Jane Spahr, won’t be present at the Presbyterian Church’s legislative body meeting this week where they will discuss whether or not Presbyterian ministers will be allowed to perform same-sex marriages.
Jane Spahr-69, a lesbian evangelist, resident of San Francisco and… a Reverend, has a history of defying the church and for being rebuked by the church court for performing same-sex weddings in California. She states: “I’m hoping that the General Assembly will be touched by the spirit, and they will see our marriages not as second class but as equal with our brothers and sisters”.
A same-sex marriage battleground state is considering an unconventional law which would allow children to legally have more than two parents.
California bill SB1476 is proposed by State Senator Mark Leno, Democrat-San Francisco. The bill has already passed the State Senate and is awaiting the Assembly vote.
The bill appears to give legal protection for adults to create a radical family, according to Glenn T. Stanton, director of Global Family Formation Studies who is with Focus on the Family.
Children’s discussion were darker than usual Monday. Some of them were talking about the fourth fatal shooting in San Francisco’s biggest public housing development since May.
Police have released few details. The victim, Jordan Jordan recently became a father. He was the 39th homicide victim in San Francisco for this year. Last year there was 50 homicides.
Many local residents say they are scared and are spending time away from their neighborhood and are keeping their kids indoors.
“I’ve never seen it like this, and I’ve been here for over 30 years,” stated Larry Jones, a neighbor of Jordan. “There’s no explanation for it.”
Reverend Amos Brown had been spending time in the neighborhood up to the point of the shooting. He is the president of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) San Francisco Chapter.
About 50 years ago when the picture perfect English city of Rochdale was prospering Pakistani Muslims started moving in. Mosques sprang up and the site of bearded muslims with caps and woman in black robes and veils became commonplace. Now, shops are boarded up or have converted to pawn shops or dollar stores. Even the local Mc’Donalds has left.
The government has shown that over half of the Pakistani’s in Britain are in poverty, much higher than the general population.
In 2008 a local young 15 year old girl became caught in the ring of predators. She first attempted to break out of the pit by acting out at the kebab shop where she first had met her “boyfriend”. On police arrival she indicated that she had been raped repeatedly showing the proof of her semen stained underwear
The police believed her but lawyers did not prosecute and after 11 months the case was dropped.
Things worsened, the predators expanded as did the amount of victims. The first girl was driven around at night and forced to have sex with ever more men, up to five a day.
Health workers continued to report an increasing number of underaged girls who claimed to have been sexually abused. A new regional chief of the Crown Prosecution Service (Afzal) reversed the earlier decision to ignore the case and chose to follow up on the allegations.
Eleven men were charged. Offenses ranged from conspiracy to rape with more individuals being suspected of involvement. British Parliament suspects that the abuse is far more widespread than originally thought. Afzal’s office indicates that there is about a dozen other similar cases ongoing, one of which involves 13 men with 24 girls.
Almost all the perpetrators are Pakistanis who are either 1st or 2nd generation to Britian. Few of them had prior sexual charges. One of the charged, Abdul Rauf claimed that he has been a Muslim preacher. Others had contact with local politicians.
For more on a possible reason this went on for so long before it was brought to the open and exposed, see the information below or, linked here from prophet.tv
Top news arriving in an overcast morning in San Francisco… Scientology playing a part in the split of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
“It’s quite sad that another Hollywood marriage has failed,” per John Ashbridge, a San Francisco resident.
Per Newser.com, TMZ is indicating that Holmes is worried Tom Cruise will immerse their six-year old child, Suri, in Scientology. Holmes feels that Cruise will become fanatical in bringing Suri to join the religion which, often, has sparked controversy.
The Supreme Court Justices argued the fine/penalty is legal under Congress’ authority to tax and that the ‘obamacare’ bill is therefore legal as a tax.
Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary reiterated on Friday that the fine is still a “penalty”.
The tax label was fought vigorously by Obama in 2009 when promoting the ‘ObamaCare’ bill.
Over two years, every time a 24 year old bachelor who lived in India watched pornography he experienced such a severe headache that it forced him to stop watching.
Dr. Amy Gelfand, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, says that there are two types of headaches associated with sexual activity.
Sex headaches are a mystery regardless of the type and no one really knows what causes them, says Gelfand.
There are no suggested links between headaches and specific sexual behaviors that have been found in studies by researchers.
The physical and neurological exam results were reportedly normal.
The man was advised to take a combination of different medications which, apparently, are helping.
Eight TSA (Transportation Security Administration) officers were fired at the Newark airport this Wednesday for sleeping on the job and or for other employment infractions.
This is the third large TSA group firing this month alone. The workers fired were seen on video sleeping in a checked baggage area at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Also this month: •Seven were fired in Philadelphia after one worker was convicted of bribery.
•Five were fired and 37 more, including the director, were suspended in Fort Myers, Fla., for not conducting additional screenings on hundreds of individuals. Last month:
•Four TSA agents were charged with drug trafficking and bribery, two of which were current and two who were former employees. The union representatives for the TSA workers; the American Federation of Government Employees, didn’t respond to any requests for further information or comment.
Only Marijuana was detected in the system of the man shot while chewing Ronald Poppo’s face in Florida, so states the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner. No other drugs were found, including bath salts.
The bizarre behavior has led to much speculation as to the cause.
A toxicology expert, Dr Bruce Goldberger, Professor and Director of Toxicology at the University of Florida said that marijuana by itself wasn’t likely to be the cause of the strange behavior demonstrated by Rudy Eugene.
The Medical Examiner’s office in Miami is well known for being thorough in its work according to Goldberger.
It’s not clear what led to the May 26 attack on Ronald Poppo, a 65-year-old homeless man who remains hospitalized. Eugene’s friends and family have said he was religious, not violent and that he didn’t drink or do drugs harder than marijuana. Yovonka Bryant said that she and Eugene would often, together, read the Bible and Quran.
The policeman who shot a naked Eugene to death stated, that he was growled at when he told him to stop. The cause remains unknown what led to the face chewing attack. Friends and family indicate Eugene was religious and not violent and that he was not inclined to do any other drugs other than marijuana.
San Francisco: A local gay rights advocate, Larry Brinkin, 66, was arrested with felony possession of child pornography.
The San Francisco Chronicle states: “Police say that Brinkin had pornographic images, some that appear to show children as young as 1 and 2 or 3 years old being sodomized and performing oral sex on adult men, in e-mail attachments linked to his account.”
Within the LGBT community he has been considered an “icon”. Up until 2010, Larry Brinkin worked for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission where he championed equal rights for lesbians and gays. He also helped design San Francisco’s revolutionary Equal Benefits Ordinance which went on to become a model nationally for equality in the workplace.
His accolades earned him honors from the San Francisco board of supervisors and California Senators such as Mark Leno, Tom Ammiano in 2010. Former Supervisor Bevan Dufty authored a resolution which was passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that proclaimed the week of February 1, 2010 “Larry Brinkin Week” in San Francisco.
The AOL account that allegedly belongs to Larry Brinkin, [email protected], contains horrific commentary which is attached to inexcusable images of child-rape, state authorities. An incredibly depressing comment, as stated by SF Weekly… “I loved especially the nigger 2 year old getting nailed. Hope you’ll continue so I can see what the little blond bitch is going to get. White Power! White Supremacy! White Dick Rules!”
Young people in San Francisco who are homeless and exchanging sex for money, drugs and shelter is nothing new, but may not be obvious. Many work out deals while panhandling. They are not interested in city assistance.
At about 12:30 a.m. last Friday, Addison Vigil, 20, sat in a grassy patch at United Nations Plaza, two miles away from the Castro. Next to him, about a dozen people were sleeping as workers hosed down the popular plaza.
Being propositioned for sex acts is…”the name of the game, especially if you’re young and you look decent.” according to Vigil. When he is in the Castro district it occurs “two or three times a day.” Around UN Plaza, though, not as often.
Young people display moderate interest in the services of local nonprofits. Vigil, when asked if he thought there should be more services offered said “More Feeds” and that people should bring food to him.
Sergeant Chuck Limbert, the LGBT liaison for San Francisco’s Police Department’s Mission Station, that oversees neighborhoods such as the Castro area said “Some of our homeless have a very strong mindset… They just want to be free to do what they want to do.”
For further teaching on homelessness and how it can affect a city see this link from Prophet.tv.
For the 42nd year the gay pride parade was held in San Francisco. Police officers and politicians were associated with rainbow flags and banners as the city celebrated the community of the lesbian, gay and transgender lifestyle.
Market Street, the main street in the city, saw over 200 floats.
Some parade participants were dressed in bright outfits made of balloons and some participants and parade watchers wore barely anything.
Mayor Ed Lee was to speak at the Civic Center close by the parade’s end area. He’ll be located around the same area as the infamous gay rights activist and San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk addressed gay pride celebrants a little over 30 years ago.
Organizers of San Francisco’s weekend events stated that this is the largest LGBT gathering in the nation. However, thousands also celebrated in Chicago and New York City.
Egyptian cleric Safwat Higazi speaking to thousands at rally in presence of Egypt’s Dr. Mohamed Mursi: “Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca, or Medina. It shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing. Our cry shall be: ‘Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem.'”
According to the FBI, violent crimes continue to drop in 13 of the Bay Area’s 15 biggest cities. Despite economic recession there are fewer murders, robberies, aggravated assaults and forcible rapes.
Crime data professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University stated that “Everyone exprected them to go up because of the frustration and economic turmoil,” in an interveiw with The Huffington Post.
The annual homicide averages in San Francisco have nearly halved since 2004. Also, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Fremont, Concord and Daly City saw violent crime declines of better than 20 percent last year.”
“…Over the past year, the state has shed tens of thousands of inmates… Despite fears of repercussions, the violent crime rate has continued to drop.”
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi noted that the San Francisco murder solved rate has jumped from about 30 to 80 percent.