Where the Kids Play

Sodomites are going to Valley Fair. You heard me right. It's their 9th annual "Gay Day" picnic. This all day event will take place on the picnic grounds just outside the gate at 1:00pm on July 29th. That's today! Their tickets are being sold through an organization called "Pride Alive". "Pride", hmmmmm - that was the sin that lead to the fall of 2/3 of the angels. Now, like the demons who pray on the innocent and ignorant, these sodomites too ( at least the ones who remain hard of heart and obstinate in their own filth) cry out "I Will Not Serve".

As protest of Orthodox Jews around the world continue, Several hundred Anti Zionist Orthodox Jews protested in the center of Jerusalem against the recent invasion of Lebanon and Gaza.
The protesters carried white flags of truce to symbolize that the historic Jewish population is willing to surrender to Palestinian sovereignty as it was prior to the creation of the Zionist state of "Israel".

WE'RE ALL HUMAN

Mel Gibson Apologizes for DUI Arrest

By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson issued a lengthy statement Saturday apologizing for his drunk driving arrest and saying he has battled alcoholism throughout his life.
The actor and "The Passion of the Christ" director also apologized for what he said were "despicable" statements he made to the deputies who arrested him early Friday on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
"I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested," he said in a statement issued by his publicist. "I disgraced myself and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry. I have battled with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse."
He said he was taking "necessary steps to ensure my return to health."
Publicist Alan Nierob declined to elaborate beyond Gibson's statement, and sheriff's Sgt. Rich Erickson declined to respond, saying the case was still under investigation.
Gibson, 50, was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol after deputies stopped his 2006 Lexus LS 430 for speeding at 2:36 a.m. Friday. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said deputies clocked him doing 87 mph in a 45 mph zone.
A breath test indicated Gibson's blood-alcohol level was 0.12 percent, Whitmore said. The legal limit in California is 0.08 percent.
The actor-director posted $5,000 bail and was released at 9:45 a.m.
Gibson also apologized Saturday for what he called "my belligerent behavior" when he was taken into custody.
"The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person," he said.
"I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable."
Nierob and sheriff's officials declined to discuss what Gibson said.
Gibson won a best-director Oscar for 1995's "Braveheart" and had a 2004 religious blockbuster with "The Passion of the Christ." He also starred in the "Lethal Weapon" and "Mad Max" films, "What Women Want" and "The Man Without a Face," among other movies.

PRAYERS FOR CARDINAL GEORGE

CARDINAL GEORGE UNDERGOES SURGERY FOR BLADDER CANCER
Chicago, Jul. 27, 2006 (CNA) - Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, underwent surgery Thursday morning Loyola University Medical Center to remove a cancer that was recently discovered in his bladder.
The cardinal explained his health situation in a letter addressed to the faithful of his archdiocese and asked for their prayers.
"I am informed that I can expect to make a full recovery from this cancer and the surgery to remove it. I have asked my doctors and Archdiocesan officials to fully brief you after the surgery on the specifics of the operation and my recovery," he wrote.
Fr. John Canary, the vicar general, will provide day-to-day governance of the archdiocese while the cardinal recovers.
Bishop William Skylstad, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), also issued a statement offering prayers that the cardinal has a full recovery from his surgery. Cardinal George is vice-president of the USCCB.

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July 27, 2006 Edition.
Democrats Oppose Bill Denying Attorneys' Fees In Church-State Suits
By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the SunJuly 27, 2006

Democratic lawmakers in the House are expressing strong opposition to legislation that would deny attorneys' fees to individuals and groups who win cases challenging government actions as a violation of the Constitution's prohibition on the establishment of religion.
"In more than a century, nothing like this has ever been done," Rep. Jerrold Nadler of Manhattan and Queens warned as the House Judiciary Committee debated and considered amendments to the proposed Public Expression of Religion Act. "We would be telling government officials everywhere that Congress thinks it's okay to violate people's religious liberty with impunity, " he said.
The bill's chief sponsor, Rep. John Hostettler, a Republican of Indiana, said it is needed because the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have used the threat of large legal fee awards to intimidate local governments into dropping religious references in seals, monuments, and elsewhere. "They capitulate to these organizations and their often questionable pronouncement of what is or isn't constitutional," the congressman said. "I believe it's time to bring this extortion to an end."
Mr. Nadler accused Republicans backing the legislation of adopting the anti-judiciary campaign tactics of a segregationist Alabama governor and presidential candidate, George Wallace. "The governor would feel right at home with the sponsors of this bill today," Mr. Nadler said.
Mr. Hostettler insisted that his measure was not aimed at keeping anyone out of court, but encouraging local officials to contest such litigation. "The purpose is not to eliminate establishment clause cases from being adjudicated. In fact, it is just the opposite," he said.
The Indiana congressman said more such cases would allow new Supreme Court justices to clarify puzzling rulings, such as a pair last year upholding a Ten Commandments display in Texas while striking down another in Kentucky. "The jurisprudence in Establishment Clause cases is about as clear as mud," he said.

I LOVE YOU TO DEATH

Michael Schiavo to campaign for Lamont on Friday

By SUSAN HAIGHAP Political WriterJuly 27, 2006, 3:44 PM EDT

HARTFORD, Conn. -- A man who spurred a national debate when he fought to disconnect his brain-dead wife's feeding tube will campaign Friday for U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's Democratic primary opponent. Michael Schiavo, the husband of Terri Schiavo, will appear at an afternoon news conference in Hartford with Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont.
"I think he represents the feelings of a lot of people that feel the federal government is getting too intrusive," said Liz Dupont-Diehl, Lamont's campaign spokeswoman. "This is a way to point out a very real difference between Ned and Senator Lieberman." Lamont has criticized Lieberman for supporting a bill that allowed a federal court to consider reinserting a feeding tube used by Terri Schiavo, a 39-year-old Florida woman who had been in a vegetative state since 1990. While her parents fought to keep her alive, Michael Schiavo said his wife would rather die. He eventually won in court last year. "To me, that was the last place I want my federal government being," Lamont told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this month. "That belongs to your priest, your rabbi, your doctor, your family, whoever. Not Tom Delay, not Joe Lieberman and not George Bush." Lamont and Lieberman, an 18-year incumbent, are locked in a close race being watched across the country. They face off in an Aug. 8 primary. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 203-58 in favor of the Schiavo legislation while the Senate supported it on a voice vote. "Senator Lieberman has said that this heartbreaking situation illustrates once again the importance of everyone to have a living will," said Lieberman campaign spokeswoman Marion Steinfels. In a 2003 interview with The Associated Press, Lieberman said he supported the Republican-led Florida legislature giving Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to order Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted. "I believe that certainly in cases where there is not a living will ... I feel very strongly that we ought to honor life and we ought not to create a system where people are being deprived of nutrition or hydration in a way that ends their lives," Lieberman said. He called it a "a heartbreaking case." Michael Schiavo has been campaigning against government intrusion around the country. His political action committee, known as TerriPAC, is supporting candidates in Florida, Colorado and Texas. The PAC has raised about $25,000. "The easiest thing would be to move on and let the headlines fade," Schiavo says on his PAC's web site. "But my experience with our political leaders has opened my eyes to just how easily the private wishes of normal Americans like me and Terri can be cast aside in the destructive game of political pandering. The best way to hold them accountable is to make sure voters know where the candidates stand when they come looking for votes next November." Terri Schiavo collapsed in 1990. Her heart stopped and she suffered what doctors said was irreversible brain damage that left her in a permanent vegetative state. Michael Schiavo said his wife had told him she wouldn't want to be kept alive artificially, and in 1998 he asked a court to allow her feeding tube to be removed. Schiavo won final approval to remove the tube in March 2005.

YES! ......THEY GOT IT RIGHT!

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state's highest court upheld the state's ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, saying the legislature had the power to limit marriage to one man and one woman.
The plaintiffs, 19 gay and lesbian couples, had challenged the constitutionality of Washington state's Defense of Marriage Act, a law passed by the state legislature in 1998 restricting marriage to heterosexual couples.
The court's ruling deals the latest blow to U.S. gay marriage advocates. Earlier this month, New York's highest court ruled that the state Constitution does not guarantee same-sex couples equal access to the rights and privileges of marriage.
Georgia Supreme Court on July 6 reinstated a gay marriage ban that had been thrown out by a lower court. Voters in Alabama also approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
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Yates Lawyers Trick Jury; Found Not Guilty of Drowning Her Little Innocent Children! Lawyers Openly snicker in court after verdict read! (She drowned them one by one, Each screaming and fighting to stay alive as this monster drowned them,in the same bath water, the bathtub filling with feces and urine from their dead brothers!)

WOULD YOU TRUST THIS WOMAN WITH YOUR COUNTRY?

WHAT WOULD BE SAID IF IT WERE A CONSERVATIVE
WHO SAID HE/SHE WANTED TO KILL PRESIDENT CLINTON?

Peace prize winner 'could kill'
Bush Annabelle McDonald 25 July 06
NOBLE peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W. Bush during a speech to hundreds of school children. Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush.
"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64.
"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
"I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."
Ms Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago, when she circulated a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead an IRA member who was driving a car. He veered on to the footpath, killing two children from one family instantly and fatally injuring a third.
Ms Williams's petition had tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic women walking the streets together in protest. Now the former office receptionist heads the World Centres of Compassion for Children International, a non-profit group working to create a political voice for children.
"My job is to tell you their stories," Ms Williams said of a recent trip to Iraq.
"We went to a hospital where there were 200 children; they were beautiful, all of them, but they had cancers that the doctors couldn't even recognize. From the first Gulf War, the mothers' wombs were infected.
"As I was leaving the hospital, I said to the doctor, 'How many of these babies do you think are going to live?'
"He looked me straight in the eye and said, 'None, not one'. They needed five different kinds of medication to treat the cancers that the children had, and the embargoes laid on by the United States and the United Nations only allowed them three."
Wrapping up the three-day forum yesterday, delegates agreed to a 26-point action plan.
"There can be no sustainable peace while the majority of the world's population lives in poverty," they said.
"There can be no sustainable peace if we fail to rise to the global challenge presented by climate change.
"There can be no sustainable peace while military spending takes precedence over human development."

SODOMITE/SINGER GEORGE MICHAEL AT IT AGAIN ....
CAUGHT IN THE BUSHES WITH ANOTHER BUGGER
By Neville Thurlbeck
MEGA-RICH pop superstar George Michael this week sank to new levels of depravity—trawling for illegal gay sex thrills in a London park.
News of the World investigators caught the singer red-handed and red-faced as he emerged from the bushes after cavorting with a pot-bellied, 58-year-old, jobless van driver.
When challenged George, 43, was wild-eyed and trembling. Trying to hide his face under a baseball cap, he screamed:
"I don't believe it! F*** off! If you put those pictures in the paper I'll sue!" CHECK OUT OUR SEX SHAME SLIDESHOW HERE
Minutes earlier the one-time heart-throb had been lurking in the shadows at the notorious homosexual pick-up spot on Hampstead Heath.
George is a man with the world at his feet. He's on the brink of a lucrative 50-concert comeback tour, which sold out in half an hour.
Yet he ignored all the risks and dangers to pull seedy Norman Kirtland.
The pair kissed and groped each other before going even further. It was all in a public place and totally illegal — just like the day in 1998 when George flashed at an undercover cop in a California park toilet.
After the shock of being confronted by us, George stumbled to his flash Mercedes coupe, retrieved his keys from their hiding place on top of the rear wheel and roared off into the night — back to his world of showbiz, celebs and glitz.

CATHOLIC SENATOR GETS IT RIGHT!

Islamic Fascism the Enemy, Not Terror, Says SantorumBy Monisha BansalCNSNews.com Staff WriterJuly 21, 2006(CNSNews.com) - The United States is not fighting a war against terrorism so much as a war against Islamic fascism, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said Thursday. But a spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations said Santorum's argument only empowers "extremists."Days after Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that the United States would fight a war against terrorism, starting with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and the group's political benefactors - Afghanistan's Taliban government. But on Thursday, Santorum said labeling the conflict a war against terrorism was politically "safe and misleading.""Some say we're fighting a war on terror. That's like saying World War II was a war on blitzkrieg. Terror, like blitzkrieg is a tactic of war, used by our enemy," said Santorum at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "It is not the enemy."In World War II we fought Nazism and Japanese imperialism. Today, we are fighting against Islamic fascism," he said.Santorum labeled Islamic fascism "truly evil" and added that it poses "as big a threat today as Nazism or Soviet Communism.""Islamic fascism is the great test of this generation," he saidThe Pennsylvania senator, who faces a strong challenge for re-election this year from Democrat Robert Casey, Jr., blames Iran for the fundamentalism. "The Islamic fundamentalist structure is Iran. In 1979, (when Iranian students held American diplomats from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran hostage) Iran declared itself our enemy, and for the past 27 years they have proved that to be true." Santorum said. The Iranian regime is trying to "subject the whole world to their fanatical rule," he added.Corey Saylor, government affairs director for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), said Santorum's comments give extremists legitimacy."Essentially what you are doing when you associate the word Islamic with the actions of what the extremists are doing is you are sort of empowering their own ideology, because you are telling them, 'Yes we think you are Muslims by what you are doing.'""The best word to use would be, extremist," Saylor said. "What we're fighting is a war on extremism, whatever its nature," he told Cybercast News Service."Just like we don't accept any kind of extremism from Christians, and anyone would easily reject that it's a Christian action to commit a terrorist attack, we would reject their actions as being Islamic," Saylor asserted.

DEATH MOBILE

By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING - Responding to criticism that China cruelly and arbitrarily executes a large number of its citizens each year, officials are gradually moving toward what they say is a more discreet way of killing its prisoners: execution vans. Human-rights critics say they may look more like officially sanctioned roaming death squads, which simply allow China to execute its prisoners quickly, easily and out of the public eye. Chinese legal officials counter that the fleet of execution vehicles is a "more humane" form of carrying out death sentences. One thing for sure: they are a radical departure from publicly held execution rallies organized in the past.

DESTINED TO FAIL

BOSTON (Reuters) - The lesbian couple whose landmark lawsuit helped Massachusetts become the only state in America where same-sex couples can marry legally have split up, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
Julie and Hillary Goodridge and six other gay and lesbian couples sued Massachusetts for the right to marry and won when the state's highest court ruled narrowly for them in 2003.
Their suit helped spark a nationwide debate on gay marriage.
The women "are amicably living apart," Mary Breslauer, a spokeswoman for the couple said. "As always their number one priority is raising their daughter, and like the other plaintiff couples in this case, they made an enormous contribution toward equal marriage. But they are no longer in the public eye, and request that their privacy be respected."
They have not filed for divorce.
Julie and Hillary Goodridge married on May 17, 2004, the first day same-sex couples were allowed to wed, in a festive ceremony attended by dozens of journalists.
Their daughter, Annie, accompanied the women down the aisle serving as ring bearer and flower girl while guests hummed "Here Come the Brides."
News of their split upset many who had supported their quest for same-sex marriage. "We are very sad for them," said Carisa Cunningham, a spokeswoman for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Two states -- Connecticut and Vermont -- have legalized same-sex civil unions. California, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., offer gay and lesbian couples some legal rights as partners.
The debate over gay marriage recently has heated up again in Massachusetts after the state's Supreme Judicial Court last week ruled that voters can decide whether to ban same-sex unions.
If enough lawmakers in the state's legislature approve the measure, it will be put on the 2008 ballot for a popular vote.

God brings good out of evil, sodomite / lesbian parade
called off in the Holy Land due to the war.

J’lem gay parade called off due to war

Open House announces cancellation of parade, which was scheduled for August 10, but says other gay pride events will take place as planned. (we'll see about that!) ‘We are determined to fight for our right ( to be perverse ) to march in Jerusalem this year,’ organization’s director says.The Open House Organization announced Friday that the World Pride parade, which was scheduled to take place on August 10 in Jerusalem, has been called off due to the war in Lebanon. ( Ha, ha - you loose ) However, the other gay pride events will take place as scheduled, ( perhaps, or perhaps not ) the group said in a statement.
“This is not the time for celebrations,” Open House said. ( haven't you celebrated enough? )“The parade, which requires extensive security, ( why do you think that is? )will not take place due to the situation.” The organization said the parade will be held with the improvement of the security situation in the country. “The gay pride events will take place as scheduled in a format that is sensitive to the situation and as part of the continued democratic struggle for ( sodomized ) a free Jerusalem,” the statement said. “These events, along with the conventions, exhibits, performances and film festival will all take place as planned.” ( not if I can help it ) Open House Director Hagai Elad said, “we are determined to fight for our right to march in Jerusalem this year; we will not succumb to the violent incitement against our community and against all the proponents of democracy in Jerusalem.”

Islam Just Can't Settle For Peace

Ethiopia poised to fight Somali militants

ETHIOPIA is prepared to invade neighbouring Somalia to defend Somalia's internationally recognised government against what appeared to be an imminent attack by an Islamic militia, a government official said yesterday.
"We have the responsibility to defend the border and the Somali government. We will crush them," Ethiopia's minister of information, Berhan Hailu, said.
The comments came as the Islamic militia that has seized control of most of southern Somalia deployed hundreds of fighters outside the base of the UN-backed interim government and said they planned to seize it.
The minister said Ethiopia backs the interim government.

Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill As Promised
July 19 2:21 PM US/Eastern
By MARY DALRYMPLEAssociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
President Bush cast the first veto of his 5 1/2-year presidency Wednesday, rejecting legislation to ease limits on federal funding for research on stem cells obtained from embryos.
"This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our society needs to respect, so I vetoed it," Bush said at a White House event where he was surrounded by 18 families who "adopted" frozen embryos that were not used by other couples, and then used those leftover embryos to have children.

"Each of these children was still adopted while still an embryo and has been blessed with a chance to grow, to grow up in a loving family. These boys and girls are not spare parts," he said.
The veto came a day after the Senate defied Bush and approved the legislation, 63-37, four votes short of the two-thirds margin needed to override. White House officials and Republican congressional leaders claimed it was unlikely that Congress could override the veto.
Bush's support was the strongest in the House, which was expected to take up the veto as early as later Wednesday.
Bush has supported federally funded research on only those stem cell lines created before Aug. 9, 2001, the date of his speech to the nation on the subject.
The president vetoed the measure shortly after it came to his desk. His position was politically popular among conservative Republicans, and it was sure to be an issue in the midterm congressional elections.
Bush has made 141 veto threats during his time in office, and the Republicans controlling Congress typically respond by changing bills to his liking.
Bush's stand against stem cells is popular among conservative Republicans that the party will rely on in the congressional elections this fall. Those opponents are the same voters who have felt alienated by Bush's actions to increase legal immigration, and the veto could bring them back into the fold.

Charlotte Church's Shocking, Outrageous Blasphemy

( Caution: Don't read the following if you don't want the images of horrible acts against God, Mary and the Pope branded in your head )

July 16 2006
Marc Baker, Wales on Sunday

CHARLOTTE Church has sparked a holy row by dressing up as a drunk, drug-taking nun in her new chat show.
The Crazy Chick, who was raised as a Catholic, smashed a statue of The Virgin Mary and stubbed chewing gum out on the face of the baby Jesus in a shocking comedy sketch she recorded for last week's pilot of her Channel 4 TV debut.
And in a sensational swipe at the Royals, religious leaders and statesmen - to whom the Voice of an Angel sang as a child - Charlotte branded the Pope a "Nazi" and made jokes about The Queen, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.
Security was supposed to be tight as the 20-year-old recorded The All New Charlotte Church Show in London on Wednesday.
But Wales on Sunday sneaked into the 630-strong audience to catch her live and unleashed.
The multi-millionairess hopes to spark a Friday night ratings war with BBC One chat king Jonathan Ross if Channel 4 commissions a series.
But last night, Welsh religious leaders blasted Charlotte for dressing up as a nun in a sketch which saw her taking communion wafers in the shape of smiley face ecstasy tablets.
Naughty Sister Charlotte popped the pill-shaped biscuits after being offered them by ex-EastEnders bad boy Nick Cotton, played by actor John Altman.
His character, Sister Dave, said, "This s*** is good, want some?" before Charlotte replied, "Love it! I love nunning".
The pair then pretended to hallucinate before taking part in a chapel rave.
Charlotte - who sang to Pope John Paul II when she was 12 - also smashed open a statue of The Virgin Mary in the sketch to reveal a hidden can of Strongbow cider.
And in a cheeky nod to her binge-drinking days, Charlotte joked how she also worships Saint Fortified Wine and Saint Thunderbird, a brand of super-strength wine.
Last night, her naughty nun performance sparked outrage within the Catholic Church in Wales.
Reverend Edwin Regan, Bishop of the Wrexham Roman Catholic Diocese, said: "I would not want to give her any publicity if this is the kind of thing she is doing."
And in an aside to her blonde classical rival, he added: "I wish she had turned out the way Katherine Jenkins has."
Bosses at TV production firm Monkey Kingdom - which made Charlotte's chat show pilot - declined to comment.
A spokesman said: "We are saying nothing. This was a non-transmittable pilot which has yet to be delivered to Channel 4 who have yet to decide to commission a series."
But the show is sure to shock Charlotte's army of older fans if it is ever aired.
On Wednesday, hundreds of devotees turned up to sit in the audience at ITV1's studios, the home of GM:TV.
During the three-hour recording session - which saw Charlotte repeatedly fluff her lines and turn the air blue with bad language - the motormouth singer took a swipe at a host of celebs.
Cheered on by mum Maria and step-dad James, Charlotte branded Victoria 'Posh Spice' Beckham "thick as two short planks" and called Pirates of the Caribbean beauty Keira Knightley a "scrawny bird".
The audience's jaws also dropped as she ordered lookalikes of the Queen, Mother Teresa, the Pope and Nelson Mandela to be hosed down with water.
Alongside her guests, TV stars Davina McCall, Eamonn Holmes, Trisha Goddard, Corrie actress Sally Lindsay and This Morning host Fern Britton as guests, Charlotte looked terrified as the cameras rolled.
Admitting she was "sh***ing herself", she was cheered on by her "Cardiff posse" who made the trip to London in a coach.
Words of support also came from Maria, who shouted, "Mum's here!" while her Wales rugby star boyfriend Gavin Henson sat backstage throughout.
Before recording began, Charlotte apologised to her grandparents Edward and Maureen Cooper, saying there would be lots of swearing.
Last night, Channel 4 said no decision had been taken on whether to commission the show.

US House kills marriage-protection amendment
Washington, Jul. 18 (CWNews.com) - The US House of Representatives has defeated a proposal to amend the US Constitution to prevent legal recognition of same-sex marriage.
Although a majority of representatives supported the proposed amendment, the 236- 187 vote in favor of the measure fell well short of the required two-thirds majority required for a constitutional amendment. With the Senate having already rejected the measure, the Marriage Protection Amendment is now dead for the year.
The White House had lobbied in favor of the measure, saying that a constitutional amendment is "the only alternative left" to protect the institution of marriage from activist courts.
While lamenting the defeat in the House of Representatives, proponents of the Marriage Protection Amendment said that the votes would stimulate more grassroots activism, prompting conservative citizens to support political candidates who will protect traditional marriage. After a similar failure to secure Congressional support for a proposed amendment in 2004, pro-family groups were more successful in their efforts to enact statewide legislation barring same-sex marriage.

Dr. Jack paves the way - Katrina victims murdered by doctors.


Doctor, Nurses Accused of Giving Patients Deadly Injections Following Hurricane Katrina
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
NEW ORLEANS — A doctor and two nurses who worked through the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina were arrested on suspicion of murder and accused Tuesday of giving deadly drug injections to four desperately ill patients trapped in the flooded-out hospital.
"We're talking about people that pretended that maybe they were God," Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti said. "And they made that decision."
Foti said he believed the patients would have lived through the storm's aftermath.
• More coverage available in FOXNews.com's Crime Center.
Dr. Anna Pou, an oncologist and an ear, nose and throat specialist, and the two nurses were accused of intentionally killing four patients ages 62 to 91 at Memorial Medical Center with a deadly combination of morphine and the sedative Versed.
They were booked on charges of being "principals to second-degree murder," which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
"There may be more arrests and victims that cannot be mentioned at this time," Foti said. "This case is not over yet."
In court papers state investigators said Pou told a nurse executive three days after the hurricane hit that the patients remaining at the hospital would probably not survive and that a "decision had been made to administer lethal doses" to them.

Dutch Court OKs 'Pedophile' Political Party
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer
Monday, July 17, 2006 now part of stylesheet -->

(07-17) 12:22 PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) --
A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters' right to judge the appeal of political parties.
The party has only three known members, one of whom was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. Widely dubbed the "pedophile" party, it is unlikely ever to win a seat in parliament. The group would need around 60,000 votes, and pollsters estimate it would get fewer than 1,000.
Opponents had asked The Hague District Court to bar the party from registering for national elections in November, arguing that children have the right not to be confronted with the party's platform.
"Freedom of expression, freedom ... of association, including the freedom to set up a political party, can be seen as the basis for a democratic society," Judge H. Hofhuis said in his ruling.
"These freedoms give citizens the opportunity to, for example, use a political party to appeal for change to the constitution, law, or policy."
He noted that the PNVD party, the Dutch abbreviation of Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity, had not committed a crime, but was calling for a change in the law.
"It is the right of the voter to judge the appeal of political parties," he said.
The party sparked outrage when it proclaimed its existence in late May, but prosecutors declined to prosecute its members as a threat to public order.
"We expected this result," said party treasurer Ad van den Berg, 62. "We are not doing anything illegal so there is no reason to ban us."
Van den Berg was fined and given a suspended prison sentence for molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. After his background became known last month, he was chased from the trailer park where he lived in the city of Oostvoorne.
Anke de Wijn, an attorney representing the party's opponents, said the group was abusing Dutch tolerance.
"Victims feel hurt by the wish of pedophiles to make their desires known in public," De Wijn said. "There are few limitations on free speech, and that's good, but this group is making misuse of the privilege, to provoke."
The PNVD's known members were a president, a secretary and a treasurer, as required under Dutch law. In order to stand in elections scheduled for Nov. 22, it will have to submit a list of candidates and the signatures of at least 30 supporters to get on the ballot in any one of the country's 19 voting districts.
Ireen van Engelen of the Solace Foundation, which researches pedophilia, said the party likely would fail to register for the elections because pedophiles seek anonymity.
"They will never want to connect their name to the party and without the signatures they can't go in the elections," she said.

President George Bush will veto the senates mandate to fund "Murder of the Innocent". I'm with you Mr. presdient. Stick it to them!

By LAURIE KELLMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Tuesday after two days of emotional debate to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, sending the measure to President Bush for a promised veto that would be the first of his presidency.
The bill passed 63-37, four votes short of the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override Bush's veto. The president left little doubt he would reject the bill despite late appeals on its behalf from fellow Republicans Nancy Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"The simple answer is he thinks murder's wrong," said White House spokesman Tony Snow. "The president is not going to get on the slippery slope of taking something living and making it dead for the purposes of scientific research."

Look who I saw making cookies at my local bakery!

I heard that President Bush single handily flushed Sadam Hussein out of that spider hole. I guess this photo proves that claim to be true.

John Wayne Gacy rapped & killed 33 boys


A.P.A. Publishes a New Study: 1998
Not All Pedophile Relationships are Harmful
The American Psychological Association did not denounce the positions advanced within the that journal. In fact, just recently, the A.P.A. published a new, major study (2) written by one of those same Journal of Homosexuality writers.
This latest article appears in the A.P.A.'s own prestigious Psychological Bulletin. It provides an overview of all the research studying the harm resulting from childhood sexual abuse.
The authors' conclusion? That childhood sexual abuse is on average, only slightly associated with psychological harm--and that the harm may not be due to the sexual experience, but to the negative family factors in the children's backgrounds. When the sexual contact is not coerced, especially when it is experienced by a boy and is remembered positively, it may not be harmful at all.
The authors of the article propose that psychologists stop using judgmental terms like "child abuse," "molestation," and "victims," using instead neutral, value-free terms like "adult-child sex." Similarly, they say we should not talk about the "the severity of the abuse," but instead refer to "the level of sexual intimacy."
The authors conclude that behavior which psychotherapists commonly term "abuse" may only constitute a violation of social norms. And science, they say, should separate itself from social-moral terminology. Religion and society, these writers argue, are free to judge behavior as they wish...but psychiatry should evaluate behavior by its own set of standards.
In fact, the authors of the Psychological Bulletin article propose what they consider may be a better way of understanding pedophilia: that it may only be "abuse" if the child feels bad about the relationship. They are in effect suggesting a repetition of the steps by which homosexuality was normalized. In its first step toward removing homosexuality from the Diagnostic Manual, the A.P.A. said the condition was normal as long as the person did not feel bad about it.
Few laymen are aware that the American Psychiatric Association recently redefined the criteria for pedophilia. According to the latest diagnostic manual (DSM--IV), a person no longer has a psychological disorder simply because he molests children. To be diagnosed as disordered, now he must also feel anxious about the molestation, or be impaired in his work or social relationships. Thus the A.P.A. has left room for the "psychologically normal" pedophile.

Sodomite arrested at Gay Parade for knocking down anti-sodomite signs
By STEVE KOVAL Friday, June 30, 2006
A sodomite attending Atlanta Pride activities was arrested June 24 across the street from Piedmont Park and charged with disorderly conduct under the influence of alcohol. Atlanta police arrested Doyle Garland at the intersection of Piedmont Avenue and 14th Street shortly before the Dyke March.
Garland acknowledged in an interview June 28 that he poured beer on anti-gay street preachers and attempted to knock down and take their signs. He said had mixed feelings about the incident.
"I regret having let it go that far," Garland said. "I think it's going to take more people speaking up for our right to sodomize to curtail this behavior and this type of action against the community."
Garland said he felt provoked. "What I did was prompted by the megaphones and verbal abuse they were hurling at us. In the state of Georgia, that falls under fighting words, and that's what instigated my behavior," he said.
Garland also broke the sign of Clay McClure, a sodomite who along with some friends was trying to block the anti-sodomite signs with pro-sodomite signs. McClure's sign read: "Hate is not a family value." Garland said he mistakenly thought McClure was with the anti-sodomite protesters.

-Jann Wenner

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Sodomy - A learned behavior

Jann Wenner, founder, publisher, and editor of the influential music and culture magazine Rolling Stone, is the editor in chief and chairman of Wenner Media, which also publishes the celebrity gossip magazine Us Weekly and the active lifestyle monthly Men's Journal. An emblematic baby boomer, Wenner is one of the founders of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and an ardent defender of free speech. In 1995, Wenner found himself in the middle of a media storm when it was revealed that he was leaving his wife Jane after more than 25 years of marriage and had become involved in a relationship with Matt Nye, a former male model turned fashion designer. Wenner's outing, which may or may not have been at his own instigation, seems to have had little effect on his business empire, but it inspired a number of accusations regarding an alleged "Velvet Mafia" of powerful closeted gay men.

On Sunday, June 18, 2006, Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews joined a protest organized by the New England Committee to Defend Palestine at Boston City Hall Plaza to protest during the 58th annual "Boston Celebrates Israel" rally.
Supporters of Neturei Karta travelled from New York to Boston to carry the message that God exiled the Jews and they are forbidden by His law from establishing a state and to condemn the oppression against the Palestinian people supposedly in the name of the "Jewish people".
City Councilor Chuck Turner was also there advocating human rights for Palestinians.

New television program to appear on Al-Jazier during Sweeps weak.

And you thought he was in hiding.

Bert and his twin brother Osama Bin Laden to appear on next weeks Sesame Street Special.

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I was driving home from work yesterday when I passed by a man who looked very familiar. He was seeking a job in the "State Department". Unfortunately I couldn't be of any help.

Why is Mom in Jail and Abortionist is Not?
July 8th, 2006
Wichita, KS – Below is a column that appeared in the Wichita Eagle concerning a horrific case of child sexual abuse on two sisters that resulted in four pregnancies over the course of many years, including one abortion and the birth of twins on one of the girl’s 12th birthday. The step father who abused the girls is set for bench trial later this month, and the mother who did nothing but look the other way is currently in jail.
Kansas abortionists and abortion supporters in the social services field recently sued and won a Federal Court case to exempt them from the Kansas law that mandates reporting of underage sexual activity. During the trial, which was reported on by Operation Rescue, the abortionists voiced concerns for the privacy of such girls and touted the “benefits” of underage sex. Judge J. Thomas Marten agreed reporting should be discretionary in consideration of the girls’ “privacy.” (Read about the trial.)
But in the case below, Marten’s exemption was not in place. The abortionist and doctors who administered prenatal care for the other three pregnancies did not report the incident of underage sexual abuse to the authorities in violation of the law, and thus allowed the abuse to continue – for years.
This begs the question: Why is the mom in jail and the abortionist and other physicians are not?
The abortionist is every bit as responsible for the abuse as the mother, as are the other mandatory reporters who failed to protect these girls.
And this is not an isolated case. Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has indicated that although abortion clinics report having committed abortions on girls as young as 9, there has never been one incidence of underage child sex reported to his office by abortion clinics.
Columnist Mark McCormick asks the question, “How could this suffering get by us?” The answer is clear. Abortionists and their supporters in social services enjoy special privileges in our society and operate above the law. Judge Marten reinforced that arrogant behavior by creating an environment where abortion clinics and others can continue to protect and enable sexual predators without fear of prosecution.
Fortunately, Kline has appealed Judge Marten’s outrageous and dangerous ruling, and we pray for sanity to be restored by the Court of Appeals.
But until that time, we will surely see more cases like the tragedy below.

12-July-2006 -- Catholic News Agency

MIRACLE UNDER INVESTIGATION IN SCOTLAND
Edinburgh, Jul. 12, 2006 (CNA ) - The Catholic Church is investigating reports of a miracle at a Scottish hospital. Catholics are claiming that the intercession of a deceased nun helped a premature baby to live after doctors gave up hope for the infant’s survival, according to The Scotsman.
The relic of Venerable Margaret Sinclair, a former Edinburgh factory worker and committed trade unionist, was placed in the incubator of the infant, who weighed just one pound when born.
The baby’s family was given permission by medical staff to open the sterile incubator and place the relic next to the infant after they were told there was no hope of survival. The baby is now four months old and is said to be doing well.
Doctors and nursing staff will now be asked to give detailed medical statements to Church officials as part of the investigation.
"Pope John Paul II told me when we were discussing the cause of Margaret Sinclair to ask the people to pray for a miracle and this has been happening,” said Edinburgh Archbishop, Cardinal Keith O'Brien regarding the claims of a miracle.
"Although it is exciting news we must tread cautiously,” he reportedly said, adding that investigations must be conducted before miracles can be declared genuine. Previous miracle claims have not passed the investigation stage.
If this event proves to be a miracle, it would lead to Sr. Margaret’s beatification for which a campaign has been mounting in Scotland in recent years.
Sr. Margaret died in 1925. Pope Paul VI declared her a Servant of God in February 1978.

By the NewsMax.com Staff
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:03 a.m. EDT
Vatican Nets $12.4 Million Budget Surplus

The Vatican said Wednesday it posted a surplus of $12.4 million in 2005, its best financial showing in eight years despite heavy costs for the funeral of Pope John Paul II and the election of his successor.
Cardinal Sergio Sebastiani, who heads the Vatican's office for economic affairs, hailed "the good news" as he presented the Holy See's annual financial statement.
The Vatican has been struggling to contain spending for years, with much of its money going for labor costs and diplomatic missions worldwide.
Sebastiani disclosed that the costs of the transition period following the death of Pope John Paul in April 2005 and the election of Pope Benedict XVI amounted to $8.9 million.
However, much of the expense was covered by the huge influx into the Vatican museums when millions of pilgrims came to Rome for the ceremonies, Vatican officials said.
The Vatican also confirmed that Roman Catholic dioceses and individuals in the United States remain the No. 1 donors to the Holy See, providing a third of Peter's Pence, as donations to the Pope are known. Next come Italy and Germany.

North Korea threatens nuclear war against U.S.
Last Updated Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:57:30 EDT
CBC News
North Korea has threatened the United States with nuclear war if any pre-emptive military strikes are launched against the isolated communist country.
The communist party newspaper in Pyongyang said on Monday that Washington had been increasing military pressure against North Korea but the country was ready to defend itself.
The paper said the North Korean people and the military "are now in full preparedness to answer a pre-emptive attack with a relentless annihilating strike and nuclear war with a mighty nuclear deterrent."
The White House spokesman, Tony Snow, described the threat as "deeply hypothetical."
In recent weeks, the United States has expressed concern that North Korea was preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile that could reach American territory.
State media in North Korea often threaten powerful retaliation against attacking forces.
In October of 2002, Pyongyang said it had a nuclear weapons program, a violation of an agreement reached with Washington in 1994 that offered North Korea civilian nuclear technology in exchange for ending weapons research.
The offer was renewed last year with China, Russia, Japan, South Korean and the United States all taking part in talks to convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
U.S. President George W. Bush called North Korea part of the "axis of evil" in 2002, but has said he favours a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Pyongyang.

Black preachers plan protest against mosque opening in NW PompanoBy Jean-Paul Renaud South Florida Sun-Sentinel Posted July 11, 2006

POMPANO BEACH -- Preachers from some of the northwest area's most influential churches plan to bring their flocks and sermons to City Hall tonight to demand that leaders keep a mosque from opening in their neighborhood.The City Commission decided last month to allow the Islamic Center of South Florida to move 2 miles, from the northeast side of town. City leaders said the mosque met all legal requirements. The current mosque is too small, its owners said. On a 4.8-acre patch of land they bought a few years ago, they plan to build a 29,000 square-foot center equipped with a preschool, a soccer field and a basketball court.
Opponents say the land is better suited for affordable homes. Others agree with Commissioner E. Pat Larkins, who last month told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that people in his northwest district have a perception that Muslim grocery store owners take advantage of the community.Some say Islam has no place in mostly black and mostly Christian northwest Pompano Beach. The residents will be led by a contingent of about 10 pastors -- including the Rev. O'Neal Dozier, who on Sunday resigned from a panel that helps recommend Broward County judges to the governor because of comments he made against Muslims. The Rev. Charles Branch, of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, who helps run a radio show, also will protest in front of City Hall. The City Commission's regular bimonthly meeting is tonight.No other churches have contacted City Hall to weigh in on the mosque."We want to make such a fuss that the Muslims will pack up," Dozier, of the Worldwide Christian Center, which has more than 100 members, said at a meeting with fellow pastors recently. To leaders of the Islamic Center, the answer is not in protests and anger."We should be looking at mending fences and bringing our community together and try to spread tolerance and understanding rather than tension," said Imam Hasan Sabri.The negative reaction to a mosque being built was a wake-up call to the state of relations between the black and Muslim communities in Pompano Beach, Islamic leaders said."We have to start reaching out to the community in that area," said Areebv Naseerv, a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "In the end, they will see the good that comes out of this center."The council sent Dozier, as well as several other leaders in the community, a letter on June 19 asking him for a meeting."Let us sit down under your leadership and work towards enhancing the experience of all peoples, so that our community can make further progress, fostering peace, harmony and friendship," wrote Altaf Ali, the organization's executive director."He said, `Let us come together and reason,'" Dozier, standing behind a pulpit, recounted on a recent Sunday to his congregation. "Now what do I look like? Do you think I would sit down and talk to them and compromise?"So in Dozier's office last week, pastors planned their protest, surrounded by photos of Dozier posing with President Bush, Gov. Jeb Bush, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."Can we get a podium?" Dozier asked his counterparts."Can we get a bullhorn?" the Rev. Alonzo Neal, of the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, said.Their agenda was clear: Make their congregations aware that they will protest at the City Commission meeting tonight, even though the issue is legally settled."We want to tell our people from the pulpit," Dozier said, sitting in a large brown leather chair behind a well-kept desk. "I've been talking on it every Sunday.""Me too," Neal said."History will judge us badly if these people came to our area and converted a lot of poor black people into that cult," Dozier continued.Neal jumped in: "The only thing we as men of God can do is stand and be counted."Not all residents of northwest Pompano Beach agree with the pastors. Some who live directly across the site of the future mosque say Islam should be welcomed."What does that have to do with me?" asked Shantell Barber, carrying a toddler. "Half these kids need religion. Even if it is Muslim."INSIDE: Dozier confirms he was asked to resign from the Judicial Nominating Committee after controversial remarks on Muslims. He resigned on Sunday.

GENDERCIDE 10 million females illegally aborted

Posted: July 7, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
By conservative estimates, sex-selective abortion in India accounts for the termination of about 10 million females over the past 20 years.
"This is the world's biggest genocide ever," Chetan Sharma, a campaigner against female feticide, told the Daily Mail of London.
Chetan is founder of the Delhi-based group Datamation.
India's 2001 census shows a drop in the number of girls 6-years-old and under per 1,000 boys, to 927, compared to 962 in 1981.
"The future is frightening. Over the next five years we could see more than a million fetuses eliminated every year," said researcher Sabu George."At this pace we'll soon have no girls born in the country. We don't know where it will stop."
The problem of undervaluing women is an old one. In the 19th century, British leaders tried to eradicate female infanticide. Female feticide, however, is a new phenomenon brought about by advances in technology along with liberal attitudes toward abortion, which was legalized in India in 1971.
Kalpana Sharma, a columnist in The Hindu newspaper, says "anyone can walk into a government hospital and ask for an immediate abortion up to the 20th week of pregnancy, free, merely by saying there has been a failure of contraception."
India has a law barring medical personnel from from using prenatal diagnostic techniques to determine the sex of an unborn child. But the law is widely ignored because local officials are reluctant to fight the will of the people, the Daily Mail said.
Generally, in Indian society, woman who produce only daughters are pitied, in some cases abused and in many cases regarded as betrayers.
A woman who had nine abortions of females said it's important to have a son because of the family's big business.
"I want what my husband has built from scratch to go to his own blood," she said.
It's not just the assets of having a son that motivate feticide – carrying on the family name or business and taking care of elderly parents. The practice of providing a dowry to the grooms' family creates an enormous financial burden on parents who have a daughter.
Kalpana Sharma said the dowry demands today are nothing short of extortion. Many families sell off land and are forced into debt they can never pay off.
The affluent also are choosing feticide, as evidenced by the fact that states with the lowest ratios of girls to boys also are the most prosperous, such as Punjab, Gujarat and Haryana.
Affluent women, the analysts say, believe they will have a better standard of living if they have only sons.
Land inheritance also is an issue, as daughters now are entitled legally to an equal share of land when their parents die.
Many unqualified technicians are operating ultrasound machines throughout the country, finding it relatively easy to get a license. While there are 25,770 officially registered pre-natal units in India, one doctor estimates as many as 70,000 ultrasound machines are in operation.
Long-term consequences of the gender imbalance include the rise of prostitution and sex trafficking and the danger to women's emotional and physical health from repeated abortions.
The Indian government is taking steps to impose regulations on the registered ultrasound clinics throughout the country, but Chetan Sharma, of Datamation, says that local officials are guilty of corruption and will simply continue to turn a blind eye.

Anti-rape condom aims to stop sexual assaults.
South African inventor creates 'rapex' device fitted with hooks and barbs.


KLEINMOND, South Africa - A South African inventor unveiled a new anti-rape female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker’s penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world.
“Nothing has ever been done to help a woman so that she does not get raped and I thought it was high time,” Sonette Ehlers, 57, said of the "rapex," a device worn like a tampon that has sparked controversy in a country used to daily reports of violent crime.
Police statistics show more than 50,000 rapes are reported every year, while experts say the real figure could be four times that as they say most rapes of acquaintances or children are never reported.

Boston Could ban future gay marriages

BOSTON - The same court that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage ruled Monday that a proposal for a constitutional amendment that could ban future gay marriages can move forward.
The ruling came on a lawsuit brought by gay-rights supporters who argued that Attorney General Tom Reilly was wrong to certify the question because the state's constitution bars any citizen-initiated amendment that seeks to reverse a judicial ruling.
The Supreme Judicial Court rejected that argument, paving the way for the state Legislature to take up the question during a constitutional convention Wednesday. The question would have to be approved by two consecutive legislative sessions before it could be placed on the 2008 ballot. Supporters need to win the votes of 50 lawmakers _ 25 percent of the Legislature _ in both sessions.
The same court, in a landmark 2003 ruling, cleared the way for same-sex marriages to begin in Massachusetts in May 2004. More than 8,000 gay and lesbian couples have married.

President Bush will veto embryonic stem cell research
funding if it passes the Senate

President Bush will likely cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said today.
"The president is emphatic about this," Rove - Bush's top political advisor and architect of his 2000 and 2004 campaigns - said in a meeting with the editorial board of The Denver Post.
The U.S. House of Representatives has already passed the legislation, co-sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, and Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del. If the Senate approves the bill it would go to the president's desk.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who backs the bill, has said he will try to bring it up for a Senate vote soon.
"It is something we would, frankly, like to avoid," Rove said when asked if the White House would welcome, or dread, vetoing legislation passed by a Republican Congress, especially on so emotional an issue as embryonic stem cell research.
But Rove said that he believes the legislation will pass the Senate with more than 60 votes this month, "and as a result the president would, as he has previously said emphatically, veto the Castle bill."

Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo Missing

Jul. 04 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has been missing for two weeks, the Times of Zambia reports, and the Zambian government plans to ask Vatican help in locating the eccentric African prelate.
Archbishop Milingo, who was living quietly in a suburb of Rome, disappeared from his home in June. His current whereabouts are unknown, and a spokesman for the government of his native Zambia told the Times that the government was looking for Vatican help to ensure the welfare of a "respected citizen."
The archbishop's disappearance came shortly after published reports that he would perform at an Italian soul-music festival later in July.
Archbishop Milingo, who was brought to Rome after provoking controversy with his high-profile exorcisms and healing services in Zambia, shocked the Vatican in 2001 when he announced that he had joined the Unification Church, the cult founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Archbishop Milingo subsequently attempted marriage in a mass ceremony in New York.
Soon after that ceremony he returned to Rome, met privately with Pope John Paul II (bio - news), repented of his actions, and was reconciled with the Church. Since that time he has been living quietly in an Italian religious community. The July music festival was to have been his first return to the limelight since his attempted marriage.

Rabbis: Stop Jerusalem gay parade

Haredim plan mass rally in protest of scheduled Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade; leaflet published by ultra-Orthodox community reads ‘we must do everything to banish this disgrace from Holy city’
Last weekend a leaflet published by the ultra-Orthodox community titled “Jerusalem is on fire” included statements by leading rabbis against the parade. The leaflet said plans are being made for a mass rally in protest of the “abomination parade in Jerusalem.”
The ultra-Orthodox community fears that holding the Gay Pride Parade in the capital would expose religious youth and children to homosexuality.
Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, head of the ultra-Orthodox community's religious court, said “this parade poses a real threat to the citizens of Israel," while leading haredi Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky suggested holding the parade in Sodom. His metaphoric suggestion was backed by Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
The leaflet quoted Rabbi Shalom Elyashiv, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Lithuanian community, as saying “This (parade) will not take place. We must do everything to banish this disgrace from the Holy city.”
Members of the haredi community plan on holding a mass authorized demonstration on the day of the parade, which is scheduled for August, this after no protests were held prior to past parades held in the capital.
Hundreds of rabbis signed a letter drafted by Rehovot Rabbi Simcha Hacohen kook calling on ultra-Orthodox to block roads on the day of the event and stop the parade “with your bodies.” The cooperation between rabbis from such a wide range of Jewish sects is rare, as the community is plague by incessant internal disputes.