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Family Research Council shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II and Chick-fil-A got NewsBusted:

Another fake hate crime: Police say anti-gay cutting self-inflicted

“If in fact she did do this to herself, it points to a much larger issue of self-hatred.”  Heartland Pride President Beth Rigatuso

Lifesitenews:

Charlie Rogers’ story about crawling at 4 a.m. on a Monday morning – bound, bloodied, and baying – across the street to her neighbor’s house after being brutally attacked by three men seemed too horrific to be true. Yesterday, police in Lincoln, Nebraska, concluded it was just that. 

The 33-year-old lesbian, a former University of Nebraska women’s basketball star, arrived on the front door of her neighbor Linda Rappl’s house on July 22, with a story out of a horror movie. Three masked men had broken into her home, tied her up with plastic zip ties, carved a cross into her chest and anti-gay slurs into her arms and stomach, spray painted hateful words onto her walls, then tried to set her home on fire. 

“All I could see was a cut across her forehead and blood running down,” Rappl said.  

Rogers said the men held her down on her bed, cut her from her thighs to shins, then turned her over and sliced her from her buttocks to her right calf.  Rappl described the wounds as “superficial” but signs of “torture.” 

Lincoln police found Rogers’ wall covered in messages including “We found U D-ke,” and “Leave kids alone.” They also found traces of gasoline, and the door she said she busted through. 

“When she was standing at my door, I believed everything,” Rappl said. “I had no reason to doubt that what she said happened had happened.” 

The town and surrounding area believed her story, too, as her tale ricocheted around the internet. 

Omaha-based Heartland Pride held a rally last month outside the Lincoln capitol, attracting 1,000 people and raising $1,800, which Heartland President Beth Rigatuso deposited in a bank account for Rogers. First Plymouth Congregational Church held a second event in her honor. Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler, a Democrat. issued a statement declaring, “We stand united with our gay and lesbian citizens in denouncing violence directed at any group.” But Rogers’ story quickly unraveled. 

Police say her story changed markedly during the four times they questioned her.  

LPD investigator Lynette Russell said she found the bedspread, where three men had purportedly restrained and tortured her, “evenly placed on the bed and no apparent sign of a struggle,” and without a spot of blood. 

Then there were the wounds themselves. Russell said they “appeared superficial and symmetrical, [and] avoided sensitive areas of the body.” They appeared to be consistent with someone writing on themselves, she said.  

At the scene, police found a pair of white knit gloves. “She had told the investigators initially that the gloves were the only things that were left behind by her assailants and that they were not hers,” said Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong. But the only DNA the University of Nebraska Medical Center found inside them “matched Miss Rogers.”  

Police soon found that she had purchased a pair of white gloves, zip ties, a utility knife, and blades at the local Ace Hardware store on July 17. They matched the bar codes to those sold at the store, and an employee identified Rogers as having shopped there. 

The day after shopping at Ace – four days before the alleged assault – Rogers posted on Facebook: “So maybe I am too idealistic, but I believe way deep inside me that we can make things better for everyone. I will be a catalyst. I will do what it takes. I will. Watch me.”   

Police suggest Rogers receive counseling.  See KETV news report.

Vermont to small business: Celebrate rejection of men and fatherhood or pay $30,000 fine

Two New York women sued the Wildflower Inn for discrimination and won.  The Catholic owners had to pay $30,000 for declining to host a wedding reception for the same-gender couple. 

Women in Vermont have the right to discriminate against men and exclude  fatherhood in their marriages.  But small business owners have no right to refuse to celebrate gender-segregation in marriage.

WCAX reports:

Two New York women and a Vermont country inn have settled a lawsuit that accused the inn of refusing to host the lesbian couple's wedding reception. 

The American Civil Liberties Union says The Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville agreed to pay a $10,000 civil penalty to the Vermont Human Rights Commission and place $20,000 in a charitable trust. 

Kate Linsley and Ming Linsley contacted the ACLU after Ming's mother was told last year by the Wildflower Inn's events manager that due to the innkeepers' "personal feelings," the inn did not host "gay receptions." 

The women say they will use the money for legal costs and donate the rest to charity. 

As part of the settlement, the Wildflower Inn agreed to no longer host wedding receptions.

In Vermont it costs $30,000 to defend pro-gender marriage. 

Catholic innkeepers fined $30,000 and lose wedding business for not hosting reception for gender-segregated couple

What’s the price for defending gender-integrated marriage?

How much did it cost a Vermont business to live out its faith?

The answer:  $30,000.

Two women from New York, Kate Baker and Ming Linsley, sued the Wildflower Inn of Vermont for declining to host their wedding reception.

The owners of the inn, Jim and Mary O'Reilly, are Catholic and believe in pro-gender marriage.  They refused to celebrate the marriage of the gender-segregated couple.

The American Civil Liberties Union helped the monogender couple win their lawsuit.

ACLU:

A Vermont resort . . . finalized an agreement to resolve the lawsuit today. As part of the settlement, the resort will pay $10,000 to the Vermont Human Rights Commission as a civil penalty and will place $20,000 in a charitable trust to be disbursed by the couple.

According to the ACLU press release, Vermont law prohibits businesses from recognizing gender differences:  “As part of the settlement agreement, however, the Wildflower Inn agreed that Vermont law prohibits unequal treatment of same-sex couples.”  As part of the settlement, the resort agreed to stop hosting wedding receptions for all couples.

Is this justice?  Forcing people to celebrate gender-segregated marriage in violation of their religious beliefs?

Apparently Vermont courts believe gender segregation in marriage trumps gender diversity.  And the right to discriminate against men in marriage is more important than religious liberty.

Next time someone asks your opinion of same-sex marriage, remember the Wildflower Inn and how much they were fined for defending pro-gender marriage.

'The more liberal respondents are the more willing they are to discriminate'

Gay rights advocates try to win the same-sex marriage debate by silencing their opponents.

From the New York Post:

Perhaps the only idea that competes with these two [climate change and race] for their sacredness at universities today is the notion that gender is a social construct and its corollary that children of gay parents have the same (if not better) outcomes than children of heterosexual parents. 

Mark Regnerus, a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, recently challenged this idea with an article in Social Science Research, in which he suggested that children of gay parents tend to have lower levels of economic success and more problems with mental health. 

Some scholars have reasonably disagreed with Regnerus’ methodology, but interest groups and the guardians of sociology’s orthodoxy have demanded his head. As a result, UT has launched an investigation into accusations of scientific misconduct. 

Though the article was peer-reviewed and published by a respected academic journal, one columnist wrote that Regnerus’ study was “designed so as to be guaranteed to make gay people look bad, through means plainly fraudulent and defamatory." 

Reasonable people may disagree about Regnerus’ conclusions, Wood’s views of climate science or my opinions on black studies, but on these topics, there is no room for discussion in the Ivory Tower. 

And the enforcers of this orthodoxy are shameless. A study out next month in Perspectives on Psychological Science finds: “In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents are, the more willing they are to discriminate.”

Republicans support pro-gender marriage in party platform

Republicans decided to continue supporting gender-integrated marriage at their party convention.

Washington Wire:

Two longshot efforts to alter the Republican Party’s official position on same-sex marriage failed Tuesday morning. 

The first, proposed by Rhode Island delegate Barbara Fenton, called for ending government-recognized marriage and replacing it with civil unions for both homosexual and heterosexual couples. 

Ms. Fenton, a Roman Catholic, said she was personally opposed to same-sex marriage but “those are my religious beliefs and this country was founded on the separation of church and state”

Whether it is civil or religious, the problem with segregating genders in marriage is that it is inherently anti-gender. Same-sex marriage is founded on the separation of children and gender diverse parents.  You don’t have to be "religious" to agree that gender diversity is beneficial to developing children.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, representing Louisiana explained:

“This would move us away from a party that recognizes the benefits that marriage extends to a society,” Mr. Perkins said. “We recognize nature, we recognize history, that nature is the union of one man and one woman.” 

The committee backed Mr. Perkins’s position, defeating the amendment on a voice vote.

Another amendment, proposed by Pat Kerby from Nevada, would have added support for civil unions for same-sex couples to the platform. He couched his proposal in strategic terms, saying that opposition to recognition of same-sex unions gave “Hollywood and the media” the opportunity to paint the GOP in a negative light. 

“I really really really really don’t want Obama to win this election,” he said. “And I believe this is an issue that will be a tipping point and that we can take this stance and still keep our commitment to the institution of marriage.” 

But others disagreed, pointing to the success of referendums prohibiting same-sex marriage. Mr. Kerby’s amendment also failed on a voice vote.

I really really really really don't want gender-segregated marriage to win in November.   Americans to realize how important gender is to marriage and children.  The tipping point comes when voters understand how important gender is to marriage and children.  Indeed, gender integration is integral to marriage. 

Segregating genders are for public bathrooms and college dorms.  Not for depriving children of a mom and dad.

Defend gender.  Support pro-gender marriage.