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Buy stock or use existing stock ownership to send a message to companies that are promoting the homosexual lifestyle.
PA Municipalities which have added 'sexual orientation and gender identity' to their Human Relations Ordinances
Do you own stock in a company that is promoting the homosexual agenda? Maybe you can use that to send a message to the company. Tom Strobhar and Citizens Action Now can let you know how best to do this.
Pastor Ken Hutcherson has a great idea to send Microsoft a message about their promotion of the homosexual agenda. Click here for more information.
REVISED HISTORY: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's desecration of Independence Hall. Click here to view the Gay Historical Marker that was approved by the PHMC and unveiled by Executive Director Barbara Franco on July 1, 2005. It currently stands near Independence Hall. If this use of our tax dollars to promote a dangerous lifestyle concerns you, contact the PHMC at (717) 787-3362.
6.26.03 --in a 6-3 decision the United States Supreme Court strikes down the Texas sodomy law -- similar laws in other states may be struck down also. Is this a first step in making homosexuality a 'civil right'?
July 1, 2003 -- the Rendell administration has extended family- and sick-leave benefits to gay partners of some state employees. Under a negotiated four-year pact with 13,000 social service workers that took effect July 1, gay and lesbian workers can use sick days differently. The provisions are part of a four-year deal struck between the state and 13,000 members of the Service Employees International Union and its affiliated locals. The state's other large unions, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, did not seek the benefit change.
7.31.03 -- by executive order Governor Rendell adds 'gender identity or expression' to a mandate that prohibits 'discrimination against state employees.' This would permit men to wear dresses to their government jobs and would permit men who believe they are women to shower with women in a work place situation. Even openly homosexual Congressman Barney Franks opposes such a change.
PA is only the fifth state that includes such wording. Kentucky is the only other state that mandated this via executive order. The order applies only to the 80,000 employees in the governor's cabinet agencies and bans discrimination based on "gender identity or expression," which means people whose sense of their sexual identity differs from their gender. It can include cross-dressers, people with sex-change operations, masculine women and effeminate men.
Municipalities that have added (or considered adding) 'sexual orientation' and/or 'gender identity' to their Human Relations ordinance:
PA Cities or Counties with Non-discrimination Policies (Human Relations Ordinances) with ‘Gender Identity’ and/or ‘Sexual Orientation’: (282 total throughout the nation)
(March, 28, 2006 -- AFA of PA asks Governor Rendell to rein in PA Human Rights Commission chair Stephen Glassman who has been actively working to get municipalities to add 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity to their Human Relations ordinances. State law DOES NOT require this addition! Read the Mission Statement of the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission.)
Remember:
n adding ‘gender identity’ to any law or ordinance will require employers to allow men who think they are women to use the women restroom and shower facilities in the workplace. But it also means allowing men who think they are women to use the women’s fitting room in your local K-Mart and the women’s locker room at your local city pool.
n Adding ‘sexual orientation’ to laws and ordinances gives homosexuals special protections simply because of the sexual activity in which they engage. Homosexuality is NOT an immutable or unchangeable characteristic such as age, sex or race.
Allentown -- Timeline (Lehigh County) (2002) – Human Relations Ordinance and employee handbooks/manuals – both gender identity and sexual orientation.
Berks County – no laws only employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation.
Carlisle (Cumberland County)
(as of August 2008 the city council is still being pressured to make the
changes to the Human Relations Ordinance)
Township of Cheltenham (Montgomery County) – (2000) – no laws only employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation.
Easton (Northampton County) (2006) – Human Relations Ordinance and employee handbooks/manuals – both gender identity and sexual orientation.
Erie County (2002) – Human Relations Ordinance and employee handbooks/manuals – both gender identity and sexual orientation.
Harrisburg (Dauphin County) (1983/84) – Human Relations Ordinance and employee handbooks/manuals –both gender identity and sexual orientation.
Lancaster (Lancaster County) (1991) – Human Relations Ordinance and employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation only
Landsdowne Borough (Delaware County) -- (2004) – no laws only employee handbooks/manuals – gender identity and sexual orientation AND domestic partner benefits; (March 16, 2006) – added to Human Relations Ordinance both gender identity and sexual orientation .
New Hope Borough (Bucks County) (2002) – Human Relations Ordinance and employee handbooks/manuals – both gender identity and sexual orientation
Northampton County -- no laws only employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation
Borough of Oxford (Chester County) -- no laws only employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation.
Philadelphia (Philadelphia County) (1982) – sexual orientation in non-discrimination policy; (2002) – gender identity in non-discrimination policy; (1998) – domestic partner registry; (?) -- employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation; (2002) – gender identity in employee handbooks/manuals; (2004) – domestic partner benefits
Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) (1990) – sexual orientation in non-discrimination policy; (1997) – gender identity in non-discrimination policy; (?) -- employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation; (1997) gender identity in employee handbooks/manuals; (1999) – domestic partner benefits; (June 18, 2003 -- Pittsburgh Pride Fest); (June 17, 2008) created domestic partner registry for same-sex and opposite sex partners [at this time companies doing business with City of Pittsburgh are not required to offer domestic partner benefits]
Scranton (Lackawanna County) (2005) – Human Relations Ordinance and employee handbooks/manuals—both gender identity and sexual orientation. Stephen Glassman, chairman of the PA Human Relations Commission confirms that these changes can directly affect the Boy Scouts ability to use city parks because of their ban on homosexual leaders and members.
Borough of State College (Centre County) (1994) -- no laws only employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation; (December 17, 2007) adds ‘sexual orientation or gender identity or expression’ to employment ordinance [According to Stephen Glassman, Chairman of the PA Human Relations Commission, this will mean businesses must allow men who think they are women to use the women's restroom, locker room and workplace shower facilities]; 2008 – adds same language to ‘housing’ ordinance. News Release
Swarthmore Borough (Delaware County) (March 14, 2006) – Human Relations Ordinance including both gender identity and sexual orientation.
West Chester Borough (Chester County) (September 20, 2006) – Human Relations Ordinance including both gender identity and sexual orientation.; (?) employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation
City of York (York County) (1993) – Human Relations Ordinance with sexual orientation; (1998) – laws with gender identity; (?) -- employee handbooks/manuals – sexual orientation.; (1998) employee handbooks/manuals – gender identity
Beth Stroud Case -- UMC Lesbian Pastor
Big Brothers-Big Sisters Contact Information
Domestic Partner Benefits offered to same-sex couples at these PA Universities and Colleges
Gay Agenda: The Proof-- read the information on this page and you decide!
Girl Scouts -- Not the organization of yesteryear! For a pro-life, pro-family alternative check out American Heritage Girls.
National Education Association
Schools K-12 -- Would you be interested in conducting a 'Risk Audit Survey' of your school? This is a tool developed by Columbus, OH-based Mission America to investigate possible homosexual activism in public schools. Click here for a copy of the survey.
A look at what is happening in Massachusetts will help us better understand what will happen to Pennsylvania ( or any state) that legalizes same-sex marriage. Children K-12 are being taught that same-sex marriage and families are no different than the traditional family -- it's just another type of family. State funds are being used to teach students about homosexual sex acts. Even though there is an 'opt out' in state law, schools are not permitting parents to opt out their children.
Check out Mass Resistance's website for a real eye-opener -- the father of a kindergartener arrested because he doesn't want his son told 'gay is okay -- the son ganged up on and beaten up by some of his fellow classmates! Do we want this in Pennsylvania? No . . . then we must get a marriage protection amendment to the Constitution passed!
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Traditional Marriage in Pennsylvania must be preserved. Some, including Governor Rendell, want the courts to define marriage. Click here to read the AFA of PA news release concerning his August 2005 statement
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