"A woman of faith and wheels, the only thing Sister Mary prefers to high speed, vehicle-based combat is converting non-believers to her own special brand of religion. Although her swim wear is unorthodox, Sister Mary tries to find fun in the sun as often as she can. Besides, black makes me thinner, don't you think?"
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Advertisement for "Sister Mary Lascivious," a game featuring a gun-waving, scantily clad buxom nun, in the June 1998 issue of Ultra Gameplayers, a video game magazine by Imagine Media. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Underwager, Ralph (Institute for Psychological Therapies (IPT))
Paidika: "Is choosing pedophilia for you a responsible choice for the individual?"
Underwager: "Certainly it is responsible. ... Pedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say what they want is the best way to find love. I am also a theologian, and, as a theologian, I believe it is God's will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people. ... Pedophiles need to become more positive and make the claim that pedophilia is an acceptable expression of God's will for love and unity among human beings."
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Dr. Ralph Underwager, Lutheran pastor and founder of the Institute for Psychological Therapies in Northfield, Minnesota, who edits a quarterly journal Issues in Child Abuse Accusations with his wife, fellow 'sexpert' Hollida Wakefield, quoted in Paidika, the Dutch pro-pedophilia journal, and in Paul Likoudis. "Geoghan Case Reflects the Muck of a Deranged Society." The Wanderer, January 24, 2002, pages 1 and 7.
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)
"I do believe life is sacred, all life. It isn't all equally sacred. ... I happen to believe strongly in situation ethics, even though it has a bad name in some circles. But what else do we have? There is no other basis on which to live."
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Unitarian Universalist minister Jerry Goddard, speaking at the ninth annual meeting of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), June 9-12, 1985, at the Westin Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Quoted in Andrew Scholberg. "The Abortionists Meet: 1985." Primum Non Nocere [newsletter of the American Section of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life], Volume VI, Numbers 2 and 3, pages 1 through 6.
United Church of Canada
"To bring an unwanted child into the world is the greatest obscenity."
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Robert McClure, former Moderator of the United Church of Canada, quoted in Blodwen Piercy. "Who Are the ANTI-CHOICE and Why Do They Do What They Do?" Humanist in Canada, Autumn 1989, pages 3 to 5.
United Methodist Church
"Procreation is not the only purpose of sex, and those who in the name of religion defile a holy and beautiful relationship that has its own intrinsic values do themselves commit sin. Christian parents are morally obligated to plan for the coming of their children.
"The proper spacing of children is an expression of love, and therefore is a religious obligation. Those who condemn such planning as sinful commit sin, and cast reflection upon Christian men and women who in love take those steps necessary to the spacing of children and the health and happiness of the home."
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United Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, quoted in "Family Planning is Moral Duty, Religious Leaders Say." Planned Parenthood News, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Winter 1955, page 3.
United Nations
"In a floral dramatization of the number of women who die from pregnancy-related complications every year, the vast North Lawn at the United Nations in New York was carpeted two days before U.S. Mothers Day with half a million carnations — one flower for each victim. The commemorative event was sponsored by the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) and endorsed by United Nations agencies and dozens of national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Population Communications International ... it is predicted that unless family planning and maternal health care are continued and expanded, the memorial ritual will need 650,000 carnations in less than 10 years. ... "Imagine a jumbo jet circling over our heads," IPPF/WHR President Billie Miller told the dignitaries clustered amidst the half-million carnations. Miller, who is also a Barbados Member of Parliament, continued: "[The jet] is full of pregnant women. Now watch it crash in front of your eyes, here on the North Lawn. There are no survivors. There's another crash, every four hours, every day, all year long. That's how many women die from pregnancy and childbirth." The message was a graphic conclusion to the first IPPF/WHR Flowers for Mothers Day."
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International Dateline ["News of World Population and Development — A Service for Mass Media"] (Population Communications International), June 1992, pages 4 and 5.
"Polygamous marriages are not questioned by the Organization [the United Nations] when they were valid under the national laws of Member States. The Organization makes no value judgement on that type of marriage — it accepted it as a fact."
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Sandra Haji-Ahmed, Officer-in-Charge of the Office of United Nations Human Resources Management, at the United Nations Budget Committee meeting of March 19, 2004, where United Nations 'spousal' benefits for homosexuals was discussed. "UN: Don't Worry About our Support for Gay 'Marriage;' We Support Polygamy Too." LifeSite Daily News, March 23, 2004 [NOTE: Haji-Ahmed also explained at this meeting that United Nations staff who were polygamous could have all their spouses receive benefits].
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
"As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism ..."
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Towards World Understanding (1949), Page 58, Book V.
"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).
United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UNEUE)
"If Ethiopia wants to become less dependent on foreign food aid, all appropriate means should be explored to stop the ongoing population explosion. The dissemination of family planning methods, possibly linked with relief operations, must be stepped up. ... Family planning education should be pursued more aggressively and it might be worth contemplating how far a system of reward and punishment could help implement family planning strategies."
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March 20, 2003 statement of the United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UNEUE), quoted in "Ethiopia: Call for Better Family Planning to Stop Food Aid Dependency." allAfrica.com, March 20, 2003.
United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW)
"Lesbian Flirting"
"Lesbian and Mother" (on artificial insemination)
"Lesbianism for the Curious"
"Lesbian Activism from an Interfaith Perspective"
"Women in Black: A Gathering of Spirits"
"Guided Meditation for the Healing of Mother Earth"
"Celebrate the Goddess"
"How Religious Fundamentalism Helps the Spread of AIDS"
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Titles of some of te workshops at the United Nations Beijing Conference in 1995 (the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW)). Dale O'Leary. The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality [Lafayette, Louisiana: Vital Issues Press], 1997, page 180.
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
"Family Planning has a theme
Two children as each couple's dream;
Three years after marriage, one -
Before 33 childbearing's done.
Let a small family be your goal
Just choose a method of birth control
Methods are safe and simple too
A happy future waits for you."
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Poem from a population control pamphlet entitled "Paste Your Umbrella Before the Rain." Prepared by the Chinese Center for International Training in Family Planning of Taiwan. Funded by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). See "UNICEF and Population Control," United States Coalition for Life Newsletter dated January 1973 [NOTE: This pamphlet is distributed to every Taiwanese boy and girl graduating from secondary, high, and vocational schools].
"Reproductive health includes the following components: Counseling on sexuality, pregnancy, methods of contraception, abortion, infertility, infections and diseases. ... Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons. ... Sexual relations with a partner: Here we should insist there is no ideal or perfect relations between two or several people. The one that gives us the most satisfaction and that which is adopted to our way of being and the style of life we have chosen. This is why we encounter many differences among women. Some women like to have relations with men. And others with another woman."
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Excerpts from a Spanish-language book entitled "Theoretic Elements for Working with Mothers and Pregnant Teens" and the accompanying workshop book, funded and produced by UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund and distributed at the United Nations Child Summit. Quoted in George Archibald. "Child Sex Book Given Out at U.N. Summit." The Washington Times, May 10, 2002 [NOTE: The book and workbook were distributed by the Mexican government with United Nations funding. UNICEF spokesman Alfred Ironside said that "That book was a product of the Mexican government, supported by UNICEF financially as part of UNICEF's support to the Mexican government"].
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UNINSTRAW)
"What is gender? Gender is a concept that refers to a system of roles and relationships between women and men that are determined not by biology by the social, political and economic context. One's biological sex is a natural given; gender is constructed ... gender can be seen as the "... process by which individuals who are born into biological categories of male or female become the social categories of women and men through the acquisition of locally defined attributes of masculinity and femininity."
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UNINSTRAW [United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women]. "Gender Concepts in Development Planning: Basic Approach," 1995, page 11 [emphasis in the original].
United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
"When priests preach against using contraception, they are committing a serious mistake which is costing human lives. We do not ask the church to promote contraception, but merely to stop banning its use."
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Peter Piot, director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), which includes as member organizations the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNDCP), the United Nations International Labor Organization (UNILO), UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations World Bank, quoted in Elfriede Harth. "Letter from Brussels." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 2], pages 26 and 27.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
"I am China's old friend. ... China has made an indelible mark in the global population community. It is to be congratulated on its successful programs. ... I feel a great sense of pride that UNFPA made the wise decision to resist external pressures and continue its fruitful cooperation with China. ... I am confident that the cooperation between UNFPA and China will not only continue, but will also be further strengthened in the future. ... UNFPA and the Chinese Government are together developing the Fifth Country Program, which will continue the reproductive health and family planning activities and will address new issues."
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Excerpts from remarks by Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), during her acceptance of the People's Republic of China's "Population Prize Award." "Joining China, Girl Scouts Honor Former UNFPA Chief Sadik." Friday Fax (Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)), August 16, 2002 [Volume 5, Number 34]. Also see State Family Planning Commission of China. "Population Prize Award Ceremony, Speech by Nafis Sadik," January 12, 2002, and Steve Mosher. "UN Population Controllers Support Forced Abortion, Lose US Funding." Population Research Institute Weekly Briefing, August 2, 2002 [Volume 4, Number 18].
"[The policies advanced by UNFPA] may not reflect the narrow traditional moral boundaries which some people would draw around sexual behavior. In that case, I would suggest that the boundaries need to be redrawn. In many cases I believe that restrictive morality is being used falsely, as a means of asserting power, over women in particular. ... We must make male and female condoms far more widely available, and we must demand that men use them."
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Excerpts from the keynote address Of Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), at a conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in the Philippines. WAGGGS also presented Sadik with its "World Citizenship Award." "Joining China, Girl Scouts Honor Former UNFPA Chief Sadik." Friday Fax (Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)), August 16, 2002 [Volume 5, Number 34] [NOTE: According to the WAGGGS Web site, delegates to the convention "enjoyed listening to keynote speaker Dr. Nafis Sadik." The Web site also reports that "for the first time ever, young women from each of the regions formed a panel to discuss the prevention of adolescent pregnancy."
"It has been clear for a long time that family planning campaigns [without abortion] are largely ineffectual in producing a lower rate of population growth."
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United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), as quoted in James L. Buckley. "Sound Doctrine Revisited." Human Life Review, Summer 1985, page 85.
"Each country has its view of what is free, a free choice. If you refer to the case of China, I am very sure that the Chinese themselves will say that within their cultural norms, they are not at all coercive. Maybe from Western standards, these might not be totally acceptable, but then each country must determine that for themselves."
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April 1986 quote of Rafael Salas, former Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). "An Uncompromising Position: China, the UNFPA and U.S. Population Policy." Undated Zero Population Growth Backgrounder.
"Although some have accused the [Chinese] family planning program of employing coercive methods, the Government has never sanctioned the use of coercion."
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United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Abortion Policies: A Global Review. New York: United Nations, 1992. Volume 1, page 85.
"Thirty years ago, nations, their leaders, and the scientists of the world were conscious of and seriously preoccupied with the excessive growth of population, the imminent danger of destruction of the environment, and the frustration of hopes of development for most countries. Today, this awareness and concern no longer exist because the policy makers allowed themselves to be intimidated by conservative extremists guided by the Roman Catholic Church, and the scientists were supplanted by groups of merchants and charlatans - advisors and trainers - masquerading as researchers, who have arrogated to themselves the international funds destined for birth control.
"The universities and genuine scholars have given up, disgusted by the corruption and mockery of foreign aid programs, which have been and continue to be systematically torpedoed by WHO, UNFPA and AID.
"Steve Mumford is one of the few survivors of the dying breed who were the international apostles of birth control. His books on the historic culpability of the Vatican in the world's demographic and economic catastrophes constitute the solitary and courageous voice of those who dare to identify the number one enemy. Thanks to his writing, many people now know about the great injury that this small theocracy inflicts on the world. But it is time to point out how the Vatican contrives to destroy, from within, international aid programs for family planning."
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Mario Jaramillo, M.D., Latin American birth control pioneer, and founder of the first family planning clinic in Medellin, Colombia in 1958. During the period from 1969-1992, he was employed by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) population/family planning contractors, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, John Snow and POPTECH and several local AID missions. He was a consultant to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from 1972 to 1978 and to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in 1974 and 1975. Here he is favorably 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.
"China, having adopted practical measures in accordance with her current situation, has scored remarkable achievements in population control."
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Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), to the Chinese People's Daily newspaper. Quoted in "UN Agency Still Praises China's Coercive Population Control Programs." Friday FAX [C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute], August 24, 2001 [Volume 4, Number 36].
"For all the bad press, China has achieved the impossible. The country has solved its population problem."
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Sven Burmester, United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) representative in China. Quoted in "UN Agency Still Praises China's Coercive Population Control Programs." Friday FAX [C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute], August 24, 2001 [Volume 4, Number 36].
"China has every reason to feel proud of and pleased with its remarkable achievements made in its family planning policy and control of its population growth over the past 10 years. Now the country could offer its experiences and special experts to help other countries."
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Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), quoted by China's official news agency Xinhua on April, 11, 1991. Also described in "Canada Donates $9 Million to UNFPA — Funders of China's One-Child Policy." LifeSite Daily News, May 7, 2001.
United Nations Secretary General
"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 [NOTE: Just for the record, the Boston Globe's weather forecast for May 21 was a high of 61 and partly cloudy].
United Poultry Concerns (UPC)
"Conceptually attacking the taboo against bestiality would help people to overcome their profound prejudice and discrimination against nonhuman animals."
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Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns Inc., quoted in Mark Steyn. "Animal Husbandry of a Different Nature." National Post, August 16, 2001.
United Religions Initiative (URI)
"There is a lot of terror and violence in a lot of scripture. There has to be a critique of that. We have to hold the religions' feet to the fire for the violence and terror within them. ... The nations of the world have met every day for the past fifty years, the religions of the world have not. Who is more moral, the nations of the world or the religions of the world?"
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Episcopal Bishop of San Francisco, William E. Swing, founder of the United Religions Initiative (URI), quoted in C-FAM [Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute]. "UN Religious Meeting Blames Religion for Terror Attack On US." Friday Fax, October 12, 2001 [Volume 4, Number 42] [NOTE: The URI seeks to create a permanent body of religious ambassadors — a parallel organization to the UN — to address the problem of "fundamentalists in our own groups," an issue that traditional religion "wimps out on," according to Swing. The Vatican has condemned the URI for syncretism, which is the blending together of elements of all religions].
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
"Thirty years ago, nations, their leaders, and the scientists of the world were conscious of and seriously preoccupied with the excessive growth of population, the imminent danger of destruction of the environment, and the frustration of hopes of development for most countries. Today, this awareness and concern no longer exist because the policymakers allowed themselves to be intimidated by conservative extremists guided by the Roman Catholic Church, and the scientists were supplanted by groups of merchants and charlatans - advisors and trainers - masquerading as researchers, who have arrogated to themselves the international funds destined for birth control.
"The universities and genuine scholars have given up, disgusted by the corruption and mockery of foreign aid programs, which have been and continue to be systematically torpedoed by WHO, UNFPA and AID.
"Steve Mumford is one of the few survivors of the dying breed who were the international apostles of birth control. His books on the historic culpability of the Vatican in the world's demographic and economic catastrophes constitute the solitary and courageous voice of those who dare to identify the number one enemy. Thanks to his writing, many people now know about the great injury that this small theocracy inflicts on the world. But it is time to point out how the Vatican contrives to destroy, from within, international aid programs for family planning."
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Mario Jaramillo, M.D., Latin American birth control pioneer, and founder of the first family planning clinic in Medellin, Colombia in 1958. During the period from 1969-1992, he was employed by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) population/family planning contractors, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, John Snow and POPTECH and several local AID missions. He was a consultant to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from 1972 to 1978 and to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in 1974 and 1975. Here he is favorably 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.
"With courage and scholarship, Stephen Mumford has during 20 years stood as a rock against the media code-of-silence tide which has fostered the incessant anti-democratic and anti-American machinations of the Vatican and Catholic Bishops — glaringly revealed in the 1975 'Bishops' Pastoral Plan for Prolife Activities.' "To rescue its tyrannical religious empire from encroaching scientific enlightenment, the Roman Catholic Church asserts the dogma of papal infallibility and thereby seeks to establish Vatican control of reproductive rights and democratic processes. The extent to which they succeeded during the 1970s and 80s in suppressing highest-level U.S. determinations of actions needed to protect the security of the U.S. and the world from explosive population increase — derailing the world-leading U.S. population/family planning assistance program — makes for dismal but essential reading for every true patriot concerned about our democratic future and the global environment."
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Reimert T. Ravenholt, M.D., President, Population Health Imperatives, Seattle, WA, Former Director, 1966-1979, Office of Population, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of State, 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.
The following quote forthrightly admits that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has attempted bribery in order to try to get the Catholic Church to stop opposing population control programs.
"For 28 years I was an AID Population Officer, beginning my career at the end of 1969 in Chile. There, I witnessed two very serious interventions by the Catholic Church that negatively affected family planning. The Church was instrumental in convincing the Government to terminate the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering and successful family planning services project in the National Health Service. The number of women served immediately plummeted.
"After a year of academic training in population/family planning at the University of Chicago, Professor Donald J. Bogue told me about an AID-funded population project in Chile that had consumed millions of dollars with no apparent output. AID had given a $5 million grant to Father Roger Vekemans (a Belgian Jesuit priest) to persuade the Catholic Church in Latin America not to oppose family planning initiatives. Upon my arrival, I found that not only had this four-year old project never been audited, but no such review was planned. The requested audit was finally scheduled after many months of delay in Washington. Toward the end of the examination of the financial records, when the audit team could document legitimate expenditures of only $1.3 million out of the $5 million, a fire at Father Vekemans's office destroyed all the records. These were but the first two of scores of examples of Catholic interference in family planning programs during my tenure in AID, of which I have personal knowledge.
"I have dealt with opposition to family planning by the Vatican and the local Church in every country where I have been posted except Egypt. I have often been told by my host country counterparts about periodic private meetings of their Presidents with the Papal Nuncio or their Archbishop at the behest of these clergymen to pressure the governments to either stop or de-emphasize family planning.
"When Ronald Reagan became President in 1980, I was told that a political deal had been made before the election that would have a negative impact on AID's Population Program. An accelerated and sustained decline in the AID program began. By then, most of Dr. Ravenholt's original team had been forced into retirement or transferred out of the Office of Population. I was in the Africa Bureau from 1980-1983. The Reagan Administration appointed Francis Ruddy (a Catholic) as head of all of Africa. From the minute Ruddy arrived he aggressively tried to stop all family planning projects. He had been a lawyer for the Texas Right to Life Committee before receiving his political appointment to AID. He wrought havoc on family planning in Africa.
"Since 1977, the program has sharply deteriorated every year so that today it is judged to be inconsequential by many who know its history. We believe that were the program terminated today, it would have no appreciable effect on birth rates around the world. I would be very surprised if AID is getting even 25 cents' worth of family planning services for each dollar earmarked for population programs. More than 75 cents of every dollar is spent on non-family planning services activities.
"The Church has successfully savaged what was the most effective program in AID's history and all who have stood like a 'rock,' as one reviewer referred to Steve Mumford, have been mercilessly liquidated from the family planning program.
Following are just a few who have fought for the survival of the program and who have been purged: Dr. Ravenholt, Dr. Willard Boynton, Dr. Benjamin Viel, Dr. Mario Jaramillo, Dr. Juan B. Londono, Dr. Elton Kessel, and Dr. Stephen Mumford."
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John Paul James, Population Officer, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 1969-1997. He had tours of duty in six countries in Latin America, the Middle East and in Africa, plus three tours in Washington with the central Office of Population, the Africa Bureau, and the Europe and Newly Independent States Bureau (no other person has had more experience in the AID Population Program). Here he is favorably 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.
United States Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
"The current belief that illegitimacy will be reduced if teenage girls are given an effective contraceptive is an extension of the same reasoning that created the problem in the first place. It reflects an unwillingness to face problems of social control and social discipline, while trusting some technological device to extricate society from its difficulties. The irony is that the illegitimacy rise occurred precisely while contraceptive use was becoming more, rather than less, widespread and respectable."
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Professor Kingsley Davis of the United States Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. "The American Family, Relation to Demographic Change." Research Reports, United States Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. Volume I, Demographic and Social Aspects of Population Growth, edited by Robert Parke, Jr., and Charles F. Westoff. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1972, page 253.
United States Congress
"There has been no change in the percentage of sexually active teens who become pregnant, but there has been a huge increase in the percentage of teens who are sexually active. And this increase in sexual activity has led to a proportionate increase in pregnancies to unmarried teens. ... The contraceptive failure rate for teens who always use contraceptives is about 10% (Zelnik and Kantner, 1976 and 1979). Therefore, hypothetically, if sexual activity among teens reached 100% and the constant use of contraceptives 100%, we would still have a pregnancy rate of about 10%."
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Report of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families. "Teen Pregnancy: What is Being Done? A State-By-State Look." Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1985, pages 378 and 385.
"Hamster-egg penetration assay: The husband's sperm are incubated with hamster eggs and watched for signs of fertilization. While penetration of the ova by a sperm is a sign of normal sperm, the reliability and significance of the test is controversial. Food for thought: conception between an animal and a man takes place during this laboratory procedure. Average cost: $275 ($35-390)."
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Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress. Infertility: Medical and Social Choices. Publication OTA-BA-358. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, May 1988, page 141.
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
"Though rare, it is possible for women using combined pills (synthetic estrogen and progestogen) to ovulate. Then other mechanisms work to prevent pregnancy. Both kinds of pills make the cervical mucus thick and 'inhospitable' to sperm, discouraging any entry to the uterus. In addition, they make it difficult for a fertilized egg to implant, by causing changes in Fallopian tube contractions and in the uterine lining. These actions explain why the minipill works, as it generally does not suppress ovulation."
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United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in its 1984 pamphlet entitled "Facts About Oral Contraceptives."
United States Department of State
"[Mankind is] the cancer of the planet."
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"U.S. Presents Views on Population Growth and Economic Development." Department of State Bulletin, January 31, 1966, page 176.
"Perhaps we [Americans] should relax a little and recognize that the recipient countries have to make their own decisions about the trade-offs between pressing demographic problems and the policies needed to deal with them. In the curve of human history, we have just arrived at the stage of recognizing that human success in affecting mortality imposes an obligation to regulate fertility. We are still learning how to do it with minimal interference with human freedom. We do not have time for leisurely experimentation. The most successful crash programs in the third world have involved the manipulation of group pressures and incentives and disincentives. We should not automatically turn against those problems simply because we have the luxury of not sharing their problem, here at home."
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Former Deputy Assistant of State for Environmental and Population Affairs Lindsey Grant, quoted in "A Population Focus for U.S. Aid." Negative Population Growth Forum, June 1987, page 6.
United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
"IUDs [intrauterine devices] seem to interfere in some manner with the implantation of the fertilized egg in the lining of the uterine cavity. The IUD does not prevent ovulation."
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United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "Text of Required Patient Information for IUDs." Federal Register, May 10, 1977.
"Progestin-only contraceptives are known to alter the cervical mucus, exert a progestinal effect on the endometrium, interfering with implantation, and, in some patients, suppress ovulation."
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United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in testimony included in the Federal Register, 41:236, December 7, 1976, page 53,634.
United States National Institutes for Health (NIH)
"Inasmuch as it is cadaver tissue [from abortions] we are concerned with, and inasmuch as it would ordinarily be disposed of; and inasmuch as research on this tissue holds the promise of saving countless lives and alleviating the suffering of countless others, we find the use of such tissues acceptable."
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United States National Institutes for Health (NIH), October 1988 Draft Report of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplant Panel [NOTE: Notice how strikingly similar this language is to that of Nazi doctor Julius Hallervorden, who defended himself at the Nuremberg War Criminal Trials by stating to the Court; "I heard that they were going to do that and so I went up to them: "Look here now boys, if you are going to kill all these people at least take the brains out, so that the material could be utilized"].
"Human embryonic and fetal tissues are available from the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology at the University of Washington. The laboratory, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissues from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term" [NOTE: "Term" means that the NIH is extracting tissues from babies aborted just before birth]. "Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators."
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National Institutes for Health (NIH) booklet extolling its products, quoted in Charley Reese. "Two Evils Join Forces on Abortion." Social Justice Review [Catholic Central Union of America], May/June 2000, page 67.
United States National Security Council (NSC)
"Priority should be given in the general aid program to selective development policies in sectors offering the greatest promise of increased motivation for smaller family size" [¶30d].
"Development of a worldwide political and popular commitment to population stabilization is fundamental to any effective strategy. This requires the support and commitment of key LDC [lesser-developed country] leaders. This will only take place if they clearly see the negative impact of unrestricted population growth and believe it is possible to deal with this question through governmental action. The U.S. should encourage LDC leaders to take the lead in advancing family planning and population stabilization both within multilateral organizations and through bilateral contacts with other LDCs. This will require that the President and the Secretary of State treat the subject of population growth control as a matter of paramount importance and address it specifically in their regular contacts with leaders of other governments, particularly LDCs" [¶30f].
"These include, for example, our own consumption patterns, mandatory programs, tight control of our food resources" [¶37].
"The location of known reserves of higher-grade ores of most minerals favors increasing dependence of all industrialized regions on imports from less developed countries. The real problems of mineral supplies lie, not in basic physical sufficiency, but in the politico-economic issues of access, terms for exploration and exploitation, and division of the benefits among producers, consumers, and host country governments. ... Whether through government action, labor conflicts, sabotage, or civil disturbance, the smooth flow of needed materials will be jeopardized. Although population pressure is obviously not the only factor involved, these types of frustrations are much less likely under conditions of slow or zero population growth. ... the U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries [See National Commission on Materials Policy, Towards a National Materials Policy: Basic Data and Issues, April 1972]. That fact gives the U.S. enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States" [Part One, Analytical Section, Chapter III, "Minerals and Fuel].
"It is also now widely believed that something more that family planning services will be needed to motivate other couples to want smaller families and all couples to want replacement levels essential to the progress and growth of their countries" [Chapter IV, "Economic Development and Population Growth, part III, "The Effect of Development on Population Growth"].
"There is also the danger that some LDC leaders will see developed country pressures for family planning as a form of economic or racial imperialism; this could well create a serious backlash" [Part Two, "Policy Recommendations," I, "Introduction - A U.S. Global Population Strategy," C, "Instruments and Modalities for Population Assistance"].
"It is vital that the effort to develop and strengthen a commitment on the part of the LDC leaders not be seen by them as an industrialized country policy to keep their strength down or to reserve resources for use by the "rich" countries. Development of such a perception could create a serious backlash adverse to the cause of population stability. Thus the U.S. and other "rich" countries should take care that policies they advocate for the LDC's would be acceptable within their own countries. (This may require public debate and affirmation of our intended policies.) The "political" leadership role in developing countries should, of course, be taken whenever possible by their own leaders. The U.S. can help to minimize charges of an imperialist motivation behind its support of population activities by repeatedly asserting that such support derives from a concern with: (a) the right of the individual couple to determine freely and responsibly their number and spacing of children and to have information, education, and means to do so; and (b) the fundamental social and economic development of poor countries in which rapid population growth is both a contributing cause and a consequence of widespread poverty. The conclusion of this view is that mandatory programs may be needed and that we should be considering these possibilities now. On what basis should such food resources then be provided? Would food be considered an instrument of national power? Will we be forced to make choices as to whom we can reasonably assist, and if so, should population efforts be a criterion for such assistance? Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth? ... Are mandatory population control measures appropriate for the U.S. and/or for others?" [Part Two, "Policy Recommendations," I, "Introduction - A U.S. Global Population Strategy," F, "Development of World-Wide Political and Popular Commitment to Population Stabilization and Its Associated Improvement of Individual Quality of Life"].
"It is clear that the availability of contraceptive services and information, important as that is, is not the only element required to address the population problems of the LDCs. Substantial evidence shows that many families in LDCs (especially the poor) consciously prefer to have numerous children for a variety of economic and social reasons. For example, small children can make economic contributions on family farms, children can be important sources of support for old parents where no alternative form of social security exists, and children may be a source of status for women who have few alternatives in male-dominated societies. ... Similarly, there have been some controversial, but remarkably successful, experiments in India in which financial incentives, along with other motivational devices, were used to get large numbers of men to accept vasectomies" [II, "Action to Create Conditions for Fertility Decline: Population and a Development Assistance Strategy," B, "Functional Assistance Programs to Create Conditions for Fertility Decline," Discussion].
"The great necessity is to convince the masses of the population that it is to their individual and national interest to have, on the average, only three and then only two children. There is little likelihood that this result can be accomplished very widely against the background of the cultural heritage of today's adults, even the young adults, among the masses in most LDCs. Without diminishing in any way the effort to reach these adults, the obvious increased focus of attention should be to change the attitudes of the next generation, those who are now in elementary school or younger. If this could be done, it would indeed be possible to attain a level of fertility approaching replacement in 20 years and actually reaching it in 30" [II, "Action to Create Conditions for Fertility Decline: Population and a Development Assistance Strategy," B, "Functional Assistance Programs to Create Conditions for Fertility Decline," 6, "Concentration on Education and Indoctrination of The Rising Generation of Children Regarding the Desirability of Smaller Family Size," Discussion].
"Finally, providing integrated family planning and health services on a broad basis would help the U.S. contend with the ideological charge that the U.S. is more interested in curbing the numbers of LDC people than it is in their future and well-being. While it can be argued, and argued effectively, that limitation of numbers may well be one of the most critical factors in enhancing development potential and improving the chances for well-being, we should recognize that those who argue along ideological lines have made a great deal of the fact that the U.S. contribution to development programs and health programs has steadily shrunk, whereas funding for population programs has steadily increased. While many explanations may be brought forward to explain these trends, the fact is that they have been an ideological liability to the U.S. in its crucial developing relationships with the LDCs. A.I.D. currently spends about $35 million annually in bilateral programs on the provision of family planning services through integrated delivery systems. Any action to expand such systems must aim at the deployment of truly low- cost services. Health-related services which involve costly physical structures, high skill requirements, and expensive supply methods will not produce the desired deployment in any reasonable time. The basic test of low- cost methods will be whether the LDC governments concerned can assume responsibility for the financial, administrative, manpower and other elements of these service extensions. Utilizing existing indigenous structures and personnel (including traditional medical practitioners who in some countries have shown a strong interest in family planning) and service methods that involve simply-trained personnel, can help keep costs within LDC resource capabilities" [IV, "Provision and Development of Family Planning Services, Information and Technology," B, "Development of Low-cost Delivery Systems"].
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National Security Council Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200, or "The Kissinger Report"), April 24, 1974. The complete text of NSSM 200 is on the Library Compact Disk in directory NATIONS/USA/CONGRESS.
United States Postal Service (USPS)
"The new stamp will serve as a reminder for all members of our society of the current world environmental situation and the need for planning to have a better America and a better world."
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United States Postal Service (USPS) comments on its 1972 eight-cent stamp showing a perfectly groomed, White, "gender-balanced" family joyously embarking on the wide and smooth road to the Brave New World. Shown in "Family Planning Gets "Stamp of Approval" From U.S. Postal Service." Pittsburgh Planned Parenthood newsletter, February-March 1972, page 4. The USPS unveiled its new "Family Planning" stamp at the winter meeting of the Planned Parenthood-World Population Board of Directors in New York City on March 17, 1972.
University of Maryland
"FORBIDDEN SPEECH AND BEHAVIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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Idle chatter of a sexual nature;
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Graphic sexual descriptions; sexual slurs; sexual innuendoes;
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Comments about a person's clothing, body, and/or sexual activities
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Sexual teasing;
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Suggestive or insulting sounds such as whistling, wolf-calls, or kissing sounds;
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Sexually provocative compliments about a person's clothes;
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Comments of a sexual nature about weight, body shape, size, or figure;
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Comments or questions about the sexuality of a person, or his/her spouse or significant other;
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Pseudo-medical advice such as "You might be feeling bad because you didn't get enough [sex]" or "A little Tender Loving Care (TLC) will cure your ailments;"
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Telephone calls of a sexual nature;
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"Staged whispers" or mimicking of a sexual nature about the way a person walks, talks or sits;
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Sexual looks such as leering and ogling with suggestive overtones; licking lips or teeth; holding or eating food provocatively; and lewd gestures, such as hand or sign language to denote sexual activity;
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Gender-based communications about women or men and course materials that ignore or depreciate a group based on their gender
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Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silvergate. The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (New York: The Free Press, 1998), pages 154 and 155 [NOTE: Whatever happened to "free sex?" This list shows that the liberals are the people who are the most controlling. They pretend to offer sexual freedom and then exert control to the smallest detail. It also shows that, when you discard moral standards, you must, in their place, control all aspects of a person's life to the minutest detail. The above "standards of conduct" would not be necessary if we all just lived as we should].
University of Michigan
"How To Be Gay 101
Engl. 317. Literature and Culture.
001 - How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation
Instructor(s): David Halperin
Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($35) required.
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
"Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn't mean that you don't have to learn how to become one. Gay men do some of that learning on their own, but often we learn how to be gay from others, either because we look to them for instruction or because they simply tell us what they think we need to know, whether we ask for their advice or not. This course will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay identity. We will approach it from three angles: (1) as a sub-cultural practice — subtle, complex, and difficult to theorize — which a small but significant body of work in queer studies has begun to explore; (2) as a theme in gay male writing; (3) as a class project, since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand. In particular, we'll examine a number of cultural artifacts and activities that seem to play a prominent role in learning how to be gay: Hollywood movies, grand opera, Broadway musicals, and other works of classical and popular music, as well as camp, diva-worship, drag, muscle culture, style, fashion, and interior design. Are there a number of classically "gay" works such that, despite changing tastes and generations, ALL gay men, of whatever class, race, or ethnicity, need to know them, in order to be gay? What roles do such works play in learning how to be gay? What is there about these works that makes them essential parts of a gay male curriculum? Conversely, what is there about gay identity that explains the gay appropriation of these works? One aim of exploring these questions is to approach gay identity from the perspective of social practices and cultural identifications rather than from the perspective of gay sexuality itself. What can such an approach tell us about the sentimental, affective, or aesthetic dimensions of gay identity, including gay sexuality, that an exclusive focus on gay sexuality cannot? At the core of gay experience there is not only identification but disidentification. Almost as soon as I learn how to be gay, or perhaps even before, I also learn how not to be gay. I say to myself, "Well, I may be gay, but at least I'm not like THAT!" Rather than attempting to promote one version of gay identity at the expense of others, this course will investigate the stakes in gay identifications and disidentifications, seeking ultimately to create the basis for a wider acceptance of the plurality of ways in which people determine how to be gay. Work for the class will include short essays, projects, and a mandatory weekly three-hour screening (or other cultural workshop) on Thursday evenings (Halperin)."
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The verbatim description of the course "How To Be Gay 101" from the University of Michigan's Fall 2000 course catalog. National Review's "NR Wire" at http://www.nationalreview.com/, March 17, 2000.
usqueers.com
"Ronald Reagan, ex-President, deserves to experience a horrible death soon, and is getting what he deserves [Alzheimer's]. As President, he couldn't remember to deal with the growing AIDS pandemic, couldn't remember to give some money to the Centers for Disease Control for drug treatment research, couldn't remember to authorize the publication of factual information about how the disease was being spread, etc. — all because he is a het supremacist, and the suffering and dying were 'only Queers.' Ronald Reagan is personally responsible for the long and torturous deaths of hundreds of thousands of gay men in the U.S.A. from AIDS."
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Susan Jones. "Website Urges Death for 'Heterosexual Supremacists'." CNSNews.com, November 26, 2001 [NOTE: The Web site is http://www.usqueers.com, and it notes that Reagan is very ill, and says it hopes to add his name to its "Good Riddance" section very soon. Other "het supremacists" who "deserve a horrible death," according to the Web site, include Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Sen. Strom Thurmond ("the oldest racist, sexist, homosexual-hating jerk in the Senate"); Pat Robertson ("the anti-Christ if there is one ... All we can do is say he really has earned the horrible death he has coming to him as soon as possible"); Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women for America; Gary Bauer, Paul Weyrich; the Rev. Lou Sheldon; James Dobson, and other religious and conservative leaders. Under a "wanted" style poster on its homepage ("Wanted To Experience a Horrible Death By Any Means Soon"), the usQueers.com website offers the following disclaimer: "usQueers.com does not authorize, ratify or directly threaten acts of violence toward the people or organizations on this list." However, a note immediately below the disclaimer says the website intends to list the following information about its targets: Home address, home phone, office address, office phone, studio address, church address, girlfriend's/boyfriend's address, favorite hangouts, family members, details about automobiles — "just about anything which could be useful in spotting these dangerous het supremacists when they are wandering around loose." In the "About Us" section of usQueers.com, B. Allan Ross of San Diego is identified as "your host for this website ... the public voice for usQueers.com." A web search reveals that Ross, a self-described atheist, is the pastor of "The Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Church" (LLAPH), which requires all members to be either "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed, or the child of at least one of those." "We hope that no one ever violates the religious rights of our members," says the church's website. "To discriminate against you because you are following the requirements of a church to which you belong would be religious discrimination," it says.
Utopian Anarchist Party (UAP)
"There are many fourteen year olds at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky, who are sick of mainstream morality. When one saw Christians in the front hall of his school, praying and trying to make the schools force others to pray, it made him sick. For him, Christianity was a glaring symbol of everything that American society and school was — to him, Christianity was authoritarianism at its worst. So one day, to the applause of his friends, he came to school with a rifle and three other guns, and when he came upon the Christian pigs praying in his school's front hallway, he opened fire on them, killing three and wounding five others before stopping.
"Anarchists commented on the slaughter, stating: "I understand this — Christians are annoying. They go out, they block Manson concerts and try to convert kids, they cause general trouble, and they just stick their nose in our business and our lives. If they want to do all this pig s— then they have to expect the results that come when you piss people off, in other words, they've got to expect to be shot, and it's not because their religion is so threatening, it's just because they piss people off, and this is a time and a place where people just don't want to be pissed off. I've been telling these pigs this s— for years. When they come down and hang around the gay clubs and try to chase people [fornicating homosexuals] out of the parks, I go out and tell them that if they don't get out of here I'm gonna shoot them, and I will. These pigs are cowards — they always leave when they recognize I'm serious — don't f— with me. This kid [the student who killed the Christians in Paducah] was a good kid. While what he did was a bit poorly planned, it was certainly understandable, and I think it represents the general opinion of the mass of students. The Jesus freaks are a small, but loud, minority, and they have grown more annoying than their public support will bear. Either the Christians will stop or people will stop them. As to the question of Satan and the link to other Satanic killings in that general area of the South, as one man has said, "The time has come it is quite clear, our anti-christ is almost here — Christians repent your faith." The score from this [Paducah] incident is quite clear — Satan 8, Christians 0. I think Christians had better start looking at and evaluating that score. If not, they will be annihilated.""
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"Holy S—! Christians Massacred by Kentucky Student." Utopian Anarchist Party Newsletter #73 [January 1998], pages 1 and 3. The UAP Web site is at http://www.overthrow.com.
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