HOW STRAIGHT EDUCATORS CAN CREATE SUPPORTIVE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS FOR LGBTQ YOUTH
"Straight educators can help to create supportive school environments for LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning] youth in the following ways:
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Wear a button or hang a poster showing their support for LGBTQ issues.
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Speak up and challenge students when they make homophobic or anti-gay remarks.
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Conduct a "School Climate Survey" to assess the climate for LGBTQ youth at their school.
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Use inclusive language that does not assume that everyone is heterosexual and that acknowledges the possibility that some students may be LGBTQ (for example, use the word "date" rather than "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" and the word "spouse" rather than "husband" or "wife.")
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Use the words "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," "transgender," or "questioning" in positive ways.
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Ask their LGBTQ colleagues, friends, or students how they can be allies.
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Be an advocate for school policies that challenge anti-gay bias and support LGBTQ students.
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Support their school's Gay-Straight Alliance — or help students in their schools start one.
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Educate themselves — read books or attend cultural events on LGBTQ topics.
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Educate their colleagues — seek training on LGBTQ issues for their schools.
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Stephen T. Russell, 4-H Youth Development Specialist. "LGBTQ Youth Are at Risk in U.S. School Environment." SIECUS Report, April/May 2001 [Volume 29, Number 4], pages 19 through 22 [NOTES: "LGBTQ" stands for "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered/Transsexual and Questioning. Now imagine the uproar that would occur if any teacher tried to distribute a list like the one above seeking to understand, appreciate and support Christian students]!
Abbey, Edward
"I'm not advocating illegal activity, unless you're accompanied by your parents — or at night."
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Environmental activist Edward Abbey, quoted in Ron Arnold. "Eco-Terrorism." Reason, February 1983, pages 31 to 36.
Abernethy, Virginia
"The Roman Catholic Church has been steadfastly opposed to all mechanical or chemical means of birth control. Stephen Mumford brings to bear overwhelming evidence that, from its beginning, the doctrine of Papal infallibility committed the Church to rejecting the reality of a world population crisis and led, indeed, to highly successful efforts to block timely U.S. interventions and responses (including strict immigration control). This is a dramatic expos‚ of the undermining of democratic institutions and political will, in the service of interests antithetical to U.S. population stabilization and the long-term survival of the nation."
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Dr. Virginia Abernethy, Editor, Population and Environment, Professor of Psychiatry (Anthropology), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA, Great Britain)
"The negro mind is as different from the white mind as the negro from the white body. The typical negro servant, for instance, is wonderful with children, for the reason that she really enjoys doing the things that children do. ... You have only to go to a nigger camp-meeting to see the African mind in operation — the shrieks, the dancing and yelling and sweating, the surrender to the most violent emotion, the ecstatic blending of the soul of the Congo with the practice of the Salvation Army. So far, no very satisfactory psychological measure has been found for racial differences; that will come, but meanwhile the differences are patent. ... [intermarriage between the] negro and Caucasian type ... gives rise to all sorts of disharmonious organisms. ... By putting some of the white man's mind into the mulatto, you not only make him more capable and more ambitious (there are no well-authenticated cases of pure blacks rising to any eminence), but you increase his discontent and create an obvious injustice if you continue to treat him like any full-blooded African. The American negro is making trouble because of the American white blood that is in him."
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Atheist and liberal Julian Sorell Huxley, the first Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and President of the English Eugenics Society. He also founded the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and was a member of both the Euthanasia Society and the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA). "America Revisited III. The Negro Problem." The Spectator, November 29, 1924. Downloaded from Mark Burdman. "Eugenics: Ideology of Genocide." Downloaded from http://www.bosnet.org/archive/bosnet.w3archive/9407/msg00211.html on March 5, 2002 (no longer available).
ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
"He [Cardinal O'Connor] was a bigot and he was very aggressive about promoting his bigotry."
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Ann Northrop of the homosexual group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), during a May 8, 2000 CNN interview just one hour before the funeral Mass for John Cardinal O'Connor [Northrop was one of the ACT-UP members who broke into St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1989 to disrupt Mass and desecrate the Eucharist]. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 2000 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
"... I think the time for violence has now arrived. I don't personally think I'm the guy with the guts to do it, but I'd like to see an AIDS terrorist army, like the Irgun which led to the state of Israel [the Irgun was a Zionist army originating in the mid-1930s, which slaughtered and maimed hundreds of women and children].
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Homosexual playwright Larry Kramer, founder of ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), quoted in the Wall Street Journal, May 8, 1990.
"I think we should blow up Gracie Mansion [the New York governor's residence] ... One of my favorite notions is that we make fake blood and throw bottles of it in public places, and shout, "This is AIDS blood!" Let them think that it is. We have to scare people. We have to make their lives uncomfortable. I think we should be tying up whole cities. We should cripple this country. We should throw bombs. We should set fires. We should stop traffic. We should surround the White House."
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Homosexual playwright Larry Kramer, founder of ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), The Advocate [homosexual magazine], August 18, 1987, quoted in Kirk Kidwell. "Homosexuals Flex Muscle in Washington." As described in the American Family Association Journal, January 1988, pages 6 to 8.
"We're not here to make friends, we're here to raise the issues. We are an activist organization, and activism is fueled by anger, so people should not be surprised when that anger erupts in ways that not everyone approves of ... We have protests, which include taking over the opening plenary session of the AIDS conference in Montreal, blocking the Golden Gate Bridge, and protesting endlessly here in New York. We have telephone zaps where we tie up switchboards. We purchased millions of dollars of tickets when Northwest Airlines refused to carry AIDS people as passengers, tickets that weren't paid for, of course. Because we are gay people and have wonderful taste and can put on wonderful shows, our demonstrations are usually very theatrical ..."
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Homosexual playwright Larry Kramer, founder of ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), Time Magazine, February 5, 1989.
"I shall torture you during the daytime, and will keep you from a peaceful sleep at night."
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From Larry Kramer's open letter to New York Mayor Ed Koch, quoted in John Leo's "When Activism Becomes Gangsterism." U.S. News and World Report, February 5, 1990, page 18.
"We should have shut down the subway and burned down city hall. I think rioting is a valid tactic and should be tried ... If someone took out [killed] Jesse Helms or William Dannemeyer of California, I would be the first to stand up and applaud."
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ACT-UP member Michael Petrelis, quoted in Michael Willrich. "Uncivil Disobedience." Mother Jones, December 1990, page 16.
"DEATH TO THE CHURCH"
"CARDINAL O'KILLER"
"CHRIST WAS A HOMOSEXUAL"
"ADOLPH HITLER — A CATHOLIC LEADER"
"F— THE CHURCH"
"SEX FOR FUN"
"CURB YOUR DOGMA"
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Typical placards carried by activist homosexuals and pro-abortionists belonging to the groups ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and WHAM (Women's Health Action Mobilization), as they stormed New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral on December 10, 1989, assaulting parishioners, disrupting Cardinal John O'Connor's Mass by screaming and shoving people, and desecrating the consecrated Host by throwing It on the ground and stamping on It. Outside, hundreds of screaming homosexuals burned Cardinal O'Connor in effigy and attacked passersby, all because the Cardinal had refused to toe their immoral "safe sex" line. As described in E. Michael Jones. "The Pope and the Condom Worshippers." Fidelity Magazine, October 1987, pages 32-44. Also see Just Out Magazine, January 1990, page 10.
"Maybe it is revenge ["outing" people]. After 10 years and so many people dead, what are we supposed to do, stand around and hold candles?"
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Michael Petrelis of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), quoted in Alan K. Ota. "Outing." The Oregonian [Portland, Oregon], June 24, 1990, pages M1 and M4.
"It has become not a right but a duty to come out."
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Wayne E. Harris, a Portland, Oregon lawyer and member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), quoted in Alan K. Ota. "Outing." The Oregonian [Portland, Oregon], June 24, 1990, pages M1 and M4.
"If a man is gay and has voted against gays, he deserves to be outed and criticized."
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Larry Kramer, a founder of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), quoted in Alan K. Ota. "Outing." The Oregonian [Portland, Oregon], June 24, 1990, pages M1 and M4.
"ACT-UP's subversive tactics ... were drawn largely from the voluminous Mein Kampf, which some of us studied as a working model."
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Eric Pollard, a charter member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), quoted in The Washington Blade, January 1992. For background information on how homosexuals were recruited and welcomed into the Nazi movement, read S. William Halpern. Germany Tried Democracy: A Political History of the Third Reich, 1918-1933 [New York City: Norton Books], 1946. Also see Berthold Hinz. Art in the Third Reich [New York City: Pantheon Books], 1979. These two books document the heavy homosexual influence in the Third Reich, including the predominance of homosexual and pornographic art.
"In those cases where children do have sex with their homosexual elders. ... I submit that often, very often, the child desires the activity, and perhaps even solicits it, either because of a natural curiosity. ... or because he or she is homosexual and innately knows it. ... And unlike girls or women forced into rape or traumatized, most gay men have warm memories of their earliest and early sexual encounters; when we share these stories with each other, they are invariably positive ones."
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Larry Kramer, writer and founder of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), in Reports from the Holocaust [New York City: St. Martin's Press], 1991. This quote was downloaded from the Web site of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) at http://www.nambla.org on April 15, 1998.
"We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on."
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Gloria Steinem, during the violent and obscene October 1995 protest by homosexuals and pro-abortionists at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The protests were organized by ACT-UP, American Atheists, and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and protestors held signs that said "Stop AIDS! Stop Homophobia! Stop the Pope!" Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1995 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site at http://www.catholicleague.org/1995report/summary1995.htm.
Adam, Peter A.J. (medical researcher)
"To learn whether the human fetal brain could metabolize ketone bodies as an alternative to glucose, brain metabolism was isolated in 8 human fetuses (12-17 weeks gestation) after hysterotomy abortion by perfusing the head separated from the rest of the body. This study, conducted in Finland, demonstrated that the human fetus, like previously studied animal fetuses, could modify metabolic processes to utilize ketone bodies. ... Once society's declared the fetus dead, and abrogated its rights, I don't see any ethical problem. ... Whose rights are we going to protect once we've decided the fetus won't live?"
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"Post-Abortion Fetal Study Stirs Storm." Medical World News, June 8, 1973, page 21. Also see Peter A.J. Adam, N. Ratha, E. Rohiala, et al. "Cerebral Oxidation of Glucose and D-Beta Hydroxy, Butyrate in the Isolated Perfused Human Head." Transactions of the American Pediatric Society, 309:81, 1973. The August 8, 1975 Federal Register noted the details of this particularly ghastly experiment, which echoed very strongly those performed in Nazi hospitals [BACKGROUND: At the University of Helsinki in Finland, Dr. Peter Adam of Case Western Reserve University participated in experiments on unborn babies of up to 21 week's gestation who were aborted by hysterotomy (Cesarean-type abortion). The babies were kept alive and then their heads were cut off (the researchers thought that such a term was too grisly to use, so they employed the Newspeak classic "isolating surgically from the other organs"). This was the same type of 'research' performed by Russian lab workers who had kept "surgically isolated" dog heads alive in the early 1950s. The alleged purpose of this "research," as described in the June 1973 issue of Medical World News, was to ascertain the chemical-processing capability of live fetal brain cells. The cranial tissues were kept alive for up to 30 minutes by pumping fluids through the brain].
Adlam, Julius
"I am not afraid to stick by my belief that only those couples who have the necessary material possessions and sources of income to ensure an economically secure and safe cradle should allow a pregnancy to progress to term."
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Letter from Dr. Julius Adlam. Medical News, April 6, 1977. Described in Nancy B. Spannaus, Molly Hammett Kronberg, and Linda Everett (Editors). How to Stop the Resurgence of Nazi Euthanasia Today. Transcripts of the International Club of Life Conference, Munich, West Germany, June 11-12, 1988. Executive Intelligence Review Special Report, September 1988. EIR, Post Office Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390..
Adler, Jerry (Newsweek Magazine)
"It's a morbid observation, but if everyone on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."
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Newsweek Magazine Senior Writer Jerry Adler, in the December 31, 1990 issue.
Admiraal, Pieter (Dutch pro-euthanasia activist)
"We realize there will be demented [Alzheimer's and Parkinson's] patients by the tens of thousands. So I'm a little bit afraid. I really think that we may accept that, for purely economic reasons, they can stop life after a period of three years of complete dementia, for instance. I don't believe we can prevent it."
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Dutch euthanasia leader Dr. Pieter Admiraal, quoted in Michael Fumento. "The Dying Dutchman: Coming Soon to a Nursing Home Near You." The American Spectator, October 1991, pages 18 to 22.
"Every patient has the right to judge his suffering as unbearable and the right to ask his physician for euthanasia. Pain is very seldom a reason for euthanasia."
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Dutch physician Pieter Admiraal, at the 8th biennial conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, held in Maastricht, Holland, on June 7-10 1990. Quoted in Rita L. Marker, "I Only Kill My Friends." 30 Days, September-October 1990. Page 34.
Advocate Magazine (homosexual publication)
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"NEWSLETTER FOR PEDERASTS: Responsible persons, details, sample. Better Life. 256 S. Robertson, Beverly Hills, CA. 90211."
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"S&M EQUIPMENT: Dungeon equipment and small toys, racks, pillories, whipping horses, small restraining devices and novelties ... thoroughly field tested & guaranteed. Polaroid pictures $10."
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"CHICKEN BONDAGE: Photo set of prime quality. Kids are inventive, WOW! Young Gay Loves Spanking."
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"CHICKEN! Choice Tenderlings of great beauty! Golden peach fuzz on tan cheeks, long eyelashes, that warm sun tan smell ... We offer you the largest selection of Chicken in the world."
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"BOYS OF HOLLAND: HAWK PRODUCTIONS. Over 30 beautiful young men to bring you loads of pleasure [film]."
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"BOY FILMS: The Quality Magazine from Denmark ... Euromag ... Life Boy ... Beautiful Boys of all ages [includes 16 photos of boys 6, 8, and 10 years old]."
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"BOYS AND THEIR TOYS: A Must for the Connoisseur of Male Youth and Beauty" 15 ... 15!!! ... With an emphasis on dildo play [film]."
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"Dissatisfied at home? Tired of hassling with parents? Lonely traveling exec wants nice looking boy for perm. relationship and his heir. Offering fine new Fla. home, clothes, good time, no fin. cares or worries. Must be butch ... no fats, fems, hustlers ... send photo."
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"Looking for young guy — 14-22 for fun times."
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"Pre-teens — Girls or boys, nude ... photos, $5.00."
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"Want guys — the younger, the better."
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"Western Style Chicken: New sources — fresh from 4 of the world's great collectors."
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"Seek white/chicano boy 13-16. Longhair orphan fine."
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"Seeking Teen Youth who is lonely, lost, runaway."
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"WANTED! Teen Boy to Bare Bottom Spank/Strap & Use [anally]."
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Typical advertisements found in the July 5, 1972, August 16, 1972, August 13, 1975, July 16, 1991, and August 13, 1991 issues of The Advocate Magazine, as described in The Institute for Media Education. A Content Analysis of Two Decades of The Advocate (July 5, 1972 - July 2, 1991) and The 1991 Gayellow Pages. June 1991 [NOTE: The term "hawk" refers to a homosexual pederast and a "chicken" is a young boy who is sold as merchandise and "used" by homosexuals for sex].
Adweek Magazine
"Get caught by the cops molesting children and you could get sent to prison. Get caught by your bishop and you could get sent to another parish. ... 100,000 victims of sexual abuse and some church officials are telling us to go to hell. With all due respect, we've already been there. ... Thousands of kids molested by priests and some Catholics refuse to deal with it. Apparently, there's still a need for someone who can make the blind see. ... After 37 years in the priesthood, he knows it's a mortal sin to have sex with another man's wife. It's another man's son we're worried about."
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Two allegedly 'Catholic' ad directors The New England edition of Adweek, October 1996. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1996 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
"Dear Friend,
Bamboo sticks ... bleach ... blows to the stomach ....
What do they have in common?
Each is one of the hundreds of horrendous ways women in some parts of the world still try — and usually fail — to end an unwanted pregnancy.
They do so out of sheer desperation and anguish. They do so regardless of their fears of prosecution. They do so in poverty. They do so when a safe abortion is simply not available.
In fact, each year — according to new information from the Alan Guttmacher Institute — in doing so;
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20 million women break their country's law;
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8 million women endure serious, often untreated, medical complications; and
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78,000 women die."
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Opening of May 1999 Alan Guttmacher Institute fundraising letter. The letter also claims that there are 26 million legal abortions and 20 million illegal abortions.
"It is widely believed that providing teenagers with information about pregnancy and birth control is crucial if the incidence of adolescent pregnancy is to be reduced, and that formal sex education programs are an appropriate and important vehicle for providing information. Between 57 percent and 65 percent of teenagers receive formal contraceptive instruction before initiating coitus. However, our analyses fail to show any consistent relationship between exposure to contraceptive education and the subsequent initiation of intercourse ... The final result to emerge from the analysis is that neither pregnancy education nor contraceptive education exerts any significant effect on the risk of premarital pregnancy among sexually active teenagers — a finding that calls into question the argument that formal sex education is an effective tool for reducing adolescent pregnancy."
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Alan Guttmacher Institute. "The Effects of Sex Education on Adolescent Behavior." Family Planning Perspectives, July/August 1986, pages 162 and 169.
"The final result to emerge from the analysis is that neither pregnancy education nor contraceptive education exerts any significant effect on the risk of premarital pregnancy among sexually active teenagers — a finding that calls into question the argument that formal sex education is an effective tool for reducing adolescent pregnancy."
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Alan Guttmacher Institute. "The Effects of Sex Education on Adolescent Behavior." Family Planning Perspectives, July/ August 1986, pages 162 and 169.
Alinsky, Saul (leftist political organizer)
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."
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Dedication to Saul Alinsky's classic left-wing organizing text Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals [New York City: Vintage Books], 1971.
"All Kids First" (Michigan anti-voucher group)
"Private schools are allowed to reject disabled students."
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October and November 2000 Michigan television advertisements run by "All Kids First," a Michigan anti-voucher activist organization, showing a child in a wheelchair. This allegation is a flat lie, since Michigan law bars discrimination against persons with disabilities. After the lie was exposed, television stations pulled the ad. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 2000 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Allen, Douglas (columnist)
"It's clear to everyone in this country that there is a problem with race among us citizens of the good old U.S. of A. And it seems that no respectable solution exists. Either you're for majority superiority or for minority superiority. You favor whites, or you favor blacks. ... This is, of course, as it ought to be. ...
"To judge the individual as an individual is pernicious. ... The oppressed peoples of the earth will never know true freedom until they can use the lever of government to pry power away from their white overlords. ... Only be radical reconstruction of American society — only by restacking the societal deck — will we ever see freedom in our land. ... Let bigotry continue — only let it be redemptive bigotry. Let it smash that evil race which wielded it so effectively for so long."
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Columnist Douglas Allen. Oakland Tribune, July 22, 1996. Also quoted in William Norman Grigg. "Fanning the Flames of Rage." The New American, December 9, 1996, pages 4 to 8.
Allen, Gina (former Director of the American Humanist Association (AHA))
"I always steal a Bible out of a hotel. It makes the Gideons very happy. You know, they look and they have to replace a Bible and they say, 'We've got another convert.' Actually, I take them out of hotels because I wouldn't want a child to get hold of this pornographic book. Pornography is a symptom of a sick society — a society based on this book. Stories in the Bible are forerunners of the famous Hustler cover that shows a woman being put through a meat grinder. This is what we learn from this book that tells us how to rape, how to stone women and children, how to burn women as witches, and so on ... The Lord God invented women as a gadget — a useful gadget for men's pleasure and use. You take this gadget and you screw it on the bed and it does the housework."
"I have a very special feminist dream. That dream is that this model feminist ordinance should pass all over the nation. And that every woman who had ever been raped and every woman who has ever been battered and every girl-child who has ever been molested will sue under this ordinance the Gideons who distribute this pornographic book, everybody who publishes it, and everybody who preaches from it."
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Gina Allen, former Director of the American Humanist Association (AHA), quoted in "Gordon: Bible More Serious Threat Than Porn." National Federation for Decency Journal, September 1985, page 12; and Sun Belt syndicated columnist Charley Reese. "Humanists Show Their Fanaticism." Midland Reporter-Telegram, July 15, 1985.
Alli, George (British Member of Parliament)
"This is not about whether 16 or 18 is the right age for sexual activity — it's about the abolition of discrimination, it's about supporting young people, young vulnerable men in our society."
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Lord George Alli, the only openly homosexual peer, in support of the Sexual Offenses (Amendment) Bill, which would reduce the age of consent from 18 to 16, quoted in "British Peers Pass Gay Age of Consent Bill But Could Plan Rebellion." Catholic World News Briefs, April 12, 2000.
Allred, Edward (abortionist)
"I would do free abortions in Mexico to stem the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. ... When a sullen Black woman of 17 or 18 can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us, it's time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles, having babies for welfare is the only industry these people have."
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California abortionist Edward Allred, quoted in the San Diego Union, October 12, 1980, also described in National Right to Life News, May 2, 1985, page 4.
Alter, Jonathan (Newsweek Magazine)
"The ironies for a President not given to irony are endless. Consider this: the best chance for Clinton to shine in history might be for Congress to force him to pay the price for lying about sex. In the unlikely event he is pushed from office, it would take only weeks, maybe just days, before a vast national remorse set in. We destroyed our lovable rogue prince of prosperity over this? Clinton would become a martyr to a legal system run amok. His defeat would mean victory over not just sheet-sniffing prosecutors but all those who would criminalize politics with endless investigations. As legacies go, balancing the budget might look puny by comparison."
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Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, August 24, 1998 editorial.
"The explanation for this almost evasive coverage has to do with [Michael] Jackson's peculiar relationship with the public, and the interpretation of that relationship by the press. The feeling is: he may be a space cadet, but he's our space cadet, and we want to keep him. He's the Ronald Reagan of pop."
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Newsweek Magazine media writer Jonathan Alter, September 6, 1993.
"Overlaying this structure was a national politics heavily conditioned by nearly half a century of cold war. Strength and toughness trumped everything else. At one military briefing during the 1980s, Reagan was shown models of American missiles. The American power phalluses were long and white; the Soviets,' shorter and black. We were still safely ahead, but only by the margin of our machismo."
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Newsweek Magazine's Jonathan Alter, reviewing the 1996 political landscape, December 30, 1996/January 6, 1997 issue.
Amazon.com (the world's largest online bookseller)
"I have been principal moderator on an Internet site devoted to examining these issues for two years, and was active on another similar site for a year before that. It became obvious very early on that the men — and a few boys — who participate in these sites are not the stereotypical monsters that the media portrays. They are sincere, concerned, loving human beings who simply have — and were probably born with — a sexual orientation that is neither understood nor accepted by most others. The condemnation and reprehension these boys and men are dealt by society are primarily the result of misinformation that has become institutionalized over time by those who are in positions to deceive and mislead public thinking and policy."
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"About the Author" (self-description by Dave Riegel, the author of the book Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers, published by SafeHaven Foundation Press. This description was posted on Amazon.com, the world's largest on-line bookseller, and was downloaded on June 2, 2000.
"In recent years, as homosexuality has gained some acceptance, the last taboo that government is allowed to persecute has been boylove. The obsolete age of consent laws stay on the books as an excuse to throw boylovers in jail, where terrible horrors await them. This book makes the case that outdated ideas need to be swept aside, and a new perspective that honors boylove can emerge to its rightful place in society. I recommend this book — it's [sic] scholarly and candid approach will open your eyes!
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"Someday the Age of Consent Will Be Struck Down." By Stephen Hansen of Stanford, California, dated May 9, 2000. This is a customer review of Dave Riegel's book Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers, published by SafeHaven Foundation Press. This review was posted on Amazon.com, the world's largest on-line bookseller, and was downloaded on June 2, 2000.
As we reach the dawn of the twenty first century, boylove is seen in a similar way that homosexuality was seen at the dawn of the twentieth century. It was seen as evil, wrong, and labelled other such ludicrous things. This book may be difficult for some to swallow, because it explores consentual [sic] man-boy relationships in detail. Most people will have trouble clearing the "child molester" mentality that has been drilled into their heads through the media all their lives. But I urge you to buy this book and read it with an open mind, because you may just be pleasently [sic] surprised. The fact of the matter is that relationships between men and boys, including sexual and non-sexual ones, can be extrememly [sic] beneficial, enjoyable, harmless, and beatiful [sic]. There's such a fear in society of sexual relations between an adult and a minor, when, as this book proves, there is nothing at all wrong with them. Enjoy this book, and try to think outside the square you live in."
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"An Intellectually Refreshing View on Boylove." By "Jariel from the USA," dated March 25, 2000. This is a customer review of Dave Riegel's book Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers, published by SafeHaven Foundation Press. This review was posted on Amazon.com, the world's largest on-line bookseller, and was downloaded on June 2, 2000.
"Many researchers is [sic] the fields of Psychology and Human Sexuality have been taking a fresh look at the "conventional" wisdom which has been the basis for evaluation of intergenerational male/male sexual activities. The long assumed "harm" of such activities has failed to be supported by research, and the sociocultural "wrongness" based on this "harm" is therefore left without any rational basis. An extremely thorough and exhaustive paper, "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples" was published in the July, 1998 Psychological Bulletin, the journal of the American Psychological Association. It brought forth howls of protest from right wing radicals all the way up to and including the United States House of Representatives, but after the furor subsided, the paper, having been subjected to intensive examination at every level, has been judged to be true, accurate and objective science. Previous to this, a collection of papers by such authors as Bullough, Bernard, Schild, Warren, Bauserman, et. al., was published as "Dares to Speak", edited by Joseph Geraci. Before that there was "Male Intergenerational Intimacy" by Brongersma. Both of these volumes are currently in print, and are available. The above mentioned paper and books are intended primarily for researchers, educators, and other people knowledgeable in these areas. Therefore, I have authored a "layman's" introductory volume, "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers", which essentially covers the same premises, data, and conclusions as the above, but which is written in mostly non technical language, with the average citizen in mind. This book, while certainly bound to be controversial, and which espouses certain changes in various laws, is carefully maintained within the limits of current laws, there is nothing in it which could possibly concern any postal inspector, or which could create any legal liability."
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Description of Dave Riegel's book Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers, submitted by its publisher, SafeHaven Foundation Press. This description was posted in the "Editorial Reviews" section of Amazon.com, the world's largest on-line bookseller, and was downloaded on June 2, 2000.
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
"For millions of years the earth got along without human beings, and it will do so again. The only question is the nature of the human demise that has already begun."
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Dr. Lynn Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, coauthor of the "Gaia Hypothesis," speaking at the November 1998 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Philadelphia (organized by Colorado abortionist Warren Hern), in answer to the question "Is the human species a cancer on the planet?" "Anthropologist Symposium Calls Human Beings a Cancer Infecting Planet Earth." Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) Friday FAX, January 1, 1999.
"Aerial and satellite views of urban centers taken over a period of years bore a striking similarity to images of cancerous tissue (particularly melanoma) invading the healthy surrounding tissue. ... In many parts of the world the increase in human numbers is rapid and uncontrolled, that it invades and destroys habitats, and that by killing off many species it reduces the differentiation of nature. All of these features are characteristics of cancerous tumors."
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Colorado abortionist Warren Hern, speaking at the November 1998 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Philadelphia he organized, in answer to the question "Is the human species a cancer on the planet?" "Anthropologist Symposium Calls Human Beings a Cancer Infecting Planet Earth." Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) Friday FAX, January 1, 1999.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
"In every nation women want more children than the community needs. How can we reduce reproduction? Persuasion must be tried first. Mild coercion may soon be accepted — for example, tax rewards for reproductive nonproliferation. But in the long run a purely voluntary system selects for its own failure: Noncooperators outbreed cooperators. So what restrains shall we employ? A policeman under every bed? Jail sentences? Compulsory abortion? Infanticide? ...
"We need not titillate our minds with such horros [sic], for we already have at hand an acceptable technology: Sterilization. It should be easy to limit a woman's reproduction by sterilizing her at the birth of her nth child. ... The "right" to breed implies ownership of children. This concept is no longer tenable. ... If parenthood is a right, population control is impossible. If parenthood is only a privilege, and if parents see themselves as trustees of the germ plasm and guardians of the rights of future generations, then there is hope for mankind."
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Garrett Hardin. "Parenthood: Right or Privilege?" Science [journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)], July 31, 1970 [Volume 169, number 3,944], page 2.
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT)
"The big lie is that it's easy to be monogamous, and that everybody is. If you believe that, you'd better choose well. We can't go back to the values we had because they don't exist anymore. For the most part, women are not virgins anymore, so to teach virginity doesn't work."
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Carol Cassell, former Director of Education for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Past President of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). Family Life Educator, Fall 1987, page 19, also quoted in Focus on the Family Citizen, December 1989.
American Atheists (AA)
I have been doing some thinking about American Atheists, the organization, and its goals lately. I do that a lot, "thinking," that is, and I know that is part of what makes me an Atheist.
Every other cause organization, or "advocacy group" as they are called by the present generation, has some point, or end, or goal, for a group of like-minded individuals to strive toward. Members of ecology groups, for example, want to save the environment from destruction by human-generated pollution. Animal rights group members want society to be kind to their fellow animals and respect their rights as cohabitants of plant earth.
What do we want as Atheists? I have been the president of American Atheists since 1986, and I have never developed a sense of a clear consensus of opinion of the members of this organization on this point. All I can tell you is what I want, as an individual Atheist, but I am not at all certain that such goals are in the minds of any of you as rank and file members.
I would like to see religion abolished as an institution, not just in this country, but worldwide. What does that mean? That means that young people should not be taught the god idea anymore. No public school should ever host a religious ceremony. Every school should have, indeed, mandatory religion classes which would teach the psychopathology of religious concepts and show their detrimental effect on the history of humankind. Present and future generations should be intellectually inoculated against religion, for it is indeed a form of mental illness.
This means that all churches should be closed down as unfit for human habitation. The ideas promulgated by churches are injurious to humankind. Religion was born by force, violence, burning, killing, torture, etc., and it only seems reasonable that a little counterviolence is what is needed to stop it. Therefore, I see no problem with government closure of churches, seizure of church property, and the turning of those edifices over to other uses for the common public good. After all, the public has been paying for them for many years through their tax-exempt status. Religious lands could become parks; churches could become community center, day care centers, and the like to educate instead of indoctrinate. They could provide secular community meeting places where classes might be taught on health, managing finances, child care, improvement of verbal and written communication skills, cooking, and a host of other practical topics related to everyday life and not to the fantasy of "life everlasting." Denominational hospitals should be seized by local authorities and turned over to city or county use as secular institutions taking all comers to provide the kind of universal health care for all citizens that our president envisages.
I would like to see all religious broadcasting stations, radio or television, turned over to public or community broadcasting outlets which allow a broad spectrum of minority groups the opportunity they have never had to voice their opinions for positive change in our country. The voice of religion has enjoyed a monopoly of expression of its sick doctrines for too many hundreds of years. It is time that religious individuals just "shut up" and gave others a chance to speak, instead of being engaged in the business of stifling free speech, as religious institutions and individuals have been for a long time.
If seizing and turning churches, religious hospitals, schools, colleges, and broadcasting outlets into secular outreaches is impossible, I would at least like to see public health warnings (as we now have on cigarette packages and liquor bottles) required for all religious institutions. A sign which says "The health authorities of the government of the United States have determined that entering this edifice is detrimental to your mental health" should be posted at the entrance of every church.
I would like for religious persons and the institutions they support to get a taste of what it feels like to be muzzled so that their opinions carry no weight and can never be heard but by a tiny circle of followers. It is time for the shoe to be on the other foot, as the old saying goes.
I want every elected official to be sworn in on a copy of either a state or the U.S. Constitution, depending on their office. No more oaths on Bibles would be allowed for public officials or in any court.
The phrase "In God We Trust" must be removed from all coins and currency, the phrase "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and our national motto should be restored to "E Pluribus Unum."
Only secular marriages should be legal. A marriage has been a legal instrument (a contract) much more than a social construct now for so long that the social aspect can just be dropped.
I would allow only cremations and do away with all burials. Cemeteries are a waste of our precious land resources only to further an ugly, primitive, barbaric ritual.
I would allow only official, public celebrations of secular events — no more "Christmas" or "Easter" or "Passover." The world will be better off with celebrations that commemorate natural events (the Equinoxes and the Solstices) or human historical accomplishments. Why not celebrate the anniversaries of inventions, for example, such as the light bulb, the printing press, the automobile, radio television and other things that changed our very way of life in a dramatic way? Why not celebrate the birthdays of men and women of science who made significant contributions to human well being, instead of glorifying the death of an illiterate Jew on a cross?
"Freedom from religion" should be the legal concept on which our nation is posited, and not "freedom of religion."
It has been many years that Atheists have kept saying that they want "separation of state and church." That broadly defined and interpreted slogan has been a cover for what we really want, which is to see religion wither and die on the vine. That is not going to happen without positive measures taken against the religious ideas and institutions. If we are not going to speak up and speak out for what we really want, we should just shut up and never be heard from again.
I am proud to be an Atheist, and I am fed up with hiding behind such concepts as "state/church separation." If we can't just come right out and say what we are and what we want, why have an organization?
I think that we all understand that the United States is indeed a "Christian" nation. That is the majority view and we are most likely never to see religion get the shunning by the establishment that it richly deserves. What does this make us? It makes us an organization without a cause.
We have been playing Don Quixote, jousting with windmills for over thirty years, in a state/church separation legal game of cat and mouse in which we never really had a chance. Those days are over with the present court system and the new configuration of the Supreme Court. All that is left for us now is to engage in partisan action consisting of petty acts of harassment toward the religious enemy, knowing that it is too powerful for us to "take it on" in any real sense. We can speak on public access television to a necessarily limited audience until such forums are pulled, for monetary reasons, from all access producers, as they are destined to be. We can send out a monthly newsletter, such as this, which speaks to a limited audience of the already convinced. We can publish books which bookstores will either not take or display only on a well-hidden back shelf. It is with such actions that we, alas, must be for the present content.
To move beyond the role of partisan, to become a real challenge to religion, would require the resolve and dedication of time, resources and money on the part of all Atheists and not just the very limited number one group can reach."
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Jon G. Murray. "The Goals of Atheism." American Atheist Newsletter, May 1994, pages 11 and 12.
"The combined forces of the Religious Right [Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics] have already made significant inroads in seriously limiting the types of abortions that can be performed ... In every incident [of violence] thus far solved, Christian fundamentalists have been involved, including several Roman Catholic priests ... these same fanatic religionists ... U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun has received numerous death threats and has had his home vandalized by "the Army of God."
"Prior to 1973, untold thousands of women died or were maimed for life ... Today abortion is ten times safer than childbearing ... it is easy to see why abortion must remain a legal "safety net" for women for whom contraception has failed or who have become pregnant against their will ... There are several noteworthy organizations that are diligently working to protect reproductive rights, notably the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. But none of these groups are able or equipped, due to the broad-based support they receive, to do battle with the real enemy — religion! American Atheists is. In Houston, Texas, we are now providing patient escorts on a regular basis to family planning clinics ... If you support quality of life; if you feel that living, feeling human beings should receive precedence over potentialities; and if you place a premium on freedom from religion, now is the time to act ... Only American Atheists is willing to face the enemy head on ... Religion does not allow people to make their own choices. Religion is about control. Once people are allowed to think for themselves, religion will be deprived of its power and will soon fall — to the trash heap of history ..."
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Excerpts from a July 1986 American Atheists fundraising letter written by Jon G. Murray, with a cover letter by Bill Baird.
"We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on."
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Gloria Steinem, during the violent and obscene October 1995 protest by homosexuals and pro-abortionists at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The protests were organized by ACT-UP, American Atheists, and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and protestors held signs that said "Stop AIDS! Stop Homophobia! Stop the Pope!" Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1995 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site at http://www.catholicleague.org/1995report/summary1995.htm.
"We atheists today must admit that for corpses Old Yahweh and his sidekick JC Superstar are taking a long time to stop twitching and grow old."
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American Atheist member G. Richard Bozarth. "On Keeping God Alive." The American Atheist Magazine, November 1977, page 7.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
"Intrauterine, prenatal surgery will no doubt bring joy and relief to many parents whose dreams of a healthy baby were formerly unrealizable. But this technological breakthrough is a medical one, not a moral one; the status of the fetus as patient may be different in degree from the status of the fetus of 10 years ago, but it is not different in kind. For thousands of years, healers have been trying to preserve the lives and health of fetuses whose mothers wanted them; only the sophisticated techniques and the rate of success are new.
"But these [fetal surgery] techniques and this success are new indeed, so dazzlingly new as to blind us, perhaps, to the fact that the moral premise of abortion remains unchanged. The "issue of abortion" remains the issue of the right of the woman to choose whether or not to carry something in her own body. No technological advances can rob her of her right to choose whether or not to keep it there" [emphasis in original].
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Judith Pasternak, of the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU's) "Reproductive Freedom Project," New York City, quoted in "Worth Quoting." National Right to Life News, February 3, 1983, page 19.
"Today's results prove that certain fundamental issues should not be left up to a majority vote."
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Ira Glasser, former Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), after Alaskan voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. Quoted Alan Sears and Craig Osten. The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values [New York City: Broadman & Holman Publishers], 2005. Chapter 2, "The ACLU vs. Marriage," page 34.
"Not only does [censorship] violate free speech, but it undermines the fight for women's rights. Censoring pornography will do more harm than good. ... "They [opponents of pornography] define it as a sexually explicit expression that 'subordinates' and 'degrades' women, on the theory that this causes discrimination and violence against women. Their argument is pernicious and wrongheaded. Our society is founded on liberty and equality and free speech and equal opportunity under the laws of the Constitution."
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) President Nadine Strossen, during an April 2, 2001 speech entitled "Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women's Rights," given at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Quoted in Terry Collins. "ACLU President Says that Censoring Porn Hurts Women's Movement." Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 3, 2001.
[We protest against] "public officials who want to promote their personal beliefs from an elected perch and turn our country into a biblical theocracy not unlike that of a country called Iran."
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) response to Louisiana Governor Mike Foster issuing a proclamation asking citizens to pray for rain to relieve the Summer 2000 drought. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 2000 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
"They say the ERA will lead to funding for abortion. I say, 'I hope so.'"
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Lynn Paltrow, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU's) Reproductive Freedom Project, at an October 1986 speech at Sarah Lawrence College, quoted in "Action Box: Equal Rights Amendment." National Right to Life News, February 5, 1987, page 4.
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the State itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
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Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), quoted in the National Federation for Decency Journal, September 1988, page 9.
"We are the American Civil Liberties Union, not the American First Amendment Union."
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Former American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) President Norman Dorsen, quoted in Charles Oliver. "Has the ACLU Sold Out?" Reason Magazine, October 1990, pages 20 to 27.
"The American Civil Liberties Union has made the right to choose its number one national priority. The ACLU's legal victories helped establish the right to choose, and we have no intention of seeing that right weakened or destroyed. We are challenging the Hyde Amendment in federal court, lobbying for new laws requiring states to pay for abortions for poor women, and fighting against the call for a Constitutional convention in every state legislature.
"The Hyde Amendment forces one religious view of the beginning of life on poor women, a violation of the separation of church and state."
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) pamphlet entitled "The ACLU's Campaign for Choice."
"IN UTAH,
THEY KNOW HOW TO PUNISH
A WOMAN WHO HAS AN ABORTION.
THEY SHOOT HER."
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Gail Quinn. "The ACLU and Truth in Abortion Advertising." The Portland, Oregon Catholic Sentinel. May 31, 1991, page 5 [NOTE: The ACLU placed this hysterical propaganda in a $30,000 full-page March 25, 1991 New York Times advertisement. This was in reaction to the Utah state legislature passing a law in January 1991 that merely made it easier for women who had been injured by abortions to file civil suits against their abortionists. The legislature specifically wrote into the law that women would be totally free of any penalties whatsoever for obtaining any abortions — legal or illegal].
"It is our position that teaching that monogamous, heterosexual intercourse within marriage as a traditional American value is an unconstitutional establishment of a religious doctrine in public schools."
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) California Legislative Office, in a letter it sent to state legislators. "ACLU Uses Hyde's Christianity as Basis for Suit." National Federation for Decency Journal, August 1986, page 14.
"I want to underscore how extremely essential your efforts are. I want to thank and applaud you for your fight and contribution for First Amendment freedom and to galvanize you to 'keep it up,' so to speak. Your vital work on behalf of freedom of sexual expression is incredibly important for the free-speech cause. Once we cede to the government the power to violate one right for one person, or group, then no right is safe for any person or group. So when we defend sexual expression, we really are making a stand not only against a specific kind of censorship ... but human rights in general. ... I am constantly asked why I continue to defend pornography on so many levels. The answer is I have to keep defending free speech for pornography because so many other people keep attacking it, especially here in the United States with our puritanical heritage. ... We are now facing innumerable, persistent and nasty attacks on sexual expression not only on cyberspace but on all communications media from ... all points on the political spectrum ranging from the so-called religious right to so-called radical feminists."
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) President Nadine Strossen, in an address to porn stars and adult-film makers at the Los Angeles World Pornography Conference on August 7, 1998. Quoted in "ACLU: Porn Is Good." Reuters, August 10, 1998 [NOTE: This conference was sponsored by the Center for Sex Research at California State University, Northridge, and took place at a hotel close to Universal Studios' family theme park. Among the topics discussed at the convention were "Spanking Stories: Straight Theories, Bent Practices" and "A Short History of Sex Toys." Strossen is author of the book Defending Pornography].
"She did what she had to do to protect both her physical and emotional health."
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Richard A. Waples of the Indiana Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), explaining why his client got an abortion over her husband's strenuous objections — because she had planned a trip to the beach and wanted to look good in her new bathing suit!In re Unborn Baby H., No. 84C01 8804JP185, slip opinion at 1-2 (Vigo County, Indiana Circuit Court, April 8, 1988). Also see "Woman Defies Court, Father, Aborts Child." Washington Times, April 15, 1988.
"The [Constitutional] convention issue is a matter of concern to everyone. It poses a serious threat not only to the right to choose abortion but to all other civil liberties. No one knows whether a convention could be limited to one purpose, because there are not procedures or precedents. Once a convention is called, it could decide to do away with any or all of the individual rights now guaranteed by the Constitution. For this reason, the ACLU opposes all constitutional convention resolutions."
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The ACLU's "logic" against a Human Life Amendment (HLA), as outlined in "Women's Guide to Reproductive Rights." American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, 1981, page 27.
"The increasing tendency to view the fetus as an independent patient or person occurs at the cost of reducing the woman to the status of little more than a maternal environment ... We need to refocus the right to abortion as one not defined by the fetus or by technological advances, but rather one that is tied to women's constitutional right to privacy, autonomy and bodily integrity."
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Janet Benshoof of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). "Late Abortion and Technological Advances in Fetal Viability — Reasserting Women's Rights." Family Planning Perspectives, July/August 1985, pages 162 and 163.
"Abortion on demand is a precondition for all other legal and constitutional guarantees of women's equality."
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Janet Benshoof of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), defending third-trimester abortions, quoted in Richard D. Glasow, Ph.D. "Public Revulsion to Late Abortions Worries Pro-Abortionists." National Right to Life News, November 21, 1985, pages 5 and 9.
"This [Freedom of Choice Act] bill prohibits such restrictions as parental notification and consent, as well as the requirement that all abortions be performed in a hospital, spousal consent, waiting periods ..."
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American Civil Liberties Union. Reproductive Rights Update, December 20, 1991. Also see the ACLU pamphlet entitled "Civil Liberties in the 102nd Congress," 1991.
"Hundreds of women this year will die because they cannot afford an abortion."
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1987 pamphlet entitled "The ACLU's Campaign for Choice," referring to the Hyde Amendment, page 1.
"The ACLU believes that civil RICO's potential for chilling First Amendment rights of expression is enormous ... Congress should amend RICO, now ... Abortion clinic protestors are not racketeers, and should not be treated as if they are."
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Quote by Antonio Califa of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at the October 18, 1989 Conference on the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) statutes at the Cato Institute. Also quoted by William Marshner. "Is RICO a Racket?" Family, Law & Democracy Report, November 1989, page 10.
"[A national discussion on pornography] begins with the erroneous assumption that explicit sexual speech is a major national problem. This poses great, great dangers to the First Amendment. ... Much of the hoopla seems designed to scare the producers and distributors of sexually explicit materials, which is the kind of chilling effect we were afraid of. ... What I deny is that no study now or ever will demonstrate that those people [sex abusers] are caused to be the kind of people they are because they look at pornography."
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Barry Lynn, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), defending child pornography. Quoted in "Attorney General Makes Promise to Prosecute Obscenity 'With Vengeance.'" National Federation for Decency Journal, November/December 1986, page 1, and "ACLU Defends Child Pornography." National Federation for Decency Journal, September 1986, page 9 [NOTE: The ACLU laughs at the idea that porn has any influence on kids. Strangely, it simultaneously demands that no trace of religion appear in our textbooks, and that no teacher even dare to mention God for fear of "corrupting" school kids].
Hudson: "If a young person on the way home from school encounters an adult, and the adult gives him a piece of literature that portrays sodomy and portrays bestiality with a child 12 years old, you don't think the government has any interest whatsoever in that transaction?"
Whicher: "No, I don't."
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Attorney General's Pornography Commission Chairman Henry Hudson, posing a question to Jane Whicher of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) during the Commission's hearings. Quoted in "ACLU Wants Government to Ignore Child Porn." National Federation for Decency Journal, January 1986, page 12.
"Faye Kennedy, Eric Ferrer and I are the only African Americans in the Hawaii ACLU chapter. We strongly object to ACLU bringing and sponsoring Clarence Thomas to Hawaii. Bringing Clarence Thomas sends a message that the Hawaii ACLU promotes and honors black Uncle Toms who turn their back on civil rights. I have the inside scoop on [Thomas]. Anita Hill wasn't the only one. When he came [to Hawai'i for a visit], he went to strip clubs. ... He's married to a white person."
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American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii member Daphne Barbee-Wooten, in an April 9, 2001 letter to the First Amendment Conference subcommittee of the American Civil Liberties Union, objecting to a debate between Thomas and the ACLU's national president, Nadine Strossen, in the Davis-Levin First Amendment Conference. Quoted in Robert M. Rees. "The Annals of Liberalism: The Local ACLU Board Rejects a Honolulu Debate Between Its National President and Right-Wing Justice Clarence Thomas. Why?" Downloaded from the Web site of The Honolulu Weekly at http://www.honoluluweekly.com/ on July 2, 2001 [Nadine Strossen herself said that "Some of the attacks on Thomas — that he is dumb, that he doesn't write his own opinions — are racist, the same things I used to hear about [former Supreme Court Justice] Thurgood Marshall. I suspect I know Thomas better than anyone on the [Hawai'i] board. My students absolutely adore him, and they know it's important to have a dialogue with those with whom you disagree. ... I am disappointed in our [Hawaii] organization"].
"Justice Thomas is an anti-Christ, a Hitler, and it's like having a serial murderer debate the value of life. ... "There's a chance, even a likelihood, that a lot of people might like his views."
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American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii member Eric Ferrer, objecting to a debate between Thomas and the ACLU's national president, Nadine Strossen, in the Davis-Levin First Amendment Conference. Quoted in Robert M. Rees. "The Annals of Liberalism: The Local ACLU Board Rejects a Honolulu Debate Between Its National President and Right-Wing Justice Clarence Thomas. Why?" Downloaded from the Web site of The Honolulu Weekly at http://www.honoluluweekly.com/ on July 2, 2001 [former ACLU President Roger Fonseca, who, as a member of the subcommittee had twice voted to extend the invitation to Thomas, suddenly changed his mind. As Fonseca said to the board on May 21, 2001, "I didn't want to invite him then, and I still don't. If not Hitler, he is a Goebbels. Thomas is an asshole"].
"This is a time when we need to promote unity among Americans of all faiths. Many schools are flying flags to instill a sense of unity in a time of trouble. By displaying a religious message, the Breen Elementary School is dividing its young students along religious lines. School officials are hurting and isolating their schoolchildren of minority faiths when they should be supporting them and the values of pluralism and tolerance. [Displaying such a message is not only unconstitutional] but implies only students who share the faith are truly patriotic. It must be replaced immediately."
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California lawyer Margaret Crosby, on a Breen Elementary School [Rocklin] "God Bless America" sign put up after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Quoted in Ryan McCarthy. "School Rallies to Retain Sign: The ACLU Says the Message 'God Bless America' Divides Kids by Religion and is Unconstitutional." Sacramento Bee, October 6, 2001.
American Conservation Association (ACA)
"Some economists and analysts argue that, if we continue consuming resources as we are now, the only way to bring about a balance between demand and supply will be through authoritarian controls."
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Lawrence Rockefeller, President of the American Conservation Association and an Earth Day 1990 Director, in a February 1976 article in Reader's Digest. Quoted in Gary Benoit. "The Greatest Sham on Earth." The New American, March 26, 1990, pages 7 to 12.
American Eugenics Society (AES)
"Every visiting nurse, every doctor, every social worker knows that there are families where more children should be encouraged and there are parents who should be discouraged from having more children, because the children will grow up to be a burden on society. ... I feel certain that all those who are in a position to give advise on contraception are already showing some bias. That is, they are exercising their own judgement in the advice they give as to size of family, because they do not want to see children growing up with the burden of a bad social inheritance."
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Frederick Osborn, President of both the American Eugenics Society and the racist Pioneer Fund and co-founder of the Population Council. "Contributions of Planned Parenthood." Eugenics Review [1953, Number 3], page 159.
"[Francis Galton] published his Hereditary Genius ... he envisaged the eugenic movement as something that would sweep the world and make man at last the master of his own destiny on earth. It has not happened. The eugenic movement is nothing but a few small handfuls of men in various countries. ... They are not influencing public opinion. The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters. ... We must ask ourselves, 'what have we done wrong?' I think we have failed to take into account a trait which is almost universal and is very deep in human nature. People simply are not willing to accept the idea that the genetic base on which their character is formed is inferior and should not be repeated in the next generation. We have asked whole groups of people to accept this idea and we have asked individuals to accept it. They have constantly refused, and we have all but killed the eugenic movement. ... it is possible to build a system of voluntary unconscious selection. But the reasons advanced must be generally acceptable reasons. Let's stop telling anyone that they have a generally inferior genetic quality, for they will never agree. Let's base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care, and perhaps our proposals will be accepted."
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Frederick Osborn, President of both the American Eugenics Society and the racist Pioneer Fund and co-founder of the Population Council, during his 1956 Galton Lecture, quoted in the obituary by his son in the Bulletin of the Eugenic Society, 1981 page 47.
"In other animals, where experimentation is possible, it has been clearly shown that there are inheritable factors that determine the limits of intellectual ability ... In all cases, studies indicate that as long as our present social organization [democracy] continues there will be a slow but continuous downward trend in the average intelligence. ... Every time a philanthropist sets up a foundation to look for a cure for a certain disease he thereby threatens humanity eugenically. ... Again consider the matter of charity. When one saves a starving man, one may thereby help him breed more children. ... It is not possible to avoid eugenic action; every time we support a charity, endow a research institute, or promulgate a new taxation scheme, our actions whether good or bad, have eugenic consequences, however unconscious we may be of them."
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Garrett Hardin, Director of the American Eugenics Society (1971-1974), Biology: Its Human Implications [San Francisco: Freeman Press, 1961], chapter entitled "Man: Evolution in the Future."
"Artificial insemination could produce in a single generation quite drastic changes in height, intelligence, or any other quantitative trait with a high heritability if it were widely applied. ... [does a parent] have an inalienable right to produce a child that is uneducable? The right to reproduce at will is regarded as a basic human right. I cannot see this remaining true much longer. ... world wide control of birthrates is an absolute necessity ... If this is achieved with wide public acceptance, then some concern over differential reproduction is also in order. The means of eugenics are becoming acceptable. ... There is no unanimity now as to what constitutes positive eugenic goals ... We would surely agree that variety is to be preferred to uniformity as a hedge against unforeseen contingencies in the future. ... for the genes causing muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, Tay-Sachs disease and the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome to become extinct ... the question is one of means ... We have Nazi Germany as a horrible example of how badly such a program can go wrong. ... I want to see the subject [of negative eugenics] discussed. If eugenics is a dirty word we can find something else that means the same thing."
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Professor James Franklin Crow, Director of the American Eugenics Society (1971-1974 and 1979-1981), from the Conclusion of a symposium entitled "Advances in Human Genetics and Their Impact on Society." Birth Defects Original Articles Series, Volume 8, Number 4 (July 1972).
"It is conceivable, even inevitable, in the future society of which man will be a part that the population will be mated as carefully as the animal breeder now controls his stock."
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Harry L. Shapiro, President of the American Eugenics Society (1956-1963). Natural History, November-December 1933.
"There is no advanced civilization in any area where there has been a high degree of absorption of Negro genes. Nowhere in the world have the Negroes demonstrated that they have the creative capacity to make civilization."
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Eugenicist Professor Wesley George Critz, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, member of the American Eugenics Society and the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). Quote is from the racist pamphlet "The Biology of the Race Problem" in 1962, which was commissioned by Governor George Wallace and used by the racist American Eugenics Party.
"An even more serious threat to the genetic equilibrium is the saving of life through new medical techniques and improved public health measures. ... The old proposals had no solid scientific basis; the newer eugenic policies are based on recent large-scale studies of population trends in this country and on the recent findings of geneticists, sociologists, and psychologists. ... The new eugenic policies do not give offense. Everyone wants children to be wanted children. ... Heredity clinics are the first eugenic proposals that have been adopted in a practical form and accepted by the public. The word 'eugenics' is not associated with them. ... at a level somewhat above that of the mentally deficient, there are a substantial number of families among whom employment is irregular, who are constantly on and off relief. ... their birth rate is high. ... probably as many as half their children result from pregnancies that are not wanted at the time, or ever, by one or both parents. ... A reduction in the number of their unwanted children would further both the social and biological improvement of the population. ... People won't accept the idea that they are in general, second rate. We must rely on other motivations ... a system of voluntary unconscious selection. ... Let's base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care ... so that eugenics will move at last towards the high goal which Galton set for it. ... Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under a name other than eugenics. ... The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society."
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Major General Frederick Osborn, nephew of eugenicist Henry Fairfield Osborn, member of the Advisory Council (1928-1981), Director (1935 and 1969-1972), Secretary (1936 and 1954-1959), Treasurer (1969-1973), Secretary/Treasurer (1936-1945 and 1960-1968) and President, (1946-1952) of the American Eugenics Society. The Future of Human Heredity: An Introduction to Eugenics in Modern Society [1968], pages 81, 91, 93, 94, 98, 104 and 105.
American Greetings Card Company
"Men are always whining about how we are suffocating them. Personally, I think if you can hear them whining, you're not pressing hard enough on the pillow."
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Script of a 2000 American Greetings card, described in Tucker Carlson. "You Idiot!" Reader's Digest, January 2003, pages 33 and 34 [NOTE: Not a peep from the feminists, of course. But you can be they'd scream their heads off to the press if some card company came up with a slogan like "Women are always whining about how we are suffocating them. Personally, I think if you can hear them whining, you're not pressing hard enough on the pillow"].
American Humanist Association (AHA)
"I always steal a Bible out of a hotel. It makes the Gideons very happy. You know, they look and they have to replace a Bible and they say, 'We've got another convert.' Actually, I take them out of hotels because I wouldn't want a child to get hold of this pornographic book. Pornography is a symptom of a sick society — a society based on this book. Stories in the Bible are forerunners of the famous Hustler cover that shows a woman being put through a meat grinder. This is what we learn from this book that tells us how to rape, how to stone women and children, how to burn women as witches, and so on ... The Lord God invented women as a gadget — a useful gadget for men's pleasure and use. You take this gadget and you screw it on the bed and it does the housework."
"I have a very special feminist dream. That dream is that this model feminist ordinance should pass all over the nation. And that every woman who had ever been raped and every woman who has ever been battered and every girl-child who has ever been molested will sue under this ordinance the Gideons who distribute this pornographic book, everybody who publishes it, and everybody who preaches from it."
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Gina Allen, former Director of the American Humanist Association (AHA), quoted in "Gordon: Bible More Serious Threat Than Porn." National Federation for Decency Journal, September 1985, page 12; and Sun Belt syndicated columnist Charley Reese. "Humanists Show Their Fanaticism." Midland Reporter-Telegram, July 15, 1985.
"Our Humanist convictions should lead us into active participation in specialized organizations devoted to kindred causes. Without neglecting their primary loyalties, Humanists and Humanist groups should relate to and strengthen such organizations as, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Planned Parenthood Federation, and Protestants and other Americans United for Separation of Church and State."
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"Intergroup Relations of the American Humanist Association." The Humanist, January/February 1963.
"This is probably the first time that this august body [The American Humanist Association] has been addressed by someone under indictment on two counts of first-degree murder.
"The Inquisition is still alive and well. The only difference is that today it's much more dangerous and subtle. The inquisitors don't burn you at the stake anymore; they slowly sizzle you. They make sure you pay dearly for what you do. In fact, they kill you often in a subtle way. My situation is a perfect example of it.
"This is not self-pity, understand. I don't regret the position I'm in. I'm not a hero, either — by my definition, anyway. To me, anyone who does what should be done is not a hero. And I still feel that I'm only doing what I, as a physician, should do. A license has nothing to do with it; I am a physician and therefore I will act like a physician whenever I can. That doesn't mean that I'm more compassionate than anyone else, but there is one thing I am that many aren't and that's honest.
"The biggest deficiency today and the biggest problem with society is dishonesty. It underlies almost every crisis and every problem you can name. It's almost inevitable; in fact, it's unavoidable as you mature. We feel that a little dishonesty greases the wheels of society, that it makes things easier for everybody if we lie a little to each other. But all this dishonesty becomes cumulative after a while. If everyone were perfectly honest at all times, if human nature could stand that, you would find many fewer problems in the world.
"When we (my lawyers, sisters, medical technologist, and myself) first started this work [physician-assisted voluntary euthanasia], we didn't expect the explosion of publicity that followed. The mainstream media tried to make my work look very negative — they tried to make me look negative — so that they could denigrate the concept we're working on. They said I should not be identified with the concept, yet they strived to do just that. They insulted and denigrated me and then hoped that it would spill over onto the concept. It didn't work, however; according to the polls, people may be split 50-50 on what they think of me, but they are three-to-one in favor of the concept, and that's never changed.
"Now isn't it strange that on a controversial subject of this magnitude — one that cuts across many disciplines — the entire editorial policy of the country is on one side? Even on a contentious issue like abortion, there is editorial support for both sides. And our issue — death with dignity — as far as we're concerned, is simpler than abortion. So why is every mainstream editorial writer and newspaper in the country against us on this? Not one has come out in wholehearted support of us, even though public opinion is on our side.
"As I surmise it, they're in a conspiracy, which is not a revelation to many people. But with whom? Well, let's take a look at who's against this: organized religion, organized medicine, and organized big money. That's a lot of power.
"Why is organized medicine against this? For a couple of reasons, I think. First, because the so-called profession — which is no longer a profession; it's really a commercial enterprise and has been for a long time — is permeated with religious overtones. The basis of so-called medical ethics is religious ethics. The Hippocratic oath is a religious manifesto. It is not medical. Hippocrates didn't write it; we don't know who did, but we think it's from the Pythagoreans. So if you meet a physician who says "Life is sacred," be careful. We didn't study sanctity in medical school. You are talking to a theologian first, probably a businessperson second, and a physician third.
"The second reason that organized medicine is against physician-assisted voluntary euthanasia is the money involved. If a patient's suffering is curtailed by three weeks, can you imagine how much that adds up to in medical care? And a lot of drugs are used in the last several months and years of life, which add up to billions of dollars for the pharmaceutical industry.
"This is what is so dismaying to me, what makes me cynical. You have to be cynical in life when you read about a situation that's so terrible and so incorrigible. There are certain ways to deal with it: you can go along with it, which is hard to do; you can go insane, which is a refuge (and some do that); or you can face it with deep cynicism. I've opted for cynicism.
"In responding to the religious issues, I ask this: Why not let all the religious underpinnings of medicine apply only to the ethics of religious hospitals and leave the secular hospitals alone? The doctors who work in religious hospitals can refuse to do abortions, they can refuse assisted suicide or euthanasia, they can do anything they want. But they have no right to impose what they call a universal medical ethic on secular institutions.
"Besides, what is ethics? Can you define it? My definition is simple: Ethics is saying and doing what is right, at the time. And that changes. Seventy-five years ago, if I told you that for Christmas I was going to have a truck deliver 10 tons of coal to your house, you would have been delighted. If I told you that today, you would be insulted. Doing the right thing changes with time.
"That's true of human society also. There is a primitive society — I don't know which one exactly — whose members were shocked to learn that we embalm our dead, place them in boxes, and then bury them in the ground. Do you know what they do? They eat them. To them, it's ethical and moral and honorable to devour the corpse of your loved one. We're shocked at that, right? It's all a matter of acculturation, time, where you are, and who you are. If I visited this primitive society and I was a real humanist, I'd say, "Oh, that's interesting." And if the so-called savage in turn said "Gee, that's interesting what you do," then he or she would be a humanist. I used to define maturity as the inability to be shocked. So I guess in some ways we're still immature. But if you're truly mature, and a true humanist, you can never be shocked. If they eat their dead, so be it — that's their culture. But you know what our missionaries did, don't you? That's immoral action.
"I think you get the gist of my position."
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"A Modern Inquisition: Jack Kevorkian Talks Back." The Humanist, November/ December 1994. This is the adaptation of the speech given by Kevorkian when he received the 1994 Humanist Hero Award from the American Humanist Association (AHA).
American Jewish Congress (AJC)
"Did you know that abortion can be a religious requirement? Not just permitted, but required?"
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American Jewish Congress (AJC), in a $30,000 full-page ad in the February 28, 1989 issue of the New York Times entitled "Abortion and the Sacredness of Life." This statement, renamed "An open letter to those who would ban abortion," was run in the March 13-19, 1989 issue of Roll Call.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Nurses. The experience of participating in any abortion procedure goes directly against the medical emphasis on the preservation of life. On the gynecology hospital floor, amnio abortions are viewed by the nurses as the most upsetting experiences which occur and a symbol of abandonment by the medical staff. The ward nurses' comments speak clearly to the point of being left to cope with an upset patient who delivers late at night. ... The nurses found the physical contact with the fetus particularly difficult; it reminded them of the "preemies" just down the hall and made them uncomfortable about their own potential future pregnancies."
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Nancy B. Kaltreider, Sadja Goldsmith, and Alan J. Margolis. "The Impact of Midtrimester Abortion Techniques on Patients and Staff." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, September 15, 1979, pages 255 to 238.
American Medical Association (AMA)
"Thou shalt not kill: This Commandment is given to all and applies to all without exception; It matters not at what stage of development his victim may have arrived. It matters not how small or how apparently insignificant it may be. It is murder. A foul, unprovoked murder, and its blood, like the blood of Abel, will cry from earth to Heaven for vengeance" [1871].
"The Committee does not intend to raise the question of the rightness or wrongness of therapeutic abortion. This is a personal and moral consideration which in all cases must be faced according to the dictates of the conscience of the patient and her physician" [1967].
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The contrasting statements of the American Medical Association (AMA) on abortion in 1871 and in 1967. Quoted in William Brennan, Ph.D. "The A.M.A. on Abortion: Anatomy of Contrasting Policy Statements." The National Pro-Life Journal, Fall, 1980, Pro-Life Publications, Inc, pages 16 and 17.
"Men who cling to a noble profession only to dishonor it; False brethren; Educated assassins, These modern Herods; These men who, with corrupt hearts and blood-stained hands, destroy what they cannot reinstate, corrupt souls, and destroy the fairest fabric that God has ever created ... under the cloak of that medical profession; Monsters of iniquity" [1871].
"Conscientious practitioners performing therapeutic abortions for reasons other than those posing a threat to the life of the mother; Equally conscientious physicians who believe that all women should be masters of their own reproductive destinies and that the interruption of an unwanted pregnancy, no matter what the circumstances, should be solely an individual matter between the patient and her doctor" [1967]
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The contrasting statements of the American Medical Association (AMA) on abortionists in 1871 and in 1967. Quoted in William Brennan, Ph.D. "The A.M.A. on Abortion: Anatomy of Contrasting Policy Statements." The National Pro-Life Journal, Fall, 1980, Pro-Life Publications, Inc, pages 16 and 17.
"This fallacious idea that there is no life until quickening takes place, has been the foundation of, and formed the basis of, and been the excuse to ease or appease the guilty conscience which had led to the destruction of thousands of human lives [through abortion]."
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Dr. Isaac Quimby, writing in an 1887 issue of the American Medical Association Journal, quoted in Raymond Tatalovich and Byron Daynes. The Politics of Abortion: An Overview of U.S. Abortion Policy. 1981, page 21.
"[The American Medical Association] condemns the procuring of abortion, at every period of gestation, except as necessary for preserving the life of either mother or child and requests the zealous cooperation of the various state medical societies in pressing this subject upon the legislatures of the respective states."
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The 1859 unanimously adopted resolution of the Committee on Criminal Abortion of the American Medical Association (AMA), quoted in Horatio Storer. Criminal Abortion in America. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1860, pages 99 and 100.
"We cannot recall to mind an individual [woman] who has been guilty of this [abortion] crime (for it must be called a crime under every aspect), who has not suffered for many years afterward in consequence. And when health is finally restored, the freshness of life had gone, the vigor of mind and energy of body have forever departed."
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An American Medical Association (AMA) member physician, speaking about post-abortion syndrome (PAS) in 1870, quoted in Sheila M. Rothman. Women's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideas and Practices — 1870 to the Present. 1978, page 89.
American Public Health Association (APHA)
"This sobering book raises a grave question: will it be possible to assure the reproductive rights of women and men, internationally recognized for the first time by the landmark 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development? In a well-documented account, Mumford tells how in December 1974 the U.S. government adopted a policy on world population crucial for peace and development; how the policy was concealed in a restricted document (NSSM 200) for 14 years because of political influence by the Catholic Church; and how the Vatican and the Catholic Church have undermined and thwarted implementation of population policy vital for the security of the United States and other nations. Every American should be concerned about this alarming cover-up and subversion of democratic decision-making."
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Ruth Roemer, J.D., Adjunct Professor Emerita, UCLA School of Public Health, Past President, American Public Health Association (APHA), commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
"There is no advanced civilization in any area where there has been a high degree of absorption of Negro genes. Nowhere in the world have the Negroes demonstrated that they have the creative capacity to make civilization."
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Eugenicist Professor Wesley George Critz, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, member of the American Eugenics Society and the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). Quote is from the racist pamphlet "The Biology of the Race Problem" in 1962, which was commissioned by Governor George Wallace and used by the racist American Eugenics Party.
Americans for Constitutional Freedom (ACF)
"What Wildmon is doing is no different than what the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini did when he tried to suppress the sale of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses."
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Oren Teicher, director for 'Americans' for Constitutional Freedom (ACF), attacking Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association for testifying against pornography. Quoted in Tom Shales. "Wildmon Denies He's Acting As Censor." The Oregonian, June 22, 1989, page D9.
Americans for Religious Liberty (ARL)
"We can expect school Bible clubs to bring in adult missionaries to proselytize students as young as 11 or 12 without parental consent; divisiveness as students self-select into sectarian clubs on school premises; disappearance of traditional extracurricular activities; disruption of schools by such groups as the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and anti-women's right clubs."
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Excellent example of alarmist propaganda by Edd Doerr of "Americans for Religious Liberty," released for the purpose of supporting the censorship of the Christian viewpoint. Quoted in Conservative Chronicle, July 25, 1990, page 30.
"According to a myth carefully cultivated by the advocates of tax aid for sectarian private schools and of school-sponsored religious teaching of devotions, and accepted uncritically by many others who have no ax to grind, our country's public schools are "promoting the religion of secular humanism." The charge is sometimes as hard to refute as a drunk's claim that he is being pursued by purple polka-dot pterodactyls."
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Edd Doerr of Americans for Religious Liberty. "The Myth of Public-School Humanism." The Organized Attack on Public Education From the New Right. Texas State Teachers Association (Affiliated with the National Education Association), 316 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Texas 78701. 125 pages, undated.
"But the new [abortion] decisions come so close to allowing what the average man would call "abortion on demand" that Justice Burger might have saved his breath. By neatly dividing pregnancy into three trimesters and subjecting a woman only to medical restrictions imposed in good faith in the first two trimesters, the Court has given the abortion movement practically what it asked for."
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Edd Doerr and Paul Blanshard. "A Glorious Victory." The Humanist, May/June 1973, page 6.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
"Americans United urges the Justices to find the [pro-life] Missouri law unconstitutional because it has a clearly religious purpose and entangles church and state. It is precisely because religious faiths hold widely divergent views about when human life begins that we believe that the government must respect religious diversity and remain neutral, respecting the right of every woman to act in accordance with her conscience — religious or secular. Separation of church and state requires nothing less!"
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State, amicus brief for the Webster v. Reproductive Health Services Supreme Court case. As described in the organization's Church and State Newsletter, August 1989.
Evidence indicates that the two students who killed their peers, and ultimately themselves at Columbine High, felt alienated and ostracized. We know from experience that school-sponsored religious displays and worship invariably make some students feel like second-class citizens."
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Methodist Pastor Barry W. Lynn, President of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, in a May 19, 1999 press release. Quoted in "Still More Dumbing Down." From the Mail, The Wanderer, July 1, 1999, page 9.
Amherst College
"The European canon tells and retells the heroic tale of how males took charge of heaven and earth. We shall consider the formation of that ancient tradition from the perspective of modern works that revise, debunk, or reverse the parable. Classic texts will be paired with modern retellings or equivalents: Homer's Odyssey with Christine Bell's The Perez Family; The Homeric Hymns to Demeter with Jenny Joseph's Persephone; Aeschylus' Oresteia with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; Plato's Symposium with Henry James' The Bostonians; Virgil's Aeneid with Willa Cather's A Lost Lady and The Professor's House.
"We shall examine how the subordination of female to male supports other ranked categories: Mind/body, rational/irrational, public/private, heaven/earth, order/disorder. How do these hierarchies justify violence (rape, intra-familial murder, human sacrifice, silencing) in founding and maintaining the cultural order? How does the emergence of (homo)sexualities, ancient and modern, undermine the authority of this orderly, androcentric "nature?" What can be the cultural use of the great heroines and goddesses (Penelope, Demeter, Clytemnestra, Athena, Dido) as male constructs implicated in the silencing of ancient women? Does the project of filling that silence offer a basis for a modern non-exclusionary canon?"
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Amherst College catalog description of Women's and Gender Studies 14, "Ingrate Books: Chartering and Unchartering Patriarchy." Described in Comedy and Tragedy: College Course Descriptions and What They Tell Us About Higher Education (Herndon, Virginia: Young America's Foundation, 1998), page 6.
Andrade, Manny
"It was the politics of Roman Catholicism that made me crazy. The lunacy that we're going to make priests be celibate. The lunacy that women can't be priests. The thought that we want you and your money — we just don't want you [homosexuals] to live in a loving, monogamous relationship."
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Episcopal Brother Manny Andrade, a homosexual who ministers to people with AIDS, quoted in the September 10, 1997 Richmond Times-Dispatch. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1997 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here [NOTE: From an article of more than 70 column inches on Andrade's ministry to AIDS victims, this was the only quote which the Times-Dispatch saw fit to highlight in a sidebar.
Anglican Church
"Homosexuality may well not be a condition to be regretted but to have divinely ordered and positive qualities. ... Homosexual Christian believers should be encouraged to find in their sexual preferences such elements of moral beauty as may enhance their general understanding of Christ's calling. ... Homosexuality is not in general chosen: It is an expression of sexuality which derives from conditions of inherited impulsions or of early infant experience."
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Victoria Combe, Religion Correspondent. "Homosexuality is Divinely Ordered, Says Catechism." Daily Telegraph, June 11, 2001 [The 2001 Anglican Catechism was commissioned by the Archbishop of York of the Church of England, the Most Reverend David Hope, who gave it his imprimatur and described it in his foreword as "a celebration of Christian living." It was written by Canon Edward Norman, canon and treasurer of York Minster. It defines Anglicanism for the first time since Thomas Cranmer wrote The Book of Common Prayer in 1662. In the section on sexuality, it directly contradicts official teaching and the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey].
Angus, Vivienne
"I'm a great believer that in everybody is every animal, and every animal is in everybody."
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Vivienne Angus in her book Know Yourself Through Your Cat, in a review of the book in the September 9, 1991 International Herald Tribune. Also quoted in P.J. O'Rourke. American Spectator's Enemies List [New York City: The Atlantic Monthly Press], 1996, page 84.
Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
"I don't see a difference between a chimpanzee and my 4-1/2-year-old son. ... Certain species are capable of complex emotions, can communicate using language, and have a sense of self, all characteristics that once defined humanity. Chimps have 98.7 percent of DNA in common with humans. Both my son Christopher and your average adult chimpanzee obviously meet any minimum rational standard for entitlement to basic legal rights. ... There's 60 million people out there who tell me their dog is like Einstein, but as far as work done to figure out what dogs think about, there's hardly any. The early work I did in the 1980s, when I'd go into a courtroom and make an argument on behalf of a dog, people would just start laughing. ... You have an anencephalic child born with no brain and we give that child a whole panoply of rights, and you have animals like [chimpanzee] Alex who have complex and bright minds and they're treated like chairs."
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Steven Wise, president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund from 1984 to 1994, a longtime animal rights lawyer from Needham, Massachusetts, and author of the book Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights. Quoted in "Beastly Behavior?: A Law Professor Says It's Time to Extend Basic Rights to the Animal Kingdom." Washington Post, June 5, 2002, page C01 [Jane Goodall, the world's best-known primate researcher, calls Wise's first book Rattling the Cage "the animals' Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence and Universal Declaration of Rights all in one." In one public session, in answer to the question "Should an adult chicken have more rights than a human embryo?," Wise said "I haven't studied chickens, but if the chicken has more appreciation for life than the human embryo, then yes, the chicken should have more rights"].
Annan, Kofi (former Secretary General of the United Nations)
"Imagine melting polar icecaps and rising sea levels, threatening beloved and highly developed coastal areas such as Cape Cod with erosion and storm surges. Imagine a warmer and wetter world in which infectious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever spread more easily. This is not some distant, worst-case scenario. It is tomorrow's forecast."
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, during the commencement ceremonies on May 20, 2001, at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, during which he slammed President George W. Bush for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. "Chicken Little in Charge of the UN." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, May 30, 2001. From "Notes on the Human Tramedy" by Toronto writer Paul Tuns [The Boston Globe's weather forecast for May 21 was a high of 61 and partly cloudy].
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"The bitch had it coming to her. I'm glad he killed her. Too bad he'll probably spend the rest of his life in prison getting his little butt pounded, but still, I'm glad he killed her" [a San Francisco man on Yahoo].
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"The woman who did such great evil is dead, but unfortunately the evil and the church and the society which creates it is not, and it will continue to destroy Nicholas Gutierrez and many others. I shake, safely sitting here at home, fully understanding, and fully familiar with, the horrible impact her words must have had for a man already so terribly damaged by his society, and his own mother" [homosexual James Wagner].
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"Maybe [Stachowicz's murder] will strike fear in the hearts of a few fundamentalists. Where do I send a check for his (Gutierrez's) defense fund?" [James Wagner's "boyfriend," Barry].
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If she would have been minding her own [expletive] business instead of attempting to ram her religion where it didn't belong, none of this would have ever happened. "I really don't feel sorry for her. She paid a very steep price for being an arrogant religious fascist. Too bad for her" ["Iris," in a posting on the ACLU Online Forum].
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"Quite frankly, if anyone in this case was being 'persecuted' it was Mr. Gutierrez. Unfortunately for the victim this was a lesson that she learned too hard and too late. Maybe this will give pause to other people who similarly try to 'help' homosexuals" ["Silence Dogood," on the ACLU Online Forum].
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"It's Sad Someone Was Murdered, BUT ... I do wish the Religious Wrong would learn to mind their own business."
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"The RCC [Roman Catholic Church] is responsible for continuing to put forth a silly, stupid and factually wrong doctrine of 'objective disorders' and 'intrinsic moral evil' regarding homosexuality. For all the evil that that doctrine has done and continues to do, they have a lot to be held accountable for" ["JodyW," on the Naked Writing Web log].
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Web postings by people supporting and applauding the brutal murder of 51-year-old Mary Stachowicz by homosexual Nicholas Gutierrez, quoted in Allyson Smith. "'Gay' Reaction to Mrs. Stachowicz's Murder: Silence to Applause." Concerned Women for America Web site at cwfa.org, December 4, 2002 [NOTE: Gutierrez murdered Stachowicz on November 13, 2002. According to Chicago police, an argument broke out when Mrs. Stachowicz lectured Gutierrez about his lifestyle and his lack of direction in life. Gutierrez later told police that he had issues with his mother and that the way Stachowicz was talking to him gave him flashbacks of his mother that angered him. When Stachowicz asked him, "Why do you [have sex with] boys instead of girls?," Gutierrez punched, kicked, stabbed and strangled the 51-year-old wife and mother of four. He then stuffed her body into a crawl space under the floor of his apartment, where it remained for two days until he confessed to police. Predictably, no formal condemnations of Mrs. Stachowicz's murder have been issued by leading homosexual groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). We wonder if homosexuals would approve of Catholics slaughtering 'gays' if they perceived that they were being persecuted by them].
Oh, why are you men so foolish —
You breeders who breed our men
Let the fools, the weaklings and crazy
Keep breeding and breeding again?
The criminal, deformed, and the misfit,
Dependent, diseased, and the rest —
As we breed the human family
The worst is as good as the best.
Go to the house of some farmer,
Look through his barns and sheds,
Look at his horses and cattle,
Even his hogs are thoroughbreds;
Then look at his stamp on his children,
Low browed with the monkey jaw,
Ape handed, and silly, and foolish —
Bred true to Mendel's law.
Go to some homes in the village,
Look at the garden beds,
The cabbage, the lettuce and turnips,
Even the beets are thoroughbreds;
The look at the many children
With hands like the monkey's paw,
Bowlegged, flat headed, and foolish —
Bred true to Mendel's law.
This is the law of Mendel,
And often he makes it plain,
Defectives will breed defectives
And the insane breed insane.
Oh, why do we allow these people
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