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ex-preacher · 07-03-2003, 01:47 PM

I wonder what is meant by "professional and personal reasons." Hmmmmmm. Any little secrets you want to tell us Ken? According to some, Connor did not promote the anti-gay agenda as vigorously as his predecessor, Gary Bauer. Here's the press release from frc.org

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FRC PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ken Connor announced today he would be resigning from his position as president of Family Research Council, effective July 14. Connor has served as FRC's president for three years.

"This was not an easy decision, but one that for both professional and personal reasons, I believed I needed to make," said Connor. "After the summer, I look forward to returning to the courtroom and practicing law.

"Family Research Council is on a solid financial footing and I leave knowing FRC's team of employees is more committed than ever to promoting and defending the sanctity of life and the institution of marriage."

"Ken Connor has been a fighter for the family and an exemplary leader for Family Research Council," said FRC Board member Dr. James Dobson. "During his time at FRC, Ken consistently put principle before politics and that's a rare thing to find in Washington, D.C. His leadership will be missed and we pray God's blessings on Ken and his family."

hezekiah jones · 07-03-2003, 03:00 PM

He's resigned to spend more time with other people's families.

I hope this heralds the return of Janet Parshall. She was a fucking hoot. She's got the vampire teeth and everything.

hezekiah jones · 07-03-2003, 03:06 PM

"After the summer, I look forward to returning to the courtroom and practicing law."

Good. And I look forward to you having your ass handed to you on a regular basis.

Toto · 07-03-2003, 03:21 PM

Not anti-gay enough? Try this

Quote:

"Do you really think that when our troops from Delta Force crawl into Osama bin Laden�s cave in Afghanistan or into the face of the muzzle of a terrorist machine gun, that they are doing it so that women can kill their children, so that pornographers can peddle their smut, so that people of the same sex can marry? If those features of American life become the fixtures of American life, I fear that our nation may not long endure." -- President Ken Connor, from "Reflections After the Terror," October 2, 2001

or
this

Quote:

But the 6-3 high court decision drew some of the most harsh criticism from Family Research Council President Ken Connor, who said, "Once again judicial activists have used their fertile imagination to create rights that simply don't exist in the Constitution."

or this

Quote:

The Family Research Council opposes the Canadian initiative and is leading the fight against legislation introduced two weeks ago by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, that would extend domestic-partner benefits to homosexual federal employees.

"What's happening in Canada is a warning to America," said Ken Connor, Family Research Council president.

"Unless the American people rise up to defend this indispensable institution, we could lose marriage in a very short time," Mr. Connor said in a statement.

or Family Research Council Defends Senator Santorum

Quote:

Family Research Council President Ken Connor released the following statement today in defense of Sen. Santorum:

"The Human Rights Campaign's attack on Sen. Santorum, a champion of the family, is intended to intimidate defenders of marriage and silence critics of the homosexual political agenda," said Connor. "Sen. Santorum's comments are consistent with the arguments FRC made in its amicus brief filed with the Court in Texas v. Lawrence: If the justices overturn the Texas law and hold sodomy to be a constitutional right on the grounds of privacy, then laws against bigamy, incest, polygamy, adultery and other purely 'private' sexual relationships must also be unconstitutional. This is hardly a novel point of view. Many legal scholars have made the same argument.

Threatening to stay home in '04 (please do)

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Finally, Ponnuru sniffs at the idea that social conservatives might stay home in the 2004 election if the GOP and President Bush are perceived as going wobbly on the defense of marriage and other pro-family issues. Ponnuru charges social-conservative leaders with "threatening more than they can deliver." Let me be clear: FRC never threatened anybody. We did, however, warn the White House that the GOP drift on marriage and such aspects of the gay agenda such as domestic partner benefits, hate crimes, and such, could cause some social-conservative voters to stay home.

Maybe this is what they're talking about

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A longtime Bush friend was more forceful. "This is just not an issue we want to talk about," he said. "It plays to a negative stereotype of Republicans as sex-obsessed and narrow-minded. Swing voters -- and the libertarian elements in the Republican Party -- will not enjoy a debate about a constitutional amendment on gay marriage."

But some leading social conservatives believe the issue cannot be dodged. Gary Bauer, who ran for president in 2000 on a religious conservative platform, said in an interview yesterday: "Unless the president's lawyers are from Mars, they will tell him that there is no longer a legislative bar to same-sex marriage. At that point, it will not be possible for the administration to remain neutral as this debate heats up. I don't think they should even try to be cute about it."

The president of the conservative Family Research Council, Ken Connor, was less categorical. He said Bush's position so far is "prudential." But he too predicted that Bush will have to take sides. "All elected officials . . . are going to be forced to express their viewpoints on the meaning of marriage and the role of heterosexual marriage in our society," Connor said.

Purdential?? So he went wobbly on the GOP effort to court gay voters.

Man, you have to work hard to be anti-gay enough for FRC.

hezekiah jones · 07-03-2003, 05:25 PM

"Once again judicial activists have used their fertile imagination to create rights that simply don't exist in the Constitution."

God forbid that the Supreme Court should recognize a fundamental right to privacy against government intrusion in the United States Constitution. I mean that is just so ... un-American.

And if I hear "judicial activist" from these idiotic pseudo-conservatives one more time, I'm going to spit. As if the Rehnquist Five never struck down a fucking law, or decreed that a state supreme court immediately shut down the counting of ballots, in accordance with that state's own laws.

Goddamn, people like this are such mealy-mouthed hypocrites.

07-03-2003, 01:47 PM	#1
ex-preacher Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: University of Arkansas Posts: 1,033	Ken Connor resigns from Family Research Council I wonder what is meant by "professional and personal reasons." Hmmmmmm. Any little secrets you want to tell us Ken? According to some, Connor did not promote the anti-gay agenda as vigorously as his predecessor, Gary Bauer. Here's the press release from frc.org ------- FRC PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ken Connor announced today he would be resigning from his position as president of Family Research Council, effective July 14. Connor has served as FRC's president for three years. "This was not an easy decision, but one that for both professional and personal reasons, I believed I needed to make," said Connor. "After the summer, I look forward to returning to the courtroom and practicing law. "Family Research Council is on a solid financial footing and I leave knowing FRC's team of employees is more committed than ever to promoting and defending the sanctity of life and the institution of marriage." "Ken Connor has been a fighter for the family and an exemplary leader for Family Research Council," said FRC Board member Dr. James Dobson. "During his time at FRC, Ken consistently put principle before politics and that's a rare thing to find in Washington, D.C. His leadership will be missed and we pray God's blessings on Ken and his family."

07-03-2003, 03:06 PM	#3
hezekiah jones Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: WI Posts: 4,357	Re: Ken Connor resigns from Family Research Council "After the summer, I look forward to returning to the courtroom and practicing law." Good. And I look forward to you having your ass handed to you on a regular basis.

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07-03-2003, 03:00 PM	#2
hezekiah jones Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: WI Posts: 4,357	He's resigned to spend more time with other people's families. I hope this heralds the return of Janet Parshall. She was a fucking hoot. She's got the vampire teeth and everything.

07-03-2003, 05:25 PM	#5
hezekiah jones Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: WI Posts: 4,357	"Once again judicial activists have used their fertile imagination to create rights that simply don't exist in the Constitution." God forbid that the Supreme Court should recognize a fundamental right to privacy against government intrusion in the United States Constitution. I mean that is just so ... un-American. And if I hear "judicial activist" from these idiotic pseudo-conservatives one more time, I'm going to spit. As if the Rehnquist Five never struck down a fucking law, or decreed that a state supreme court immediately shut down the counting of ballots, in accordance with that state's own laws. Goddamn, people like this are such mealy-mouthed hypocrites.

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