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AFA of PA ACTION ALERT
October 6, 2009
(Have you sent all members of the 111th Congress a Pink Slip yet? Click here for more info.)
Issues (check corresponding number in ‘Details’ and ‘Action’ Sections)
1.) Committee Vote on Baucus Health Care Bill Postponed
2.) Congressional Speeches Opposing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Last Tonght
3.) Homosexual Activists in Washington This Weekend
4.) President Obama Speaks at Human Rights Campaign Fundraiser
5.) Beware of This Film in Your Area
Details
1.) Senate Finance Committee Chairman Senator Max Baucus promised his members that before voting on his health care bill they would have a "reasonable" amount of time to review the bill's price tag, as assessed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That report has not been delivered yet, thus the Committee vote is expected later this week.
2.) Congressman Patrick Murphy (PA-8) has taken over the effort to repeal the ban on open homosexuals serving in the military. Beginning at 9:00 this evening he has arranged for some of his colleagues who have signed onto H.R. 1283 as co-sponsors to deliver speeches condemning the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. Pennsylvania Congressmen Robert Brady, Michael Doyle, Chakah Fattah, Patrick Murphy, Allyson Schwartz and Joe Sestak are listed as co-sponsors.
3.) October 11th is “National Coming Out Day.” This is a day homosexual activists set aside so those who want to ‘come out’ as homosexual to their friends, family and co-workers will feel more free to do so. Many universities and schools ‘observe’ this day. However, this year homosexual activists plan on being in Washington, DC all weekend strategizing and training as to how to get their demands met. Thus far they are disappointed in what they call President Obama’s inaction to meet all their demands.
4.) The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), according to them the largest ‘gay’ lobby in the nation, will be holding its 13th Annual National Dinner on Saturday October 10th. Their keynote speaker will be President Barack Obama. What kind of promises will he be making to these homosexual activists? He is only the second President to speak at the HRC dinner; Bill Clinton was the first in 1996.
5.) Since 2005 the AFA of PA and many individuals in Venango County have been the targets of two homosexual activists – Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson – who used their ‘gay marriage’ announcement in our local paper and the angry letters to the editor that ensued to film a documentary. Since the brief time of homosexual activism that we saw created here locally with the encouragement of these two Washington, DC activists, it actually appears that they also used local homosexuals, most who just want to live their lives like everyone else, to create the fervor that Hamer and Wilson needed for their ‘documentary’. I have not seen the film, nor do I plan to. They showed up outside the church I attend twice and asked questions and filmed the people leaving. I had their camera stuck in my face enough other times to know what their intentions are. The picture of me at this site is from 2006 when they literally ran me down at a protest the AFA of PA organized in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment when Governor Rendell was in Oil City. I had refused to agree to be in their film and as soon as they saw me they pounced.
Action Steps
1.) Neither Senator Specter nor Casey are on the Senate Finance Committee, but please contact them and ask them to vote ‘NO’ on the Baucus bill. It DOES include abortion coverage, would force all doctors to perform abortions even though they are morally opposed to the procedure and would not require photo ID when someone is signing up for health care coverage. Click here for contact information.
2.) If any of the above listed Congressmen represent you, please contact him or her and ask that their name be removed as sponsor of this dangerous bill (HR 1283) that will place our national security at risk. For more information on why this is so dangerous, go to the Center for Military Readiness website here. To better understand who Patrick Murphy is read Elaine Donnelly’s article “Murphy’s (LGBT) Law for the Military” by clicking here.
3.) Click here for more information on the National Equality March. Pray that the Church will not be afraid to speak the truth when it comes to the issue of homosexuality. If the Church doesn’t get this right and take a strong stand on this and other moral issues, our nation is in BIG trouble.
4.) If it concerns you that President Obama is speaking at the HRC National Dinner on Saturday evening, please contact the White House comment line at 202-456-1111, fax at 202-456-2461 or e-mail using the form here. Remember this is the President who did not allow a National Day of Prayer event at the White House in May, but gave recorded remarks for Ramadan in August. You can either watch the video of him giving his remarks or read the text at the bottom of this page. Obama also included ‘same-sex families’ in the list of American families in the White House Proclamation on Family Day.
5.) Hamer and Wilson have made it very clear that they plan on using “Out in the Silence” for ‘outreach' and even a curriculum has been created to go along with it. They say on their website, “The use of OUT IN THE SILENCE as a tool for outreach, education and activism will ensure that these and other exciting outcomes will be multiplied in small towns and rural communities across the country . . . .” Pennsylvania PBS stations will be showing it this fall and it will move into the national arena in 2010. I don’t recommend going to the film; but if it’s showing near you, a letter to the editor might help expose if for the propaganda piece that it is. Click here for the list of screenings – notice that the majority are on university/college campuses. Click here for the news release we recently issued with some more information to help expose the film. To keep the local agitation going Joe Wilson maintains a blog although I don’t see many locals leaving comments!
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