Saudis arrest Christian for entering Mecca
By MICHAEL FREUND
Saudi officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying that the city, which Muslims consider to be holy, is off-limits to non-Muslims.
Nirosh Kamanda, a Sri Lankan Christian, was detained by the Saudi Expatriates Monitoring Committee last week after he started to sell goods outside Mecca's Great Mosque.
After running his fingerprints through a new security system, Saudi police discovered that he was a Christian who had arrived in the country six months earlier to take a job as a truck driver in the city of Dammam. Kamanda had subsequently left his place of work and moved to Mecca.
"The Grand Mosque and the holy city are forbidden to non-Muslims," Col. Suhail Matrafi, head of the department of Expatriates Affairs in Mecca, told the Saudi daily Arab News. "The new fingerprints system is very helpful and will help us a lot to discover the identity of a lot of criminals," he said.
Similar restrictions apply to the Saudi city of Medina. In a section entitled, "Traveler's Information," the Web site of the Saudi Embassy in Washington states that, "Mecca and Medina hold special religious significance and only persons of the Islamic faith are allowed entry."
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Lawmakers pass redefinition of 'sex'
Lawmakers pass redefinition of 'sex'
Bill threatens references to 'mom,' 'dad' at school
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By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
In a move with national implications, California's state Senate passed a bill today that establishes a new definition for "sex," threatens references to "mom" and "dad" and could restrict the presentation of scientific evidence to students.
The plan, SB 777, which actually would turn the state into a promoter for the homosexual lifestyle, is much like a bill approved by lawmakers last year but vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said adequate legal protections against discrimination already existed.
The new measure passed on a 23-13 vote.
For more than a year, advocates for the homosexual lifestyle repeatedly have pressed lawmakers in California – which wields national influence as the biggest purchaser of curriculum – to adopt their agenda. The new plan now goes to the state Assembly, which approved a similar plan in 2006.
The newest legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Sheila James Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, a lesbian, would ban textbooks, references, teaching aids, activities, events, discussions, posters, announcements, workbooks and anything else within the public school system from anything that "reflects or promotes bias against" homosexuality, transgenders, bisexuals or those with "perceived" gender issues.
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Bill threatens references to 'mom,' 'dad' at school
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By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
In a move with national implications, California's state Senate passed a bill today that establishes a new definition for "sex," threatens references to "mom" and "dad" and could restrict the presentation of scientific evidence to students.
The plan, SB 777, which actually would turn the state into a promoter for the homosexual lifestyle, is much like a bill approved by lawmakers last year but vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said adequate legal protections against discrimination already existed.
The new measure passed on a 23-13 vote.
For more than a year, advocates for the homosexual lifestyle repeatedly have pressed lawmakers in California – which wields national influence as the biggest purchaser of curriculum – to adopt their agenda. The new plan now goes to the state Assembly, which approved a similar plan in 2006.
The newest legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Sheila James Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, a lesbian, would ban textbooks, references, teaching aids, activities, events, discussions, posters, announcements, workbooks and anything else within the public school system from anything that "reflects or promotes bias against" homosexuality, transgenders, bisexuals or those with "perceived" gender issues.
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We blew sex seminar, school chief says
We blew sex seminar, school chief says
Superintendent concedes violations, then says forums will continue
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Posted: May 25, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
It took multiple violations of school policy to allow a seminar at Boulder High School in Colorado to turn into an explicit sex rally in which a guest speaker told students as young as 14 to go have sex and use drugs, according to the superintendent.
However, Supt. George Garcia is defending the seminar anyway, and promised that they will continue.
"The existing partnership between the Conference on World Affairs and Boulder High School is a positive and beneficial one for engaging students in a thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion of often controversial issues," Garcia said in a statement released by the district.
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Superintendent concedes violations, then says forums will continue
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Posted: May 25, 2007
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By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
It took multiple violations of school policy to allow a seminar at Boulder High School in Colorado to turn into an explicit sex rally in which a guest speaker told students as young as 14 to go have sex and use drugs, according to the superintendent.
However, Supt. George Garcia is defending the seminar anyway, and promised that they will continue.
"The existing partnership between the Conference on World Affairs and Boulder High School is a positive and beneficial one for engaging students in a thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion of often controversial issues," Garcia said in a statement released by the district.
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Teachers rebel over atheism promotion
Teachers rebel over atheism promotion
District mandates handouts that violate religious beliefs
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Posted: May 25, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Some teachers in the Albemarle School District in Virginia are rebelling against their managers' orders to hand out to students as young as kindergarten a promotion for a summer camp that advocates for "Atheists, Freethinkers, Humanists, Brights, or whatever..."
A representative of the teachers talked to WND only on condition that a name and school not be used, and said such advertisements provided by the district to hand out to children violate the teachers' religious beliefs.
It was the same school district that WND earlier reported was distributing publicity about a "Pagan Christmas ritual" being held in the community.
The newest brochure advertises Camp Quest.
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A sample of the brochure district told teachers to hand out
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District mandates handouts that violate religious beliefs
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1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Some teachers in the Albemarle School District in Virginia are rebelling against their managers' orders to hand out to students as young as kindergarten a promotion for a summer camp that advocates for "Atheists, Freethinkers, Humanists, Brights, or whatever..."
A representative of the teachers talked to WND only on condition that a name and school not be used, and said such advertisements provided by the district to hand out to children violate the teachers' religious beliefs.
It was the same school district that WND earlier reported was distributing publicity about a "Pagan Christmas ritual" being held in the community.
The newest brochure advertises Camp Quest.
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A sample of the brochure district told teachers to hand out
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Mosques awarded Homeland Security grants
Mosques awarded Homeland Security grants
CAIR urges Muslim clerics to cash in on federal funds
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Posted: May 25, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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While the European Union investigates mosques for ties to Islamic terrorism, the U.S. government is giving mosques security grants that are designed to protect churches, synagogues and other nonprofit groups from Islamic terror.
Most recently, the Islamic Society of Baltimore landed a $15,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to upgrade security at its Maryland mosque.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations since April has been urging leaders of mosques and Islamic schools across the nation to apply for the DHS grants, even though the agency's program was set up to help protect nonprofit facilities that are at high risk for attacks by Islamic terrorists.
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CAIR urges Muslim clerics to cash in on federal funds
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Posted: May 25, 2007
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While the European Union investigates mosques for ties to Islamic terrorism, the U.S. government is giving mosques security grants that are designed to protect churches, synagogues and other nonprofit groups from Islamic terror.
Most recently, the Islamic Society of Baltimore landed a $15,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to upgrade security at its Maryland mosque.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations since April has been urging leaders of mosques and Islamic schools across the nation to apply for the DHS grants, even though the agency's program was set up to help protect nonprofit facilities that are at high risk for attacks by Islamic terrorists.
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'We must fine you because you're a Christian'
'We must fine you because you're a Christian'
Convert loses family, home, crops in Hindu crackdown
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Posted: May 25, 2007
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In a nation where 75 percent of the population is Hindu, there was a congregation of four Christians in his small village when Rajan expressed a faith in Jesus Christ. But that's back down to three after he lost his family and crops, and was forced to leave his home and village, because of his conversion, according to new documentation obtained by the Voice of the Martyrs.
Sources within Nepal, the mountainous nation sandwiched between India and China that holds Mt. Everest, have told the Voice of the Martyrs that the persecution campaign encompassed all parts of Rajan's life when he became a Christian.
"Hindu neighbors have dug up Rajan's cauliflower and potatoes," the VOM reported its sources confirmed. "He has lost his whole year's income."
Villagers took every opportunity to make life difficult for him, including their response when some water from his field inadvertently spilled onto a neighbor's land, the sources reported.
"He was recently fined 6,000 rupees (about $100, a large sum in Nepal), after water from his field spilled over into a neighbor's field," the VOM sources reported. "Normally, this would not be a problem, but the neighbors consider water from Rajan's field unclean because he is a Christian.
"Normally, we wouldn't fine you, but because you changed your religion and became a Christian, you need to pay 6,000 rupees," the villagers told him, according to VOM.
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Convert loses family, home, crops in Hindu crackdown
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Posted: May 25, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
In a nation where 75 percent of the population is Hindu, there was a congregation of four Christians in his small village when Rajan expressed a faith in Jesus Christ. But that's back down to three after he lost his family and crops, and was forced to leave his home and village, because of his conversion, according to new documentation obtained by the Voice of the Martyrs.
Sources within Nepal, the mountainous nation sandwiched between India and China that holds Mt. Everest, have told the Voice of the Martyrs that the persecution campaign encompassed all parts of Rajan's life when he became a Christian.
"Hindu neighbors have dug up Rajan's cauliflower and potatoes," the VOM reported its sources confirmed. "He has lost his whole year's income."
Villagers took every opportunity to make life difficult for him, including their response when some water from his field inadvertently spilled onto a neighbor's land, the sources reported.
"He was recently fined 6,000 rupees (about $100, a large sum in Nepal), after water from his field spilled over into a neighbor's field," the VOM sources reported. "Normally, this would not be a problem, but the neighbors consider water from Rajan's field unclean because he is a Christian.
"Normally, we wouldn't fine you, but because you changed your religion and became a Christian, you need to pay 6,000 rupees," the villagers told him, according to VOM.
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Armed student intervened to stop Idaho killer
Armed student intervened to stop Idaho killer
'People need to step up more, people turn their head too often'
MOSCOW -- While some people desperately dialed for help as gunfire rang out in Moscow, one young man sprang into action.
For the first time, an exclusive interview with the University of Idaho student who nearly became the fourth fatality in the Moscow massacre.
Pete Husmann, like many, heard the hail of gunfire Saturday night. Unlike most, he ventured into the night. It is a choice that nearly killed him.
In his hospital room, surrounded by family, 20-year old Pete Husmann tells an incredible tale of how his courage led him into the line fire.
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'People need to step up more, people turn their head too often'
MOSCOW -- While some people desperately dialed for help as gunfire rang out in Moscow, one young man sprang into action.
For the first time, an exclusive interview with the University of Idaho student who nearly became the fourth fatality in the Moscow massacre.
Pete Husmann, like many, heard the hail of gunfire Saturday night. Unlike most, he ventured into the night. It is a choice that nearly killed him.
In his hospital room, surrounded by family, 20-year old Pete Husmann tells an incredible tale of how his courage led him into the line fire.
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Armed Intruders Break In Home, but Armed Friend Saved Family!
By ERICA ESTEP
6 News Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- There is a new twist in the January murders of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. An East Knoxville woman says the suspects in the case broke into her home just a day before the couple was carjacked.
The single mother is afraid for her safety, so 6 News is protecting her identity. She lives less than a mile from the crime scene of the gruesome double murder on Chipman Street.
Her home was invaded by armed men a day before Newsom and Christian were carjacked. She says they are connected.
"I heard a big boom...they kicked...they kicked the door in."
The scuff marks are still visible where her front door was kicked in. She couldn't believe what happened next.
"I ran back into the room and they start shooting my door down," the woman says.
She says the suspects tried to get inside her bedroom. The door to the room is now ripped at the bottom.
The young mother's 13-year-old son and two friends were just a couple rooms away.
"I was screaming... ya'll stay down," she says.
But there was someone else in the house. A male friend who had a gun of his own. He shot back and the suspects took off.
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6 News Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- There is a new twist in the January murders of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. An East Knoxville woman says the suspects in the case broke into her home just a day before the couple was carjacked.
The single mother is afraid for her safety, so 6 News is protecting her identity. She lives less than a mile from the crime scene of the gruesome double murder on Chipman Street.
Her home was invaded by armed men a day before Newsom and Christian were carjacked. She says they are connected.
"I heard a big boom...they kicked...they kicked the door in."
The scuff marks are still visible where her front door was kicked in. She couldn't believe what happened next.
"I ran back into the room and they start shooting my door down," the woman says.
She says the suspects tried to get inside her bedroom. The door to the room is now ripped at the bottom.
The young mother's 13-year-old son and two friends were just a couple rooms away.
"I was screaming... ya'll stay down," she says.
But there was someone else in the house. A male friend who had a gun of his own. He shot back and the suspects took off.
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ACLU condemned for 'attacking' veterans memorials (Crosses) during time of war
Jim Brown
OneNewsNow.com
May 25, 2007
A constitutional attorney says instead of thanking American veterans for their service, the American Civil Liberties Union is "dishonoring" them by attacking their memorials across the United States.
The American Legion has announced that it is teaming up with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Liberty Legal Institute in a campaign to fight ACLU efforts to remove religious symbols from war memorials. The ACLU has already filed suit to remove crosses at veterans' memorials, like the Mt. Soledad cross in San Diego and the Sunrise Rock cross in the Mojave Desert, which is now covered by a box.
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May 25, 2007
A constitutional attorney says instead of thanking American veterans for their service, the American Civil Liberties Union is "dishonoring" them by attacking their memorials across the United States.
The American Legion has announced that it is teaming up with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Liberty Legal Institute in a campaign to fight ACLU efforts to remove religious symbols from war memorials. The ACLU has already filed suit to remove crosses at veterans' memorials, like the Mt. Soledad cross in San Diego and the Sunrise Rock cross in the Mojave Desert, which is now covered by a box.
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Final preparations under way for Creation Museum grand opening
Allie Martin
OneNewsNow.com
May 25, 2007
The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum is set to open this holiday weekend. Final preparations are under way for Saturday's ribbon-cutting ceremony and media preview day at the 65,000-square-foot facility in Petersburg, Kentucky.
The Creation Museum will feature life-sized, realistic animatronic dinosaurs and humans, along with a number of videos, a special effects theater, a mini-Grand Canyon exhibit and a planetarium. The facility also includes indoor waterfalls, a special effects theatre, two miles of nature trails, and a collection of minerals and pristine fossils.
Answers in Genesis (AIG) president Ken Ham says the new museum will focus on the truth of scripture. And when visitors come to the museum, he notes, "they recognize we're not just saying 'Here's what the Bible says.' We're also saying 'and we have this evidence to back it up -- evidence from geology, and biology, and astronomy and so on.'
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OneNewsNow.com
May 25, 2007
The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum is set to open this holiday weekend. Final preparations are under way for Saturday's ribbon-cutting ceremony and media preview day at the 65,000-square-foot facility in Petersburg, Kentucky.
The Creation Museum will feature life-sized, realistic animatronic dinosaurs and humans, along with a number of videos, a special effects theater, a mini-Grand Canyon exhibit and a planetarium. The facility also includes indoor waterfalls, a special effects theatre, two miles of nature trails, and a collection of minerals and pristine fossils.
Answers in Genesis (AIG) president Ken Ham says the new museum will focus on the truth of scripture. And when visitors come to the museum, he notes, "they recognize we're not just saying 'Here's what the Bible says.' We're also saying 'and we have this evidence to back it up -- evidence from geology, and biology, and astronomy and so on.'
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Pro-life activist says South Carolina ultrasound bill is useless
Rusty Pugh
OneNewsNow.com
May 25, 2007
A South Carolina bill that would have required abortionists to show women a picture of an ultrasound of their unborn child before they could get an abortion has been altered in the State Senate. In the opinion of one pro-life group, the change has rendered the bill useless.
South Carolina's House approved a bill in March that required all women seeking an abortion to be shown a sonogram before undergoing the procedure to take the child's life. However, the Senate's version of the Informed Choice Act (H 3355) drops the requirement that the abortionist show women the pictures, and puts that burden on the woman seeking the abortion.
Woodwyk says abortion providers like Planned Parenthood have an agenda, as many abortions as possible, and they don't want women to know the truth.
"They're looking at their bottom line -- it's dollars and cents. You show a woman that it's truly a baby not just a blob of tissue and they're going to say, 'I can't kill this baby.'"
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OneNewsNow.com
May 25, 2007
A South Carolina bill that would have required abortionists to show women a picture of an ultrasound of their unborn child before they could get an abortion has been altered in the State Senate. In the opinion of one pro-life group, the change has rendered the bill useless.
South Carolina's House approved a bill in March that required all women seeking an abortion to be shown a sonogram before undergoing the procedure to take the child's life. However, the Senate's version of the Informed Choice Act (H 3355) drops the requirement that the abortionist show women the pictures, and puts that burden on the woman seeking the abortion.
Woodwyk says abortion providers like Planned Parenthood have an agenda, as many abortions as possible, and they don't want women to know the truth.
"They're looking at their bottom line -- it's dollars and cents. You show a woman that it's truly a baby not just a blob of tissue and they're going to say, 'I can't kill this baby.'"
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U.S. joins Arab allies in aiding Lebanese army
U.S. joins Arab allies in aiding Lebanese army
Five military planes deliver supplies to battle Islamic militants
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Military aid from the United States and Arab allies began arriving Friday after Washington said it was rushing supplies to the Lebanese army battling al-Qaida-inspired militants barricaded inside a Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s north.
Sporadic gunfire exchanges early Friday punctured the lull in the fighting as the Lebanese army continued to build up around the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near the port city of Tripoli.
The move appeared to be either a preparation to storm the camp — a maze of narrow streets and tightly packed homes where hundreds of Fatah Islam militants are holed up — or a tightening of the siege to force them to surrender. Thousands of Palestinian refugees are trapped inside.
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Five military planes deliver supplies to battle Islamic militants
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Military aid from the United States and Arab allies began arriving Friday after Washington said it was rushing supplies to the Lebanese army battling al-Qaida-inspired militants barricaded inside a Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s north.
Sporadic gunfire exchanges early Friday punctured the lull in the fighting as the Lebanese army continued to build up around the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near the port city of Tripoli.
The move appeared to be either a preparation to storm the camp — a maze of narrow streets and tightly packed homes where hundreds of Fatah Islam militants are holed up — or a tightening of the siege to force them to surrender. Thousands of Palestinian refugees are trapped inside.
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Images depict al-Qaida torture techniques
Images depict al-Qaida torture techniques
Pentagon-released documents reveal horrors of 'safe house'
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© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The Pentagon has released graphic images that reportedly were obtained by U.S. military personnel in a raid on an Iraqi safe house, showing prescribed methods of torture for victims, including dragging a victim behind a vehicle and amputating limbs with a meat cleaver.
The images [warning, they are graphic] have appeared on the Smoking Gun website and others, and participants in a chat forum at Jihad Watch simply noted that the treatments depicted, from using a blowtorch on human skin to extracting an eye with a sharp tool, make it clear the U.S. use of any coercive methods on inmates isn't even in the same league.
"The pictures … are worth … 100,000 words in knowing the creatures behind the events," wrote Lame Cherry. "This … is what real torture looks like and not what the MSM was trying to portray in people standing in a cell naked being humiliated as 'torture.'"
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Pentagon-released documents reveal horrors of 'safe house'
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Editor's Note: Images in the following, and in the link, are graphic.
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The Pentagon has released graphic images that reportedly were obtained by U.S. military personnel in a raid on an Iraqi safe house, showing prescribed methods of torture for victims, including dragging a victim behind a vehicle and amputating limbs with a meat cleaver.
The images [warning, they are graphic] have appeared on the Smoking Gun website and others, and participants in a chat forum at Jihad Watch simply noted that the treatments depicted, from using a blowtorch on human skin to extracting an eye with a sharp tool, make it clear the U.S. use of any coercive methods on inmates isn't even in the same league.
"The pictures … are worth … 100,000 words in knowing the creatures behind the events," wrote Lame Cherry. "This … is what real torture looks like and not what the MSM was trying to portray in people standing in a cell naked being humiliated as 'torture.'"
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Ford tops sponsors on Pro Homosexual - approved TV shows
Ed Thomas
OneNewsNow.com
A pro-family group has completed a television monitoring project that focused on recording ads and sponsors on programs reportedly named by a major homosexual support group as giving positive portrayals of that lifestyle. Ford, the automaker that's already a target of conservative and pro-family groups, has emerged as the top sponsor of those pro-homosexual programs.
American Family Association (AFA), which started the year-old boycott against Ford last spring because of its support of homosexual media and organizations through advertising and financial donations, says it has concluded a 12-week network TV monitoring project that again points to Ford's support of the homosexual agenda. AFA spokesman Randy Sharp says his group did not set out to target the automaker this time.
"Even though we've got this boycott against Ford, we weren't looking at Ford," Sharp says. "We were looking to determine beyond a reasonable doubt and through scientific methods which company was sponsoring the most homosexuality on TV."
Sharp says they chose to monitor programs identified by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) as supportive of the homosexual lifestyle, and noted the advertisers for them. During the monitoring period, advertisements were tallied for shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, and Ugly Betty on ABC; and ER and The Office on NBC.
"Without any prejudice, it was clear from the results that the Ford Motor Company was the top corporate sponsor of pro-homosexual television shows on network television," the AFA spokesman says. "Not only did Ford top the list, but they topped the list by a wide margin over the number-two company."
Ford topped the top-ten list that includes Toyota at number two, followed by AT&T and Proctor & Gamble, with Revlon and GlaxoSmithKline tied at number five.
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A pro-family group has completed a television monitoring project that focused on recording ads and sponsors on programs reportedly named by a major homosexual support group as giving positive portrayals of that lifestyle. Ford, the automaker that's already a target of conservative and pro-family groups, has emerged as the top sponsor of those pro-homosexual programs.
American Family Association (AFA), which started the year-old boycott against Ford last spring because of its support of homosexual media and organizations through advertising and financial donations, says it has concluded a 12-week network TV monitoring project that again points to Ford's support of the homosexual agenda. AFA spokesman Randy Sharp says his group did not set out to target the automaker this time.
"Even though we've got this boycott against Ford, we weren't looking at Ford," Sharp says. "We were looking to determine beyond a reasonable doubt and through scientific methods which company was sponsoring the most homosexuality on TV."
Sharp says they chose to monitor programs identified by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) as supportive of the homosexual lifestyle, and noted the advertisers for them. During the monitoring period, advertisements were tallied for shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, and Ugly Betty on ABC; and ER and The Office on NBC.
"Without any prejudice, it was clear from the results that the Ford Motor Company was the top corporate sponsor of pro-homosexual television shows on network television," the AFA spokesman says. "Not only did Ford top the list, but they topped the list by a wide margin over the number-two company."
Ford topped the top-ten list that includes Toyota at number two, followed by AT&T and Proctor & Gamble, with Revlon and GlaxoSmithKline tied at number five.
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