Yao, Richard (President of Fundamentalists Anonymous (FA))
"And since fundamentalist Christians marry earlier and have bigger families, the demographic forecast is an increasingly fundamentalist America as we move into the 21st century. And ignored by most of the media and public, the Christian theocracy movement has become the vanguard of fundamentalism. It teaches that America was ordained to be a fundamentalist theocracy. That democracy is a heresy. That women can only be housewives and mothers. That Jews, Catholics, and mainline Christians do not have the right to practice their religion outside their homes and synagogues/churches. That abortion, even in rape and incest, should be punishable by death. That "adultery" and "blasphemy" are capital offenses. That civil liberties should be enjoyed by "real Christians" only. That slavery should be brought back."
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Richard Yao, president and co-founder of Fundamentalists Anonymous (FA). "WANTED: 1,000 People to Save America from Religious Fascism." The Human Quest, January-February 1991, page 9.
Yard, Molly (former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW))
"Catholics have to turn their backs on the Church. ... The Knights of Columbus in Minnesota run bingo games and turn the money over to the right-to-life crowd — a totally illegal procedure. They don't seem to have any feeling about breaking the law. ... We are now declaring a state of emergency for the women of America. We will not go back to illegal abortions. We aren't going to obey the law."
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), in a January 8, 1989 speech, upon hearing that the United States Supreme Court would review Roe v. Wade in its Webster case. Quoted in "Reproductive Rights: Not a Single-Issue Struggle." People's Daily World, March 29, 1990, page 12.
"Not only did Roe v. Wade free women, it also vastly improved women's health; prior to Roe, illegal abortion was the leading cause of maternal death in this country. ... For seventeen years women have had this [abortion] freedom, but by your consideration of David Souter for appointment to the Supreme Court you are really considering ending freedom for women in this country. We believe from Judge Souter's record that he will be the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and furthermore he might overturn Griswold v. Connecticut. This country must not go back to illegal abortion or illegal birth control. If that happens, the law will be broken! Courageous doctors will break the law. Desperate women will break the law. The underworld will flourish with back alley abortion butchers and women will die. There will not be enough jails to house the women who will have illegal abortions and those who will help maintain that option.
"In summary we repeat our opposition to the confirmation of David Souter. It is important that the Court maintain a balance. To replace Justice Brennan it is important to have someone in his mold; Judge Souter will tip the Court dangerously out of balance and away from the strong support for individual rights which Brennan so brilliantly upheld [NOTE: It seems all right to Yard, of course, if the Supreme Court is "dangerously out of balance" in the pro-abortion direction] ...
"What is at stake for American women is far too important for us to do anything but urge you not to confirm him. American women's lives are literally on the line. If we should lose the right to control our reproductive lives the social fabric of our society will be torn apart.
"Are you prepared to deny freedom to women?
"Are you prepared to deny reproductive health to women?
"Are you prepared for lawlessness, and for the death of your daughters and your granddaughters?
"I tremble for this country if you confirm David Souter. But most of all I tremble for the women of America and their families."
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Testimony of Molly Yard, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) before the Senate Judiciary Committee against the confirmation of David Souter, September 18, 1990, pages 6, 7, 14 and 15.
"Lesbians have always been on the front line of the abortion issue because a woman's right to choose ultimately includes not only reproductive freedom, but the right to choose one's sexuality."
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Molly Yard, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), at the National NOW Conference, July 21-23, 1989, held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Quoted in the homosexual newspaper The Lavender Network, September 1989, page 64.
"Men have been running things for thousands of years, and what do we have to show for it? War, pollution, the S&L thing ... Why do men always have to run things? You know what it is? It's their penis. They think with it, they talk with it, they just can't get past it. They can't receive. They can't conceive. So what do they do? They make up for it by attacking and blundering and overtaking! This isn't upset, this is empowered! ... Did you ever stop to think about that word ... History? HIS-story ... Everything about the way we perceive things in life is determined by men. And I for one, I'm sick of it. And I'm not gonna have my past or any other woman's past mauled, groped or otherwise pawed by a bunch of men for the benefit of other men!"
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Molly Yard, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Quotes made during the September 23, 1991 episode of CBS' Northern Exposure. Also quoted in Brent Bozell. "Northern Exposure Doesn't Disappoint Liberals." Conservative Chronicle, February 17, 1993, page 27.
"The abortion question is not just about women's rights, but about life on the planet — environmental catastrophe awaits the world if the population continues to grow at its present rate."
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Molly Yard, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Proletarian Revolution, Fall 1989.
"We are going to have to face — as China has faced — the policy of controlling the size of families, and to assume that we can go on without facing this responsibility is totally irresponsible. ... I consider the Chinese government's [population control] policy among the most intelligent in the world. ... it is a policy limited to the heavily overpopulated areas and it is an attempt to feed the people of China. I find it very intelligent."
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), on the March 1989 "Oprah Winfrey Show."
"China's population is so enormous that if they didn't control it, they wouldn't be able to feed their people. The Chinese government doesn't coerce people. They use education. It's very clear when you're there. You can't miss it. Even if you can't read the language, you can't miss it."
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), at an April 7, 1989 press conference, quoted by Mary Meehan. "Women as Guinea Pigs." National Catholic Register, April 30, 1989, page 4.
"What is moral about denying family planning funds to China, which is what the United States has done, because the Chinese have a policy of allowing abortions and encouraging a one-child family? What is moral about insisting that our point of view should be adopted by the Chinese when the only responsible policy they can have is to control family planning?"
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), in her keynote address at the 1990 NOW National Convention. Quoted by Debra J. Saunders, Los Angeles Daily News. "NOW's Shrillness Becomes Embarrassment to Feminism." August 7, 1989, page D4.
"... with 35,000 children already waiting in foster homes for adoptive parents, adoption is not the answer for women with unwanted pregnancies."
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Molly Yard, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW, quoted in Todd Ackerman. "The Campaign Against Adoption." National Catholic Register, July 23, 1989, pages 1 and 6 [NOTE: Yard's figure, of course, was completely unsubstantiated and was subsequently disproved].
"In 1988, ALFIZA MAUMAUD was burned to death in Bahramabad, Iran, for having an abortion. Little more than a decade ago, this would have been unthinkable. But when the forces of ignorance and intolerance gain control, history shows that ANYTHING is possible."
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Excerpts from Lamra Walsdron's "Burning Issue," a propaganda piece in the "Choices" comic book published in 1990 by Angry Isis Press of San Francisco for the National Organization for Women (NOW) [NOTE: "Choices" was certainly not some local mimeographed scandal sheet; it was printed on the finest bond, with a glossy cover, introduced by Congresswoman Pat Schroeder [D.-umb], and signed by Molly Yard, then-president of the NOW].
"Hitler had a conscience, he [the "Donahue" guest] said. Hitler made a conscious decision to kill Jews. If Hitler had a Christian conscience, he said, it wouldn't have happened. This guy kept calling a woman's choice the "Abortion Holocaust." This pisses me off!
"I mean, does this guy really think that a woman's right to decide for herself can be equated with ovens and gas chambers and medical experiments?"
"Can he actually compare getting on a bus to go to a clinic with being herded onto trains like cattle (worse than cattle), and being delivered into the gates of hell, gates with names like Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka?"
"Does he really believe that going through an elective ambulatory procedure is the same as being strapped down on a table and having your ovaries irradiated and then removed, without consent, without anesthesia?"
"Jesus Christ! And that's the only Christian thing I can say about it! How dare he equate the suffering of millions upon millions (and not only Jews) which was thrust upon them by a madman and his murdering hordes, with a conscience, Christian or otherwise ... with personal choice?"
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Excerpts from a propaganda piece in the "Choices" comic book published in 1990 by Angry Isis Press of San Francisco for the National Organization for Women (NOW) [NOTE: "Choices" was certainly not some local mimeographed scandal sheet; it was printed on the finest bond, with a glossy cover, introduced by Congresswoman Pat Schroeder [D.-umb], and signed by Molly Yard, then-president of the NOW [NOTE: The unborn are indeed incinerated in specially-made Austrian ovens after they are killed. Late-term babies are also the subjects of ghastly medical experiments. Women are herded into clinics by escorts, rushed through assembly-line abortions, and hustled out the door as soon as they can stagger a few steps. No time to think it over, no other options, no informed consent. And the clinics, by whatever name, are the gates to the tortures of Hell for their unborn children. Unborn babies — and now, even newborn anencephalic babies — do indeed often have their organs removed without consent and without anesthesia. Call it anything you want, but the only difference is this: Instead of having black-garbed SS troops oversee the execution of millions, now the victim's own mothers willingly carry them to the slaughter — all in the name of 'freedom of choice!' The final panel of this clever propaganda shows the woman, with a determined look on her face vividly reminiscent of a Red Chinese propaganda poster, volunteering for "Clinic Defense," as she gallantly thinks, " I'm insulted. No, it's worse. I'm disgusted. As a Jew ... and as a woman." We pro-lifers are disgusted, too — and that is why we so adamantly oppose this slaughter of the innocents!]
Yardley, Jonathan (Washington Post)
"Incapable of believing his country wrong, or himself wrong, Reagan encouraged his fellow citizens in that same belief. If he gave us a renewed self-respect, he led us beyond it to the conviction that there is a free lunch and we are entitled to it; the price we will end up paying for that little lesson in self-indulgence is only now beginning to become clear, as is the understanding that we will be paying it for generations, if not until kingdom come."
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Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley reviewing Reagan's book An American Life, November 4, 1990.
York, Toby (New Caney, Texas High School principal)
"The actual wearing of rosary beads around the neck is identified as gang apparel."
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New Caney, Texas High School principal Toby York, during a May 1997 incident wherein he issued instructions to teachers to students to the principal's office if they were caught wearing the beads outside their shirts. 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: The Rutherford Institute intervened to provide legal representation for the students, and in October a federal district court ordered the school to permit the boys to wear their rosary beads].
Youth Liberation Group (YLG)
"We must liberate ourselves from the death trip of corporate America.
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We want the power to determine our own destiny.
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We want the immediate end of adult chauvinism.
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We want full civil and human rights.
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We want the right to form our education according to our needs.
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We want the freedom to form into communal families.
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We want the end of male chauvinism and sexism.
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We want the opportunity to create an authentic culture with institutions of our own making.
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We want sexual self-determination. We believe all people must have the unhindered right to be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or transsexual.
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We want the end of class antagonism among young people.
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We want the end of racism and colonialism in the United States and the world.
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We want freedom for all unjustly imprisoned people.
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We want the right to be economically independent of adults.
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We want the right to live in harmony with nature.
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We want to rehumanize existence.
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We want to develop communication and solidarity with the young people of the world in our common struggle for freedom and peace."
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The Youth Liberation Group of Ann Arbor, Michigan. "Youth Liberation Program — List of Wants." International Year of the Child (IYC), The Children's Rights Movement, pages 329 to 333.
Yudkin, Marcia
"Vice is nice, but incest is best ... Not that incest is best, exactly, but that it can be good clean fun, as legitimate as masturbation and homosexuality, other forms of sexual expression rescued from taboo status. Incest can be a positive experience; children ought not be deprived of affectionate, caring sex within the family; they ought not be loaded down with the guilt that accompanies the breaking of a taboo. ... Incest is solely a matter of personal morality ... Every child has the right to loving relationships including sexual, with a parent, sibling, other responsible adult, or child ... If children are happy and well-adjusted, who are we to disapprove? ... incest is not in itself a form of violation. ..."
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Marcia Yudkin. "Breaking the Incest Taboo: Those Who Crusade for Family 'Love' Forget the Balance of Family Power." The Progressive, May 1981, pages 27 and 28.
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