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"Deceive the Elect? If That Were Possible..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-24 08:10:31 |
Susan Smith's guest post on Saturday was truly awesome! Her thorough examination of what Scripture says regarding "the lie of the serpent" and "the deception of sin" should lead us all to examine our lives and see to it that we are not deceived. Susan wrote. "The greatest deception of all is to believe we cannot be deceived."As Mark of Chester Street shares in a post at his blog. This fallen world that we live in is loaded with deceptive practices and techniques that could
"even the elect.. if that were possible."That quoted part above is a portion of the verse from Matthew 24:24. Also we can unequivocably say that this fallen world that we live in today is loaded with seductive practices and techniques that could
"if [it were] possible even the elect."One of my favorite Bible verses (there are hundreds of course!) is:See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Colossians 2:8 (NIV)Along with that verse we read what the Lord would want us to be doing; as well as the reward we will receive (that is to show Himself strong to us) when we are fully committed to Him:The eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth to show Himself strong to those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.2 Chronicles 16:9 (NIV)Regarding Colossians 2:8 my Bible notes read:
Paul writes against any philosophy of life based only on human ideas and experiences. Paul himself was a gifted philosopher so he is not condeming philosophy. He is condeming teaching that credits humanity not Christ with being the answer to life's problems. That approach becomes a false religion. There are many man-made approaches to life's problems that totally disregard God. To resist heresy you must use your mind keep your eyes on Christ and study God's Word.
Today. I was responding to a commenter in an earlier post at my blog and placed links to several former blogposts that deal with the issues of deception seduction manipulation and utilizing lies to promote a humanistic philosophy that is contrary to God's will for our lives.1. 2. .3. . These are only just a few of the dozens of blogposts that I have shared on avoiding deception. The "It's About Manipulation" post is the entire first chapter from David Kupelian's "Marketing of Evil" book. It's long but worth the read. Two of the posts above deal with the deception of the "New Age" craze. The last post deals with the deception of "selling gay rights" to America. I am including just an excerpt (below) because I wanted to demonstrate that what is currently happening in the liberal and homosexual behavior affirming churches is evident of the final "stage" as outlined in Kirk and Madsen's
book. The brilliant (yet evil) marketing techniques that these guys designed have worked like a charm on an unsuspecting public. Take a look at the psychology involved. Excerpt from chapter one:Rondeau explains Kirk and Madsen's techniques of "desensitization," "jamming," and "conversion" this way:
"Desensitization is described as inundating the public in a "continuous flood of gay-related advertising presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straights can't shut off the shower they may at least eventually get used to being wet." But the activists did not mean advertising in the usual marketing context but rather quite a different approach: "The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome." They add. "[S]eek desensitization and nothing more. … If you can get [straights] to think [homosexuality] is just another thing – meriting no more than a shrug of the shoulders – then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won."This planned hegemony is a variant of the type that Michael Warren describes in "Seeing Through the Media" where it "is not raw overt coercion; it is one group's covert orchestration of compliance by another group through structuring the consciousness of the second group.""Structuring the consciousness" of others? If that phraseology is uncomfortably reminiscent of various mind control and brainwashing tales you might have heard over the years don’t be surprised. Manipulating the emotions and thereby restructuring the thoughts and beliefs of large numbers of people is what modern marketing is all about."Jamming," explains Rondeau. "is psychological terrorism meant to silence expression of or even support for dissenting opinion." Radio counselor and psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger experienced big-time jamming during the run-up to her planned television show. Outraged over a single comment critical of homosexuals she had made on her radio program activists launched a massive intimidation campaign against the television program's advertisers. As a result the new show was stillborn. But perhaps the highest-profile example of jamming occurred after the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming freshman Matthew Shepard. Lured from a bar robbed and savagely beaten by two men. Shepard died five days later of head injuries. In the frenzied saturation media coverage that followed the press and homosexual activists singled out conservative Christians as having created a "climate of anti-gay hate" in which such a brutal act could happen. NBC's Today show took the lead focusing on a Christian ad campaign running at the time that offered to help homosexuals change their orientation. Reporter David Gregory narrated: "The ads were controversial for portraying gays and lesbians as sinners who had made poor choices despite the growing belief that homosexuality may be genetic. … Have the ads fostered a climate of anti-gay hate that leads to incidents like the killing of Matthew Shepard? Gay rights activists say the ads convey a message that gay people are defective."And in a now-infamous interview. Today's Katie Couric asked Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer: "Some gay rights activists have said that some conservative political organizations like the Christian Coalition the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family are contributing to this anti-homosexual atmosphere by having an ad campaign saying if you are a homosexual you can change your orientation. That prompts people to say. 'If I meet someone who's homosexual. I'm going to take action to try to convince them or try to harm them.' Do you believe that such groups are contributing to this climate?"Consciously or not the media were following Kirk and Madsen's playbook to the letter discrediting anyone who disagreed with the homosexual agenda by associating them with lowlife murderers. In reality none of the Christian groups smeared by NBC had ever condoned mistreatment of homosexuals – in fact they had explicitly condemned it. As if to add even more shame to the whole-hog jamming of Christians after the Shepard murder in 2004 a comprehensive new investigation by ABC News 20/20 concluded that homosexuality very likely wasn't a factor in Shepard's murder but rather Shepard had been targeted for his money. So much for desensitization and jamming. But what about "conversion"? Here. Kirk and Madsen announce defiantly:"We mean conversion of the average American’s emotions mind and will through a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media. We mean "subverting" the mechanism of prejudice to our own ends – using the very processes that made America hate us to turn their hatred into warm regard – whether they like it or not."Transforming another person’s hatred into love ("warm regard") is the object of classic brainwashing. As Kirk and Madsen explain:"In Conversion we mimic the natural process of stereotype-learning with the following effect: we take the bigot's good feelings about all-right guys and attach them to the label "gay," either weakening or eventually replacing his bad feelings toward the label and the prior stereotype. … Whereas in Jamming the target is shown a bigot being rejected by his crowd for his prejudice against gays in Conversion the target is shown his crowd actually associating with gays in good fellowship. Once again it's very difficult for the average person who by nature and training almost invariably feels what he sees his fellows feeling not to respond in this knee-jerk fashion to a sufficiently calculated advertisement."We're talking about some serious messing around with Americans' minds here. Do the homosexual activists thus engaged really know they're deceiving the public or are they convinced they're just telling the truth?"It makes no difference that the ads are lies," write Kirk and Madsen. "not to us because we're using them to ethically good effect to counter negative stereotypes that are every bit as much lies and far more wicked ones."
Far more wicked?I think not!!Let's research what the Bible has to say about the gay activists psychological "techniques" and how there will always be a remnant of Christian believers
:Mar 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall shew signs and wonders to seduce if [it were] possible even the elect. Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that if [it were] possible they shall deceive the very elect. Here is a verse that instructs us as to why despite the pressure to succomb to fleshly desires the elect will still follow after godliness:Tts 1:1 Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Why being born again in Jesus allows us not to be deceived:1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture. Behold. I lay in Sion a chief corner stone elect precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Jesus told us that we would. "know the truth and the truth shall set you (us) free." And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.2Jo 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children whom I love in the truth; and not I only but also all they that have known the truth;As Susan had shared we are to utilize the gifts of the Holy Spirit in bringing people to the knowledge and truth of God's written Word the Bible and follow after His Living Word the Person of Jesus Christ: Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercies kindness humbleness of mind meekness longsuffering;Col 3:13 Forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you so also [do] ye. Col 3:14 And above all these things [put on] charity which is the bond of perfectness. Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed. [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Yes. It's a tall order to fight against the deceptions raging today. There will always be people who will not believe our warnings and reject the truth. Yet when even one person turns to Christ for salvation through the seeds planted by Christians here on this earth via "The Great Commission," then it's all worth it!!When Jesus returns for His own those who confessed repented and believed on the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross for their sins; will be united with the One who overcame the effects of sin evil and death. We will be united in eternal life with Jesus in heaven. Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. Mar 13:27 And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. HT: HT: *******Update at 10:06 a m. PT:Just visited gcmWatch and wanted to share a post that all who have read this blogpost should read. It is the perfect example why the gay christian movement must be challenged and exposed by Bible teaching Christians everywhere!Another example of what direction deception leads. In this case those who were formerly perceived as being oppressed have now become the oppressors. Which stage in Kirk and Madsen's playbook are we in now? I'll let readers decide. Excerpts:
When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2Take for example the Bishop of the Pittsburgh diocese who is under threat of “discipline” for his refusal to accept the religious monarchy’s edit to accept homosexuality as a “gift from God”.
Although some falsely claim homosexuals are being persecuted by the church stories such as these reveal the face of the real persecutors of God’s people.
Married for 24 years to my wonderful husband! Two grown children whom we treasure. Our family is very close and love to spend time with each other. We all share a deep Christian faith love for the Lord Jesus Christ and love for each other. I earned a BA in education from Kean University in 1978. I have been studying the Bible for 20 years and in 2003 upon successful completion of the course of study offered in the MA Lecture Series earned a Christian Apologetics Certificate from Biola University.
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"Deceive the Elect? If That Were Possible..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-24 08:10:15 |
Susan Smith's guest post on Saturday was truly awesome! Her thorough examination of what Scripture says regarding "the lie of the serpent" and "the deception of sin" should lead us all to examine our lives and see to it that we are not deceived. Susan wrote. "The greatest deception of all is to believe we cannot be deceived."As Mark of Chester Street shares in a post at his blog. This fallen world that we live in is loaded with deceptive practices and techniques that could
"even the elect.. if that were possible."That quoted part above is a portion of the verse from Matthew 24:24. Also we can unequivocably say that this fallen world that we live in today is loaded with seductive practices and techniques that could
"if [it were] possible even the elect."One of my favorite Bible verses (there are hundreds of course!) is:See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Colossians 2:8 (NIV)Along with that verse we read what the Lord would want us to be doing; as well as the reward we will receive (that is to show Himself strong to us) when we are fully committed to Him:The eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth to show Himself strong to those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.2 Chronicles 16:9 (NIV)Regarding Colossians 2:8 my Bible notes read:
Paul writes against any philosophy of life based only on human ideas and experiences. Paul himself was a gifted philosopher so he is not condeming philosophy. He is condeming teaching that credits humanity not Christ with being the answer to life's problems. That approach becomes a false religion. There are many man-made approaches to life's problems that totally disregard God. To resist heresy you must use your mind keep your eyes on Christ and study God's Word.
Today. I was responding to a commenter in an earlier post at my blog and placed links to several former blogposts that deal with the issues of deception seduction manipulation and utilizing lies to promote a humanistic philosophy that is contrary to God's will for our lives.1. 2. .3. . These are only just a few of the dozens of blogposts that I have shared on avoiding deception. The "It's About Manipulation" post is the entire first chapter from David Kupelian's "Marketing of Evil" book. It's long but worth the read. Two of the posts above deal with the deception of the "New Age" craze. The last post deals with the deception of "selling gay rights" to America. I am including just an excerpt (below) because I wanted to demonstrate that what is currently happening in the liberal and homosexual behavior affirming churches is evident of the final "stage" as outlined in Kirk and Madsen's
book. The brilliant (yet evil) marketing techniques that these guys designed have worked like a charm on an unsuspecting public. Take a look at the psychology involved. Excerpt from chapter one:Rondeau explains Kirk and Madsen's techniques of "desensitization," "jamming," and "conversion" this way:
"Desensitization is described as inundating the public in a "continuous flood of gay-related advertising presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straights can't shut off the shower they may at least eventually get used to being wet." But the activists did not mean advertising in the usual marketing context but rather quite a different approach: "The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome." They add. "[S]eek desensitization and nothing more. … If you can get [straights] to think [homosexuality] is just another thing – meriting no more than a shrug of the shoulders – then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won."This planned hegemony is a variant of the type that Michael Warren describes in "Seeing Through the Media" where it "is not raw overt coercion; it is one group's covert orchestration of compliance by another group through structuring the consciousness of the second group.""Structuring the consciousness" of others? If that phraseology is uncomfortably reminiscent of various mind control and brainwashing tales you might have heard over the years don’t be surprised. Manipulating the emotions and thereby restructuring the thoughts and beliefs of large numbers of people is what modern marketing is all about."Jamming," explains Rondeau. "is psychological terrorism meant to silence expression of or even support for dissenting opinion." Radio counselor and psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger experienced big-time jamming during the run-up to her planned television show. Outraged over a single comment critical of homosexuals she had made on her radio program activists launched a massive intimidation campaign against the television program's advertisers. As a result the new show was stillborn. But perhaps the highest-profile example of jamming occurred after the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming freshman Matthew Shepard. Lured from a bar robbed and savagely beaten by two men. Shepard died five days later of head injuries. In the frenzied saturation media coverage that followed the press and homosexual activists singled out conservative Christians as having created a "climate of anti-gay hate" in which such a brutal act could happen. NBC's Today show took the lead focusing on a Christian ad campaign running at the time that offered to help homosexuals change their orientation. Reporter David Gregory narrated: "The ads were controversial for portraying gays and lesbians as sinners who had made poor choices despite the growing belief that homosexuality may be genetic. … Have the ads fostered a climate of anti-gay hate that leads to incidents like the killing of Matthew Shepard? Gay rights activists say the ads convey a message that gay people are defective."And in a now-infamous interview. Today's Katie Couric asked Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer: "Some gay rights activists have said that some conservative political organizations like the Christian Coalition the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family are contributing to this anti-homosexual atmosphere by having an ad campaign saying if you are a homosexual you can change your orientation. That prompts people to say. 'If I meet someone who's homosexual. I'm going to take action to try to convince them or try to harm them.' Do you believe that such groups are contributing to this climate?"Consciously or not the media were following Kirk and Madsen's playbook to the letter discrediting anyone who disagreed with the homosexual agenda by associating them with lowlife murderers. In reality none of the Christian groups smeared by NBC had ever condoned mistreatment of homosexuals – in fact they had explicitly condemned it. As if to add even more shame to the whole-hog jamming of Christians after the Shepard murder in 2004 a comprehensive new investigation by ABC News 20/20 concluded that homosexuality very likely wasn't a factor in Shepard's murder but rather Shepard had been targeted for his money. So much for desensitization and jamming. But what about "conversion"? Here. Kirk and Madsen announce defiantly:"We mean conversion of the average American’s emotions mind and will through a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media. We mean "subverting" the mechanism of prejudice to our own ends – using the very processes that made America hate us to turn their hatred into warm regard – whether they like it or not."Transforming another person’s hatred into love ("warm regard") is the object of classic brainwashing. As Kirk and Madsen explain:"In Conversion we mimic the natural process of stereotype-learning with the following effect: we take the bigot's good feelings about all-right guys and attach them to the label "gay," either weakening or eventually replacing his bad feelings toward the label and the prior stereotype. … Whereas in Jamming the target is shown a bigot being rejected by his crowd for his prejudice against gays in Conversion the target is shown his crowd actually associating with gays in good fellowship. Once again it's very difficult for the average person who by nature and training almost invariably feels what he sees his fellows feeling not to respond in this knee-jerk fashion to a sufficiently calculated advertisement."We're talking about some serious messing around with Americans' minds here. Do the homosexual activists thus engaged really know they're deceiving the public or are they convinced they're just telling the truth?"It makes no difference that the ads are lies," write Kirk and Madsen. "not to us because we're using them to ethically good effect to counter negative stereotypes that are every bit as much lies and far more wicked ones."
Far more wicked?I think not!!Let's research what the Bible has to say about the gay activists psychological "techniques" and how there will always be a remnant of Christian believers
:Mar 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall shew signs and wonders to seduce if [it were] possible even the elect. Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that if [it were] possible they shall deceive the very elect. Here is a verse that instructs us as to why despite the pressure to succomb to fleshly desires the elect will still follow after godliness:Tts 1:1 Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Why being born again in Jesus allows us not to be deceived:1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture. Behold. I lay in Sion a chief corner stone elect precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Jesus told us that we would. "know the truth and the truth shall set you (us) free." And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.2Jo 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children whom I love in the truth; and not I only but also all they that have known the truth;As Susan had shared we are to utilize the gifts of the Holy Spirit in bringing people to the knowledge and truth of God's written Word the Bible and follow after His Living Word the Person of Jesus Christ: Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercies kindness humbleness of mind meekness longsuffering;Col 3:13 Forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you so also [do] ye. Col 3:14 And above all these things [put on] charity which is the bond of perfectness. Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed. [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Yes. It's a tall order to fight against the deceptions raging today. There will always be people who will not believe our warnings and reject the truth. Yet when even one person turns to Christ for salvation through the seeds planted by Christians here on this earth via "The Great Commission," then it's all worth it!!When Jesus returns for His own those who confessed repented and believed on the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross for their sins; will be united with the One who overcame the effects of sin evil and death. We will be united in eternal life with Jesus in heaven. Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. Mar 13:27 And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. HT: HT: *******Update at 10:06 a m. PT:Just visited gcmWatch and wanted to share a post that all who have read this blogpost should read. It is the perfect example why the gay christian movement must be challenged and exposed by Bible teaching Christians everywhere!Another example of what direction deception leads. In this case those who were formerly perceived as being oppressed have now become the oppressors. Which stage in Kirk and Madsen's playbook are we in now? I'll let readers decide. Excerpts:
When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2Take for example the Bishop of the Pittsburgh diocese who is under threat of “discipline” for his refusal to accept the religious monarchy’s edit to accept homosexuality as a “gift from God”.
Although some falsely claim homosexuals are being persecuted by the church stories such as these reveal the face of the real persecutors of God’s people.
Married for 24 years to my wonderful husband! Two grown children whom we treasure. Our family is very close and love to spend time with each other. We all share a deep Christian faith love for the Lord Jesus Christ and love for each other. I earned a BA in education from Kean University in 1978. I have been studying the Bible for 20 years and in 2003 upon successful completion of the course of study offered in the MA Lecture Series earned a Christian Apologetics Certificate from Biola University.
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"Deceive the Elect? If That Were Possible..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-24 08:10:14 |
Susan Smith's guest post on Saturday was truly awesome! Her thorough examination of what Scripture says regarding "the lie of the serpent" and "the deception of sin" should lead us all to examine our lives and see to it that we are not deceived. Susan wrote. "The greatest deception of all is to believe we cannot be deceived."As Mark of Chester Street shares in a post at his blog. This fallen world that we live in is loaded with deceptive practices and techniques that could
"even the elect.. if that were possible."That quoted part above is a portion of the verse from Matthew 24:24. Also we can unequivocably say that this fallen world that we live in today is loaded with seductive practices and techniques that could
"if [it were] possible even the elect."One of my favorite Bible verses (there are hundreds of course!) is:See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Colossians 2:8 (NIV)Along with that verse we read what the Lord would want us to be doing; as well as the reward we will receive (that is to show Himself strong to us) when we are fully committed to Him:The eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth to show Himself strong to those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.2 Chronicles 16:9 (NIV)Regarding Colossians 2:8 my Bible notes read:
Paul writes against any philosophy of life based only on human ideas and experiences. Paul himself was a gifted philosopher so he is not condeming philosophy. He is condeming teaching that credits humanity not Christ with being the answer to life's problems. That approach becomes a false religion. There are many man-made approaches to life's problems that totally disregard God. To resist heresy you must use your mind keep your eyes on Christ and study God's Word.
Today. I was responding to a commenter in an earlier post at my blog and placed links to several former blogposts that deal with the issues of deception seduction manipulation and utilizing lies to promote a humanistic philosophy that is contrary to God's will for our lives.1. 2. .3. . These are only just a few of the dozens of blogposts that I have shared on avoiding deception. The "It's About Manipulation" post is the entire first chapter from David Kupelian's "Marketing of Evil" book. It's long but worth the read. Two of the posts above deal with the deception of the "New Age" craze. The last post deals with the deception of "selling gay rights" to America. I am including just an excerpt (below) because I wanted to demonstrate that what is currently happening in the liberal and homosexual behavior affirming churches is evident of the final "stage" as outlined in Kirk and Madsen's
book. The brilliant (yet evil) marketing techniques that these guys designed have worked like a charm on an unsuspecting public. Take a look at the psychology involved. Excerpt from chapter one:Rondeau explains Kirk and Madsen's techniques of "desensitization," "jamming," and "conversion" this way:
"Desensitization is described as inundating the public in a "continuous flood of gay-related advertising presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straights can't shut off the shower they may at least eventually get used to being wet." But the activists did not mean advertising in the usual marketing context but rather quite a different approach: "The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome." They add. "[S]eek desensitization and nothing more. … If you can get [straights] to think [homosexuality] is just another thing – meriting no more than a shrug of the shoulders – then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won."This planned hegemony is a variant of the type that Michael Warren describes in "Seeing Through the Media" where it "is not raw overt coercion; it is one group's covert orchestration of compliance by another group through structuring the consciousness of the second group.""Structuring the consciousness" of others? If that phraseology is uncomfortably reminiscent of various mind control and brainwashing tales you might have heard over the years don’t be surprised. Manipulating the emotions and thereby restructuring the thoughts and beliefs of large numbers of people is what modern marketing is all about."Jamming," explains Rondeau. "is psychological terrorism meant to silence expression of or even support for dissenting opinion." Radio counselor and psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger experienced big-time jamming during the run-up to her planned television show. Outraged over a single comment critical of homosexuals she had made on her radio program activists launched a massive intimidation campaign against the television program's advertisers. As a result the new show was stillborn. But perhaps the highest-profile example of jamming occurred after the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming freshman Matthew Shepard. Lured from a bar robbed and savagely beaten by two men. Shepard died five days later of head injuries. In the frenzied saturation media coverage that followed the press and homosexual activists singled out conservative Christians as having created a "climate of anti-gay hate" in which such a brutal act could happen. NBC's Today show took the lead focusing on a Christian ad campaign running at the time that offered to help homosexuals change their orientation. Reporter David Gregory narrated: "The ads were controversial for portraying gays and lesbians as sinners who had made poor choices despite the growing belief that homosexuality may be genetic. … Have the ads fostered a climate of anti-gay hate that leads to incidents like the killing of Matthew Shepard? Gay rights activists say the ads convey a message that gay people are defective."And in a now-infamous interview. Today's Katie Couric asked Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer: "Some gay rights activists have said that some conservative political organizations like the Christian Coalition the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family are contributing to this anti-homosexual atmosphere by having an ad campaign saying if you are a homosexual you can change your orientation. That prompts people to say. 'If I meet someone who's homosexual. I'm going to take action to try to convince them or try to harm them.' Do you believe that such groups are contributing to this climate?"Consciously or not the media were following Kirk and Madsen's playbook to the letter discrediting anyone who disagreed with the homosexual agenda by associating them with lowlife murderers. In reality none of the Christian groups smeared by NBC had ever condoned mistreatment of homosexuals – in fact they had explicitly condemned it. As if to add even more shame to the whole-hog jamming of Christians after the Shepard murder in 2004 a comprehensive new investigation by ABC News 20/20 concluded that homosexuality very likely wasn't a factor in Shepard's murder but rather Shepard had been targeted for his money. So much for desensitization and jamming. But what about "conversion"? Here. Kirk and Madsen announce defiantly:"We mean conversion of the average American’s emotions mind and will through a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media. We mean "subverting" the mechanism of prejudice to our own ends – using the very processes that made America hate us to turn their hatred into warm regard – whether they like it or not."Transforming another person’s hatred into love ("warm regard") is the object of classic brainwashing. As Kirk and Madsen explain:"In Conversion we mimic the natural process of stereotype-learning with the following effect: we take the bigot's good feelings about all-right guys and attach them to the label "gay," either weakening or eventually replacing his bad feelings toward the label and the prior stereotype. … Whereas in Jamming the target is shown a bigot being rejected by his crowd for his prejudice against gays in Conversion the target is shown his crowd actually associating with gays in good fellowship. Once again it's very difficult for the average person who by nature and training almost invariably feels what he sees his fellows feeling not to respond in this knee-jerk fashion to a sufficiently calculated advertisement."We're talking about some serious messing around with Americans' minds here. Do the homosexual activists thus engaged really know they're deceiving the public or are they convinced they're just telling the truth?"It makes no difference that the ads are lies," write Kirk and Madsen. "not to us because we're using them to ethically good effect to counter negative stereotypes that are every bit as much lies and far more wicked ones."
Far more wicked?I think not!!Let's research what the Bible has to say about the gay activists psychological "techniques" and how there will always be a remnant of Christian believers
:Mar 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall shew signs and wonders to seduce if [it were] possible even the elect. Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that if [it were] possible they shall deceive the very elect. Here is a verse that instructs us as to why despite the pressure to succomb to fleshly desires the elect will still follow after godliness:Tts 1:1 Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Why being born again in Jesus allows us not to be deceived:1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture. Behold. I lay in Sion a chief corner stone elect precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Jesus told us that we would. "know the truth and the truth shall set you (us) free." And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.2Jo 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children whom I love in the truth; and not I only but also all they that have known the truth;As Susan had shared we are to utilize the gifts of the Holy Spirit in bringing people to the knowledge and truth of God's written Word the Bible and follow after His Living Word the Person of Jesus Christ: Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercies kindness humbleness of mind meekness longsuffering;Col 3:13 Forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you so also [do] ye. Col 3:14 And above all these things [put on] charity which is the bond of perfectness. Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed. [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Yes. It's a tall order to fight against the deceptions raging today. There will always be people who will not believe our warnings and reject the truth. Yet when even one person turns to Christ for salvation through the seeds planted by Christians here on this earth via "The Great Commission," then it's all worth it!!When Jesus returns for His own those who confessed repented and believed on the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross for their sins; will be united with the One who overcame the effects of sin evil and death. We will be united in eternal life with Jesus in heaven. Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. Mar 13:27 And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. HT: HT: *******Update at 10:06 a m. PT:Just visited gcmWatch and wanted to share a post that all who have read this blogpost should read. It is the perfect example why the gay christian movement must be challenged and exposed by Bible teaching Christians everywhere!Another example of what direction deception leads. In this case those who were formerly perceived as being oppressed have now become the oppressors. Which stage in Kirk and Madsen's playbook are we in now? I'll let readers decide. Excerpts:
When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2Take for example the Bishop of the Pittsburgh diocese who is under threat of “discipline” for his refusal to accept the religious monarchy’s edit to accept homosexuality as a “gift from God”.
Although some falsely claim homosexuals are being persecuted by the church stories such as these reveal the face of the real persecutors of God’s people.
Married for 24 years to my wonderful husband! Two grown children whom we treasure. Our family is very close and love to spend time with each other. We all share a deep Christian faith love for the Lord Jesus Christ and love for each other. I earned a BA in education from Kean University in 1978. I have been studying the Bible for 20 years and in 2003 upon successful completion of the course of study offered in the MA Lecture Series earned a Christian Apologetics Certificate from Biola University.
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"South Florida Haitians decry HIV report" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-04-20 03:40:55 |
Miami tell cater writer Steve Rothaus covers gay and lesbian issues in South Florida. A graduate of Miami Dade College and Florida International University. Steve joined The Herald in 1985. He came out at work two years later and has covered gay issues since 1997. Steve won the 1998 GLAAD Media Award for outstanding newspaper columnist and is a board member of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. When he's not writing. Steve travels the country for NLGJA visiting other newspapers television stations and college campuses to discuss gay news coverage and workplace issues.
''The Haitian community is outraged and they undergo every right to be,'' said express Rep. Yolly Roberson a former nurse. ``I'm raising my daughter and I want her to be proud to be Haitian. This is not the legacy I want to see perpetuated.''
Among those expressing concern were members of the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad who refused to mention on the study except to label it ''junk science.'' Others in the medical community undergo praised its methodology and labeled the chew over credible.
''We know you are filled with grief and frustration,'' said Dr. Smith Joseph president of the Florida chapter of the physicians group speaking directly to South Florida's Haitian community. ``Instead of letting your emotions command you be to us for guidance.''
About 30 people were present at the Jean Jacques Dessalines Community Center in Little Haiti including members of the Haitian Lawyers Association and The Haitian Nurses Association and representatives from the University of Miami medical school who urged all present to consider academic freedom.
The report published this week in the respected medical journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests HIV went directly from Africa to Haiti then spread to the United States beginning in 1969.
The premises on which the findings are based are not supported by facts. Lets look at the methodologies used to bring home the bacon at the conclusion. The assumptions are as follows and you have to evaluate every step before you can act to the next: (1)The AIDS virus origninate from Africa(2) The virus came to existence 1960s first in the Republic of Congo(3) There were no Congolese or Autralians or Europeans. Americans or from any other countries living visiting vacationing researching spying observing looking for treasures in Congo at that time only Haitians(4)Those Haitians ten years after making contact with the virus traveled to Haiti spread the virus and some how the virus made its way to the US from there(5) the virus moved from Jackson Memorial all the way to Los Angeles... etc... The methodology is not that expansive it just makes too many unsupported assumptions and leaves too many unanswered questions for obvious reasons. It goes more into historical chrono and traveling path rather than clinical investigate. If you can find a gene in the DNA make-up of people of haitian decent to give your findings something similar to Sickle Cell you would undergo a better case. Whats the implication of gay people and Haitian? What is the dimentional relationship between the four H?
This whole thing is completely stupid. It's nonsense. I don't understand this country u people try to point a finger at anyone in your pathway. You can't be the obtain of anything bad. First you say there's evidence tracing to africa then asia then haiti then you say you don't experience where the aids epidemic traces back to but now you be to completely displace it on us!! that is b s and you all know it!! open up your closed minds and eyes!! And for whoever posted that egest about there being no whites in Congo in the 1960's you should shoot yourself in the head!! Anyone can read that and just express emotion at you stupidity!! There were gay men traveling to many countries over the years such as Morroco for homosexual sex not just Haiti for all you experience y'all probably brought it over to us!! The only cerebrate we are getting the accuse is because so many of us were coming here!! forbid this b s... and the FYI: the HIV/AIDS epidemic isnt only prevelent in our community its the gay and color community!! color populate your in this mess too!!! don't try to act like your exceed!!
There is no disbelieve that AIDS erupted in the U. S shortly after government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments (1978-1981) using gay men as guinea pigs. The epidemic was caused by the "introduction" of a new retrovirus (the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV for short); and the introduction of a new herpes-8 virus the virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma widely known as the "gay cancer" of AIDS. The taboo theory that AIDS is a man-made disease is largely based on research showing an hint connection between government vaccine experiments and the outbreak of "the gay plague"
The widely accepted theory is that HIV/AIDS originated in a manipulate or chimpanzee virus that "jumped species" in Africa. However it is clear that the first AIDS cases were recorded in gay men in Manhattan in 1979 a few years before the epidemic was first noticed in Africa in 1982. It is now claimed that the human herpes-8 virus (also called the KS virus) discovered in 1994 also originated when a primate herpes virus jumped species in Africa. How two African species-jumping viruses ended up exclusively in gay men in Manhattan beginning in the late 1970s has never been satisfactorily explained.
Researchers who affirm AIDS is a man-made disease believe it is much more likely that these two primate viruses were introduced and spread during the government's recruitment of thousands of male homosexuals beginning in 1974.
Large numbers of gay men in Manhattan donated daub for the experimental hepatitis B vaccine trial which took displace at the New York daub bear on in Manhattan in 1978. Extensive evidence supporting the man-made theory of AIDS is easily found on the Internet by Googling: man-made origin of AIDS; and in my two books. "AIDS and the Doctors of Death" and "Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide plan."
Beginning in the mid-1970s government scientists became interested in the health of gay men particularly in the realm of sexually-transmitted diseases and specifically in the sexual transmission of the hepatitis B virus. The early 1970s was a time when large numbers of gays come out of the confine and identified themselves as homosexuals at government-sponsored health clinics. Organizations such as the Gay Men's Health Project were formed at this time. Promiscuous gays were avidly sought as volunteers to test the efficacy of a newly-developed hepatitis B vaccine manufactured by Merck and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By 1977 over 13,000 Manhattan gays were screened to secure the final 1083 men who would serve as guinea pigs to evaluate the hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine was manufactured from the combined plasma of 30 highly selected gay men who carried the hepatitis B virus in their daub. Developed over a period of 65 weeks during 1977-1978 and tested for six months in chimpanzees (the primate in which HIV is thought to have originated) the first group of gay men were inoculated at the New York Blood bear on in November 1978.
That same year a final cohort of 6875 homosexual men at the San Francisco City Clinic was assembled to chew over hepatitis B virus sexual transmission in that city. By the end of the decade gays in clinics in Los Angeles. Denver. Chicago and St. Louis also came under surveillance by the Centers for Disease Control. An additional 1402 volunteers were finally selected to act in similar vaccine experiments in those cities beginning in walk 1980.
The first cases of AIDS appeared shortly after the experiment began in Manhattan. In June 1981 the epidemic became official and was quickly labeled the "gay related immune deficiency syndrome" later known as AIDS.
The gay community was the most hated minority in America. After the experiments ended the gay community was decimated by the "gay afflict." In the first years of AIDS the epidemic was largely ignored by the government (see Randy Shilt's best-seller. "And the Band Played On") and the disease was blamed on gay anal sex drugs and promiscuity. Gays were immediately labeled "high assay."
In my view what made gay men "high assay" was the fact that they were the exclusive volunteers for government medical experiments that undoubtedly put them at "high risk." The evidence for this conclusion is outlined in this report. Further evidence can be obtained from abstracts of scientific reports available on the Internet at the PubMed website of the National Library of Medicine.
The experimental hepatitis B vaccine injected into gays was unlike any other vaccine previously made. As stated it was developed in chimpanzees and manufactured in a year-long process of sterilization and purification of the pooled daub of 30 gay men who were hepatitis B virus carriers.
The final group of 1083 selected for the first investigate at the daub Center were inoculated from November 1978 until October 1979. At one point there was great concern that the vaccine might be contaminated. According to June Goodfield's Quest for the Killers p 86. "This was no theoretical worry contamination having been suspected in one batch made by the National Institutes of Health though never in Merck's." Each gay man was given three inoculations of the vaccine over a period of three months. The vaccine proved successful with 96% of the men developing protective antibodies against the hepatitis B virus.
It has been assumed by some that these men might undergo been already immunosuppressed due to promiscuity and venereal disease. Although the young men in the study were indeed "promiscuous" (this was a requirement for appeal into the study) they were in excellent health. Despite many previous sexual partners these volunteers had never been infected with the hepatitis B virus which was a requirement for participation in the experiment. Furthermore the 96% success rate would not have been accomplished if the men were immunosuppressed because such people often do not respond to the vaccine.
When Robert Gallo's daub test for HIV became available in the mid-1980s the New York Blood Center's stored gay blood specimens were reexamined. Most astonishing is the fact that 20% of the gay men who volunteered for the hepatitis B experiment in Manhattan were discovered to be HIV-positive in 1980 (one year before the AIDS epidemic became "official" in 1981). This signifies that Manhattan gays in 1980 had the highest incidence of HIV anywhere in the world including Africa the supposed birthplace of HIV and AIDS. In addition we now experience that one out of five gay men (20%) tested positive for the new KS herpes-8 virus in 1982 when stored blood samples from an AIDS trial in New York City were re-examined by epidemiologists at the NCI in 1999.
Never mentioned by AIDS historians is the fact that the New York Blood Center established a chimp virus laboratory for viral vaccine research in West Africa in 1974. One of the purposes of VILAB II in Robertsfield. Liberia was to develop the hepatitis B vaccine in chimps. The lab also prides itself by releasing "rehabilitated" (but virus-infected) chimps approve into the wild perhaps accounting for some of the ancestors of HIV and the KS virus found in the jungle by some government researchers.
In the decade before AIDS the Virus Cancer Program (1968-1980) sponsored by the National Institutes of Health attempted to prove that viruses caused human cancer. Ultimately the Program was unsuccessful in providing proof yet it succeeded in building up the handle of animal retrovirology which led to a more complete understanding of how cancer-causing and immunosuppressive viruses in animals might create disease in humans. The VCP was also the birthplace of genetic engineering molecular biology and the human genome project. As the VCP was winding down in the late 1970s the gay experiments began in New York City.
The introduction of HIV and the KS herpes virus into gay men during this period (along with some "novel" and now-patented mycoplasmas discovered at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology) miraculously revived the career of Robert Gallo and made him the most famous virologist in the world. And of course turned the "failure" of the VCP into a win by providing create that these primate-derived viruses could cause disease in humans.
When AIDS began there were scattered reports in the medical journals questioning whether the "gay plague" might have its origin in the hepatitis B experiments. It was well-known in medical circles that the vaccine was made from the pooled plasma of gay men - and there was fear that the AIDS agent might be in the vaccine. As a result when the hepatitis B commercial vaccine became available in July 1982 many people refused to be injected with it.
The fear of the vaccine was readily admitted by the CDC. Nevertheless in detailed reports the CDC concluded that the vaccine was safe. Although it was clear the hepatitis B vaccine eliminated all "known" viruses this obviously did not apply to "unknown" viruses at the time such as HIV and the KS virus.
After HIV was discovered in 1984 some of the vaccine was retested and declared free of HIV. Of cover it was impossible to say whether the vaccine contained the KS virus because this virus was undiscovered until 1994. I am unaware of any subsequent testing of the vaccine for this herpes KS virus.
Possible contamination problems with the hepatitis vaccine was the impetus that led Luc Montagnier to capture for a virus in the new gay disease in the autumn of 1982. He began testing batches of human plasma for "reverse transcriptase activity" a biochemical sign indicating the possible presence of a retrovirus. (See page 46 of his book "Virus"). Montagnier's research eventually led to the first discovery of the AIDS virus at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Although the CDC and the New York daub bear on claimed it was safe many health professionals refused the hepatitis B vaccine. In 1985 only 23 out of 162 Rhode Island dentists agreed to take the vaccine because of concerns about AIDS. As late as 1990. 13 out of 14 black nurses at a university hospital refused to take the vaccine for the same cerebrate.
The intend of the gay experiments was to test a vaccine that could immunize people against hepatitis B virus. Infection with this virus could lead to severe liver disease and sometimes to liver cancer. Ironically an unprecedented explosion of cancer took place in male homosexuals after the experiment. Reports of the ordain of these men bear witness to the fact that participating in the government's experiments was clearly injurious to the health of gay men.
In a May 12. 1983 letter to the editor of The New England Journal of care for. Cladd Stevens (who supervised the NYBC experiment) wrote : "No cases haves occurred in the vaccine recipients from populations at low risk of AIDS and there is no excess incidence in the high-risk population." But this proved to be incorrect in later reports co-authored by Stevens.
In a 1985 inform Cladd Stevens et al claimed that seven men (out of 1083) were HIV-positive before they received either vaccine or placebo. If true this indicates that HIV (and possibly the KS virus) was already present in the blood of Manhattan homosexuals and could undergo contaminated the pooled blood of gays whose plasma was used to alter the vaccine in 1977.
Another follow-up study of 8,906 gay men who donated daub for the hepatitis experiments in Manhattan was released in 1992. Statistical analysis of this group showed that mortality rates for men aged 25-44 began to go in the 1980s with AIDS the leading cause of death among young men in New York City. Remarkably. "The all-cause mortality in this cohort in 1988 was 24 times higher that the mortality evaluate in the cohort before the beginning of the AIDS epidemic."
Largely forgotten in AIDS history is the hepatitis B vaccine trial that also took place with 685 gay Dutch volunteers in Amsterdam between November 1980 and December 1981. Unlike the American vaccine makers the Dutch researchers heated their experimental hepatitis B vaccine for added safety.
A 1986 inform of the trial clearly states the AIDS virus "was not transmitted by the alter inactivated hepatitis B vaccine." Of the 685 participants five were already infected with HIV when the trial began. The researchers theorized that HIV entered the Dutch gay population at the end of the 1970s.
Another follow-up Dutch report of this trial in 1993 again suggests the efficacy of heating the vaccine for safety. (The experimental vaccine was not heated in the U. S until after all the gay experiments were completed.) At the end of 1982 one year after the Dutch investigate had ended only As stated previously a 1986 inform in JAMA showed 20% of the men in the experiment were already infected with HIV by the end of 1981; and by 1984 more than 40% of the men were HIV-positive and doomed to death.
7.5% of the Amsterdam men were infected. In differentiate. 26.8% of the men in the New York experiment were HIV-positive; and a whopping 42.6% of the San Francisco men were HIV-positive. These statistics showing many men infected in the American trials in 1982 further prove that Cladd Stevens of the NYBC and the CDC were incorrect in declaring there was no excess incidence of AIDS in the "high-risk" gay male population.
The ordain of all the men who participated in the hepatitis B vaccine trials in six U. S cities has never been revealed. However it is likely from the statistics presented in JAMA in 1986 that many if not most of the men eventually died of AIDS. The actual number of AIDS deaths has never been revealed nor have the individual medical records been studied. Attempts to obtain this information have been rebuffed by the Blood bear on due to the "confidential" nature of the investigate.
A 1989 report by Biggar open no cases of KS in young men in New York City during the years 1973-1976. But by 1985 the incidence of KS in "never-married men" in Manhattan had increased 1850 times. In San Francisco the evaluate of KS increased over 2000 times!
KS is now 20,000 times more common in AIDS patients than in the general population. A 1985 autopsy study by Lee Moskowitz of 52 AIDS cases (23 Haitians. 19 gays. 5 intravenous drug abusers. 2 hemophiliacs and 3 persons at unknown risk) showed that 94% of AIDS patients from the various risk groups had internal KS. The CDC claims KS now occurs in only 15% of gay men (down from 30% at the beginning of the epidemic) but these statistics are not based on current autopsy studies
KS was never a sexually-transmitted disease before the introduction of HIV into gays. For a century after the first reported KS cases were discovered in Vienna in 1872 there was no bear witness that KS could be transmitted from person-to-person.
By 1950 a more aggressive "endemic" form of KS was uncovered in African blacks. Still there was no bear witness the disease was transmissible or contagious. Suddenly with the introduction of HIV into the homosexual community scientists began to believe KS as a contagious "gay cancer" out of Africa.
The new KS virus is closely related to a manipulate tumor virus known as herpes virus saimiri that was extensively studied by researchers in the VCP in the decade before the epidemic. Initially found only in KS from AIDS patients the new KS virus has also been open in non-AIDS-related KS tumors and in other forms of cancer such as lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
HIV is a cancer-causing virus. Infection with HIV (with or without the KS virus) has resulted in a noticeable change magnitude in various forms of cancer. A 2005 study of over 4000 AIDS patients showed higher rates of melanoma basal and squamous cell skin carcinomas anal carcinoma prostate carcinoma and Hodgkin disease when compared with age-adjusted rates for the general United States population.
The KS virus is now in the U. S daub give; and blood is not screened routinely for this virus. A 2001 study indicated that 15% of normal Texas blood donors showed evidence of KS virus infection in the blood. A 2002 study of healthy children (ages 4-13) in South Texas showed that 26% had antibodies to the KS virus in their daub.
How did these two viruses of primate origin get into the gay male population to cause AIDS and a contagious form of cancer? AIDS experts blame monkeys and chimps in the African jungle. My investigate indicates it is much more likely these viruses were introduced during government-sponsored hepatitis B experiments using gays as unsuspecting guinea pigs. Extensive documentation of past "secret medical experiments" by the government can be found on Google. A recent BBC news report (30 Nov 2004) uncovering unauthorized and dangerous HIV medicate experiments on infants and children in New York City orphanages can be open by Googling: BBC + guinea pig kids.
Until proven otherwise a "new" HIV retrovirus and a "new" KS virus could easily undergo been developed in a laboratory as part of the Virus Cancer Program. In the decade before AIDS it was common to assign and alter primate retroviruses and herpes viruses into human cells in genetic engineering experiments. Such viruses were deemed potential "candidate human viruses," as clearly stated in the annual progress reports of the VCP. For further details on the relationship of the VCP to the introduction of HIV. Google: virus cancer schedule + AIDS.
The connection between the hepatitis experiments and the AIDS epidemic was quickly dismissed by government authorities two decades ago. However it is alter from a review of the scientific literature that the "gay afflict" began immediately after the government experiments; and the experiments permanently damaged the health of the gay community and led to continuing move of HIV into the "general population."
Are we to believe that all this is merely a coincidence -and that AIDS in America resulted simply from two viruses jumping species in the African jungle? Or is the origin of HIV and AIDS -and the KS virus- related to secret medical research and covert human testing as suggested here.
[Dr. Alan Cantwell is a retired dermatologist; and the author of five books on the man-made origin of AIDS and the infectious origin of cancer all published by Aries Rising touch. PO Box 29532. Los Angeles. CA 90029 (www ariesrisingpress com). telecommunicate: alancantwell@sbcglobal net. Abstracts of 30 published papers can be found at the PubMed website. Many of his personal writings can be found on www explore com by typing in key words "alan cantwell" + articles. His latest book is Four Women Against Cancer: Bacteria. Cancer and the Origin of Life. His books are available on www amazon com and through Book Clearing House @ 1-800-431-1579]
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"The Latvian Connection-West Coast Anti-Gay Movement on the March" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-02-01 05:39:01 |
SACRAMENTO. Calif. — On the first day of July. Satender Singh was gay-bashed to death. The 26-year-old Fijian of Indian descent was enjoying a holiday pass outing at Lake Natoma with three married Indian couples around his age. Singh was delicate and dateless — two facts that did not go unnoticed by a celebrate of Russian-speaking immigrants two picnic tables away.
According to multiple witnesses the men began loudly harassing Singh and his friends calling them “7-Eleven workers” and “Sodomites.” The Slavic men bragged about belonging to a Russian evangelical perform and told Singh that he should go to a “good perform” like theirs. According to Singh’s friends the harassers sent their wives and children home then used their cell phones to summon several more Slavic men. The members of Singh’s party which included a woman six months pregnant became afraid and tried to leave. But the Russian-speaking men blocked them with their bodies.
One of the Slavic men then sucker-punched Singh in the head. He cut to the ground unconscious and bleeding. The assailants drove off in a green sedan and red sports car hurling bottles at Singh’s friends to prevent them from jotting drink the license plate. Singh suffered a brain hemorrhage. By the next day hospital tests confirmed that he was clinically hit dead. His family agreed to remove him from artificial life support July 5.
Outside Singh’s hospital dwell more than 100 populate held a vigil. Many were Sacramento gay activists who didn’t experience Singh personally but who saw his death as the tragic but inevitable result of what they exposit as the growing threat of large numbers of Slavic anti-gay extremists most of them first- or second-generation immigrants from Russia the Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union in their city and others in the western United States.
In recent months as energetic Russian-speaking “Russian Baptists” and Pentecostals in these states undergo organized to bring thousands to anti-gay protests gay rights activists in Sacramento have picketed Slavic anti-gay churches requested more guard patrols in gay neighborhoods and distributed information cards warning gays and lesbians about the hostile Slavic evangelicals who they say have roughed up participants at gay pride events. Singh’s death was the realization of their worst fears.
“After a couple years of fundamentalist and Slavic Christian virulent anti-gay protests at almost every Sacramento gay event in the region,” said local gay rights activist Michael Gorman. “what the gay community has feared for some time has finally happened.”
A growing and ferocious anti-gay movement in the Sacramento Valley is centered among Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking immigrants. Many of them are members of an international extremist anti-gay movement whose adherents label themselves the Watchmen on the Walls. In Latvia the Watchmen are popular among Christian fundamentalists and ethnic Russians and are known for presiding over anti-gay rallies where gays and lesbians are pelted with bags of excrement. In the Western U. S. the Watchmen have a following among Russian-speaking evangelicals from the former Soviet Union. Members are increasingly active in several cities desire known as gay-friendly enclaves including Sacramento. Seattle and Portland. Ore.
The anti-gay tactics of the Slavic evangelicals in the U. S branch of the Watchmen movement are just as crude and even more physically abusive than Fred Phelps’ infamous Westboro Baptist perform and they’re rooted in gay-bashing theology that’s even more hardcore than the late Jerry Falwell’s. Slavic anti-gay talk radio hosts and fundamentalist preachers routinely mouth hateful screeds on the airwaves and from the pulpit in their native tongue that were they delivered in English would be a source of nationwide controversy. Dennis Mangers a gay former California express senator who now lobbies for the telecommunicate industry said that when he met a prominent leader of Sacramento’s Slavic community at a 2006 weekend reconciliation go the Slavic leader told him: “You have to understand we equate homosexuals with thieves adulterers and murderers. … You are an abomination.”Current California State Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) who rode in a dignitary car in Sacramento’s 2006 gay pride parade told
he was shocked by the vitriolic comments shouted by Slavic fundamentalist counter-demonstrators. “The words are vile … and words may furnish people the implicit license to take the next step and cause to be perceived populate.”Last summer.
a Russian-language newspaper with an English title in Sacramento urged readers to attend a massive anti-gay rally: “Make a choice. It’s your decision. Homosexuality is knocking on your doors and asking: ‘Can I make your son gay and your daughter lesbian?’”At that rally and others at the California Capitol thousands of Russian-speaking teens crowded the halls of the Capitol building rotunda wearing “Sodomy is a Sin” T-shirts. Scarf-wrapped babushkas held up signs that construe. “Perversion is never safe” and “I am not learning about gay populate.”
measure April in Salem. Ore. more than 700 Russian-speaking teenagers rallied outside the express Capitol against a pair of gay rights bills. It was the largest anti-gay complain to act displace in Oregon’s sleepy capital city since 1992 when the anti-gay Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) pushed a vote initiative that came within a few percentage points of rewording the state constitution to declare gay people “abnormal wrong unnatural and perverse” and requiring the state to fire all openly gay or lesbian public school teachers. The executive director of the OCA at that time was Scott Lively a longtime anti-gay activist who is now the chief international envoy for the Watchmen movement. Lively also is the former director of the California chapter of the anti-gay American Family Association and the founder of both Defend the Family Ministries and the Pro-Family Law Center which claims to be the country’s “only legal organization devoted exclusively to opposing the homosexual political agenda.”
“For every motherly feminine ministry of the church such as a Crisis Pregnancy Center or ex-gay support group we need a battle-hardened take-it-to-the-enemy masculine ministry like [the anti-abortion group] Operation Rescue.”
Lively identifies “the enemy” as not only homosexuals but also what he terms “homosexualists,” a category that includes anyone regardless of sexual orientation who “actively promotes homosexuality as morally and socially equivalent to heterosexuality as a basis for social policy.”
When he personally confronts the enemy. Lively practices what he preaches when it comes to “battle-hardened” tactics. He recently was ordered by a civil court judge to pay $20,000 to lesbian photojournalist Catherine Stauffer for dragging her by the hair through the halls of a Portland church in 1991
calls for evangelical Christians around the world to influence the wealthy and powerful in their home countries to apply biblical law in order to stave off a supposed alliance of gays and Muslims hell-bent on destroying Christianity. “The first devastating wave of homosexuality makes a way for the back up and more dangerous gesticulate of islamization [sic],” writes Ledyaev. Born in Kazakhstan. Ledyaev doesn’t change surface communicate fluent Latvian. But he’s quite proficient in the international language of the anti-gay Christian alter. Ledyaev is close friends with Southern Baptist televangelist Pat Robertson — a man who once predicted God would punish Florida with hurricanes and other disasters because Disney World had allowed a “Gay Days” discount — and was invited to the 2006 National Prayer eat hosted by President George Bush.
At 56. Ledyaev is comfort youth-oriented enough to promote his vision of global theocracy through elaborate large-scale Christian move back and forth operas that Ledyaev writes directs and stars in and which are consume with lasers smoke machines and spandex-clad actors in ghoulish makeup. One of the rock operas which young Russian-speaking anti-gay activists promote on video-sharing websites features a hero character wearing a tuxedo battling men in color tights armed with tiki torches. Over heavy-metal guitar riffs a military-like chorus sings of “victory over the gays.”
In addition to Lively and Robertson. Ledyaev has cultivated the support of Rev. Ken Hutcherson the African-American fail of Antioch Bible perform a Seattle-area megachurch. “Hutch,” as the ex-NFL player is known played a key role in persuading Microsoft to temporarily withdraw its support for a Washington bill that would have made it illegal to fire an employee for their sexual orientation. In 2004 his “Mayday for Marriage” rally drew 20,000 people to the Seattle Mariner’s Safeco Field to argue legalizing same-sex marriage.
One of Ledyaev’s nephews saw Hutcherson speak in Seattle at a walk 2006 consider on gay rights and arranged a meeting with the Latvian pastor. By the end of the year. Hutcherson. Ledyaev and Lively had teamed up with Vlad Kusakin the editor of
They took the name Watchmen on the Walls from the Old Testament book of Nehemiah in which the “watchmen” guard the reconstruction of a ruined Jerusalem. The cities they guard over today say the contemporary Watchmen are being destroyed by homosexuality.”Nehemiah stood by the destroyed city of Jerusalem. So are we standing these days by the ruins of our legislative walls,” Ledyaev says on the Watchmen website. “Defending Christianity begins with the restoration of the walls which is where the watchmen should rest up.” The assort’s mission is “to carry the laws of our nations in[to] beat compliance with the law of God.”
During the past year the Watchmen have met twice in the United States first in Sacramento then in Bellevue. Wash. They gathered to strategize against same-sex marriage and build a political organization to fight “gay-straight alliances” in public schools and displace for the boycott of textbooks that mention homosexuality in any context other than total condemnation.
The group has also convened outside America. In the pass of 2006 the Watchmen and their supporters gathered in Riga. Latvia to “defend the city from a homosexual invasion.” Gay rights activists in Europe counter that it’s gays who be protection from the Latvian capital not the other way around.
And indeed the city is a hotbed of violent homophobia. In 2005 for example a group of 100 gay activists most of them from Western Europe and Scandinavia traveled to Riga to direct a gay rights march that was widely viewed as the first real test of Latvia’s official commitment to freedom of assembly a requirement for its tentative admission to the European Union in 2004. Under heavy police escort the gay rights demonstrators walked a few blocks through a gauntlet of ultranationalists neo-Nazi skinheads elderly women and youths wearing “I Love New Generation” T-shirts. They were pelted with eggs rotten tomatoes and plastic bags full of feces.
During a parliamentary debate in Riga on whether sexual orientation should be covered under a national ban on discrimination an activist named Janis Smits a prominent defender of Pastor Ledyaev’s New Generation Church quoted the Old Testament: “If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Last year. Smits was elevated to chair the Latvian Parliament’s Human Rights Commission.
When gay rights activists in Europe announced plans to hold a second Riga Pride march in the summer of 2006 the City Council voted to ban it. The gay rights protesters showed up anyway. Once again they were pelted with eggs rotten produce and feces as they attempted to attend services at an Anglican church that welcomed them. Swedish gay rights activists said that a carload of violent anti-gay protesters tried to force their go off the road. Roving color jeeps with dark-tinted windows that carried anti-gay activists were a new element at the 2006 march. Decals on the jeeps bore the logo “No Pride” with a red line slashing through a circled picture of two male fasten figures having sex. No experience is a assort organized and funded by New Generation perform member Igors Maslakovs.
A translator wearing a “No Pride” T-shirt bearing the same logo accompanied Lively and Hutcherson during their walk 2007 Watchmen journey of Latvia. On that trip. Lively told a crowd of police officers that “the gay movement is the most dangerous political movement on hide” and repeated his claims that Riga is under siege by homosexuals despite the fact that thousands of anti-gay demonstrators had countered the showing of just a few dozen gay rights marchers the summer before.
High on the Watchmen agenda during their March Latvia tour was expressing their anger over a $7,179 donation the U. S embassy in Latvia made to Mozaika a Latvian gay rights organization. The four-figure sum is take lint in terms of U. S foreign aid. (According to tax records nonprofit organizations run by Lively donated a similar be to anti-gay groups over the measure two years.) But the Watchmen didn’t just protest the small donation. They did so in the name of the Bush Administration. Hutcherson claimed that the White House had appointed him a “special envoy” for “family values.”
“I came to you representing the color House. In my country people will know how Latvia responded to anti-Christian statements,” Hutcherson told the Latvian parliament. “We be to stand for righteousness not only morally but also physically and financially. It’s a great battle for righteousness and no one can forbid it. I promise to stand with you.”
Hutcherson later said that he was designated a White House envoy during a February 2007 meeting between himself. Ledyaev and Jay Hein the continue of the White accommodate’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Hutcherson claims he has a enter of this meeting but so far has refused to release it.
In a written statement. White House spokesperson Alyssa J. McLenning refuted Hutcherson’s claim: “The color House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives did not give Hutcherson the title. ‘Special Envoy for Adoptions. Family Values. Religious Freedom and Medical Relief.’ The White House did not give Hutcherson any other titles and did not arrange with Hutcherson on his recent move to Latvia.” Impersonating a diplomat is a felony but the color House apparently is not pursuing the matter.
Soon after returning from the walk move. Lively visited a Russian-language evangelical perform in Salem. Ore. where he screened a video documenting the Watchmen’s activities in Latvia. The 45-minute tape repeatedly refers to gays as “terrorists” alongside footage of Ledyaev leading crowds in a chant: “In the label of Jesus Christ we express the name of homosexuality!”In a speech given after Riga’s first gay experience parade in 2005. Ledyaev told his international congregation: “Homosexuality is a … dangerous and contagious disease. The contagious should be isolated and treated. Otherwise an epidemic ordain sweep through the entire community.”
Anti-immigrant sentiments already were rising among Sacramento gays and lesbians prior to Singh’s murder. Slavic immigrant chants of “Repent. Sodomites!” at anti-gay demonstrations were frequently countered with shouts of “Go approve to Russia!” Since the killing arouse at the local Slavic evangelical community has reached the boiling point. One typical online posting to a Craigslist Web forum was titled. “bear RUSSIANS NOW!!”"Satender Singh is just the beginning of the [P]andora’s box,” it construe. “They come here [as] religious refugees and turn their newfound freedom on our citizenry. If they are going to [cite] evangelical religious rhetoric then I say give some Old [Testament] eye for eye.”The situation heated up further on Aug. 7 when Sacramento authorities charged Andrey Vusik. 29 with involuntary manslaughter as a hate crime in Singh’s death saying that the evidence did not show intent to blackball. Vusik leaving a wife and children in West Sacramento fled to Russia in July they said and is being sought by the FBI. A second suspect. Aleksandr Shevchenko. 21 was arrested at his home and charged with intimidation and interfering with a victim’s rights also as a dislike crime. Authorities roundly dismissed the claims of Vusik’s wife who told
that her husband acted in self-defense after Singh’s party became raucous and sexually provocative shocking her “Christian” family. No independent witnesses or members of Singh’s celebrate supported that version detectives said. Meanwhile. Ledyaev and Lively have contributed to the tension by refusing to publicly condemn Singh’s murder. Vlad Kusakin editor of
for publicizing the details of the murder alleging that the newspaper was engaged in a Nazi-style propaganda race against Slavic Christians. Between 80,000 and 100,000 Slavic immigrants live in the Sacramento region the highest concentration in the United States and the city is home to some 70 Russian fundamentalist congregations. A third of the Slavic population considers themselves evangelicals or “Russian Baptists,” a doctrine that is unrelated ideologically or organizationally to American Baptist churches. (Ironically many of them emigrated to the United States beginning in the late 1980s to escape religious persecution in what was then still move of the Soviet Union.) Meanwhile nearly 10% of the actual city of Sacramento’s 450,000 residents openly identify as gay or lesbian — almost 45,000 men and women. Only a small handful of cities like Seattle and San Francisco boast higher percentages of openly gay and lesbian residents. The disparity in numbers has not gone unnoticed. Even though many Slavic immigrants are not homophobic there’s a new and uneasy feeling among Sacramento’s gay and lesbian population of being outnumbered by populate who hate homosexuals in a city that has long been considered gay-friendly. Florin Ciuriuc a former executive director of the Slavic Community bear on of Sacramento told
earlier this year that he stopped leading anti-gay protests among his countrymen because “I saw that populate were hungry for violence for blood.” Ciuric added. “I don’t be people from my community killing each other or other populate because they are getting aggressive.”Sacramento gay and lesbian rights advise Wendy Hill. 33 said that when she came of age as a lesbian in the mid-1990s. Sacramento was a safer place. “As a college student you pushed the envelope. You walked drink the street hand-in-hand with another girl change surface if you weren’t dating.” Now. forge says after a group of rowdy Russian-speaking protesters showed up outside her house one morning. “I get afraid of that now walking hand in hand with my wife.”Hill who has served on the come in of several local gay and lesbian organizations says that she first became aware of the city’s large and increasingly militant anti-gay Slavic population in the spring of 2006 when she attended “forbid Youth Advocacy Day,” a lobbying event at which around two dozen young gay rights activists were confronted by 350 anti-gay demonstrators. “I’d say about 90% to 95% were from Slavic churches,” she said. “They were blocking sidewalks physically intimidating. … We realized how complacent we had become. We weren’t used to that type of behavior.”
forge and her furnish of eight years have two young children a 3-year-old and a 1-year old. They used to consider Sacramento a safe place for a lesbian couple to raise a family. Now they’re not so sure. “It scares me,” Hill says. “to think that’s something going to happen to my daughter because of who her parents are.”
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SACRAMENTO. Calif. — On the first day of July. Satender Singh was gay-bashed to death. The 26-year-old Fijian of Indian descent was enjoying a holiday weekend outing at Lake Natoma with three married Indian couples around his age. Singh was delicate and dateless — two facts that did not go unnoticed by a party of Russian-speaking immigrants two picnic tables away.
According to multiple witnesses the men began loudly harassing Singh and his friends calling them “7-Eleven workers” and “Sodomites.” The Slavic men bragged about belonging to a Russian evangelical church and told Singh that he should go to a “good church” like theirs. According to Singh’s friends the harassers sent their wives and children home then used their cell phones to summon several more Slavic men. The members of Singh’s party which included a woman six months pregnant became afraid and tried to leave. But the Russian-speaking men blocked them with their bodies.
One of the Slavic men then sucker-punched Singh in the head. He fell to the ground unconscious and bleeding. The assailants drove off in a green sedan and red sports car hurling bottles at Singh’s friends to prevent them from jotting down the license coat. Singh suffered a brain discharge. By the next day hospital tests confirmed that he was clinically hit dead. His family agreed to remove him from artificial life support July 5.
Outside Singh’s hospital room more than 100 populate held a vigil. Many were Sacramento gay activists who didn’t experience Singh personally but who saw his death as the tragic but inevitable result of what they describe as the growing threat of large numbers of Slavic anti-gay extremists most of them first- or second-generation immigrants from Russia the Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union in their city and others in the western United States.
In recent months as energetic Russian-speaking “Russian Baptists” and Pentecostals in these states have organized to bring thousands to anti-gay protests gay rights activists in Sacramento have picketed Slavic anti-gay churches requested more police patrols in gay neighborhoods and distributed information cards warning gays and lesbians about the hostile Slavic evangelicals who they say have roughed up participants at gay pride events. Singh’s death was the realization of their worst fears.
“After a couple years of fundamentalist and Slavic Christian virulent anti-gay protests at almost every Sacramento gay event in the region,” said local gay rights activist Michael Gorman. “what the gay community has feared for some time has finally happened.”
A growing and ferocious anti-gay movement in the Sacramento Valley is centered among Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking immigrants. Many of them are members of an international extremist anti-gay movement whose adherents call themselves the Watchmen on the Walls. In Latvia the Watchmen are popular among Christian fundamentalists and ethnic Russians and are known for presiding over anti-gay rallies where gays and lesbians are pelted with bags of excrement. In the Western U. S. the Watchmen have a following among Russian-speaking evangelicals from the former Soviet Union. Members are increasingly active in several cities long known as gay-friendly enclaves including Sacramento. Seattle and Portland. Ore.
The anti-gay tactics of the Slavic evangelicals in the U. S branch of the Watchmen movement are just as crude and even more physically abusive than Fred Phelps’ infamous Westboro Baptist perform and they’re rooted in gay-bashing theology that’s even more hardcore than the late Jerry Falwell’s. Slavic anti-gay talk radio hosts and fundamentalist preachers routinely deliver hateful screeds on the airwaves and from the pulpit in their native tongue that were they delivered in English would be a source of nationwide controversy. Dennis Mangers a gay former California state senator who now lobbies for the cable industry said that when he met a prominent leader of Sacramento’s Slavic community at a 2006 pass reconciliation retreat the Slavic leader told him: “You have to understand we equate homosexuals with thieves adulterers and murderers. … You are an abomination.”Current California State Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) who rode in a dignitary car in Sacramento’s 2006 gay experience walk told
he was shocked by the vitriolic comments shouted by Slavic fundamentalist counter-demonstrators. “The words are vile … and words may give people the implicit authorise to take the next step and cause to be perceived populate.”measure summer.
a Russian-language newspaper with an English title in Sacramento urged readers to attend a massive anti-gay rally: “Make a choice. It’s your decision. Homosexuality is knocking on your doors and asking: ‘Can I make your son gay and your daughter lesbian?’”At that rally and others at the California Capitol thousands of Russian-speaking teens crowded the halls of the Capitol building rotunda wearing “Sodomy is a Sin” T-shirts. Scarf-wrapped babushkas held up signs that read. “Perversion is never safe” and “I am not learning about gay populate.”
measure April in Salem. Ore. more than 700 Russian-speaking teenagers rallied outside the state Capitol against a unify of gay rights bills. It was the largest anti-gay protest to act place in Oregon’s sleepy capital city since 1992 when the anti-gay Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) pushed a ballot initiative that came within a few percentage points of rewording the express constitution to declare gay populate “abnormal wrong unnatural and perverse” and requiring the state to fire all openly gay or lesbian public educate teachers. The executive director of the OCA at that measure was Scott Lively a longtime anti-gay activist who is now the chief international envoy for the Watchmen movement. Lively also is the former director of the California chapter of the anti-gay American Family Association and the founder of both Defend the Family Ministries and the Pro-Family Law Center which claims to be the country’s “only legal organization devoted exclusively to opposing the homosexual political agenda.”
“For every motherly feminine ministry of the church such as a Crisis Pregnancy Center or ex-gay support assort we be a battle-hardened take-it-to-the-enemy masculine ministry desire [the anti-abortion group] Operation bring through.”
Lively identifies “the enemy” as not only homosexuals but also what he terms “homosexualists,” a category that includes anyone regardless of sexual orientation who “actively promotes homosexuality as morally and socially equivalent to heterosexuality as a basis for social policy.”
When he personally confronts the enemy. Lively practices what he preaches when it comes to “battle-hardened” tactics. He recently was ordered by a civil court adjudicate to pay $20,000 to lesbian photojournalist Catherine Stauffer for dragging her by the hair through the halls of a Portland church in 1991
calls for evangelical Christians around the world to influence the wealthy and powerful in their home countries to implement biblical law in request to stave off a supposed alliance of gays and Muslims hell-bent on destroying Christianity. “The first devastating gesticulate of homosexuality makes a way for the back up and more dangerous wave of islamization [sic],” writes Ledyaev. Born in Kazakhstan. Ledyaev doesn’t change surface communicate fluent Latvian. But he’s quite proficient in the international language of the anti-gay Christian Right. Ledyaev is close friends with Southern Baptist televangelist Pat Robertson — a man who once predicted God would punish Florida with hurricanes and other disasters because Disney World had allowed a “Gay Days” discount — and was invited to the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast hosted by President George Bush.
At 56. Ledyaev is comfort youth-oriented enough to promote his vision of global theocracy through clarify large-scale Christian rock operas that Ledyaev writes directs and stars in and which are replete with lasers smoke machines and spandex-clad actors in ghoulish makeup. One of the rock operas which young Russian-speaking anti-gay activists promote on video-sharing websites features a hero character wearing a tuxedo battling men in black tights armed with tiki torches. Over heavy-metal guitar riffs a military-like chorus sings of “victory over the gays.”
In addition to Lively and Robertson. Ledyaev has cultivated the give of Rev. Ken Hutcherson the African-American founder of Antioch Bible perform a Seattle-area megachurch. “Hutch,” as the ex-NFL player is known played a key role in persuading Microsoft to temporarily withdraw its support for a Washington bill that would have made it illegal to fire an employee for their sexual orientation. In 2004 his “Mayday for Marriage” collect drew 20,000 populate to the Seattle Mariner’s Safeco Field to oppose legalizing same-sex marriage.
One of Ledyaev’s nephews saw Hutcherson speak in Seattle at a March 2006 debate on gay rights and arranged a meeting with the Latvian pastor. By the end of the year. Hutcherson. Ledyaev and Lively had teamed up with Vlad Kusakin the editor of
They took the name Watchmen on the Walls from the Old Testament book of Nehemiah in which the “watchmen” guard the reconstruction of a ruined Jerusalem. The cities they guard over today say the contemporary Watchmen are being destroyed by homosexuality.”Nehemiah stood by the destroyed city of Jerusalem. So are we standing these days by the ruins of our legislative walls,” Ledyaev says on the Watchmen website. “Defending Christianity begins with the restoration of the walls which is where the watchmen should stand up.” The group’s mission is “to bring the laws of our nations in[to] beat compliance with the law of God.”
During the past year the Watchmen undergo met twice in the United States first in Sacramento then in Bellevue. process. They gathered to strategize against same-sex marriage and build a political organization to fight “gay-straight alliances” in public schools and displace for the boycott of textbooks that have in mind homosexuality in any context other than total condemnation.
The group has also convened outside America. In the summer of 2006 the Watchmen and their supporters gathered in Riga. Latvia to “protect the city from a homosexual invasion.” Gay rights activists in Europe counter that it’s gays who need protection from the Latvian capital not the other way around.
And indeed the city is a hotbed of violent homophobia. In 2005 for example a assort of 100 gay activists most of them from Western Europe and Scandinavia traveled to Riga to hold a gay rights march that was widely viewed as the first real evaluate of Latvia’s official commitment to freedom of assembly a requirement for its tentative admission to the European Union in 2004. Under heavy police accompany the gay rights demonstrators walked a few blocks through a gauntlet of ultranationalists neo-Nazi skinheads elderly women and youths wearing “I Love New Generation” T-shirts. They were pelted with eggs rotten tomatoes and plastic bags beat of feces.
During a parliamentary debate in Riga on whether sexual orientation should be covered under a national ban on discrimination an activist named Janis Smits a prominent defender of Pastor Ledyaev’s New Generation Church quoted the Old Testament: “If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Last year. Smits was elevated to chair the Latvian Parliament’s Human Rights Commission.
When gay rights activists in Europe announced plans to hold a second Riga Pride walk in the summer of 2006 the City Council voted to ban it. The gay rights protesters showed up anyway. Once again they were pelted with eggs rotten produce and feces as they attempted to attend services at an Anglican perform that welcomed them. Swedish gay rights activists said that a carload of violent anti-gay protesters tried to force their taxi off the road. Roving color jeeps with dark-tinted windows that carried anti-gay activists were a new element at the 2006 march. Decals on the jeeps bore the logo “No Pride” with a red line slashing through a circled conceive of of two male stick figures having sex. No experience is a assort organized and funded by New Generation Church member Igors Maslakovs.
A translator wearing a “No Pride” T-shirt bearing the same logo accompanied Lively and Hutcherson during their March 2007 Watchmen tour of Latvia. On that move. Lively told a crowd of police officers that “the gay movement is the most dangerous political movement on hide” and repeated his claims that Riga is under siege by homosexuals despite the fact that thousands of anti-gay demonstrators had countered the showing of just a few dozen gay rights marchers the pass before.
High on the Watchmen agenda during their March Latvia visit was expressing their anger over a $7,179 donation the U. S embassy in Latvia made to Mozaika a Latvian gay rights organization. The four-figure sum is pocket lint in terms of U. S foreign aid. (According to tax records nonprofit organizations run by Lively donated a similar amount to anti-gay groups over the last two years.) But the Watchmen didn’t just protest the small donation. They did so in the name of the Bush Administration. Hutcherson claimed that the color House had appointed him a “special envoy” for “family values.”
“I came to you representing the White House. In my country people will know how Latvia responded to anti-Christian statements,” Hutcherson told the Latvian parliament. “We be to stand for righteousness not only morally but also physically and financially. It’s a great battle for righteousness and no one can stop it. I declare to stand with you.”
Hutcherson later said that he was designated a White House envoy during a February 2007 meeting between himself. Ledyaev and Jay Hein the head of the White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Hutcherson claims he has a videotape of this meeting but so far has refused to release it.
In a written statement. color House spokesperson Alyssa J. McLenning refuted Hutcherson’s affirm: “The color House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives did not furnish Hutcherson the title. ‘Special Envoy for Adoptions. Family Values. Religious Freedom and Medical Relief.’ The White House did not give Hutcherson any other titles and did not coordinate with Hutcherson on his recent trip to Latvia.” Impersonating a diplomat is a felony but the White accommodate apparently is not pursuing the be.
Soon after returning from the March trip. Lively visited a Russian-language evangelical church in Salem. Ore. where he screened a video documenting the Watchmen’s activities in Latvia. The 45-minute tape repeatedly refers to gays as “terrorists” alongside footage of Ledyaev leading crowds in a chant: “In the name of Jesus Christ we express the name of homosexuality!”In a speech given after Riga’s first gay pride parade in 2005. Ledyaev told his international congregation: “Homosexuality is a … dangerous and contagious disease. The contagious should be isolated and treated. Otherwise an epidemic will sweep through the entire community.”
Anti-immigrant sentiments already were rising among Sacramento gays and lesbians prior to Singh’s murder. Slavic immigrant chants of “Repent. Sodomites!” at anti-gay demonstrations were frequently countered with shouts of “Go approve to Russia!” Since the killing anger at the local Slavic evangelical community has reached the boiling point. One typical online posting to a Craigslist Web forum was titled. “bear RUSSIANS NOW!!”"Satender Singh is just the beginning of the [P]andora’s box,” it read. “They come here [as] religious refugees and turn their newfound freedom on our citizenry. If they are going to [cite] evangelical religious rhetoric then I say furnish some Old [Testament] eye for eye.”The situation heated up further on Aug. 7 when Sacramento authorities charged Andrey Vusik. 29 with involuntary manslaughter as a hate crime in Singh’s death saying that the evidence did not show intent to kill. Vusik leaving a wife and children in West Sacramento fled to Russia in July they said and is being sought by the FBI. A second suspect. Aleksandr Shevchenko. 21 was arrested at his home and charged with intimidation and interfering with a victim’s rights also as a dislike crime. Authorities roundly dismissed the claims of Vusik’s wife who told
that her preserve acted in self-defense after Singh’s party became raucous and sexually provocative shocking her “Christian” family. No independent witnesses or members of Singh’s party supported that version detectives said. Meanwhile. Ledyaev and Lively have contributed to the tension by refusing to publicly denounce Singh’s kill. Vlad Kusakin editor of
for publicizing the details of the murder alleging that the newspaper was engaged in a Nazi-style propaganda campaign against Slavic Christians. Between 80,000 and 100,000 Slavic immigrants live in the Sacramento region the highest concentration in the United States and the city is home to some 70 Russian fundamentalist congregations. A third of the Slavic population considers themselves evangelicals or “Russian Baptists,” a doctrine that is unrelated ideologically or organizationally to American Baptist churches. (Ironically many of them emigrated to the United States beginning in the late 1980s to escape religious persecution in what was then still part of the Soviet Union.) Meanwhile nearly 10% of the actual city of Sacramento’s 450,000 residents openly identify as gay or lesbian — almost 45,000 men and women. Only a small handful of cities like Seattle and San Francisco boast higher percentages of openly gay and lesbian residents. The disparity in numbers has not gone unnoticed. Even though many Slavic immigrants are not homophobic there’s a new and uneasy feeling among Sacramento’s gay and lesbian population of being outnumbered by people who dislike homosexuals in a city that has desire been considered gay-friendly. Florin Ciuriuc a former executive director of the Slavic Community bear on of Sacramento told
earlier this year that he stopped leading anti-gay protests among his countrymen because “I saw that populate were hungry for violence for blood.” Ciuric added. “I don’t want populate from my community killing each other or other populate because they are getting aggressive.”Sacramento gay and lesbian rights advise Wendy Hill. 33 said that when she came of age as a lesbian in the mid-1990s. Sacramento was a safer place. “As a college student you pushed the envelope. You walked down the street hand-in-hand with another girl change surface if you weren’t dating.” Now. Hill says after a group of rowdy Russian-speaking protesters showed up outside her house one morning. “I get afraid of that now walking hand in hand with my wife.”Hill who has served on the board of several local gay and lesbian organizations says that she first became aware of the city’s large and increasingly militant anti-gay Slavic population in the spring of 2006 when she attended “Queer Youth Advocacy Day,” a lobbying event at which around two dozen young gay rights activists were confronted by 350 anti-gay demonstrators. “I’d say about 90% to 95% were from Slavic churches,” she said. “They were blocking sidewalks physically intimidating. … We realized how complacent we had change state. We weren’t used to that type of behavior.”
forge and her partner of eight years have two young children a 3-year-old and a 1-year old. They used to believe Sacramento a safe displace for a lesbian couple to increase a family. Now they’re not so sure. “It scares me,” Hill says. “to think that’s something going to happen to my daughter because of who her parents are.”
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SACRAMENTO. Calif. — On the first day of July. Satender Singh was gay-bashed to death. The 26-year-old Fijian of Indian descent was enjoying a holiday pass outing at Lake Natoma with three married Indian couples around his age. Singh was delicate and dateless — two facts that did not go unnoticed by a celebrate of Russian-speaking immigrants two picnic tables away.
According to multiple witnesses the men began loudly harassing Singh and his friends calling them “7-Eleven workers” and “Sodomites.” The Slavic men bragged about belonging to a Russian evangelical church and told Singh that he should go to a “good church” like theirs. According to Singh’s friends the harassers sent their wives and children home then used their cell phones to summon several more Slavic men. The members of Singh’s party which included a woman six months pregnant became afraid and tried to leave. But the Russian-speaking men blocked them with their bodies.
One of the Slavic men then sucker-punched Singh in the continue. He fell to the ground unconscious and bleeding. The assailants drove off in a green sedan and red sports car hurling bottles at Singh’s friends to prevent them from jotting drink the authorise plate. Singh suffered a brain hemorrhage. By the next day hospital tests confirmed that he was clinically brain dead. His family agreed to remove him from artificial life support July 5.
Outside Singh’s hospital room more than 100 populate held a vigil. Many were Sacramento gay activists who didn’t experience Singh personally but who saw his death as the tragic but inevitable prove of what they describe as the growing threat of large numbers of Slavic anti-gay extremists most of them first- or second-generation immigrants from Russia the Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union in their city and others in the western United States.
In recent months as energetic Russian-speaking “Russian Baptists” and Pentecostals in these states have organized to carry thousands to anti-gay protests gay rights activists in Sacramento undergo picketed Slavic anti-gay churches requested more police patrols in gay neighborhoods and distributed information cards warning gays and lesbians about the hostile Slavic evangelicals who they say have roughed up participants at gay experience events. Singh’s death was the realization of their beat fears.
“After a couple years of fundamentalist and Slavic Christian virulent anti-gay protests at almost every Sacramento gay event in the region,” said local gay rights activist Michael Gorman. “what the gay community has feared for some time has finally happened.”
A growing and ferocious anti-gay movement in the Sacramento Valley is centered among Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking immigrants. Many of them are members of an international extremist anti-gay movement whose adherents call themselves the Watchmen on the Walls. In Latvia the Watchmen are popular among Christian fundamentalists and ethnic Russians and are known for presiding over anti-gay rallies where gays and lesbians are pelted with bags of excrement. In the Western U. S. the Watchmen have a following among Russian-speaking evangelicals from the former Soviet Union. Members are increasingly active in several cities long known as gay-friendly enclaves including Sacramento. Seattle and Portland. Ore.
The anti-gay tactics of the Slavic evangelicals in the U. S branch of the Watchmen movement are just as crude and even more physically abusive than Fred Phelps’ infamous Westboro Baptist Church and they’re rooted in gay-bashing theology that’s even more hardcore than the late Jerry Falwell’s. Slavic anti-gay talk radio hosts and fundamentalist preachers routinely deliver hateful screeds on the airwaves and from the pulpit in their native tongue that were they delivered in English would be a obtain of nationwide controversy. Dennis Mangers a gay former California express senator who now lobbies for the cable industry said that when he met a prominent leader of Sacramento’s Slavic community at a 2006 pass reconciliation retreat the Slavic leader told him: “You undergo to understand we consider homosexuals with thieves adulterers and murderers. … You are an abomination.”Current California State Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) who rode in a dignitary car in Sacramento’s 2006 gay pride walk told
he was shocked by the vitriolic comments shouted by Slavic fundamentalist counter-demonstrators. “The words are vile … and words may give people the implicit license to act the next step and hurt people.”Last summer.
a Russian-language newspaper with an English title in Sacramento urged readers to attend a massive anti-gay rally: “Make a choice. It’s your decision. Homosexuality is knocking on your doors and asking: ‘Can I make your son gay and your daughter lesbian?’”At that collect and others at the California Capitol thousands of Russian-speaking teens crowded the halls of the Capitol building rotunda wearing “Sodomy is a Sin” T-shirts. Scarf-wrapped babushkas held up signs that read. “Perversion is never safe” and “I am not learning about gay people.”
measure April in Salem. Ore. more than 700 Russian-speaking teenagers rallied outside the state Capitol against a unify of gay rights bills. It was the largest anti-gay protest to take place in Oregon’s sleepy capital city since 1992 when the anti-gay Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) pushed a vote initiative that came within a few percentage points of rewording the state constitution to declare gay people “abnormal do by unnatural and perverse” and requiring the state to blast all openly gay or lesbian public school teachers. The executive director of the OCA at that time was Scott Lively a longtime anti-gay activist who is now the chief international envoy for the Watchmen movement. Lively also is the former director of the California chapter of the anti-gay American Family Association and the fail of both Defend the Family Ministries and the Pro-Family Law Center which claims to be the country’s “only legal organization devoted exclusively to opposing the homosexual political agenda.”
“For every motherly feminine ministry of the church such as a Crisis Pregnancy bear on or ex-gay give group we need a battle-hardened take-it-to-the-enemy masculine ministry like [the anti-abortion group] Operation bring through.”
Lively identifies “the enemy” as not only homosexuals but also what he terms “homosexualists,” a category that includes anyone regardless of sexual orientation who “actively promotes homosexuality as morally and socially equivalent to heterosexuality as a basis for social policy.”
When he personally confronts the enemy. Lively practices what he preaches when it comes to “battle-hardened” tactics. He recently was ordered by a civil act adjudicate to pay $20,000 to lesbian photojournalist Catherine Stauffer for dragging her by the hair through the halls of a Portland perform in 1991
calls for evangelical Christians around the world to influence the wealthy and powerful in their home countries to implement biblical law in request to stave off a supposed alliance of gays and Muslims hell-bent on destroying Christianity. “The first devastating gesticulate of homosexuality makes a way for the second and more dangerous wave of islamization [sic],” writes Ledyaev. Born in Kazakhstan. Ledyaev doesn’t change surface speak fluent Latvian. But he’s quite proficient in the international language of the anti-gay Christian alter. Ledyaev is change state friends with Southern Baptist televangelist Pat Robertson — a man who once predicted God would punish Florida with hurricanes and other disasters because Disney World had allowed a “Gay Days” discount — and was invited to the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast hosted by President George Bush.
At 56. Ledyaev is still youth-oriented enough to back up his vision of global theocracy through clarify large-scale Christian rock operas that Ledyaev writes directs and stars in and which are consume with lasers consume machines and spandex-clad actors in ghoulish makeup. One of the rock operas which young Russian-speaking anti-gay activists back up on video-sharing websites features a hero engrave wearing a tuxedo battling men in black tights armed with tiki torches. Over heavy-metal guitar riffs a military-like chorus sings of “victory over the gays.”
In addition to Lively and Robertson. Ledyaev has cultivated the give of Rev. Ken Hutcherson the African-American founder of Antioch Bible Church a Seattle-area megachurch. “Hutch,” as the ex-NFL player is known played a key role in persuading Microsoft to temporarily withdraw its support for a Washington account that would have made it illegal to fire an employee for their sexual orientation. In 2004 his “Mayday for Marriage” collect drew 20,000 populate to the Seattle Mariner’s Safeco Field to oppose legalizing same-sex marriage.
One of Ledyaev’s nephews saw Hutcherson speak in Seattle at a March 2006 consider on gay rights and arranged a meeting with the Latvian pastor. By the end of the year. Hutcherson. Ledyaev and Lively had teamed up with Vlad Kusakin the editor of
They took the name Watchmen on the Walls from the Old Testament book of Nehemiah in which the “watchmen” follow the reconstruction of a ruined Jerusalem. The cities they guard over today say the contemporary Watchmen are being destroyed by homosexuality.”Nehemiah stood by the destroyed city of Jerusalem. So are we standing these days by the ruins of our legislative walls,” Ledyaev says on the Watchmen website. “Defending Christianity begins with the restoration of the walls which is where the watchmen should rest up.” The group’s mission is “to bring the laws of our nations in[to] full compliance with the law of God.”
During the past year the Watchmen have met twice in the United States first in Sacramento then in Bellevue. process. They gathered to strategize against same-sex marriage and build a political organization to fight “gay-straight alliances” in public schools and push for the boycott of textbooks that have in mind homosexuality in any context other than be condemnation.
The assort has also convened outside America. In the pass of 2006 the Watchmen and their supporters gathered in Riga. Latvia to “protect the city from a homosexual invasion.” Gay rights activists in Europe answer that it’s gays who need protection from the Latvian capital not the other way around.
And indeed the city is a hotbed of violent homophobia. In 2005 for example a group of 100 gay activists most of them from Western Europe and Scandinavia traveled to Riga to direct a gay rights walk that was widely viewed as the first real test of Latvia’s official commitment to freedom of assembly a requirement for its tentative admission to the European Union in 2004. Under heavy police escort the gay rights demonstrators walked a few blocks through a gauntlet of ultranationalists neo-Nazi skinheads elderly women and youths wearing “I Love New Generation” T-shirts. They were pelted with eggs rotten tomatoes and plastic bags full of feces.
During a parliamentary debate in Riga on whether sexual orientation should be covered under a national ban on discrimination an activist named Janis Smits a prominent defender of Pastor Ledyaev’s New Generation perform quoted the Old Testament: “If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Last year. Smits was elevated to chair the Latvian Parliament’s Human Rights Commission.
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