Pope Attacks Gay Marrage

(Vatican City) Tens of thousands gathered in Madrid and Vatican City for Catholic rallies promoting traditional families on Sunday.
Pope Benedict XVI addressed the crowd in St Peter's Square in his last Angelus prayer of 2007 which was broadcast on a giant TV screen for throngs who had come to Madrid's Plaza de Colon to hear him.
Many of the faithful at the Madrid rally were bussed to the capital from cities throughout Spain. Police declined to give a crowd estimate but there were so many people they spilled out into streets feeding into the square.
The pope spoke from the window of his apartment overlooking St Peter's Square which was packed.
Benedict spoke in both Italian and Spanish admonishing the faithful to protect traditional marriage. Spain legalized same-sex marriage in 2005, Italy has been mulling civil partnership legislation.
In Spanish the Pope said that the family is "based on the unbreakable union of man and woman and represents the privileged environment where human life is welcomed and protected from the beginning to its natural end."
The remarks were greeted with a massive cheer in Madrid.
"It is worthwhile to work for the family and marriage because it is worthwhile to work for the human being, the most precious being created by God," he said.
While the crowd in Madrid was massive it was considerably smaller than in 2005 shortly before the Spanish government enacted same-sex marriage legislation making the country the third in the European Union to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
At that demonstration police estimated the crowd at 150,000, although the Church said there were about two-million people.
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prime Minister supports civil partnerships, but legislation has bogged down in Parliament where the right-of-center opposition has vowed to defeat it.

Gay Councilman Defeats Recall By Sore Looser

City councilman Santiago survived a recall by his loosing opponent. The looser claimed that Santiago did not tell the voters he was gay.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1198057098320050.xml&coll=2

Bush Vetoes Child Health Bill To Save Money For War

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/us/13bush.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Did God Strike Back At Homophobic Church?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school about three years ago and had been sending the place hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
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The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled by his family and raised in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray's father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.
Five people — including Murray — were killed, and five others wounded Sunday in the two eruptions of violence 12 hours and 65 miles apart.
The first attack took place at Youth With a Mission, a training center for missionaries in the Denver suburb of Arvada; the other occurred at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, where Murray was shot to death by a security guard. The missionary training center maintains an office at the 10,000-member church.
"Through both investigations it has been determined that most likely the suspect in both shootings are one in the same," police said in court papers, confirming what investigators suspected early on.
Colorado Springs police said the "common denominator in both locations" was Youth With a Mission.
"It appears that the

Huckabee Wanted Aids Patients Isolated

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Man Shot Outside Man's World in Cleveland

Cleveland, OH - Cleveland police investigating yet another homicide in the city.
It happened on Detroit Avenue around 3AM Friday morning.
Police tell 19 Action News Joseph Melaragno was shot near a bar.
EMS rushed the 44-year-old to Metro - where he later died.
No suspects so far.

stealing the last lands from American Indians

American oil companies are preparing to steal land from American Indians. Will this story ever end?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/business/04alaskaoil.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Murdock Uses Papers To Label Politicians Gay

First Rupert Murdock bought up most of the media outlets around the world. For some reason the Republican administration allowed him to do this despite obvious comflicts in many cities. Now he is spreading rumors about people he dislikes. http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?news=people&issueID=445&itemID=8556

Stop Don't Ask Don't Tell

28 retired Generals and Admirals released a statement calling for the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell."

WORLD AIDS DAY!

TODAY IS WORLD AIDS DAY!

World AIDS Day was originally organised by UNAIDS, who chose the theme after consultation with other organisations. In 2005 UNAIDS handed over responsibility for World AIDS Day to an independent organisation known as The World AIDS Campaign (WAC).

The WAC’s slogan for their work is "Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise". This is an appeal to governments, policy makers and regional health authorities to ensure that they meet the many targets that have been set in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and especially the promise of universal access to HIV treatment, care, support and prevention services by 2010. This campaign will run until 2010, with a related theme chosen for World AIDS Day each year.

The 2007 theme, “leadership”, highlights the need for innovation, vision and perseverance in the face of the AIDS challenge. The campaign calls on all sectors of society such as families, communities and civil society organisations - rather than just governments - to take the initiative and provide leadership on AIDS.



THE RED RIBBON

The red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness that is worn by people all year round and particularly around World AIDS Day to demonstrate care and concern about HIV and AIDS, and to remind others of the need for their support and commitment.

The red ribbon started as a "grass roots" effort; as a result there is no one official AIDS ribbon manufacturer, and many people make their own. It's easily done - just use some ordinary red ribbon and a safety pin!



WHAT CAN I DO TO SUPPORT WORLD AIDS DAY?

There are many ways in which you can support World AIDS Day. For example:

Raise awareness of HIV and AIDS in your area
Wear a red ribbon and ask others to do the same
Sign up as a supporter of the Stop AIDS in Children campaign
Protect yourself and your partners - this is the first and best way to stop the spread of HIV
If you are worried - get tested

At school or work, you can support World AIDS Day by:

Having a dressing up, down or fancy dress day
Putting up some posters - get people talking
Making and selling red ribbons
Organising a creative writing/poster campaign
Setting up a debate or a quiz - there are lots of ideas for topics on our site
Cooking an international meal or having a cake sale
Arranging a sponsored three-legged race or balloon release
Getting your friends, family, colleagues or pupils to express their feelings and expand their knowledge about AIDS
Using your imagination!

Loosing News Competition

News stations are being taken over by their competition. The Republicans have started allowing a few rich owners to take over all the news outlets we get.

The biggest names were anchors Gina Marinelli and Vince Bevacqua. They will remain behind their desks through next week, and then anchor duties for WYTV newscasts will fall to Angee Shaker, who is being retained, and perhaps others.
Other workers who were told they won't be needed past Dec. 9 include photographers, technicians and other behind-the-scenes workers. Two WYTV reporters said they were being retained, but it wasn't clear if all reporters would be needed.
David Coy, general manager of WKBN, said the two stations' newscasts would have separate identities. They would have different anchors, and news reports would not be shared — at least not initially.
He and David Trabert, general manager at WYTV, wouldn't say, however, how jobs are being cut or how many workers WKBN would need. Each station employs about 70.