Thalamus Center – Related News Media Links & Research Topics – January – August 2012

S.F. archbishop-designate arrested for DUI in San Diego – 8/27/12 - - Cordileone - "was instrumental in devising" [California] Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, and then "raising Catholic dollars to qualify it for the ballot."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/incoming-sf-archbishop-arrested-for-dui-in-san-diego/1

Benedict XVI’s Antigay Marriage - Salvatore Cordileone DUI: San Francisco Archbishop-Elect Arrested For Driving Under The Influence – 8/27/12

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/salvatore-cordileone-dui_n_1834213.html

 

Minnesota - "For All the Children" Highlights Catholic Support for LGBT Equality” – 8/17/12 - A new video from Minnesota highlights Catholic support for LGBT people and opposition to the anti-marriage equality amendment proposed in that state. The video features an ever-expanding congregation singing a song about God’s wide welcome…

    

     Spitzer Issues Apology for Study Supporting REPARATIVE THERAPY -6/15/12 - Robert Spitzer, M.D. - has now RENOUNCED the findings that “REPARATIVE THERAPY” could help gay people CHANGE their SEXUAL ORIENTATION

    

     Gay CONVERSION Therapy Devastated My Family - Chana Wilson – 6/25/12 - …REPARATIVE therapy, which attempts to make gay people straight, is not just futile -- it often causes serious harm, including increased depression, self-hatred, and even suicide. It can devastate not just a gay individual, but entire families…

    

     FRENCH CATHOLICS, as for all Catholics - must followed their WELL-INFORMED CONSCIENCE – not blindly obeying or following the dictates of the ILL-INFORMED CONSCIENCE of French bishops on Gay Marriage. – 8/15/12

     French back gay marriage as church urges prayers against – 8/14/12 - Nearly two-thirds of the French back gay marriage...resisted by Catholic bishops made their campaign an IMPLICIT theme on Feast of the Assumption

     Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing GAY ‘CURE’ – 5/18/12

     Spitzer's Apology Changes 'Ex-Gay' Debate – 5/21/12 – NPR -- …CONAN: Do you think homosexuality is a choice? SPITZER: Is a choice? No, for sure, that's the one thing I have no doubt about, it's no choice. CONAN: And in a distinguished career, this has been, I guess, an unfortunate last chapter. SPITZER: Well, it's unfortunate in one sense, but I feel very relieved and very grateful to the many people who have told me or written to the New York Times that I Did The Right Thing, and I think I did.

    

     Genuine Christian Scholars Smack Down an Unruly Colleague – 8/10/12 - “…America was founded by Christians and should be governed by Christians, that the separation of church and state is a myth…” Psalm 63 - "The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped." *** e.g. Benedict XVI & his Bishops’ deliberate erroneous public statements regarding homosexuality & gay marriage

     The Pope Meets the Press: Media Coverage of the Clergy Abuse Scandal – “grew more intense this spring than at any time since 2002” & this year zeroed in on the Benedict XVI himself - according to a new study by the Pew Research Center – 6/11/12

     Broad Criticism of Pope Benedict's Handling of Sex Abuse Scandal - Most Catholics Critical as Well – 4/07/12

     Pew Research Center - finds huge support - a Majority of Catholics - for Gay Marriage – 7/31/12

     As Support for Gay Marriage Increases – Benedict XVI & USA Bishops Panic of Exposure Increases over their CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE COVER-UPS Accountability – past 30 years ordered by Benedict XVI - 113011

    

     Obama Gay Marriage Support Seen as World Precedent – 51012 ABC

     A Marriage of HOMOPHOBIA and GREED - Fuels Violence against Gay Marriage as Kids Are Being Hurt!!! | Benedict XVI - Hires Fox News PR – Improve Image - 7/04/12 MSK

     Gay Marriage - Improves Health -Columbia University Study - 121611

     Gay Marriage - …protect “Religious Freedom” and not TYRANNY IN RELIGION - obtain a WELL-INFORMED CONSCIENCE – regarding SEXUAL ORIENTATION - 62011

     President Obama Backs Gay Marriage – 51012 WSJ

     "We can't afford to have two kinds of citizens, We must have equal citizenship for anybody in our country." Eleanor Roosevelt

     "Reminding Loved Ones That Life is Precious: Suicide Prevention Resources"

     Is Some HOMOPHOBIA Self-Phobia? - 40712

     HOMOPHOBIA may reveal denial of own same-sex attraction, study suggests – 41012

     New Catholic Sex Abuse Findings: Gay Priests Are Not the Problem – 111809

         

  Gay Marriage - “I found that the TRUE HETEROSEXUALS are CLUELESS about homosexuals expressions of love and they have absolutely no anger towards homosexuals, especially people they never met and do not know. They tend to be genuinely interested about what life is like for them, but no anger. They tend to connect on the issues about what it is like to fall in love with someone.” - COMING OUT and NEW BEGINNINGS - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz – May 2009 - March 2012

      

     US Representative Barney Frank weds longtime partner, James Ready, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage. – 7/14/12 - “It was no different than any other wedding I’ve attended when you have two people who are in love with each other,” Mr Green said [Democratic congressman from Texas].

    

     AMAZON – Kicks Straight Support For Gay Marriage Up A Notch - Washington State – 7/28/12

      

     Pew poll shows rising support for gay marriage – “This shouldn’t come as too surprising. CATHOLICS have been leading the way on same-sex marriage for some time now.” – 7/31/12

      

     Connecticut court ruling favors Gay Marriage – 8/01/12 *** “…the provision in the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act VIOLATES the Fifth Amendment right to equal protection. The provision "obligates the federal government to single out a certain category of marriages as excluded from federal recognition, thereby resulting in an inconsistent distribution of federal marital benefits… many courts have concluded that homosexuals have suffered a long and significant history of PURPOSEFUL DISCRIMINATION."

      

     FLOW, the SECRET TO HAPPINESS – positive psychologist - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “...understanding what contributed to a life that was worth living...you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources does not increase happiness.” “You know that what you need to do is possible to do, even though difficult, and sense of time disappears. You forget yourself. You feel part of something larger.” “BOREDOM begins to be very aversive and APATHY becomes very negative: you don't feel that you're doing anything, you don't use your skills, there's no challenge. Unfortunately, a lot of people's experience is in APATHY. The largest single contributor to that experience is WATCHING TELEVISION…” video & transcript 2004

      

     JK ROWLAND (author of Harry Potter book series), delivers her Commencement Address, at Harvard 6/05/08 - The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION – “…many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know… those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own APATHY.” JK ROWLAND - Harvard University – 60508 – video

      

     PEACEMAKING vs. PEACEBUILDING *** Peacemaking emphasizes the prevention of violence while PEACEBUILDING emphasizes the promotion of SOCIAL JUSTICE. Peacemaking may support the interests of the status quo while PEACEBUILDING often threatens the social order… "Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century" edited by D. Christie, R. Wagner, and D. Winter (2001)

      

     Pew Research Center - finds huge support among Democrats – including a Majority of Catholics - for Gay Marriage – 7/31/12

      

     A 31 year old MARRIAGE of DECEIT & RUTHLESSNESS of HOMOPHOBIA and GREED *** It is no secret by now that the IGNORANCE of the issue of GAY MARRIAGE has in the past been used in the USA as a POLITICAL WEDGE to usher certain people into public office that led to many adverse effects impacting the safety and well-being of millions lives including children, which later led us into a war under false pretenses. Beginning in 1981 when Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Ratzinger took the office in the Vatican as grand inquisitor, he immediately began …silencing Catholic SOCIAL JUSTICE, moral theologians, academics, priests and sisters particularly those dealing with the sexual orientation (like the Vatican recent sanctioning of the USA Catholic Sisters for advocating SOCIAL JUSTICE over attacking the issue of gay marriage, i.e. Sr. Margret Farley) *** we have faced in the USA: (A) the RECESSION of the 1980’s that followed a significant political shift to the right, (B) in the 1990’s the major DOWNSIZING of corporations/businesses meaning employees lost their jobs, at the same time there was the OUTSOURCING of USA jobs exploiting workers overseas, along with the tremendous rise in health care cost and the number of uninsured, (C) in the 2000’s came the taxes cuts for the super rich, LED US INTO WAR UNDER FALSE PRETENCES, the deterioration of the USA infrastructure due to years of budgetary cut backs including the staffing and updating of Federal rescue agencies, which led to the massive devastation and tremendous loss of life caused by KATRINA 2005 by the collapsing of the weak levees and the unconscionable lengthy delay and serious lack of competency of the Federal rescue agencies to aid and save lives. *** Now Benedict XVI hires the FOX NEWS NETWORK PR - in an USA Presidential Election Year to improve his image and credibility deteriorated by years and years of his global child sexual abuse cover-ups – for what reason – in hopes to win back the majority of Catholics in the USA who now support GAY MARRIAGE – to use it again as a POLITICAL WEDGE to usher even more destructive & powerful people into office – what to start more wars under false pretenses? 7/04/12

      

     REPUBLICANS made GAY MARRIAGE a WEDGE issue. Now that it hurts them, they call it “divisive.” – 5/15/12

      

     Gay marriage: California's Prop. 8 lands on doorstep of US Supreme Court (+video) – 7/31/12

      

     Benedict XVI names author of Prop 8 Ban Gay Marriage as new San Francisco archbishop – 7/27/12

      

     In a city with one of the largest gay communities, Benedict XVI names New San Francisco archbishop a strong opponent of same-sex marriage – 7/27/12

      

     Gay Marriage – UNIDENTIFIED INTERNALIZED Homophobia - Benedict XVI, Hierarchy & Blind Followers - GAY-BASHERS UK & US - Kids Are Being Hurt!!! | People Making A Difference PROTECTING Kids - Catholic Politicians Supporting Gay Marriage | “COMING OUT and NEW BEGINNINGS” - March 26, 2012

      

     Importance of SOCIAL JUSTICE to PEACEBUILDING *** Peace psychologists are not only developing theories and practices aimed at the prevention of DIRECT VIOLENCE, but are also working to mitigate STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE, which means the reduction of hierarchical relations within and between societies. Hierarchical relations privilege those on the top while oppressing, exploiting, and dominating those on the bottom. Framed positively, we can conceptualize PEACEBUILDING as movement toward SOCIAL JUSTICE which occurs when political structures become more inclusive by giving voice to those who have been marginalized in decisions that affect their well-being, and economic structures become transformed so that those who have been exploited gain greater access to material resources that satisfy their basic needs… - Christie, D. J., Wagner, R. V., & Winter, D. A. (Eds.). (2001). “Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century”

      

     PEACEBUILDING…informed approaches to SOCIAL JUSTICE that are designed to reduce structural violence. Structural PEACEBUILDING matters… because the roots of direct violence can often be traced to structure-based inequalities. - "Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century" edited by D. Christie, R. Wagner, and D. Winter (2001)

      

     VIETNAM Considers Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage – 7/29/12

      

     Same-sex marriage supporters in Washington State get $2.5 million from Amazon founder – 7/28/12

      

     Same-sex marriage heads for Supreme Court – 7/29/12

      

     NANCY PELOSI at the - International AIDS Conference - We have an obligation to continue HIV/AIDS fight – 7/28/12 - ...House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recalled the epidemic’s early impact in San Francisco. “It was 31 years ago when we first heard in our community that doctors at UCSF (University of California-San Francisco) were seeing unlike anything they’d seen before, symptoms that harkened back to the Middle Ages... Pelosi’s first speech in Congress after she arrived on Capitol Hill in 1987 was about AIDS.

      

     SUSAN SARANDON - as a mother and a Catholic - is UNAPOLOGETIC about branding Pope Benedict XVI a “Nazi” – 7/20/12 - “I find institutionalized religion very difficult, and for the most part non-productive. Jesus was amazing and a lot of what he talked about has been warped and used by many people to exclude others and be unloving. I consider myself a spiritual person. *** What I said about this pope was somewhat hostile because as a mother and a Catholic I’ve been very disappointed at the way that he has harbored pedophiles within the church. The church is so powerful that they have a responsibility and an opportunity to heal so many wrong and instead they’re so exclusive.”

      

     DOUBLE-SPEAK is language designed to evade responsibility, make the unpleasant appear pleasant, the unattractive appear attractive. Basically, it's language that pretends to communicate, but really doesn't. It is language designed to mislead, while pretending not to…Double-speak is NOT a SLIP OF THE TONGUE or a mistaken use of language, it's exactly the opposite.

      

     Archbishop Philip Tartaglia's gay MP remark 'adds to family's grief' – 7/25/12 - “…Mr Kehoe said the clergyman's remarks had been made in complete ignorance. He told BBC radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "The Archbishop elect brought up David Cairns himself. He wasn't asked about him, he chose to bring him up and essentially he implied that David's death was due in some way homosexuality and his being gay…Speaking to BBC Scotland he said the remarks had not been taken out of context.”

      

     All PROPAGANDA must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the MOST LIMITED INTELLIGENCE among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be...Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924 *** i.e. Archbishop TARTAGLIA links Scotland gay Catholic MP’s death to his being gay 72512 * BENEDICT XVI: Gay marriage threatens humanity’s future 10912 * Chicago's Cardinal GEORGE comparing gay rights movement to Ku Klux Klan 122211 * U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops - adviser - saying DEVIL makes people gay 100411 * Cardinal BERTONE, Vatican's Number 2: Priest Pedophilia Linked To Homosexuality 41210 "…clumsily trying to shift attention to homosexuality and away from the focus on new crimes against children that emerge every day" 41410 * “…BENEDICT said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.” 122208

      

     Scotland - In full: Tom Harris’s letter to Archbishop Philip Tartaglia – “...Your public assertion that David’s illness might in some way be connected to his sexuality and lifestyle was not only unsupported by any evidence, but was, I fear, unworthy of your position as a leader in the Church. Your comments were based on ignorance, not on facts...” – 7/25/12

      

     The FUNCTION of PROPAGANDA is…not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people…Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly. Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924

      

     Obama Gay Marriage Support Seen as World Precedent – 51012 ABC

      

     The scandal-plagued VATICAN BANK has A LONG WAY TO GO in order to comply with international standards for independent oversight and financial transparency – 7/18/12

      

     A Marriage of HOMOPHOBIA and GREED - Fuels Violence against Gay Marriage as Kids Are Being Hurt!!! | Benedict XVI - Hires Fox News PR – Improve Image - 7/04/12 MSK

      

     Obama’s support Gay Marriage brings out heated Homophobia and Ignorance in ITALY – Revealing an unwavering & inordinate hold to the archaic fallacy linking pedophilia and homosexuality - While VATICAN was suspiciously silent - 51012

      

     An American Nun Responds To Vatican Criticism – 7/17/12 - “...the Vatican...said the leadership conference (Leadership Conference of Women Religious) is undermining Roman Catholic teachings on homosexuality and birth control and promoting "radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."

      

     Gay Priest Speaks Against Minnesota Marriage Amendment – “Fr. Bob Pierson told Catholics in Minnesota that the FREEDOM of CONSCIENCE principle allows them to vote against the amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the state constitution.” 7/16/12

      

     Thomson Reuters opposes amendment banning same-sex marriage – Minnesota – 7/13/12

      

     Minnesota Suburbs, Church Ladies Launch Gay Marriage Crusade – “…united to fight what many of them call an embarrassment to Minnesota: a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage…” – 7/11/12

      

     Barney Frank - US Representative - weds James Ready, NEWTON, Mass - Vegan Soba and Pelosi on the Dance Floor - 7/09/12

      

     Episcopalians set to be first big U.S. church to bless gay marriage – 7/09/12

      

     The Vatican Bank: The Most Secret Bank In the World – Forbes - 6/24/12 – JP Morgan Chase closed Vatican account, Corruption, Money Laundering, Power Struggles, Bribes, Tax Haven, “Vatileaks” Scandal | "…While the Vatican answers to a higher calling, the EU, FATF and MONEYVAL should insist that its earthly responsibilities are equally important."

      

     Prayers Divided Over Gay-Marriage Ban In Minnesota – 6/06/12 - ..."We wanted to do something as a respectful sign of our dissent," says Barb Frey, one of the organizers. "And what we also wanted to do was to reach out to other Catholics who we believe think in their heart that this is unjust and a wrong direction for our church leadership and to let them know that they're not alone."

      

     Gay Marriage - Improves Health -Columbia University Study - 121611

      

     Obama Supports Gay Marriage - Andrew Sullivan – “…when I watched the interview, the tears came flooding down. I was utterly unprepared for how psychologically transformative the moment would be. To have the president of the United States affirm my humanity — and the humanity of all gay Americans — was, unexpectedly, a watershed.” – 51412 Chicago Tribune

      

     Gay Marriage - …protect “Religious Freedom” and not TYRANNY IN RELIGION - obtain a WELL-INFORMED CONSCIENCE – regarding SEXUAL ORIENTATION - 62011

      

     Profile of the SOCIOPATH - No Conscience | Bishops Antigay marriage Campaign

      

     Benedict XVI Evading - UN Accusations Global Child Sexual Abuse “…a COMPLETE FAILURE to take responsibility” 020512

      

     Benedict XVI’s 30 years Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups

      

     "No public figure talks more about child safety but does little to actually make children safer than Pope Benedict" 112611

      

     Vatican condemned at United Nations for child abuse -31610

      

     Benedict XVI - ENGINEERED COVER-UP of CHILD SEX ABUSE - Hans Kung - April 4, 2010

      

     UN Human Rights Council calls Vatican to account - covering up child abuse and allowing it to continue – 92209

      

     Is the pope taking cover behind Penn State scandal? - 113011

      

     Ireland - Killing the Secrecy Exposing - Benedict XVI & Roman Curia - Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups - 90611

      

     Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation

      

     Half of Americans Say View of Obama Not Affected by Gay Marriage Decision – 51412 Pew Research

      

     Obama - Personal ties can change Gay Marriage attitudes - 51212

      

     President Obama Backs Gay Marriage – 51012 WSJ

      

     "We can't afford to have two kinds of citizens, We must have equal citizenship for anybody in our country." Eleanor Roosevelt

      

     Amistad Africans – Supreme Court Trial 1841 - President John Quincy Adam - “The truth, in truth, has been driven from this case like a SLAVE, flogged from court to court, wretched and destitute…a ‘keen mind of the SOUTH,’ … asserts that: ‘There has never existed a civilized society in which one segment did not thrive upon the labor of another. As far back as one chooses to look – to ancient times, to BIBLICAL times – history bears this out. In Eden, where only two were created, even there, one was pronounced subordinate to the other. SLAVERY has always been with us and is neither sinful nor immoral… SLAVERY, as NATURAL as it is inevitable.’ ’ …I must say I DIFFER with the keen minds of the SOUTH…offering that the NATURAL STATE OF MANKIND is, instead – and I know this is a controversial idea – IS FREEDOM, is freedom. And the proof is the length to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it, once taken. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try AGAINST ALL ODDS, against all prejudices, to get home…Yet, if the SOUTH is right, what are we to do with that embarrassing, annoying document, The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE? What of its conceits? ‘ALL MEN…CREATED EQUAL,’ ‘INALIENABLE RIGHTS,’ ‘LIFE,’ ‘LIBERTY,’ and so on and so forth? …We desperately need your strength and wisdom to triumph over our fears, our prejudices, ourselves. Give us the courage to do what is right. And if it means civil war, then let it come. And when it does, may it be, finally, the last battle of the American Revolution. [Patrick Henry, American Revolution “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH”] - AMISTAD - 1997 movie, Spielberg

      

     Amistad Case 1839 - Library of Congress

      

     Obama’s embrace of Gay Marriage makes for a spiritual Mother’s Day - 51112

      

     Obama's family influenced his gay marriage shift – 51012

      

     Obama: ‘I Think Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married’- 50912 ABC

      

     Nancy Pelosi praised Obama’s support of GAY MARRIAGE - for advancing civil rights…“quite historic” that “spoke to the values of our families, the values of our faith and the values of our country.” Pelosi said her Catholicism “compels” her “to be against discrimination of any kind in our country…” – 51012 ABC

      

     Do Most Catholic Theologians Support Same-Sex Marriage? – 51112

      

     Catholic coalition pleased with Obama's stance on marriage equality – 51012 NCR

      

     US VP Joe Biden on GAY MARRIAGE - “Who do you love? Who do you love and will you be loyal to the person you love?” Biden said, “And that’s what people are finding out what all marriages at their root are about.” - 50612 ABC

      

     US VP Joe Biden - a devout Catholic - OK with equal rights for married gay couples – 50612 AP

      

     Homosexuality & Catholic - film “TAKING A CHANCE ON GOD” Fr. John McNeill - Pioneer Gay Priest (Gay Liberation Movement 1969, Cofounder of Dignity NY 1972) and Benedict XVI Homophobic Attacks - 50312

      

     US VP Joe Biden: I'm 'absolutely comfortable' with GAY MARRIAGE – 50612 NBC

      

     “Coming Out” Fr. John McNeill’s - on NBC TODAY SHOW - September 1, 1976

      

     “TAKING A CHANCE ON GOD” Fr. John McNeill – Film 2012

      

     The Church and the homosexual (1976) By Fr. John J. McNeill

      

     Secret Files of the Inquisition – The War on Ideas (PBS) - Mirroring - Benedict XVI - Grand Inquisitor 1981 – 2005?

      

     30 years of Benedict XVI CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE COVER-UPS

      

     Really? [Catholic] Women religious in America will now have a bishop grading their morals? 42712

      

     American Nuns Will Not Be Bullied – 42412

      

     VATICAN CRACKDOWN ON NUNS - “…conservative American churchmen living in Rome — including DISGRACED former BOSTON Cardinal Bernard LAW [CHILD SEXUAL-ABUSE CRISIS they created] — were key players in pushing the hostile takeover of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious…for emphasizing social justice work over loyalty to the hierarchy and issues like abortion and GAY MARRIAGE.” 50712

      

     "Reminding Loved Ones That Life is Precious: Suicide Prevention Resources"

      

     Is Some HOMOPHOBIA Self-Phobia? - 40712

      

     Minnesota Catholic Students Angry About Mandatory Anti-Gay Lecture – 40412

      

     Gay Marriage - Seattle’s Catholic parishes say no to Ref. 74 signature drive – 41212

      

     Seattle - Another big Catholic parish: No anti-gay marriage petitions – 41212

      

     HOMOPHOBIA may reveal denial of own same-sex attraction, study suggests – 41012

      

     Obama Opposes Minnesota Anti-Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment – 40912

      

     Benedict XVI in MEXICO - New book accuses Vatican of hiding cases of sexual abuse of minors - 32512

      

     IRELAND - Victims of sexual abuse criticized the Holy See for failing once again to take responsibility for its own role in the cover up...32012

      

     Gay marriage backers find success emphasizing LOVE and FAMILY – 030412

      

     Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signs gay marriage bill - Thank You!!! - 030112

      

     WA Gov. Gregoire signs gay marriage into law - Thank You!!! – 021312

      

     New Catholic Sex Abuse Findings: Gay Priests Are Not the Problem – 111809

      

     Gov. Gregoire, WA - Gay Marriage, “…a sixteen year old who said, ‘I’ve thought about suicide, and now that you’ve come out as strong as you have, I feel good about myself. And one day I will not go on bended-knee and ask someone to join me in a domestic partnership -- I’ll ask them to marry me.’” 012812

      

     MD Gov. O’Malley, …urged lawmakers…to approve same-sex marriage…calling it a sign of "equal respect for the freedom of all…At the heart of religious freedom is respect for the freedom of INDIVIDUAL CONSCIENCE.” 013112

      

     Gay Marriage - Social-justice Catholics | E.J. Dionne - 010412

      

     How About a PRAYER FOR ALL MARRIAGES (And All Committed Relationships Rooted in Love)? – Minnesota Nienstedt’s prayer “seemingly harmless… in fact... brazen -- and unwise...” - Jan. 3, 2012

      

     NATURAL LAW - "NONSENSE UPON STILTS"

      

     As Support for Gay Marriage Increases – Benedict XVI & USA Bishops Panic of Exposure Increases over their CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE COVER-UPS Accountability – past 30 years ordered by Benedict XVI - 113011

      

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     Americans opposed to gay marriage dwindle: survey – 92811

      

     New York GAY MARRIAGE Bill 2011

      

     The Bible & Gay Marriage

      

     "Stonewall Uprising" 1969 - Video PBS – 42511

      

     CATHOLICS - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz & Ricky Martin “COMING OUT” March 29, 1997, 2010 | New York Gov Cuomo Support Gay Marriage 2011 - Vatican Attacks 32911

      

     RICKY MARTIN FOUNDATION - the mission - to advocate for the well-being of children around the world

      

     Benedict XVI Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups - 30 Years

      

     John Jay Report: On Not Blaming Homosexual Priests – 51711

      

     John Jay Report on Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church – “... no causative relationship between either celibacy or homosexuality and the sexual victimization of children in the Church.” 51811

      

     Facts about Homosexuality and Child Molestation

      

     Gay Marriage & Benedict XVI a HITLER YOUTH - Hidden Holocaust - gay & lesbian persecution 31311

      

     Hitler’s Anti-intellectualism - Benedict XVI Rejection of Gender Theory

      

     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:

      

     Vatican's Unsubstantiated Antigay Teachings

      

     Sexual Conversion Therapies.

      

     Perpetuation of Generational Violence On LGBT Children

      

     Homosexuality: Coming out of the confusion.

      

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

      

     Homosexuality & The Bible

      

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