Thursday, December 02, 2004

Right Wing News

December 2, 2004

Sex Education

The Center for Reclaiming America is pleased that the omnibus appropriations bill recently passed by Congress provides a record $104 million for abstinence education programs, a 39 percent increase over the previous year. CRA supporters are urged to "contact your elected leaders and express your appreciation for this morally upright legislation." Read.

Meanwhile, a new report from Democrats on the House Committee on Government Reform reports that "over two-thirds of abstinence-only education programs funded by the largest federal abstinence initiative are using curricula with multiple scientific and medical inaccuracies. These curricula contain misinformation about condoms, abortion, and basic scientific facts. They also blur religion and science and present gender stereotypes as fact." Read.

Voting

Columnist David Limbaugh belittles those calling for a recount in Ohio and claims that the "demagogic mantra, 'Every vote must count,' is getting old." He asserts that: "The Democrats started a very dangerous precedent in Florida, and they're playing with fire again in Ohio. While they profess to be motivated by a desire to restore public confidence in the process, they are going to degrade our system to that of a glorified banana republic if they don't stop these reckless assaults." Read.

Censorship

The New York Times quotes the American Family Association's Tim Wildmon on the controversy of the network-rejected ads from the United Church of Christ. Said Wildmon, "The ad isn't indecent and doesn't violate F.C.C. standards. I'm stunned they're not running it. They might not want the grief." Read.

Filibuster

Jeffrey Mazzella of the Center for Individual Freedom says it is time for the Senate GOP to go nuclear on judicial nominations. Read.

Used with the permission of People For the American Way [or People For the American Way Foundation]

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Christian Conservative Group Sends Porn Link To Subscribers

An Action Alert was sent out by The Alliance Defense Fund on November 29th with the article headline, "DOJ’s Anti-Porn Efforts Well-Funded for 2005", VN Online, Scott Ross, 11.29.2004


After clicking on the link, instead of being taken to Christian News Online or some conservative publication, World Net Daily or National Review, you are sent to a porno site, AVN one of the premier porn online magazines.


Quote From The Alliance Defense Fund Website:

"The Alliance Defense Fund labors to defend the family. The family is the most basic unit of any society, and the foundation of America. Without healthy, functioning families, a culture cannot survive. God has defined the ideal for family as one man and one woman, married for life, and those related to them by blood, adoption, or marriage."

Right-wing News

December 1, 2004

Censorship

Alabama state Rep. Gerald Allen (R-Cottondale) has authored a bill that would prohibit the use of public funds for the "purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle." Allen argues that any novels featuring gay characters or textbooks suggesting homosexuality is genetic would need to be removed from the shelves and destroyed. If the legislation were to pass, prohibited works could include Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited." Read

A state legislator is trying to cut the funding of South Carolina Educational Television's budget after it aired a documentary on gays in the South. "I thought it was just social, leftist propaganda that they had no business airing," said state Rep. John Graham Altman, R-Charleston. "They were actively promoting homosexuality as an OK thing to do."Read

CBS and NBC refuse to air an ad from the United Church of Christ which explains that the church "welcomes all people, regardless of ability, age, race, economic circumstance or sexual orientation." CBS explains its decision: "Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations and the fact the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast on the [CBS and UPN] networks." Read

Immigration

Columnist Michelle Malkin issues a polemic against the "open border lobby" or OBL [Same initials as Osama bin Laden. Get it?]: "Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism. By smearing the overwhelming majority of Americans who support real borders as racists and xenophobes, the OBL obscures its deadly agenda: sabotaging our existing immigration laws and blocking any new efforts to punish those who abuse the system." Malkin is particularly critical of the National Council of La Raza. Read

Judiciary

The American Center for Law and Justice says it is "mobilizing and working to ensure that the Senate takes the necessary action that will put the judicial filibuster off limits." Read

The National Review's Jonathan Adler on the medical marijuana case pending before the Supreme Court: "Despite its apparent importance to drug warriors, Ashcroft v. Raich is not about medical marijuana or drug prohibition. Nor is it about the wisdom, or lack thereof, of allowing chronically ill individuals to smoke weed for medicinal purposes. Rather, it concerns the limits of federal power under the Constitution. Federalism does not play favorites. It limits the scope of federal power to pursue liberal and conservative ends alike. If a majority of the Court remembers this lesson, Angel Raich will get to keep her medicine. More important, the nation will keep the constitutional limits on federal power." Read

Civil Liberties

Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, defends the interrogation methods used at Guantanamo Bay. The International Committee of the Red Cross charges that such practices amount to torture. Read