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Anti-Gay Politician, a DUI, a Gay Bar and a Child Prostitution Ring at the Vatican. Oh my!!

Early Wednesday morning, State Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Calif.) was pulled over and arrested for drunk driving. Sources report that Ashburn -- a fierce opponent of gay rights -- was driving drunk after leaving a gay nightclub; when the officer stopped the state-issued vehicle, there was an unidentified man in the passenger seat of the car.

Green Man: Oh Senator Ashburn, me thinks thou doth protest too much!! Ranting and raving to no end about the "evils of homosexuality" is a classic sign of your own inner, sexual turmoil. I normally don't care about peoples' sex lives unless they themselves make a big deal about the sex lives of everyone else. This isn't very shocking but what would be shocking is if a gay, Republican politician proudly came out of the closet on his/her own rather than being exposed as a self-hating hypocrite. I'm not saying that there aren't hypocrites in the Democratic party because there are but when it comes to sexual hypocrisy? Especially when in-line with homosexuality? The Republicans nearly have a monopoly. Now, in other "news" a child prostitution ring has been exposed in relation to the Vatican:

A papal aide used an intermediary in an elite Vatican choir to solicit young male choristers and seminarians for prostitution. Police wiretaps are expected to result in charges against Angelo Balducci, 63, a Papal Gentleman, as lay attendant are called, and the former chairman of the Holy See's Public Works Department, which is itself caught up in a corruption investigation. According to police, Balducci regularly contacted Chinedu Ehiem Thomas, a Nigerian man who sings in St. Peter's Cappella Giulia, to engage the sexual services of young male members of the choir, along with seminarians and undocumented immigrants seeking residency status. Ehiem, 40, who goes by the nickname Mike, and his assistant Lorenzo Renzi, 33, allegedly arranged for prostitutes for Balducci several times a week. The two men are said to have operated a network of aspiring young priests, choir members and sometimes recruited foreigners seeking to secure their immigration status.

Green Man: I find it ironic that the Catholic church has so many sex scandals and yet has the temerity to get involved in telling other people how they should behave sexually!! What does a celibate person know about sexuality anyway?!! And then the Catholics think they have the credibility to weigh in on the gay marriage debate??? They are up to the eye-balls in priests and officials engaging in sex acts with children, yet they are going to lecture law-abiding homosexuals and heterosexuals on what is "correct sexual conduct???" Bullshit. That's like taking financial advice from Bernie Madoff. I'm so sick of the religious mafia going around and condemning everyone while they leave a trail of pain, abuse and hatred behind them. If these religious organizations are going to insist on involving themselves in political matters then it's about damn time to tax them!!

~The Green Man has Spoken~

Mormons Tried to Hide Involvement in Campaign to Prevent Gay Marriage.

The Mormon church has long tried to give the impression that they don't want to get involved in political issues except that's not true. They wanted statehood for Utah but the federal government wouldn't allow it unless it ended polygamy. Well, wouldn't you know it then that not much longer after that the "prophet" of the church (who is also the leader) received a "revelation" from "God" that man isn't ready for polygamy. Convenient. Then they received another convenient revelation during the height of the civil rights movement to allow blacks to enter the priesthood. They didn't have a very good opinion of blacks up until that point and some, today, still are somewhat racist. Then comes Proposition 8 in California, which made gay marriage illegal in California but they tried to hide their involvement in that bigoted campaign:

The Mormon church worked to hide its involvement in the 2008 effort to ban gay marriage in California, telling the Proposition 8 campaign that it wanted "plausible deniability" in its connections with the movement, documents revealed in a California courtroom Wednesday show. One key email that got the attention of Julia Rosen at the Prop 8 Trial Tracker blog was one between officials of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and the Proposition 8 campaign, which read in part:

With respect to Prop. 8 campaign, key talking points will come from campaign, but cautious, strategic, not to take the lead so as to provide plausible deniability or respectable distance so as not to show that church is directly involved.

Green Man: Interesting that a church, which cautions against "secret combinations" as stated over and over in their Book of Mormon (in other words, secret groups dealing behind closed doors) would try to cover its tracks. As someone who was born and raised in that church and who spent 22 years of his life doing its bidding, I can tell you that their squeaky clean, polished, professional, open and innocent image is a carefully crafted lie. They are masters at manipulation, brain washing and other forms of indoctrination

One of their most effective tools in missionary work is deception and manipulation. I know this because I myself served a two-year mission for them. They present their church during missionary work as being a mainstream religion such a Methodism. However, once you get into the church deeper and deeper you begin to learn about some strange things that they never taught you about in the missionary lessons. These include their past on polygamy, (including that they'll practice it later in "heaven") race relations, secrets about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. As well as what goes on in their bizarre temple rituals, which include secret handshakes, rituals and ceremonies. As well as veiling women and wearing weird ritual clothing such as aprons like the Masons and weird hats. They don't prepare you for it much, nor give you much of a true picture of what actually goes on in the temple. The missionaries often prey either willingly or unwillingly upon the poor and those going through a crisis in their life where their rational thinking might be weak. My own grandmother joined the church as a way to cope with a childhood of abuse.

They get you to believe that if you follow them and their programs and pay their mandatory 10% tithing that you'll have eternal life with your family and posterity forever. So, in some ways it's a pyramid scheme. They are one of the richest religious organizations out there. If you don't pay your dues (mandatory tithing) then you can't go to the temple. If you can't go to the temple then you can't get married in the official ceremony. If you can't get a "celestial marriage" then you can't make it into the highest category of "heaven." Yes, they even stratify "heaven." The deeper you go the more they promise and the more they expect from you.

They get you to devote your life to them by making each member play an active role in keeping the church going. Thus, keeping you under their watchful eye and away from anything and anyone that isn't Mormon. The longer you stay the more you're connected with them via your family and friends. So, they give you strong hints that if you leave you'll go to "Hell" and no longer see your friends and family. And if you question the leaders you're questioning "God" himself. This gives the leaders a lot of power of you. This is all classic cult-like behavior.