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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Get Your Senator Here for Yourselves and Your Friends and Families: The HHS Mandate is Coming in August.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Schedule of Regional Masses to Welcome Archbishop Sample
June 18, 2013
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For More Information, Contact:
Bud Bunce 503-233-8373
Regional Masses to welcome Archbishop Sample
Three sites have been chosen to celebrate Masses to welcome Archbishop
Alexander K. Sample to the Archdiocese of Portland.
Many parishioners were unable to attend the Archbishop’s installation on
April 2. These regional Masses will
provide an opportunity for parishioners to welcome him at a location closer to
their home parish. The Masses are
scheduled to take place:
Tuesday, July 16, 7:00 pm at St. Pius X Parish in Portland
Tuesday, August 27, 7:00 pm at St. Joseph Parish in Salem
Tuesday, October 15, 7:00 pm at St. Anne Parish in Grants Pass
There will be a public reception after each Mass to provide an
opportunity to greet the Archbishop.
The Mass at St. Pius X parish is particularly for parishes in the region
of the west side of Portland, and Beaverton area parishes, Tigard, Tualatin,
Lake Oswego, Wilsonville, Sherwood, Yamhill County, Tualatin Valley area, and
Columbia County parishes.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Paradigm Shift: Archbishop Sample Taking Hits Archbishop Emeritus Vlazny Should have Taken
Archbishop Sample is trying to clean up the mess Archbishop Emeritus Vlazny has left.
Sorry to say that Monsignor Dennis O'Donovan now is trying to make a noise that was drowned out long ago by those he worked with. Father Peter Smith will have to clean up his mess too. Monsignor O'Donovan didn't believe that Roger Martin, the lobbyist for the Archdiocese, was pro-abortion. The legislators he worked with this confirmed it.
The players in trying to destroy the Catholic church depend on behaviors they use as a weapon for hating the Catholic Church, homosexual actions, as a banner for "pride" they want to encourage.
The hierarchy of the Archdiocese of Portland has a long history of confusion on Church teaching making the advent of Archbishop Sample a threat to the status quo they want to hold on to.Look up names in the article on this blog to see their VOCAL history.
St. Andrew's Catholic Parish Will Carry Banner in Portland's Gay Pride Parade.
Parishioners from St. Andrew Catholic Church, which has a longstanding commitment to social justice issues, will march in Sunday's Portland Pride Parade with a banner proclaiming their parish identity, despite the wishes of Archbishop Alexander K. Sample.
At least four Catholic parishes are expected to participate in the parade, according to the Rev. Tara Wilkins, executive director of the Community of Welcoming Congregations. Members of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Philip Neri and St. André Bessette (the Downtown Chapel) also are expected to march. In the past, they have carried parish banners, Wilkins said.
Monsignor Dennis O'Donovan, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Portland, called St. Andrew's pastor, the Rev. Dave Zegar, on May 31 on behalf of Sample, parishioners say. O'Donovan relayed the message that individuals could walk in the parade but that the archbishop did not want St. Andrew's members to walk as a community.
Sample, who was installed as archbishop April 2, is in San Diego to attend the annual summer meeting of United States bishops, according to Bud Bunce, spokesman for the archdiocese. He could not be reached for comment.
Bunce confirmed that O'Donovan had made the phone call. While the archdiocese respects all people, Bunce said, "this was not an event that St. Andrew's parish could be in as a parish."
On June 4, Zegar met with a group of St. Andrew's parishioners, who decided to stand by their 17-year commitment to Portland's gay community. At Mass on Sunday, Zegar shared the group's decision with the congregation, who responded with a standing ovation, according to Tom Karwaki, who chairs the parish's pastoral council.
The Rev. Steve Newton, a Holy Cross priest who is pastor of St. André Bessette, said no one from the archdiocese had called him about the parade. Parishioners from the Downtown Chapel have walked in the parade for years.
"The Catholic Church supports gay people, even though there is a broad difference of opinion on their lifestyle," Newton said.
"The Community of Welcoming Congregations stands with and supports local Catholic parishes that want to bring a message of love and hope to the LGBT community," Wilkins said.
At St. Andrew's on Sunday, a bulletin insert recounted the history of the parish's welcoming ministry. A formal committee began meeting in 1996. St. Andrew's helped staff a booth at Portland Pride in 2000, and members began marching with their banner, which reads "Welcoming the Whole Family," in 2001.
Susan Kelly, a member of St. Andrew's since 1969, said the move to become a welcoming congregation was partly due to a respected couple within the church who were parents of identical twin girls. The twins "came out" in high school, and their parents agonized over how the church would react. The mother finally confessed to a friend at St. Andrew's.
"It got us all thinking about how we deal with this issue," Kelly says. "How can we reach out and get over this Christian – not just Catholic –attitude that if you're gay or lesbian, you're not part of the community?"
The official teaching of the Catholic Church is that homosexual acts are contrary to natural law and incompatible with living a Christian life. But 2006 pastoral guidelines from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops say the church must welcome homosexuals to full and active participation in the faith. St. Andrew's bulletin insert quoted the document.
"Essential to the success of ministry to persons with a homosexual inclination will be the support and leadership of the bishop and other pastoral leaders," the guidelines read. "This is particularly important because more than a few persons with a homosexual inclination feel themselves to be unwelcome and rejected."
How many feel unwelcome became evident Thursday when the Pew Research Center released the findings of an April survey on the religious attitudes of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender adults. Eight in ten adults said the Catholic Church, along with Islam and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were "unfriendly" to the LGBT community.
Kelly summarized the reasons that parishioners are insisting on carrying their banner in one word: visibility.
Joy Wallace, a member of St. Andrew's since 1998, says it is common for members of the gay community and their advocates to seek out St. Andrew's because they've seen the parish represented in the annual Pride Parade.
"The banner is important because it says we are a community of faith," says Jane Braunger, a parish member since the 1980s. "For us not to embrace this statement as a core commitment about openness and acceptance and living the Gospel is cowardly."
Karwaki said parishioners would like a chance to talk to the archbishop about their ministry and explain their commitment to the Pride Parade. He says Zegar asked for such a dialogue and the parish is drafting a letter to Sample.
"We're not acting out of disobedience," Karwaki said. "We're acting out of obedience to the Gospel and the mission of this parish."
-- Nancy Haught
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
World Youth Day Cancelled for Archdiocese of Portland
This was just sent in and we need to pray for a resolution. Many of us had family members attend the past WYD's and know what a joy it would be to be with the Holy Father in his stomping ground.. The kids shouldn't pay for adult misbehavior.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Bill Diss Invitation to June 17th Prayer Vigil and more.....
Dear Brothers and Sisters for Life, Purity and Healing,
You are all such a gift to me and to our cause. I want to thank all of you again and again for your prayers, kind letters and support. It is so great know that there are many in the area and around the world that value life and purity and know that our God is a loving God and will heal all who beckon.
Administrative activity by the school district has increased and two weeks ago I received a 41 page letter stating that they are going to try and dismiss me. I have been on administrative leave after the principal, a vice principal, the director of human resources and a Portland police officer came and quickly ushered me out of my classroom on March 19, 2013
There will be some type of hearing that I will attend with my lawyer on June 12, 2013. Please pray for all of us on both sides of the table. The union has solicited the help of the law firm, McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP, to fight my case.
I do ask for continued prayers for discernment. I have forgiven all at the district but some sort of closure appears necessary. We do need to fight the evil of abortion and forcing of sexual deviancy on our youth; I just want to make sure that is not vindictive.
Prayer Vigil at Portland Public Schools (PPS) June 17, 2013
On Monday June 17, 2013 we are asking everyone to come to PPS headquarters from 5:45 to 6:45 PM. We had around 200 on December 3, 2012 and I suspect there are many more out there who would love to be more involved in the movement for life and this is an excellent opportunity. The address is 501 N. Dixon St, Portland, Oregon and it is very near the Rose Garden. (map) Please call or write if you need rides, we could rent a school but or two.
I
wanted to remind all of you working so hard, in prayer and in other
forms for service for life and purity, that you are certainly working
for peace. Countries that do not see human sexuality as holy and life
giving and countries that kill innocent people are really saying, "God
we don't need you." When our supernatural hedge of protection is
removed, it is all over.
More information at Life News. How is this workshop helping children or adults be better citizens or better children of God?
You are all such a gift to me and to our cause. I want to thank all of you again and again for your prayers, kind letters and support. It is so great know that there are many in the area and around the world that value life and purity and know that our God is a loving God and will heal all who beckon.
Administrative activity by the school district has increased and two weeks ago I received a 41 page letter stating that they are going to try and dismiss me. I have been on administrative leave after the principal, a vice principal, the director of human resources and a Portland police officer came and quickly ushered me out of my classroom on March 19, 2013
There will be some type of hearing that I will attend with my lawyer on June 12, 2013. Please pray for all of us on both sides of the table. The union has solicited the help of the law firm, McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP, to fight my case.
I do ask for continued prayers for discernment. I have forgiven all at the district but some sort of closure appears necessary. We do need to fight the evil of abortion and forcing of sexual deviancy on our youth; I just want to make sure that is not vindictive.
On Monday June 17, 2013 we are asking everyone to come to PPS headquarters from 5:45 to 6:45 PM. We had around 200 on December 3, 2012 and I suspect there are many more out there who would love to be more involved in the movement for life and this is an excellent opportunity. The address is 501 N. Dixon St, Portland, Oregon and it is very near the Rose Garden. (map) Please call or write if you need rides, we could rent a school but or two.
Blessed are the peacemakers,for they will be called children of God.
(Mt: 5:12)
You are truly working for peace!
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Planned Parenthood Education?
We often hear how Planned Parenthood educates the children. Here is a workshop they just had in Portland:
Two views of public school teachers:
Friday, June 7, 2013
Archbishop Sample Prays for Lawmakers with Pro-Abortion Roger Martin Still Our Lobbyist.
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It would be interesting to see his testimony this session.
It is very frustrating for Catholics who believe in the teachings of the Church being left out at high levels of this Archdiocese. With Archbishop Sample discerning the spiritual qualities to bring Oregon Catholics we know it will take time to change things he deems needing change.
Our Catholic monies give these people their salary and benefits while they seemingly act like the Cheshire cat. Their beliefs have been the norm much to the pain of many Oregon Catholics.
Archbishop Sample's words soothe the soul and will hopefully change the hearts and minds of Catholics who support abortion and could change this in Oregon.
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SALEM — Archbishop Alexander Sample visited the Oregon Capitol June 4 to give invocations in the Senate and House of Representatives. In his prayer, the archbishop asked God to help lawmakers work for the common good. "O God you are the source of all goodness and of every blessing under the heavens," Archbishop Sample said. "We humbly ask you to anoint with your wisdom and guidance these legislators who have offered themselves in service of your people. May the they deliberate with charity and decide in accord with justice the matters before them in this session. Be present in their minds and hearts. Anoint their ears and tongues so that all they say and hear will be in accord with your will and be for the good of the people, whom they represent and serve. Help them to set aside all pride and self interest and to seek the common good of our society in accord with your plan for your children." Rep. Jennifer Williamson, D-Southwest Portland, hosted Archbishop Sample in the House. Introducing him to colleagues, she referred to him as a kind of rock star and noted that he lives in her district. Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, was the archbishop's host in the Senate, where Catholic lawmakers convened for a reception. In attendance at the reception were House Majority Leader Val Hoyle, a Lane County Democrat; Rep. Cliff Bentz, an Ontario Republican; Rep. Margaret Doherty, a Tigard Democrat; Rep. Joe Gallegos, a Hillsboro Democrat and past chairman of Catholic Charities; Rep. Ben Unger, a Hillsboro Democrat; Rep. Jessica Vega Pederson, a Portland Democrat; Senate President Peter Courtney, a Salem Democrat; Sen. Betsy Close, an Albany Republican; and Sen. Fred Girod, a Stayton Republican. "He shook more hands than any of the politicians in residence and left a very positive impression on everyone he met," says Roger Martin, who represents the Oregon Catholic Conference at the capitol. |
Thursday, June 6, 2013
"Part of you died that day". Well, Christ Died One Day for me too.
Helping each other on this Journey is not easy, but we "soldier on" for Him.
We are in this world together and look what our prayers and God's grace has afforded us here in Oregon: Archbishop Alexander K. Sample, so anything is possible.
We are all put on this earth for His purpose. This event was part of His purpose for me. After hearing about my assault, a doctor told me, "Part of you died that day". Well, Christ Died One Day for me too.
"For victims of crime, with support and counseling, the wounds do heal, but we still bear the scars. In some ways, they never really do go away. No matter how much time passes, you always feel that vulnerability and fear re-victimization in a very primal way. One of the pivotal moments of my healing was my decision to obtain my concealed handgun license. Having my CHL helps empower me to protect myself and my family. It also helps heal the wounds of vulnerability and victimization from the time when I was unable to defend myself from harm. There is a saying that, when seconds count, police are minutes away. And no one knows this more than victims of violent crime. In a very real way, taking personal responsibility to protect myself and my loved ones rights another wrong. I left to others the responsibility to protect me, and because of that, I almost lost the life that God had given me. I see now that this responsibility cannot be abdicated, nor should it be. I now see that, along with law enforcement and our judicial system, I have a role in the protection of myself and my family. Sir Robert Peel, founder of our modern day police system, (and source of the nickname, bobbies) said that police are merely ‘members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen.’ In his words, ‘the duties of protection and self defense are incumbent upon each of us.’" Rachel Lucas, Founder of Safer Oregon.
"Catholics and Gun Ownership" Matt Abbott, Renew America
We are in this world together and look what our prayers and God's grace has afforded us here in Oregon: Archbishop Alexander K. Sample, so anything is possible.
We are all put on this earth for His purpose. This event was part of His purpose for me. After hearing about my assault, a doctor told me, "Part of you died that day". Well, Christ Died One Day for me too.
Testimony before Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee, April 5. 2013. Thank you fellow Catholic, Rachel Lucas and Safer Oregon.
Dear Chair Prozanski and Committee Members,
My name is Carolyn Wendell and I am speaking in
opposition to SB 347, SB 699, SB 700 and SB 796.
I am here
representing three teenage girls who in 1966 were kidnapped, robbed, beaten,
threatened with death, then all subsequently raped one after another by three
serial rapists. I am one of the
three.
Our lives for
these 47 years have been tragically affected by this long night of darkness; filling
us with fear on so many levels, beating us down emotionally. One friend suffers from anorexia because of
her rape and to this day hasn’t spoken to her husband about this night although
he was part of her life in 1966. The
other friend is a recluse, divorced because of the wreckage she made of her
life after assault. She lives alone: afraid
of the world. She has no children except
the little boy she was impregnated with by her rapist. The baby ended up in a quart jar at the side
of her bed in our apartment. She named him Sam.
Back then it
wasn’t deemed necessary for victims to have counseling. There were so many
layers of pain that just remained buried.
I didn’t know there could be an answer to my fears.
A doctor told me
I had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) a few years ago. This didn’t compute. Then recently another physician heard what
had happened to me during a PTSD episode in his office and was adamant that I
take classes in concealed carry firearm protection as a very important aspect
of healing.
I erroneously
believed that guns somehow fired themselves. I hadn’t even held a gun so breaking
down this emotional wall really “empowered” me.
After my concealed carry class I knew this would be a big part of my
healing.
The road to
advocating for firearm protection is just beginning for me to help myself and
other assault victims of every kind. I
have joined the new group Safer Oregon.
The timing is perfect.
As a mother of
five and grandmother of twenty-four my life has always been about protecting
them. Now that I am older and have
suffered many surgeries and a mini-stroke so it is hard to even protect myself.
For the first time in forty-seven years
I feel that I have a chance to regain some strength. Life is not over for me.
The Second
Amendment should always be an option.
There are so many women that have been assaulted and feel like there is
no way to regain confidence. The answer
for some may be a handgun (with a laser). Those of us who are weaker have a way
to level the playing field.
I believe in safety
and having a firearm makes people safer. Knowing about weapons allows the mind to be
calmer and make the correct decisions.
Safety is drilled into our minds.
With children in our lives safety is the main issue.
My friends and I
had been together since we were in Kindergarten. We were Bluebirds, Camp Fire Girls, and took ballet
together. In 1966 we had just moved into
our own apartment. Then our lives were
changed forever that night. No one
should be abused in any way by another.
Having the Second Amendment in place, with concealed carry allowed, may
give pause to someone before they think of hurting others. Please remember us.
Thank you
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"Catholics and Gun Ownership" Matt Abbott, Renew America
Friday, May 31, 2013
Pope Alarm: Worldwide Holy Hour, June 2 - First Time in History
POPE ALARM !!!
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Oregon Parish Adoration Chapels...check it out.Contact your parish for information on this event. Some Oregon parishes are having a Adoration/Benediction after masses. Some may have changed mass times to coincide with the Pope's Holy Hour.
The Pope has asked the universal Church to pray for two intentions during the hour of adoration:
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From the Cook Islands to Chile, Burkina Faso, Taiwan, Iraq, Bangladesh, the United States, and the Philippines, people will unite in prayer with Pope Francis this weekend before One Lord and in One faith, for an hour of Eucharistic Adoration.The Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration, will be broadcast from St. Peter’s Basilica next Sunday, 2 June from 5:00pm-6:00pm local time. Its theme is: “One Lord, One Faith”, which was chosen to testify to the deep unity that characterizes it in this Year of Faith.“It will be an event,” Archbishop Fisichella president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, explained, “occurring for the first time in the history of the Church, which is why we can describe it as ‘historical’. The cathedrals of the world will be synchronized with Rome and will, for an hour, be in communion with the Pope in Eucharistic adoration. There has been an incredible response to this initiative, going beyond the cathedrals and involving episcopal conferences, parishes, lay associations, and religious congregations, especially cloistered ones.”Dioceses worldwide will be synchronized with St. Peter’s and will pray for the intentions proposed by the Pope. The first is: “For the Church spread throughout the world and united today in the adoration of the Most Holy Eucharist as a sign of unity. May the Lord make her ever more obedient to hearing his Word in order to stand before the world ‘ever more beautiful, without stain or blemish, but holy and blameless.’ That through her faithful announcement, the Word that saves may still resonate as the bearer of mercy and may increase love to give full meaning to pain and suffering, giving back joy and serenity.”
Dear Lord, Please remind and help us to pray before You on June 2nd. Thank You for deeming us worthy to be Your children.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Archbishop Sample Appoints New Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia
Archbishop Alexander Sample has appointed of Father Peter Smith as Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia. Father Smith will succeed Msgr. Dennis O'Donovan, who is retiring at the end of June.
(The Vicar General assists the Bishop in the general care and administration of the diocese.
The Moderator of the Curia coordinates the ministries and services of the diocese. VOCAL)
Father Smith was born in 1958 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He earned a bachelor's degree in Commerce in Business Administration and Marketing in 1981 from the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg. He earned a law degree from the University of Natal Law School in 1983. After entering the seminary in 1996, he earned a master's degree in Theology in 2000 and a Master of Divinity degree in 2001, both from Mount Angel Seminary.
Father Smith was ordained a priest by Archbishop John Vlazny on June 9, 2001 at St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Father Smith is a member of the Brotherhood of the People of Praise. He served as parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Lake Parish, Lake Oswego, and then he studied at the Catholic University of America, earning a Licentiate degree in Canon Law (J.C.L.) He has served as pastor at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Portland since July 2006.
Father Smith was ordained a priest by Archbishop John Vlazny on June 9, 2001 at St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Father Smith is a member of the Brotherhood of the People of Praise. He served as parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Lake Parish, Lake Oswego, and then he studied at the Catholic University of America, earning a Licentiate degree in Canon Law (J.C.L.) He has served as pastor at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Portland since July 2006.
excerpts from the Catholic Sentinel
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
Teens Teaching Porn to Adults: In Oregon at "Education" Conference
FYI - Even though the three candidates we endorsed did not win, Brad Victor, Oregon Education Department “sexuality education expert”, said that if parents will speak out at every level, sex education can be easily derailed in a school district—even one where the programs are already firmly in place. The sooner parents start their challenges, however, the better.
If you read this to the end, your head will spin, if not explode. The evil is so prevalent in this conference for teens, it is child abuse to even let them attend. The "adults" that want to normalize this type of sexuality want to feed on our children.
Contact Brad Victor (503) 947-5655 or brad.victor@state.or.us See post at end for all the emails of those in the Ed. Department.
by Rita Diller, National director of American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood Project.
When I walked into this year’s Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon, one of the first things I encountered was a table manned by three young teen boys. On the table was a collage that included many depictions of totally bare female genitalia—obviously pornographic and, one would think, illegal.
The collage included a drawing of a woman circa 1950 declaring, in the most base terms, what a woman’s private parts should smell like. It also included a drawing of a pigtailed little girl riding on a tricycle with the word “Vagina!” written above her, and another drawing of a young female child standing by a rose, with the word “Vagina” written below her on a chalkboard.
“Everyone can come inside” are the words visible along the outer edge of the piece, which appeared to be a decoupaged plate.
The boys smiled nervously as hordes of teens, who had arrived for what some described as a field trip, passed the display table. Planned Parenthood was on the steering committee of this conference.
The booth belonged to Youth for Education and Prevention of Sexual Assault (YEPSA), a supposedly teen-led initiative from Eugene, Oregon.
At a booth whose stated mission was the prevention of sexual assault, I could only wonder why the teen boys would be manning a table containing graphic pictures of female genitalia, suggesting that “everyone can come inside” a pigtailed little girl on a tricycle.
With that question in mind, I checked on the Internet and found that the group puts on performances, the first of which was The Vagina Monologues. The students stated they just finished a run of a play that they wrote about the life struggles of a transgendered woman. They have a transgender education panel coming up, and they do art shows around teen sexuality and gender.
Day two of the conference found me very reluctantly attending a workshop led by YEPSA entitled “You Say Porn, I Say Porn!”
The program description did not even begin to touch the stark reality of the session. “To porn or not to porn, that is the question. YEPSA will be leading the masses through the very exciting world of pornography.” The session was held in a large room, filled with teens and adults. It started with a soft porn video commercial.
About 10 teen facilitators lined up across the front of the room and introduced themselves. They gave their names and the pronoun they prefer (“I prefer ‘she,’” “I don’t have a preference but I identify as male,” etc.). This was in keeping with a theory emphasized over and over at the conference—that gender is fluid and is determined only by the person in question and how that person feels at that particular time about his or her gender. In others words, biology has nothing to do with gender.
That was evidenced by a teen boy who attended lunch the first day dressed as a woman, complete with wig, pearls and dress. He soon put aside the outfit, and was once again looking like a teen boy the next time I saw him. Another young man was decorated with glitter on his face and a lilting voice, both of which he shed later in the day.
It was pointed out at the beginning of the conference that there were unisex bathrooms available for those who preferred to use them. There were separate male and female bathrooms available as well.
Getting back to the session, the facilitators asked everyone in the room to work on a group definition of porn. Since they said it wouldn’t be possible to come up with a real definition that everyone agreed on, we just needed to make it “pornish.”
Some of the pornish ideas were: Main purpose is to stimulate arousal. You learn different ways to have sex from porn. It has commercial purposes. It is an exaggerated depiction of fantasy. It is a beautiful thing. It objectifies people. It is whatever promotes a sexual response. It tries to get people thinking about sex.
Next, the room was divided into nine groups. The youth facilitators went from group to group, individually or occasionally in pairs, talking about different aspects of porn to the mixed groups of teens and adults.
One of the young teen female facilitators was very scantily dressed, with her entire midriff showing and wearing a very tight miniskirt. She literally bounced rather than walked. The young teens would come into these groups of mixed adults and teens and ask questions like: “How is porn different from real sex?” “How might watching porn from a young age affect you?”
A major discussion about how tragic it is that porn stars refuse to use condoms ensued in our group, with much wondering about why this is so. An adult male, who seemed to have way too much knowledge on all things pornographic, said it is because of lack of stimulation.
Most of the facilitators were teen girls. Much of the response to these young girls’ queries and the discourse about sex and pornography came from two older men in our group.
When one particularly thin girl finished questioning our group and left, I heard one of the men say to the other, “That was sexy. What do you do?” To which the man who knows too much about porn replied: “I work with teens.”
He had been discussing with the teens a social media outlet where one can post photos for just a few seconds, or as long as wanted, and then the pictures disappear, he said.
One teen facilitator asked whether it was okay for girls to send nude pictures to their boyfriends, and the adults generally agreed it was fine as long it was a boyfriend, but not to strangers. One woman finally pointed out that those pictures can go anywhere once they are sent and don’t disappear when the relationship dissolves.
The session was a dirty old man’s delight. These teen facilitators were probably high school age, some very young high school, with some appearing to be possibly middle school. Several of them were awkward and visibly uncomfortable with their role in this debacle, while others seemed far too seasoned and comfortable with the situation.
This is just a sampling of the plan that Planned Parenthood has for our teens. Check out our website at www.stopp.org, where I will be writing for several weeks on the unbelievably inappropriate materials and scenarios that were presented at this conference.
Oregon Education Department “sexuality education expert” Brad Victor prides himself on the fact that Oregon has the “most progressive sex education laws in the nation,” and brags about how he easily slid Oregon’s explicit Administrative Rule under the radar as a consent item at the state board level. The plan is that other states will follow suit. Many are already deeply embroiled in Planned Parenthood’s sex education. Those who are not embroiled are targeted.
Jim Sedlak’s book Parent Power!! is available free of charge on our website. It is a brilliant instructional tool that lays out the plan that parents can follow to get Planned Parenthood out of local schools. It is a plan that has been proven to work time and time again when parents follow it. Read Jim’s book today and take action!
"brad.victor@state.or.us" <brad.victor@state.or.us>
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Subject: The Debasing of Women
If you read this to the end, your head will spin, if not explode. The evil is so prevalent in this conference for teens, it is child abuse to even let them attend. The "adults" that want to normalize this type of sexuality want to feed on our children.
Contact Brad Victor (503) 947-5655 or brad.victor@state.or.us See post at end for all the emails of those in the Ed. Department.
by Rita Diller, National director of American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood Project.
When I walked into this year’s Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon, one of the first things I encountered was a table manned by three young teen boys. On the table was a collage that included many depictions of totally bare female genitalia—obviously pornographic and, one would think, illegal.
The collage included a drawing of a woman circa 1950 declaring, in the most base terms, what a woman’s private parts should smell like. It also included a drawing of a pigtailed little girl riding on a tricycle with the word “Vagina!” written above her, and another drawing of a young female child standing by a rose, with the word “Vagina” written below her on a chalkboard.
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The boys smiled nervously as hordes of teens, who had arrived for what some described as a field trip, passed the display table. Planned Parenthood was on the steering committee of this conference.
The booth belonged to Youth for Education and Prevention of Sexual Assault (YEPSA), a supposedly teen-led initiative from Eugene, Oregon.
At a booth whose stated mission was the prevention of sexual assault, I could only wonder why the teen boys would be manning a table containing graphic pictures of female genitalia, suggesting that “everyone can come inside” a pigtailed little girl on a tricycle.
With that question in mind, I checked on the Internet and found that the group puts on performances, the first of which was The Vagina Monologues. The students stated they just finished a run of a play that they wrote about the life struggles of a transgendered woman. They have a transgender education panel coming up, and they do art shows around teen sexuality and gender.
Day two of the conference found me very reluctantly attending a workshop led by YEPSA entitled “You Say Porn, I Say Porn!”
The program description did not even begin to touch the stark reality of the session. “To porn or not to porn, that is the question. YEPSA will be leading the masses through the very exciting world of pornography.” The session was held in a large room, filled with teens and adults. It started with a soft porn video commercial.
About 10 teen facilitators lined up across the front of the room and introduced themselves. They gave their names and the pronoun they prefer (“I prefer ‘she,’” “I don’t have a preference but I identify as male,” etc.). This was in keeping with a theory emphasized over and over at the conference—that gender is fluid and is determined only by the person in question and how that person feels at that particular time about his or her gender. In others words, biology has nothing to do with gender.
That was evidenced by a teen boy who attended lunch the first day dressed as a woman, complete with wig, pearls and dress. He soon put aside the outfit, and was once again looking like a teen boy the next time I saw him. Another young man was decorated with glitter on his face and a lilting voice, both of which he shed later in the day.
It was pointed out at the beginning of the conference that there were unisex bathrooms available for those who preferred to use them. There were separate male and female bathrooms available as well.
Getting back to the session, the facilitators asked everyone in the room to work on a group definition of porn. Since they said it wouldn’t be possible to come up with a real definition that everyone agreed on, we just needed to make it “pornish.”
Some of the pornish ideas were: Main purpose is to stimulate arousal. You learn different ways to have sex from porn. It has commercial purposes. It is an exaggerated depiction of fantasy. It is a beautiful thing. It objectifies people. It is whatever promotes a sexual response. It tries to get people thinking about sex.
Next, the room was divided into nine groups. The youth facilitators went from group to group, individually or occasionally in pairs, talking about different aspects of porn to the mixed groups of teens and adults.
One of the young teen female facilitators was very scantily dressed, with her entire midriff showing and wearing a very tight miniskirt. She literally bounced rather than walked. The young teens would come into these groups of mixed adults and teens and ask questions like: “How is porn different from real sex?” “How might watching porn from a young age affect you?”
A major discussion about how tragic it is that porn stars refuse to use condoms ensued in our group, with much wondering about why this is so. An adult male, who seemed to have way too much knowledge on all things pornographic, said it is because of lack of stimulation.
Most of the facilitators were teen girls. Much of the response to these young girls’ queries and the discourse about sex and pornography came from two older men in our group.
When one particularly thin girl finished questioning our group and left, I heard one of the men say to the other, “That was sexy. What do you do?” To which the man who knows too much about porn replied: “I work with teens.”He had been discussing with the teens a social media outlet where one can post photos for just a few seconds, or as long as wanted, and then the pictures disappear, he said.
One teen facilitator asked whether it was okay for girls to send nude pictures to their boyfriends, and the adults generally agreed it was fine as long it was a boyfriend, but not to strangers. One woman finally pointed out that those pictures can go anywhere once they are sent and don’t disappear when the relationship dissolves.
The session was a dirty old man’s delight. These teen facilitators were probably high school age, some very young high school, with some appearing to be possibly middle school. Several of them were awkward and visibly uncomfortable with their role in this debacle, while others seemed far too seasoned and comfortable with the situation.
This is just a sampling of the plan that Planned Parenthood has for our teens. Check out our website at www.stopp.org, where I will be writing for several weeks on the unbelievably inappropriate materials and scenarios that were presented at this conference.
Oregon Education Department “sexuality education expert” Brad Victor prides himself on the fact that Oregon has the “most progressive sex education laws in the nation,” and brags about how he easily slid Oregon’s explicit Administrative Rule under the radar as a consent item at the state board level. The plan is that other states will follow suit. Many are already deeply embroiled in Planned Parenthood’s sex education. Those who are not embroiled are targeted.
Jim Sedlak’s book Parent Power!! is available free of charge on our website. It is a brilliant instructional tool that lays out the plan that parents can follow to get Planned Parenthood out of local schools. It is a plan that has been proven to work time and time again when parents follow it. Read Jim’s book today and take action!
"brad.victor@state.or.us" <brad.victor@state.or.us>
Cc: "rep.saragelser@state.or.us" <rep.saragelser@state.or.us>, "rep.jeffreardon@state.or.us" <rep.jeffreardon@state.or.us>, "rep.sherriesprenger@state.or.
Subject: The Debasing of Women
Dear Mr. Victor,
If what I hear about is true about the Oregon Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon is true, then you are among those who are personally responsible for the degrading of women, the animalization of men and the crumbling of culture. If the porn workshops, cross dressing and decoupaged plates of little girls with the word, "VAGINA" next to her is a lie, then please disregard my email. To appease to the lowest appetites of humanity and facilitate people, young and old, to nothing more than fodder for pleasure is repugnant.
All relationships, regardless of gender, should be based in a mutual understanding of dignity and respect.
As a woman, I need you to know that just because some woman say they are OK with being a "warm place to put it" --that is not so. By fueling the war on the women, that views us as mere receptacles for someone's DNA, you set us back to the days when at least society had the guts to say we weren't equal.
Please think about it.
Ms. CM LeMark
Monday, May 13, 2013
Fight Pornography in Marion Co. - VOTE for Gayle Strawn, write-in David Jacobson and Denise Quinn Nanke.
Vote to save Oregon by writing in David Jacobson, Denise Quinn Nanke and just fill in the box by Gayle Strawn's name for Marion County Salem/Keizer School District School Board. When they win, with your vote (or contact someone in Marion county that needs to know this), they can lead the School Board in a way to get back to real education and get Planned Parenthood out of the schools.
You might have kids in public school, private school, homeschool them, have no kids in school....save them from the corruption of Planned Parenthood.
The children you love, which should be all of them, will NOT be unaffected from the evil of the "classes" given by pro-abortion (Kermit Gosnell baby-killing included) and pro-homosexual Planned Parenthood. They will be the peers of your children. Any question of this true evil, check it out:
Take Care Down There..for kids from Planned Parenthood please click the link.
Thanks Bill Post for this cheat sheet.
You might have kids in public school, private school, homeschool them, have no kids in school....save them from the corruption of Planned Parenthood.
The children you love, which should be all of them, will NOT be unaffected from the evil of the "classes" given by pro-abortion (Kermit Gosnell baby-killing included) and pro-homosexual Planned Parenthood. They will be the peers of your children. Any question of this true evil, check it out:
Take Care Down There..for kids from Planned Parenthood please click the link.
Thanks Bill Post for this cheat sheet.
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| Write-in Zone 1 - David Jacobson; Zone 2 - Denise Quinn Nanke. Vote Gayle Strawn Zone 5
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Happy "Cosmic" Mother's Day from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
"Human motherhood is two-fold in essence and is a more complex thing than motherhood among the animals. There is, first, the physical act of giving birth, which women share with all of nature. As the tree bears fruit and the hen hatches her eggs, so every mother, by the act of birth is bound up with the life of all living things, and her of her may be rightly said, "Blessed is the fruit of thy womb."
But human motherhood has a second and far lordlier aspect - that of the spirit. The soul of a child does not emanate from the mother's soul or body, but if freshly created by God Himself, Who infuses it into the body of the unborn child.
Physiological motherhood is glorified by this co-operation with God Himself, who fathered the baby's soul and then permitted a woman to clothe it in her flesh. The human mother does not bear a mere animal but a man, made to the image and likeness of the God Who created him."
It is well known that women are capable of far more sustained sacrifice than men; a man may be a hero in a crisis, which enables a woman to be heroic through the years, months, days and even seconds of her life, when the very repetitive monotony of her tasks wears down the spirit. Not only a woman's days but her nights--must share in the Calvary of Motherhood.
This is why women have a surer understanding of the doctrine of redemption than men have; they have come to associate the risk of life and death in childbirth, and to understand the sacrifice of self to another through the many months preceding it."
"And the co-operation with grace in a mother, although it may be unconscious on her part, yet makes her a partner of Divinity: every human mother is, in as sense, "over-shadowed by the Holy Ghost."
Not a priest, and yet endowed with a kind of priestly power, she, too, brings God to man, and man to God. She brings God to man by accepting her mother's role, and thus permitting God to infuse a new soul in her body for it to bear.
She brings man to God in childbirth itself, when she allows herself to be used as an instrument by which another child of God is born into the world."
If motherhood is seen as a matter involving only a woman and a man, it is seen too astigmatically, and without the honor that it is due. For to comprehend the real significance of motherhood, we must include the spiritual element that goes to make a child--we must see the human woman co-operating with her husband, the father of the human baby, and with God the Father of a soul that it eternal, indestructible and unlike any other ever formed throughout the history of the world. Thus every human motherhood involves a partnership with the Divine"
The Way to Happiness by Fulton J. Sheen.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
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