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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I suggest for Jules and sean that we enforce the old testament literally.

Have they worked on the sabbath.  have they worn clothes of different clothes?  Have they wasted their seed?  Have they eaten pig and shellfish?  Have they ever sassed their mother and father.  Have they worshiped the golden calf wwhile their neighbor goes hungry?

For all these laws, they have violated, the old testament calls for death.  Since I don&#039;t believe in killing, would these people please show their love of the bible and God, by taking their own lives.  And then God will judege

BTW  the story about soddom and gommorah was actually about the laws of desert people, which even include the Islamics.  You shall welcome your enemy into your tent and give him salt, that he may better survive the heat of the desert.

But soddom and Gommorah the people there wanted to rape the stranger.  Not for sex, but for humiliation, which is what rape is all about, and sex is simply the gun.

The selective use of the bible has been used to murder more people than any other instrument in history.

And these people are of that ilk.  They are truly mentally ill, or mentally deficient, and a threat to society.as a whole.

Which the wonderrful so many gay people I know are anything but.  Loving couples supporting each other, while being treated as trash in the name of God.

We can guess how God will Judge. If I was Seean or Jules, I&#039;d be on my knees praying for forgivenesss ultil the knees were worn out.  then Maybe, just maybe God might mitigate your punishment for the corruption you spew in his name.

Amen.

And civilizaiton will be improved.  And our gay friends 

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suggest for Jules and sean that we enforce the old testament literally.</p>
<p>Have they worked on the sabbath.  have they worn clothes of different clothes?  Have they wasted their seed?  Have they eaten pig and shellfish?  Have they ever sassed their mother and father.  Have they worshiped the golden calf wwhile their neighbor goes hungry?</p>
<p>For all these laws, they have violated, the old testament calls for death.  Since I don&#8217;t believe in killing, would these people please show their love of the bible and God, by taking their own lives.  And then God will judege</p>
<p>BTW  the story about soddom and gommorah was actually about the laws of desert people, which even include the Islamics.  You shall welcome your enemy into your tent and give him salt, that he may better survive the heat of the desert.</p>
<p>But soddom and Gommorah the people there wanted to rape the stranger.  Not for sex, but for humiliation, which is what rape is all about, and sex is simply the gun.</p>
<p>The selective use of the bible has been used to murder more people than any other instrument in history.</p>
<p>And these people are of that ilk.  They are truly mentally ill, or mentally deficient, and a threat to society.as a whole.</p>
<p>Which the wonderrful so many gay people I know are anything but.  Loving couples supporting each other, while being treated as trash in the name of God.</p>
<p>We can guess how God will Judge. If I was Seean or Jules, I&#8217;d be on my knees praying for forgivenesss ultil the knees were worn out.  then Maybe, just maybe God might mitigate your punishment for the corruption you spew in his name.</p>
<p>Amen.</p>
<p>And civilizaiton will be improved.  And our gay friends </p>
<p>Perhaps these so self</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>quote:  he passage of universal health care is far more major. Should it pass, it will be the first major step towards civil war in this country.  Unquote

Nice person.  Does he wonder why virtually every other industrialized country in the world guarantees medical care for its people.  And spends about 40% less then we do in the process of supporting the abortion we have.

i suspect he is also a supporter of &quot;life&quot;.  In calling for civil war.

And he is certainly a republican.  Whose base of voters is the southern religious culture that gave us slavery, the kkk, and segregation.

Mixed in with this persons inability to understand that we are all called to &quot;love thy neighbor as thyself&quot; - not let them die or go bankrupt due to lack or cost of medical care.

He is someone who worships the golden calf, forbdden by the bible.  Tied in with the people who are so psychopathic that they always need someone to hate to show their love of God.

God save America from these people.  And what has become of the Grand Old Party.   Whose southern slave culture roots leave it horrified that we have our first  black president.

That is the cabal who gave us the almost second great republican depresssion with their uncontrolled wall street bankers, who stole billions and awarded themselves millions in bonuses form the tarp money set up to help rebuild our economy.   Tied in with our own religious taliban.  Whose only goal is a christian theocracy

And then Bin Laden will have his wish.  The world divided into two religious camps, hating each other.  Andd religious hatred never ends. 

The last time that happened was the 1000 year dark ages, when 50 million or more were murdered in the name of God crusades.  No wonder the Muslims hate us

But it wont be 1000 years this time.  It could be one day to the end of civilization, once the religious zealots of Islam get nuclear weapons.  And our religious zealots reply in kind.  And civilization will end.  And the aborted children will be the lucky ones, for they will never have the least inkling of what happened to end their life.

BTW, some of the christian extremists actually believe the earth will be destroyed, Jesus will return,  and only they the faithful will be saved.  Some have even called for nuclear war to hasten his return.

Nice and thinking people, or proof that mankind did decend from animals. At least animals only kill to eat, they know nothing else.

Mankind was supposed to be better.  But some of mankind created ultimat greed and ultimate hatred. In the name of God.

This is what the republican party has become.   You will be known by the company you keep.  By God.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>quote:  he passage of universal health care is far more major. Should it pass, it will be the first major step towards civil war in this country.  Unquote</p>
<p>Nice person.  Does he wonder why virtually every other industrialized country in the world guarantees medical care for its people.  And spends about 40% less then we do in the process of supporting the abortion we have.</p>
<p>i suspect he is also a supporter of &#8220;life&#8221;.  In calling for civil war.</p>
<p>And he is certainly a republican.  Whose base of voters is the southern religious culture that gave us slavery, the kkk, and segregation.</p>
<p>Mixed in with this persons inability to understand that we are all called to &#8220;love thy neighbor as thyself&#8221; &#8211; not let them die or go bankrupt due to lack or cost of medical care.</p>
<p>He is someone who worships the golden calf, forbdden by the bible.  Tied in with the people who are so psychopathic that they always need someone to hate to show their love of God.</p>
<p>God save America from these people.  And what has become of the Grand Old Party.   Whose southern slave culture roots leave it horrified that we have our first  black president.</p>
<p>That is the cabal who gave us the almost second great republican depresssion with their uncontrolled wall street bankers, who stole billions and awarded themselves millions in bonuses form the tarp money set up to help rebuild our economy.   Tied in with our own religious taliban.  Whose only goal is a christian theocracy</p>
<p>And then Bin Laden will have his wish.  The world divided into two religious camps, hating each other.  Andd religious hatred never ends. </p>
<p>The last time that happened was the 1000 year dark ages, when 50 million or more were murdered in the name of God crusades.  No wonder the Muslims hate us</p>
<p>But it wont be 1000 years this time.  It could be one day to the end of civilization, once the religious zealots of Islam get nuclear weapons.  And our religious zealots reply in kind.  And civilization will end.  And the aborted children will be the lucky ones, for they will never have the least inkling of what happened to end their life.</p>
<p>BTW, some of the christian extremists actually believe the earth will be destroyed, Jesus will return,  and only they the faithful will be saved.  Some have even called for nuclear war to hasten his return.</p>
<p>Nice and thinking people, or proof that mankind did decend from animals. At least animals only kill to eat, they know nothing else.</p>
<p>Mankind was supposed to be better.  But some of mankind created ultimat greed and ultimate hatred. In the name of God.</p>
<p>This is what the republican party has become.   You will be known by the company you keep.  By God.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said -  sounds like what was said about inter-racial marriage being against the natural order.  And freedom for blacks was unthinkable since they were only  3/5ths of a person

Morality can be defined many ways.

One of your ways is the hatred that gives us a 9/11 every single year of gay children,and yes str8 kids who are bullied about being gay, until they commit suicide - 3000 every year.

This is how you and your criminal churches protect children.   Another way was to abuse children sexually by sex starved priests.

First the bishops own report on their high crimes said that abusing priests were no more apt to be gay then str8.

the abuse has its history in the ending of the right of priests to marry, sometime about 1000 years ago.  Done so the church, not the wife would inherit the priests property.

And the queerest marriage of them all is performed by the church.  When men in womens robes are married to an institution whose history is one of total horror in the name of God. The priests even get a ring.  

And I note that Jesus never married.  Does make one wonder, doesn&#039;t it.  Jewish orthodox priests - thats what he was in his time - a good and learned man in a time of ignorance marry.

But I&#039;ve read that Jesus is the bride of the church, or maybe it was the other way around.  Does sound like some kind of queer relationship. 

There is nothing we can do,a s good str8 &amp; gay  people to change the minds of the corrupted.  God, in time will perhaps show mercy for them, or drop them into the firepit for their hate.

But we  can appeal to the good people who are simply misled by evil and hatred.

Sometimes I believe that the ultimate proof that mankind is descended from the animals via evolution is found in the religious haters, of any stripe, who always need some minority to hate to calm their soul.     That is the proof of evolution .  We are 97% the same genetics as the Bonobons, a type of Gorrila.  And 93 % the same as chips re our genetics.

And the viciousness of the religious haters for others proves that the animal genes are still in us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said &#8211;  sounds like what was said about inter-racial marriage being against the natural order.  And freedom for blacks was unthinkable since they were only  3/5ths of a person</p>
<p>Morality can be defined many ways.</p>
<p>One of your ways is the hatred that gives us a 9/11 every single year of gay children,and yes str8 kids who are bullied about being gay, until they commit suicide &#8211; 3000 every year.</p>
<p>This is how you and your criminal churches protect children.   Another way was to abuse children sexually by sex starved priests.</p>
<p>First the bishops own report on their high crimes said that abusing priests were no more apt to be gay then str8.</p>
<p>the abuse has its history in the ending of the right of priests to marry, sometime about 1000 years ago.  Done so the church, not the wife would inherit the priests property.</p>
<p>And the queerest marriage of them all is performed by the church.  When men in womens robes are married to an institution whose history is one of total horror in the name of God. The priests even get a ring.  </p>
<p>And I note that Jesus never married.  Does make one wonder, doesn&#8217;t it.  Jewish orthodox priests &#8211; thats what he was in his time &#8211; a good and learned man in a time of ignorance marry.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;ve read that Jesus is the bride of the church, or maybe it was the other way around.  Does sound like some kind of queer relationship. </p>
<p>There is nothing we can do,a s good str8 &amp; gay  people to change the minds of the corrupted.  God, in time will perhaps show mercy for them, or drop them into the firepit for their hate.</p>
<p>But we  can appeal to the good people who are simply misled by evil and hatred.</p>
<p>Sometimes I believe that the ultimate proof that mankind is descended from the animals via evolution is found in the religious haters, of any stripe, who always need some minority to hate to calm their soul.     That is the proof of evolution .  We are 97% the same genetics as the Bonobons, a type of Gorrila.  And 93 % the same as chips re our genetics.</p>
<p>And the viciousness of the religious haters for others proves that the animal genes are still in us.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Totally brainwashed by the church of lies.

the catholic church was behind th3e murder of 50 million Muslims during the crusades.  Societies never forget, just as the Jews will never forget what the catholic hitler and his gang did to them.  No wonder the muslims hate us.

then there was the inquisition,where people were tortured and burned at the stake by the church, for daring to say that the earth was round, not flat as per the church.  And good priests who wanted to reform the church, Jews etc, were also treated the same.  The inquisition continued in some fashion until the 18302,.

And Pope Benedicts previous job was to run the committee for the doctrine and purity of the faith - the successorr to the inquistion.  The Cardinals picked the right man,  didn&#039;t they.

And during the 1000 year dark ages, the church burned at the stake women - millions of them, calling them witches.  Which was a competing religion.  Of course, the accuser and the church split the deceased&#039;s property.

And often, guilt was decided by throwing them in a dirty cage, and looking to see if the vermin attacked them.  The source of the more modern term &quot;a jury of your peers&quot;

Though we still suffer in so many ways from an uncontrolled Jury of  the church.  Who know so well how Hitler, their  worst mass murder of  modern ages, only killed two people by his own hand.  One was a neice.  The other was himself when the Russians were at the gates, looking for deserved revenge for the lost of 20 million people.

But the big point is that with his words, hitler, and his mostly catholic gang, killed 50 million people.

If you total this up, Easily a hundred million died for the church of life and the maniacs they created and still create in the name of God. m Of whom gays ate just their next victor of these psychopathic animals who always need someone to hate.

for all the Good Catholics and good christians who belong to the worst of the worst of the churches - examine your church&#039;s history.

And remember you may be known by the company you keep.  By man, and by God, at judgement day



And then there were</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Totally brainwashed by the church of lies.</p>
<p>the catholic church was behind th3e murder of 50 million Muslims during the crusades.  Societies never forget, just as the Jews will never forget what the catholic hitler and his gang did to them.  No wonder the muslims hate us.</p>
<p>then there was the inquisition,where people were tortured and burned at the stake by the church, for daring to say that the earth was round, not flat as per the church.  And good priests who wanted to reform the church, Jews etc, were also treated the same.  The inquisition continued in some fashion until the 18302,.</p>
<p>And Pope Benedicts previous job was to run the committee for the doctrine and purity of the faith &#8211; the successorr to the inquistion.  The Cardinals picked the right man,  didn&#8217;t they.</p>
<p>And during the 1000 year dark ages, the church burned at the stake women &#8211; millions of them, calling them witches.  Which was a competing religion.  Of course, the accuser and the church split the deceased&#8217;s property.</p>
<p>And often, guilt was decided by throwing them in a dirty cage, and looking to see if the vermin attacked them.  The source of the more modern term &#8220;a jury of your peers&#8221;</p>
<p>Though we still suffer in so many ways from an uncontrolled Jury of  the church.  Who know so well how Hitler, their  worst mass murder of  modern ages, only killed two people by his own hand.  One was a neice.  The other was himself when the Russians were at the gates, looking for deserved revenge for the lost of 20 million people.</p>
<p>But the big point is that with his words, hitler, and his mostly catholic gang, killed 50 million people.</p>
<p>If you total this up, Easily a hundred million died for the church of life and the maniacs they created and still create in the name of God. m Of whom gays ate just their next victor of these psychopathic animals who always need someone to hate.</p>
<p>for all the Good Catholics and good christians who belong to the worst of the worst of the churches &#8211; examine your church&#8217;s history.</p>
<p>And remember you may be known by the company you keep.  By man, and by God, at judgement day</p>
<p>And then there were</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Notie the hate words  &quot;Gay Mafia&quot;  and &quot; thought police&quot;&quot;

I thought the mafia was almost all catholic, and the church was glad to take their money, and you can be sure the church knew who they were and what they did.

And the &quot;thought police&quot;   - well, if Germany had &quot;thought police&quot; when the as yet UNecommunicated Hitler ranted against the Jews, he would have spent not a few years, but his whole life in jail.

And WWII almost certainly would not have happened.

No wonder countries like Germany etc have Hate speech laws.  \

Also too bad saudi arabia - home to extremist Islam, didn&#039;t have hate speech laws before 2001.  Of course they are the perfect example of a theocracy.  The extremists religious types get to run the culture of the religion.  While the royal family - 10000 - 20000 people, and their pals go to the Emirates around them with our oil money.  There they smoke, drink, eat pigs, and screw women and men outside of marriage.

And this is the goal of the so called Christian extremists in the USA, tied in with the catholic church.

Total selfishness, greed for power, and hypocrisy barely touches on the depravity of these people&#039;s  so called moral values.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notie the hate words  &#8220;Gay Mafia&#8221;  and &#8221; thought police&#8221;"</p>
<p>I thought the mafia was almost all catholic, and the church was glad to take their money, and you can be sure the church knew who they were and what they did.</p>
<p>And the &#8220;thought police&#8221;   &#8211; well, if Germany had &#8220;thought police&#8221; when the as yet UNecommunicated Hitler ranted against the Jews, he would have spent not a few years, but his whole life in jail.</p>
<p>And WWII almost certainly would not have happened.</p>
<p>No wonder countries like Germany etc have Hate speech laws.  \</p>
<p>Also too bad saudi arabia &#8211; home to extremist Islam, didn&#8217;t have hate speech laws before 2001.  Of course they are the perfect example of a theocracy.  The extremists religious types get to run the culture of the religion.  While the royal family &#8211; 10000 &#8211; 20000 people, and their pals go to the Emirates around them with our oil money.  There they smoke, drink, eat pigs, and screw women and men outside of marriage.</p>
<p>And this is the goal of the so called Christian extremists in the USA, tied in with the catholic church.</p>
<p>Total selfishness, greed for power, and hypocrisy barely touches on the depravity of these people&#8217;s  so called moral values.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Colson was on a documentary a while back with the mass murderer who butchered and cut up childre - Jeffrey Dahlmer.

He showed Dahlmer as an example of how &quot;Jesus cures&quot;,  Two btw, convicted criminals together.

Dahlmer, in a voice that was more mechanical then the computer voices of the early computer voice messsages, said that &quot;Everyone knows evolution is a lie&quot;.    

No kidding = this guy could have been a rote machine, and that is what he was.  Its obvious part of his brain was not functioning. at all.

Buyt Colson, another psychopath, was smiling at his work.

BTW, Dahlmer was brought up in a very christian family.   Probably the source of his conflict between sex deisre and religious prohibitions.   Usually the source of the problems that generate most serial killers,  Most of whom are maless who kill women in the  conflict between desire and religion tearing apart their subconcious - a conflict between built in desire and religious prohibitions about dirty sex.

And God sent a messenger to solve Dahlmers problems - another prisoner, who bashed in Dahlmer&#039;s head.

Most seriously bad people - not just theives-  in prison have a history of some kind of abuse in their life,which makes them feel like society is the enemy.

Wonder how many of those people were abused by their own priests or ministers.  Who then threaten the youth that if they tell, hell will awaits them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Colson was on a documentary a while back with the mass murderer who butchered and cut up childre &#8211; Jeffrey Dahlmer.</p>
<p>He showed Dahlmer as an example of how &#8220;Jesus cures&#8221;,  Two btw, convicted criminals together.</p>
<p>Dahlmer, in a voice that was more mechanical then the computer voices of the early computer voice messsages, said that &#8220;Everyone knows evolution is a lie&#8221;.    </p>
<p>No kidding = this guy could have been a rote machine, and that is what he was.  Its obvious part of his brain was not functioning. at all.</p>
<p>Buyt Colson, another psychopath, was smiling at his work.</p>
<p>BTW, Dahlmer was brought up in a very christian family.   Probably the source of his conflict between sex deisre and religious prohibitions.   Usually the source of the problems that generate most serial killers,  Most of whom are maless who kill women in the  conflict between desire and religion tearing apart their subconcious &#8211; a conflict between built in desire and religious prohibitions about dirty sex.</p>
<p>And God sent a messenger to solve Dahlmers problems &#8211; another prisoner, who bashed in Dahlmer&#8217;s head.</p>
<p>Most seriously bad people &#8211; not just theives-  in prison have a history of some kind of abuse in their life,which makes them feel like society is the enemy.</p>
<p>Wonder how many of those people were abused by their own priests or ministers.  Who then threaten the youth that if they tell, hell will awaits them.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The catholic church scapegoated the gays for its abuse of children.  Epidemic here in the USA, in Ireland (google Christian brothers - Ireland), and apparenly also italy - I cant read italian unfortunately, or fortunately.

The Bishops own multimillion $$ report on the scandal said that gay priests were no more apt to abuse the children they were &quot;protecting&quot; then str8 priests.

Sexuality is a base human instinct.  When you cut it off early, it ultimately rears its ugly head later.  the victimizer picks up at the mental age where they were cut off.  Give me a break on protecting the children from gays.  Hypocrisy - time to protect the children from the church.

And why did the church hide these crimes for so long, and simply move the priests to new locations where they could continue their dastardy deeds of &quot;protecting the children&quot;.s

First because the priests bring in money, and they really worship the golden calf.  Second - because the rot reaches all the way to the top.

Seems to me that even belonging to the catholic or the rightg wing evangelical churches is just like punching your own ticket to hell.

Why take a chance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The catholic church scapegoated the gays for its abuse of children.  Epidemic here in the USA, in Ireland (google Christian brothers &#8211; Ireland), and apparenly also italy &#8211; I cant read italian unfortunately, or fortunately.</p>
<p>The Bishops own multimillion $$ report on the scandal said that gay priests were no more apt to abuse the children they were &#8220;protecting&#8221; then str8 priests.</p>
<p>Sexuality is a base human instinct.  When you cut it off early, it ultimately rears its ugly head later.  the victimizer picks up at the mental age where they were cut off.  Give me a break on protecting the children from gays.  Hypocrisy &#8211; time to protect the children from the church.</p>
<p>And why did the church hide these crimes for so long, and simply move the priests to new locations where they could continue their dastardy deeds of &#8220;protecting the children&#8221;.s</p>
<p>First because the priests bring in money, and they really worship the golden calf.  Second &#8211; because the rot reaches all the way to the top.</p>
<p>Seems to me that even belonging to the catholic or the rightg wing evangelical churches is just like punching your own ticket to hell.</p>
<p>Why take a chance.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Professional polls say that 50% of catholics under 30 support gay marriage, not just CUs etc. And a Rutgers poll said that 48 % of Catholics support gay marriage – exactly the same percentage as by which the Prop 8 and Prop 1 lost.

The catholic call for the end of Abortions, btw, is just a smokescreen to hide their hatred of gay people, because they don&#039;t subscibe to their so called faith.

And the Christians behind this abomination are the of the same religious culture that bullwarked slavery and created the KKK and segregation to replace it.  Also justified as per the bible.

Sort of makes the its a choice argument moot.  The Blacks had no choice they were black, and no choice re how they were treated as slaves.

An excellent expose on the so called christians was the statement by PAt Robinson - who said &quot;the Hatians deserved the terrrible earthquake, because they made a pact with the devil in 1830&gt;&quot;   

The pact was a pact with the french, who ended their slavery and gave them their freedom.

The true mental illness of the world is the catholic hierarchys&#039;  - so many catholics know this but cant yet make the break re how the church pincers them between the threat of hell, the guilt trips from confession, and the promise of life everlasting.  For me, being in Heaven would be worse then hell, if these people were t here. 

But I think there is a real long term problem with the translation from the Aramaic, to the Roman to the greek etc.  The meaning of the words   HEAVEN and HELL  are reversed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Professional polls say that 50% of catholics under 30 support gay marriage, not just CUs etc. And a Rutgers poll said that 48 % of Catholics support gay marriage – exactly the same percentage as by which the Prop 8 and Prop 1 lost.</p>
<p>The catholic call for the end of Abortions, btw, is just a smokescreen to hide their hatred of gay people, because they don&#8217;t subscibe to their so called faith.</p>
<p>And the Christians behind this abomination are the of the same religious culture that bullwarked slavery and created the KKK and segregation to replace it.  Also justified as per the bible.</p>
<p>Sort of makes the its a choice argument moot.  The Blacks had no choice they were black, and no choice re how they were treated as slaves.</p>
<p>An excellent expose on the so called christians was the statement by PAt Robinson &#8211; who said &#8220;the Hatians deserved the terrrible earthquake, because they made a pact with the devil in 1830&gt;&#8221;   </p>
<p>The pact was a pact with the french, who ended their slavery and gave them their freedom.</p>
<p>The true mental illness of the world is the catholic hierarchys&#8217;  &#8211; so many catholics know this but cant yet make the break re how the church pincers them between the threat of hell, the guilt trips from confession, and the promise of life everlasting.  For me, being in Heaven would be worse then hell, if these people were t here. </p>
<p>But I think there is a real long term problem with the translation from the Aramaic, to the Roman to the greek etc.  The meaning of the words   HEAVEN and HELL  are reversed.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Professional polls say that 50% of catholics under 30 support gay marriage, not just CUs etc.  And a Rutgers poll said that 48 % of Catholics support gay marriage - exactly the same percentage as by which the Prop 8 and Prop 1</description>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The American Medical, Pediatric, Psychological, Psychiatric , and Psycholanalytical associations all say that sexuality is a built in base emotional construct of all people, str8 and gay.

What you say smacks of the inquistioon, when people who dared to challenge the infallibility of the Pope, and his absolute truths(or ignorances)   were tortured and burned at the stake by the church of life.

What is the difference between those who hate gays in the name off God and those who hate gay Christians, catholics, jews, etc?

Answer:  The second group took flying lessons back in early 2001.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The American Medical, Pediatric, Psychological, Psychiatric , and Psycholanalytical associations all say that sexuality is a built in base emotional construct of all people, str8 and gay.</p>
<p>What you say smacks of the inquistioon, when people who dared to challenge the infallibility of the Pope, and his absolute truths(or ignorances)   were tortured and burned at the stake by the church of life.</p>
<p>What is the difference between those who hate gays in the name off God and those who hate gay Christians, catholics, jews, etc?</p>
<p>Answer:  The second group took flying lessons back in early 2001.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They have two sides of theirr mouth.  And have mastered the technique of using both of thtem at the saME time.

Hatred of God&#039;s children of any stripe, color, orientation, ethnicity etc is the true moral abomination.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They have two sides of theirr mouth.  And have mastered the technique of using both of thtem at the saME time.</p>
<p>Hatred of God&#8217;s children of any stripe, color, orientation, ethnicity etc is the true moral abomination.</p>
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		<title>By: Katie Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katie Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They are denying the humanity of gay people.  The catholic  church calls them intrinsically disordered.  eg  Crazy..   The  Catholic hitler, not yet excommunicated, threw along with Jesus own people the Jews, the gays and the mentally disturbed into the ovens.

Of course the real mentally disturbed was Hitler himself.  Who came to power by leveraging thte hatred of the Jews.

And 50 million died for the &#039;&#039;church of life&quot; and the maniacs it created.

BTW, the german pope Just UNexcommunicated a Bishop Williamson, who is a holocaust denier.  At least Argentina, where he was living, threw him out out of the country.

The lessons of your youth, Il Papa, live a long time.  Lessons of one born and brought up from 1928 in Nazi Germany

No wonder Catholcis by the boatload are becomeing Lapsed, or joining other churches

May God have mercy on your soul.  We will not</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They are denying the humanity of gay people.  The catholic  church calls them intrinsically disordered.  eg  Crazy..   The  Catholic hitler, not yet excommunicated, threw along with Jesus own people the Jews, the gays and the mentally disturbed into the ovens.</p>
<p>Of course the real mentally disturbed was Hitler himself.  Who came to power by leveraging thte hatred of the Jews.</p>
<p>And 50 million died for the &#8221;church of life&#8221; and the maniacs it created.</p>
<p>BTW, the german pope Just UNexcommunicated a Bishop Williamson, who is a holocaust denier.  At least Argentina, where he was living, threw him out out of the country.</p>
<p>The lessons of your youth, Il Papa, live a long time.  Lessons of one born and brought up from 1928 in Nazi Germany</p>
<p>No wonder Catholcis by the boatload are becomeing Lapsed, or joining other churches</p>
<p>May God have mercy on your soul.  We will not</p>
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		<title>By: Melanie Nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melanie Nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jules, Let me mention something that give me a unique position and power.  I am NOT a reporter. For the purposes of this topic and others of similar nature.....  I am an activist first and a blogger second! B LO G G E R!  BLOGGER... In fact if you want to see more please feel free to keep visiting</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jules, Let me mention something that give me a unique position and power.  I am NOT a reporter. For the purposes of this topic and others of similar nature&#8230;..  I am an activist first and a blogger second! B LO G G E R!  BLOGGER&#8230; In fact if you want to see more please feel free to keep visiting</p>
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		<title>By: israel</title>
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		<dc:creator>israel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s got to be a place where the Word of God can be preached and that is where people of God meets. Don&#039;t expect to be accepted as you are, while trying to change tradition, believes, and laws because of your fisical passions.  Burger king and Macdonalds they both serve fries, and they compete agaisnt each other so people of diferent tastes can have their on way. Church is not inteded to please evrybody&#039;s desire, but instead to call on every one to repentance from sin, not just inmoral sin, but from all sin. If someone does not want to repent that&#039;s his decision.  If you want build another Sodoma and Gomorra that&#039;s fine, you will find many. many, Lots, but you will not have any Abrahams, we will be interceeding for the city, to save the Lots, but we will not run into the city  to be burned with it.                 May God have mercy on you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s got to be a place where the Word of God can be preached and that is where people of God meets. Don&#8217;t expect to be accepted as you are, while trying to change tradition, believes, and laws because of your fisical passions.  Burger king and Macdonalds they both serve fries, and they compete agaisnt each other so people of diferent tastes can have their on way. Church is not inteded to please evrybody&#8217;s desire, but instead to call on every one to repentance from sin, not just inmoral sin, but from all sin. If someone does not want to repent that&#8217;s his decision.  If you want build another Sodoma and Gomorra that&#8217;s fine, you will find many. many, Lots, but you will not have any Abrahams, we will be interceeding for the city, to save the Lots, but we will not run into the city  to be burned with it.                 May God have mercy on you.</p>
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		<title>By: Truthbknown</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthbknown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Any attempt at persuasion by a church who has killed to convert is in my opinion spewing hate.  Do not tell my children they are going to hell when you kill and fester hate, Mr. Pope, in the name of your Church. Your Church needs to atone and  that has yet to be done. Instead you continue to condone hate and abuse in the name of God.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any attempt at persuasion by a church who has killed to convert is in my opinion spewing hate.  Do not tell my children they are going to hell when you kill and fester hate, Mr. Pope, in the name of your Church. Your Church needs to atone and  that has yet to be done. Instead you continue to condone hate and abuse in the name of God.</p>
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		<title>By: Board Administrator Cath Pews</title>
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		<dc:creator>Board Administrator Cath Pews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Administration Team of Cath Pews would like to correct the false satements of RichJ.

In the guidelines of our blog prohibit  &quot;Unkind comments about a poster’s private life, his/her sexuality, his/her health - spiritual, physical and mental&quot;. Such posts are not be tolerated nor has there ever been a discriminatory post denigrating a poster or people because of their sexuality..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Administration Team of Cath Pews would like to correct the false satements of RichJ.</p>
<p>In the guidelines of our blog prohibit  &#8220;Unkind comments about a poster’s private life, his/her sexuality, his/her health &#8211; spiritual, physical and mental&#8221;. Such posts are not be tolerated nor has there ever been a discriminatory post denigrating a poster or people because of their sexuality..</p>
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		<title>By: nameless</title>
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		<dc:creator>nameless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>most English translations of the Bible use the word homosexual as a mistranslation of yadha (paedophile) and qadesh (male temple prostitute). Of course, the word homosexual was not available to be used when the Bible was written, and there was no true equivalent Greek word[1]. This might help you overcome some of the negative behaviour associations of gay people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>most English translations of the Bible use the word homosexual as a mistranslation of yadha (paedophile) and qadesh (male temple prostitute). Of course, the word homosexual was not available to be used when the Bible was written, and there was no true equivalent Greek word[1]. This might help you overcome some of the negative behaviour associations of gay people.</p>
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		<title>By: Melanie Nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melanie Nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Henry, it is terribly sad when you tout your belief as &quot;the truth.&quot;  I mean come on, get real. The Truth is different to so many.  Why then do you not stop Jewish people from marrying and procreating? I am  jew and I do not believe you have the &quot;  truth&quot;. In fact I am still waiting for the Messiah.   I do not need jesus for anything.   I connect directly to G-d in my spirituallity.  I know when I die I will be perfectly fine because I am a good and kind person weho has devoted my entire life to helping people who are suffering.  Unequal treatment on earth causes suffering of the worst kind.   How does having a different belief derogate in any way shape of form from my right to marry the person I love under civil law.  You make no sense at all.  I dont care how you care for whom. Its not relevant.   The bottom line is stay out of my life and my death. Let me face my music my way - I dont need you for your beliefs because it has nothing to do with my life.  The only thing you can do is keep your religious fervor to yourself and stop thinking that you can impact civil rights.  If people like you had your way then a balck and white person will never marry - it was the same thinking that caused Africsan American people to have inequality in this country.  So please just keep away from my civil business and go to church and pary for whomsoever&#039;s soul you please, while I fight for the equality of the oppressed in thia country.   Go practice your religious freedom in the place you are menat to do it - IN CHURCH - not in my bedroom and nor in Congress.  My religious freedom entitles me not to hear your propoganda and ettempts to convert me - because you are then infringing on my rights. So in simply tterms stay away...from me... you are toxic... best to you and happy thanksgiving a day og gratitude, melanie author of the bLOG</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Henry, it is terribly sad when you tout your belief as &#8220;the truth.&#8221;  I mean come on, get real. The Truth is different to so many.  Why then do you not stop Jewish people from marrying and procreating? I am  jew and I do not believe you have the &#8221;  truth&#8221;. In fact I am still waiting for the Messiah.   I do not need jesus for anything.   I connect directly to G-d in my spirituallity.  I know when I die I will be perfectly fine because I am a good and kind person weho has devoted my entire life to helping people who are suffering.  Unequal treatment on earth causes suffering of the worst kind.   How does having a different belief derogate in any way shape of form from my right to marry the person I love under civil law.  You make no sense at all.  I dont care how you care for whom. Its not relevant.   The bottom line is stay out of my life and my death. Let me face my music my way &#8211; I dont need you for your beliefs because it has nothing to do with my life.  The only thing you can do is keep your religious fervor to yourself and stop thinking that you can impact civil rights.  If people like you had your way then a balck and white person will never marry &#8211; it was the same thinking that caused Africsan American people to have inequality in this country.  So please just keep away from my civil business and go to church and pary for whomsoever&#8217;s soul you please, while I fight for the equality of the oppressed in thia country.   Go practice your religious freedom in the place you are menat to do it &#8211; IN CHURCH &#8211; not in my bedroom and nor in Congress.  My religious freedom entitles me not to hear your propoganda and ettempts to convert me &#8211; because you are then infringing on my rights. So in simply tterms stay away&#8230;from me&#8230; you are toxic&#8230; best to you and happy thanksgiving a day og gratitude, melanie author of the bLOG</p>
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		<title>By: Melanie Nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melanie Nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How odd, I have a true marriage. All components complied with - two people, two children - (insemination and adoption from overseas orphanage)  love, committment, Rabbi married us, State gave us a license, 200 guests at weeding, California State license. We own a home, we have a mortgage, we are on the PTA, have great jobs and own a business, pray to G-d, mmmm what else do we need for a true marriage Henry, Dear Henry?  Oh yes we are two women.  How does my marriage impact other marriages Henry? Does it prevent them for happening.  Does it make deadbeat fathers even more deadbeat than they already are?   Will it alter the divorce numbers? Will my marriage increase the amount of annulments that the Catholic Archdiosece grants? Do you think all celebrties will run to Vegas and get divorced after a one night marriage.   How about the show the bachelor - where you get to pick a spouse,   Do you think more or less people will want to do that one.  I could go on forever but ,,,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How odd, I have a true marriage. All components complied with &#8211; two people, two children &#8211; (insemination and adoption from overseas orphanage)  love, committment, Rabbi married us, State gave us a license, 200 guests at weeding, California State license. We own a home, we have a mortgage, we are on the PTA, have great jobs and own a business, pray to G-d, mmmm what else do we need for a true marriage Henry, Dear Henry?  Oh yes we are two women.  How does my marriage impact other marriages Henry? Does it prevent them for happening.  Does it make deadbeat fathers even more deadbeat than they already are?   Will it alter the divorce numbers? Will my marriage increase the amount of annulments that the Catholic Archdiosece grants? Do you think all celebrties will run to Vegas and get divorced after a one night marriage.   How about the show the bachelor &#8211; where you get to pick a spouse,   Do you think more or less people will want to do that one.  I could go on forever but ,,,</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I care for gay people in a different way to you. I care that they should know the truth, not be told it&#039;s OK to go against nature or even God. God gave us our sexuality at birth.  We need to accept it as part of God&#039;s plan for us.  Trust in God is important to me and gives me courage. Turning away from Him only makes my life miserable.  I accept my sexuality , live with it and thank God for it.  AND the last thing we should do is coerce others to accept something unnatural.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I care for gay people in a different way to you. I care that they should know the truth, not be told it&#8217;s OK to go against nature or even God. God gave us our sexuality at birth.  We need to accept it as part of God&#8217;s plan for us.  Trust in God is important to me and gives me courage. Turning away from Him only makes my life miserable.  I accept my sexuality , live with it and thank God for it.  AND the last thing we should do is coerce others to accept something unnatural.</p>
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		<title>By: RichJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>RichJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PS I forgot: Pell&#039;s implication that protection from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is a &quot;parody&quot; of protection from discrimination on the grounds of sex. Another example of the sort of anti-GLBT sentiment that CathPewers love.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PS I forgot: Pell&#8217;s implication that protection from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is a &#8220;parody&#8221; of protection from discrimination on the grounds of sex. Another example of the sort of anti-GLBT sentiment that CathPewers love.</p>
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		<title>By: RichJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>RichJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One swallow doesn&#039;t make a spring.  One visit to a blogsite doesn&#039;t allow for an accurate judgement about its history. I have been monitoring cathpews for a number of years.  I never said that there were &quot;hate&quot; posts on the site. I said the site was &quot;extremist&quot;, an assessment that has found concurrence with their more middle-of-the-road coreligionists. I also said it was &quot;anti-GLBT&quot;: it took just a moment to find a posting typical of this, posted as recently as today, favourably quoting the  cardinal archbishop of Sydney, George Pell. Pell is discussing the Victorian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Victoria is an Australian state). Pell says that in the Charter &quot;the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds of sex is parodied by being associated with ambiguous categories such as &#039;sexual orientation&#039;, and fantasies of the zeitgeist such as &#039;gender identity&#039;.&quot; If describing &quot;sexual orientation&quot;  as an &quot;ambiguous category&quot; and  &quot;gender identity&quot; as &quot;a fantasy of the zeitgeist&quot; is not at the very least anti-GLBT - to me it is appraching out and out gay-hate - what is?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One swallow doesn&#8217;t make a spring.  One visit to a blogsite doesn&#8217;t allow for an accurate judgement about its history. I have been monitoring cathpews for a number of years.  I never said that there were &#8220;hate&#8221; posts on the site. I said the site was &#8220;extremist&#8221;, an assessment that has found concurrence with their more middle-of-the-road coreligionists. I also said it was &#8220;anti-GLBT&#8221;: it took just a moment to find a posting typical of this, posted as recently as today, favourably quoting the  cardinal archbishop of Sydney, George Pell. Pell is discussing the Victorian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities (Victoria is an Australian state). Pell says that in the Charter &#8220;the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds of sex is parodied by being associated with ambiguous categories such as &#8216;sexual orientation&#8217;, and fantasies of the zeitgeist such as &#8216;gender identity&#8217;.&#8221; If describing &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221;  as an &#8220;ambiguous category&#8221; and  &#8220;gender identity&#8221; as &#8220;a fantasy of the zeitgeist&#8221; is not at the very least anti-GLBT &#8211; to me it is appraching out and out gay-hate &#8211; what is?</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Typical this came from NY, usual corruption story out of there, usually its the mob or the cops, now its the fucking priests, well they always had a hand in or a blind eye turned didnt they.  You know what, fuck the religious morons, wasnt there just something in the news not too long ago about priests diddling little boys?  How moral is that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Typical this came from NY, usual corruption story out of there, usually its the mob or the cops, now its the fucking priests, well they always had a hand in or a blind eye turned didnt they.  You know what, fuck the religious morons, wasnt there just something in the news not too long ago about priests diddling little boys?  How moral is that?</p>
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		<title>By: Melanie Nathan</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23982</link>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>By the way the Catholic Church is connected to one humanbeing in one place in the world. We all know who that is. They have a supreme human being. So anything said or done in the Name of tghe Church anywhere in the world is attributable to the leadership of that PERSON.  That person&#039;s influence on modern life (not biblical life) is huge and he is calling on churches around the world to do exactly what the Manhatten Declaration does and exactlly what the Australians site CATHPEW espouses and  here is an example from that site: When they inetrfere woith politicians and try and influence educatyion no matter where in the world, it is HATE jargon . Well how can I say that, because - they are trying to influence sexcular law not to recognize LGBT equality, human rights, civil rights, under the law.....    quote for cathpewk:-  PRESS RELEASE PUBLISHED:
Media Release 
Catholic Communications 
Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn 
GPO Box 3089 Canberra ACT 2601 

16 November, 2009. 

The ACT Government is trying once more to impose upon the community same-sex civil unions which 
include ceremony and celebrant. It is anomalous that such legislation which will have impact upon the national agenda should be passed in a small and unusual jurisdiction which has no house of review. 

It is vital for the life of the nation that marriage be supported and promoted in every way possible at a time when it is under severe pressure. To establish a form of civil union which mimics marriage adds inevitably 
to that pressure, since it reduces marriage between a man and a woman to one of a number of equally valid options. 

The marriage ceremony is more than a formal recognition of a relationship between two people. It is a formal recognition that this particular relationship between a man and a woman is uniquely important to society as a whole, in large part because it can produce children and provide the best environment in which they can grow to maturity. Other relationships, however important and enriching they may be, do not make the same contribution to society and, therefore, do not warrant the same kind of formal recognition. 

It is wrong to deny justice to homosexual people. But justice concerns rights and duties; and in this case we are not talking of the right of some to which there corresponds a duty for all. We are talking of a desire – 
something which some may want but to which they are not necessarily entitled. In this case, the kind of civil union desired by some undermines the common good, which is served only where marriage between a man and woman is identified and supported as unique and uniquely important for society. 

For a government to confuse desires and rights is bound to lead to bad law; the same is true when a government focuses upon the individual at the expense of the community as a whole. 
In the last electoral campaign, the Prime Minister made a clear commitment to prevent marriage being undermined in this way, and until now he has shown admirable resolve in holding to that commitment. 

Now is the time for Mr Rudd and his Government once more to act in the interests of the Australian community as a whole by overturning the ACT legislation and supporting marriage as they have done before. 

+ Mark Coleridge 

Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn 

http://www.cathnews.com/uploads/doc/2009/11/Archbishop%20Mark%20Coleridge%20-%20Same%20Sex%20Unions%20Legislation.pdf 
Inquiries to telephone 6201 9811.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the way the Catholic Church is connected to one humanbeing in one place in the world. We all know who that is. They have a supreme human being. So anything said or done in the Name of tghe Church anywhere in the world is attributable to the leadership of that PERSON.  That person&#8217;s influence on modern life (not biblical life) is huge and he is calling on churches around the world to do exactly what the Manhatten Declaration does and exactlly what the Australians site CATHPEW espouses and  here is an example from that site: When they inetrfere woith politicians and try and influence educatyion no matter where in the world, it is HATE jargon . Well how can I say that, because &#8211; they are trying to influence sexcular law not to recognize LGBT equality, human rights, civil rights, under the law&#8230;..    quote for cathpewk:-  PRESS RELEASE PUBLISHED:<br />
Media Release<br />
Catholic Communications<br />
Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn<br />
GPO Box 3089 Canberra ACT 2601 </p>
<p>16 November, 2009. </p>
<p>The ACT Government is trying once more to impose upon the community same-sex civil unions which<br />
include ceremony and celebrant. It is anomalous that such legislation which will have impact upon the national agenda should be passed in a small and unusual jurisdiction which has no house of review. </p>
<p>It is vital for the life of the nation that marriage be supported and promoted in every way possible at a time when it is under severe pressure. To establish a form of civil union which mimics marriage adds inevitably<br />
to that pressure, since it reduces marriage between a man and a woman to one of a number of equally valid options. </p>
<p>The marriage ceremony is more than a formal recognition of a relationship between two people. It is a formal recognition that this particular relationship between a man and a woman is uniquely important to society as a whole, in large part because it can produce children and provide the best environment in which they can grow to maturity. Other relationships, however important and enriching they may be, do not make the same contribution to society and, therefore, do not warrant the same kind of formal recognition. </p>
<p>It is wrong to deny justice to homosexual people. But justice concerns rights and duties; and in this case we are not talking of the right of some to which there corresponds a duty for all. We are talking of a desire –<br />
something which some may want but to which they are not necessarily entitled. In this case, the kind of civil union desired by some undermines the common good, which is served only where marriage between a man and woman is identified and supported as unique and uniquely important for society. </p>
<p>For a government to confuse desires and rights is bound to lead to bad law; the same is true when a government focuses upon the individual at the expense of the community as a whole.<br />
In the last electoral campaign, the Prime Minister made a clear commitment to prevent marriage being undermined in this way, and until now he has shown admirable resolve in holding to that commitment. </p>
<p>Now is the time for Mr Rudd and his Government once more to act in the interests of the Australian community as a whole by overturning the ACT legislation and supporting marriage as they have done before. </p>
<p>+ Mark Coleridge </p>
<p>Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn </p>
<p><a href="http://www.cathnews.com/uploads/doc/2009/11/Archbishop%20Mark%20Coleridge%20-%20Same%20Sex%20Unions%20Legislation.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cathnews.com/uploads/doc/2009/11/Archbishop%20Mark%20Coleridge%20-%20Same%20Sex%20Unions%20Legislation.pdf</a><br />
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		<title>By: Melanie Nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melanie Nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a hole in your bucket dear Henry, dear Henry – sorry couldn’t resist… Thanks Rich. I have not had time yet to check out the site. The reason why I am happy to allow these comments is because we can expose the bigotry and hate in America. If someone says “I dont give a rats tuch about you gays..” it helps wake America up. Because he really should care. If he were a good patriotic American who believed in the principles our soldiers die for, he would care. One of those principles is civil rights and equality. So indeed Henry and Jules I thank you for exposing yourself here on our website and please you are most welcome to come back anytime. After all – This IS AMERICA…</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a hole in your bucket dear Henry, dear Henry – sorry couldn’t resist… Thanks Rich. I have not had time yet to check out the site. The reason why I am happy to allow these comments is because we can expose the bigotry and hate in America. If someone says “I dont give a rats tuch about you gays..” it helps wake America up. Because he really should care. If he were a good patriotic American who believed in the principles our soldiers die for, he would care. One of those principles is civil rights and equality. So indeed Henry and Jules I thank you for exposing yourself here on our website and please you are most welcome to come back anytime. After all – This IS AMERICA…</p>
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		<title>By: Rev. Debra Haffner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rev. Debra Haffner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Neither the Manhattan Declaration, nor the handful of Catholic bishops and evangelical leaders who created it, speak for most Christians, much less people of other faiths.  Read another religious viewpoint here: http://www.religiousinstitute.org/news.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neither the Manhattan Declaration, nor the handful of Catholic bishops and evangelical leaders who created it, speak for most Christians, much less people of other faiths.  Read another religious viewpoint here: <a href="http://www.religiousinstitute.org/news" rel="nofollow">http://www.religiousinstitute.org/news</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Melanie Nathan</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23970</link>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a hole in your bucket dear Henry, dear Henry - sorry couldn&#039;t resist... Thanks Rich.  I have not had time yet to check out the site.  The reason why I am happy to allow these comments is because we can expose the bigotry and hate in America.  If someone says &quot;I dont give a rats tuch about you gays..&quot; it helps wake America up.   Because he really should care. If he were a good patriotic American who believed in the principles our soldiers die for, he would care. One of those principles is civil rights and equality.  So indeed Henry and Jules I thank you for exposing yourself here on our website and please you are most welcome to come back anytime. After all - This IS AMERICA...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a hole in your bucket dear Henry, dear Henry &#8211; sorry couldn&#8217;t resist&#8230; Thanks Rich.  I have not had time yet to check out the site.  The reason why I am happy to allow these comments is because we can expose the bigotry and hate in America.  If someone says &#8220;I dont give a rats tuch about you gays..&#8221; it helps wake America up.   Because he really should care. If he were a good patriotic American who believed in the principles our soldiers die for, he would care. One of those principles is civil rights and equality.  So indeed Henry and Jules I thank you for exposing yourself here on our website and please you are most welcome to come back anytime. After all &#8211; This IS AMERICA&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: RichJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>RichJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To its credit, as much as Jules is free to use his catholicism to justify his offensive homophobia on this website, you permit him to post.
By contrast the administrator of the cathpews site (http://members7.boardhost.com/CathPews/index.html) would either immediately delete - or even worse, edit to subvert the intent of  - any post on Cathpews that was even remotely critical of Catholicism or supportive of GLBT people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To its credit, as much as Jules is free to use his catholicism to justify his offensive homophobia on this website, you permit him to post.<br />
By contrast the administrator of the cathpews site (<a href="http://members7.boardhost.com/CathPews/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://members7.boardhost.com/CathPews/index.html</a>) would either immediately delete &#8211; or even worse, edit to subvert the intent of  &#8211; any post on Cathpews that was even remotely critical of Catholicism or supportive of GLBT people.</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23956</link>
		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rich, I went to that site and there is no anti gay extremist there, so what the hell are you on about man?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rich, I went to that site and there is no anti gay extremist there, so what the hell are you on about man?</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rich, I went to that site. There is no anti gay hate posts there. So what the hell are you accusing Jules of?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rich, I went to that site. There is no anti gay hate posts there. So what the hell are you accusing Jules of?</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23945</link>
		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rich, I went to that site. It&#039;s not anti gay or anything as you suggest.  If anything they are Catholics getting on with their own business. They have right of free speech too ,you know!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rich, I went to that site. It&#8217;s not anti gay or anything as you suggest.  If anything they are Catholics getting on with their own business. They have right of free speech too ,you know!</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry to say but your post shows that you are not clear as to WHY the Declaration was written in the first place. It was written so as to protect the true meaning of marriage. Frankly I don&#039;t give a rat&#039;s toenail for what gays do, just don&#039;t go forcing a rewriting of definitions and ancient meanings of words.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry to say but your post shows that you are not clear as to WHY the Declaration was written in the first place. It was written so as to protect the true meaning of marriage. Frankly I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s toenail for what gays do, just don&#8217;t go forcing a rewriting of definitions and ancient meanings of words.</p>
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		<title>By: Melanie Nathan</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23939</link>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually Paula is showing her well earned anger. There is a difference.  Its fine for you to talk while you have all your American Civil rights in tact.  Why does government make secular law for marriage. Why is your marriage not governed by the Church?  WHy did you get a vcivil icense to marry? Where does the marriage certificate go? The Secretary of State? Why do you go to the US courts when you want custody of your child?  Because it is the SECULAR law that provides for your marriage.  Not the friggin Church.  Now If a Priest chooses to marry you fine, great, enjoy.   Now gays and lesbians happen to be in relatinship in couples whether you like it or not.  Just by virtue of their coupling, the committment to spend their life together should entitle them to the same civil laws that you are entitled to when you couple with your intended forever person!!!    You Go Paula and thanks for all the turth your present on this site and for keeping these crazy one dimensional fundementalists in check.

Also let me say this -  all  who commented here that are anti-gay took the bait and came onto our lesbian site to engage in conversation with us and while doing that they showed their ignorance, their brainwashed excuses for souls and the fact that in their feeble attempt at civil disobedience - ie those 4700 pages of furtive hate they have and shall accomplish nought.  You know why? Because one cannot be disobedeient of laws that do not apply to you.   They will not be compelled to marry gay people - tere will be no such law; they will not be compelled to do abortions. So in truth their manifesto is a childish attempt at &#039;mein kampf&#039; and nothing more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually Paula is showing her well earned anger. There is a difference.  Its fine for you to talk while you have all your American Civil rights in tact.  Why does government make secular law for marriage. Why is your marriage not governed by the Church?  WHy did you get a vcivil icense to marry? Where does the marriage certificate go? The Secretary of State? Why do you go to the US courts when you want custody of your child?  Because it is the SECULAR law that provides for your marriage.  Not the friggin Church.  Now If a Priest chooses to marry you fine, great, enjoy.   Now gays and lesbians happen to be in relatinship in couples whether you like it or not.  Just by virtue of their coupling, the committment to spend their life together should entitle them to the same civil laws that you are entitled to when you couple with your intended forever person!!!    You Go Paula and thanks for all the turth your present on this site and for keeping these crazy one dimensional fundementalists in check.</p>
<p>Also let me say this &#8211;  all  who commented here that are anti-gay took the bait and came onto our lesbian site to engage in conversation with us and while doing that they showed their ignorance, their brainwashed excuses for souls and the fact that in their feeble attempt at civil disobedience &#8211; ie those 4700 pages of furtive hate they have and shall accomplish nought.  You know why? Because one cannot be disobedeient of laws that do not apply to you.   They will not be compelled to marry gay people &#8211; tere will be no such law; they will not be compelled to do abortions. So in truth their manifesto is a childish attempt at &#8216;mein kampf&#8217; and nothing more.</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Christ upheld the dignity of true marriage when he spoke about divorce and how God intended it to be between man and woman as it was in the beginning.  
Paula , you show a great deal of hatred in this post of yours.  :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christ upheld the dignity of true marriage when he spoke about divorce and how God intended it to be between man and woman as it was in the beginning.<br />
Paula , you show a great deal of hatred in this post of yours.  <img src='http://lezgetreal.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where did Christ say stone an adulterer?   Paula your literal interpretations are fundamentalist!!  AND who are you to tell Christians what they should believe? Our faith has been here for 2000 years!!Again lies and bigotry towards Christians.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where did Christ say stone an adulterer?   Paula your literal interpretations are fundamentalist!!  AND who are you to tell Christians what they should believe? Our faith has been here for 2000 years!!Again lies and bigotry towards Christians.</p>
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		<title>By: planetspinz</title>
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		<dc:creator>planetspinz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The writers and signers of the Manhattan Declaration on American Freedom are angry at the way Jesus answered their prayers for a republican president and congress</description>
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		<title>By: Len Rifkind</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23920</link>
		<dc:creator>Len Rifkind</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At some point people the world over will realize that people who are homosexual or lesbian, are just that &quot;people&quot; and no one will care about their sexual orientation because it is irrelevant.  Such &quot;people&quot; will simply do what straight people will do--get married, have families, practice the religion of their choice and worry about more important issues like a billion children around the globe who live in poverty.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At some point people the world over will realize that people who are homosexual or lesbian, are just that &#8220;people&#8221; and no one will care about their sexual orientation because it is irrelevant.  Such &#8220;people&#8221; will simply do what straight people will do&#8211;get married, have families, practice the religion of their choice and worry about more important issues like a billion children around the globe who live in poverty.</p>
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		<title>By: melanie nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>melanie nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sean the backlash is now.   You can attribute any larger agenda you want to me - and the gay community.  I can take anything when it comes to fighting for the rights you have that I do not have.  The only people willing to acknowledge my relevance are liberals. They are my lifeline to being treated equally. So you can spin it anyway you like,  Simply you are unable to separate Church from State. I am not worried about the future because when my kids and their friends read this post, saved here for posterity, they will see statements such as your as ludicrous and unfair as we see some aspects of the past today.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sean the backlash is now.   You can attribute any larger agenda you want to me &#8211; and the gay community.  I can take anything when it comes to fighting for the rights you have that I do not have.  The only people willing to acknowledge my relevance are liberals. They are my lifeline to being treated equally. So you can spin it anyway you like,  Simply you are unable to separate Church from State. I am not worried about the future because when my kids and their friends read this post, saved here for posterity, they will see statements such as your as ludicrous and unfair as we see some aspects of the past today.</p>
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		<title>By: melanie nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>melanie nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shows what the teaching turned them into? Is that what you are suggesting. Molestation by priests and parents produces a cycle of pedophiles. You are not making a good case here Jules.</description>
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		<title>By: melanie nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>melanie nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I too studied biblical Studies as a sub major with my law degree.  I did a mini thesis called Jesus and the Torah.  What was so profound from the research (btw many Church documents too jules)  was the interperative implications.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I too studied biblical Studies as a sub major with my law degree.  I did a mini thesis called Jesus and the Torah.  What was so profound from the research (btw many Church documents too jules)  was the interperative implications.</p>
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		<title>By: melanie nathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>melanie nathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice to meet you and thanks for the info re Cathpews.   Jules really needs to learn the difference between Secular and religious. It amazes me how people like him will use the rights they have and then use religion to take those rights away from others who deserve equality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice to meet you and thanks for the info re Cathpews.   Jules really needs to learn the difference between Secular and religious. It amazes me how people like him will use the rights they have and then use religion to take those rights away from others who deserve equality.</p>
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		<title>By: Sean</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s amusing to me that you claim Reagan killed the middle class by cutting social services. The middle class are the ones who end up paying for social services, and the middle class are the ones who don&#039;t need social services. Furthermore, who votes Democrat? Lets think about this here a minute. People who rely on government handouts, people who believe in government hand outs and high taxes, and government employees who get nice pensions are the ones who vote Democrat. Now, how many middle class people in the private sector fit that description? Hardly any. That&#039;s why there&#039;s always been a big push to get people into government jobs and on the government payroll because Democrats can effectively buy votes using tax payer dollars.

As far as Bush goes, he isn&#039;t the worst president ever, but he certainly wasn&#039;t a good one. He was a social conservative with a neoconservative foreign policy and a liberal mindset when it came to government expansion. However, it was certainly preferable to what we have now; an unabashed communist who makes no secret of his desire to socialize America. Your rabid hysteria over the whole &quot;Iraq war was a lie&quot; reeks of 2003. You belie your fringe group radical mentality by shrieking all the catch phrases of Code Pink. It just gives further credence to my assertion that you are part of the progressive movement that represents only a tiny fraction of America but has managed to force its desires on the rest of us.

I won&#039;t bother with the conservatives doing men in bathrooms comment, but I will address the &quot;stealing billions&quot; from hard working people. The hard working people is the middle class private sector that has to support the other half the population that works for the government on their tax dollars; that has to support the low life that feed off of government social services. The ones who keep these policies in place, the ones who created them in the first place, are the liberals/communist that you clearly are a part of. What&#039;s even worse is that you don&#039;t even have a real job; you&#039;re an attorney which is about as bad as being a politician...maybe even worse. Try leaving California and getting a real job, you definitely don&#039;t represent the middle class.

Bottom line is that as long as government ties taxes and other things to marriage, I will oppose gay marriage on the grounds that it destroys the traditional values of this country. As I&#039;ve said before, the gay marriage debate is just a sideshow to the much larger issues that you champion. You and your peers continue to shove your social programs and progressive agenda down the throat of America and eventually there will be a backlash. There is no way for me to know how it will occur, but you need only look at history to see what happens when fringe minorities come to power and begin to impose their will on the majority.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s amusing to me that you claim Reagan killed the middle class by cutting social services. The middle class are the ones who end up paying for social services, and the middle class are the ones who don&#8217;t need social services. Furthermore, who votes Democrat? Lets think about this here a minute. People who rely on government handouts, people who believe in government hand outs and high taxes, and government employees who get nice pensions are the ones who vote Democrat. Now, how many middle class people in the private sector fit that description? Hardly any. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s always been a big push to get people into government jobs and on the government payroll because Democrats can effectively buy votes using tax payer dollars.</p>
<p>As far as Bush goes, he isn&#8217;t the worst president ever, but he certainly wasn&#8217;t a good one. He was a social conservative with a neoconservative foreign policy and a liberal mindset when it came to government expansion. However, it was certainly preferable to what we have now; an unabashed communist who makes no secret of his desire to socialize America. Your rabid hysteria over the whole &#8220;Iraq war was a lie&#8221; reeks of 2003. You belie your fringe group radical mentality by shrieking all the catch phrases of Code Pink. It just gives further credence to my assertion that you are part of the progressive movement that represents only a tiny fraction of America but has managed to force its desires on the rest of us.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t bother with the conservatives doing men in bathrooms comment, but I will address the &#8220;stealing billions&#8221; from hard working people. The hard working people is the middle class private sector that has to support the other half the population that works for the government on their tax dollars; that has to support the low life that feed off of government social services. The ones who keep these policies in place, the ones who created them in the first place, are the liberals/communist that you clearly are a part of. What&#8217;s even worse is that you don&#8217;t even have a real job; you&#8217;re an attorney which is about as bad as being a politician&#8230;maybe even worse. Try leaving California and getting a real job, you definitely don&#8217;t represent the middle class.</p>
<p>Bottom line is that as long as government ties taxes and other things to marriage, I will oppose gay marriage on the grounds that it destroys the traditional values of this country. As I&#8217;ve said before, the gay marriage debate is just a sideshow to the much larger issues that you champion. You and your peers continue to shove your social programs and progressive agenda down the throat of America and eventually there will be a backlash. There is no way for me to know how it will occur, but you need only look at history to see what happens when fringe minorities come to power and begin to impose their will on the majority.</p>
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		<title>By: jeff rominsky</title>
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		<dc:creator>jeff rominsky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As talked about in the Declaration, christians do want peace for all man kind including gays &amp; lesbians. When it talks about marriage it talks about accepting same sex unions and that they should have equal civil rights.
     The Bible on the other hand is pretty clear about two of the same sex (laying with each other) being together sexually.   It is not to be, period !


 Not tough to figure out, nothing to debate, impossible to take out of context no matter what bible you&#039;re using.
























the Manhattan Declaration really clarifies alot of issues I feel.  There isn&#039;t any hate involved in it........ its just time for Christians to start standing up for our beliefs no mateer the consequences.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As talked about in the Declaration, christians do want peace for all man kind including gays &amp; lesbians. When it talks about marriage it talks about accepting same sex unions and that they should have equal civil rights.<br />
     The Bible on the other hand is pretty clear about two of the same sex (laying with each other) being together sexually.   It is not to be, period !</p>
<p> Not tough to figure out, nothing to debate, impossible to take out of context no matter what bible you&#8217;re using.</p>
<p>the Manhattan Declaration really clarifies alot of issues I feel.  There isn&#8217;t any hate involved in it&#8230;&#8230;.. its just time for Christians to start standing up for our beliefs no mateer the consequences.</p>
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		<title>By: RichJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>RichJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t be too concerned about &quot;Jules&quot; Mel and others. If not for his bigoted post about this story on the Australian extremist anti-GLBT &quot;catholic&quot; website &quot;Cathpews&quot; I wouldn&#039;t have got to read it.
Thanks Jules.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t be too concerned about &#8220;Jules&#8221; Mel and others. If not for his bigoted post about this story on the Australian extremist anti-GLBT &#8220;catholic&#8221; website &#8220;Cathpews&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t have got to read it.<br />
Thanks Jules.</p>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sad you haven&#039;t learned anything though!</description>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23875</link>
		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s a well known fact that married men are the largest group of paedophiles.  Those men who molest children stopped practising their faith the moment they laid a hand on them.  You seem to think that you can blame a whole church and it&#039;s teachings on the imperfections of individuals . How odd you are Miss self righteous!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a well known fact that married men are the largest group of paedophiles.  Those men who molest children stopped practising their faith the moment they laid a hand on them.  You seem to think that you can blame a whole church and it&#8217;s teachings on the imperfections of individuals . How odd you are Miss self righteous!</p>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23873</link>
		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Then you should know better. But you are blinded by false compassion and lies.</description>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jules
Posted on November 22, 2009 at 6:27 am

Who are you to question God’s actions? And are you a biblical scholar? Your literal interpretation is pretty fundamental . Fundamentalist like you confuse objective interpretation with personal belief. You interpret Scripture in light of your own beliefs rather than those of the author’s. And what the authors say is the unquestionable authority of God.
And my experience with your type is you haven’t read authoritative interpretations let alone real church documents. You just read gossip columnist like this one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jules<br />
Posted on November 22, 2009 at 6:27 am</p>
<p>Who are you to question God’s actions? And are you a biblical scholar? Your literal interpretation is pretty fundamental . Fundamentalist like you confuse objective interpretation with personal belief. You interpret Scripture in light of your own beliefs rather than those of the author’s. And what the authors say is the unquestionable authority of God.<br />
And my experience with your type is you haven’t read authoritative interpretations let alone real church documents. You just read gossip columnist like this one.</p>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
		<link>http://lezgetreal.com/2009/11/the-manhattan-declaration-where-does-it-lead-churchs-hate-gay-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-23869</link>
		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who are you to question God&#039;s actions?  And are you a biblical scholar?  Your literal interpretation is pretty fundamental . Fundamentalist  like you confuse objective interpretation with personal belief. You interpret Scripture in light of your own beliefs rather than those of the author&#039;s. And what the authors say is the unquestionable authority of God.
And my experience with your type is you haven&#039;t read authoritative interpretations let alone real church documents. You just read gossip columnist like this one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who are you to question God&#8217;s actions?  And are you a biblical scholar?  Your literal interpretation is pretty fundamental . Fundamentalist  like you confuse objective interpretation with personal belief. You interpret Scripture in light of your own beliefs rather than those of the author&#8217;s. And what the authors say is the unquestionable authority of God.<br />
And my experience with your type is you haven&#8217;t read authoritative interpretations let alone real church documents. You just read gossip columnist like this one.</p>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All people are called by God to live a morally upright life. Called to chastity. All people gays too!!!!!
As we know those who reject this reject God, and then wonder why their lifestyle is not accepted and so their hatred builds up against Christians. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All people are called by God to live a morally upright life. Called to chastity. All people gays too!!!!!<br />
As we know those who reject this reject God, and then wonder why their lifestyle is not accepted and so their hatred builds up against Christians.</p>
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