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Gay Marriage – A Sign of Civilization’s Decline and Fall

February 21, 2015, 11:54 am
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The Roman Empire gave rise to some of the wickedest despots in all of human history; yet, even the sickest and or most megalomaniacal of the Emperors: Caligula, Nero, Hadrian, only dabbled in homosexuality – some more seriously than others. It was not until the Empire was in serious decline that the teen upstart to the throne, Elagabalus, did gay marriage become a whim for those who ruled. Contemporary Roman histories described how “Elagabalus went through a nuptial ceremony and consummated a marriage, even having a bridal-matron…”
First, some background: Elagabalus was declared Emperor in the early-Third Century; this was after the triumphant decades of the “Good Emperors” which made up much of the Second-Century: these men included Trajan and Marcus Aurelius; even the Medieval mystic Dante saw one of these noble pagans, Trajan, as saved in his vision of Paradiso. The 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon, in his work “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” argued that their rule was a period when “the Roman Empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of wisdom and virtue.” By the time Elagabalus arrived on the scene, everything, and everyone, was on their way to hell. What happened?
Almost 40 years before the ascendance of Elagabalus, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius made the fatal flaw of choosing his own son, Commodus, as his successor; before that – tradition through the Second-Century had been for the Emperors to adopt the man most fit to rule – regardless of any family connection. For the most part, Commodus, beautifully and horrifyingly portrayed by Christopher Plummer in the film “The Fall of the Roman Empire,” was a spoiled good-for-nothing pervert. He had grown up privileged, during a time of great peace and economic boon; he was the ancient Roman equivalent of the baby-boomer. And like his 20thCentury American counterparts, he abandoned the stoic morality of his predecessors in favor of sensual excess – this rather stark turn-around is analogous to 1950s conventionalism as compared with 60s psychedelica. Moreover, Commodus kept the masses perpetually in a fog, while the centers of power slipped speedily into decadence, by endlessly hosting one public spectacle after another: bread and circuses; the crowds were fat and entertained.
In less than a generation, the rot had seeped into everyday life – by the time Elagabalus married his charioteer, no Roman had a gasp left in them. Sadly, in the US, we have already reached that point of no return; currently this sensory overload is symbolized by the consistent emergence, from Madonna to Miley Cyrus, of pornography as main-stream entertainment. Today, the once proud citizenry of this Nation are mesmerized by the diversions of the forever passing show: one week - football, the next week - another political sex scandal – all visioned through the constant streaming of porn, pop-videos, urban decay, rampant dissatisfaction, candy-dispenser pharmaceuticals, and spiritual apathy. As a civilization, we have seriously lost our way – we collectively seek, not what is just, but what is easy; pleasure is our focal principle, the rigors and efforts associated with righteousness are considered passé; consequently, our leaders have come to tragically reflect this – only, we will all pay the price.



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Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana - Tragic Gay Icons

February 23, 2015, 8:19 am
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Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, and Princess Diana are arguably the three most famous and celebrated women of the 20th Century; they are also three of the greatest of the gay icons; for, gay men have a penchant towards idolizing the so-called diva: usually entertainers with larger than life personas that lend themselves to be caricatured by drag-queens - Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Bette Midler, Madonna, Beyonce. But, why, in particular have Garland, Monroe, and Diana received special adulation? For the most part, subliminally it has to do with that fact that each woman experienced what I have labeled the “classic gay boy syndrome:” childhoods filled with tragedy and disappointment: the super-talented, but awkward Garland was pushed into the spotlight by a controlling mother and bisexual father; the father-less Monroe was raised in a series of foster-homes after her mother was committed to a sanitarium; after the rather ugly and messy divorce of her parents, with the father winning custody, the tom-boyish Diana grew up a shy girl who, before her birth, everyone hoped was a boy. 
Later in life, all three women married much older authoritarian “daddy” types: Garland to director Vincente Minnelli, Monroe to playwright Arthur Miller, and Diana to Prince Charles. In these father-figures, each was trying to fill the loneliness of an absent or unloving father, the loss and isolation of a chaotic and uncertain childhood, or to heal the hurt from early experiences with a grossly dysfunctional family. Tragically, as is the case with all tortured souls who try to self-heal themselves - all of these men proved entirely too-human and surely incapable of providing the super-human love each needed. For instance, several of Diana’s many biographers remarked that she had a “wounded, insatiable need for love…as wide as the sky.” And, Diana, has probably proved to be the most tragic - as the hapless Charles reacted coldly and with instinctive indifference when confronted by the emotional neediness of Diana - his inability to sympathetically relate causing her near madness that resulted in several pathetic botched suicide attempts. Currently, we see this reenacted in the rash of gender twisted teen suicides that the sick gay media quickly blame on what they perceive as the fault of the evil and bigoted mourning parents.
Throughout their turns in the limelight - Garland, Monroe, and Diana kept gay men as their closest confidants: the likes of Peter Allen, Montgomery Clift, and Elton John all served as platonic pal and priest for their prospective friends: oftentimes, usurping the function of a husband - except, without the sexual component. Why? With male homosexuals, tormented and traumatized women feel an immediate kinship; with those who have also suffered - it is a bond of the abused. Yet, these relationships ultimately prove to be self-centered and counter-productive: as the shared commiseration of pain never leads to healing. In the end, it breeds a false familiarity - I witnessed this in the wider phenomena of “fag hags” (the usually older, divorced, and bitter heterosexual women who sometimes hang about gay men;) and, to a lesser extent what I perceived as the often bizarre relationships between homosexual men and lesbians - most perversely, when a lesbian woman would give birth to a child for a gay couple. In these circles, a sort of catty bitchiness pervaded: originating in some, usually the females, as a defense mechanism against past abuse at the hands of men, or, in the gay males, as a way to deal with earlier masculine rejection and current dissatisfaction. The true love and understanding that they all need remains elusive. And, instead of resolution, in these relationships, and in the continuing adoration of homosexual men towards gay icons, there is only an uneasy realization that shared misery offers little peace. This tragedy was most horrifically materialized in the final days of Princess Diana: a constant flurry of activity, jet-set bashes, exotic holidays, and a devolving series of increasingly reckless boyfriends - exposing a fatalistic dance with danger that inevitably caused her death; this false shield of happy busyness covering over a discontented life is also witnessed in the frantic calendars of gay men with their relentless carousing, theme parties, and parades; it’s the same cycle of nervous destruction, only in gay men - it shot directly to a nightmarish death in the horror of AIDS. Sadly, their idols failed to save them. 

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Former Gay Porn Star Returns to West Hollywood: Santa Monica Blvd of Broken Dreams

February 24, 2015, 7:27 am
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The Road to Hell: The Failure of the Post-Vatican II Catholic School System

February 25, 2015, 10:55 am
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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco recently approved language for a new high-school teachers’ contract and handbook that called on faculty to avoid publicly challenging the Church’s position on issues like same-sex “marriage” and abortion; the statement called on teachers “to avoid fostering confusion among the faithful and any dilution of the schools’ primary Catholic mission.” “[A]dministrators, faculty and staff of any faith or of no faith are expected to arrange and conduct their lives so as not to visibly contradict, undermine or deny these truths,” read the language of the schools’ statement. “To that end, further, we all must refrain from public support of any cause or issue that is explicitly or implicitly contrary to that which the Catholic Church holds to be true.” The statement also affirmed Catholic doctrine on contraception, chastity and same-sex “marriage:” “We accept the Church’s teaching that all extramarital sexual relationships are gravely evil and that these include adultery, masturbation, fornication, the viewing of pornography and homosexual relations.”
As a lost child of the 1970s and 80s Catholic parochial school system, I can personally testify that the efforts of Archbishop Cordileone have nothing to do with bigotry, self-righteousness, or ecclesiastical control or overreach, but primarily concerns innocent children who have been placed under the care of instructors who may, or may not, uphold or pass on the True teachings of the Catholic Church; yet, this is not just a matter of pedagogy or differences in educational styles, but a fight for the minds, and for some, especially those who may be already been influenced by the pop-culture pull towards homosexuality as the answer for same-sex desires, it’s a fight for their very lives.
In my own experience, as a student in Catholic schools all the way from first grade through high school - what I learned, or failed to learn from teachers and priests had a major impact on my future life after graduation. For the most part, Christ was presented as all-too-human, as a lovable and rather disinterested historical spiritual master; sort of the Christian equivalent to Mahatma Gandhi. As for His teachings - he mainly suggested that: we share our lunches with classmates, pick up garbage in the schoolyard, and be nice to our little brothers and sisters. First Holy Communion was casually staged as a communal gathering around a table - with Jesus as the maître de. The only thing memorable: in eighth grade, a minor scandal erupted at school when one of the associate priests offered instruction on the evils of masturbation; he was then resoundingly scolded by the pastor and never heard from again within the confines of the classroom.
High school religion was a bizarre practice in avoidance and meeting a superfluous academic requirement necessary for graduation. Early on, we sat through a screening of the recent R-rated film “The Breakfast Club.” In another class, the teacher compared Jesus to the character of Spock in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn;” Jesus as self-giving alien and humanitarian of big Buddhist proportions. It was nonsense. In another, the female teacher could barely mask her support for abortion rights - in a year that saw the first woman candidate for Vice-President; I remember writing an essay about how I thought contraception was a worthy means of population control and thus ensuring environmental sustainability - she praised my conclusions; being at best a mediocre student - in my mind, this was treasured praise. In my senior year, I opted out of religion by volunteering as an aid at a local public school. 
Armed with nothing, I was defenseless and stupid. My estimation of being a good Christian entailed fostering an accepting and non-judgmental nature. Christ has been presented as such an empty shell - a rather bland and insipid good guy; the last thing He inspired was praise and adulation. Instinctively, I knew I needed more. And, from the time when I was a child, ever since I saw The Village People gyrate on the Merv Griffin Show, I wondered if I was gay. I didn’t know where to go or where to turn. The Church? It was highly irrelevant, as outdated and superfluous as the stupid Simon and Garfunkel songs they forced us to learn and sing at Mass. Even as a kid, and as a teenager, I could sense that the Church was weak and discordant; the ever-present contrast of the celibate male religious who nevertheless had pet-boy favorites, and the lay faculty who looked with disdain on what they perceived as an antiquated bureaucracy hopelessly stuck in the past; they didn’t believe in it – so, then, why should those they taught. There was nothing that I could draw from; there was nothing to help me: I thought, Jesus had tried to do His best, but He was long dead.
Echoing in my head was the song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” from 1967; in the 80s, there was the cyclical feeling of nostalgia for an era that was 20 years in the past; the 60s, for the 80s generation, symbolized so much: the antidote to Reagan conservativism; a time of free-love before AIDS, and a moment when San Francisco was the epicenter of the cosmos. Feeling lured towards something seemingly time-tested and still relevant, after 12 years of Catholic schooling, I ran to the Castro and the Haight-Ashbury. I felt as if I had been bullied and attacked for years; I wanted to leave it all behind. One of my social studies teachers in high school, then in her 40s, romanticized the openness and experimentation of San Francisco in the 60s to such a degree that she regarded it as the American version of the High-Renaissance. There, I thought I would meet the modern gay Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci; in fact, what I found there was the Marquis de Sade. 
Far from being a haven for sexual liberation, the gay world was a wasteland of lost boys: all seeking some solace for a childhood wound that they couldn’t even admit to. Most of those that I met, even when I sunk to desperate lows in the hell of gay porn, were former Catholic school boys. We shared much of the same history. At once, we all began to live the same daydream; and the same nightmare. We were the children of confusion; experiments in a post-Vatican II landscape that imagined a new reality without absolutes. We were taught to find our own truths; our own paths of happiness and righteousness. But, we couldn’t. Instead – we looked towards the world. Only, the world didn’t care about our souls – it simply wanted to manipulate our brains and abuse our bodies. As the years passed – I watched helplessly as my friends gasped and coughed their way to death; they still had nothing to cling to; and, I had nothing to offer. Like the Church of our youths, Jesus was merely the sing-song hippie; gone by the wayside like the faded Summer of Love. For the most part, they died scared and alone. Yet, thorough the Grace of God – I was saved from the same fate; for them, and for the future – I speak out; and, as St. Paul said: “I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom: Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.”



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No Matter How You Do It – Gay Sex Will Kill You

February 26, 2015, 10:42 am
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...taken from the CDC web-site.
The risk of acquiring HIV through unprotected anal sex is at least 20 times greater than with unprotected vaginal sex and increases if other infections are already present in the rectal lining. In the United States alone, receptive anal intercourse is practiced in up to 90% of gay and other men who have sex with men, according to International Rectal Microbicides Advocates. Moreover, the practice is not limited to men. U.S. estimates and surveys in the United Kingdom indicate between 10 to 35% of heterosexual women have engaged in anal sex at least once. Lubricants are typically used before and during receptive anal intercourse, but their use could increase the risk of rectal sexually transmitted infections (STIs), a study involving nearly 900 men and women in Baltimore and Los Angeles has found. Even after controlling for gender, HIV status, city, condom use, and number of sex partners in the past month, the association between lubricant use before receptive rectal intercourse and rectal STIs remained strong, reported Pamina Gorbach, Dr.PH, from the School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the study. According to the study's statistical analysis that considered the HIV status, gender, condom use and study site, participants who used lubricants before receptive anal intercourse were three times more likely to have a rectal STI. A laboratory study that compared over-the-counter and mail-order lubricants commonly used with receptive anal intercourse found many of the products contain higher amounts of dissolved salts and sugars compared to what's normally found in a cell. As a result, the products had toxic effects on the cells and rectal tissue studied. Some of the lubricants caused significant portions of the epithelium -- the layer of cells that serves as a protective barrier inside the rectum -- to be stripped away.

Author’s note: As I wrote in an earlier blog, initial US government recommendations (particularly targeting the gay male community) about the use of the spermicide Nonoxynol-9 [N-9] in preventing HIV infection have since been proven highly incorrect (see: http://www.josephsciambra.com/2015/01/oops-i-did-it-again-why-us-government.html.) And, now, the same could be stated about the continuing endorsements from the CDC to Planned Parenthood’s teeny website “Go Ask Alice” that the use of lubricants, in conjunction with condoms, makes anal sex “comfortable” and “pleasurable.” Interestingly, no one uses the term “safe sex” anymore; along with “Just Say No!” it was the drilled-into-your-head tag-line mantra of the 1980s.

Link to study:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100525094900.htm



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Gay and Transgender Youth Make Up Large Percentage of Sex Workers

February 27, 2015, 11:48 am
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Researchers have found that LGBTQ youth make up a large number of youth engaged in survival sex in New York City, nationally, and across the continent. LGBTQ youth are estimated to make up only 5 to 7% of the youth population but 20 to 40% of the homeless youth population. Authors of a multiphase, multiyear, multimethod transnational study estimate that 25 to 35% of young men in the sex trade identify as gay, bisexual, or transgender. Youth reported experiences of social and familial discrimination and rejection, familial dysfunction, familial poverty, physical abuse, sexual abuse and exploitation, and emotional and mental trauma.

Author’s note: One of the things I found most interesting about this study was the rather bizarre lumping together of reported reasons for transgender youths leaving home and then falling into sex work; for the most part, they are extremely divergent; for example, there is a great deal of difference between the emotional and physical trauma experienced by someone who has been sexually abused or raped and someone, who, perhaps, had family members that may or may have not supported their decision to be gay or transgendered. This effort, mainly originating in the gay media, to equate non-acceptance of homosexuality with physical and sexual abuse recently reached an apogee when some gay commentators recommended that the parents of a transgender boy be brought up on charges after he killed himself; the consternation primarily originated with the fact that the parents had taken the boy to a Christina-based therapist. In reality, they are related, but not in the way they think: first of all, there is the trauma, this consequently causes the child to seek healing within homosexuality; oftentimes, then, there is a reaction from family members – sometimes a negative one; becoming defensive, especially in the current political and pop-culture climate which perceives homosexuality as an inborn trait, the child reacts and subsequently leaves home; on the streets – they are exploited, become diseased, or worst of all – killed.

Link to original study:
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/2000119-Surviving-the-Streets-of-New-York.pdf



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ISIS Kills More Gays as the Self-Centered West is Locked on Same-Sex Marriage

February 28, 2015, 10:48 am
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ISIS released new shocking photos of a “gay” man being thrown off a roof and stoned to death. Following a trial in an Islamic State court, the man was taken to the roof of the building and thrown to his death in front a large crowd below. The horrific act was carried out in Tel Abiad in the Islamic State capital of Raqqa in Syria.

What do we hear from the gay power-brokers? Nothing!!! For, the gay community in America has become myopic, provincial, and obsessively compulsive. Over the last few years, in their neurotic need to push gay marriage, they have created a narrative focused on the inherent inequity of Christianity and the alleged victimhood of homosexuals suffering under the yoke of Puritanical oppression, now - they simply cannot back-peddle in order to rewrite the plot line. And, because homosexuality has no genetic component, contrary to what the gay apologists have been claiming, gay struggles often remain regional – even relegated to the familial; and, as a whole, those in more tolerant Western nations have had a difficult time relating to what is currently taking place in many Islamic states; this is due again to the personal nature of the homosexual wound which encourages a singular focus on the claustrophobically individual and the immediate; they see gay marriage, a concept which would be impossible to fathom within even the most reformed Muslim sectors, as the realization of heaven on earth – thus missing the need of some to just survive; they remain anti-Christian zealots – grasping only Christian bigotry (mainly Catholicism) as the enemy; concentrating not on images of dying gays in the Middle East, but with idiotic stories involving Christian bakers who refuse to make “gay” cakes. In the US, where homosexuals have reached levels of acceptance and toleration, seen nowhere in the history of mankind, their arguments, except in their insular worlds of heroic martyrdom, recently deified by the current obsession with unbalanced sexually confused children who sadly commit suicide, have proven to be completely false. In fact, but in Christian, or once predominantly Christian nations have homosexuals been able to outwardly thrive. This benevolence, inspired by Jesus Chris Himself, has made it possible for the production of such statements as this, from “The Catechism of the Catholic Church,” regarding the treatment of homosexual person: “They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.” (CCC #2358)



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Express Yourself: How a Music Video Shaped the Destinies of Gay Men

March 2, 2015, 12:23 pm
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...scenes from the music video "Express Yourself."
Returning to the gay community after 10 years, the dust and debris stirred up and left behind from my generation has settled or been collected in the refuse bins of history - the absence, for me, has also fostered clarity. Yet, oftentimes, while walking the streets of the Castro and West Hollywood, just around the corner, I can still hear the reverberations of past disco beats; emanating from some old dance-club location - once a semi-seedy warehouse that has since been demolished or retrofitted into a trendy café. Many of those whom I loved, lusted after, and abused - are long since dead; those that survived often weave tales of excess and hate; one such story: a gay man, now in his 40s, burned and dejected from the scene, recalls wanting to leave it all back in 1989 - a year after I arrived in the Castro. Coming to the same realization that I did in the late-90s, he had already found the homosexual lifestyle far less than glamorous. Yet, after hearing and seeing the song and accompanying music video of Madonna’s “Express Yourself,” he decided to stay. 
Yearning for a level of love and excitement lacking in a current lover - from the very beginning - Madonna yells out: “Come on girls, do you believe in love…don’t go for second best baby, put your love to the test…make him express how he feels…” Then in the 80s, when music videos still held an incredible amount of power over the public, the rather tame video for Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” was enough to shut down her multimillion dollar endorsement contract with Pepsi, “Express Yourself” reached an apogee of high ritualized propaganda with Madonna bewitching a cadre of muscled enslaved men as she sets them free through the magic of sex. 
The video is undeniably entrancing: like much modern art, taking its cue from pornography, it’s a bizarre mixture of the beautiful and the ugly. In a homage to the German film “Metropolis,” Madonna walks about an over-loaded set of Art-Deco: wearing bright green - she is part Wicked Witch of the West and part Glinda from “The Wizard of Oz.” With her familiar in hand, a perfect black cat, Madonna sends out her spirit - glowing eyes amidst the darkness - to give hope among the masses; the men slaving below: as a metaphor for the battered and imprisoned gay male population. Like the eye of Horus - she is all seeing, and all knowing: commanding, not requesting; making followers out of the confused; giving purpose and order to a mixture of lost boys. Slowly, they hear the music, one of them breaks out - and finds solace and freedom inside Madonna’s bed. 
When I first heard the song, in a San Francisco gay bathhouse, like Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” from the previous decade - it became an instant rallying cry: after the destruction of AIDS, the resulting fear and devastation driving many homosexuals into the underground, the post-AIDS era wanted again the lack of restrictions enjoyed by those who came before the scourge: to express themselves. Yet, like the video itself - it was all an illusion; as St. Augustine remarked: “the apples of Sodom;” beautiful, ripe, and juicy to the eyes - evaporating into dust once touched. The image had power - to sway the hearts of many - some, staid - and died. Others, like myself, whirled to Madonna’s tunes for another 10 years - barely surviving to see another sunrise. 
Today, a new generation (see below) continues what Madonna started: flashing eyes of promise - hiding the real presence of hell. And, as Lady Gaga herself refers to them, her “little monsters,” the next generation will be all the more sick. 







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Why Gay Men Hate Each Other

March 3, 2015, 3:40 pm
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Current gay pop-culture it-boy Russell Tovey recently had some interesting things to say about growing up gay and turning out the way he did: “I feel like I could have been really effeminate, if I hadn’t gone to the school I went to. Where I felt like I had to toughen up. If I’d have been able to relax, prance around, sing in the street, I might be a different person now. I thank my dad for that, for not allowing me to go down that path.” Apparently, the father of Tovey refused his young son’s request to attend a performing arts school; now, Tovey is thankful for his father’s insistence; whereas, Tovey believes that the school of his choice would have turned him into a less masculine man.
And, this isn’t the first time the masculine vs feminine war within the gay community has spilled out from the gayborhood into the public consciousness: soccer star Robbie Rogers’ assertion that he wanted only a “very masculine” actor to play him in a perspective movie about his life; when Neil Patrick Harris was on Broadway playing the transgender Hedwig he said of taking on this role: “I’ve lived my whole life being attracted by masculinity - it's why I like guys. I’m not a super effete person, and I have to turn into that, and in doing so it brings up a lot of homophobic insecurities within myself;” then, butch gay actor Tuc Watkins criticized the depiction of homosexuals on “Modern Family” as perpetuating an effete 80s stereotypes.
Why the bitchiness? First of all, peace and tranquility are never found in the gay world of over testosterone saturation: it’s always agitated and restless; there is a consistent pervasive air of hunting and devouring; everything seeps sex – I learned quickly as an 18 year old new to San Francisco, that something as innocuous as a prolonged look or an innocent smile can turn into a heated sexual encounter with someone you never met before. In that context, in the homosexual male mind, there is always a persistent push and pull between the image of masculinity and its reality. From its modern inception, gay males have worshiped the hyper-masculine persona – epitomized by the 1970s drawings from artist Tom of Finland. Through the horror of AIDS, today, only gay porn has kept that dream alive. Across the board, actual living breathing gay men fail to equal these unrealistic phantasms of masculine perfection. Those that fall way short are rather negatively referred to as “fems” or more oftentimes as “bottoms.” To the more masculine types – they must be both passive and subservient; for, in masculinity – they see their ultimate salvation.
Gay men both adore and fear the masculine ideal. They dream of literally rising to the heavens – attaining and or becoming the embodiment of physical perfection; and, they will do almost anything to make it – hence, the tragic propensity for recipients of anal sex to bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic; in choosing to seek out the elusive masculine through sex, they forfeit their own lives. Those that survive, especially as they near middle age and everything either begins to deflate or sag – a palpable and all-pervasive bitterness, verging on hatred, sets in; although, currently, I see this also appearing in the younger generation, a premature swerve towards anger and resentment, caused by the modern phenomena of internet porn-inspired teens who have out-sexed their predecessors. Inevitably, the inability to create a personal peace through sex leaves everyone frustrated and feeling semi-cheated; and, all that’s left is sadness and regret; it’s a horrible reversal of fortune – everything that draws them to the gay lifestyle – a promise of happiness beyond the sadness that was childhood, comes back and they find themselves that same bullied little boy all over again.



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Disney Peddles Gay Kiddie Porn on ABC Family

March 4, 2015, 10:39 am
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“The Fosters” is an American family drama television series that airs on the ABC Family network (a subsidiary of the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company) in the United States and ABC Spark in Canada. The Fosters was originally conceived by openly gay creators Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige; with “Booty” singer Jennifer Lopez as executive producer. The series follows the lives of the Foster family, consisting of an interracial lesbian couple raising a blended family of biological, adopted and foster children. In the current season, the storyline will cross-over from an exploration of adult homosexuality into childhood same-sex attraction: though it swerves into the realm of sexploitation and kiddie porn as Jude, the youngest son in the family, who is played by Hayden Byerly, 14, kisses Connor, the school friend who stood up for Jude when he was bullied, who is played by 15 year old Gavin MacIntosh.

And, this is not the first time Disney has tried this gay mind-bending trick:

Also, read about the sad and tragic lives of past exploited Disney child stars: 


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Major US Companies Make a Pact With Hell For Gay Marriage

March 5, 2015, 11:10 am
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Exactly 379 corporations and employer organizations urged the Supreme Court to strike down state bans on gay marriage, according to a friend-of-the-court brief. According to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Union Between Homosexual Person, “…all Catholics are obliged to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions.” Furthermore: “Moral conscience requires that, in every occasion, Christians give witness to the whole moral truth, which is contradicted both by approval of homosexual acts and unjust discrimination against homosexual persons…Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil.”

Here is the full list of companies that have signed the amicus brief:
A.L. Nella & Company, LLP, CPAs
A.T. Kearney
Aardema Whitelaw, PLLC
Acacia Home LLC
Accenture
Aetna Inc.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
AJ Leo Electric and Solar
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Alaska Airlines
Alcoa Inc.
Amazon Services Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc.
American Airlines Group Inc.
American Apparel
American Express Company
American International Group, Inc.
Aparicio-Mercado Law, L.C.
Apple Inc.
AppNexus Inc.
Aramark
Arbor Brewing Company, LLC
Arnold & Porter LLP
Aspen Skiing Company
Assemble Sound LLC
AT&T Inc.
Atlas Cut Stone
Atticus Circle
The Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Avanade Inc.
Bain & Company, Inc.
Bakehouse Art Complex
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Bank of America
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
Barclays
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
bebe stores, inc.
Becton, Dickinson and Company
Belcampo Inc.
Ben & Jerry’s
Big Duck Studio, Inc.
Bigelow Villa LLC
Billy’s Farm
BlackRock, Inc.
Bloomberg L.P.
Blue Apron, Inc.
Blue Heron Ventures
Blue Moon Hotel / Winter Haven Hotel
Blume, Faulkner & Skeen, PLLC
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Boston Community Capital, Inc.
Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Foundation
Boston Medical Center Corporation
Boston Scientific Corporation
Brady Mills LLC
BrandQuery LLC
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Broadcom Corporation
Brocade
Cablevision Systems Corporation
Capital One Financial Corporation
Captain Wendell’s Marine Services LLC
Cardinal Health, Inc.
Care Resource
CBS Corporation
CEB
Central Physical Therapy and Fitness, PSC
CGI
Charlotte Business Guild
The Chubb Corporation
CIGNA Corporation
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Citigroup Inc.
City Catering Company
City Lites Neon, Inc.
The City of Ann Arbor, Michigan
Civitas Public Affairs Group
Clean Yield Asset Management
CloudFlare, Inc.
CMIT Solutions of Seattle Downtown
The Coca-Cola Company
Cohen & Associates
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Columbia FunMap, Inc.
Comcast Corporation
The Computer Butler
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
The Corcoran Group
Corner Brewery, LLC
Corning Incorporated
Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Crazy Misfits Pet Services
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Cummins Inc.
Cupcake Royale
CVS Health Corporation
Dallas Voice
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
Danaher Corporation
David J. Jarrett, P.C.
David Kosar Insurance Agency
David Mack Henderson Income Tax Preparation
DCI Group AZ, L.L.C.
Deloitte LLP
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
The Desert Business Association
Deutsche Bank AG
Diageo North America, Inc.
DIRECTV
DocuSign
Domini Social Investments LLC
The Dow Chemical Company
Dreamcatcher Arts and Publishing Ltd.
Dropbox, Inc.
DuPont
eBay Inc.
Edelman
Eldercare Consulting
Electronic Arts Inc.
EnduringHydro, LLC
Ernst & Young LLP
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Event Rents
Everything Real Estate LLC
Express Movers Inc.
Facebook, Inc.
Farella Braun + Martel, LLP
Fastsigns
Fenwick & West LLP
First Data Corporation
1st Security Bank
1stdibs.Com, Inc.
FIT Technologies
Flanery CPA
Full Court Press Communications
G.A.W., Inc.
The Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Nevada
General Electric Company
General Mills, Inc.
Gensler
Gilt Groupe Holdings, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline LLC
Gleason & Associates Claims Services
Go Factory, Inc.
Goethel Engelhardt, PLLC
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Google Inc.
Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
Great Officiants LLC
The Greater Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Greater San Diego Business Association
Greater Seattle Business Association
Greensulate
Grossman Marketing Group
Group Health Cooperative
Groupon
Growing Hope
Harrell Remodeling
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Healthline
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
Holdredge Wines
Homeward Pet Adoption Center
Horizon Air Industries, Inc.
House Packard LLC
HSBC
Ikard Wynne LLP
The Independence Business Alliance
The Inland Northwest Business Alliance
Insala, Ltd
Inspirato, LLC
Integrated Archive Systems, Inc.
Integrity Law Group
Intel Corporation
Intuit Inc.
INUS Group, LLC
Jackson Hole Group LLC
Jagod Designs
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jenn T. Grace International LLC
Jennifer Brown Consulting
JetBlue Airways Corporation
The Jim Henson Company
Johnson & Johnson
Johnston, Kinney and Zulaica LLP
Jonathan L. Bowman, Attorney at Law, PS
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Julian Chang Consulting, Inc.
kapchur.us photography
The Kathy A. Janssen Foundation
Kazan, McClain, Satterley, & Greenwood, PLC
Keir Jones Agency – State Farm
Keker & Van Nest LLP
KEO Marketing Inc.
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC
Kollmar Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Kotzan Chiropractic
KPMG LLP
Lambda Business Association
Laparoscopic Institute for Gynecologic Oncology
Larson Marketing & Communications LLC
Laughton Properties
Law Offices of Joel L. Sogol
Law Office of Lisa E. Schuchman
Law Office of Lorie L. Burch, PC
Law Offices of Robin L. Bodiford, P.A.
The Law Office of Susan K. Fuller, PLLC
Levi Strauss & Co.
Liberty Burger
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Life & Love Celebrations
Link in the Chain Foundation, Inc.
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
LNT, Inc.
The Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Lori Karbal et al
Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge Trust, LLC
The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Main Street Hair Shoppe Ltd.
Marriott International, Inc.
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.
McKesson Corporation
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Merca Property Management
The Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Microsoft Corporation
The Mid-America Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Miller & Olson, LLP
Miller Shelton Group, LLC
MillerCoors LLC
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Mona Smith PLLC
Moody’s Corporation
Morgan Miller Plumbing
Morgan Stanley
MWW Public Relations
NAMI Dallas, Inc.
The Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce
The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Neumann Capital Management, LLC
The New England Patriots
New Leaf Columbus
New York Life Insurance Company
Nifty Hoops, LLC
NIKE, Inc.
Nixon Peabody LLP
North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce
Northrop Grumman Corporation
OBOX Solutions
Office Depot, Inc.
The Ogilvy Group, Inc.
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
ONE Community Media, LLC
1 Source Consulting Solutions
Oracle America, Inc.
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc.
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates
Outerwall Inc.
Pakmode Publications, LLC
d/b/a Pakmode Media + Marketing
Pandora Media, Inc.
PATH
Peabody & Arnold LLP
Pepper Hamilton LLP
PepsiCo
Pfizer Inc.
Pixelligent Technologies LLC
Plexus Education Foundation
Plexus LGBT and Allied Chamber of Commerce
Portland Area Business Association
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
PrideFest
The PrintingWorks
Pro-Tec Data, Inc.
Procter & Gamble
ProTrials Research, Inc.
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Puma Spring Vineyards
Qualcomm Incorporated
Quorum
RAFI Architecture and Design
Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Silicon Valley
Ralph’s Regal Weddings
Ray Holley Communications
RBC Capital Markets, LLC
Replacements, Ltd.
Restaurant Management Concepts
Reverberate! Marketing Communications, Inc.
Rising Tide Brewing Company
RJR Photography
Robert H Stutz Jr CPA
Rockwell Automation, Inc.
Rotella & Hernandez, LLC
The Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce
Sadek Bonahoom PLC
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
The San Francisco Giants
The Seattle Lesbian, LLC
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
Sempra Energy
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Shingles Roofing LLC
Sidetrack, Inc.
Simon, Schindler & Sandberg LLP
Skellenger Bender, P.S.
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Sleeves Up Productions, LLC
Sōw
Spectra Law PS
Spry Vision, Inc.
St. Jude Medical, Inc.*
Staples, Inc.
Starbucks Corporation
Starrtek LLC
State Street Corporation
Steven Graves Insurance Agency
Stonewall Behavioral Health
Stonewall Columbus
Stuffed Cakes, LLC
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Services Company, Inc.
SunDaily
Support.com, Inc.
Sweet Dixie Kitchen
Symantec Corporation
Taber Food Services, Inc.
dba Hobee’s California Restaurants
The Tampa Bay Rays
Target Corporation
TD Bank, N.A.
TD Securities (USA) LLC
Tech Data Corporation
TestTracks
Thinking Cap Communications & Design
Third Point LLC
Thomson Reuters
Tiwary Entertainment Group LLC
TNT Promotions, LLC
TOCA Events, LLC
TravelOut, Inc.
Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria
Twitter, Inc.
206 Inc.
UBS AG
The Ultimate Software Group, Inc.
United Air Lines, Inc.
United Therapeutics Corporation
Uptown Physicians Group
VCB Consulting & Accounting Services
Verizon Communications Inc.
Viacom Inc.
Visa Inc.
VitaPerk
VMware, Inc.
W. M. Martin Advertising
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
W/S Development Associates LLC
Walsh Wellness Center
The Walt Disney Company
Wasserman Media Group
Wells Fargo & Company
Whey Natural! USA LLC
Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce
Witeck Communications, Inc.
The Workplace Equality Index
Wyndham Worldwide Corporation
Xerox Corporation
Xfund
YES DESIGN GROUP
Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority
Zausmer, Kaufman, August & Caldwell, P.C.
Zingerman’s Community of Businesses
ZoomSystems
Zynga Inc.

*St. Jude Medical is not the same as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital founded by Danny Thomas in 1962.


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Republicans Come-Out For Gay Marriage; List of those who signed amicus brief…

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More than 300 veteran Republican lawmakers, operatives and consultants have filed a friend of the court brief at the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage. The amicus brief, organized by former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, was filed for the four same-sex marriage cases the Court will hear on April 28 that could legalize the unions nationwide.

From the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons: “When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic law-maker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral.”
Declared Catholics on this list are marked with an *.

Kenneth B. Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007
*Daniel J. Acciavatti, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 32nd District, 2003-2008
Abe Adams, Deputy Digital Director, Romney-Ryan 2012
Tim Adams, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, 2005-2007
Sarah Anderson, Communications and Research Director for the Michigan Republican Party, 2005-2007
Todd Anderson, Chief of Staff to the Republican Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, 2001-2004
Gregory T. Angelo, Executive Director, Log Cabin Republicans
Cliff S. Asness, Businessman, Philanthropist, and Author
David D. Aufhauser, General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, 2001-2003
Joshua Baca, National Coalitions Director, Romney for President 2012, and Former Congressional Staff Member to Representative Heather Wilson
Doug Badger, Executive Director, Oregon Bush-Cheney 2004, and Chief of Staff, U.S. Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn
John Bailey, Policy Director, Bush-Cheney 2004, and Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, 2007-2009
Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts, 2015-Present
Melissa Hall Davis Balough, Energy and Environment Policy Director, Romney for President, 2007-2008
Lyn Bankes, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 19th District, 1985-1998
*William E. “Bill” Baroni, Jr., New Jersey State Assemblyman, 2004-2008, New Jersey State Senator, 2008-2010, and Of Counsel at Hill Wallack LLP
Michael James Barton, Deputy Director of the Middle East Policy Office, Pentagon, 2006-2009, and Homeland Security Council Member, White House, 2003-2006
Charles Bass, Member of Congress, 1995-2007 and 2011-2013
Glynda A. Becker, Associate Director, White House Office of Political Affairs, 2003-2006, and Environmental and Energy Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2002-2003
Rich Beeson, Political Director, Romney for President, 2011-2012, Political Director, Republican National Committee, 2007-2008
John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser to the Department of State, 2005-2009
Troy Benavidez, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV AIDs, 2006-2009
Crystal Benton, Former Press Secretary to Senator John McCain and Deputy Communications Director for John McCain for President, 2008
Juliana Bergeron, New Hampshire Republican National Committeewoman, 2012-Present
Elliot S. Berke, Counsel, Office of the Speaker, 2006, General Counsel, Office of the Majority Leader, 2004-2006, and Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, 2002-2004
Jeff Berkowitz, Research Director, Republican National Committee, 2009-2010, and White House Associate Director of Scheduling-Research, 2005-2006
Jon Berrier, Communications and Political Affairs Coordinator, The White House, Office of the Vice President, 2005-2006
Michael Beylkin, Attorney at Law, Colorado
Katie Biber, General Counsel, Romney for President, 2007-2008 and 2011-2012
David E. Black, National Finance Team, Huntsman for President, 2011-2012, and Press Advance Lead, Romney for President, 2012
Dan G. Blair, Deputy Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, 2002-2006 (Acting Director, 2005), and Commissioner, Postal Regulatory Commission, 2006-2011 (Chair, 2006-2009)
Dan Blum, Deputy Campaign Manager, Scott Walker for Governor, 2011-2012, and Senior Research Analyst, Republican National Committee, 2007-2009
Mary Bono, Member of Congress, 1998-2013
Tucker Bounds, National Spokesman, John McCain for President, 2008
Pat Brady, Chairman, Illinois GOP, 2009-2013
John M. Bridgeland, Director, White House Domestic Policy Council, 2001-2002, and Assistant to the President and Director, U.S.A. Freedom Corps, 2002-2004
Eric Brinker, Businessman and Philanthropist
Nancy Brinker, Ambassador to Hungary, 2001-2003, and Chief of Protocol for the United States, 2007-2008
Neil R. Brown, Senior Professional Staff Member, Republican Staff, United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2005-2013
Bill Brownson, National Board Chair, Log Cabin Republicans, 2003-2006
Brooks Brunson, Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference, 2003-2005
Sean Cairncross, Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, National Republican Senatorial Committee, 2009-2013, and Chief Counsel, Republican National Committee, 2007-2009
Sally Canfield, Policy Director, Romney for President, 2006-2008, and Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Marco Rubio, 2011-2015
Alex Castellanos, Republican Media Advisor
Dan Centinello, Deputy National Political Director, Mitt Romney for President, 2011-2012, and Statewide Field Director, Chris Christie for Governor, 2009
David C. Chavern, Business Association Executive
Mary Cheney, Director of Vice Presidential Operations, Bush-Cheney 2004, 2003-2004
Thomas J. Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2006-2008
Jim Cicconi, Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff, 1989-1990
Harry W. Clark, Counselor to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, 2003-2004, and Senior Adviser to the Albright Stonebridge Group
Gus Coldebella, Acting General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2007-2009, and Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2005-2007
*Susan M. Collins, U.S. Senator for Maine, 1997-Present
Jeff Cook-McCormac, Philanthropic and Political Advisor
R. Clarke Cooper, U.S. Alternative Representative, United Nations Security Council, 2007-2009
*Mike Cox, Attorney General of Michigan, 2003-2011
Sara Craig, Iowa State Director, Romney for President, 2011-2012, and Virginia State Manager, Romney for President, 2012
Julie Cram, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, 2007-2009
Tom Cross, Illinois State Representative, 1993-2015, and Minority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives, 2002-2013
S.E. Cupp, Author and Political Commentator
*Carlos Curbelo, Member of Congress
Kevin Curran, Associate Director of Presidential Personnel, White House, 2006-2009
John C. Danforth, United States Senator, 1976-1995, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2004-2005
Michael P. Davidson, Bush-Cheney 2004, and NonProfit CEO, 2008-Present
Michele Davis, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Director of Policy Planning, Department of the Treasury, 2006-2009
Tyler Deaton, National Committeeman, New Hampshire Young Republicans, 2011-Present
Vincent DeVito, General Counsel, Massachusetts Republican Party, 2007-2013, Chief Legal Counsel, The Baker Committee, 2013-2014, and Former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs (Acting)
Bob Dold, Member of Congress, 2011-2013 and 2015-Present
Ben Domenech, Publisher of The Federalist, and Speechwriter for Secretary Tommy Thompson, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003-2004
Alicia Davis Downs, Associate Political Director, White House, 2001-2003
David Doyle, Chairman, Michigan Republican Party, 1991-1995
James C. Dozier, Republican Political Strategist and Advisor
Leon Drolet, Member of Michigan House of Representatives, 2001-2006
Kenneth M. Duberstein, White House Chief of Staff, 1987-1989, and Assistant to the President, 1981-1984
Christine Dudley, Executive Director, Illinois Republican Party, 1993-1999, Regional Political Director, Republican National Committee, 1999-2002, and Political, Public, and Government Affairs Consultant, 2002-2014
Sean Duffy, Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Colorado Governor Bill Owens, 2001-2005
*Janet L. Duprey, New York State Assemblywoman, 2007-Present
Christian J. Edwards, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Press Advance, 2005-2007
Mark J. Ellis, State Chairman, Maine Republican Party, 2005-2006 and 2007-2009
Jamie Ensley, Chairman of the Board, Log Cabin Republicans, 2015-Present
Rob Epplin, Legislative Director, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, 2008-2012, and U.S. Senator Gordon Smith, 1997-2008
Cary Evans, Senior Field Advisor, Rudy Giuliani for President, 2007-2008, Regional Political Director, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007, and Regional Political Director, Bush-Cheney 2004, 2003-2004
Elizabeth Noyer Feld, Public Affairs Specialist, White House Office of Management and Budget, 1984-1986, and Assistant to the Press Secretary for Vice President George H. W. Bush, 1986-1987
Mason Fink, Finance Director, Romney for President, 2012
Kirk Fordham, Republican Congressional Chief of Staff, 1995-2006
Carl Forti, Deputy Campaign Manager and Political Director, Romney for President 2007-2008
Jill Hazelbaker Franks, Communications Director, John McCain for President, 2007-2008
Edward J. Gaffney, Jr., Esquire, Member of Michigan House of Representatives, 2002-2008
Kathryn E. Gage, Deputy Campaign Manager, Romney for President 2012
Reed Galen, Director of Scheduling and Advance, Bush-Cheney 2004, 2003-2004
Richard Galen, Communications Director, Speaker’s Political Office, 1996-1997
Jenny Gaynor, Deputy Chief of Staff, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007, and Director of Correspondence, Bush-Cheney 2004
William C. T. Gaynor II, Associate Director Office of Business Liaison, Department of Commerce, 2001-2003, and Western Regional Finance Director, Bush-Cheney 2004
Mark Gerson, Chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group and Author of The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars and In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School that Works
*Chris Gibson, Member of Congress, 2011-Present
Josh Ginsberg, National Field Director, Romney for President, 2007-2008
*Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of the City of New York, 1994-2001, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1983-1989, and Associate Attorney General of the United States, 1981-1983
James K. Glassman, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, 2008-2009
Chris Gober, Deputy Counsel, Republican National Committee, 2006-2007, and General Counsel, National Republican Senatorial Committee, 2007-2008
Patricia Godchaux, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 40th District, 1997-2002
*Gabriel E. Gomez, U.S. Senate Candidate, 2013
John Goodwin, Chief of Staff to Raul Labrador, Member of Congress, 2011-2013
Adam Gordon, Former Deputy District Attorney, San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, 2009-2014
Jennifer Gratz, Founder, XIV Foundation, and Executive Director, Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
Adrian Gray, Director of Strategy, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007
Richard Grenell, Spokesman, U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations, 2001-2008
Susan Grimes Gilbert, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1987-1996
*Mark Grisanti, New York State Senator, 2011-2014
Joseph A. Grundfest, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1985-1990
Patrick Guerriero, Mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts, and Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1993-2001
Chris Gulugian-Taylor, Director, Gubernatorial Campaigns and Statewide Organizations, Targeted Victory, 2011-Present
Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce, 2005-2009
Stephen Hadley, Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor, 2005-2009
Brian Haley, Deputy Finance Director, John McCain for President, 2008, and Finance Director, Tim Pawlenty for President, 2012
*Richard L. Hanna, Member of Congress, 2011-Present
Jon Henke, New Media Advisor, Senate Republican Leadership Communications Office, 2007
Jerri Ann Henry, Campaign Manager, Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, 2015
Israel Hernandez, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, 2005-2009
David G. Herro, Businessman and Philanthropist
Dawson Hodgson, Member, Rhode Island Senate, 2011-2015
Rachel Hoff, Director of Defense Analysis, American Action Forum, 2015, and D.C. National Committeewoman, Young Republicans, 2006-2009
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office, 2003-2005
Dave Honigman, Former Member of the Michigan Senate, and Former Member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Margaret Hoover, Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, 2005-2006
Michael Huffington, Member of Congress, 1993-1995
Abby Huntsman, Political Commentator
Jon Huntsman, Governor of Utah, 2005-2009, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 1989-1992, U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, 1992-1993, U.S. Trade Ambassador, 2001-2003, and U.S. Ambassador to China, 2009-2011
Bob Inglis, U.S. Representative, South Carolina, 1993-1999 and 2005-2011
Susan Jandernoa, Board Member Appointee, State of Michigan Health Endowment
Michael Jandernoa, Board Member, Business Leaders for Michigan
David A. Javdan, General Counsel, U.S. Small Business Administration, 2002-2006
Reuben Jeffery, Undersecretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs, 2007-2009
Coddy Johnson, National Field Director, Bush-Cheney 2004, White House Office of Political Affairs, and Regional Director Bush-Cheney 2000
Gary Johnson, Governor of New Mexico, 1995-2003, and Libertarian Party Nominee for President, 2012
Nancy L. Johnson, Member of Congress, 1983-2007
Rick Johnson, Former Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, and Former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, 2001-2004
Brian Jones, Senior Advisor, Romney for President, 2012, and Communications Director, McCain for President, 2008
Brian W. Jones, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education, 2001-2005
Jennifer Jones, Republican Strategist
Elise Jordan, Director for Communications, National Security Council, 2007-2008
Robert Kabel, Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, 1982-1985
Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 2008-2009, and Republican Nominee for Governor of California, 2014
Theodore W. Kassinger, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, 2004-2005, and General Counsel of the Commerce Department, 2001-2004
Ron Kaufman, Senior Advisor, Romney for President, 2012, and Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and White House Political Director for President George H. W. Bush
Jason Kauppi, Press Secretary, Office of the Governor of Massachusetts, 2001
Loren Kaye, Deputy Cabinet Secretary, Governor George Deukmejian, 1986-1991, and Cabinet Secretary and Trade and Commerce Under Secretary, Governor Pete Wilson, 1991-1996
Chrysovalantis Kefalas, Deputy Counsel to Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., 2004-2007
Mark Steven Kirk, U.S. Senator for Illinois, 2010-Present, and U.S. Representative to Congress for Illinois, 10th District‎, 2001-2010
Jonathan Kislak, Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development, 1989-1991
David H. Koch, Philanthropist
Jim Kolbe, Member of Congress, 1985-2007
Jeffrey Kupfer, Chief of Staff and Acting Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy, 2006-2009
Ed Kutler, Assistant to the Speaker of the House, 1995-1997
Wade Lairsen, Associate Director, White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, 2007-2008
David Langdon, Special Assistant to the Chairman, Republican National Committee, 2004-2007, and Special Assistant to the Governor, Romney for President 2008
James C. Langdon III, Office of the Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant to both Special Assistants to the President for Policy, 2005-2007
Kory A. Langhofer, Associate Counsel, Romney for President, 2012, and Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, 2009-2011
Steven C. LaTourette, U.S. Representative, 1995-2013
Frank Lavin, Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, 2005-2007, U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, 2001-2005, and Director, White House Office of Political Affairs, 1987-1989
*Rick Lazio, Member of Congress, 1993-2001
Rek LeCounte, Young Conservative Leadership Committee, 2014-Present
Simone Ledeen, Defense Fellow, 2004-2009
Kathryn Lehman, Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference, 2003-2005
Eli Lehrer, Speechwriter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, 2004-2007
Andrew J.P. Levy, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2006-2009
Joseph J. Lhota, Republican Nominee for Mayor, The City of New York, 2013
Mathew L. Lira, Republican Strategist
Thomas A. Little, Vermont State Representative, 1992-2002 and Chairman of the Vermont House Judiciary Committee, 1999-2000
Daniel S. Loeb, Investor and Philanthropist
Sarah Longwell, Vice-Chair, Log Cabin Republicans, 2011-Present
Eduardo J. Lopez-Reyes, National Vice Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, 2011-Present
Richard N. Lorenc, Chief Operating Officer, Foundation for Economic Education, 2013-Present
Alex Lundry, Director of Data Science, Romney for President, 2012
Paul Makarechian, Bush-Cheney 2004, and Business Executive
Liz Mair, Online Communications Director and Spokeswoman, Republican National Committee, 2008, and Online Communications Strategist for Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, and Rand Paul
Christopher Maloney, Ohio Communications Director and Spokesman, Romney for President, 2012
Adele Malpass, Chairwoman of Manhattan Republican Party
Dana Edwards Manatos, Associate Director of Public Liaison, White House, 2005-2007
N. Gregory Mankiw, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-2005
Catherine Martin, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Communications Director for Policy and Planning, 2005-2007
Kevin Martin, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, 2005-2009
Meghan McCain, Political Commentator
Lauren McCann, Board Member, Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, 2015
Stanley A. McChrystal, Four-Star General, United States Army, 1976-2010
David McCormick, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, 2007-2009
Brent McGoldrick, Director of Advertising Analytics, Romney for President 2012
Michael McHugh, Legislative Staff, Senator Gordon Smith, 2006-2008, and Political Consultant
Mark McKinnon, Former Chief Media Advisor to President George W. Bush and Leading Reform Advocate
Aaron McLear, Press Secretary to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2007-2011
Richard D. McLellan, Political Strategist and Policy Advisor
T. Vance McMahan, U.S. Ambassador, United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2008-2009
Greg McNeilly, Executive Director, Michigan Republican Party, 2003-2005
Joe Megyesy, Communications Director, Congressman Mike Coffman, 2011-2012, and Press Secretary, Colorado Senate Republicans, 2006-2009
Bruce P. Mehlman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 2001-2003
J. Frank Mermoud, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2002-2009
Dan Meyers, Republican National Committee, 2006
William Milliken, Governor of Michigan, 1969-1983
Zac Moffatt, Digital Director, Romney for President 2012, and Political Education Director, Republican National Committee, 2007-2008
Keith Molin, Former Director Michigan Department of Labor, 1975-1977, and Former Director Michigan Department of Commerce, 1977-1979
*Susan Molinari, Member of Congress, 1990-1997
*Connie Morella, Member of Congress, 1987-2003, and U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003-2007
James L. Morgan III, Deputy Political Director, Republican National Committee, 1988-89, Deputy Political Director, Bush for President, 1987-1988, and Executive Director, Georgia Republican Party, 1984-1986
Andrew Moylan, Executive Director, R Street Institute, 2012-Present
Michael E. Murphy, Republican Political Consultant
James Murray, Deputy Chief of Staff to Michigan Speaker Rick Johnson, 1990-2005
Beth Myers, Romney for President Campaign Manager, 2007-2008 and Senior Advisor, 2011-2012
David Karl Myers, Vice-Chair of the Howard County Republican Party in Maryland, and Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Party, 2012
Michael Napolitano, White House Office of Political Affairs, 2001-2003
Jennifer A. Nassour, Chair, Conservative Women for a Better Future, 2011-Present, and Chair, Massachusetts Republican Party, 2009-2011
Ana Navarro, National Hispanic Co-Chair, John McCain for President, 2008
Susan Neely, Special Assistant to the President, 2001-2002, and Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2003-2005
Nicole Neily, Board Member, Alumni for Liberty
Jill E. Neunaber, Iowa State Director, Romney for President, 2012
Noam Neusner, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Speechwriting, 2002-2005
Mina Nguyen, Deputy Assistant Secretary,  U.S. Department of Treasury, 2006-2007
Cristyne L. Nicholas, Communications Director, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, 1993-1999
Mario Nicolais, Senior Research Analyst, Rudy Giuliani for President, 2007-2008, Republican Commissioner, Colorado Reapportionment Commission, 2011, and Spokesman, Coloradans for Freedom, 2012-2014
B.J. Nikkel, Colorado State Representative, 2009-2013, and Majority Whip, 2011-2013
Marco Nunez, Deputy Regional Political Director for the Western Region, Republican National Committee, and Oregon Field Staff, Bush-Cheney 2004
Robert O’Connor, Staff Director, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, 2005-2010
Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Special Assistant to the President, 2004-2007, and National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, 2005-2007
Richard W. Painter, Associate Counsel to the President, 2005-2007
Chuck Perricone, Former Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, and Former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, 61st District
Mark J. Perry, Scholar at The American Enterprise Institute, 2009-Present
Ruth Ann Petroff, Wyoming State Representative, 2011-Present
Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer, Regulatory Advisor, Romney for President, 2012, Senior Policy Advisor National Spokesperson for John McCain for President 2008, and Chief Economist, George H. W. Bush Council on Competitiveness, 1990-1991
Patrick Phillippi, Office of the Chairman, Republican National Committee, 2002-2003
Alex Pisciarino, Research Analyst, Club for Growth, 2013-Present
Gregg Pitts, Director, White House Travel Office, 2006-2009
Karyn Polito, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 2015-Present
Sarah Pompei, Communications Director, House of Representatives, Majority Whip’s Office, 2011-2012, and Deputy Communications Director, Romney for President, 2012
Marge Byington Potter, Former Chairperson, Kent County Board of Commissioners
Paul W. Potter, Chairman, Kent County Veterans Services Committee, and Former Chairman, City of Grand Rapids Planning Commission
J. Stanley Pottinger, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, 1973-1977
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First Gay Porn Death of 2015

March 6, 2015, 1:44 pm
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Why Gay Men Seek Salvation Through Sex

March 7, 2015, 1:36 pm
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“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for…” (CCC #27)

Everywhere in the gay world, I saw a constantly swerving polarity between the beautiful and the ugly; between the quest for heaven and the collapse into hell; between all-giving sacrifice and all-consuming selfishness; between the earnest desire for love and the unrelenting despair of loneliness. Like myself, everyone sought the ultimate high, but always came down with the ultimate hang-over. From earliest childhood – we saw salvation in sex: affirmation, protection, and healing in another man’s arms – something that we forever felt we had been denied. In our fallen world – this automatically turns into sexual activity. In “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” it states that through original sin: “Adam and Eve immediately lose the grace of original holiness. They become afraid of the God…” (CCC #399) And, as our first parents did, we are shameful and turn away; we become base and cover over our pain with the things of the earth; we clutch onto fig leaves; and to people – whatever is nearest. In this sense, the gay lifestyle becomes secluded, self-absorbed, and co-dependent; we instinctively shrink into the fetal position, we huddle together with those who are like-minded, we are overly sensitive and suspicious, we become scared and repulse anyone or anything we perceive as a threat.
Within homosexuality, we find solace; albeit temporarily. Because we fear God, as He is the ultimate source of true lasting happiness, we turn to the familiar and the immediate; we find consolations in the physical; to merely what we can comprehend with our senses. In this world of the fully physical, we become grounded. Yet, what we desperately seek to grasp and hold on to – always keeps slipping away; the body ages, withers, and dies. The transcendence we chase falls apart before us; in the gay world this catastrophically occurred in near-Biblical proportions during the height of the AIDS crisis. Only in pornography was the image of the perfected male kept alive; for porn, symbolized the eternal pursuit of all gay men: to reach angelic proportions while still fastened to the flesh. Only, this dream is a fantasy turned tragic farce – a lie as old as Man himself: the same one whispered by the serpent to Eve: “…you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.” Just, in this knowing, we have also come to be deceived: to only see the route of salvation in front of us – the quick and easy way, not the true path that God has prepared for us: and, when we go down that wide road – we glide along with such ease that we forget the troubles and pains of the past, we become complacent, and, for a while, we truly believe that all is okay. Suddenly, someone betrays us, someone goes away, someone dies, or we catch a disease, and then we are alone again; that which we thought binded us to happiness is lost. Sometimes, then, we realize that nothing is eternal except God. 



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UK Gay Teen Survey: AIDS, Mental Illness, and Porn

March 9, 2015, 10:38 am
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Among younger MSM (aged 15 to 24), HIV diagnoses have doubled in 10 years. This increase is partly due to the fact that more MSM are testing for HIV but also because rates of HIV transmission remain high. Young MSM are also more likely to experience a range of other health issues, for example, poor mental health and problematic drug and alcohol use. These factors not only impact on individual well-being but have also been associated with HIV transmission risk behavior. For this reason NAT (National AIDS Trust) carried out a survey of young MSM asking them where they looked for information about sex, relationships and HIV and how helpful they found the information they received. The survey also looked at respondents’ knowledge of HIV and experience of sex and relationship education in school. With over 1,000 respondents, ‘Boys who like boys’ is the largest survey of this kind ever conducted in the UK. 

The Results:
Over half (55%) of survey respondents had experienced bullying and discrimination because of their sexual orientation. 

Sixty per cent of survey respondents did not know or were not sure that “Guys who have sex with other guys are recommended to have an HIV test at least once a year.”

Pornography was the most common source where respondents looked for information about enjoyable sex. A notable proportion of respondents rated pornography as helpful or very helpful. 

Author’s note: First, again, with regards to bullying, I am unconvinced that harassment is a result of the outward manifestation of the orientation or a cause of the orientation. In my estimation, because of the fetishistic obsession with the terrorized gay teen (twink) in the homosexual porn world (see my earlier blog: http://www.josephsciambra.com/2013/12/gay-bullying-and-homosexual-quest-for.html) I believe the latter to be the truest: i.e. an artistic, effeminate, or uncoordinated male youth becomes ridiculed setting up a later swerve in the eroticization of masculinity. 
Secondly, because of the monumental media push by the gay power-pushers to remake the gay male image as domesticated, middle-class, and sanitary - there is a post-AIDS generation that is wholly ignorant with regards to the dangers of HIV; the massive educational programs spear-headed by grass-roots homosexual advocates have forever faded into the past; now, instead of championing “safe-sex,” they crowd the public consciousness with pictures of well-scrubbed gay men playing with their newly adopted baby. Gone are the scary movies-of-the-week detailing the horrific impact of AIDS on individuals and families.
Lastly, and most significantly, porn was seen by gay teens as a major source of information and inspiration; like the question of gay bullying - these results beg for more answers: are teens who seem to be more or less already affirmed in their orientation going to porn; or, are teens who are merely confused or questioning going to porn and then becoming fixed in their homosexuality? 

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Catholic Bishop is Hated for Being Catholic

March 10, 2015, 12:45 pm
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Some people get extraordinarily upset with a Catholic Priest, Bishop, or layman for that matter, who dares to speak like a Catholic; most recent case in point, the good new Bishop of Elphin Ireland – Kevin Doran; he had this say:
“What the church asks of people who are homosexual by orientation is exactly the same as what the church asks of people who are heterosexual, that they reserve sexual relationships to marriage. Now, it’s a completely different question to say that we believe marriage is between a man and a woman…Everyone above a certain age has the right to marry but I can’t marry my mother and I can’t marry my sister, and by the same token, I can’t marry someone of the same sex.”
Nothing shocking here, in fact, it’s right in line with Catholic teaching as stated in the official “Catechism of the Catholic Church:”
“Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved…Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.” (CCC #2357, 2359)
Why the furor? Partially it’s the fault of the Church herself: for too long, especially during the 1970s and 80s, those entrusted with the Faith did very little to proselytize it. As for myself, I grew up in the post-Vatican II era of the flower-power huggable Jesus from the Summer of Love; he looked good on a tie-dye t-shirt, but made a terrible God. In the intervening years since then, people have gotten used to being rudderless and unguided; they have made up their own personal cosmology; now, more than ever, they don’t want anyone to upset their universal inner stability. 


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Famous Brothel Owner Credits Marilyn Monroe For His Slide Into the Sex-Trade

March 11, 2015, 2:56 pm
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“Dennis Hof (68) is the owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Nevada’s most famous legal brothel thanks to HBO’s late-night reality show “Cathouse,” which starred Hof and some of the working girls in his employ…In his new memoir, “The Art of the Pimp,” Hof starts the book at the beginning — his first erection. It arrived at 8 years old thanks to a “gorgeous, red-lipped blonde,” who waved to him while filming a movie at the Arizona State Fair. The woman kissed him on the cheek and asked his name. Then she told him hers: Marilyn Monroe. From then on, Hof chased only Monroes, exclusively seeking out young, voluptuous blondes.”

Author’s note: As a kid, I was similarly mesmerized by Marilyn Monroe – though not as a result of meeting her in-person, only through her infrequently televised movies. So, I think there is something very genuine and telling about Hof’s recollections regarding his sexual awakening; for instance, besides Monroe, the locus of my juvenile fascinations all came together with Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten. With most porn and sex addicts – from childhood, the ideal is often implanted in the brain early on: the perfect woman. For the gay men I counsel, there is a parallel scenario: they all have strikingly analogous tales about seeing for the first time Clint Walker (Cheyenne) or Lee Majors (Six Million Dollar Man) taking their shirts off on TV; they oftentimes state, somewhat self-derisively – “…then, I knew I was gay!” Later, as adults, like Hof, they oftentimes seek out that phantasm of perfection: in pornography, with hook-ups, or in a meaningless string of one-night stands; repeatedly, that initial image remains intact. In gay culture, there is a certain consistent series of tropes or all-encompassing symbols: the macho man, the cowboy, the biker – all thoroughly exploited in The Village People. For gay men, these icons have meaning, as they are usually linked, again, similar to Hof, to a childhood experience: the persona of an uncaring father supplanted by a fictional hero. During the 1950s, Monroe embodied the sexually available and adventurous woman in an otherwise constrictive age. In the minds of those susceptible, the young and the sexually confused – a powerful image, typically an erotically charged on, can become a pathway into a lifestyle: sexual promiscuity or homosexuality.


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Choosing Between God and Gay

March 12, 2015, 4:26 pm
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As a Catholic, our choice is simple: we can remain obstinate and wounded, or we can choose humility and healing. When the gay life lost all of its glitter for the last time, I didn’t so much walk away as crawled away; or more accurately – got carried away by Christ; in a sense, He had made the ultimate decision for me. Like many of my homosexual compatriots, my head had been filled with too many lies: I was born gay; gay sex is good – in the 90s, only if you played it safe; I am okay; I am happy; its everyone else - those doesn’t accept me, they are the ones who need help.
My 12 years of Catholic education were light and non-specific to the point of being ethereal; the Jesus Christ I remembered was supremely disinterested and non-judgmental. He seemed historical and distant. In high school, He generally disappeared, relegated to an honorary position as esteemed founder, but now practically unapproachable: everything became a means of communal social justice. What the Church recommended was vague and always secondary to the individual and the common good. Religion courses became philosophical – based less on the concrete and solely on the opinions of the teacher; one was pro-abortion, the other thought premarital sex was acceptable. To me, even as a teenager, it seemed fluctuating and insubstantial. I sought answers; and the Church only presented more questions.
Immediately upon graduating from high school and entering the gay lifestyle, what little Faith I had in Christ and or the Church quickly dissipated. My parents, apparently concerned, at one point in my early-twenties: organized a sort of spiritual intervention when they introduced me to a friend of theirs: a Catholic priest. He took me aside and told me to tone it down; I was fine being who I was…go back – that was his advice. Later, an overly-sophisticated male socialite, who somehow remained a “Catholic” in his mind, despite his sexual proclivity, at one of his dazzling Pacific Heights bashes pushed me towards a USF Jesuit; both him and my friend had been to the Nancy Pelosi school of theology: my friend nodded his head as the priest disdainfully described how the Church was currently controlled by a Polish medieval autocrat; after the Pope’s death, according to him, all would change. Meaningless, I thought. My suspicions had been confirmed: the Church was confused and convoluted. Madonna made more sense; her demands were rather simple: “Express Yourself.”
Life as a homosexual was filled with pleasure and certainly busy; I was never lonely; but it hurt, and the constant activity often felt empty; and, yet – I was lonely. Lonely for something else. What? I didn’t know. After a while, sex ceased becoming salvific; friends moved away or even died; parties became like wakes – the same people, the same songs, and the same quick exit with the supposed man of your dreams. Was there anything more? I didn’t think so. Until complacency got swept away –and the Lord offered me a choice; at the time it was a pretty simple one: live or die.
I chose to live. But what did that mean? I am who I am…and that was gay. But, when God offered His hand – I knew it was Jesus Christ, from the bullet hole sized openings in His palms. Right away – I understood what His presence meant: the Catholic Church. Only, what did that actually entail? Yet, instinctively I knew that this Christ was not the hippie Jesus from my youth; He was something different – He was beautiful, and He was real – and, He knew me, and He loved me. That I could accept, but the Church was something entirely different.
What I didn’t know or understand is that Pope John Paul II stood between my bad Catholic miseducation and abandonment of the Faith and my eventual return. Of most importance, in 1992, when I was completely immersed in gay sex and porn, John Paul approved and promulgated “The Catechism of the Catholic Church.” When I was a kid, the old Baltimore Catechism had been abandoned, but replaced with nothing. The vacuum that left behind got filled up quickly: the human potential movement, Liberation Theology, the New-Age – leaving very little room for Christ. Answers were difficult to come by; opinions were plentiful; arguments inevitable. Looking through my mother’s bookshelf – I grabbed “The Bible” then noticed “The Catechism.” Although I had no idea what the Catechism was – I almost immediately flipped to the index: went to the “H” section and read the passages dealing with homosexuality. This one in particular stuck out:
“Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.” (CCC #2359)
This was a landmark moment in my life. It revealed everything: God’s plan for me, what I needed to do, and what I could become. For, the Lord wanted me – and He wanted me whole and healed. How could this happen? Through a life of sexual purity. If I said yes to that: I could be free…I could be perfect. In my mind, freedom and perfection were one and the same: freedom from homosexuality meant perfection. As was the case throughout my life, homosexuality proved the constant seeping wound I forever tried to self-heal: through sex; through intimacy with another man; through a belief in the equal standing of every relationship – no matter who I chose to love. Only, I had not chosen to be with or love another man – the homosexual orientation did that all for me; I never even consented; I just believed, like that priest who once told me – it’s was merely the way I was made. What Christ did for me, through “The Catechism,” by way of the Catholic Church, was to truly give me back my life; I didn’t have to be gay anymore. In making that decision, I chose God. Inside, I admitted my need; and, I needed Him. I had been humbled – and I could accept: His teachings. That required me to finally acknowledge some painful things: that I had been hurt, that I had been deceived; although I tried to makes things right – I failed. I needed Him.



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Continuing Confusion and Collusion in Catholicism Regarding Homosexuality

March 13, 2015, 2:45 pm
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 “Unraveling the Church Ban on Gay Sex,” an article appearing in “The New York Times” written by Gary Gutting; a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and an editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, reveals how some in positions of power and influence can mislead a number of people with regards to fundamental Catholic teachings. Because dissention has been allowed to run wild, men like Mr. Gutting are able to spew their lies. Here are a few of his main contentions that I would like to refute"

1.) “The problem is that, rightly developed, natural-law thinking seems to support rather than reject the morality of homosexual behavior.”
For those of us who lived through the horror of the first AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 90s, natural law has proven to be cruelly accurate, but unkind; I discovered this first hand, after only a few first experiences with gay male sex; it became abundantly clear, that the anus was not analogous to the vagina. At 19, I had to make my first, of many visits, to several proctologists in and around San Francisco: the waiting rooms were always filled with a few octogenarian straight old men and cadre of handsome young gay guys. We were rallying against nature, but after a few painful surgeries, I knew we had lost. For a while, especially in 1994, death reigned – as once beautiful men turned into skeletons; later, science came up with newer and more sophisticated means to battle the inevitable; despite its absence from the headlines, HIV still cuts through the gay community: The Centers for Disease Control report that 78.7% of all HIV diagnoses in men occurred among the homosexual population vs. 11.8% in heterosexual men. The rate of HIV diagnosis in homosexual men is 6.67 higher than in heterosexual men. Using the CDC population estimate of 4% of the population for homosexual men, that means that homosexual men are 160X more likely to contract HIV then heterosexual men. To put this increased risk in context, consider what the CDC tells us about risk of lung cancer for men who smoke: 23X higher than for those who don't.

2.) “Since the official church, under Pope Francis, is more than ever open to this sensible view, the time is overdue for a revision of its philosophical misunderstanding of homosexual acts.”
There are the sound bites and the rhetoric, then there are the actual words from the man; when asked about homosexuality, the Holy Father stated rather simply and definitively: “The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church…”

3.) “There is considerable discussion among biblical scholars on this issue, with many suggesting that the passages that seem to condemn homosexual acts in general actually refer only to certain cases such as homosexual rape or male prostitution.”
An explicit condemnation of homosexuality is found in the book of Leviticus: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination…If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.” (Lev. 18:22, 20:13). Confirming this fact is the New Testament’s forceful rejection of homosexual behavior as well. In Romans 1, Paul attributes the homosexual desires of some to a refusal to acknowledge and worship God. He says, “For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct…Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.” (Rom. 1:26–28, 32).*

4.) “But there is nothing that requires him [Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco] to vigorously enforce a teaching that is so dubious even in terms of the church’s own view on the two sources of truth.”
According to The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons:”
“The Bishops have the particularly grave responsibility to see to it that their assistants in the ministry, above all the priests, are rightly informed and personally disposed to bring the teaching of the Church in its integrity to everyone.”
“We encourage the Bishops, then, to provide pastoral care in full accord with the teaching of the Church for homosexual persons of their dioceses. No authentic pastoral programme will include organizations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral. A truly pastoral approach will appreciate the need for homosexual persons to avoid the near occasions of sin.”

5.) “More generally, the church needs to undertake a thorough rethinking of its teachings on sexual ethics, including premarital sex, masturbation and remarriage after divorce.”
Issues such as “sexual ethics” are under the precepts of natural law; according to “The Catechism of the Catholic Church:” “The natural law is immutable and permanent throughout the variations of history; it subsists under the flux of ideas and customs and supports their progress. The rules that express it remain substantially valid. Even when it is rejected in its very principles, it cannot be destroyed or removed from the heart of man. It always rises again in the life of individuals and societies.” (CCC #1958)

*Thank you to Catholic Answers for helping with this section. 


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LA Religious Education Congress Invites Radical Gay Dissenter

March 14, 2015, 12:59 pm
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The Catholic Church “acts unjustly” toward gay and lesbian Catholics, who are “held to different standards than other Catholics,” a situation “harming” the Church — and one that must change. That was the message delivered March 13, 2015 at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress by Arthur Fitzmaurice, an advocate for making the Church more welcoming for gay and lesbian Catholics. His talk, delivered to 800 catechists and religious educators during an official Church event, Fitzmaurice, resource director of the Catholic Association for Lesbian and Gay Ministry (CALGM), said he, like many gay Catholics, has turned at various points in his life to Church writings for guidance, including the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The paragraph on homosexuality — which describes it as “intrinsically disordered” while also demanding respect for gays and lesbians — is placed in a section of the catechism paragraphs condemning “pornography, prostitution, and rape,” he said. “To keep this abusive language in the Catechism and other Church writings is, in itself, gravely evil,” he said.

Author’s note: In the past, Mr. Fitzmaurice, besides taking great umbrage with “The Catechism of the Catholic Church,” stated that he promotes: “the pastoral side that says ‘God made you this way;’” he also vehemently stood by the CALGM’s position that “being gay is a gift and a grace.” Lastly, Fitzmaurice says that his group (CALGM) only wants “to create a Church where all are welcome at all parishes.” On a personal note, I found nothing in the gay lifestyle that would even remotely confirm that my homosexuality was a “gift” or a “grace.” If it was anything, it was an unbelievable burden – a wound that wouldn’t heal; and why would it not heal? Because the trauma of my childhood got attached to the modern notion of the homosexual orientation; what “being gay” caused was an absolute stagnation in my ability to heal and an incapacity to receive God’s healing Grace: first, accepting that you are gay closes you off to any other possibility; it’s a form of resolution that negates the existence of dysfunction by simply acquiescing to the notion that I was made this way; second, the immersion in the gay lifestyle and homosexual sex serves only to temporarily cover-over or ease the unresolved pain; thirdly, once trapped within the gay mind-set, i.e. I am gay, a sort of neurosis sets in which demands that everyone, even God, conforms to the gay image of myself. Thank God though, when I finally had enough, that the Church had remained unchanged; the language in the Catechism was far from “abusive;” it was liberating; unlike Mr. Fitzmaurice who would like to create a new Church: one where there is no possible escape from the hell of homosexuality.



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