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Compiled By Jack Nichols
One GOP President's Son Takes Aim at Another
What is (Mr. Bush's) accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk? Ron Reagan, Jr.—quoted in Frank Rich's 'Journal' column—“Membership Has Its Privileges”—New York Times, September 9 Womyn Born Womyn Only For the seventh time, transgender activists took their case for inclusion to the annual Michigan Womyn's Festival, August 11-12, and for the seventh time they were rebuffed by festival organizers and staff. The 25-year old event maintains a “womyn born womyn” admissions policy that transsexual women say discriminates against them. Rob Nixon—Michigan Festival won't budge on trans inclusion”—Etcetera magazine, Atlanta, September 1 Men with Short Hair & Sideburns Farting Testosterone
Michael Alvear—“The Man Who Made Gays Macho”—Watermark, Orlando-Tampa August 21--September 13 They Didn't Forget God Hendrick and Sharon Patterson are a religious, God-fearing couple. They wanted their 17-year old son to be, too. The last thing they wanted to hear was that their boy was a homosexual. So they allegedly decided to beat it out of him…According to police, the husband and wife repeatedly took a lead pipe and hammered the body of their teenage son with it. Even while they were beating their child, they did not forget God, though. “God will punish you for your lifestyle!” they screamed as they leveled the lead pipe and another as-yet-unidentified weapon against their own flesh and blood offspring. Mubarak Dahir—“Youth's Beating Shows the Need to Reach Gay Teens”—The Letter, September 
Eminem: Born Again!
Marshall Mathers, known also as Eminem and Slim Shady, has become a born-again Christian. Betty Bowers gets the first interview to discuss his conversion. Hear his first Christian Rap song! Landover Baptist Church—September 9 www.landoverbaptist.org Catholic Church Approves 'No Dogs or Homosexuals' Sign The Catholic Church in Aguascalientes supports the restrictions imposed by the local city council on the Ojo Caliente water park, which prohibit access to dogs and homosexuals. Miguel Medina, the General Vicar of the State Diocese...blamed gays and made them responsible for the regulation enacted against them for “doing things in front of others” inside the recreational center. The Church considers that people that feel sexually attracted to people of the same gender are “dangerous.” Homosexuality, according to an analysis on the subject prepared by the Bishop of Cuernavaca, Luis Reynoso, “is immoral in itself and constitutes a serious sin, because it contradicts the purpose of having sex: The creation of children and [expressing] the mutual and complimentary love between a man and a woman.” Alma E. Muñoz and Roberto Garduño --“The Catholic Church Agrees with the Segregation in Aguascalientes”-- El Jornada, August 26 Old Walt's Wisdom 
Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things, that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary. Walt Whitman—“Poem of the Road”—Leaves of Grass, 1856 Spanish Eyes To me, it seems a promising landmark towards normalcy when a high ranking officer is able to publicly come out. It is clear that when one officer does this, it helps everyone understand that there are gays in the army, just as there are gays in every social and professional setting. What lieutenant colonel Sánchez Silva has done is to start a process towards eliminating discrimination. I don't believe the defense department should apply sanctions, although it is there is always a chance that this particular officer might face repercussions. Carles Campuzano--a congressional representative from Spain's Convergéncia i Unió party and a member of the Congress' Defense Committee, referring to lieutenant colonel José María Sánchez Silva, who recently made a public announcement that he is oriented erotically to persons of his own gender.-- El País, Madrid, September 4 Don't Interrupt Dr. Laura's Unlikely Success
To be part of the Dr. Laura franchise, her television show must be
recognizably Dr. Laura. Her television mission then becomes: Dispense morals,
values, principles and ethics, and make it work on the tube.
Successfully (entertainingly) presenting the ethical issues that frame
people's lives through real exchanges between real people would be riveting
TV. (Can you imagine Dr. Laura, interrupted?) Getting a studio audience to
connect with and participate in an ongoing dialogue about morals, values,
principles and ethics, and pulling significant rating numbers in so doing,
would be a first on television.
Charley Jones— talk show host on Dallas' KRLD-AM (1080). "Program's fate should be decided in our marketplace of free ideas"--The Dallas Morning News, September 9 Censors and the Flowers of Conscience If truth is considered absolute and already perfectly possessed, falsehood and evil also become absolute and a censorship which is a “previous restraint” of them is proper. This is one ideal; But we do not profess it…Since Milton and Spinoza, modern men have claimed that truth is a flower of individual conscience, that it is not dogmatically fixed, that it is a process of life, and that all shades of opinion, of trial, even of error, are needed to approach it. With such a standard, censorship even of probable falsehood, even of thought that threatens evil, is a menace. Waldo Frank—“Our Censors”--The Rediscovery of America—1929 |
Every one of Tom's (of Finland's) characters has a squarish face, firm chin,
short hair and sideburns. And just about every character is either a lumberjack, cop,
construction worker, cowboy, biker, sailor or soldier. Not a florist in the bunch.
Squeeze any of his characters and they'd fart testosterone.
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