Bachmann, Pawlenty throw support behind ‘hate groups’

*Repeating KNOWN FALSEHOODS* Keep in mind that Michelle believes you can ‘pray away the gay’ and Michelle’s husband is a anti-gay headshrinker who therapizes against science and the nationally accredited association research.
These professional bodies unanimously state:1. Homosexuality is an normal, naturally occurring trait2. “Reparative therapy” or “conversion therapy” does not work and is harmful to those subjected to it.

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Sexual orientation and homosexualityhttp://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx

Homosexuality: Nature or NurtureRyan D. Johnson April 30, 2003http://allpsych.com/journal/homosexuality.html

APA Officially Rejects Reorientation Treatment for Homosexuals — Overwhelming research from the past hundred years rejected due to “serious design flaws.”http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09080608.html

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AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION

POSITION STATEMENT Homosexuality and Civil RightsApproved by the Board of Trustees, December 1973Approved by the Assembly, 1973http://www.psych.org/Departments/EDU/Library/APAOfficialDocumentsandRelated/PositionStatements/197310.aspx

POSITION STATEMENT Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies)Approved by the Board of Trustees, March 2000Approved by the Assembly, May 2000

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AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

AMA Policy Regarding Sexual Orientationhttp://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/glbt-advisory-committee/ama-policy-regarding-sexual-orientation.shtml

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

Policy Statement: Homosexuality and Adolescence (RE9332)http://web.archive.org/web/20031212181440/http://www.aap.org/policy/05072.html

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issueshttp://www.socialworkers.org/resources/abstracts/abstracts/lesbian.asp

Position Statement: “Reparative” and “Conversion” Therapies for Lesbians and Gay Menhttp://www.socialworkers.org/diversity/lgb/reparative.asp?print=1

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UNITED PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS REJECT “REPARATIVE THERAPY” also called “CONVERSION THERAPY”http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_expr.htm

The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Counseling Association, American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, American Psychological Association, American School Health Association, Interfaith Alliance Foundation, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Social Workers, and National Education Association formed the “Just the Facts Coalition.” They developed and endorsed “Just the Facts About Sexual Orientation & Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators and School Personnel” in 1999.

The primer says, in part:

“The most important fact about ‘reparative therapy,’ also sometimes known as ‘conversion’ therapy, is that it is based on an understanding of homosexuality that has been rejected by all the major health and mental health professions. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of Social Workers, together representing more than 477,000 health and mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus there is no need for a ‘cure.’

“…health and mental health professional organizations do not support efforts to change young people’s sexual orientation through ‘reparative therapy’ and have raised serious concerns about its potential to do harm.”

The Family Reasearch Council aka, ‘The Fellowship’ or just ‘The Family’ are the very same US evangelicals and fundamentalists that are responsible for the extremely anti-gay Bahati Bill In Uganda aka Kill The Gays bill due to its recommendations for forced “conversion fraud” and its subsequent call for corporal punishment if the subjects dont stop BEING gay. They are also very active spreading known lies to other 3rd world countries in Africa and are also dabbling in writing Constitutional protections out for sexual minorities like Kenya, Malawi and Senegal. ‘The Family’ indeed is a hate group and being associated with one should be cause for impeachment. Tony Perkins didn’t buy the emailing list from the KKK for no reason.

That goes for the smaller yet same state-wide organizations like the Minnesota Family Council too.

How many more asses is dude going to kiss? I’ve always know Pawlenty had a darker side, but I really didn’t know it was this black (until I started frequenting this site). I would love to hear more from Mary Pawlenty on all these matters. She strikes me as a real “stand by your man” type of gal which scares me even more now that I know where Tim’s lips have been and continue to go. I just wish more people in MN knew about these things. You’ll certainly never see these stories on KARE 11 or anywhere else.

Here is SPLC’s response. Well worth the read. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/12/15/splc-responds-to-attack-by-frc-conservative-republicans/

Here is further evidence that they are using KNOWN FALSEHOODS. They do not care that it is false and refuted, because it furthers their agenda of a society based on “biblical law.” Sound familiar? It should. We are in two wars because of it. Well these folks are the christianist- extremist version. Some of Americas enemies carry bibles.
http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2010/12/religious-right-admits-to-using-bad.html

Any representative that supports known hate groups should be removed from office. Michele Bachmann continues to show that she hates what America stands for and wants only to harm tax paying citizens that she personally doesn’t like. The “Family” Research Council has been a hate group from the start and continues to spread misinformation, half-truths and out right lies about a specific minority. In the past, elected officials distanced themselves from groups like the KKK, Aryan Nation and others whose sole existence was based on hate of a specific minority or minorities. It is time we held elected officials accountable for supporting such groups. They do not represent America or American values.

Note the rhetorical slight of hand, the habitual dishonesty of claiming the mantle of “Judeo-Christian”:

“In an open letter, Bachmann, Pawlenty and several other Republican elected officials say the SPLC has “targeted FRC and other organizations that uphold Judeo-Christian moral views…”

The simple fact is that there is no agreement among Jews and Christians about gay marriage. Some oppose it, some support it. In any case, it’s abhorrent to religious liberty to base any gay marriage argument on sectarian religious views. The law shouldn’t give one damn about whether something is a “traditional value” or in agreement with this or that religious group.

If Pawlenty, Bachmann and others were being intellectually honest and accurate, they’d be forced to instead say something like “and other organizations that uphold _right-wing_ Judeo-Christian moral views…” This doesn’t pack the rhetorical punch nearly as much, does it? Once you’re forced to accept that you’re not speaking for ALL Jews and Christians, you’re forced into defending narrow sectarian interests, and that doesn’t sound as powerful and persuasive.

Another bit of slippery and dishonest rhetoric is found in the use of the word “protect”, as in “…working to protect and promote natural marriage and family.” Rationally, nothing about gay marriage in any way threatens heterosexual marriage. ‘Protection’ therefore is a scare word thrown in to a context in which it has no logical relevance.

Discrimination against GLBT folks is one of the last acceptable forms of bigotry. Repeatedly throughout history, it’s always the smallest characters, the most unlearned and unthinking among us, who have been the last to hold onto traditional prejudices. If you support the KKK today, you’re rightly shunned from decent society and civil discourse. Soon, the same will apply to opponents of GLBT equality. Let’s all hasten that day.

Who cares what the SPLC designates a hate group?

MN Indy,

apparently the groups care or they wouldn’t have spent so much time and effort on such a campaign. And it was totally unnecessary IF all they had to do was directly address the charges and state whether or not they are true. But they won’t because they know that SPLC’ s charges ARE true.

Without a ‘boogayman’ the sheeple wont obediently follow.

‘Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (one of the groups SPLC named as an anti-gay hate group) had a radio interview today on the David Pakman Show and in less than 30 minutes, he proceeded to totally wreck any claims by the FRC that religious right groups don’t peddle anti-gay hatred through junk science and propaganda, giving new meaning to idea of giving someone enough rope to hang themselves:

Among the highlights according to David Pakman:

“The Southern Poverty Law Center belongs on its own list [of hate groups]…for peddling falsehoods about homosexuality”

“We’re the ones telling the truth about the link between homosexuality and pedophilia.”

“Active participation in the homosexual lifestyle will deprive a male of anywhere between 8 and 20 years of his life expectancy” – a Paul Cameron lie.

“There is ‘no such thing as a monogamous homosexual relationship’”

“The rectal wall is one cell thick” – now Fischer is quoting Paul Cameron almost verbatim.

“We need to take our cue from gay porn actors”

“Those homosexual activists that are so intent on normalizing homosexual behavior…they must be harboring some deep seated longing to be straight”

“…homosexual activists must be latently heterosexual”

It’s funny except for the fact that over 20 Congressional leaders signed a letter saying that this sort of thing isn’t hatred but an example of “Judeo-Christian” moral views.

Whatever you do, don’t tell Jesus. I think He may get rather upset over this’

Excerpt from todays HBHM http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=182420391769190&id=100000099695926&notif_t=like#!/note.php?note_id=482217912479&id=1022231556http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=182420391769190&id=100000099695926&notif_t=like#!/note.php?note_id=482217912479&id=1022231556

This “statement” is really the Final Leviticus Solution to the Homosexual Problem. These theocRATS want to enact Leviticus and stone every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to death. Those politicians who signed this death warrant on LGBT people would essentially try to enact the Final Leviticus Solution to the Homosexual Problem in Congress. Pawlenty and Bachmann are joined by U.S. Congress Senator David Vitter – (R-LA)
U.S. Congress Senator Roger Wicker – (R-MS)
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker-designate John Boehner – (R-OH)
U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor – (R-VA)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman John Fleming, M.D. – (R-LA)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Trent Franks – (R-AZ)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Louie Gohmert – (R-TX)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Jeb Henserling – (R-TX)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Jim Jordan – (R-OH)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Steve King – (R-IA)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Donald Manzullo – (R-IL)
U.S. House of Representative sCongressman Kevin McCarthy – (R-CA)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman-elect Alan Nunnelee – (R-MS)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Mike Pence – (R-IN)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Joe Pitts – (R-PA)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Peter Roskam – (R-IL)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Steve Scalise – (R-LA)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Lamar Smith – (R-TX)
U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Fred Upton – (R-MI)
United States SenateJim DeMint – Senator
Virginia Ken Cuccinelli – Attorney General

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Wendy,

Thanks for taking the time to post that info.

The opponents of GLBT equality seem ineducable, and are certainly incurious about the truth. The continual recycling of false information and lies simply must be seen as an organized attempt to demonize, dehumanize, marginalize and strip the dignity from GLBT people. If this isn’t a campaign of hatred–as always laced with references to Jesus and the Bible–then what is?

They fight “the normalization” of GLBT’s by WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY, even though we have been around since the beginning of time, are as “natural” as the sun and the moon and found in over 750 species in the animal kingdom as well. For the believers of a god I ask, how much more damned evidence do you need? Even christians don’t seem to know the history of their own religion. Let me toss this out and ask, exactly WHO has redefined marriage?

http://www.christianity-revealed.com/cr/files/whensamesexmarriagewasachristianrite.html

What so many of these “Christian values” groups fail to recognize is that their rights are neither exclusive, nor superior to the rights of others.

The social conservative movement exists for the sole purpose of restricting the rights and liberties of others, of imposing their extreme ideology on the entire country. This is not an exercise in religious freedom, but in religious tyranny.

Amen! A deadly exercise. “The Family” research Council is actively engaged in waging spiritual and identity genocide nationally and actual genocide of GLBT’s around the world such as Uganda, Kenya and elswhere. They have the assistance of an Opus Dei (and Nazi youth) Pope and the fundamentalist Minnesota Family Council, equally known as “The Family.”
Welcome back to the crusades.

Here come the dominionist- fundamentalists
http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2010/12/family-research-council-plans-to-go-on.html

Hate Group Family Research Council Issues Empty, Toothless Threat to DADT Repeal-Supporting Politicians http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/12/13608/

A professional liar. Back in 2005, it was reported that Tony Perkins, now President of the Family Research Council, “paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/picture-worth-thousand-memories

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Some facts about the SPLC:

• The SPLC took on a case, on behalf of a mother, or so it seemed, whose son was murdered by Klansmen. The SPLC won the case. The victim’s mother was awarded property belonging to perpetrators which was valued at $51,875. The SPLC sent out letters to donors containing a picture of the murdered youth as a means of fundraising, and collected $9,000,000 in total. To cut a long story short, the centre walked away from the case with over 173 times more money from the case than the victim’s mother did, and the SPLC didn’t offer her a penny of their mammoth total.
• The article Lump of Coal, which was featured in the Fairfax Journal on December 16, 2003, reported that 89% of the money recieved by the Southern Poverty Law Center is spent on fund-raising and “administrative costs”.
• The secretary of state of Colorado issued a warning to the public under the name of “charity watch” (the purpose of a “charity watch”, an annual listing, is to expose organisations who do not use donations, or at least, very little of them, for the purposes they claim). Only ten organisations made the list. The SPLC were among them.
• In 2008, the American Institute of Philanthropy gave the SPLC a rating of “F” for its money hoarding. Stephen Bright of the Southern Center of Human Rights (an anti-death penalty group) labelled Morris Dees a “fraud and a conman” who’s “milked a lot of very wonderful, well-intentioned people”.

That from an Aryan Nation source. Ill let it speak for itself… see Kindred Loyalist

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t681102-3/

Here is the H8 Report on Stormfront….. motives much??? LOL

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/stormfronthttp://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/stormfront

“I am a pro-white activist. My purpose in obtaining a blog is to showcase the fraudulent activities of a corporation going by the name of the ‘Southern Poverty Law Center’. That is not to say there will not be posts on other topics, though.
http://kinloy.wordpress.com/2010/03/

Stormfront began in 1990 as an online bulletin board for white nationalist activist David Duke’s campaign for United States Senator of Louisiana.[4] The name “Stormfront” was chosen for its connotations of a political or military front and an analogy with weather fronts that invokes the idea of a tumultuous storm ending in cleansing.[4] It was opened to the public in 1994, and the Stormfront.org website was founded in 1995, becoming the first website associated with white supremacy.[5][6] Until this point, attempts at using the Internet for the white pride movement met with limited success,[7] but Stormfront quickly began to become popular with the growth of the Internet at this time, according to owner Don Black.[4][8] A former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and in the 1970s a member of the National Socialist White People’s Party (which had changed its name from the American Nazi Party in 1967),

Jake’s kkklaims are kkkrap.

Could this story get any more exciting than an Aryan Nation freak showing up to support Bachmann, Paw paw and Tony Perkkkins? Holds breath.

These right-wing bible thumpers truly believe that if you start a hate organization and put the word “family” in their name, the public will be stupid enough to buy into their goals.

Good to see these haters lose and lose big. Their self-righteous world is crumbling around them.