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31 October, 1997:

I feel compelled to speak out to the employers and employees of the great state of Washington about an initiative I believe is misleading . . . When we deny employers that right [to consider someone's behavior in hiring] based on someone's sexual preference it puts us all on a slippery slope.
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Steve Largent, Seattle Seahawk, Hall of Fame receiver, and now Republican member of Congress, speaking out against Initiative 677 in an open letter to the citizens of Washington.

For more click: here.

31 October, 1997:

I-677 would actually cause discrimination itself, stealing freedoms of speech and conscience from one group of employees and employers, and giving special standing in court - and a lawsuit sledgehammer over any who disagree - to another group.
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Robert R. Larimer, Jr., Spokesman for the N.O.P.E. (No Official Preferential Employment) Committee, in a recent letter to the editor.

For more click: here.

For MEDIA inquiries:
CONTACT: Bob Larimer
(360) 695-4845 OR
Sid Turbyfill
(425) 821-3341


The great crisis in American education is not at the university level. It is at the elementary and high school levels, where thousands of kids -- particularly inner-city minority kids -- are getting educations so rotten that their entire life prospects are blighted.
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer as quoted in a 10/31/97 news release by FRC President Gary Bauer concerning his great disappointment in the "torpedoing" of an initiative for expanding educational opportunities to children in grades K-12.

For more click: here.


14 August 1997:

People seeking professional mental health therapy as a way out of homosexuality may soon face a brick wall erected by those who want to deny any hope of change.

A decision expected on Thursday by an American Psychological Association governing body would force sexual reorientation therapists to read a statement to their patients declaring that homosexuality is normal and healthy.
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From news release by Family Research Council.

For the full news release, click here.


14 May 1997:

. . . adults have a duty to be outraged? Some rebellious teenagers will always push the limits. It is the responsibility of the elders to push back. But since just about Elvis Presley's time, we have become a nation without grownups. When teenagers rebel, it's like pushing on a string. And so the rebellion takes more and more outrageous forms in search of a response. [emphasis added]

We are coming close to cultural meltdown. Yet, too many American adults, particularly those in the media, would rather die than appear uncool. In other words, they are still mental teenagers themselves. There is apparently nothing, no matter how debased, degraded, disgusting or contemptible that will elicit censure from them. Censure, after all, is what parents did to Elvis. And fitting in, not setting standards - or even upholding the norms of civilization - is the paramount concern for teenagers.
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Columnist Mona Charen criticizing The Washington Post for refusing to be "shocked" in writing about rocker Marilyn Manson whose stage antics take us deeper than ever into the abyss of "cultural depravity."

10 May 1997:

I'm concerned that nearly every institution in America has non-conservatives shouting the loudest. In one county, we had a prominent Democrat elected official (18 years in office) approach us with the complaint that the gay/lesbian block had completely taken over the county party as it had the state party apparatus as well. Most of the old-timers that he had started out with over [20] years ago had abandoned the D's over a decade ago because they had no forum for their traditional values (they'd always get shouted down). He had hoped they could rally to impact public policy through Washington for Traditional Values or some other organization. . . . But, my counsel was to take the party back!

I have the same message for disenchanted traditionalists everywhere. Take it back! In our generation, we have not have yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. If we will work and struggle against the corrupting elements in our institutions, others will rally to us. Or, do we think our bretheren evil that they would not respond to exposed injustice?
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From a E-mail correspondence in reply to a Washington state Democrat conservative activist who said, [I am] "active in the Democratic Party. I recommend everyone on this list join it. A party is a reflection of either the majority or those who are most vocal."

Sid Turbyfill
Vice President
WTV

10 May 1997:

. . . there is a real danger that those wishing to impose their pro-homosexual morality on our culture by pushing their private practices into public policies we must obey will, if they succeed, strip away our freedoms of speech and association.
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E-mail response to a vitriolic attack by a homosexual apologist who, in defense of pro-homosexual government policies, said ". . . we lose our freedom, one freedom at a time."

Robert R. Larimer Jr.
Executive Director
WTV

For Bob's full response: click here.

05 May 1997:

. . . being queer means pushing the parameters of sex, sexuality and family, and in the process, transforming the very fabric of society . . . . We must keep our eyes on the goals of providing true alternatives to marriage and of radically reordering society's views of reality.
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Paula Ettlebrick, policy director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights as quoted in OP-ED by Mike Gabbard of Alliance for Traditional Marriage in Hawaii.

For OP-ED click: here

05 May 1997:

. . . the acceptance of gay marriage would be the quickest, easiest route to the real goal, the acceptance of gays.
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Carol Greenhouse of the Marriage Project-Hawai`i as quoted in OP-ED by Mike Gabbard of Alliance for Traditional Marriage in Hawaii.

For OP-ED click: here

05 May 1997:

It's important to remember who started this divisiveness, not only in our community but all over the world. Legalizing "gay marriage" is an attack by homosexual activists and their supporters on the moral foundations of this country. They are committed to redefining marriage and family in order to achieve their ultimate goal--societal acceptance of homosexuality on an equal basis as heterosexuality.
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From OP-ED by Mike Gabbard of Alliance for Traditional Marriage in Hawaii.

For OP-ED click: here

01 May 1997:

If kids are having their rights to freedom of speech restricted, then they had better be told exactly what kinds of speech constitute "homophobic remarks" and exactly what rules pertain to avoiding such speech, and exactly what disciplinary action will be taken if they dare to utter such words.

. . . it was a disingenuous attack on academic freedom, and an inappropriate, manipulative effort to foster a "chilling effect" . . . to warn kids about the horrors of practicing "homophobia."
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From Thursday, May 1st National Public Radio comments re. sympathetic, affirming homosexual theater presentations to public school children.

Robert R. Larimer Jr.
Executive Director
WTV

For summary of comments, click here.

01 May 1997:

Taxpayers certainly are being forced to finance homosexual political advocacy in the public schools, and here again we also have television - a very powerful medium - being used to advance the homosexual agenda.
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From Thursday, May 1st Rolonda Show regarding the Ellen 'coming out' show, in response to the admission of a lesbian panelist that grade school children are being shown pro-homosexual films such as "It's Elementary" at school and being exposed to books like "Heather Has Two Mommies."

Robert R. Larimer Jr.
Executive Director
WTV

For news release, click here.


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CONTACT: Bob Larimer
(360) 695-4845 OR
Sid Turbyfill
(425) 821-3341

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19 Mar 1997:

"Certainly there is more at stake here than image. "People’s lives are being destroyed at the very hands that are supposed to provide succor and healing during tough times in families. What we’ve seen through tragedies like the OK Boys Ranch, Wenatchee witch hunts, Ms. Kidd’s case and too many others is that government is not family, cannot be family and is architecturally wrong to fulfill those responsibilities. The shear weight of recent disclosures of state wrongdoing fairly screams this out."

"Understand that many people who signed this petition knew that they were requesting an investigation of the agencies that they worked for which seems to me to be a very strong admission of the dire circumstances within their agencies. I think it bodes well that this movement is drawing its vitality from the best possible source - ‘We the People.’ As President Andrew Johnson reminded us in 1865, ‘Our government springs from and was made for the people-not the people for the Government. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength and wisdom.’ This petition proves that, the ‘courage, strength and wisdom’ of the people is still alive and well in Washington state.
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From news release about a petition drive appealing for an investigation of abuses of families by various government agencies.

Sid Turbyfill
Vice President
WTV

09 Mar 1997: Nice Americans.

"Making nice" has also killed a lot of homosexual participants who were never adequately confronted by their culture with the severely dangerous, the monumentally foolish and the incredibly irresponsible nature of their continued actions.

We Americans may be nice. If so, we are brutally nice.
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Commenting on Homosexual sophistry (below)

Sid Turbyfill
Vice President
WTV


08 Mar 1997: Homosexual sophistry.

This is the sophistry of the homosexual political agenda in a nutshell:

Convince people that if they dare to resist pro-homosexual activist's efforts to gain
successive levels of manipulative political power, then they "hate" homosexuals.

Only by your complete inaction, and your meek acceptance of someone else's taxpayer financed political agenda, can you prove that you are a nice person.

"Making nice" has been killing conservatives. When a responsible citizen is confronted with the choice of being "nice" or defending their culture from social tinkerers, the decision should be easy. PC protesters may shout "bigot" at you, but you'll be doing the right thing.
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PNEWS response to: "Romans, homosexuality -- Or, does it say anywhere that you can forget about loving thy neighbor and that you can hate this one with impunity?" which implied that Bob's confrontation of homosexual POWER politicians forcing their agenda on America.

Robert R. Larimer Jr.
Executive Director
WTV

NOTE: PNEWS is an E-mail NEWS group.


08 Mar 1997: PNEWS Who do you trust? Readers Digest or "intellectuals?"

. . . if someone consider's her or himself to be an intellectual, don't take them too seriously. It's the self-styled intellectuals and experts and their social experimentation who have been destroying America.
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PNEWS comments.

Robert R. Larimer Jr.
Executive Director
WTV

For full article , click here.


02 March 1997: They don't blush.

When I was testifying before the legislature last week, there were homosexual organizations defending the existence of bizarre, preferential programs in our Department of Social and Health Services by reminding everyone of how much higher the incidence of AIDS is among. . . . homosexuals.

First, homosexual activists get the dominant media culture to cooperate in convincing everyone that AIDS is about 50/50 hetero/homosexual. Then, when they want to keep the old taxpayer bucks flowing into their programs based on favoritism and coddling, they claim -- straight-faced -- that the statistics we've been quoting from our State Dept. of Health, and nationally from CDC, are correct after all.

When honesty has nothing to do with jamming your agenda into people's lives, you never blush. You just take the money and shout "bigot" at people who raise any objections. It has served the homosexual political agenda quite well.
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Commenting to an E-mail discussion group.

Robert R. Larimer Jr.
Executive Director
WTV


For MEDIA inquiries:
CONTACT: Bob Larimer
(360) 695-4845 OR
Sid Turbyfill
(425) 821-3341

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12 February 1997: Tax funds for abortions overseas?

Many Americans believe that their taxes do not support abortion overseas, but they have been terribly misled. Their money is distributed generously to groups who actively promote abortion, seek to overturn foreign countries' abortion laws, and support programs which are tainted by forced abortion and sterilization of women policies. If they knew the truth, the American people would never agree with the Clinton Administration's request to spend an additional $123 million dollars of taxpayers' money in the current fiscal year toward such ends."
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FRC news release one day prior to the first significant pro-life vote dealing with international population control funding in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gary Bauer
President
Family Research Council

For news release, click here.


For MEDIA inquiries:
CONTACT: Bob Larimer
(360) 695-4845 OR
Sid Turbyfill
(425) 821-3341

Return to: WTV Home Page