News Flashes & Eye Lashes: 2001

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6/15/01

Oh, Say Can You 501-C?

The Landmark Legal Foundation of Herndon, VA was so upset that anti-Ashcroft organzing took place in January, they examined the list of attendees at the initial organizing effort and spotted many of their old enemies, the NEA, the NAACP, and Planned Parenthood among them. So, in a fit of pique, they wrote to the IRS and demanded an inquiry into the tax forms of such groups, all of whom are 501 c-3 and 501 c-4 non-profits under IRS regulations.

Not stopping there, they have established a special 501-c Project that according to Landmark President Mark Levin will "ensure that liberal tax-exempt groups obey federal tax and lobbying laws…and pay taxes on those activities as required by law." Read about in in their special 501-c Project Issue, Spring 2001 or at their website http://www.landmarklegal.com.

Would this have anything to do with the effort to challenge the tax-exempt status of the Christian Coalition’s (CC) by Americans for the Separation of Church and State?

(source: Landmark Legal Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2001)

4/25/01

Welcome to the Right House

Grover Norquist, a conservative strategist and president of Americans for Tax Reform recently announced: "There isn’t an us and them in this administration. They is us. We is them."

Source: Robin Toner, "Conservatives Savor Their Role as Insiders in the White House," The New York Times, 3/18/2001

4/25/01

"It’s Not Gay"

The American Family Association has produced a new video for the American family. The film rightly titled "It’s Not Gay" attempts to "counter the overt pro-homosexual agenda moving into our public schools." According to the AFA, "Homosexual activists are pushing harder than ever to get society to view their behavior as normal." And this offensive is especially evident to AFA in the nation’s public schools where school administrators and children are exposed to "influential pro-homosexual videos." To set the record straight, so to speak, AFA decided to produce a film "that highlighted the profoundly negative effects of homosexuality." And to "help school policy decision-makers realize that any decision to affirm homosexuality as normal or natural can have devastating effects on the lives of students who enter that lifestyle. Therefore, their film "provides an uncompromising yet compassionate look at the tragic consequences of the homosexual lifestyle, . . . [including having] former "gays" and lesbians share their experiences in the homosexual lifestyle - experiences that produced emotional pain, brokenness and physical consequences including AIDS."

Source: American Family Association Alert 03/07/01

4/25/01

Concern for Children the Right Way

Concerned Women for America is very concerned that "UNICEF strongly promotes the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and advocates freedom of thought, conscience, expression and privacy for children…." Because the CRC in effect "divorces children from their parents, giving them full autonomy over every aspect of their lives."

Source: Concerned Women for America Alert 03/01/01

4/25/01

Taxing Traditional Families

According to Ken Connor, President of the Family Research Council, "the current tax code is hostile to families, driving moms from the home to earn second incomes and penalizing marriage." Connor’s solution lies in uncoupling all traditional married couples from this taxing penalty, "especially those who sacrifice a second income by having a stay-at-home parent."

Source: Family Research Council Press Release 03/01/01

4/25/01

Segregation in the New Millennium

The Christian Broadcasting Network’s Internet Media Development Director, Kevin Feldman, notes that the "gay agenda is to allow homosexuals to have equal access to the same places that heterosexuals have access to…. [That] would have homosexual men serving as scoutmasters, coaches, and in other positions that some may find as compromising, or situations that invite temptation and risk harmful and sometimes criminal behavior. Because gay men are sexually attracted to other men and teenage boys in much the same way that straight men are attracted to women and teenage girls, doesn’t it make sense to have the same restrictions in place separating gay from straight that we use to separate boys from girls?"

Source: Christian Broadcasting Network Daily Dispatch 02/20/01

4/25/01

"Dangers of Second-hand Sex"

Gary Glenn, Director of the American Family Association’s Michigan state unit reasons "[s]ociety imposes significant social and legal restrictions on -- and spends millions of dollars urging Americans, particularly children, to avoid -- life-threatening behavioral choices such as smoking, drug abuse, and drunk driving. This rational, logical, common sense commitment to protecting our children from life-threatening activity is irrationally discarded, however, concerning the deadly practice of homosexual behavior. With the ready compliance of negligently pandering, enabling politicians and bureaucrats -- particularly in public schools -- homosexual activists are dead set on teaching our children "it's O.K. to be gay.""

Glenn points out that "The N.E. Journal of Medicine reports that men who smoke risk cutting 7.3 years off their lives. . . . [while at the same time] the Oxford University’s International Journal of Epidemiology reports: "Life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality continues, we estimate that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 will not reach their 65th birthday." Judging by the number of years at risk, homosexual activity is up to three times deadlier than smoking. Society irrationally nonetheless condemns and restricts the lesser threat, while contemplating laws to protect and force acceptance of the greater. . . . As with smoking, homosexual behavior's "second hand" effects threaten public health."

Source: American Family Association Michigan Affiliate. http://www.afa.net/affiliates/afamich121400.asp

 4/13/01

FURTHER TRADE AGREEMENTS WITH MEXICO?: TIME TO ARM YOURSELF

Glenn Spencer, President of American Patrol, an anti-immigration web presence based in California, says it all in his reaction to George W. Bush's meeting with President Vicente Fox of Mexico. "Mexico is one the most corrupt nations on earth. To equate their values with ours tells us what Bush thinks of America….Powell says we no longer have a border line with Mexico. That is an invitation for Mexicans to flood into the United States. GET A GUN….[W]e strongly urge everyone who doesn't have one to buy a weapon for self defense before our new Mexican leaders decide to outlaw them."

American Patrol encourages stricter border patrol efforts, rigid restrictions on immigration and the scapegoating of immigrants for US economic ills. For instance, Spencer on the energy crisis in California: "The blackouts we are seeing in California wouldn't be happening if our government had enforced our immigration laws and if Governor Gray Davis had not killed Proposition 187….California is full. We have millions of illegal aliens filling our schools, jamming our freeways and using our energy, and we could well be facing an economic meltdown on top of the power crisis."

(source: email correspondence, "It's Over: Powell Says No Border", Action Alert from Glenn Spencer, 5 February, 2001)

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