(Vatican City) Pope Benedict XVI hit out Friday at Canada's laws allowing same sex marriage and abortion, saying they result from Catholic politicians ignoring the values of their religion."In the name of 'tolerance' your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse, and in the name of 'freedom of choice' it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children," the pope told a group of bishops from Ontario. Such laws, he said, are the result of "the exclusion of God from the public sphere."
Just who does he think he is. if anything he need to clean his own house before telling others what to do.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Child sex-sting rabbi convicted in Virginia
SUMMARY: David A. Kaye was found guilty of two counts after a televised sting aided by the Internet watchdog group "Perverted Justice."
A Maryland rabbi caught in a nationally televised sex sting was convicted Wednesday of traveling to Virginia for sex with what he believed to be a 13-year-old boy he met over the Internet.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., found David A. Kaye, 56, of Rockville, Md., guilty of coercing and enticing a minor and of traveling across state lines for illegal sexual contact.
During a bench trial last month, prosecutors presented evidence of sexually graphic chats between Kaye and adults from an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice who were pretending to be minors.
The group was working with the NBC newsmagazine "Dateline," which paid the watchdog group to create a pedophile sting. Kaye was one of several men who showed up at a Herndon, Va., home and were confronted on camera by correspondent Chris Hansen.
U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris wrote that prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence, including outtakes from the NBC show and a log of chats that Kaye initiated with the supposed 13-year-old. The judge noted that when confronted, Kaye told Hansen, "You know I'm in trouble. I know I'm in trouble."
Kaye acknowledged during his trial that he traveled to the home in hope of having sex, but said he always believed the person on the other end of the conversation was a young adult role-playing as a 13-year-old.
Kaye, who is divorced, acknowledged that he frequently had homosexual encounters with people he met in online chat rooms, but said none was a minor. He said he hid his homosexual activity over many decades from his wife of 30 years and from his former congregants in Potomac, Md.
In the wake of the sting, he resigned from his job as vice president of Rockville-based Jewish youth organization called PANIM: the Institute for Jewish Leaders and Values. Kaye, who has been jailed since his arrest in May, faces up to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 1. (AP)
See it guys like this, that gives us a bad name. I also blame the cop that play a child on line to get these people in the first place.
However he should have know better, I sure he could find a guy over the age of 18 to play with.
A Maryland rabbi caught in a nationally televised sex sting was convicted Wednesday of traveling to Virginia for sex with what he believed to be a 13-year-old boy he met over the Internet.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., found David A. Kaye, 56, of Rockville, Md., guilty of coercing and enticing a minor and of traveling across state lines for illegal sexual contact.
During a bench trial last month, prosecutors presented evidence of sexually graphic chats between Kaye and adults from an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice who were pretending to be minors.
The group was working with the NBC newsmagazine "Dateline," which paid the watchdog group to create a pedophile sting. Kaye was one of several men who showed up at a Herndon, Va., home and were confronted on camera by correspondent Chris Hansen.
U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris wrote that prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence, including outtakes from the NBC show and a log of chats that Kaye initiated with the supposed 13-year-old. The judge noted that when confronted, Kaye told Hansen, "You know I'm in trouble. I know I'm in trouble."
Kaye acknowledged during his trial that he traveled to the home in hope of having sex, but said he always believed the person on the other end of the conversation was a young adult role-playing as a 13-year-old.
Kaye, who is divorced, acknowledged that he frequently had homosexual encounters with people he met in online chat rooms, but said none was a minor. He said he hid his homosexual activity over many decades from his wife of 30 years and from his former congregants in Potomac, Md.
In the wake of the sting, he resigned from his job as vice president of Rockville-based Jewish youth organization called PANIM: the Institute for Jewish Leaders and Values. Kaye, who has been jailed since his arrest in May, faces up to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 1. (AP)
See it guys like this, that gives us a bad name. I also blame the cop that play a child on line to get these people in the first place.
However he should have know better, I sure he could find a guy over the age of 18 to play with.
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie support same-sex marriage
Brad Pitt, ever the social activist, says he won't be marrying Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped.
"Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands September 19.
In the article he reflects on "15 things I think everyone should know."
Though Shiloh, the world-famous daughter of Pitt and girlfriend–earth mother Jolie, hogged much attention upon her birth in May, Pitt says he "cannot imagine life" without adopted children Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1.
"They're as much of my blood as any natural-born, and I'm theirs," says Pitt. "That's all I can say about it. I can't live without them. So anyone considering [adoption], that's my vote."
Pitt, who plays a world traveler in the upcoming drama Babel, subscribes to a laid-back parenting style. "I try not to stifle them in any way," he says. "If it's not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they're quite rambunctious."
Lucky kids.
"I feel it's really important to have that time to sit and talk to them," he continues. "I really like that last minute before they fade off. And always give them a heads-up before you jerk them out of something. You need to tell them, like, 'You have three more minutes.' " (AP)
Well ain't that so nice of him.
"Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands September 19.
In the article he reflects on "15 things I think everyone should know."
Though Shiloh, the world-famous daughter of Pitt and girlfriend–earth mother Jolie, hogged much attention upon her birth in May, Pitt says he "cannot imagine life" without adopted children Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1.
"They're as much of my blood as any natural-born, and I'm theirs," says Pitt. "That's all I can say about it. I can't live without them. So anyone considering [adoption], that's my vote."
Pitt, who plays a world traveler in the upcoming drama Babel, subscribes to a laid-back parenting style. "I try not to stifle them in any way," he says. "If it's not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they're quite rambunctious."
Lucky kids.
"I feel it's really important to have that time to sit and talk to them," he continues. "I really like that last minute before they fade off. And always give them a heads-up before you jerk them out of something. You need to tell them, like, 'You have three more minutes.' " (AP)
Well ain't that so nice of him.
Gay History = Human History
Gay History = Human History Brief gay history survey and guide to highlights History is written by the victors.
They choose what will be remembered, and what covered up. So it has been with male eros. Looking at any history textbook, one would think that never has a society praised love between men, never has a painter, a poet or a pope shared his bed and his heart with another male. Evidence of same-sex love has been either quietly suppressed, as with the Greeks and Romans, or quickly destroyed, as is still done with newly unearthed Inca and Mayan art. The result of this deception has been a needless polarization of society and untold suffering for those people who happen to fall in love with others of their own sex.
Uncensored, the historical record reveals an opposite reality: the male love instinct is a universal constant. Only society's attitude towards it has varied. All cultures have regulated male love, weaving varied tapestries of ritual around it. And a few have tried - to no avail - to regulate it out of existence.
As a rule, male love was part of the social and religious fabric. From the city states of ancient Greece and Rome with its emperors (Trajan and Hadrian among others), to the Siberian shamans and Native American two-spirit medicine men, from the African tribesmen to Chinese emperors and scholars, people the world over understood and made space for men's vulnerability to the beauty of other males. They accepted that - whether married or not - men fell in love with men or youths, dreamt about them, wrote about them, fought over them, and took them to bed. And they usually understood that boy children were excluded from the game of love, to the same degree that they understood that girl children were excluded as well.
In Ancient Greece love between males was in many ways analogous to the marriages of the time, seen as equally important in the life of the individual, and enshrined in Greek mythology. It was the cornerstone of a cultural tradition that 2500 years ago provoked the awakening of democracy, theater, philosophy, mathematics, history, and so on. Male love was thought to bring out the best qualities in a youth, especially manliness and courage. In warfare soldiers often fought side-by-side with their beloveds, as in the renowned Theban band; later, led by Alexander the Great and his boyfriend Hephaestion, the Greeks conquered the known world. Greece, of course, was no Utopia: prostitution and rape, often attended by slavery, were common.
In Japan,apprentice Samurai paired up with older warriors to be trained in love and war, and even the shogun had - besides his concubines - many boyfriends, their "nanshoku" loves recorded by writers and shunga painters who immortalized "shudo," the Way of the Young. They likewise immortalized the hard lives of the "tobiko" or fly boys, traveling young kabuki actors who had to labor on stage by day and please their clients in bed by night.
In the Moslem lands, famous Iranian and Arab poets such as Hafiz i-Shirazi and Abu Nuwas praised and rued the charms of boys (whom they sometimes plied with wine and seduced). Sufi holy men from India to Turkey sought to find Allah by gazing upon the beauty of beardless youths. Storytellers enshrined gay love tales in the Thousand and One Nights. Artists like Riza i-Abbasi amused kings and princes with exquisitely wrought Persian miniatures and calligraphies. Mullahs and censors railed against male love, but men of all walks of life, from Caliphs to porters, delighted in it and all looked forward to being attended by "unaging youths as beautiful as pearls" once in paradise.
In North America and Siberia, shamanic traditions dating back to the stone age recognized the special spiritual powers of those men and women drawn to same-sex love, as we still see in the Native American two-spirit tradition, which survives to this day.
In the pre-modern west, male love survived mostly underground, visible only when the lovers were unlucky enough to get caught, or when hinted at by artists brave enough to flout convention. Many writers, musicians, painters and poets depicted male love, but always in coded form: Michelangelo, who adorned the Sistine Chapel with vibrant male nudes; Shakespeare, who serenaded his darling boy in his sonnets; Blake who railed against priests "binding with briars my joys and desires;" Whitman, who sang the body electric. The list of luminaries, artists, statesmen, men of the cloth, knights and knaves who felt the pull of male love - by itself, or alongside the love of women - is endless.
The big lie that same-sex love is "against nature," a fiction which flies in the face of both biology and history, depends on censorship for its survival. We at the Androphile Project, gleaning the work of scholars in gay studies, aim to undo that censorship by publicizing gay love's role in man's spirit and culture: its successes, its failures, and the controversies it has given rise to over the millennia. We hope the prose and poetry, religion and mythology, art, philosophy and history collected here from around the world will serve to deepen understanding of male love's place in human nature. As this is being written (winter 2004), it could also illuminate the growing debate about gay marriage, a tradition documented the world over for thousands of years, but nowhere as widely or as recently as in North America, where it was practiced and honored by many of the First Nations.
The documents gathered here are the footprints of the Gay Muse, who has inspired men and women on every continent since the dawn of time. They bear witness to the fact that male love is irrepressible. Where forbidden, it has prevailed over stonings, burnings, lobotomies, schoolyard homophobia, the gallows and the gaol. Where welcomed, it has openly blossomed into the highest achievements of the human mind.
They choose what will be remembered, and what covered up. So it has been with male eros. Looking at any history textbook, one would think that never has a society praised love between men, never has a painter, a poet or a pope shared his bed and his heart with another male. Evidence of same-sex love has been either quietly suppressed, as with the Greeks and Romans, or quickly destroyed, as is still done with newly unearthed Inca and Mayan art. The result of this deception has been a needless polarization of society and untold suffering for those people who happen to fall in love with others of their own sex.
Uncensored, the historical record reveals an opposite reality: the male love instinct is a universal constant. Only society's attitude towards it has varied. All cultures have regulated male love, weaving varied tapestries of ritual around it. And a few have tried - to no avail - to regulate it out of existence.
As a rule, male love was part of the social and religious fabric. From the city states of ancient Greece and Rome with its emperors (Trajan and Hadrian among others), to the Siberian shamans and Native American two-spirit medicine men, from the African tribesmen to Chinese emperors and scholars, people the world over understood and made space for men's vulnerability to the beauty of other males. They accepted that - whether married or not - men fell in love with men or youths, dreamt about them, wrote about them, fought over them, and took them to bed. And they usually understood that boy children were excluded from the game of love, to the same degree that they understood that girl children were excluded as well.
In Ancient Greece love between males was in many ways analogous to the marriages of the time, seen as equally important in the life of the individual, and enshrined in Greek mythology. It was the cornerstone of a cultural tradition that 2500 years ago provoked the awakening of democracy, theater, philosophy, mathematics, history, and so on. Male love was thought to bring out the best qualities in a youth, especially manliness and courage. In warfare soldiers often fought side-by-side with their beloveds, as in the renowned Theban band; later, led by Alexander the Great and his boyfriend Hephaestion, the Greeks conquered the known world. Greece, of course, was no Utopia: prostitution and rape, often attended by slavery, were common.
In Japan,apprentice Samurai paired up with older warriors to be trained in love and war, and even the shogun had - besides his concubines - many boyfriends, their "nanshoku" loves recorded by writers and shunga painters who immortalized "shudo," the Way of the Young. They likewise immortalized the hard lives of the "tobiko" or fly boys, traveling young kabuki actors who had to labor on stage by day and please their clients in bed by night.
In the Moslem lands, famous Iranian and Arab poets such as Hafiz i-Shirazi and Abu Nuwas praised and rued the charms of boys (whom they sometimes plied with wine and seduced). Sufi holy men from India to Turkey sought to find Allah by gazing upon the beauty of beardless youths. Storytellers enshrined gay love tales in the Thousand and One Nights. Artists like Riza i-Abbasi amused kings and princes with exquisitely wrought Persian miniatures and calligraphies. Mullahs and censors railed against male love, but men of all walks of life, from Caliphs to porters, delighted in it and all looked forward to being attended by "unaging youths as beautiful as pearls" once in paradise.
In North America and Siberia, shamanic traditions dating back to the stone age recognized the special spiritual powers of those men and women drawn to same-sex love, as we still see in the Native American two-spirit tradition, which survives to this day.
In the pre-modern west, male love survived mostly underground, visible only when the lovers were unlucky enough to get caught, or when hinted at by artists brave enough to flout convention. Many writers, musicians, painters and poets depicted male love, but always in coded form: Michelangelo, who adorned the Sistine Chapel with vibrant male nudes; Shakespeare, who serenaded his darling boy in his sonnets; Blake who railed against priests "binding with briars my joys and desires;" Whitman, who sang the body electric. The list of luminaries, artists, statesmen, men of the cloth, knights and knaves who felt the pull of male love - by itself, or alongside the love of women - is endless.
The big lie that same-sex love is "against nature," a fiction which flies in the face of both biology and history, depends on censorship for its survival. We at the Androphile Project, gleaning the work of scholars in gay studies, aim to undo that censorship by publicizing gay love's role in man's spirit and culture: its successes, its failures, and the controversies it has given rise to over the millennia. We hope the prose and poetry, religion and mythology, art, philosophy and history collected here from around the world will serve to deepen understanding of male love's place in human nature. As this is being written (winter 2004), it could also illuminate the growing debate about gay marriage, a tradition documented the world over for thousands of years, but nowhere as widely or as recently as in North America, where it was practiced and honored by many of the First Nations.
The documents gathered here are the footprints of the Gay Muse, who has inspired men and women on every continent since the dawn of time. They bear witness to the fact that male love is irrepressible. Where forbidden, it has prevailed over stonings, burnings, lobotomies, schoolyard homophobia, the gallows and the gaol. Where welcomed, it has openly blossomed into the highest achievements of the human mind.
Something for Bush to Put in His Big Ass Mouth
I can only hope that It will shut him the hell up.
Not a very good speaker anyway.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Matt Dallas, Is he or Isn't he
The hot new Star of Kyle XY, is rumor to be gay, in my book I just don't care. He hot, and fresh. What more is there to know.
If he is I hope he will come out of the closet, if not that is ok with me
Need a better Pic
Male 21 years old STAFFORD, VIRGINIA United States
Hobbies:
Driving around, hanging out with friends, going to the club, watching movies... Btw, ladies...I'm gay. So if you want a friend...you can talk to me. ;)
Latest News:
Favorite Quote:
Procrastination is like masturbation, its all good until you realize you’re fucking yourself! ,
most of the info came from his yahoo profile...http://profiles.yahoo.com/abromc454jive
NEED TO GET A BETTER PICTURE TO USE. HOWEVER ON THE OTHER HAND HE IS KINDA CUTE, I SURELY WOULDN'T PASS HIM UP IN BAR ARE AT THE MALL. I WOULD BRAKE FOR HIM ANYTIME.
MMMM Something I found Very Hot
He has it right, mmmm I just want to tough that package my self, then just pull them briefs/speedo down and to business.
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