Homosexuality a "temptation, not orientation"

Former homosexual Rev. Tim Wilkins of North Carolina, speaking at the Saddleback AIDS conference said something I would categorize as mildly profound.

For Christians to love homosexuals like Jesus would, they should stop thinking of homosexuality as an orientation and start thinking of it as a temptation, says Tim Wilkins, himself "formerly gay." [source]

I agree with that. We believe there is only one orientation. Man was emotionally, relationally and sexually oriented towards woman and God pronounced it good. What is now called "sexual orientation[s]" is largely a man made concoction, a product of his sinful rebellion against God. Homosexuality -- a sinful condition-- then is part of the sexual divergence from the will, purpose and creative intent of God. Of course gay activists have attempted to coop this truth with "science".

Seeing it as such would quickly alleviate this social, and perhaps political struggle over the "rights" of homosexuals.

Time to ban the H-word

I want to be the first to go on record demanding the banning of H-word. The H-word is infamously the ugliest social slur ever created. The disgusting tone and the arrogant elitism behind it has no place in our language.

People, its time to ban use of the word "homophobe".

With all the fuss over the N-word (that's nigger or nigga in case you didn't know), we ought to take a fresh look at other equally offensive words. Words that are used to degrade and dehumanize a whole class of people simply because of what they believe or who they are. Michael Richards' n-word tirade only demonstrated that what's in you is gonna come out when the real you gets worked up. It wasn't an accident and it wasn't reflex reaction at all. Richards meant to say it in the most degrading way he could muster up. Now, the Comedy Club has banned its use and in the process revived a new national debate about its use.

So while we are in the banning mood, let's get rid of this nasty, hateful word. The homosexual activist community are the main culprits in the use of the h-word. Just like the hateful white racists of the Jim Crow era, they use the h-word as a weapon to silence, intimidate and subjugate their opposition. They call religious leaders, political leaders, parents, Even if a person simply and innocently questions the alleged normality of homosexuality, he or she is automatically branded a "homophobe". No one outside of the elitist gay activist's threshold of false social acceptance seems to be immune from the demeaning word. Actually its become quite fashionable for gays to hurl the nasty epithet at ordinary people who refuse to accept homosexuality as normal.
But its time for a change. Bernard Chapin, a Chicago writer noted:

One can be called a homophobe nowadays due to asking questions like, “So what exactly is the point of this parade?” or “What are you guys proud of here?” Just by asking a few questions (of which there are no easy answers) one can receive the same generic label that was applied to the vile murderers of Matthew Shepard. It has been my personal experience that merely disagreeing with some of the more vehement gay activists results in one quickly being grouped into an axis of hate. It doesn’t seem to matter what the specifics of the argument happen to be as, regardless of what you say, they’ll trolley out the same stale, cookie-cutter, accusation of homophobia. Perhaps if they changed the name of their insult to “gaytotalitarianaphobe” there might be some merit to their claims."

Award winning novelist and playwright Orson Card, writing for Meridian Magazine, warns that the h-word is the natural outgrowth of a fantastic lie:

A postulated but unproven genetic disposition toward homosexuality is supposed to be embraced and accepted by everyone as "perfectly natural" -- but the far stronger and almost universal genetic disposition toward having children and grandchildren is to be suppressed, kept to yourself, treated as a mental illness. You're unhappy that your son wants to marry a boy? Then you're sick, dangerous, a homophobe, filled with hate. Control your natural desires or be branded as evil by every movie and TV show coming out of P.C. Hollywood!

David Bernstein uses the h-word in a brazen comparison to the phrase "house nigga".

Some have complained that blacks use the n-word against other blacks. Black gay activists do the same with the h-word.

I say its time for a change.

Prominent Catholics mum on Pope's Muslim mess

Many thanks to our friend and brother Darnell aka Independent Conservative for bringing the pope's flagrant transgressions to light. The political beast has forced the Pope to bow in submission at the Allah's altar. I felt it was high spiritual treason. But prominent Catholics aren't saying anything critical of the Pope's cowtowing to the super demanding-violence prone Muslim community overseas. None of the Catholic talk show hosts have dared to talk about the Pope's visit and his subsequent "praying" with the Muslims. Not Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham or even Sean Hannity. Perhaps they havent said anything because they are only social Catholics. To such people the compromising the divinity of Christ may not be an issue.

I'm not a Catholic but I would have a major problem with my leader cozying up to another religion which denies Jesus' diety. That's a spiritual chasm Christians are NEVER supposed to cross. At least not in the manner in which the Pope has gotten himself entwined. We hope some rank and file Catholics will take offense and speak out at the groveling of their leader before a group of people who would sooner chop his head off and send it back to Rome on a platter.

Lesbian culture comes out the closet at Spelman

Spelman College in Atlanta is no longer making it a secret about its pervasive lesbian culture on the campus. Spelman is a black women's college.

According to the Southern Voice, Spelman's Women’s Research and Resource Center "finally secured that support via a $140,000 grant from the Arcus Foundation, a Michigan-based philanthropic group that funds organizations that “illuminate the presence and contributions of people in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, and the issues which confront them.”

Don't be fooled. The "philanthrophic group" is a gay activist front organization led by lesbian Urvashi Vaid. With a lesbian's fingers on the purse strings, it was a shoo-in for Spelman to get the money, although they want you to believe they really sweated to make it happen. With the money, Spelman plans to prominently display the "poetic works" of deceased lesbian activist Audre Lorde at the college.

I already told you that some insitutions of higher education are rapidly deteriorating into cesspools of teaching vunerable yourng people that homosexuality is good and that anyone who opposes it is evil. And then those that go along with it are given glowing credentials. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the centers' founding director boasted, “We teach Audre Lorde in our women’s studies courses on campus.”

Death by Education

America's schools have fallen under the wicked assault of demons of every sort. Sexual outlaws and anti-Bible "christians" are teaching young people to follow a self destructive path disguised as "freedom". The Bible says that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceived and being deceived. (2 Tim 3:13)Dr. Peter Jones, a Christian professor reports the shocking news from the front lines.

Having spent three days with 11,000 professors of religion and Bible at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in Washington DC., I'm glad to be back in the peace of my Californian study. Every year, in the academy, orthodox biblical Christianity decreases in representation, while radical liberalism increases. The liberal SBL, founded in 1880, welcomed the fledgling AAR in 1963, but it is now being thrown out of AAR, apparently because privileging one religion in a meeting of "religion teachers" is too politically incorrect. So the cuckoo takes over the nest and the SBL must fend for itself.

While the joint arrangement persists (until 2008), I am able to observe religious history as it happens. Since 1991 I have witnessed the radical agenda stretch the liberal envelop to unimaginable extremes. I have deliberately attended the "cutting edge" seminars, since what the "cutting edge" conceives soon becomes acceptable to the liberal majority. Here is a sampling of this year's offerings:

In her plenary address, Diana Eck, president of AAR and professor at Harvard, introduced herself as a Montanan, a Methodist and a Massachusetts-recently-married gay-to enthusiastic applause. Her great contribution is the promotion of religious pluralism in America, but religious pluralism is often accompanied by sexual pluralism;

In The Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation, academic witches and warlocks conferred on the spiritual power of "fire circle drumming," in which fire represents "hardly contained desire." The audience heard about "Paganistan," the thriving Wiccan community in Minnesota, and a lecture entitled "The Pagan Explosion," documented that paganism has grown 38 fold in the USA in the last eleven years and 250-fold in Australia in the last five years;

In The Theology and Religion Section: Jim Wallis' God's Politics, Wallis reduced the Christian message to a modern version of a social gospel for the Democratic party. An "evangelical feminist" railed against the genocidal foundation of America and called for the deconstruction of "normative heteropatriarchy." One small but bright light came from a Canadian scholar who accused Wallis of nationalistic idolatry for making America, rather than the church, the source of Gospel action;

In a review session of Christ and the Single Savior, Yale professor Dale B. Martin's homoerotic interpretation of the New Testament teaching on sexuality began with a professor from Harvard Divinity School introducing herself by saying: "I do not know where I am in relation to Christianity." Such confusion was hardly lifted when a Yale professor of theology asked Martin where Jesus had gay sex. Martin replied: "In the park, which is what the gospel writers meant by 'garden.'" This trivialization and eroticization of Jesus Gethsemane suffering elicited not a single objection from the numerous theology professors in attendance;

In The Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation a paper "showed" the deep theological meaning of homosexual bathroom graffiti. With the verbal verve of a rap artist, gross sexual perversion was transformed into a noble response to "the dominant hegemonic power-structures of white, heterosexual, capitalistic society." Another gay theologian argued that there was no genetic "binary template" (male/female) so we are all sexually becoming whatever we wish to be;

These professors constitute an armada of brain-power deployed on our campuses to form the thinking of the rising generation. They are succeeding.

Radio host Dennis Prager interviewed a university senior who went to college a confirmed heterosexual but leaves, like many, convinced that there are numerous valid forms of sexuality. On the related issue of abortion, a poll shows that while only 37% of high school graduates are pro-choice, 73% of women leaving college are.

HT: MissionAmerica

The question is...

"If a child grew up in a home where he was constantly told he is bad, constantly told he was stupid, constantly told he was evil, constantly told he is unhealthy, constantly told he should not be happy, constantly told he was going to die young, constantly told he was rejected by even god, constantly told he was less human than others, constantly harassed by others about these things….what kind of adult will this child become?" [italics mine]

Ok, let's answer Joe Brummer's hypothetical question with some real life questions and perhaps we may get a good answer.

(1)If teens are taught that sticking a balled up fist in someone's anus is a good thing, what kind of adult would that teen become? (2)If a group of homosexual activists masquerading as advisors to teens, took teens to gay clubs for the purpose of teaching "hot men to put on condoms", what type of adult would this teen become? (3) If another "gay teen center" told teens that they should either cut off their penis or have a doctor mutilate their vaginas because they don't like the gender identity they were born with, what kind of adult would these teens become?

Reminds me of a young white homosexual man who confronted me after a speech I gave in Waco, Texas.
My parents told me that from the age of two they knew that I was gay, he said to me as proof that he was "born gay". I thought about it for a second and then asked him, "What if your parents had told you that you were a pig? What do you think you would be doing right now?"

The Friday 411 - 011206

So, who's talking about what?
This begins a new series where I will be highlighting who's talking about what on Friday. I think I have a fantastic list of blogmates who are intelligent and bring to light real issues with great commentary. I'm real picky about who I link to because I don't support everybody. Yes, you can call it discrimination. I pick and choose who I want to link to. If you want me to include you on the Friday 411, send me an email with your link. Of course I can't highlight everyone, but I promise the best and most updated will end up on the front page...so to speak. Anyway, what's on their minds this fine Friday?

Independent Conservative has been hitting the Muslim angle pretty hard lately and for good reason. The Muslim guilt factor has been running rampant since 9/11, Iraq, His Popeness's rebuke/retraction and other incidents. Currently, IC is talking about the new Muslim politician from Minnesota in his post "Keith Ellison/Hakim/X Ellison/Ellison-Muhammad Should Not Be in Congress. On Top of Not Having a Choice to Say His Oath on a Bible!" Even though he has yet to take his seat in Congress, Ellison seems to be representing the Saudis more than his AMERICAN constituents.

Peter LaBarbera at Americans For Truth is helping to spread the news of a New Study which says Childhood Family Factors Influence Sexual Orientation. Of course, our position is that there is but ONE sexual orientation. What is it? I'm glad you asked. God divinely and originally oriented man sexually and relationally towards woman and pronounced it good. We feel that there is no need to add or subtract from anything God said was good. Additionally, we feel that so-called "sexual orientations" is an socio-political invention of the liberal scientific left wingers. In biblical terms a result of the fallen/sinful nature of man.

If you are looking for a good laugh, try reading "An ACLU Christmas" at Nathan's Church and State blog.

Illegal aliens and their illegal activities is the topic of LaShawn Barber's Friday issues. This has been at the top of the news here in Atlanta. The culprit is an Alpharetta drywall company. LaShawn writes "Earlier this week, six illegal aliens — who entered the U.S. by slipping past authorities, circumventing safeguards put in place to protect American citizens — were arrested at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. The illegal aliens had access to secured areas."
Enough already, this is insanity! The Democrats better handle this problem before they get their tushies warm in their new seats. Since the President and the Republicans were too sissified to deal with it, let's see what the Dems will do.

Okay, if you do a couple of good deeds does that mean you can say whatever filthy words you want in a rap song? Rapper David Banner seems to think so. BlackElectorate profiles this case notably because the National Black Caucus (go figure) gave him an award at a student luncheon.

Mark at Chester Street picks apart an "open letter" to James Dobson. It seems the writer "Bluegal" is upset by Dobson's decision not to help with Ted Haggard's "restoration". Mark points out several fallacies in Bluegals's thinking. Definitely worth the read.

And finally on NewsBusters, Tim Graham talks about the Obama-AIDS-Rick Warren controversy. He reveals how the although the media is eating up the story now, they all but ignored Warren when his Purpose Driven Life was burning up the best seller lists. Predictably, when a religious conservative loosens his religious conservative standards and gets involved with liberal media figures (like Obama), the MSM falls in love almost immediately. Otherwise, you mean nothing to them. Beware.

No money needed to stop AIDS

World AIDS Day is coming up December 1st, and the liberals are deploying out their foot soldiers. Their pitching the same old message: more money, more condoms. They've added that AIDS is the deadly gift that keeps on giving because of "discrimination and stigma". I fail to see how that would cause someone to choose such a painful and eventual death.

The libs' message about AIDS is one that means nothing and produces nothing but I've got news for them. It doesn't take one more red cent to stop AIDS. And you can use all the condoms you want, AIDS will not stop. The bulk of the problem with people and AIDS is that people are unwilling to let go of their disobedient ignorance.

We can stop AIDS, but it requires something most of the sex industry is against. Personal discipline. Not the discipline to wear a condom every time. Sex is much more than an act. That's problem number 1 with the sex peddlers and their hapless victims. Sex seems to be nothing more than a dog (or dawg)in heat.

I proposed a 100% full proof plan to stop AIDS within a decade and now it appears someone else has the same idea. Rev Rick Warren (yep, the purpose-driven life guy), whose church is hosting a controversial AIDS conference came up with the acronym STOP:
S-Save sex for marriage
T-Train men to treat women and children with respect
O-Offer treatment through churches
P-Pledge yourself to one partner for life

We'll assume that he means one opposite sex marriage partner in the "P". Other than that, it seems like a good plan. And like I said it doesnt require any more government money and while we're at it, we could put the condom industry out of business. In contrast, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan casts a lists of requirements, but none call for personal sexual restraint or monagamy. Italics mine.

"It[stopping AIDS] requires business leaders to work for HIV prevention in the workplace and in the wider community, and to care for affected workers and their families. It requires health workers, community leaders and faith-based groups to listen and care, without passing judgment. It requires fathers, husbands, sons and brothers to support and affirm the rights of women. It requires teachers to nurture the dreams and aspirations of girls. It requires men to help ensure that other men assume their responsibility — and understand that real manhood means protecting others from risk. It requires every one of us to help bring AIDS out of the shadows, and spread the message that silence is death."

Islamania boils over. Again.

Okay get this.

Pope Benedict said that Islam is a violent religion.
He caught a lot of flak behind it, especially from those fearful of radical Muslims. And just how did the Islamaniacs respond to the Pope's assertions? If you guessed peacefully, you are dead wrong. Ever the rage-mongers, they spit back with predictable violence, anger and palpable agression.

The Pope was right. So why is he apologizing?

Independent Conservative covers the Glenn Beck TV special "The Extremist Agenda."

Should whites get race based scholarships?

**Updated**
Being an independent conservative, I found very little to agree with the Republicans on during the last election.

However, a clever group of College Republicans at Boston University have found a way to emphasize the ridiculous nature of race based scholarships. In a country so race conscious and race sensitive, why emphasize race in academia? I am only a marginal supporter of "affirmative action".

In response to a Hispanic schorlarship at BU with the same criteria, the president of the CRs said, "There are plenty of poor, white, academically gifted students who need that money just as much."

I agree. And if there's nothing wrong with offering it to Hispanics or Blacks with a race based criteria, then why is it "outrageous" to offer it to white students?

What do you think about what the CRs are doing?

LaShawn Barber weighed in on this yesterday with some excellent commentary. She writes in part:

"These days, affirmative action is a euphemism for dropped standards.
Black students with lower grades and test scores are admitted in place of non-black students with higher grades and test scores. Under affirmative action policies for hiring, black people with lesser qualifications and credentials and/or lower quality credentials are hired in place of non-blacks with better qualifications, more credentials, and higher quality credentials.
I wish a black person somewhere would be honest and tell the truth about why they support race preferences despite the illegality and immorality of such policies. Until someone can articulate why race-based, government-sanctioned considerations are morally wrong, they’ll continue to exist. Here’s a challenge for black readers who support preferential treatment based on race, should they wish to accept it:
If “whites only” scholarships, policies, and programs are obviously wrong, why are “blacks only” scholarships, policies, and programs not wrong? What’s difference between the races justifies lowering standards for one and discriminating against the other?"

U don't know me, do you?

So you think you know me right?:
anti homosexuality, conservative black preacher man from Atlanta. Well, yeah but that's just part of my life.

I'm sure there is more to you, too. Whoever you are.

Here's seven things about me, feel free to share seven things about yourself that I or others reading might not know. Let's pretend we're at Starbucks and having a great cup of coffee.

1. I have the Carpenters (Karen and Richard) greatest hits CD. My wife gave it to me for a birthday present. I love 70s lite rock.
2. I love a good Scrabble smackdown.
3. I don't like hospitals.
4. My youngest son DJ makes me laugh hysterically when he acts like Curly of the 3 Stooges.
5. I had a bad childhood experience at a circus and to this day will not go to amusement parks.
6. I will eat my dessert before my meal if I can get away with it.
7. I have a collection of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine from 1986-1988.

So what about you?

Are we wrong about homosexuality?

In USA Today, Oliver Thomas, a Baptist minister posits that question with a hypothetical announcement: "Despite what you might have read, heard or been taught throughout your churchgoing life, homosexuality is, in fact, determined at birth and is not to be condemned by God's followers."

Thomas' premise is that one day the church (or religious leaders as he puts it) will find out that we were wrong about homosexuality and due to "science" lose its credibility. He compares the controversy over homosexuality to Galileo's persecution when he revealed the earth's place in the solar system. Now, he says "millions" are being persecuted. Therefore, he concludes, we are wrong about homosexuality. In addition, Thomas builds his ludicrous preposition on the favorite cliche of gay activists of the religious stripe.

"For those who have lingering doubts, dust off your Bibles and take a few hours to reacquaint yourself with the teachings of Jesus. You won't find a single reference to homosexuality. There are teachings on money, lust, revenge, divorce, fasting and a thousand other subjects, but there is nothing on homosexuality. Strange, don't you think, if being gay were such a moral threat?"

"Jesus said nothing about homosexuality." I put that one in the same trash can as the "Adam and Steve" cliche of the opposing side. But let's take a brief fantasy ride with Rev. Thomas.

Maybe we are wrong about homosexuality. We are wrong about a lot of things. Man's emerging knowledge is at best seen darkly though a glass as the Apostle Paul put it. That is the frailty of the human condition. Certainly, we do not possess nor equal the omniscience of God. But isn't that the precise reason we should rely on God to tell us what His standards are for sexual conduct and thought? And without a concise, written record from God we are left to determine on our own what God does and does not want. In a word: tragedy. There are two immutable qualities about God which must influence everything we do and say regarding moral issues, especially sexual.
1. God does not change. He is the same today, yesterday and forevermore (Heb 13:8).
2. God's word will not change. He has spoken it, confirmed it and settled it.

Three headed church monsters like this minister are very easy to spot. Their allegiance is never to God, Christ or the Word of God. It always focuses on the airbrushed opinions of humanity. Its very telling that these ministers (who they are helping remains to be seen) quickly divert your attention away from what the Bible says and instead superimpose humanist ideology. They are like Aaron in the Old Testament who in the absence of Moses gave the people what they wanted: A new god which would allow them to act out the lustful and depraved excesses of their hearts (See Exodus 32:1-22)

But God's commands challenge us to reach for the best in thought and deed. Why would we not want to please our Heavenly Father? Why wouldn't we want to conform our ways to align with his Word? I can think of only one reason. Like the rebellious people in the wilderness, some people want a new god. This god doesn't care about who you have sex with, he or it only cares that you loosely categorize it as "love". The truth is that sexual immorality ---whether homosexual or heterosexual--- is far beneath the perfect plan of God. Jesus even said to engage in thinking of sexual activity with someone else (other than your husband or wife) is unacceptable. As the old saints used to say "its tight but its right!"

Thomas' Galileo's statement is clever, but nothing more. The shape or position of the earth is not an equitable comparison to sexual behavior. The question should not be are we wrong about homosexuality, but is God wrong about homosexuality? The answer to that is a resounding, eternal no. Never.

The reason for the Season

Remember, thanksgiving is not a day but a life lived to the fullest in gratitude. Psalms 107:1-9:

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say this— those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,

3 those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south. [a]

4 Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.

5 They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.

6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

7 He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.

8 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men,

9 for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Cash strapped? Call in the gays!

Send me your tired, your poor your money laden gays? What's this? A new immigration policy?

No, but cities across the country have the discovered that great American cash cow named the gay community. And they are falling over themselves to get paid. Atlanta was one of the first to develop a gay tourism aka get the gay money scheme. Now Dallas has jumped onboard the bandwagon. The equation is simple: Gays have plenty of excess capital. Huge sums of disposable income just waiting to be had. So if you are a city overrun with illegal aliens, unresolved crime issues and perhaps declining popularity among normal tourists, you just call in the gays to save you.

The site proclaims "Our Secret is Out" and features images of same-sex couples enjoying the local sights.

Phillip Jones, president and CEO of the Dallas tourism bureau said gay travelers spend an average of $100 more per day than other travelers and plan four to six trips a year.

WOW! I wish that I could plan or take 4-6 trips a year! And these are the hapless victims of discrimination? Jones also marveled at the "diversity" aka gayversity of Dallas which he claims he stumbled upon while doing marketing research.

"One of the things that most surprised me about Dallas was the incredible diversity. We have 120,000 GLBT (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) households in the Dallas area." We'd be foolish not to position Dallas as a destination for this market, which spends a lot of money on travel."

Gee, Jonesy, with all those thousands of rich, diversified gays living in Dallas, one wonders why you would need to attract more gays to Dallas. Oh wait...I forgot. Its that cash cow thing.

Fashionista Failures

Some others have been talking about gay's negative influence on the fashion industry.

I made the assertion that homosexuals dominate the fashion culture. I was right and to me that translates to major influence of the models who suffer with anorexia. I for one am not a name-brand addict so I could care less about the latest fashionista news and trends that these people dish out. But I found this disturbing listing of the major gay players in the fashion world. That's right all the big names, along with their history.

And then there's Austin Silver's humorous-but-true commentary which asks (and answers) the question Is there anyone straight in the fashion industry? A sample of the madness:

"If anyone ever saw a flamboyantly gay man walking down the street sporting a pink feather boa and sparkles over his eyes, they'd probably cringe and cross the street. But put the same gentleman as head of a fashion design collection and suddenly he's an "artiste" and not some gay Jose from around the way. If you've ever watched Karl Lagerfeld speak at a fashion show or the like, it would become abundantly clear that he's been sleeping with the enema on occasion. As well, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of the famed Dolce & Gabbana collections could also receive the Oscar for bending over backwards (and I don't mean the award)."

The Columnist Manifesto discusses (a little old) the Bravo show Project Runway and the gay-straight-gender intersects that affect the women wearing the clothes of these brilliant but unbalanced people.

Elton John tired again

The Rainbow Knight, Sir Elton John wants organized religion banned. He didn't say where he would ban it to , nor did he say what should be done with the multiple millions of people who think it is a good thing. After public tirades against photographers, heterosexual twin sister Madonna, the Catholic Church, John admitted his neurotic outbursts, bad temper and irrationality emerged only when he was tired.

Sigh. It seems like he needs to take a long, long rest.

Americans For Truth has the more serious take on Elton's problems with the rest of the world.

Who's behind fashion anorexia?

After hearing about a Brazilian model who died of anorexia, I wondered if this wasn't a product of the industry's main players who are gay men. Is being deathly thin their idea of femininity? Its no big secret that homosexuals, part time drag queens and progays are running the fashion industry. London Fashion Week came under fire causing the British Fashion Council to cancel its opening photocall. Newspapers blamed them for exacerbating an already dire situation. [source]

"The growing trend for super-slim -- so-called "size zero" -- models in the fashion industry has whipped up a storm in the middle of the international fashion cycle. London's fashion week follows New York and comes before prestigious Milan and Paris. British newspapers and health experts have condemned London fashion bosses for failing to follow Madrid and turn away underweight models following protests that girls and young women try to copy their looks and develop eating disorders."

I find this misogynistic in a way. Are these women anything more than dress up dolls for these gay men? I still can't believe that ANTM has "Ms J" --a man-- teaching women how to walk like a woman. Unbelievable. Should gay men set the standards for what feminine beauty should look like, especially if it is only prop work to them?

Said "Ms J":"When I look at a girl, I'm looking at her for body, for movement. She can be as ugly as the bottom of my shoe, but if she can walk, and have confidence, and look good, that's all that matters for this. You can turn that ugly into beauty."

I wonder if that is somewhat autobiographical.

From what I understand this is the norm in the fashion and even pageantry industries. By the way, a friend of mine encountered "Ms J" in the Atlanta airport while waiting to check in. I won't tell you what happened, but "Ms J" needs serious help.

The drag queens and male diva coaches should share the blame for this terrible curse on these young women. To me, its just another sad reason why we should never under any circumstances approve or affirm homosexual behavior. Ana Carolina Reston is dead at 21. Just who was she trying to please?

The bigotry defense

There has been no nationwide outcry over the murder of 51 year old Mary Stachowicz. You see she wasn't gay. Nor was she supportive of gay relationships. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what got her murdered. Her life was savagely taken from her by a homosexual man because she told him that he could change his homosexuality. Should Mary have been killed because she was a designated "bigot"? What does that mean for the rest of us whom gay activists brand as "bigots"?

Last week, Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Jim McKay described (homosexual) Chicago man Nicholas Gutierrez's "ferocious" 2002 murder of a pious, 51-year-old Catholic mother of four, Mary Stachowicz, saying he also raped Mary in addition to stabbing, strangling and beating her, then stuffed her bloody body in a crawl space under the floor of his apartment."There is a monster in the courtroom today," McKay said, describing how Gutierrez stabbed Stachowicz so many times that he bent the tip of his hunting knife.

Gutierrez then allegedly wrapped her body in sheets and covered her head in a plastic bag before hiding her, as Mary's family and friends searched frantically for her for three days. After McKay laid out the state's case, including finding Gutierrez's DNA in Stachowicz's vagina and anus, Gutierrez's public defender, Crystal Marchigiani, claimed that it was Stachowicz who attacked Gutierrez: "It happened because she could not leave him alone in his [homosexual] lifestyle. "Marchigiani said that on the day of her death, November 13, 2002, Stachowicz confronted Gutierrez at the Sikorsky Funeral Home where Mary worked and where Gutierrez once was employed. (He lived in an apartment above the funeral home with his male friend, Ray.) She said Mary angrily pressed Gutierrez with the question, "Why do you sleep with boys?" and then followed Gutierrez upstairs to his room before physically attacking him. All the while, the stocky Gutierrez, who appeared to be about six feet tall, sat in the courtroom. One of Mary Stachowicz's sisters left the room in disgust after hearing Marchigiani launch her shocking defense. Americans For Truth President Peter LaBarbera responded: "The Gutierrez defense team's Politically Correct courtroom ploy ought to be called the 'Anti-Homophobe Panic Defense.' Marchigiani's is an ugly attempt to exploit the liberal caricature of Christians who oppose homosexuality as crazed haters with a penchant for aggression.

"So here we see a new defense tactic: stoking the flames of anti-Christian bigotry to save a 'gay' murderer from the punishment he deserves," LaBarbera said.

November Webfest

Hey, you know its some wild stuff on the web!
Since it will be a few days before I post again, I wanted to expose you to some awesome sites I have become aware of for various reasons and some that I check out from time to time. You may like some of them or you may hate all of them, that's on you. With that being said, let the Webfest began!

www.pulpit-pimps.org - blistering critique of preachers who are "pimpin' black churches.(Thanks Independent Conservative!)
www.dawnstefanowicz.com - daughter of gays debunks the happy homosexual family myth
www.vidsea.com - search for videos
www.perverted-justice.com - the group which assists Dateline NBC in catching child sex predators (warning: graphic language)
www.petakillsanimals.com - shocking expose of public "animal saviors", PETA
www.theopedia.com - the religious twin of wikipedia
www.activistcash.com - explosive information on who's supplying the cash to extremist activist groups
www.praisenet.org - stunning graphics and commentary on black Christian social/religious news
www.projectprobe.org - Bajan Christian apologetics organization
www.marlindemocrat.com - read all about what's happening in my hometown
www.timelife.com - Listen to snippets of the best of soft rock hits

Did Love Win Out in Atlanta?

I'm not sure since I didn't attend, but here's the lowdown of what happened when love came to Atlanta.

Atlanta's WXIA (NBC 11) took the media lead on covering the Love Won Out conference and the conference's protest groupies. Video reports here. A friend of mine who went out to take pictures of the protesters told me there were a scant few of them out. There were barely 35 people, he said and that only at a certain time. And only ONE of those protestors was black. I guess the "substantial" black gay community in Atlanta wasn't as outraged as the protestors claimed. Atlanta's black gay community may be good for turning out in mass numbers for a party, but they shun protesting like a plague.

I noted Daniel Gonzales' speech at the protest press conference. I'm not sure why his voice was quivering and shaking when he was talking, but it was. Maybe he was really scared about lying on public TV or maybe it was an act to dramatize his brief speech. You can watch it ">here [video]. Gonzales is the token "former exgay" at exgaywatch who has joined the cast of Besen's LWO groupie show. Gonzales major complaint was that he had indeed prayer the infamous MMS Prayer. On the video Gonzales says it took "countless evenings" to find out he could not be "straight", but in print says it took "thousands of hours". Since he didn't say just how many thousands of hours it was, we are left to guess. If it was "thousands of hours", let's just assume that it was 2,400 hours. That means he only tried his prayer about three months. I don't know about him, but I have prayed for things for years before the answer came from God. That's what the Bible called being faithful in prayer. I'm not sure why Gonzales offered the different versions of how long he actually claimed he prayed.

Version 1: “I spent thousands of hours on my knees, praying for the Lord to make me straight,” said Daniel Gonzales. “And he never did.”
Version 2: "I spent countless evening on my knees begging the Lord to make me straight. And he never did."

Do you know what the MMS prayer is? If you don't, I explained it here.

On the other side of the LWO coin, Exodus used the face of my friend James on the billboard in downtown Atlanta area, but held the conference in Woodstock at First Baptist Church. Although I'm proud of my brotha for reppin overcomers of color, I hope Exodus is not pimpin' his face.

They also used the same billboard in St. Louis and this is what happened. I got a call from someone who saw the billboard. The man was very direct in asking me why LWO had NO BLACK SPEAKERS especially since they were in a predominately African American city? That remains to be seen. We have had that conversation before with them (in the John Paulk days) but things haven't changed. That's probably why you won't see me at a LWO anytime soon. I did attend the LWO in Atlanta several years ago, but there were only a handful of blacks there. Maybe not that many. Change is a process we always say, so we will wait for the process to kick in.