Focus on the Family plans to spread anti-gay hate at the Macy's Parade

Thom Little

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Wed Nov-23-05 02:18 AM
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Focus on the Family plans to spread anti-gay hate at the Macy's Parade

The balloons at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade won't be the only things filled with hot air this week in New York.

Antigay Colorado group Focus on the Family said Tuesday that its members plan to distribute 5,000 "stress balls" along the parade route to promote a Web site it operates that claims that homosexuality is a disorder that can be cured through faith. Visitors to the site, TroubledWith.com, who think they might be gay or lesbian are told, "You're not simply 'wired that way.'" In another section, visitors are told that being gay or lesbian can be prevented, because "like other adult problems, homosexuality begins at home. Mom and Dad are key players." Also to blame are porn, the media, and "seduction by peers."

The Web site also carries faith-based advice on topics ranging from eating disorders to depression.

Focus on the Family plans to run 30-second commercials in the New York market during The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil. The group is already running ads on an electronic billboard in Times Square.

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donheld

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Wed Nov-23-05 02:23 AM
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1. I know

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5433574

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Oversea Visitor

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Wed Nov-23-05 02:26 AM
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2. Gee can be cured by faith

Wow wow this people need some serious brains upgrade.

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Historic NY

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Wed Nov-23-05 02:29 AM
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3. If they don't have permission & a permit........

they will get locked up, NY is tough on that.

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depakid

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Wed Nov-23-05 02:32 AM
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4. Members had better be prepared

Edited on Wed Nov-23-05 02:32 AM by depakid

because they just might find that there are some New Yorkers who won't be too happy with their fundy bullshit.

It would serve them right if they ended up being sent home a few bruises wiser....

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leftstreet

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Wed Nov-23-05 02:36 AM
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5. Republican Fund Drive Week

stir up the wingnuts

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hunter

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Wed Nov-23-05 05:30 AM
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6. Dress up gay and see how many balls you can grab!

Edited on Wed Nov-23-05 05:38 AM by hunter

Okay, I went to troubledwith.com so you don't have to. When I am done I will take a shower.

Question: The other day a Christian friend of mine told me she was a lesbian and that she thinks it is okay with God. How can I talk to her about lesbianism from a Christian point of view?

Answer: Homosexual behavior is against the design of human nature. Men and women are indispensable to each other; they aren't interchangeable blocks.

The tree of homosexuality bears bad fruit. Sodomitical acts have not only external consequences like death, disease and childlessness, but internal ones. Some of the internal consequences are psychological, like loneliness and compulsive behavior. Others are moral, for we cannot violate the human design yet expect things to go on as they were; "that road leads down and down."

To refuse limits on sexual desire is to make an idol of lust. In our day the most popular false gods aren't cats and crocodiles, but youth, beauty, money, fame and sex. When a person pursues sexual desire even against the design of human nature � even at the risk of protracted and agonizing death; even when to do so she must overcome shame and disgust over her own acts � then it's a pretty safe bet that sexual desire has become her idol.

Once upon a time "a Christian friend of mine told me she was a lesbian." Well actually she was my girlfriend's girlfriend. (You don't even want to know...) For a long time she truly believed God was going to wave His High Holy Cross Double D-Cell Dildo over her, and make her lust after men, but that miracle never happened.

If you want to know what hell looks like I can tell you, because the three of us travelled that road and back. Mostly I remember those damned rat bastards holding out their balls.

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kliljedahl

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Wed Nov-23-05 09:35 AM
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9. Is "Sodomitical " a word?

Just askin'

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smirkymonkey

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Wed Nov-23-05 09:29 AM
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7. Wait, and they're coming to NEW YORK?

Boy are they in for a surprise. Morans.

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Norquist Nemesis

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Wed Nov-23-05 09:34 AM
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8. It would be worth watching the parade just to see them all

get beaned with their own balls! LOL!!!

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Bill McBlueState

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Wed Nov-23-05 09:42 AM
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10. heh, heh,

they said "balls"

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