Category Archives:Ethically Controversial

Apr. 19.

HAGEL GRILLED ON ARMY EMAIL EQUATING CHRISTIANS TO RACISTS AND TERRORISTS

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Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) grilled Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel on a Pentagon email warning Army officers to watch out for soldiers who do not support gay marriage or who disfavor Muslims, equating them with the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis.

The Pentagon officer who sent this email reportedly got his information from a radical, leftist anti-Christian organization linked to a convicted terrorist.

As reported by Fox News’ Todd Starnes, Lt. Col. Jack Rich at Ft. Campbell sent an email warning Army officers to be on the lookout for soldiers connected with “domestic hate groups.” In his 14-page email, Rich identified groups that support traditional marriage or advocate strict border enforcement regarding illegal aliens as domestic hate groups.

This story is disturbing for several reasons, one of which is this U.S. military email was reportedly using the “domestic hate group” list created by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This radical-left organization has listed Christian organizations such as the American Family Association and Family Research Council (FRC), immigration reform groups such as FAIR, and various Tea Party organizations as “hate groups.” The SPLC publicly claims they are no different than the KKK and Neo-Nazis, groups that engage in extreme violence and acts of terrorism.

Yet SPLC has itself now been linked to a domestic terrorist. As we covered in detail, on Aug. 15, 2012, Floyd Corkins attempted to go on a mass-shooting spree at FRC headquarters in Washington, D.C. with 100 rounds of ammunition. Corkins shot building manager Leo Johnson, yet the wounded Johnson disarmed Corkins, who was then captured alive.

As part of a plea deal, Corkins signed a full confession in which he admitted that he selected his targets from SPLC’s hate group list and used the map SPLC put on its website to find FRC with the intent of murdering everyone in the building (several dozen people). He called himself a political activist and was going to kill everyone in the FRC building because FRC opposes redefining marriage to include gay marriage.

Corkins was convicted on Feb. 6, 2013, of committing acts of domestic terrorism.

It is profoundly disturbing that anyone in the U.S. military would use material from such ultra-left zealots, who label organizations that disagree with them on a range of issues—not just social issues like marriage, but also national security issues (immigration) and economic issues (Tea Party groups)—as “hate groups.”

Yet SPLC is the only group here that has actually been linked to a terrorist, one who was inspired to commit his despicable crime by none other than the same SPLC whose material the Obama administration’s military command is now using.

The terrible Boston bombing is a reminder what real terrorism looks like. The Obama administration needs to deal with this threat, not associate with radical-fringe organizations that convicted terrorists cite as their enablers.

Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is also senior fellow for religious liberty at the Family Research Council.  

 

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Apr. 18.

‘Like 1930s Germany’: Greek Far Right Gains Support

By Perfect Storm | Posted in All Posts, Ethically Controversial, Europe, Germany, News, One World Order, Riots and Protests, Terror |
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Supporters of the Greek far-right Golden Dawn party celebrate the results of...

Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens. As they terrorize the country with violence, the police stand back and prosecutors are powerless.

The Municipal Theater in Piraeus, Greece, was bathed in an eerie light, with yellow floodlights and red torches combining to illuminate the theater’s neoclassical façade, which now served as the backdrop for a macabre spectacle: At least 1,000 neo-Nazis and their supporters had turned out for a march, and red flags bearing a large, black swastika-like symbol flew from the building’s front steps.

The right-wing extremist party Chrysi Avgi, or Golden Dawn, convened this demonstration on a Thursday in February to protest an arson attack on its local party office — and to make another display of its strength.

Ringed by a group of brawny toughs, party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, 55, bellowed: “No one can stop us — not the bombs, not all your filth. We will triumph!” His listeners, many of them hidden beneath black hoods, replied with a thunderous “Zito! Zito!” The phrase literally means something like “Long live!” but the affect is more like “Heil!” — and deliberately so. Many also raised their right arms, while the police remained in the background. The right-wing extremists then took their burning torches and marched through the downtown of this port city. Foreigners and any young people dressed in alternative-looking clothing made sure to clear out of the streets before they arrived. The scent of danger hung in the air.

Right-wing thugs have been spreading fear and terror in Greece for months. The worse the financial crisis gets and the harsher the budget cuts imposed by European creditors are, the worse the terror gets on the streets. Foreigners have been attacked, homosexuals chased and leftists assaulted. Some were beaten to death. There are parts of Athens in which refugees and minorities no longer dare to go out alone at night, and streets that are echoingly empty. Foreign merchants have had to close their doors, while journalists and politicians who criticize these developments receive threats or beatings.

Ta Nea, a leading Greek daily, has described conditions here as similar to those of Weimar Germany. Vassiliki Georgiadou, a political science professor in Athens, likewise calls it “an atmosphere like in the 1930s in Germany against the Jews and their businesses.”

As recently as Greece’s October 2009 parliamentary election, Golden Dawn garnered just 0.29 percent of votes. But in the early election held last May, as well as in the subsequent new election in June, the right-wing extremist party suddenly received almost 7 percent of votes, securing 18 seats in the country’s parliament.

As recently as Greece's October 2009 parliamentary election, Golden Dawn...Polls now show the party holding 10 to 12 percent of voter support. Together with two other right-wing nationalist groups, that puts the extremist block at about 20 percent. Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens.

And now these extremists are practicing what they once only preached.

 

Der Spiegel has the full article

Apr. 18.

Slate: ‘Marriage Equality’ Includes Polygamy

By Perfect Storm | Posted in All Posts, Constitutional Concerns, Ethically Controversial, Islam, News, North America, Sexual Immorality |
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As a lawyer in the same-sex marriage litigation at the Supreme Court who has spent a couple years working through all the implications of declaring a constitutional right to gay marriage, it became clear that such a declaration would also mean there is a right to polygamy.

When I previously explained these reasons, gay marriage supporters said the country would never go there. Well, now the far-left magazine Slate has come out with a full-throated endorsement of polygamous marriage.

For thousands of years, Western Civilization has always recognized three elements to marriage. It is the union of (1) two consenting adults, (2) of opposite sex, (3) who are not close blood relatives. Gay marriage advocates say the second element can be jettisoned. I’ve always asked why those same people say the first element cannot be touched.

Slate believes, “Legalized polygamy in the United States is the constitutional, feminist, and sex-positive choice.”

They’re wrong on all counts. On the constitutional issue, for liberties not found in the text of the Constitution (where marriage is never mentioned once), the Supreme Court has held a fundamental right is one that is “deeply rooted in the history and traditions” of the American people. Marriage of one man and one woman satisfy this test, which is why the Court held in the 1878 case Reynolds v. U.S. that there is no constitutional right to polygamy. It’s also why there is no right to gay marriage but why laws against marriage between different racial groups are clearly unconstitutional.

Slate elaborates on their reasoning:

The definition of marriage is plastic. Just like heterosexual marriage is no better or worse than homosexual marriage, marriage between two consenting adults is not inherently more or less “correct” than marriage among three (or four, or six) consenting adults. Though polygamists are a minority—a tiny minority, in fact—freedom has no value unless it extends to even the smallest and most marginalized groups among us.

If you believe that marriage is merely the union of consenting adults, and nothing more, then this argument might make sense. I’m still waiting for one of the lawyers working on the gay marriage cases to explain why this means their argument for a right to gay marriage doesn’t extend to polygamists.

This is especially important, since same-sex marriage has only existed on earth since 2001, but polygamy has been around more than 5,000 years of recorded history. Also, gay marriage is legal in just over a dozen countries, but polygamy is legal in over four dozen (roughly 50) nations and is expressly sanctioned by the second-largest religion on earth with 1.6 billion followers, Islam.

 

The Conservatives at Breitbart have the full article

Apr. 17.

Left’s Gosnell Response: More Funding, Allow Later Abortions

By Perfect Storm | Posted in All Posts, Constitutional Concerns, Ethically Controversial, Government Money, News, North America, One World Order, Population, Sexual Immorality, Terror |
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The mainstream media was caught with its pants down on failing to report on the gruesome trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who is charged with murdering one woman and seven infants born alive during abortion procedures. As might have been expected, abortion supporters are now finding ways to spin what most human beings would say is unspinnable.

The left’s talking points on the Gosnell “house of horrors” trial is that we need less restrictions on, and more funding for, abortion in order to keep the Gosnell situation from happening again.

Using “back-alley abortion” rhetoric popular in the Roe v. Wade years, Katha Pollitt of The Nation argues that, had abortion been legal in Pennsylvania past 24 weeks, and had there been more Medicaid funding of abortions, so that “poor” and “immigrant” women did not have to use Gosnell’s clinic for their abortions, the “house of horrors” could have been prevented.

“This is what illegal abortion looks like,” writes Pollitt of the murdered infants and grotesque Gosnell clinic conditions as described in the grand jury report.

Referring to Gosnell himself as a “rogue operator,” which remains to be seen, Pollitt proceeds to defend abortion and its supporters with the following argument:

What fueled Gosnell’s business were the very restrictions the legislature was so keen on passing—parental notification, waiting periods, biased counseling and, most important, a ban on state funding for abortion for low-income women. Would women have gone to the Women’s Medical Society if Pennsylvania paid for abortion with Medicaid funds? Would they have had late procedures if they could have afforded earlier ones? Maybe some underage girls went to him to avoid the parental notification rules that supposedly protected them. Only women who felt they had no better alternative would have accepted such dangerous, degrading and frightening treatment. In a way, that’s the saddest part—that women didn’t feel they could turn around and leave.

Though state departments appear equally culpable, the prevention of the murders of these infants and Gosnell’s patient(s) could easily have been in the hands of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) who inspected the clinic and rejected its application due to its horrific conditions but failed to report it to authorities.

The NAF did not return calls from Breitbart News, but Pollitt quotes NAF head Vicki Saporta’s defense of her organization: “What we saw didn’t meet our standards, but they’d cleaned the place up and hired an RN for our visit. We only saw first-trimester procedures.”

Pollitt goes on to say that “it makes perfect sense” that Gosnell got away with his horrors because in Pennsylvania, with all of its “restrictions” on abortion, abortion is not treated as “medical care” and, therefore, did not have appropriate “oversight.”

It seems that abortion supporters always want it two ways. They want abortion to be considered “medical care,” but they also want to wield it as a powerful feminist political issue. With abortion supporters’ continued insistence on usurping “medical” language, i.e. “reproductive health care,” as euphemisms for abortion, they still cannot get most Americans, and even increasing numbers of young Americans, to believe that abortion is not killing children. The reactions to the Gosnell “house of horrors,” and whatever other “horrors” will be discovered in other abortion clinics, underscore this reality.

 

This is a copy of the full article provided by the Conservatives at Breitbart

Apr. 17.

CNN: Pressure Cooker Bomb ‘Right-Wing’ Signature

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An article published on CNN’s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a “signature” of “right-wing extremists.”

The article says (emphasis added) :

A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told CNN that pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the United States who he said tend to revel in building homemade bombs.

This specific claim that “pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the United States” appears to be completely unsubstantiated. Not a single example is given even in the CNN story itself of anyone other than al-Quadea using a pressure cooker bomb.

The article goes on to discuss the Olympic Park bombing by anti-abortion terrorist Erich Rudolph but those bombings were done with pipe bombs, not pressure cooker bombs. As the article says:

For example, the devices planted by Erich Rudolph at an Atlanta park during the 1996 Olympic Games were pipe bombs filled with gunpowder and nails to increase their lethality; it also had an alarm clock as a timing mechanism. Like the bombings in Boston, those devices were concealed in a backpack, according to a Department of Homeland Security report detailing the 1996 attack.

The claim in the previous paragraph was about pressure cooker bombs being a signature of right-wing extremists, not the use of pipe bombs or the more general use of a timer or a backpack.

As Breitbart News explained, instructions on how to make a pressure cooker bomb were provided in an issue of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire. While it’s certainly possible that anyone of any political belief could have made such a device, there is no available data to indicate that any “right-wing” group in the United States or elsewhere has ever done so.

There are, however, numerous examples world of the pressure cooker bombs being used by al-Qaeda groups. Just a few examples:

In 2010, militants in Pakistan attacked the office of Christian aid organization World Vision and killed six workers there, all Muslim. After shooting workers, the terrorists exploded a locally made pressure cooker bomb.

Also in 2010, Faizal Shahzad attempted a bombing near Times Square by leaving explosives, including a pressure cooker bomb, in car a near Times Square.

In 2011, police seized two pressure cooker bombs from the hotel room of Naser Abdo, who planned to use them to bomb Fort Hood in Texas.

Nor is there is a single reference to any “right-wing” use–American or otherwise–of pressure cooker bombs in recently overview articles written on the subject by theCanadian Broadcasting Company, the Huffington Post, or is such use mentioned once in aDepartment of Homeland Security report on pressure cooker bombs.

Not one solitary mention of American right-wing use of these devices–a very far cry from the claim by CNN that they are a “signature” device. Once again, the media count on their busy and too-trusting readership not taking the tine to research claims they make.

The point of focusing on the pressure-cooker bomb use is to try to get a sense of who might responsible for the horror in Boston. While it’s certainly possible that anyone of any ideology could have used pressure-cooker method, for CNN to try to tie in the “right-wing” without any evidence and based on anonymous, unnamed sources without any independent factual attribution is shoddy, biased journalism intended to smear the vaguely defined “right-wing.”

This post has been updated to remove an erroneous citation.

 

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Apr. 15.

Obama’s budget focuses on teen ‘safe sex’ at the expense of abstinence

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama believes educating students about safe sex is more important than explaining how to avoid sex in the first place.

That was the message Obama sent this week when his proposed budget cut funding for sexual risk avoidance (abstinence education) and moved the money to sex-ed programs that stress contraception, WorldMag.com reports.

The National Abstinence Education Association contends the move is not only a bad idea, but “violates a 2010 congressional mandate to give states $50 million in Title V grants for” abstinence education, according to the news site.

“Using Title V funds for programs that are not compliant with the Congressional definition for abstinence education is a violation of congressional intent and therefore, outside the authority of this budgetary directive,” according to a NAEA statement.

“Students in successful (abstinence education) programs are more likely to delay sex than their peers, and if they are sexually active, have fewer partners and are no less likely to use a condom.”

The U.S. Government currently spends 16 times more money on contraceptive-based sex ed programs than on abstinence sex ed. Despite the difference, proponents of abstinence ed point to evidence that teens are receptive to delaying sexual activity.

The number of 15-to-19 year old girls having sex decreased by 8 percent , from 51 percent in 1988 to 43 percent in 2010. Sex among boys in the same age range decreased 18 percent to 42 percent in 2010, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data cited by WorldMag.com.

“The president’s move to eliminate … abstinence programs is completely out of touch with … what is in the best interest of America’s youth,” NAEA President Valerie Huber said. “It’s troubling that the president would want to prevent students from receiving the encouragement and skills to avoid sexual risk.”

 

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Apr. 12.

SCIENCE OVERHAUL: Textbooks to Push Climate Change in New Curriculum

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The release of proposed new national science standards, including the emphasis of manmade climate change, will alter the classroom landscape for millions of students in the United States, as well as for at least one education publisher readying for the “major” undertaking.

The Next Generation Science Standards, which were released Tuesday after development by 26 states and several national scientific organizations, recommend that educators for the first time identify climate change as a core concept and stress the relationship between that change and human activity.

“Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming),” according to the elementary school standards, which are not federally mandated and will be adopted on a state-by-state basis.

 

Fox News has the full article

Apr. 10.

Church of England gives blessing to recognising civil partnerships

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The Church of England yesterday gave a green light to wedding-style services for couples in civil partnerships despite its official opposition to same-sex marriage.

A report from the Church’s doctrine watchdog urged priests to devise “pastoral accommodations” for gay couples” and to be “flexible”.

It said the aim was to enable them to enjoy a “closer approximation” to marriage.

The senior bishop who drafted the missive to priests insisted that it did not amount to a policy u-turn and that an official ban on formal “blessings” for civil partnerships remained in place.

But he said it was clear there was a need for committed same-sex couples to be given recognition and “compassionate attention” from the Church, including special prayers.

Liberal priests, who already conduct unofficial dedication and thanksgiving for gay couples who are not allowed to marry, said it amounted to the first official endorsement for what they do.

 

The Telegraph has the full article

Apr. 09.

Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents

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LOS ANGELES –  Parents and media critics were aghast after a host for MSNBC called for collective care of a community’s children instead of parents taking care of their kids themselves.

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry recorded a commercial for the network in which she stated that children do not belong to their parents, but are instead the responsibility of the members of their community.

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children,” she says in a spot for the network’s “Lean Forward” campaign. “So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

Harris-Perry’s views ignited a firestorm of anger and disbelief.

“The notion that children belong to a state government rather than their own flesh and blood is the most disturbing statement made in recent political times. Melissa Harris-Perry is dead wrong. It’s unfathomable that any true American could make such a pretentious and naively ill statement,” media communications expert, and parent, Angie Olszewski told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “The government can’t properly run their own budgets schools and public systems. Why would anybody think they could rear children?”

The Media Research Center’s Director of Media Analysis, Tim Graham, called the MSNBC spot “frightening.”

“It’s bad enough that ‘Lean Forward’ already sounds like an ad for Mao’s Little Red Book, then to have your network’s hosts talk about your children being part of the Collective is just spooky,” he said. “I think most parents disappoint MSNBC with their traditional beliefs that their children are theirs to love and raise as they feel is best. They don’t want to surrender their parental rights to the ‘village.’ It’s this same contempt for education beginning in the home that spurs many parents into home-schooling.”

 

Fox News has the full article

Apr. 09.

Dr. Ben Carson and a panel of African-American conservatives respond to Left-wing’s attacks

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Dr. Ben Carson and a panel of African-American conservatives respond to Left-wing’s attacks.

Dr. Benjamin Carson on “African American Conservatives” Special – COMPLETE – Sean Hannity – 4-8-13