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Tag: gay

Dirty Laundry - Clarification & Context

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sun Feb 13, 2011 at 01:18:48 PM EST
Tags: Agendas, Bad Journalism, Context, Decisions, gay, Homosexuals, Pedophilia, Traverse City Record Eagle, Truth (all tags)

If anyone wishes to know how even using 'truthful' statements, an agenda through media can be moved forward, it is shown today in Traverse City's paper of record. I fully expect an upcoming editorial decrying such intolerance by elected officials,and perhaps even further, a call for a countywide ordinance not unlike the Traverse City ordinance recently passed.

~ posted here and elsewhere February 13, 2011 ~

Today's Record Eagle contained a 'hit piece' I knew was coming. Front page news. And with a bad picture of me.

Titled Commissioner: Pedophilia linked to Homosexuality - Comments made during official business visit, the article relates my calling "homosexuality a perversion" during a visit to the health department orientation. The visit was in the offices of Fred Keeslar, the health department director. The visit which had in attendance myself, Fred, and one other employee. A visit in which a number of things were discussed, including services we provide, the possibility of growth, and some data that demonstrated where we are (as a county) year to year in communicable diseases.

One of those diseases discussed was HIV.

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Legal organization fires back at Bash Back!

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue May 19, 2009 at 07:27:04 AM EST
Tags: Bash Back, Mount Hope, militant gay, church attack, gay, Liberal, regressisphere (all tags)

Last November RightMichigan was the first outlet anywhere in the world to tell readers about a militant homosexual organization's violent physical attack in the middle of Sunday service on congregants of Delta Township's Mount Hope Church.

Now, more than six months and nearly a half-million google links after the story exploded, the Alliance Defense Fund is taking the next step. They've filed suit in United States District Court on behalf of the church, seeking an injunction against and damages from "Bash Back," the organization that orchestrated and carried out last year's assault.

"They don't have the right to come in and terrorize the congregation," Kevin Theriot, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund told the Lansing State Journal. "This case would have never been filed if these folks had just stayed on the public sidewalk, held up their signs and didn't disrupt the service."

Of course, they went much further than that.

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