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Sometime back I posted a thread pointing out that homosexual activism was not a mass movement borne of an upwelling of popular support from the citizenry.

Instead, it was being stealthily, and sometimes not so stealthily being foisted on America, whether they want it or not.

Leaving us to ask the question for the umpteenth time—just who is in charge here?

Make no mistake, the push for special deviant rights is being imposed upon greater society by a small number of those who set corporate or university policy and by activists on the bench who are far exceeding their authority.

For today’s Exhibits, I give you:

EXHIBIT A—

University to student: Endorse being ‘gay’ or leave

A lawsuit has been filed against Eastern Michigan University, accusing the school of tossing a student out of a graduate counseling program because she refused to endorse homosexuality as morally good.

Julea Ward filed suit after she was dismissed from the school’s counseling training for not affirming homosexuality and then refusing to recant her beliefs in “disciplinary proceedings,” according to the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom.

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But David French, senior counsel for the ADF, said, “When a public university has a prerequisite of affirming homosexual behavior as morally good in order to obtain a degree, the school is stepping over the legal line.”

Ward was dismissed from the program March 12, and the dean of the college of education affirmed the decision on March 26, according to the ADF.

“Julea has a constitutional right not to be compelled to speak a message she disagrees with. She acted as a professional counselor should – with great concern both for her beliefs and the client,” ADF legal counsel Jeremy Tedesco explained.

“The two are not incompatible, but EMU’s policies are incompatible with the Constitution,” he said.

The ADF said EMU “requires students in its program to affirm or validate homosexual behavior within the context of a counseling relationship and prohibits students from advising clients that they can change their homosexual behavior.”

EXHIBIT B—

Congress resurrecting ‘hate crimes’ plan?

“How would it happen? A federal ‘hate crimes’ law prohibiting ‘bodily injury’ could be construed by many law enforcement officials and judges to include words that inflict emotional or psychological distress,” he said. “That means an ‘offended’ homosexual could accuse a religious broadcaster … a pastor … Sunday School teacher … or other individual of causing emotional injury simply by expressing the biblical view that homosexual behavior is morally wrong and unhealthy.

“That’s all it could take to trigger a wave of federal prosecutions and begin an era of censorship like America has never seen!” he warned.

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WND reported, during Obama’s inauguration, his agenda was posted on the WhiteHouse website where he listed federal “hate crimes” laws as his second priority.

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In Pennsylvania, a 75-year-old grandmother was threatened with prison for advocating a biblical perspective of homosexuality.

Internationally, Christians in several nations have been penalized for stating a biblically based condemnation of homosexuality.

Former White House insider Chuck Colson, in his Breakpoint commentary, has called such proposals “Thought Crimes” plans.

“It’s about outlawing peaceful speech – speech that asserts that homosexual behavior is morally wrong,” he said.

EXHIBIT C—

Justices ‘mainstream’ homosexual ‘marriage’

In the Midwest, a region of the country widely considered to be a bedrock of traditional American values, many people are in shock following an Iowa Supreme Court decision released yesterday overturning the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

”I was surprised,” said Brian Friedl, a resident of Humboldt, Iowa, a small community two hours north of the state’s capital. “I hadn’t followed it that closely, so I didn’t know it was up for a vote.”

The justices in Iowa’s Supreme Court did indeed vote – unanimously in the case of six homosexual couples suing the registrar of Polk County for the opportunity to marry. The court released its opinion yesterday, upholding a 2007 district court ruling that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the Iowa Constitution because it fails to uphold “equal protection of the law.”

“The court reaffirmed that a statute inconsistent with the Iowa Constitution must be declared void, even though it may be supported by strong and deep-seated traditional beliefs and popular opinion,” said a summary of the ruling issued by the court.

Friedl told WND that he expected homosexual marriage might get legalized in California and then spread across the country in time, but he didn’t expect his home state to lead the charge.

“I was a little shocked that it came from Iowa,” he said.

“I’m interested what happens to the reaction when people who went to work today get home, click on the TV and see what happened,” said Bryan English, director of communications for the Iowa Family Policy Center. “I don’t think most Iowans would have ever imagined that this sort of thing could be foisted on the state.”

Homosexuality is being imposed on America.

But this is still America, and once the voters become aware of and motivated by an issue, then they start to vote in great numbers.

Polesmokers, be advised, Backlash is a bitch.

You can just stand by in 2010.