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REGULAR MEETING JULY, 10, 2006
<br />supercede your faith beliefs in the way you conduct your business and the way you
<br />manage your property and the way you live in your home, or happen to have a duplex and
<br />in all these matters, do you want the force of law to state that homosexual, bi-sexual,
<br />trans-sexual sex acts, cross-dressing is equivalent to heterosexuality and to the family
<br />structures that are present. You would get the same number to say no. And, in the only
<br />place where we would have voter weigh in on this, it was seen in the last Presidential
<br />Election, another homosexual special right came up. In eleven states, gay marriage was
<br />on the ballot, and out of those eleven states the vote was no! Some have referred to the
<br />term the “homosexual agenda” as if it were Bigfoot. As if once has never seen it, as if it
<br />didn’t exist, as if there weren’t schools of attorney’s across the United States fighting
<br />battles with pro-family attorneys all across the nation. So, in the interest of full
<br />disclosure in education, he referred to tab #9, he is not suggesting that Catherine Pittman
<br />or that Hank Mascotte or South Bend Equality is part of a vast left wing conspiracy. He
<br />suggested that speaker after speaker comes and says passionately, this has nothing to do
<br />with gay marriage, it has nothing to do with redefining the family, it has nothing to do
<br />with any of the things on his petition. He noted in tab #9 the page from the IndyStar.com
<br />from Mary Byrne, who operates a bookstore on East Street that caters to gays and
<br />lesbians, “the proposal’s, passage is just a start.” “The push at this point needs to be
<br />working to defeat the state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.” He
<br />believes that every speaker that has spoken before him tonight has been honest, he
<br />doesn’t believe that they are trying to be deceptive or trying to mislead the Council. But
<br />from adopting passed Adult Business Ordinances that it is not the local problem down the
<br />street, it the million dollar porn attorney who walks up a picks up your ordinance and
<br />tries to make hay with it. It will be the special attorney’s that are fighting this out, who
<br />will come in and take one of the tragic situations that may not have any validity in law,
<br />maybe more about someone being unkind in any form of recognizable discrimination and
<br />turn this proposed ordinance into a club to beat business owners who have faith. The
<br />exclusions that have been suggested over again about religious institutions are really
<br />geared to a really small percentage because it is only a few that have a statement listed in
<br />their mission statement, it is something that attorney’s could run loop holes through. The
<br />church is not the building that we meet in on Sunday, it is the sum total of all the
<br />household and businesses and property and all of life. It’s a seven day a week experience
<br />and that is why the faith community is not at all happy with the notion of this tiny little
<br />exclusion for their building. Nor would they accept it if it were somewhat broader, but
<br />still affirmed the legitimacy of homosexual behavior, because the Church has at its root a
<br />deeply held conviction, that to stand by silently or to affirm a behavior that leads to death
<br />is to stand by while you watch someone drive through a bridge that is out to their demise.
<br />And the compassion of the church is what brings them here, not their hatred. He stated
<br />that he has not heard one person here from the church run down homosexual or use
<br />derogatory terms. He sees no evidence of discrimination here. He stated that he saw
<br />some people that were afraid, they were afraid to say that they were homosexual, because
<br />if they let their clients know that they were homosexual, they might have a bad reaction.
<br />That was one of things that was cited as an incident. It never happened, it was in the
<br />mind of the person who felt it. What they felt was very real to them, but it didn’t exist, it
<br />didn’t happen. How can the Council possibly consider such things as evidence? Other
<br />than the fact that the person needs assistance in finding confidence in their life choices.
<br />Incidentally, on of the higher psychological problems associated with the GLBT lifestyle
<br />is paranoia, and a number of other psychological disorders. One would think that if you
<br />were to go to foreign countries where they have a more open and a more sexual
<br />permissive environment, that those stats would go down. We are constantly told the lie,
<br />that the reason that there is so many feelings of desperation and so many feelings of
<br />suicide in the GLBT community is society’s lack of acceptance. Yet, when you look at
<br />the society’s that are most open, you have the same conditions, high level of drug and
<br />alcohol abuse, high levels of psychological issues, high levels of guilt. Those are not
<br />imposed by a misunderstanding society, those come from deep within a person’s sole.
<br />Mr. Mangan advised that he is not here tonight to decide what a person’s conscience
<br />should tell them, but there is a place that they can get help. He stated that he does not
<br />think that it is the South Bend Common Council honestly, He thinks that the place to go
<br />is to the Lord with this. But there is so much more and there is so much here, that needs
<br />to be dealt with, when you flip the page in the binder under tab 9, there is the page
<br />entitled the “Demands.” These are published written national demands, they were
<br />published as part of the gay rights platform in 1972. There is also a set of demands one
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