One week after calling an end to its nine-year boycott of the Walt Disney Company, the American Family Association has launched another nationwide campaign. The target this time? The world's second-largest automaker.

On Monday (May 30), AFA announced it has launched a boycott against the Ford Motor Company because of the company's track record for supporting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual "marriage." The pro-family group's founder and chairman, Donald E. Wildmon, says Ford's financial support of the homosexual agenda goes far beyond a few donations.

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By Beverley Wang
Associated Press

LITTLETON - Gay marriage commissioners made their first group foray outside
the state capital Tuesday to ask the public whether, and how, same-sex
couples should be recognized in New Hampshire.

The answers they received tilted overwhelmingly in favor of allowing civil
unions and marriage.

About 100 people gathered at the Littleton Opera House to meet the 15-member
panel, created last year to examine all aspects of same-sex civil marriage,
its alternatives and the legal ramifications. By the lengthy meeting’s
2½-hour mark, only three people had spoken against same-sex unions.
Gay marriage proponents in the North Country heard the same message that had
been pushed repeatedly by others in past meetings: Limiting marriage to
heterosexuals is a civil rights violation that needs to be corrected.
"Separate but not quite equal will never be equal," said Ronnie Sandler, of
Easton, who asked commissioners to support civil marriage for gays and
lesbians.

Several members of the clergy testified Tuesday, but only one spoke against
same-sex unions. Rev. Curt Hanners, of Christ Church in Littleton, warned
that efforts to normalize homosexual relationships posed a hazard to
families and children. Hanners blamed popular culture and political
correctness for the "popularization" of homosexuality.

"We appeal to you and the governor ... to reject these efforts," he said.
Hanners said his church split from New Hampshire’s Episcopal Diocese because
of opposition to Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the only openly gay bishop elected
to head an Episcopal diocese.

The commission also heard testimony from Rev. Brendan Hadash, who said about
half of the parishioners at his St. Johnsbury, Vt., Unitarian Universalist
Church come from New Hampshire. Five years after Vermont legalized civil
unions for gays and lesbians, Hadash said heterosexual marriage had been
strengthened by the increased attention on marital rights.

"Since civil unions were legalized in Vermont, the number of straight
weddings I have performed has almost quadrupled," he said.
The commission’s next on-the-road meeting is planned for Portsmouth in June.

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"We know it's a repressive regime. Everyone in the world knows that. It's been that way for decades. Anyone who's read Amnesty International or any of the human rights organizations about how the regime of Saddam Hussein treats its people - heck, he used chemicals on his own people, as well as on his neighbors."

- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 3/27/03

VERSUS

"For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously."

- Vice President Dick Cheney, 5/30/05

from C4AP

Panama Canal threatened by denuded forest watershed

Here's how the Panama Canal works: Torrential downpours batter the country's forests during rainy season; the water is absorbed into the watershed and feeds steadily into massive, human-made Gatun Lake; the lake then feeds water into the canal. The shipping route thus provided is responsible for some 40 percent of the nation's economy. Here's the problem: Half the forest in the watershed surrounding the canal has been lost to slash-and-burn agriculture and logging, and the deforested land doesn't hold water well. A cutting-edge new effort would have companies that rely on the canal fund a bond that would pay for forest restoration. If you've ever wondered why there's such fuss over "ecosystem services," just look to Panama: "Without the water," says one canal guide, "we would be the biggest ditch in the whole world."

In light of recent reports that pharmacies are refusing to refill birth control prescriptions, CVS Pharmacy has come out with a new policy to ensure that all prescriptions are filled without delay.

From C4AP

Paul Krugman: Too Few, Yet Too Many

US and UK Bombing Raids Tried to Goad Saddam into War

British Troops Face War Crimes Trial

Fear of Civil War Spreads Across Iraq

Burning Crosses Signal Return of KKK

US Blamed for Nuclear Conference Failure

Florida Woman Charged over Daughter's Abortion

Republican Donor Embroiled in $10M Coin Scandal

New Reports: Koran Desecrated at Guantanamo

A Texas judge ruled that Tom Delay's Texas political committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, violated Texas campaign law when it failed to disclose more than half a million dollars in corporate campaign contributions during the 2002 state legislative elections. We speak with the executive director of Texans for Public Justice.

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from Democracy Now!

Against the protestations of the couple involved, an Indianapolis judge placed a provision in a couple's divorce decree that "prohibits [the man] and his ex-wife from exposing their child to 'non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals.

from C4AP

Democrats follow Clintonomics down the toilet:

Democrats are still engaged in a debate about whether to continue embracing Clinton-style corporate-written "free" trade deals, or whether to start putting America's middle-class first. If there was any debate about where the right place to go politically is, a new poll puts it to rest.

The new Democracy Corps poll pits the New York Times' Tom Friedman's "free" trade views up against CNN's Lou Dobbs' views on fair trade - and it shows Dobbs views destroy Friedman's in the public's mind.

Sadly, the former Clintonites/Beltway insiders who put together this poll (some of whom like Stan Greenberg I do really admire) couldn't prevent their own biases from trying to skew the result: they could only bring themselves to write a headline that said a huge 54%-40% gap meant that "Lou Dobbs is ahead of Tom Friedman FOR NOW."

Nonetheless, this poll should serve as a big wake up call to Democrats: on trade, stop listening to the likes of Wall Street types like Bob Rubin and Tom Friedman, and start listening to Lou Dobbs' and those of us who have shown how powerful a populist message on trade really is.

Cowering for our Troops:

Polls show 57 percent of Americans believe going to war in Iraq was not worth it. Yet, this week, almost 70 percent of lawmakers (including, pathetically, top members of the Democratic leadership) in the House of Representatives voted against a bipartisan, non-binding resolution asking the President to submit a plan to Congress explaining an exit strategy from Iraq.

Possibly more insulting than the vote itself was the fact that Republicans actually equated asking for an exit strategy to abandoning America's troops. Apparently to the GOP, continuing to have no exit strategy at all and leaving our young men and women in a violent Middle Eastern quagmire is the real way to show our troops respect.


WHY DID WE BOTHER TO STAND UP AGAINST THE NUCLEAR OPTION? WHEN CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS ARE IN SUCH A HURRY TO LAY DOWN!!!