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It was the second violent attack on gays in Southern California in a week.

It seems 3 men were assualted as they left Pride celebrations in San Diego.  One of the men was hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat.

Again, why would anyone think it is Okay to use violence on someone based on their sexual orientation?   Where do they learn that “its cool” to gay bash.   “Stop the gays”, “Defend Marriage” are the mantras they hear, day in and day out.  Now that they have followed the cry of the conservative right, will the conservative right be pleased?

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Just some fun facts from the US census….and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The newest issue of their publication writes:

In all its work, the AAP is committed to calling attention to the inextricable link between the health and wellbeing of all children, the support and encouragement of all parents, and the protection of strong family relationships. This analysis was prepared to bring to light the legal, financial, and psychosocial ramifications of recent and proposed public-policy initiatives affecting samegender parents and their children.

Civil marriage is a legal status that promotes healthy families by conferring a powerful set of rights, benefits, and protections that cannot be obtained by other means. Civil marriage can help foster financial and legal security, psychosocial stability, and an augmented sense of societal acceptance and support. Legal recognition of a spouse can increase the ability of adult couples to provide and care for one another and fosters a nurturing and secure environment for their children. Children who are raised by civilly married parents benefit from the legal status granted to their parents.

Gay and lesbian people have been raising children for many years and will continue to do so in the future; the issue is whether these children will be raised by parents who have the rights, benefits, and protections of civil marriage. Same-gender couples are denied the right to civil marriage in every state except Massachusetts and the right to civil union except in Connecticut and Vermont. The federal government and other state governments do not recognize those civil marriages and civil unions.

There is ample evidence to show that children raised by same-gender parents fare as well as those raised by heterosexual parents. More than 25 years of research have documented that there is no relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and any measure of a child’s emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral adjustment. These data have demonstrated no risk to children as a result of growing up in a family with 1 or more gay parents. Conscientious and nurturing adults, whether they are men or women, heterosexual or homosexual, can be excellent parents. The rights, benefits, and protections of civil marriage can further strengthen these families.

…Numerous demographers report that this number, although significant, is still likely to be a considerable undercount of the actual number of same-gender partner households in the United States. Despite the likelihood of an undercount and the legal restrictions on the Census Bureau resulting from the enactment of DOMA, Census 2000 represents the most
comprehensive source of data on same-gender partnered households to date, allowing demographers to analyze data at the national, state, city/town, and community levels.

Specific Census 2000 findings include:

• Same-gender couples live in 99.3% of all US counties.
• Same-gender couples are raising children in at least 96% of all US counties.
• Nearly one quarter of all same-gender couples are raising children.
• Nationwide, 34.3% of lesbian couples are raising children, and 22.3% of gay male couples are raising children (compared with 45.6% of married heterosexual and 43.1% of unmarried heterosexual couples raising children).
• Vermont has the largest aggregation of same gender couples (_1% of all households) followed by California, Washington, Massachusetts, and Oregon.
• Regionally, the South has the highest percentage of same-gender couples who are parents; 36.1% of lesbian couples and 23.9% of gay couples in the South are raising children.
• The second highest percentage is seen in the Midwest, where 34.7% of lesbian couples and 22.9% of gay couples are parenting children.
• In the West, 33.1% of lesbian couples and 21.1% of gay couples are parents.
• In the Northeast, 32.6% of lesbian couples and 21.7% of gay couples are raising children.
• The states with the highest percentages of lesbian couples raising children are Mississippi (43.8%), South Dakota and Utah (42.3% each), and Texas (40.9%).
• The states with the highest percentages of gay male couples raising children are Alaska (36%), South Dakota (33%), Mississippi (31%), and Idaho and Utah (30% each).
• Six percent of same-gender couples are raising children who have been adopted compared with 5.1% of heterosexual married couples and 2.6% of unmarried heterosexual couples.
• Eight percent of same-gender parents are raising children with special health care needs, compared with 8.3% of heterosexual unmarried parents and 5.8% of heterosexual married parents.
• Of same-gender partners raising children, 41.1% have been together for 5 years or longer, whereas 19.9% of heterosexual unmarried couples have stayed together for that duration.

So someone please remind me again about this whole homo’s can’t procreate thing again…I seem to have forgotten what that argument against same sex marriage and how uniformed it is……

(Manchester, England) A Texas man who never fully recovered from a vicious gay bashing while on a holiday in Manchester three years ago has died.

Martin Salinas’ attackers were never caught and now police have reopened the case as a murder investigation.

Salinas was set upon on May 11, 2003.shortly after he and two friends left a club in Manchester’s gay village.

He was beaten, stomped on and kicked until he fell unconscious.

The attack left Salinas with brain damage and paralysis on one side of his body.

When he became well enough to be moved he was flown back to his family in Texas but never fully recovered.  Salinas died of a seizure earlier this week. He was 39.

An autopsy showed that the seizure was brought on as a direct result of the scarring on his brain caused by the serious head injuries suffered in the attack.

©365Gay.com 2006

When will this violence end?

Stacy Harp has delcared that she is not fighting gays and lesbians, just the gay agenda. Thus reducing us to a thing. She cannot see as us the people with lives and loves, she only see us as “the agenda”. This way when she is fighting the good fight against us, she doesn’t have to think about the lives she touches with her hate.

When we look at the recent hate crimes in Maine, we see too very young boys committing horrid acts of violence against gays. How does that climate come about? From people like Stacy, DL and Stephen who only see us as a thing (the agenda) that they are fighting rather than the fellow humans we are.

Of course then there is Alan Chambers from Exodus international who claims we are not even equal to heterosexuals. We are somehow lower and they are somehow better….

Alan says: “I think their long-term goal is to portray themselves as equals, as people who are the same as heterosexuals, that their lifestyle is just as legitimate as heterosexuality.”

And you wonder where young kids get this idea it is okay to trash the gay people’s trailer home as I posted earlier or throw human waste at them. You wonder where young kids get this notion that it is okay to beat up the fags. Could it be from the message they are getting from people like Stacy and Alan? That gays are somehow less than they are?

According to Stephen Bennett same sex marriage is a flop solely because the first couple to marry in Mass. have broken up. The logic of this is misguided. Stephen has determined that same sex marriage is a failure due to one divorce out of 8000 marriages. If we used this same logic on heterosexual marriages, it would mean marriage in general has failed.

Of course, I have no idea how many of the 8000 gay marriages have failed or not, I do know that you cannot judge the whole of something by one of its parts. So why is Stephen Bennett making a big deal of this? Why are any of the anti-gay bloggers taking this on?

Deception by Omission!

The idea here is the same idea that Stephen and those like him have been doing for years. Constantly paint as bad of a picture about homosexuals as you can. Focus all of the energy on any negative images, news stories or negative research and never anything else. Do not show happy, healthy gay people or people might know they exist (they do!). This approach Stephen is taking is wrong, it is immoral. He has dedicated his life to deception by omission. Need Proof? Visit his website, or his blog. Listen to his radio show. Do you hear anything positve about gay people? No, you will not find any positive messages about gays. Just negative…..

What is the result of all this negative focus? Violence and discrimination against gays. Why? The only thoughts and information people have are negative and inaccurate. Where do they get all this negative and inaccurate information….Go ask Stephen.

Here is my message Du jour to Stephen. You know you are wrong. So do the right thing. It is entirely possible for you to do what you do without the lies and deception. It is entirely possible to have your ministry without hurting gay folks. I bet if you put your mind to it, you can stop the lies. I have faith in you. I know you can do it. I would be happy to help you, but you need to stop. YOU HURT MORE PEOPLE THAN YOU HELP!

***Updates to this post from July 21st.

Both Stacy Harp and D.L. Foster have jumped on the band wagon of using this break-up to show that same sex marriage won’t work. Stacy has gone as far as to suggest the couple had violence issues, even though she has no evidence of this. Ms. Harp is suggesting the couple is getting Divorced, when no divorce papers have been filed as of yet. The couple has separated. Heterosexual couples do this regualrly and no one blogs about it.

Both of the right wings bloggers have been known to take every little negative tid bit and use it as part of their call to arms against gays. Neither of them will admit what they think will happen for gays and lesbians should their goal be reached. What is the goal of these anti-gay activists? DO we all become ex-gay? Do we disappear back into out closets? What exactly is the goal they have? Is that goal more realistic than full human rights for gays and lesbians?

Everyday I seem to find more and more right wing conservatives fighting so hard to hold onto their superiority over gays and lesbians. Their ability to twist the truth and focus on negatives stereotypes is just unbelievable to me. What saddens me is their lack of ability to see the damage they inflict. What is the goal they have, to silence gays? Make us disappear, to see us all dead? What is the goal of these types of articles so filled with lies, deceptions by omissions, and twists of the truth? What do hey really think they are going to accomplish. Stephen Bennett once said that “if I reach just one homosexual”. Well he might reach one, but he’ll have hurt thousands of others. Do they consider that justified? It is not.

Today while looking at some other lie I saw saying Worldpride has been cancelled, which it has not been cancelled only the march postponed. I came across this article written by a Joseph A. D’Agostino. This seemingly well written article contains so many lies and misrepresentations of the truth in less than 600 words, I was getting sick as I read it.It starts off with a little tid bit of how the early Nazi’s were homosexual. A fact that has been disproved many times over. A lie that has slapped so many in the face because it denies the thousands killed in camps for being homosexuals.

It then starts rambling some lies about how birthrates are down due to homosexuality, another twist of the truth that denies that the population of the earth is bursting at 6 billion and our resources to sustain those numbers are dwindling. While it is true birthrate are dropping, the CDC reports it is due to the longer lifespans of Americans resulting in a smaller proportion of women of child bearing age. We are not having less babies in this country.

The articles next set of lies are the usual barrage of anti-gay bullshit of how we are anti-family (even though we have families and were raised in families), it claims we are anti-religious (even though some of us are very religious, some even Bishops and Priests), and the one that blows me away…we are anti-life. How can you be anti-life? Why kind of buzz hate is that?

The article declares how male gay sex spreads aids, which is a half-truth taken way out of context. Furthering the myth that this is a gay disease. These types of myths are dangerous as they propagate the idea to heterosexuals that it is a gay disease and they are safe from it. Nothing could be further from the truth. The vast majority of heterosexuals are not getting tested now, myths like this put up new barriers to them understanding that AIDS is blind and can infect anyone.

The article also proclaims more scare tactics that soon speaking out against gays will be illegal. We of course know that is crap due to the strength of the First Amendment. The writer just wants you to fear gays and lesbians and portray them as something to fight. Sadly, some people will fight them. Some will take this call to arms very seriously perhaps even destroying gay homes, bombing gay clubs and killing us. Why is it so hard for these folks to see that the lies are killing people.

The article states: “We also all know how incredibly destructive active homosexuality is, spiritually, psychologically, socially, to families, and to health.” This statement is filled with lies. It is what the religious right uses as a call to arms to “fight the fags”. You can see from the list above, it is working. Somehow, someone needs to have the moral sense and decency to stop this type of speech, even if you are opposed to gays. Someone needs to be the new leader in showing that these lies are not going to make gays go away and that if you are opposed to gays on religious grounds, you can do that without these lies.

This is the religious rights call to arms against gays. They do their best to paint us as evil people taking over the world. They proclaim how we must be stopped. What they do not realize is the level and extent people will take their call to arms and how many will be injured or killed by this hate speech.

Get the facts about gays:

• We are not anti-family, in fact most of us have families and we are trying to protect our families from people like the man who wrote this article of lies.
• We are not anti-religion. In facts there are gay churches, gay bishops, gay priests, gay ministers, there are gays in the church choir.
• Gays were never part of the Nazi party. Contrary to this crazy accusation, they Nazi’s gassed and killed tens of thousands of Gays.
• The first amendment protects those with opposing views, regardless what that view is. It is not illegal now, nor will it ever be illegal to speak out against homosexuality. Contrary to this article, the first amendment doesn’t guarantee you a venue for you view. So all of the stories it lists are real events were people who oppose homosexuality tried to use a non-public venue for their hate speech.
• Most importantly, contrary to the last paragraph of the article claiming gays are miserable and empty in our lives, some of us have wonderful lives, with great families, great partners and we feel content. No “emptiness is our eyes” exists, only joy.

It is articles like this one that directly lead to the death of gays and lesbians. It is this “stop the homos” mentality that directly leads to death. Those engaging in this behavior are the ones who are anti-life.

I would suggest you contact the writer to remind him his “harmless” article is nothing more than a call to arms that will cost lives. Feel free to discredit his claims and remember the principles of nonviolence. Calling him names and insulting him won’t change his mind, only love can do that.His email is: jad@pop.org

A lesbian couple in Maine had their trailer home destroyed by a 12 and a 14 year old boys.   The home had anti-gay slurs spray painted on the walls and everything in the home was destroyed, including the ashes of one of the women’s parents.  Along with the destruction of belongings and the home, the boys saw it fit to urinate on the walls and deficate on the floor of the home.

The couple was in the process of selling the home when the incident occurred.  Now the deal to sell is off and they are left with thousands in damage.   A rally was held in Portland to support the couple.

Hate crimes send a message to the community they target.   In this case the message in that lesbian couples are not welcome in Maine.   Fortunate for the couple and the community.   A message was sent right back with a rally of support.

So I ask as usual, where on earth did these boys learn this would be okay?  Could it be the constant barage of hate messages and untruths spread by the anti-gay right?

“Homosexuals are dirty sinners, ANSS leader Viktors Biese told the Agence France Presse.

” They are immoral people and they don’t have a place in normal society. We have to stop them now. We can’t wait until they start demanding the right to get married and adopt children.”

A mob of hundreds of protesters, mostly skinheads, surrounded a church in Latvian where gay christians and their supporters were holding a prayer service for LGBT rights. As they left the service they were met with flying debris including human waste thrown at them. The mob shouted verbal abuses.

The quote above shows you their hate. It makes it clear these people do not believe we should even exist. Where on earth would these people get the message this is the way to treat others?

Perhaps if these people were taught tolerance of others in their youth, this whole scene would not have happen. Of Course, here in America, all hell breaks loose when we try to suggest children be taught tolerance in their early years. The scene shows the need to teach tolerance.

More coverage can be found here, here and here.

DL Foster, a self-proclaimed ex-gay minister from Atlanta is one of the more “in-your-face” type of anti-gay, ex-gays. His quotes about homosexuality show his lack of understanding about homosexuality and the struggles homosexuals have in their lives. Unlike most of the other quote pages, I have placed refutes under each of DL’s quotes mostly to show how blantantly anti-gay he has become.

Even some of the major anti-gay, ex-gay organizations have distanced themselves from the Rev. Foster over his anti-gay and hateful tactics. All of these quotes have been taken from either his blog or his appearance on the show “Straight Talk Radio” with Stephen Bennett.

The truth is that pedophiles (and they are largely men who are after boys) are taking their “equal rights” cues from the gay rights movement.

Actually, studies show clearly the majority of pedophiles are heterosexual men after little girls. His statement above is completely false.

For 11 years, I myself was once mired in homosexual living and as a teen and young adult, I yearned to hear someone tell me how I could escape that terrible life I did not ask for. Now, that I (and thousands of others) have found that freedom in Christ, we will oppose any organization and ideology, be it secular or religious, that consigns young people to such a hopeless lifestyle.

In this quote the Rev. tries his best to blame homosexuality for his life’s choices. His claim that homosexuality was a “terrible life” may have been true for him, but it was not homosexuality that made it terrible. It was poor choices that DL made, not his sexuality. He also denies in this paragraph that happy, content gay and lesbians even exist. He proclaims falsely to the world that all gays are “hopeless”. This is simply not true.

To get the ball started rolling, I will say what some others may be hesitant to say regarding the defaced billboards in St Louis and many others bearing the “freedom from homosexuality” message. This is the work of homosexual activists. I dare anyone to prove me wrong. Because people like the ones at “xgaywatch” foment hatred and fear of former homosexuals, it becomes easy for angry homosexual activists (though cowardly) to commit such devious acts.

In the above post Rev. Foster is accusing gay activist of defacing ex-gay billboards. He has no evidence of this, but just assumes gays are evil and figure it was the gays.

With each conference, though it seems the evil unleashed by these individuals grows more frantic. They are really, really afraid of people learning that homosexuality is not the big, fat ugly unchangeable lie they have worked so hard to make appear truthful.

Here DL is talking about the Love Won Out conference.

Blaming “homophobia” for any bad thing that happens to homosexuals is to hide under the bed of self-delusion. It denies the homosexual’s need for God’s grace and mercy, and tricks him or her into persisting in rebellion. It ignores the medical problems that this behavior naturally incurs; and it denies the wider societal problems - the decline of the family, the loss of faith in God and in the future, and the erosion of democratic institutions.

Another statement about how the homo’s are destroying the family.(false claim) and more about how gay sex is a medical issue (is is not, see refutes here)

Homosexuals are proving once again that they are sincerely confused about sex and friendship, seemingly unable to differentiate between the two.

I know what you are saying…what is he talking about. Gays can tell the difference between sex and friendship? I have no clue what this claim means. It is another outlandish claim that I have no real comment on, except that most gay men have lots of female friends and I doubt very much they are having sex. I am pretty sure gays know the difference.

Brokeback Mountain attempts to convince the American public to condone a self-centered, obsessive, disordered “love” as more important than the misery inflicted on the families, wives and children that this “love” affair wounds and disassembles.

Perhaps if men with same-sex attraction weren’t forced to live closeted, secret lives by the likes of people like the Rev. Foster. These types of Brokeback stories wouldn’t even happen. The men would not have gotten married and lied to those women about their sexuality. It appears to be another case of “the problem you are complaining about is the same one you help to create”

***I just became aware of LaShawn Barber’s most recent post, Hey Big Spender. LaShawn points out another horrible character flaw of Black America: our money is going to depreciable products. Liquor and entertainment, cars. Again, what does this say about us as a people and is “whitey” to blame for this also?

I was pointed out that I thought Rev. Foster is a racist both against the black community and the white community. This quote speaks for itself.

This next one is a two parter….just wanna show how DL pulls the wool over his own eyes more than anyone elses. He may believe in his heart that homosexuality way to blame for his ills in his youth but you can’t blame others for your own bad choices. DL says so himself.

Part 1: DL sates that homosexaulity was the cause of his ills in his youth…

I still contend that Brokeback Mountain is a wicked concoction of intentional emotional manipulation. And no, I didn’t go to see and have no intentions of viewing it. I lived through that mess for 11 years. No movie is going to tell me anything I don’t already know experientially.

Part 2: DL admits that we each need to take responsiblity for the choices in our lives and not blame outside sources like homosexuality.

“Something the gay activist community sorely lacks. Jack and Ennis, –not society– are fundamentally responsible for the choices they made. Choices always bring consequences, whether good or bad.”

This story is damning evidence against homosexual “domestic partnerships”, civil unions, gay marriage, “intergenerational” relationships (NAMBLA) and the whole insane idea that homosexuals want, desire or understand the concept of monogamy, even if they were granted marriage rights. I will be waiting to hear from all the people who say I’m hurting gays.

Above, DL is referring to some pedophile who was arrested and trying to claim it represents all gays and lesbains. Deception by omission if you ask me. If I were to post everytime a heterosexual got divorced, their would be no marriage.

The following just speak on their own:

“The American Psychiatric Association is incompetent and unqualified to make judgements to any effect which has it that homosexuality is not pathological.”

“All relevant evidence, much of which is reviewed in Socarides’ book, makes it clear beyond reasonable doubt that homosexuality is now and has always been a mental illness.”

“Since I don’t ban on Perspectives, I just delete comments that are nasty, mean spirited and don’t follow any logical thinking, which of course serves to enhance learning and exchange. That’s the most humane thing I can do with such animalistic behavior.”

Lies since I have been banned

Recently, the major television networks have given a platform to conservative hate merchants like Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and Melanie Morgan.

Coulter’s column is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, one of the country’s largest syndicates. Beck was recently hired by CNN Headline News. Morgan broadcasts from a radio station owned by Disney. And all three — and countless others like them — are regularly given guest spots on cable-news networks.

The fact that these right-wing pundits — who have called for the execution of public officials and others — are given a platform in the major media is unprecedented.

We, the undersigned, urge the media to stop allowing these hate merchants to spread their venom and abuse. America deserves to hear honest, reasoned debate, not rants from professional hatemongers.

Please sign this petition (with complete contact information) to show that the American public does not endorse the hate speech that these pundits are spewing.

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On a new website againt civil unions in Colorado, Dr. Dobson and company are again trying to claim that Robert Spitzer believes gays can change, when even Spitzer has refuted them. This site is new, this is not some old mistake. Just goes to show clearly these people are lying and they know they are lying and they continue to lie because they “hate” gays. People don’t spread lies about you in the name of love, so I guess it must be hate.

They are also claiming that Anne Hesche is an ex-gay, when she is not. Wayne Besen reports that Anne has repeatedly said she is bisexual and that she is not straight.

“The ex-gay events right now make me sick,” Heche recently said. “And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn’t be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother’s prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.” Heche couldn’t have been clearer, so why is Focus on the Family still exploiting her?

It appears in Stacy latest post on her new blog she lists the following reasons people have same-sex attractions, which she gets from some psuedo-science group:

• father-son relationship problems;
• a history of problems relating with male peers;
• unhealthy mother-son relationships;
• a history of sexual abuse;
• and individual personality traits;

As entertaining as these claims are, they are all false. I find it interesting how these scientist who came up with these claims made sure to put in at least one blanket statement to cover anything they missed like “personality traits”. The contradiction is clear. These same scientists who say that homosexuality is not a born trait list a reason for being gay as “personality” traits. If it is a trait, then we are talking genetics….

Lastly, Stacy mistakenly claims that if none of the above apply to you and you are still gay that you are:

just willful disobedience and rebellion towards God their creator

This statement leaves out the idea that for some of us being gays is not against the creator, so we are not willfully being disobedient and rebelling against god.  For some of us believe in our hearts that being gay is a gift from our creator.   Stacy may not have realized that.   There isn’t the malicious intentions she is claiming about us, we just believe something other than what she believes about homosexuality.

Well after DL Foster posted a defense for Buju Banton and Beenie Man’s music, I posted the truth at his site. He didn’t much care for the truth of the matter, so he deleted my comments and banned me from future comments. In the meanwhile, the Rev. Foster is continuing to defend Dancehall music’s call for violence against gays and lesbains as “Metaphoric”. Rev. Foster claims, mistakenly, that even these artists have stated the lyrics cannot be taken literally, and that the anti-gay calls to violence merely show disapproval of “gays”.

Well lets look at this claim more closely…

If the lyrics are merely metaphors then we shouldn’t take these lyrics from Dancehall artists with anything more than a show of disapproval…right?

The artist known as Beenie Man’s sings in one song: “I’m a dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays.”. I fail to see how anyone could rationalize this line by saying it is a metaphor, but that is the claim the Rev. DL Foster is making.

The artist known as Sizzla sings in his song…“Shot batty boy, my big gun boom” (Shoot queers, my big gun goes boom). I also fail to see how this could be rationalized as merely a metaphor not to be taken literally, but that is the claim the Rev. DL Foster is making.

An artist going by the name Shabba Ranks was one of the most popular artists in Jaimaca. His little metaphor not to be taken literally sings: “If jamaica would a legalize gun / to kill battyboy would be the greatest fun”. I fail again, to see how these are just simple signs of disapproval for homosexuality.

The facts of this remain:

• DL Foster is defending the undefendable making himself look more and more like a Fred Phelps type of minister. Such outlandish claims such as this, and his attacks on Wayne Besen, Rev. Foster makes it harder to take his legitimate claims seriously. He appears to discredit himself by his own outlandishness.
• Right Wing, homophobic bloggers will ban commenters who confront them with the truth or simply refuse to publish the comments.
• Dancehall Reggae is well known for advocating violence against gays and lesbians. Even the most anti-gay people can see that except DL Foster.
• DL Foster is claiming he has seen with his own eyes that Jaimaca is not a homophobic place to be despite dozens of news reports of the violence against gays.

One point that cannot be denied is that suggesting people shoot, kill or hurt others humans even when done as a metaphor, is immoral and wrong. To defend such actions is to cooperate with evil. In the words of Gandhi: We are as much obligated to noncooperation with evil as we are to cooperate with good.

Update: While searching and reading the Rev. Foster’s blog I came across this lie of a comment:

“Since I don’t ban on Perspectives, I just delete comments that are nasty, mean spirited and don’t follow any logical thinking, which of course serves to enhance learning and exchange. That’s the most humane thing I can do with such animalistic behavior.”