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"The research is very clear that you can't pray away the gay and attempts to do so can be harmful," said Wayne Besen, Executive Director of Truth Wins Out. "Focus on the Family is offering false hope to vulnerable people and profiting from their pain. They are intentionally confusing stereotypes with legitimate science in an attempt to mislead people about homosexuality. We hope to offer a realistic view of our lives and use sound science to set the record straight."On Friday, Feb. 20, 2009 at 11:30 a.m., CRANE and national organizations including Truth Wins Out, Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign and other local orgs will hold a press conference on the lies and false promises doled out by the ex-gay industry. Besen will unveil a new Truth Wins Out/Lambda Legal publication, "Ex-Gay and the Law," including resources for victims of pray-away-the-gay propaganda. The press conference will be held at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Charlotte at 234 N Sharon Amity Rd., Charlotte, NC 28211.
On Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, CRANE will hold a silent, non-violent protest of the conference at Central Church of God. LGBTQI and straight citizens from across North Carolina are expected to attend. Information for protest participants and media, including parking access can be found at: www.rainbowaction.org/events/#protest. From CRANE's release:
"These programs sell false hope and take advantage of desperate and vulnerable people who just want acceptance from loved ones," said Wayne Besen, Executive Director of Truth Wins Out. "Love Won Out's dangerous sexual engineering campaign is ineffective, psychologically damaging and confuses stereotypes with science. We hope to educate the community and provide people with accurate and reliable information."
In his zeal to condemn the stimulus package, Congressman Jim DeMint (R-SC), he offered this prescription:
DeMint, a Republican from Greenville, rejected the idea of nationalizing troubled banks -- an option that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham has said should be left on the table.The deregulation and greed of the private markets got us here. Does DeMint honestly think the government can just sit back and it will all right itself? He's still collecting a paycheck on our dime and has a roof over his head. Clearly he doesn't have the capacity to understand a crisis unless it hits him directly."I think the idea of nationalization is the same idea as socialization," DeMint said. "I think we need to do everything we can to make the private markets work and not use this as an excuse to expand government into owning banks and other companies."
"We've got to let the market begin to absorb them at a loss, but they can absorb them. We just have to decide do we want a government-controlled economy, or do we want the private sector to work?"
In other bizarre GOP news, Louisiana Governor Bobby (The Exorcist) Jindal is trying to flex his conservative muscles in a politically suicidal manner by suggesting he might just turn down all the stimulus money earmarked for his state. I'm sure the people hurting in his state, will think highly of his turning down potentially 50,000 jobs to make a political point.
We'll have to review each program, each new dollar to make sure that we understand what are the conditions, what are the strings and see whether it's beneficial for Louisiana to use those dollars," Jindal said.Why do these Republicans hate America? We'll see how many other Republican governors actually decide to stick to conservative dogma and reject federal funds coming their way, particularly those Red states that are always taking in more government money than they pay out in taxes.
Then again, look at how Lindsey Graham slams the stimulus and in the same breath says he'll take the cold cash for the Palmetto State:
BLITZER: Should South Carolina take the money?These guys are all over the map. It does illustrate the problem that the so-called conservatives have had over the last eight years -- a belief not in low taxes and small government, but low taxes and huge government (and minimal regulation). Now that this has blown up in their faces, they are faced with the choice of running to get on the government teat as their constituents starve, or look like ogres starving their peeps as they pretend to have conservative principles. Talk about intellectually bankrupt.GRAHAM: I think that, yes, from my point of view, I - you don't want to be crazy here. I mean, if there's going to be money on the table that will help my state, but I've got a job to do up here, and that is to try to help people and not damn the next generation. We had a $415 billion package to help people who have lost their jobs, that cut taxes, that create new jobs. We've got a spending bill, not a job creation bill. And we're being all things to all people.
We've dug a hole for the next generation of young Americans they can't get out of. Total cost of this bill is over $1 trillion and it's not going to create jobs as much as it does throw government and when you send the money to South Carolina, that's not going to create a job for the national economy. It's going to help a bunch of politicians balance their books and not create jobs in South Carolina.
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