LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY amethyst_hunter)

Per this link, the following quote:

Vice President Dick Cheney told the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC last month, "The United States is keeping all options on the table in addressing the irresponsible conduct of the regime. And we join other nations in sending that regime a clear message: We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."

I'm sure I've seen mentions of Zionist groups that have ties to dominionism, but I don't know if AIPAC is one of them. Frankly, I'm with the British official: the whole thing is ABSOLUTELY "nuts", to say the least.

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American Idol contestant says she's not 'a gay advocate'

Mandisa Says She's Not a Gay 'Advocate'
Friday April 7 9:49 PM ET

Is ousted "American Idol" contestant Mandisa anti-gay? The 29-year-old soul singer and outspoken Christian, who was voted off the hit Fox show Wednesday, says she would not perform at an event held in support of the gay community.

Mandisa, a native of Antioch, Tenn., tells Advocate magazine, "Based on what I believe, I'm not an advocate for (being gay), so it's nothing I would take part in."

Still, she says in an interview in the magazine's Web site, she's "really upset" by speculation she endorses the ex-gay movement a collection of Christian groups that seek to alter sexual orientation. The speculation stemmed from comments she made on the "American Idol" Web site praising author and speaker Beth Moore, of Living Proof Ministries. Moore's Web site has links to groups such as Exodus International that discourage homosexuality. (emphasis mine)

"It broke my heart," Mandisa says. "I live my life by the value system that you treat others the way you want to be treated. I let love be my guide. I absolutely hate no one."

Long a favorite of "Idol" judges, she says her views "could have contributed" to her surprising elimination. "Idol" contestants are trimmed weekly based on fan voting.

"Honestly, I'm not sure," she says. "I've heard a lot of different theories about what could have happened, and all of 'em sound pretty decent to me."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Exodus International been implicated on here as a dangerous coercive group?

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And from this link, the Brits have their hands full dealing with hatemongers on their side of the pond:

Anti-abortionists turn sights on schools and hospitals in US-style campaign

· Catholic teachers targeted by pro-life website
· Police keep watch as tactics of hatred spread

Sandra Laville
Monday March 27, 2006
The Guardian

Anti-abortionists inspired by the militancy of the movement in America are adopting tactics associated with animal rights extremists in an escalating campaign of intimidation.

The latest victims of harassment by a group called UK Life League are the pupils and teachers at a Catholic girls school in Surrey. The head teacher of Woldingham School, Diana Vernon, has been accused of "child abuse" for providing sex education for her 14- and 15-year-old pupils as required under the national curriculum. Activists are being encouraged to bombard Ms Vernon with hate emails.

Earlier this month, a gynaecology nurse at King's College Hospital in London, who has been commended for her work, was the target of a hate campaign by the anti-abortion group. Her home address was posted on its website and she was accused of being a "cold-hearted baby killer".

Elsewhere, hospitals have been sent images of aborted foetuses and abortion clinics subjected to noisy demonstrations.

Police sources within the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (Netcu), set up primarily to tackle animal rights extremists, said it would be closely watching the activities of the Life League, and the man behind it, James Dowson, a businessman and self-styled vicar, who is a former member of the Orange Lodge in Northern Ireland.

"These tactics are akin to those of animal rights extremists," the Netcu police source said. "The posting of addresses on the internet and the way they are encouraging spam mails all sounds very familiar to us, which is why we are interested."

Abusive emails

Staff at Woldingham School, a private day and boarding school in a remote location in Surrey, became aware they were Mr Dowson's latest target only last week, when they began to receive abusive emails from America and the UK.

"I couldn't believe it," said Ms Vernon. "What we teach falls entirely within the national curriculum and the way in which we teach the use of contraception is in the context of a committed relationship. Every Catholic school in the country will be doing what we are doing.

"Bearing in mind that I have 500 girls here it worries me that our school's name and address, our email, has been put on their site and people who have been encouraged to think bad things about us have been given our exact location. That in itself is irresponsible," she said.

Mr Dowson, 42, who has offices in Glasgow and Belfast, operates in London from a rented office in Trafalgar House in Piccadilly. Receptionists working for the office rental company First Base, collect mail sent to the Life League and forward it to Mr Dowson in Glasgow. Office staff said they were horrified when they saw the leaflets he was sending out and were led to his website, where images of what he claims are late abortions are posted.

"I didn't realise what he did until someone told me to look at the website," said one receptionist. "Then I looked and I thought it was awful, so harsh and unfair." Staff said Mr Dowson came to the office infrequently and had described himself as a "vicar".

Mr Dowson, whose campaign in Scotland has targeted members of the Scottish parliament and the chief executive of the Brook clinic, told the Guardian his tactics were deliberately "direct" and that he was extending his campaign. He does not feature on any list of clergy in Scotland, but he claims to have been the vicar of a small Scottish church, a role he has relinquished to concentrate on the Life League.

His latest campaigns against Woldingham School, and Sue Bush, a nurse who works in sexual health and abortion services at King's College Hospital, were the result of stepping up his campaign in England. "Woldingham is a Catholic school and Catholic schools have a special onus to teach Catholic teachings," he said. "The Pope is very adamant that this recreational sex education cannot be taught."

US activism

Mr Dowson denied that putting the address of the school on the internet and encouraging anti-abortion activists to target it was putting the 500 pupils and the teachers at risk. "There has been 40 years of pro-life activism in this country and there has been no violence yet," he said.

Mr Dowson said he watched the activities of American anti-abortion activists but denied taking his inspiration from them and said he did not encourage violence. But his direct action has earned him the respect of Neal Horsley, founder of The Nuremberg Files, an extremist US anti-abortion website which prints the names and addresses of doctors and nurses working in clinics across America.

Mr Horsley has said in the past: "Jim [Dowson] is really the key to seeing the expectation of punishment develop in the UK."

Life League, which is a registered company, raises money through donations, and stalls on streets across England and Scotland, a tactic successfully employed by animal rights groups.

Mr Dowson prints images of aborted foetuses on his website and encourages supporters to send pictures of them to hospitals across the country.

Asked how he obtains the pictures, he said: "Some of the images came from other websites, some I have gleaned myself looking through hospital bins. I have searched through hospital bins in Liverpool, Birmingham and Glasgow and took the contents away to photograph."

But Marie Stopes UK, which has been the subject of many demonstrations by supporters of the UK Life League, has challenged Mr Dowson over the images. "That kind of waste is incinerated within hospitals. It has not been possible to access it in hospital bins for 20 years. These images come from American websites, and some look as if they have been tampered with," it said.



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And last, but not least, the nutjobs prove once again that it's not really the love of children that motivates their actions:

Abortion Foes Seek Kansas Grand Jury Probe

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 7, 5:50 PM ET

WICHITA, Kan. - Abortion opponents Friday submitted petitions demanding a grand jury investigation into the case of a mentally retarded woman who died of an infection after undergoing a late-term abortion.

The petitions contained 7,754 signatures, far more than required under a little-used Kansas law that enables citzens to force the impaneling of a grand jury.

Abortion foes want to see Dr. George Tiller prosecuted on charges of involuntary manslaughter and other offenses in the death of Christin Gilbert, a 19-year-old woman whose family brought her to Tiller's clinic in Wichita last year.

(If there's a corpse around these necrophiles sure are quick to use it for their own purposes, aren't they? Shades of Terri Schiavo, anyone? "We don't really care about your life, in fact it's a fortunate thing that you're not around to talk!")

If the signatures and petition are found to be valid, a grand jury can be assembled.

"This is a proactive measure to tell the city government, to tell the people in Topeka, to tell the governor that George Tiller is not above the law," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue in Wichita. (emphasis mine)

Last year, Kansas medical regulators cleared Tiller in the woman's death.

Lee Thompson, who represents Tiller's clinic, said that a grand jury would be "a waste of public resources" and that the petition drive "is a blatant publicity stunt by an extremist group."

Kansas has become a major abortion battleground because Tiller is one of the few doctors in the United States to perform late-term abortions.

Tiller's clinic has been the target of protests for years. His clinic was bombed in 1985, and he was shot by a protester in 1993.