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Education
Issues
Homosexual Agenda
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December
2, 2004
CONTACT:
Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355
PHILADELPHIA
IS PLACE OF SPIRITUAL VIOLENCE, NOT POTTSTOWN -- PRO-FAMILY GROUP SAYS
(Philadelphia)
-- The trial of openly homosexual United Methodist minister Beth
Stroud in Pottstown is being called by certain pro-homosexual groups
an act of spiritual violence against Stroud.
A statewide pro-family group contends that the real spiritual
violence is taking place in Philadelphia instead.
American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA)
president, Diane Gramley stated today,
"There
have been no acts of violence against Beth Stroud, but eleven
Christians were arrested on the Philadelphia sidewalks in October
while exercising their constitutionally protected right of free speech
during the homosexual Outfest event. They each face up to 47 years in
jail -- that is real spiritual violence.
When the legislators return in January, we are calling on them
to illiminate the homosexual special rights provisions in the hate
crimes law, by removing 'sexual orientation' and 'gender
identity.'"
In
2002 the AFA of PA warned that passage of the hate crimes bill would
be used to silence Christians' message of hope in Christ.
That law was used to arrest the Philadelphia 11 on ethnic
intimidation charges. The
message of hope in Christ has been declared hate speech in
Philadelphia and all of Pennsylvania when it truthfully declares
homosexual acts as sinful.
Stroud,
who announced her involvement in the lesbian lifestyle in a sermon in
April 2003, is being tried by a jury of peers in Pottstown.
United Methodist Church law states that homosexual practices
are incompatible with Christian teaching.
The United Methodist Book of Discipline prohibits the
ordination and appointment of self-avowed, practicing homosexuals as
pastors. As most of the
media's attention is directed on the trial in Pottstown and the
so-called spiritual violence represented by the trial, Philadelphia is
where the attention should be.
"Philadelphia
can no longer be called the 'City of Brotherly Love."
Strong evidence points to them selling out to homosexual
activists and their intention is to 'make an example' of the
Philadelphia 11. A
compassionate society would also be truthful about the physical,
medical and psychological dangers involved in the homosexual
lifestyle," Gramley remarked.
Gramley
said medical studies and other evidence indicates that individuals
who
engage in homosexual behavior experience dramatically higher risks of
domestic
violence, mental illness, substance abuse, life-threatening
disease,
and premature death by up to 20 years. She cited the following
documentation:
*
College-aged men who engage in homosexual behavior are at risk of
dying up to 20 years younger than other men, according to Oxford
University's
International
Journal of Epidemiology, which reported: "Life expectancy
at
age
20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all
men.
nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not
reach
their 65th birthday."
http://ije.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/657?maxtoshow=&HITS=1hits=
10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&FIRSTINDEX=&volume=26&firstpage=6
10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&FIRSTINDEX=&volume=26&firstpage=6
57&journalcode=intjepid
*
"The probability of violence occurring in a gay couple is
mathematically
double
the probability of that in a heterosexual couple," write the
editors
of
the National Gay & Lesbian Domestic Violence Network newsletter.
* The
Journal of the American Medical Association reports that "people
with
same-sex
sexual behavior are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders" -
including
bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, and anxiety disorders, major
depression,
and substance abuse.
* A
Detroit homosexual newsmagazine columnist last month wrote regarding
his partner: "This is his first relationship, so he has not yet
been ruined by
all
the heartache, lies, deceit, and game-playing that are the hallmark of
gay
relationships...A study I once read suggested that nine out of 10 gay
men
cheat on their lovers."
* The
Center for Disease Control warns that men who have sex with men
"have large numbers of anonymous partners, which can result in
rapid, extensive transmission of sexually transmitted diseases."
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