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REGULAR MEETING JULY, 10, 2006 <br />the nation of Canada, the nation just to the North, who started down this same slippery <br />slope, of trying to equate sexual practice with discrimination and now have preachers in <br />prison for reading the same versus of the bible and free to put in this binder and could <br />read out loud. They don’t have that right, because people mixed up the issue and went <br />down the wrong path. Well intended, but went the wrong path. Mandatory or voluntary <br />sensitivity training of employees and officials in government offices as well as students <br />in schools. Mandatory or voluntary homosexual and GLBT sex education for any grade <br />level for the schools, mandatory or voluntary sensitivity training for employees in private <br />or publicly held businesses. Mr. Mangan stated that we have all hear the horror stories, <br />we know how many people has lost their jobs because they simply did not sign on to a <br />pro-homosexual statement in their places of business. The City of San Francisco put a <br />gun to he head of the major airlines and said that they can’t land in the airport unless you <br />do this. So much for arguing intellectually or arguing in a way that expects to win today <br />based on principle. He has seen the homosexual movement bully these companies <br />around, but we have also seen a number of people that said you know what, it you are <br />going to go that way, I’m going to boycott you, I’m no longer going to invest in your <br />company. Ford is in trouble right now over this very issue. One only has to wait to see <br />how low they will sink before they reverse themselves yet again going back and forth on <br />this issue. Some people said it is good for business, he doesn’t know anybody in business <br />who is eager to have this come to town. Most of the developers are saying that it is going <br />to create another barrier. Most of the developers are already frustrated with the tax base <br />and many development issues and they don’t want to see another barrier created to <br />develop our community. There are many fine young people who leave the community <br />for bigger and brighter shores. He dare say it is not many, who are leaving because we <br />have not had this ordinance. For the Cities who do pass these, there is almost no use of <br />them whatsoever. There is almost no complaints filed, very few have ever been proven. <br />Very few have every been proven in advance of one of these ordinances being filed. He <br />suggested that it is no more than a political attempt to offer legitimacy on a moral issue to <br />homosexual sexual activity. That is what many capable speakers are going to share with <br />you tonight. He encouraged the Council to examine the evidence that is here from <br />Attorney’s from Pepperdine University to the University of Notre Dame to the Liberty <br />Counsel. Liberty Counsel goes into depth explaining the four criteria. There are going to <br />be many fine speakers who are going to share with you. Mr. Mangan stated in closing, <br />his official portion of the remonstrance against this. Because thousands of men and <br />women have found freedom from all of the afflictions being described here through faith <br />and through counseling, his pray is that those who may have come into the room tonight, <br />here from the homosexual and GLBT community, maybe with some anger and some hurt <br />in their hearts will lovingly lay that anger in the loving arms of Jesus, who can set them <br />free. He asked them to join him in loving them in this special way of lovingly opposing <br />these harmful behaviors in such a way that it could save their life. <br />Jay Dunlap, 61623 Kingston Court, South Bend, Indiana, stated that he has four children, <br />three of them who attend school in South Bend at St. Matthew’s Grade School. He is <br />here tonight to speak because of his families experience similar to others that have <br />spoken here tonight. He stated that he has a loved one who experiences same sex <br />attractions. Unlike some of the others that have already spoken, he saw his brother go <br />through, was very difficult and painful. When he would hear in the media and in various <br />reports, that what his brother was experiencing was healthy and normal, it did not match <br />with what he was seeing. He saw his brother in and out of the hospital either because of <br />physical problems or because of psychological problems he was suffering because of the <br />same sex attractions. Mr. Dunlap stated that his brother died young. He was not quite 27 <br />years old and died 20 years ago. Mr. Dunlap advised that he wanted to understand what <br />his brother went through. He found an organization called NARTH National Association <br />for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, which is an excellent resource because it <br />pulls together all kinds of in depth research that has been and published in professional <br />journals that looks at the psychological, social and physical consequences of the gay <br />lifestyle. Mr. Dunlap stated that he saw in the facts that were presented, exactly what his <br />brother experienced. Starting that with the fact, as a teenager, he was seduced at an <br />athletic club, by an older man. Mr. Mangan referred to the National Agenda, that very <br />explicitly said that it wanted to get rid of age of consent laws. The very same thing that <br />he saw his brother suffer from for years until he died, because of that kind of experience. <br />Mr. Dunlap stated that he wanted to also speak on behalf of his family, not only because <br />23 <br /> <br />