness to love of God and pursuit of holiness.” 38 Conversion in this formulation is not a mundane event, but a sacred one; not a value-neutral event, but one that transforms the damned into the saved; and not a reversible event, but in theory a unique occurrence.
Under such an account, human conversion differs profoundly from either passing or covering. Passing and covering are both perceived to be compromise formations in which the underlying identity is ostensibly preserved, modified only for popular consumption. In contrast, conversion is thought to be a more complete embrace or surrender. It is believed to change not only the expression of an identity, but the underlying substance of it.39
In this discussion, I describe the history of attempts to convert homosexuality into heterosexuality in the nonlegal field of mental health, as well as in the legal field. In both contexts, I document the same trend…
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Resource Links -- Conversion Therapy
Policy Statements of Professional Organizations
Rockway Institute
Alliant International University
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.
Family Acceptance Project™ website:
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
Introduction
by Deborah Du Nann Winter and Dana C. Leighton
Direct violence is horrific, but its brutality usually gets our attention: we notice it, and often respond to it. Structural violence, however, is almost always invisible, embedded in ubiquitous social structures, normalized by stable institutions and regular experience. Structural violence occurs whenever people are disadvantaged by political, legal, economic, or cultural traditions. Because they are longstanding, structural inequities usually seem ordinary—the way things are and always have been. But structural violence produces suffering and death as often as direct violence does, though the damage is slower, more subtle, more common, and more difficult to repair. The chapters in this section teach us about some important but invisible forms of structural violence, and alert us to the powerful cultural mechanisms that create and maintain them over generations. Photo
Johan Galtung originally framed the term “structural violence” to mean any constraint on human potential caused by economic and political structures (1969). Unequal access to resources, to political power, to education, to health care, or to legal standing, are forms of structural violence. When inner-city children have inadequate schools while others do not, when gays and lesbians are fired for their sexual orientation, when laborers toil in inhumane conditions, when people of color endure environmental toxins in their neighborhoods, structural violence exists. Unfortunately, even those who are victims of structural violence often do not see the systematic ways in which their plight is choreographed by unequal and unfair distribution of society’s resources. Such is the insidiousness of structural violence…
Recognizing the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about how and why we tolerate it, questions that often have painful answers. The first chapter in this section, “Social Injustice,” by Susan Opotow, argues that our normal perceptual/cognitive processes lead us to care about people inside our scope of justice, but rarely care about those people outside. Injustice that would be instantaneously confronted if it occurred to someone we love or know is barely noticed if it occurs to strangers or those who are invisible or irrelevant to us. We do not seem to be able to open our minds and our hearts to everyone; moral exclusion is a product of our normal cognitive processes. But Opotow argues convincingly that we can reduce its nefarious effects by becoming aware of our distorted perceptions. Inclusionary thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity.
One outcome of exclusionary thinking is the belief that victims of violence must in some way deserve their plight. But certainly it is easy to see that young children do not deserve to be victims…
Read complete - Section II:
Winter, D. D., & Leighton, D. C. (2001). Structural violence. In D. J. Christie, R. V. Wagner, & D. D. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. New York: Prentice-Hall.
Peace Psychology Book
Psychologists For Social Responsibility
CHILDREN AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
Milton Schwebel and Daniel J. Christie
The reduction of direct violence requires not only interventions aimed at individuals, but also structural changes aimed at how societies operate, as Kostelny and Garbarino have outlined in their chapter. In this chapter, we examine the effects of structural violence on children. Structural violence is the unequal distribution of power and wealth within and between societies, and it has insidious effects on the health, intellectual development, education, and general welfare of millions of children. 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.” This chapter focuses on how children suffer the cruel effects of structural violence, and why it has long-lasting consequences on their intellectual, social, and emotional development…
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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.
Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the EU Member States,
Part II – The Social Situation
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
GAY YOUTH SUICIDE | BENEDICT XVI & BISHOPS Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups – Negligence Protecting (1) Children & (2) LGBT Children
Family of Rutgers suicide victim lends name to bill – November 19, 2010 – CNN
California - 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
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
David M. Frost
City University of New York
Ilan H. Meyer
Columbia University
David M. Frost
City University of New York
Ilan H. Meyer
Columbia University
The authors examined the associations between internalized homophobia, outness, community connectedness, depressive symptoms, and relationship quality among a diverse community sample of 396 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. Structural equation models showed that internalized homophobia was associated with greater relationship problems both generally and among coupled participants independent of outness and community connectedness. Depressive symptoms mediated the association between internalized homophobia and relationship problems. This study improves present understandings of the association between internalized homophobia and relationship quality by distinguishing between the effects of the core construct of internalized homophobia and its correlates and outcomes. The findings are useful for counselors interested in interventions and treatment approaches to help LGB individuals cope with internalized homophobia and relationship problems.
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http://www.columbia.edu/~im15/files/IHP.pdf
© 2009 American Psychological Association
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Iowa Teen Dies After Anti-Gay Beating – 82311 …The fight occurred in Waterloo, Iowa, home town of Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann…
GAY YOUTH SUICIDE | BENEDICT XVI & BISHOPS Global Negligence Protecting Children - Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups & Unsubstantiated Antigay Teachings Fueling Homophobia & Violence towards LGBT Children Photo & more
Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal? More
In Spain - “Act of God” Interrupts Pope Benedict’s Anti-Gay Speech – 82211
Thousands protest Pope's visit to Madrid - 82011
Spanish riot police clash with protesters, beat girl and photographer, during Pope's visit (VIDEO) – 81911
Gay marriage: Maryland Gov. O'Malley takes a risk for what's right - 72511
…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
“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.”
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 !!!
