A BLOG BY ALAN CHAMBERS

Listen to the Young: BUSH FOR PRESIDENT!

Scholatic Magazine has been polling children for more than 50 years asking them who will be the next President. Every election year the children have chosen correctly. The reason? Children mimick what they hear at home.

This year the children once again chose George Bush. Say it with me: Four more years!

Will John Edwards the Next Politician to Declare that He is a "Gay American"?

I admit that I was incredibly into my hair--when I had enough to worry about--But this is RIDICULOUS. Can you say (or spell) narcisism?

Check out the 'New Breck Girl'.

Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President,

Thank you for your courageous leadership over the past 4 years. My family and I are better off today than we were before you became Commander in Chief. It will be our pleasure to affirm your excellent leadership on November 2 when we vote to make you our President once again; I honestly believe that the majority of American voters will do the same.

My purpose in writing today is two fold: one, I want to address a specific question brought up in last night's debate and two, I want to encourage you to meet with me.

First the question. Bob Sheafer asked you and Senator Kerry if you believe homosexuality is a choice. I appreciated your sincere answer and your compassionate call to treat all people with dignity and respect. Everytime you mention homosexual people I believe you honestly care about them and want others to treat them as fellow human beings. The liberal media will never give you any credit for this because simple dignity isn't their desire, a no holds barred sexual revolution is what they are after.

And while I believe you to be sincere and earnest in your desire to serve all people I also think that you could know more about the issues surrounding homosexuality than you do--that is why I think you need to meet me and others like me.

I am, for political and news clip purposes, what others call 'ex-gay'. I prefer to reference myself by what defines me: my faith in Jesus Christ, the fact that I am a husband and expectant father, a loving son, brother and human being, a man. However, in this sex-defined culture I am pigeon holed by many on both sides of the debate by what I used to do.

I was involved in homosexuality for a number of years starting in puberty and extending through about age 20. I had numerous sexual encounters and emotionally volatile relationships, attended a gay church, went to pride rallies and parades, worked on the AIDS quilt, volunteered at AIDS organizations and tried desperately to reconcile my faith with my sexuality. I could not.

When I was still a teenager I was referred to a Christian ministry that helped those struggling with homosexuality. This local ministry was a member of Exodus International, the world's leading outreach to men, women, youth and families affected by unwanted homosexuality. And even though I dabbled for two years after finding out about Exodus, I did faithfully attend meetings, counseling and seek to make a change in my life. Because of my faith in God and His unending grace, change won out.

As I inferred above, I am married today; a benefit not cause of my healing. Since 2001 I have been the President of Exodus International because I believe the world needs to know not only that change is possible, but that hundreds of thousands of men and women have sought and made that change. I lived as a homosexual and the world, especially young people and parents, need to know that it is not a healthy path or the optimal option. Which brings me back to last night's question.

Homosexuality is and isn't a choice. I did not wake up one morning and choose to 'feel' gay. At that time I would have rather died then felt what I felt. However, at a time when I was old enough to make wise decisions I did choose to act on my feelings. For those who say they have no choice, that is not true. We all have a choice to do what is best and with regard to acting on my homosexual feelings and inclinations, I did not choose God's best for me or for society when I chose to act upon them. However, I did finally choose to live beyond those feelings and today I am not a homosexual nor am I tempted to be one.

Mr. President, it is my sincere hope that you will choose to meet me, along with my wife Leslie. In fact, I think it would benefit you to meet the many men, women, youth and families that have been personally affected by this issue. I am sure you both know and regularly meet people actively pursuing a homosexual path--a path that they have every right to walk. However, how often do you meet people that made the very difficult choice to pursue the harder road and more unpopular path in today's society? Please take me up on this and choose to meet someone that has found freedom from homosexuality.

Again, it is my sincere pleasure to support you and to pray for you regularly. I believe you are an honest man and an honorable man. I look forward to being led by you for four more years.

Most Sincerely,

Alan Chambers
407-599-6872

Kerry Supporters Steal Signs, Trash Bush HQ's All Over US: A Sign of What a Kerry/Edwards America Would be Like!

The future of our nation is at stake. We are on the verge of electing the next President of the United States and, of the two viable candidates, I wholeheartedly believe that one represents good and the other, evil.

Of course, all you have to do is look at my blog to see which I think is good. President George W. Bush is one of the most vocally moral Presidents we've had since the early days of our nation when our government officials were overtly and unabashedly Christian! Thank God we are getting back to our roots.

Just as obvious as my choice for President is the evidence that Kerry and the liberal elitists running the Democratic Party are evil to the core.

Case in point, last Tuesday in Orlando protestors from the AFL-CIO (a Demon-rat stronghold) broke into a Bush/Cheney campaign office injuring a volunteer in a violent rampage that ended in their arrest. See Orlando's Local 6 news site for more on this unbelievable story. Also see Moby.com for a rundown of other Bush/Cheney offices ransacked, attacked or targeted by Kerry's goons.

As if rampant lawlessness isn't enough, simple thievery has also become the norm for Kerry and his minions. Yesterday I filed a complaint with the Orlando Police Department after a Bush/Cheney sign was stolen from my yard. What sent me over the edge was that this was the SECOND time in 10 days that a Bush/Cheney sign was stolen from in front of my house.

Now, I concede that the Republican party and it's people are not perfect, however it wasn't aides from the Bush/Quayle Whitehouse that trashed their offices when they turned it over to the Clinton Administration or removed all of the W's from the computer keypads.

I think the good people within the Democratic party--the ones who probably do not realize how evil their current party leaders and policies are--need to rise up and look at what they are about to elect and realize the type of people that have invaded their once respectable political party.

I pray that the people of America come to understand within the next month that their pocket books matter far less than the soul of our great nation. If the people trying hardest to get Kerry elected are common thieves, vigilantes, anti-Christian and anti-creation, then what is our country going to look like when their chosen one takes over?

We are on the verge of much better or catastrophically worse!

Breaking Debate Fact: Senator Gone

Yep, He Said It:

VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: “Senator [Edwards], frankly, you have a record in the Senate that's not very distinguished. You missed 33 out of 36 meetings in the Judiciary Committee. Almost 70% of the meetings of the Intelligence Committee. You've missed a lot of key votes on tax policy, on energy, on Medicare reform. Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you Senator Gone. You've got one of the worst attendance records in the United States Senate. Now, in my capacity as Vice President I am the President of the Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.” (Vice President Richard Cheney, Vice Presidential Debate, Cleveland, OH, 10/5/04)
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YOU GO, Veep!

Exodus Aids in Victorious Transgender Case

The Herald-Star

Ruling made in case of gender identity

STEUBENVILLE - A Jefferson County common pleas court judge has ordered a male child must remain a male, despite the desire of the mother to diagnose her son as having gender identity disorder. A Jefferson County woman and her ex-husband, who lives in Colliers, are involved in a custody battle for their 9-year-old son. At the heart of the custody case was the boy's desire to wear women's clothing, at least when he is with his mother.

The boy's mother had taken the child to a couple doctors, who diagnosed him with gender identity disorder. Then, the boy's father took him to different doctors, who did not diagnose him with the disorder.

GID is a disorder in which a male or female exhibits characteristics of, insists they are and enjoys the activities of the opposite sex. To be diagnosed with GID, a person must exhibit four of five main criteria listed by the Harry Benjamin Study, the benchmark of GID studies.

Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. issued his ruling on the case Friday ruling in favor of the father. In the judge's order, he stated the mother embraced the idea of GID long before she took her son to the first doctor.

Bruzzese states in the order that when her son was 4 she told him "he could grow up and be a girl" and has been taking the son to transgender support groups. The order states the mother's boyfriend is an apparent male, who used to be a female, that she met at one of these support groups.

"(The) mother has not only been supportive of (name deleted)'s female identity, but has actually charged headlong into it with the apparent objective of making it come true," Bruzzese's order states.

During hearings on the case, testimony was presented the mother enrolled her son as a transgender at a Niles school. The mother said she was enrolling her son as a transgender partly on the advice of two doctors. The doctors suggested the boy undergo a real-life experience, during which he would dress and live as a girl for an extended period of time.

However, both doctors said a real-life experience should be done in the community the child lives in, based on the guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic Statistical Manual 4, which is a manual of mental and emotional conditions that lists criteria for diagnosing conditions.

The court stopped the enrollment when the father found out. This is also when the court ordered the boy to be dressed as a boy and referred to as such.

In July, the mother took the boy to Geauga Lake in a bikini, despite the court order. The mother also violated the court order by referring to her son as "she" and "transgender."

The parents have a shared parenting plan, where they are both the residential parent during different days of the week. Before the ruling, the mother was the majority residential parent.

Bruzzese ruled the mother will have the couples' two children from Sunday evening through Tuesday evening and the father will have the children the remaining five days. The judge also ordered the child not be permitted to wear girl clothes or go by a girl's name.

Bruzzese said the boy cannot attend transgender support groups. He warned the mother that, given her prior history of disobeying court orders, any small infraction of the orders may result her receiving only supervised visitation.

Bruzzese also said both parents should undergo psychological evaluations and the child shall receive counseling.

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