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Great news: Nampa Library Board bans gay pornThe Signup For Updates |Donate Online Tuesday, June 3, 2008 GREAT NEWS: Two books with graphic, leave-nothing-to-the-imagination sexual illustrations will not be allowed back on the general circulation shelves in the Nampa Library. “The New Joy of Sex” and “The Joy of Gay Sex” were made permanently inaccessible to minors on a 3-2 vote yesterday by the Nampa Library Board. “The Joy of Gay Sex” is particularly objectionable, showing in vivid and realistic detail virtually every conceivable way of engaging in homosexual sex, and which includes an entire chapter on “Daddy-Son Sex Fantasies” to boot. The controversy began over two years ago when a 15-year-old stumbled Kudos to activist husband and father Randy Jackson, who launched the effort to remove this smut from general circulation in 2005. His efforts show what an engaged citizen can accomplish through cheerful persistence. And kudos to Mayor Tom Dale, who appointed family-friendly members to the Board to replace members who insisted that gay porn remain accessible to young children. Strangely, one of the board members who has voted to keep gay porn in the hands of children every time the issue has come before the board is Barry Myers, who is on the faculty of Amazingly, when the choice is between “intellectual freedom” and “moral decency,” NNU’s Mr. Myers says, “I think intellectual freedom should win.” Although we will certainly hear bloviating from the left about censorship and the First Amendment, the First Amendment, as conceived by the Founders, Only an out-of-control activist judiciary could discover “emanations from penumbras” in the Bill of Rights to find protection for material which is pornographic in nature and corrosive of a community’s moral fiber. This is not about censorship but selection. No library can stock every book in print, which means libraries, with limited space and funds, must make careful decisions every day about which books they will stock on their shelves. Space occupied by a book devoted to gay porn cannot be occupied by a book with some redeeming literary value. If someone just has to have this book, he can request it from the librarian, or pick it up for less than two bucks on Amazon.com. In truth, libraries ought to be the family-friendliest places one can find, and Mr. Jackson and the library board have taken commendable steps to protect the safety of To the board’s additional credit, it established a policy which will prohibit library staff from stocking books in the future that consist of “material harmful to minors” as defined in state law. Ludicrously, a loophole in state law protects librarians and school teachers from prosecution for putting such materials in the hands of minors. If you and I were to put the same material into the hands of a child, we could go to jail for six months and face a stiff fine. The The IVA will join Randy Jackson for a press conference today at 3 p.m. in front of the Nampa Library ( Nampa Library board votes to ban explicit books, again | Idaho Statesman DECK WILL BE STACKED AT Those who plan to attend tomorrow night’s organizing meeting of the GOP Ada County Central Committee, at which the Committee will select delegates to the state convention, should be aware that a pre-approved slate of 59 delegates has already been prepared. The list is likely to be presented as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition to attendees, who will be pressured to vote for the slate en toto. Customarily, the organizing meeting gives attendees an opportunity to express interest in serving as delegates, a sign-up sheet is passed around, and thus However, party leadership, evidently eager to prop up the current party chairman, hoping to use the convention to reverse the party’s stand on closed primaries, and anxious to prevent Ron Paul supporters from becoming delegates, are seeking to close the door to anyone not on its pre-approved list. There are a token number of social conservatives on the list, but it is stocked with lobbyists and party establishment types with very few grassroots Republicans. (The IVA has received an advanced copy of the list, which will be released in a separate email shortly.)
Last week, Kootenai County Republicans were likewise presented with a pre-approved list of 23 delegates and essentially forced to vote for the entire slate. News of the list has already disturbed some long-time party faithful in Rumors are afoot that GOP leadership will seek to undo the party rule, repeatedly enacted by the rank-and-file, which closes the party’s primaries. The party elite, forced by the party faithful to sue for closed primaries, has dragged its feet on the lawsuit, apparently hoping that by stacking the deck the closed primary rule can be undone, thus making the lawsuit moot. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST: SEX WITH ANIMALS O.K. AS LONG AS ANIMAL APPROVES We’ve often made the point that once the one-man, one-woman threshold of the definition of marriage is transgressed, there is no logical place to stop. Once the link between marriage and procreation is severed, and once we dismiss the understanding that marriage is ultimately about creating optimal nurturing environments for children, there is no rational reason not to allow anybody to have sex with or “marry” anybody - or anything - they want to. When we make these arguments, homosexual activists always accuse of scare tactics and exaggeration. Unfortunately for the gay lobby, one of their own heroes has now made our case for us by saying that bestiality is just fine, “as long as the animal doesn’t mind.” (Which raises the question: how exactly would an animal give consent in such a situation?) These words come from Frank Kameny, who was integral in pressuring the American Psychiatric Association to reclassify same-sex activities as normal in 1973. He was honored just last year by the Smithsonian for those efforts, and Now he is arguing that there is no such thing as “sexual perversion,” and he is trying to find cover for sex with animals under the Declaration of Independence’s affirmation that the “Pursuit of Happiness” in an inalienable right. Of course, I might want to kill someone in my pursuit of happiness, or rob them blind, but somehow I don’t think that’s what the Founders had in mind. Says Kameny, “If something which someone arbitrarily defines as a ‘sexual perversion’ provides happiness for consenting adult participants, then its enjoyment is enshrined in basic Americanism.” So, he says, “If bestiality with consenting animals provides happiness to some people, let them pursue their happiness.” He adds, “Let us have more and better enjoyment of more and better sexual perversions, by whatever definition.” Kameny was writing in defense of the sale of bestiality videos at the recent “International Mr. Leather” convention in He accuses anyone who opposes pornography of any kind as guilty of “moral fascism” and of belong to “the American Taliban.” He also is the founder and president of the National Consumers Association for the Advancement and Protection of Pornography. Bestiality 'OK if animal approves' If you value the work of the IVA in representing our values and providing timely voter information to BONUS BYTES Ř In very good news on the family front, Ř The Bible makes it clear that the controlled and measured use of spanking is a form of loving child discipline and not even remotely a form of child abuse. In another piece of very good news for American families, the Minnesota Supreme Court agrees. In a unanimous ruling, the Court cleared a father who had been charged with physical abuse
Ř A gay activist is trying to convince his fellow homosexuals to call off the push for homosexual marriage, on the grounds that by trying to go a bridge too far they are jeopardizing the substantial special rights and privileges they have already obtained. He fears the “backlash effect” will simply lead more states to protect the institution of marriage and prohibit recognition of marriage counterfeits, thus leaving the homosexual community with less in the way of special rights than they had before. He warns that judicial activism, by overriding the will of the people and their elected officials in order to legalize gay marriage, often ignoring state law in the process, actually harms the homosexual cause in the end because such activism triggers efforts to elevate protection for marriage to state constitutions, which ultimately then hurts the very people activist judges are trying to help. He warns his fellow gay activists that the more judicial activism they see, the more likely they are to get stuck with a federal marriage amendment. (David Benkof: Marriage equality for some gays delays equality for all gays : GuestColumns : TCPalm) (hat tip:
Ř Sen. Obama’s departure from his congregation of twenty years reflects on his fitness for the presidency. If he attended there for two decades and had no idea how racist and anti-America his own pastor was, voters will have to wonder about how someone so clueless can be trusted with the ultimate reins of power. If he did know, but stayed anyway, that raises severe questions about his judgment, his value system, and his ability to lead all Americans regardless of race and color. And either way, his resignation for reasons of apparent political expediency raises questions about whether he represents any kind of change from politics as usual after all. Additionally, rumors continue to persist that there is a damaging recording of Michelle Obama making overtly racist comments that is soon to surface, perhaps within the week. (Newsmax.com - Is There a Shocking Michelle Obama Recording?) |
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across the “Joy of Gay Sex” on a table in the middle of the library where any child could find it.
doesn’t even apply. The Founders enacted the First Amendment to protect political speech, not pornography, obscenity or even profanity.
grassroots party members are given the opportunity to become decision-makers at the state convention.
his “Gay is Good” slogan and his protest signs are set for display in the National Museum of American History. Not exactly a man on the kook fringe of the homosexual movement.
yesterday that a marriage amendment initiative has indeed qualified for the November ballot. Supporters submitted more than 1.1 million signatures from concerned Californians. The initiative will give voters the opportunity to amend the state Constitution to define marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman. Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden joined nine other state attorneys general in asking the California Supreme Court to stay its ruling implementing homosexual marriage until the November vote takes place. Because of the important role 
for spanking his son, even though the child’s guardian ad litem admitted that there was no evidence of injury to the child of either the physical or mental variety. Said the Court, the law allows “reasonable discipline” and “it is clear to us that the Legislature did not intend to ban corporal punishment.” The father turned to spanking as a last resort after grounding and other punishments failed to curb the 12-year-old’s repeated pattern of sneaking out of the house and lying about his whereabouts. Said the father, “I wasn’t trying to harm him. I was trying to teach him about the importance of self-control and respect for authority.” In what turned into a three-year long family nightmare, child protective services sided with the boy, and removed him and his younger brother from the home for six months. The matter has been tied up in court since. Says the boy, now 15, “I was a really bad kid. I understand now that my dad paddled me because he loves me, and he wants me to have success in my life. He disciplined me; he didn’t abuse me. They’re very different things.” (
