"There's this gorgeous twenty-four-year-old woman in our neighborhood and I stare at her all the time. One day she invites me into her car. She asks me if I like to kiss boys, and I tell her I do not like that. Then she says she wants to show me something, and she leans over and kisses me so softly on the lips with her lips and then puts her tongue in my mouth. Wow. She asks me if I want to come over to her house, and then she kisses me again and tells me to relax, to feel it, to let our tongues feel it. She asks my mama if I can spend the night and my mother's delighted that such a beautiful, successful woman has taken an interest in me. I'm scared but really I can't wait. Her apartment's fantastic. She's got it hooked up. It's the seventies: The beads, the fluffy pillows, the mood lights. I decide right there that I want to be a secretary like her when I grow up. She makes a vodka for herself and then she asks what I want to drink. I say the same as she's drinking and she says she doesn't think my mama would like me drinking vodka. I say she probably wouldn't like me kissing girls, either, and the pretty lady makes me a drink. Then she changes into this chocolate satin teddy. She's so beautiful. I always thought bulldaggers were ugly. I say, "You look great," and she says, "So do you." I say "But I only have this white cotton bra and underpants." Then she dresses me, slowly in another satin teddy. It's lavender like the first soft days of spring. The alcohol has gone to my head and I'm loose and ready. I noticed that there's a picture over her bed of a naked black woman with a huge afro as she gently and slowly lays me out on the bed. And just our bodies rubbing makes me come. Then she does everything to me and my coochi snorcher that I always thought was nasty before, and wow I'm so hot, so wild. She says, "Your vagina, untouched by man, smells so nice, so fresh, wish I could keep it that way forever." I get crazy wild and then the phone rings and of course it's my mama. I'm sure she knows; she catches me at everything. I'm breathing so heavy and I try to act normal when I get on the phone and she asks me, "What's wrong with you, have you been running?" I say, "No, Mama, exercising." Then she tells the beautiful secretary to make sure I'm not around boys and the lady tells her, "Trust me, there's no boys around here." Afterward the gorgeous lady teaches me everything about my coochi snorcher. She makes me play with myself in front of her and she teaches me all the different ways to give myself pleasure. She's very thorough. She tells me to always know how to give myself pleasure so I'll never need to rely on a man. In the morning I am worried that I've become a butch because I'm so in love with her. She laughs, but I never see her again. I realized later she was my surprising, unexpected, politically incorrect salvation. She transformed my sorry-ass coochi snorcher and raised it up into a kind of heaven."
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Monologue by a woman, describing her seduction by a "gorgeous" 24-year-old lesbian when she was only 13 years old in the skit called "The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could." From the Neofeminist production entitled "The Vagina Monologues," conducted at many locations, including the 'Catholic' University of Notre Dame in February 2002. Professor Charles E. Rice. "What A Time For Catholic Institutions to Promote Pedophilia!" The Wanderer, March 28, 2002 [NOTE: In the February 28, 2002 edition of the student newspaper, the Observer, the student director of V-Day ND 2002 said, "This monologue is neither an endorsement of underage sex of any kind nor is that act meant to be judged in any manner itself ... That monologue is meant to reveal one woman's journey from a time when she thought of her vagina as a dark, horrible 'bad luck zone' to referring to it as 'a kind of heaven'." And we're supposed to believe this tripe? Suuuuuuuure ... ].
Van der Wal, Gerrit
"It is conceivable that life can deteriorate to the point where persons lose their dignity and self-respect and are unable to communicate; life in such a form no longer meets the basic criteria of 'human-ness'."
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Medical researcher Gerrit Van der Wal, quoted in Mark O'Keefe. "Dutch Death." The Oregonian [Portland, Oregon], January 8, 1995, page A1.
Van Gundy, Jeff (New York Knicks coach)
"I'll tell you what I do have a problem with. We let a preacher into our locker room; spends as much time as he wants with our players before games. Now, do people in offices have preachers coming into their place of business, interrupting their work? No. They have to do it before or after work. As a team and an organization, you've got to try to minimize those distractions, period. It used to be alcohol and women more. I think we've given this guy, this pastor, too much freedom. And I think the interaction between people before games, opposing sides, the fraternization, is wrong for the league, it's wrong for the competition. Everybody is hugging before games, praying together."
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New York Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy, objecting to team chaplain John Love holding a 10-minute Bible study before each game [NOTE: Knicks stars Charlie Ward, Allan Houston, Mark Jackson and Kurt Thomas attend, and opposing team players are invited to attend]. Quoted in "Basketball Coach Slams Team's Bible Study." Maranatha Christian News Service, April 10, 2001.
Van Horne, Harriet (Los Angeles Times)
"In the 1980s, a time when wealth accumulated and men decayed, the superpatriots entered Gloryland. They were the anointed Moral Majority. They stood foursquare for God, Reagan, and the bombing of abortion clinics. ... We could only wince when the President called the Contras 'freedom fighters,' when Oliver North became a national hero, when the pledge of allegiance became — with sinister embellishments — a campaign issue. ... We winced — and some of us wept in shame — when George Bush, wearing the white flower of a blameless life, won the 1988 election with tactics only a Mafia don could admire."
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Los Angeles Times Syndicate television critic Harriet Van Horne in The Nation's "patriotism" issue, July 15/22, 1991.
Van Susteren, Greta (CNN)
"CNN has learned the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee plans to ask Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate whether Ken Starr should be removed from office. Sources say Congressman John Conyers is writing a long letter to Reno, accusing Starr of repeated abuses of power, including pressuring witnesses to commit perjury. The allegations are specific and serious, aimed at a man who already has given many people the impression he's on a mission. That may have a lot to do with Starr's religious and Republican roots. ..."
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Greta Van Susteren, hosting the February 5, 1998 CNN special "Investigating the Investigator."
Vaux, Kenneth (Baylor University)
"I am told by a reliable scholar that a major private health insurance company is contemplating the policy of requiring amniocentesis or other acceptable forms of antenatal diagnosis for all pregnant women holding a policy with the company. If a diagnosis of congenital defect is made, insurance will be dropped on the potential child. In other words, abortion will be required ... We have a legal obligation to protect the unborn from the cruel and unusual punishment of genetic disease. Surely we need ponder whether the abnormal merit our protection, even in utero. We now have the possibility, which means the responsibility, of deciding whom we will admit to the human community."
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Kenneth Vaux, Professor of Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Biomedical Ethics [New York City: Harper & Row], 1974, pages 51, 58 and 59.
Valdez, Vilma (Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami)
"Even if you are pro-choice, no one likes to see a dead fetus."
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Vilma Valdez, Education Director for Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami. The Miami Herald, October 24, 1992.
Veazey, Carlton ('Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC))
"Like other extremists who cloak themselves in religion, antiabortion zealots are certain God wants them to terrorize and even kill for their beliefs. Tragically, America is now feeling the kind of fear abortion providers and women have long known. Terrorism in any form has no place in a nation that values tolerance, pluralism and individual conscience. ... [those who attack abortion facilities] blaspheme the very religions they claim to represent."
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Carlton Veazey, President of the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), in a paid advertisement entitled "Bombs, Bullets and Anthrax," in the November 14, 2001 issue of The Hill and the November 15, 2001 issue of Roll Call, two political newspapers geared toward members of Congress, their staffs and other political and media elite). Also quoted in "Advertisment Compares Pro-Life Advocates to Terrorists." Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet, November 14, 2001.
Venters, Harley (former Oklahoma State representative)
"25 percent of Germans who murdered Jews in concentration camps were devout Catholics whose priests never told them they were doing anything wrong."
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Interfaith Alliance (IA) of Central Oklahoma member, former State Representative Harley Venters's comment to the Oklahoma Gazette, 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.
Ventura, Jesse (former Governor of Minnesota)
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
[On the Tailhook scandal]: "These are people who live on the razor's edge and defy death and do things where people die. They're not going to consider grabbing a woman's breast or buttock a major situation. That's much ado about nothing."
[On the Kennedy assassination]: "I don't want people to think I'm some sort of erratic nut running the state of Minnesota. If you truly want to know, I believe we did, the military-industrial complex. I believe Kennedy was going to withdraw us from Vietnam and there were factions that didn't want that."
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Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, in his November 1999 Playboy Magazine interview. Quoted in Rochelle Olson. "Ventura Talks to Playboy Magazine." Associated Press, September 30, 1999 [NOTE: Amusingly, the governor's spokesman, John Wodele, sought to clarify the comments, saying Ventura "was talking about extremists of the religious right who are often intolerant, and the governor cannot stand intolerance"].
Vidal, Gore
"It is a fact that, like any species, our only function is replication. It is a fact that even the dullest and most superstitious of us now suspects that we may have overdone the replicating. Five and a half billion people now clutter a small planet built for two. Simply to maintain the breeders in the United States we have managed to poison all our water. Yes, all of it. When I was told this by a member of the Sierra Club, I asked, so what do we drink? And he said, well, some of it's less poisoned than the rest. Despite the fulminations of the Sky Lawyer's earthly representatives, some effort is being made to limit population. But the true damage is already done, and I would not bet the farm on our species continuing in rude health too far into the next century. Those who would outlaw abortion, contraception, and same-sex while extolling the family and breeding are themselves the active agents of the destruction of our species. I would be angrier if I had a high opinion of the species, but I don't, so I regard with serenity Pope and Ayatollah as the somehow preprogrammed agents of our demise, the fate of every species. Hordes of furious lemmings are loose among us; and who would stay them, particularly if they have the Book to throw?"
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Gore Vidal. "The Birds and the Bees." The Nation, October 28, 1991, page 509 [emphasis in the original].
Video Training Source (VTS)
"Many perpetrators [of workplace violence] are described as being religious or political extremists. This behavior further drives co-workers away. ... Many perpetrators are described as being religious or political extremists. They frequently push these opinions off on others, further driving co-workers away."
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Excerpts from Louisville, Colorado-based Video Training Source's videos on preventing workplace violence called "A Strategy for Prevention" and "Awareness and Prevention." 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 [NOTE: These statements are made while the camera lingers on a grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary and while showing an argumentative and aggressive person with a Bible. No documentation for these absurd charges is offered].
Vivian, C.T.
"There's only a slippery slope between conservative religious persons and these that are actually doing the burning [of Black churches]."
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Rev. C.T. Vivian of the Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR), quoted in The Associated Press. "Agents Join Probe of Church Destruction." Northern Virginia Daily, June 19, 1996, pages A1 and A7.
Voeller, Bruce
"I campaigned with Gay groups and in the media across the country for the Kinsey-based finding that 'We are everywhere.' This slogan became a National Gay Task Force leitmotif. And the issues derived from the implications of the Kinsey data became key parts of the national political, educational, and legislative programs during my years at New York's Gay Activist Alliance and the National Gay Task Force.
"After years of our educating those who inform the public and make its laws, the concept that 10 percent of the population is gay has become a generally accepted 'fact.' While some reminding always seems necessary, the 10 percent figure is regularly utilized by scholars, by the press, and in government statistics. As with so many pieces of knowledge and myth, repeated telling made it so."
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Bruce Voeller. "Some Uses and Abuses of the Kinsey Scale." Homosexuality, Heterosexuality: Concepts of Sexual Orientation. The Kinsey Institute Series, June Machover Reinisch (general editor), Oxford University Press, 1990, pages 35 and 36.
Voluntary Euthanasia Society (Victoria, Australia)
"If we can get people to accept the removal of all treatment and care, especially the removal of food and fluids, they will see what a painful way this is to die, and then, in the patient's best interest, they will accept the lethal injection."
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'Bioethicist' Helga Kuhse of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria, Australia, at the World Federation of Right to Die Societies (WFRDS) 5th biennial conference, quoted in Linacre Quarterly, August 1989, page 22.
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT)
"The hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens — us. ... When every human makes the moral choice to live long and die out, Earth will be allowed to return to its former glory. Each time another one of us decides not to add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, another ray of hope shines through the gloom. ... No matter what you're doing to improve life on planet Earth, I think you'll find that phasing out the human race will increase your chance of success."
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Les U. Knight, Portland, Oregon substitute teacher and founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT). Quoted in Joel Dippold. "Live Well and Die." The Portland [Oregon] Alliance, March 1991, page 5.
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