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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, July 18, 1980
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Orthodox Jew. The resolution endorsing homosexual rights, abortion on
demand, the ERA and three minor issues was scheduled to be brought to a
vote on Saturday, June 7. Dr. Rosenshein asked several times for an
absentee ballot, since he wasn't going to attend any sessions of the con
ference on the Sabbath. His requests went unanswered. As it turned out,
the resolution passed by only one vote: 292-291. Dr. Rosenshein would
have voted against it,�reating a tie and preventing its passage. (A
walkout of a group of 55 conservative anti-abortionists and anti-gays
also paved the way for the resolution's passage.)
The victory surprised Joan Deforeest, a lesbian delegate from Reading, PA.
"I expected to make a statement," she told of her decision to attend. "I
thought it'd be a gesture representing millions of gay families around
the nation. I didn't expect to ever get farther than that."
One delegate, avowed homosexual and "gay rights" activist, Eric Rofes,
was ecstatic that "his side" had won.
"The White House Conference today voted to support gay rights," Rofes
said incredulously. "That's historic. It has to be noted because 10
years ago we wouldn't have been allowed to come in here." Even by one
vote, that has to impress me. It shows there is a strong enough group
here that feels enough about the civil rights of lesbians and gay men to
stick their necks out."
God says, of course, that such a "victory" will be short-lived: "The
show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare
their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they
have rewarded evil unto themselves" (Isa. 3:9).
In Los Angeles, incidentally, the conferences endorsed roughly the same
bag of proposals--ERA, abortion on demand and homosexual rights in housing.
As a result, one group in attendance, the National Pro Life Coalition,
termed the White House Conference "a fraud." Connie Marshner of Washing
ton, D.C., coalition chairman, objected to the conference "legitimizing"
non-conventional families such as gay and unmarried heterosexual house
holds.
"A government, which, regardless of the benevolence of its intentions,
attempts to take over the family's job of providing for the needs of its
members, is laying the groundwork for the destruction of the family unit,"
the group stated in its position paper.
Castro Uses U.S. as Gay Dump Site
Perhaps Fidel Castro was watching the antics of the farcical White House
Conference too. Of the 115,000 Cuban refugees he has let go recently, as
many as 20,000 of them, reports the Washington Post, are said to be homo
sexuals! To engage in homosexual acts is a crime in Cuba, so Fidel knew
where to dump his unwanted "gays"--into the "Land of the Free" (to do
every licentious thing.)
"The Immigration and Naturalization Service no longer keeps people out
just because they are homosexual," Mr. Robert Havel, a spokesman for the
U.S. Justice Department, told the Post. "There was a time when they were
kept out because homosexuality was considered an illness. But the United
States Public Health Service no longer sees homosexuality that way."
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau