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June 23, 2001

Heterophobes

Filed under: Family — admin @ 2:18 pm

Corporations funding the Homosexual Agena

PlanetOut and Blue Mountain Proudly Present Pride Cards

SAN FRANCISCO and BOULDER, Colo., June 23 /PRNewswire/NEWSdesk —

PlanetOut Corporation ( www.planetout.com ; AOL Keyword: PlanetOut), the number one online community of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, and Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. www.bluemountainarts.com , the number one shopping site on the Internet, have teamed up to commemorate Gay Pride Month with an exclusive series of animated electronic greeting cards.

Throughout June and July, the Blue Mountain website will present a Pride area where customers can choose from a colorful array of musical cards to send over the Internet at no charge. The area will be accessible from PlanetOut’s own Pride Pages and will offer eclectic e-greetings featuring fun-loving characters drawn by Alison Bechdel, creator of the popular Dykes to Watch Out For(TM) comic strip and book series. The selection will also include nearly a dozen other cards with everything from flashing rainbows to prancing peacocks that invite recipients to “share the pride” and show their “true colors.”

“Blue Mountain is excited to offer these pride cards to PlanetOut’s 245,000 registered members and over 500,000 unique visitors, and gay and lesbian people and their families and friends across the Internet,” says Jared Schutz, VP of Business Development at Blue Mountain.   “These cards are a great way for our members to share Gay Pride with their friends and family,” says Megan Smith, PlanetOut’s president and CEO. “Gay men and lesbians are hungry for merchandise that reflects and include their lives. Blue Mountain’s teamwork with PlanetOut to include Pride e-cards meets that need perfectly.”

With millions of people geared up to celebrate at Pride parades and events across the globe, June and July represents the prime time to tap into the rapidly growing gay and lesbian consumer market. And because these electronic messages are personalized, free, and easy to send, they’re sure to appeal to baby dykes and gay Republicans alike.

Says Smith:  “Now everyone can send a little something to the gay, lesbian, bi and trans people in their life which might include a boyfriend, a girlfriend, your best friend, the drag queen upstairs, the gay girl next door, your mother, your brother. This year commemorates the 30th anniversary since Stonewall. These wonderful e-cards are a light and fun reflection of the tremendous progress that our community has made towards inclusion and recognition over those 30 years.”

About PlanetOut

PlanetOut Corporation, founded in 1995, is the number one online community of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people worldwide. Based in San Francisco, and with offices around the U.S. and in Canada, PlanetOut offers news, entertainment, travel, personal finance, shopping, directories, chat, message boards and personals to its audience of 245,000 registered members and 500,000 unique monthly visitors. Find PlanetOut at www.planetout.com or AOL Keyword: PlanetOut.

About Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain Arts website offers free electronic greeting cards for every holiday and occasion, with a selection of cards for nearly every day of the year. With more than 2,000 animated, musical cards available on the site, you can find anything from a traditional Valentine’s Day card to the celebration of National Pigs Day! Blue Mountain Arts strives to be multicultural, with cards for all religions and races. There are also Spanish and French versions of the popular website at www.monteazul.com and www.montbleu.com.

NOTE:  PlanetOut and PNO are registered trademarks of PlanetOut Corporation. Blue Mountain and Blue Mountain Arts are registered trademarks of Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their holders.

SOURCE PlanetOut Corporation
Web site:  http://www.planetout.com
CONTACT: Leigh Anne Varney of Varney Business Communications, 415-387-7250, or lavsfo@wenet.net, for PlanetOut Corporation; or David Mejias, Media Relations Coordinator of Blue Mountain Arts, 303-449-0536, or david@bluemountain.com

gfn.com (The Gay Financial Network) Strikes Nine New Partnership Deals

EDGAR Online, TheStreet.com and Others See gfn.com as                      the Route for Foray into Gay Market

NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire/NEWSdesk — gfn.com, The Gay Financial Network http://www.gfn.com , the leading online provider of financial and business news to the gay and lesbian community, today announced nine partnerships with Web sites dedicated to financial and career-related information: EDGAR Online Inc. (Nasdaq: EDGR), Eployment.com, Final Bell, 401Kafe.com, IPO.com, Microcap1000.com, ScreamingMedia.net, TheStreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM) and vaultreport.com. As part of the agreements, gfn.com will feature the partners’ proprietary content on its network, participate in cross-promotions, and share revenue with most of the partners. The agreements, designed to serve the gay and lesbian community, are unprecedented for each of these major partners.

“This is the first time that any of these companies are courting the gay and lesbian consumer,” said Jeffrey L. Newman, President and Chief Operating Officer of gfn.com.  “As the only company online devoted solely to providing gays and lesbians with financial information and services, we’ve found our niche and are rapidly expanding our products and services.”

Newman adds: “gfn.com is seeking to partner with top-tier companies that want to reach this traditionally underserved niche. Every company has gay and lesbian customers and should be targeting them as a distinct market and addressing their unique needs.”

“The essential SEC data provided by EDGAR Online for investors and business professionals will greatly enhance the experience on gfn.com, already a trusted online financial resource for the gay community,” said Jay Sears, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, EDGAR Online, Inc. “We’re pleased to introduce our services to gfn.com’s members, who represent one of the most desirable demographics on the Web.”

“Teaming up with gfn.com provides TheStreet.com with a previously untapped audience for our award-winning financial news,” said Brendan Amyot, Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Markets for TheStreet.com. “The partnership brings TheStreet.com’s timely, high-quality investment coverage to gay investors.”

The partners include:

— EDGAR Online — the leading commercial provider of free and premium access to U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and related business intelligence on the Internet. EDGAR Online       www.edgar-online.com provides state-of-the-art management tools to quickly target relevant information from the SEC.

— Eployment.com — a revolutionary technology that confidentially profiles, matches and connects professionals with the best hiring companies. Eployment.com is specifically designed for the currently employed professional too busy to work on their career.  It also works for the professional actively seeking their next position.

— Final Bell — a monthly stock-market simulation site that allows users to practice online investing skills and strategies while competing for prizes.  Final Bell allows users to experiment and learn the stock market without risk.  Final Bell is owned by Sandbox, a leading sports simulator.

— 401Kafe — the first and leading online investment advisor to serve the needs of 401(k) participants.  The service provides education on 401K plans, answers to questions about 401K issues, and community conversations.

— GAYWORK.com — a job search/job listing service for equal opportunity employers. GAYWORK.com brings together the most progressive and forward thinking employers with the most talented and creative individuals.  10% of all proceeds from GAYWORK.com will go to charitable organizations that include fighting discrimination in the workplace and HIV research and prevention.

— IPO.com — a site that hosts prospectuses and private placement memoranda from a wide range of companies that seek capital. Documents provided by companies seeking investment are viewed online at www.ipo.com or downloaded from the web site.  Investments include Initial Public Offerings, Private Placements and other financing vehicles.

— MicroCap1000.com — a multimedia provider of online news and financial information services to the investment community and MicroCap companies. The company provides comprehensive, Internet-based electronic publishing of unique content on the MicroCap sector; online investor relations services; e-commerce Web site design and fulfillment capabilities; and broadcasts over the Internet through video-streamed netcasts for various programs.

— ScreamingMedia.net — a technology that aggregates, filters and seamlessly “streams” customized, real-time news content to corporate, special-interest and vertical market Web sites.  Web sites use ScreamingMedia’s technology to drive traffic with continuously updated, customized news. Through the use of advanced filtering technology, the company offers content from 35 newswires and 2,000-plus news sources from around the world, including: The Associated Press, New York Times Syndicate, Knight-Ridder, M2 Communications and UPI.

— TheStreet.com — a leading Web-based provider of original, timely, comprehensive, and trustworthy financial news and commentary. TheStreet.com www.thestreet.com was founded in 1996 and is based in New York City, with bureaus in San Francisco and London. TheStreet.com’s editorial team, with more than 50 experienced financial journalists and two dozen outside contributors, publishes approximately 40 original news stories and commentaries every business day, including columns by James J. Cramer, Herb Greenberg and Adam Lashinsky.

— vaultreports.com — a site that offers job seekers revealing information about major corporations and law firms, including current company activities, work environments, and secrets on “curveball” interview questions and tactics. It also provides a free online job listing service and a proprietary online recruitment service that matches job openings.

About gfn.com

Launched in 1998, gfn.com (the Gay Financial Network) is the leading online resource devoted to the unique financial needs of the gay and lesbian community. The free site exclusively provides daily and weekly comprehensive business and financial news and information, as well as a variety of specially tailored financial and investment services. In addition, through a partnership with GAYBC, gfn.com President Jeffrey L. Newman delivers a daily radio show on gay and lesbian financial issues and writes a free, exclusive daily commentary on Wall Street.  The company’s headquarters are located in New York City. gfn.com was found by Walter Schubert, a third generation member and first openly gay member of the New York Stock Exchange.

April 23, 2001

Blame it on the Guns

Filed under: Right to Keep and Bear Arms — admin @ 2:42 pm

For the life of me, I can’t understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children away from the guns, we wouldn’t have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns.

It couldn’t have been because of half our children being raised in broken homes. It couldn’t have been because our children get to spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day.  After all, we give our children quality time.

It couldn’t have been because we treat our children as pets and our pets as children. It couldn’t have been because we place our children in day care centers where they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the law of the jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the children look on and make sure than no blood is spilled.

It couldn’t have been because we allow our children to watch, on average, seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification of sex and violence that isn’t fit for adult consumption.

It couldn’t have been because we allow our children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.

It couldn’t have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our families down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so spoiled with material things that they come to equate the receiving of the material with love.

It couldn’t have been because our children, who historically have been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake created when contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare time.

It couldn’t have been because our nation is the world leader in developing a culture of death in which 20 million to 30 million babies have been killed by abortion.

It couldn’t have been because we give two-year prison sentences to teen-agers who kill their newborns. It couldn’t have been because our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact and by handing out condoms as if they were candy.

It couldn’t have been because we teach our children that there are no laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that actions don’t have consequences. What the heck, the president gets away with it.

Nah, it must have been the guns.

February 23, 2001

Why is Daddy in Jail?

Filed under: Parental Rights — admin @ 2:34 pm

by Stephen Baskerville

Bruce is a father who came home one day to find his belongings on the street, the locks on his doors changed, and his wife’s new boyfriend already moved in.  Angry and bewildered, Bruce kicked in the door and began shouting.  His wife called the police, who arrived and took Bruce away in handcuffs. She then got a restraining order preventing any contact with his three children.  When his son was hospitalized with an illness, Bruce was not allowed to visit.  Eventually he was allowed to see his children at a supervised visitation center, for which he must pay an hourly fee, with his wife and her boyfriend present in the next room. He pays half his salary to his wife and her boyfriend in child support.

Bruce’s experience is increasingly common among fathers. In fact, it is now epidemic.  Enormous numbers of fathers who are accused of no wrongdoing are losing their children, plundered for everything they have, publicly vilified, and then incarcerated without trial.

The astounding fact is that, with the exception of convicted criminals, no one today has fewer rights than fathers. Even accused criminals have the right to due process of law, to know the charges against them, to a lawyer, and to a trial. A father can be deprived of his children, his home and life savings, and his freedom with none of these constitutional protections.

How has this startling situation come about, and why does no one seem to know about it? A combination of changes in divorce law, feminist and media vilification, and the usual machinations of the legal profession has left fathers with no protection against the confiscation of their children. It has also left them the targets of what may be the most massive witch hunt in this country’s history.

Under the guise of pursuing deadbeat parents, we are now seeing mass incarcerations without trial, without charge, and without counsel, while the media and civil libertarians look the other way. We also have the spectacle of the highest officials in the land – including the president, the attorney general and major cabinet secretaries, and leading members of Congress from both parties – using their office as a platform to publicly attack private citizens who have been convicted of nothing and who have no opportunity to reply. We also have government officials freely entering the homes of citizens who are accused of nothing and simply helping themselves to whatever they want – including children, life savings, and private papers and effects.

All this is now the norm for fathers whose only offense is to have had their children taken away. They need not be accused, let alone convicted, of any wrongdoing; they need not have given any grounds for divorce; they need not even have agreed to one.

But surely these are “deadbeat dads” who have abandoned their children? Not at all.  According to the largest federally-funded study ever on divorced fathers, psychologist Sanford Braver of Arizona State University has shown conclusively that two-thirds of divorces are filed by mothers, who have virtual certainty of getting the children and a large portion of the fathers income, regardless of any fault on their part. Far from abandoning their children, 90 percent of deserted fathers pay court-ordered child support (unemployment being the main reason for nonpayment), and most make heroic efforts to stay in contact with children from whom they are forcibly separated by the police.

And these are fathers who are accused of nothing.  Those who face trumped-up charges of child abuse must in addition prove their innocence before they can hope to see their children.  Yet it is now well-established that most child abuse takes place in the homes of single mothers. A recent study by the Department of Health and Human Services found that almost two-thirds of child abusers were females.  Given that male perpetrators are not necessarily fathers but much more likely to be boyfriends and stepfathers, fathers emerge as the least likely child abusers.  From the perspective of the father it would appear that the real abusers have thrown him out of the family so they can abuse his children with impunity.

David Gray Ross, head of federal child support enforcement, has a huge sign over his door proclaiming “Children first” and tells a television reporter, “We really are looking out for the children.”  It is very easy for Mr. Ross and his plainclothes agents to pose as the defenders of wronged women and children; the smug self-righteousness of judges, lawyers, and child support enforcers is a source of constant humiliation to ejected fathers.  Yet we should bear in mind that their chivalry costs them nothing.  On the contrary, we now have a sizable portion of the population making quite a handsome living in the business of hunting down fathers. If we take a moment to glance at what it now costs fathers to stay in contact with children who have been removed from their care and protection through no fault of their own, and who must now risk almost certain financial destruction, public excoriation, and indefinite incarceration, we might discover that it is not so simple to say precisely who are the villains and who are the heroes.

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The writer teaches political science at Howard University. This column is adapted from an article in the Winter 1999 issue of The Women’s Quarterly.

May 21, 1999

An Open Letter to Elder Alexander Morrison

Filed under: Right to Keep and Bear Arms — admin @ 1:54 pm

Dear Elder Morrison,

In your recent interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, you are quoted as asking “What sensible reason could there ever be for having guns in schools?”

I can give one very important one. To protect our children.

About eight years ago, Israel was experiencing a dilemma much like we are facing here in the U.S. today. Terrorist attacks on school children were taking hundreds of live each year and completely disrupting their school system. They, too, realized that they must take action to protect their children.

Unlike the American public, the Israelis had not been brain washed into believing that an inanimate object had the power and ability to act on its own without the will and choice of a human being. They decided that the real way to protect their children was to give those responsible for their schools the tools to honestly do something other than whine and pretend that they were doing something constructive. Israel trained and armed the teachers and administrators.

In the last eight years, there have been only four deaths of Israeli school children from attack while engaged in school activity. Those four deaths came on a field trip to Jordan where, at the request of the Jordanian government, they left their weapons home as they traveled to a “Mecca of peace.” Shortly after arriving, they were attacked by terrorists and four children lost their lives because the adults with them were powerless to protect them.

All it takes to realize that disarming any people, or group of people, accomplishes is to make them a sitting target for those of evil intent. This has held true throughout the world and through all recorded history. Every time a people has been deprived of the means of self defense, they have been enslaved and slaughtered. Not just a few times, but EVERY TIME! I can find over thirty (30) such times in the last century alone.

If by some chance you have an honest interest in understanding the truth about the gun control issues, I can provide you with large amounts of documentary evidence that banning guns has not and will not provide ANY level of safety for our children. In fact, almost all of the refereed research shows that banning guns only increases the death and violence.

As one easy example, take a look at Washington D.C., where guns are banned completely. Washington D.C. has the highest rate of murder by firearms in the nation. Conversely, the State of Vermont, where there are NO restrictions on the carrying of weapons by law abiding citizens, has one of the lowest in the country and is the ONLY state where there has not been a copycat threat since the tragedy in Littleton, Colorado.

Now, lest you misunderstand my position, I support swift and severe punishment of those who would misuse a weapon, ANY weapon, not just a gun. This include such things a knives, baseball bats, rocks, automobiles and turnips. Yes, automobiles. There was an incident in California just a few weeks ago where a despondent man intent on killing several people in order to bring attention to his emotional troubles used a Cadillac to kill four children and injure several others in a schoolyard. I’m certain that you have heard no outcry to ban cars. In fact, the story was buried on page 10 of the Los Angeles Times and completely ignored by most of the wire services. In 1994 there was a case of a person being killed in England by a turnip thrown from a passing vehicle. It makes no difference what the weapon is, it is a person that commits the crime and it is the person that should be punished.

Instead of reacting to the emotional outcry echoed and amplified by those who would enslave people and destroy freedom, study, think, and pray about what is needed to restore civility and order.

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