Friday, November 20, 2009

That Raghu sure can pick 'em


I’ve done a little quick ‘n’ dirty research on the lawyer Raghu hired to defend plaintiffs in the “prayer” lawsuit: David Llewellyn. He’s seriously right-wing. According to the website for Llewellyn’s law firm,
David Llewellyn is a legal advocate, civil rights lawyer and law professor now practicing in Sacramento, California. … He is a member of the faculty of the Chapman University School of Law [uh-oh], where he has taught Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and currently serves as a law professor and legal counsel with the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. He was formerly Dean and Professor of Law at Trinity Law School…. Previous to that he was a founder, President and senior legal counsel for the Western Center for Law and Religious Freedom [WCLRF], a public interest law firm.
Founder of the Western Center, eh? Hmmm. Wikipedia’s article on far, far, far-right religious wacko—and pal of Fuentes—Howard Ahmanson explains that Ahmanson
contributed $62,500 to the [WCLRF], which, among other things, aided the citizens and leaders of the Kern County school district defend their choice to ban One Hundred Years of Solitude, a book by Gabriel García Márquez, for its "profanity" and "vulgarity."
Evidently, the "Western Center" is now known as the Pro-Family Law Center of Abiding Truth Ministries. I Googled that and got the website for the Pro-Family Resource Center of Abiding Truth Ministries, which presents writings by Scott Lively, the “President of Abiding Truth Ministries and lead attorney for ATM's Pro-Family Law Center.”

The Pro-Family Law Center (see) seems obsessed with the EVIL that is homosexuality. PFLC sells such books as:
The Pink Swastika (by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams)
The Pink Swastika is a thoroughly researched, eminently readable, demolition of the "gay" myth, symbolized by the pink triangle, that the Nazis were anti-homosexual.
Bill Berkowitz (in Buzzflash) called this book, by Lively, a “Holocaust revisionist anti-gay book.” According to Berkowitz, Scott Lively declared “war against the Southern Poverty Law Center for refusing to remove his Abiding Truth Ministries (http://www.abidingtruth.com) from its list of hate groups.”

Clearly, this Scott Lively fella is seriously bad news. Gosh, he's Frogueworthy!

Does that make Llewellyn seriously bad news too?

Well, no.

LLEWELLYN & ANTI-GAY NUTJOBS. I came across an amazing book called As We Sodomize America, by O. R. Adams Jr.

Adams is a nutjob.

Well, at some point Adams refers, positively, to a VCR tape entitled The Gay Agenda, which is narrated (in part) by Llewellyn:
…[It] is an authoritative and comprehensive explanation of the homosexual movement, and homosexual activity. The narrators on the tape are David Llewellyn, President, Western Center for Law and Religious Freedom; Stanley Monteith, M.D., author of "AIDS, The Unnecessary Epidemic;" Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D., a well known specialist in homosexuality, and author of "Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality," and many other publications; John Smid, an ex-homosexual, and Director of Love in Action, an organization which helps homosexuals who want to change to a decent way of life; and John Paulk, an ex-homosexual, and Administrator of Love in Action. Dr. Montieth gave the statistical references on homosexual acts….
Wow. Lawyer Llewellyn, it seems, hangs out with a far-out crowd not dissimilar to Mr. Frogue's "Liberty Lobby" gang.

I’ll keep looking. But it doesn't look good. Gosh, why don't they run down the street and see if Steve's available?

P.S.:

I found some videos featuring Stanley Monteith, co-narrator, along with Llewellyn and others, of "The Gay Agenda." See below. Good grief.

Joseph Nicolosi, another co-narrator, is a major advocate of reparative therapy, which attempts to "cure" people of their homosexual feelings and desires. He's a crank.

Evidently, John Smid headed an organization--Love in Action--dedicated to the notion that homosexuality is a "myth." Right.

Read about the troubled Mr. John Paulk, the remaining narrator, here.





COMMENT:

Anonymous said...

Yikes - it's worse than I thought. Stop scaring us Chunk!
7:42 PM, November 21, 2009

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yikes - it's worse than I thought. Stop scaring us Chunk!

Anonymous said...

These guys seem to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about homosexuality. Sort of like they can't wait to start chewing the pillow, themselves.

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