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continues to ignore the “values voters,” caters to socially “progressive” libertarians, and spends money on such things as lesbian dancers at strip clubs. This actually occurred under chairman Michael Steele.
Except for some talk about making bureaucracy more efficient, the British Conservative Party became a laughingstock in terms of promoting limited government. What’s more, it had moved far to the left in order to attract votes from the sexually different.
A story on the British Conservative Party website, “Conservatives Champion Gay Equality,” said, “Under the leadership of David Cameron, the British Conservative Party has gone further in supporting gay equality than other centre-right parties in similar countries and the Party is now taking the case for greater equality to America, in particular highlighting the benefits of civil partnerships. [Nick] Herbert discussed the issue on the [British] Today programme, and is due to give a speech at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. on the theme.”
The “Gay” Conservatives
Herbert, who is openly homosexual, is the Conservative Party Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He “married” his boyfriend last year.
Herbert said in the speech at Cato, a major libertarian think tank in the U.S., that “I’m especially honored to be sharing a platform with one of Britain’s most valuable exports, Andrew Sullivan.”
Keep in mind that Andrew Sullivan, who is HIV-positive, was caught soliciting so-called “bare-backing sex”-unprotected anal intercourse-with other homosexuals. This revelation, however, hasn’t hurt his marketability on the liberal talk show circuit, especially the Chris Matthews show. Sullivan, who sometimes calls himself a “gay conservative,” has since “married” another man.
At Cato, Herbert said he looked forward to the day when “the Prime Minister of the UK or the President of the United States could just as easily be gay as black.”
He declared that homosexuality “isn’t a condition to be cured and it can’t be willed away through prayer.” In fact, however, homosexuality can be cured or changed through secular therapy, ministries, and other methods. That is why the group, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, exists.
The Cato Institute is the preferred vehicle for insinuating such “values” as homosexuality into the conservative movement and the Republican Party here. Cato is also militantly pro-marijuana.
Cameron, Conservative Party leader and candidate for Prime Minister in the May 6 election, says he is not only pleased that the age of consent for gay men was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1994 and to 16 in 2000, but believes that criminal convictions related to past homosexual activity should be expunged from one’s personal records.
Here were some other gems from Cameron:
• “We are totally committed to the fight for gay rights and there will be absolutely no going back on equality legislation if a Conservative government is elected next month.”
• “We have backed tougher legislation to crack down on gay hatred and we will extend tax advantages and new rights to flexible working to those in civil partnerships.”
The reference to “gay hatred” is designed to justify government repression of those with anti-homosexual views.
Cameron was so desperate for gay votes that he gave an interview to a British publication known as Gay Times, which advertises “gay escorts” and “the hottest hardest online gay movies.” He also announced that he would send Herbert to Poland to try to convince Polish Catholic politicians to tone down their opposition to homosexuality.
Sounding like Obama’s “safe schools” czar Kevin Jennings, who promoted homosexuality in schools before getting his administration job, Cameron told a British publication called “Pink News” that he wants to give teachers “the tools” they need to deal with prejudicial attitudes such as “homophobia” in the schools. He also declared:
• A willingness to consider additional funding for transgendered people suffering from mental problems;
• That he rejects “socially conservative views,” which he compares to “homophobia;”
• That gay couples should be free to adopt children;
• That tax breaks for married couples should also be granted to homosexuals in a “civil partnership.”
Branching into other areas, the British Conservative Party favors:
• Action “to combat climate change” and “immediate action to give Britain leadership in a low carbon world.”
• “A strong and effective relationship with China.”
• “We will back the NHS [National Health Service]. We will increase health spending every year.”
There is a section in the party’s “Conservative Manifesto 2010″ that calls for “One World Conservatism,” including a commitment to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations by spending more on foreign aid.
It happens to be the same goal as that of the “progressive” Obama Administration.
Don’t be fooled by the “conservative” victory in Britain.
Kagan’s Goldman and Gay Controversies
President Obama says he wants his Supreme Court nominees to represent ordinary people. But how many of them sat as paid members of an advisory panel for Goldman Sachs, now under indictment for deceiving investors? USA Today was the first to disclose that Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was on the Goldman panel from 2005 to 2008.
The White House played down the connection, and most of the media followed suit. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said her work for Goldman had nothing to do with the activities in the case that the Securities and Exchange Commission has filed against the firm. He claimed, “This is a panel that had absolutely nothing to do with the decisions that Goldman has made that they’re now being investigated for.”
So what did she do for Goldman anyway? Where are the minutes of those meetings? Goldman describes its Global Markets Institute as being in the business of providing “research and high-level advisory services to policymakers, regulators and investors around the world.”
At the recent Goldman annual meeting, Peter Flaherty of the National Legal & Policy Center confronted Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein about Goldman’s financial support of Jesse Jackson. Blankfein said he didn’t know if Goldman supported Jackson. Flaherty said, “I challenged him by asking, ‘You do not know?’ and ‘You give Jackson’s group six-figure sums and you don’t know about it?’ I believe that Blankfein does know and he was being dishonest.”
So what about Goldman and Kagan? More work needs to be done by the media on this controversy. Our media should not be content with what the White House and Goldman say
Answers are also needed in regard to reports that Kagan is a lesbian. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth points out, “Kagan has a strong pro-homosexual record, including, as Harvard dean, fighting to keep military recruiters off the campus because the military bars homosexuals. Americans certainly have a right to know if her activism is driven by deeply personal motivations that could undermine her fairness as a judge.”
Editor's Notes:
The pro-gay British "conservatives" aren't the only ones who have a problem with traditional conservatism. Fox News employs Tammy Bruce, a lesbian who masquerades as a conservative. She has just joined the homosexual Republican group GOProud as the chair of its advisory council. You may recall that David Keene of the American Conservative Union made a bone-headed move by inviting GOProud to the recent Conservative Political Action Conference. Social conservatives who want to preserve traditional values and the traditional family were justifiably outraged. Bruce has appeared at functions sponsored by the Log Cabin Republicans, another homosexual activist group, and served on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Transition Team.
I repeat: you can't be a legitimate conservative and be either pro-homosexual or a homosexual. This completely distorts the meaning of the word "conservative." We need accuracy in political terminology.
Speaking of distorting conservatism, the Washington Post has hired somebody named David Weigel to "cover" the conservative movement. I first came across him when he made fun of AIM's 40th anniversary conference because I had given a long speech in which I noted, in passing, that I had released a copy of my original birth certificate and wondered why Obama was not releasing his. I then became a "birther," which is a term of derision. Frankly, I didn't pay much attention to Weigel, and refused to return his telephone calls because I recognized he was a hatchet man out to make conservatives in the media look bad. At that time, however, he was working for some left-wing rag called the Washington Independent and was a contributor to Reason, the libertarian magazine. Now, he is with the Post, which is part of the company that recently announced it is selling Newsweek, another one of its liberal properties. Like so many other liberal media companies, the Post is in disarray and scrambling to survive. The paper compounds its problems by hiring a hack like Weigel.
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at
cliff.kincaid@aim.org
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/mexica...es-in-america/