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The Republican Conservatives losing seats in Congress for their rhetoric Anti Immigrant Language and their narrow minded views against LGBT denying them equal Civil rights.
The 2000 census reported that 594,000 households in the United States were headed by same-sex partners, a figured considered by some experts to be conservative. Of those, about 33 percent of lesbian couples reported having children 18 years old or under, while 22 percent of male couples did.
Another studies show that children of gay and lesbian parents are developmentally similar to those with heterosexual parents, said Charlotte J. Patterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia who has studied gay and lesbian families. In general, Professor Patterson noted, parenthood for gay and lesbian couples is a conscious choice, but there are as yet no adequate studies measuring stress levels in their children.

There are no reliable comparisons to the 1990 census, but ''it's very clear that gay fatherhood has risen significantly over the past 8 years.
But while Proposition 8, Amendment 2, Proposition 102 and Arkansas’ ban on gay adoption gathered most of the LGBT political attention this week, there’s certainly some good news coming out of the U.S. House of Representatives. Some of the most anti-gay politicians in our country were ousted, ushering in new leadership that stands to not only benefit the gay rights movement, but civil rights as a whole. Below is a list of the top ten anti-gay Congress members sent packing after this Election.

Rep. Marilyn Musgrave

Musgrave made her name in 2002 by championing a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. That’s a move so conservative, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain and Vice President Dick Cheney wouldn’t even support it. But that still didn’t stop Musgrave from labeling gay marriage “the most important issue that we face toady,” and that the “future is grim” if gay marriage is not banned. With priorities like those, despite such urgent issues as the tanking economy, two wars, and a broken health care system, it’s no wonder Musgrave was sent home this Election year.

Rep. Virgil Goode

This race still isn’t officially over, but all signs are pointing to an upset here as attorney Tom Perriello seems to have pulled off the unthinkable – toppling 10-year Virginia incumbent Virgil Goode. Despite the fact that Goode actually funneled federal money to filmmakers who produced gay films, Rep. Goode himself was a virulent opponent of gay rights, championing the Marriage Amendment Act to ban gay marriage, and alleging that Barack Obama was dangerously supportive of gay rights. Goode has also made derogatory comments about Muslims, and has called opponents of the Iraq War Jihadists.


Rep. Steve Chabot

Chabot is the proud owner of a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign, and it’s no wonder why. Chabot voted for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, voted to ban gay adoptions in the District of Columbia, and voted no on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Of all of those issues, it is Chabot’s work to ban gay marriage that makes his record on gay rights most repulsive. In 2004, Chabot chaired the House Judiciary Committee’s Sub-Committee on the Constitution, which held at least five days worth of hearings about the need to ban gay marriage. With Chabot being sent back to Ohio, it’s good to know that his hands won’t be rewriting anyone’s Constitution in the near future.


Rep. Robin Hayes

He was almost ousted in 2006, but in 2008 North Carolina voters finally sent Robin Hayes packing. Hayes became famous for putting his foot in his mouth, when he accused liberals of hating Americans and hating God. But Hayes was equally as offensive when it came to gay rights, telling public rallies that gay marriage undermines healthy families. It’s no surprise that he supported a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, that he voted to ban gay adoptions, and that he voted against anti-discrimination efforts aimed at addressing prejudice in hiring toward LGBT persons.

Rep. Jon Porter

Nevada voters sent a loud and clear message to Jon Porter that a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign isn’t something to brag about. Porter, like many of the others on this list, voted yes on a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, and voted to block implementation of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Rep. Tim Walberg

Walberg was elected in 2006 in large part because he championed conservative positions on social issues like abortion and gay marriage. It’s nice to see that Michigan voters rejected this same schtick the second time around. Walberg was vehemently against gay marriage, gay adoption, and expansion of anti-discrimination efforts addressing sexual orientation. Walberg even went so far as to say that “It’s a sin to be gay.” Looks like Michigan voters are a little more tolerant than Walberg.

Rep. Randy Kuhl

Kuhl has been voting against gay rights legislation dating back to 1993, and his position hasn’t changed over time. Kuhl consistently received a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign, and once said that he “doesn’t support” the homosexual lifestyle. So while Kuhl was once labeled “one of the best golfers” in the U.S. Congress, his record on gay rights was quite dismal. Looks like he’ll have more time to practice his golf game now that New York voters refused to reward him with another term in Congress.

Rep. Bill Sali

It’s hard to single-out Sali on gay rights issues, as the man was crazy on a number of fronts. When Sali was a member of the Idaho House of Representatives, his offensive comments about breast cancer caused a fellow representative (and survivor of breast cancer) to walk out of the chambers in tears. And he was once labeled my members of his own party as being a person without “one ounce of empathy in his whole fricking body.” But Sali’s record on gay rights was abysmal. He once voted against a domestic violence bill because he thought its passage would lead to same-sex marriage. He’s also on record as wanting to reinstitute sodomy laws. Yikes.

Rep. Ric Keller

Despite the passage of Amendment 2 in Florida voters sent packing Congressman Ric Keller, another person on this list with a whopping 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign. In addition to being against gay marriage and gay adoption, Keller was against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Sound familiar?



Rep. Tom Feeney

Sticking with Florida, the neighboring Congressional district to Ric Keller also sent an anti-gay politician home – Tom Feeney. In the wake of California’s Supreme Court ruling in May 2008 legalizing same-sex marriage, Feeney actually issued a press release chastising “San Francisco values.” Maybe if Feeney spent more time worrying about Florida instead of San Francisco, he’d still be in Congress today

Legal resident hold on deportation. Could happen to you?

The deportation of a gay Jamaican immigrant, who argues that he would face persecution in his home country, has been put on hold.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered an immigration judge in Seattle to reconsider the case of Damion Bromfield, who has been detained for nearly four years at a Tacoma detention center. Bromfield argues his life would be in danger if he were sent back to Jamaica because of widespread homophobia from individuals and the government.

The 30-year-old man is trying to stop his deportation based on an asylum request.

Bromfield, a green card holder, entered the country legally 15 years ago. He came out here as a gay man. Four years ago, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor sex-related charge involving an underage gay partner. He served less than a year in jail, according to court documents.

He was later picked up by immigration officials, who began deportation proceedings.

Legal permanent residents can be subject to deportation if convicted of a crime, said Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, which represented Bromfield before the appellate court.

"For our client, (the court's opinion) pretty much makes it that he'll be able to stay in the United States," Adams said Wednesday.

Adams added that the ruling sets a precedent for individuals who fear persecution in their home country for their sexual identity.

"We have an obligation to not put them in that danger," he said.

The appellate court's opinion, written by Judge Betty B. Fletcher and issued earlier this week, says the immigration judge who oversaw Bromfield's case should have taken into consideration a report by the U.S. State Department that violence against homosexuals was pervasive in Jamaica.

The report was presented by Bromfield as evidence of the persecution he would face in Jamaica.

Immigration Judge Kenneth Josephson had held that violence in Jamaica was random.

Susan Eastwood, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which handles immigration court cases, declined to comment to The Associated Press.

In a 2006 report on Human Rights Practices, the State Department lists crimes against homosexuals in Jamaica, including a case where a mob allegedly chased a gay man off a pier who later drowned. The case, the report stated, was not investigated.

"Homosexual men were hesitant to report incidents against them because of fear for their physical well-being. Human rights NGOs (nongovernment organizations) and government entities agreed that brutality against homosexuals, both by police and private citizens, was widespread in the community," the report states

Two men executed in Iran. The crime being Gay.



That's ashamed to see our human evolution are still on Rock days in some Countries.
I am still completely stunned at this video, heartbroken, angered, empowered, and will fight till my death to end the ignorance around Intolerance against the Other the Undocumented, The Homosexual, the Unwanted, The Undesirables.

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Republicans legislators emerging their fear, and Xenophobia against the other. By Richard L. Fricker



The Republican-dominated Oklahoma legislature is defining the frontier of xenophobic immigration laws, anti-Muslim bigotry, gay bashing and encouragement of gun-toting students -- with Democratic legislators often too timid to resist.

Rep. Randy Terrill, Republican chairman of the Revenue and Taxation Committee, has emerged as a hero of the "protect our borders" crowd by authoring a law, known as HB1804, that makes it a felony even to give an illegal immigrant a ride.

You also can't provide education, health care and many other services to undocumented immigrants, including infants. And, police are required to check the immigration status of anyone "suspected" of being in this country illegally.

If you thought such a draconian measure might face stiff opposition -- or at least a drawn-out political battle -- you'd be wrong. The bill sailed through the Oklahoma House, 88-9, with 35 of the 44 Democrats joining the Republicans, and then passed the Senate on a 41-6 vote with two-thirds of the Democrats lining up with Republicans.

After the law's passage, its extreme -- one might say un-Christian -- features prompted virtual declarations of civil disobedience from the Southern Baptist Convention and the Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches, which announced they would not curtail aid to anyone.

Terrill then attacked Roman Catholic Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa as "misguided," accusing Catholics of opposing the law out of fear that it would curtail a growth in population and thus revenues for the church.

Terrill followed up his legislative victory by floating a "son of 1804," a bill that would forbid the issuance of birth certificates to a child if one parent was an illegal alien. That bill also sought confiscation of property for anyone caught violating HB1804.

The property-confiscation idea, however, was deemed too radical by the Oklahoma business community, which saw it as a threat to corporate owners. So, the follow-up bill got sidetracked.

Undeterred, Terrill proposed another anti-immigrant bill to make English the official language of Oklahoma.

When that bill died on a procedural vote in the Senate, Terrill enlisted the Washington lobby group ProEnglish, whose specialty is robo-calling, to make constituency calls to state senators.

One senator took umbrage and forwarded his calls to Terrill's office. Furious at this "cowardly act," Terrill crossed the rotunda threatening to "whip his ass."

Though Terrill's pressure tactics failed to revive the bill, it is expected to become a hot-button election issue this fall.

Meanwhile, the Oklahoma business community, which mostly sat on the sidelines as HB1804 was passed, is now having second thoughts, worrying that the new law has cut into the labor force and thus corporate profits.

A significant number of Mexicans, both legal and illegal, have left the state to avoid harassment, while other laborers are living in fear.

As Terrill and his supporters mounted legal assaults against non-English-speaking immigrants, Republican colleague Rep. Sally Kern focused on what she viewed as an even graver danger: gays and lesbians. In April, she went before a local GOP meeting and labeled that threat worse than the one from al-Qaeda:

"Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it's the death knell of this country. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more than terrorism or Islam, which I think is a big threat. OK?

"'Cause what's happening now is they are going after, in schools, 2-year-olds, and this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading, and it will destroy our young people, and it will destroy this nation."

When her comments showed up on YouTube, Kern claimed her comments had been taken out of context and expressed outrage that they would be posted on the Internet. However, she referenced the Bible and refused to apologize.

Despite complaints from around the country, Kern and Oklahoma's other Republican leaders held fast behind her anti-gay positions. Reports from inside the GOP caucus described Kern receiving a standing ovation from the party faithful a couple of days after her statements were made public.

Kern's supporters also staged two rallies at the Capitol Building, with one drawing nearly 2,000 people.

"I told the people when I was running for this office that I was a Christian candidate and that I believed we were in a cultural war for the very existence of our Judeo-Christian values," Kern declared.

In a similar vein, Republican Rep. Rex Duncan concentrated on the threat from Islam, rebuffing a gesture of multicultural goodwill when American Muslims on the Ethnic American Advisory Council sent each legislator a copy of the Quran in honor of Oklahoma's centennial celebration.

Duncan refused to accept his copy, saying, "Most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology." Seventeen other House Republicans joined Duncan in spurning copies of Islam's holy book.

However, Duncan's rationale -- decrying Islam as a uniquely violent religion -- flew in the face of historical and Biblical evidence that implicated Jewish and Christian communities in horrendous violence against the innocent as well.

For instance, the Old Testament's Book of Numbers recounts Moses' destruction of the Midians, including the slaughter of boys and the enslavement of girls. During the Crusades, Christian forces famously butchered the Muslim inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Indeed, the history of Christianity -- a religion based on the peaceful teachings of Jesus -- has been remarkable in its bloodletting against non-Christians, from the Inquisition and anti-Jewish pogroms in Europe to the genocide against the "heathen" natives living in the New World and the barbarities against African slaves brought to the New World.

Though several interfaith groups expressed dismay at Duncan's denunciation of Islam, the Rev. Anthony Jordan, executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, said he did not fault the legislators for their action repudiating the Quran.

The Oklahoma legislature also responded to concerns about mass shootings on campuses by deliberating on a proposal advocated by extreme elements of the gun lobby, to permit all university students to carry guns to classes so they could defend themselves in case a mad gunman went on a rampage.

However, the idea of turning colleges into a modern version of the Wild West died in a fit of sobriety.

Still, the question remains: Why have these sorts of comments and such legislation gained traction in Oklahoma and other parts of the United States?

Some political analysts suggest part of the reason is that Democrats so dread coming under attack from the evangelical Right that they stay silent or acquiesce to proposals that otherwise might be transformed into campaign attack ads against them.

Election 2008 could be a moment when this surge of theocracy tinged with white racialism might finally be turned back. But, then again, enough Democrats may find it more appealing to nurse their grievances from the bruising Obama-Clinton race than to find some common ground