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...for mentioning my abuse victim's advocacy blog and this blog. Carnival Against Sexual Violence 63 very thought provoking and enlightening articles, as always. Kudos to you Marcella !
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Myth: Republicans value sexual morality (If links are broken or missing, Google.com is your friend. These all happened prior to the Mark Foley Scandal) Adelphia Communications Corp. : Donated large sums of money to some of the most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable company to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers. Daily Kos article Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator from Puerto Rico , was sentenced to 13 years in prison for molestation of his daughter and her friend for eight-year period starting when they were 9. Full Article Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist from Colorado , arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. Source Also accused of sexually assaulting another girl. Denver ABC Article Dick Armey (R-Texas) , former professor, has been accused by The Dallas Observer of sexually harassing female students. J...
RELIGION AND SEX The Immoral Majority: Finding sexual ethics in the godless masses - Don Lattin Our nation's self-anointed arbiters of public morality love to point their fingers at San Francisco and "the '60s." And many of us have gotten all too comfortable in this role as the hedonists and heretics of an otherwise God- fearing nation. OK, we're not perfect, and neither were those wild times, but can't the pundits of piety find another decade to bash and a new city to trash? According to some evangelical observers, the youth of America came here in the '60s with flowers in their hair and lust in their heart. Infected with the sins of the flesh and the wisdom of the East, they went forth across the land to spawn the first "post-Christian generation." But don't worry. True believers across the Bible Belt are praying for the poor lost souls of all those "unchurched'' twentysomethings and thirtysomethings born in the late '60s ...