After Victory, Crusader Against Same-Sex Marriage Thinks Big -NYT(!)

[Rose Siding]

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Mr. Burress, a self-described former pornography addict, had spent much of the 1990's fighting strip clubs and X-rated bookstores. But here was something he saw as a potentially greater threat to his fundamentalist Christian beliefs and traditional family values: something he called the "gay agenda."

"We saw a stepped program, a plan by gay advocates," Mr. Burress recalled. "It would lead to homosexuality being taught in schools as equal to heterosexuality. And we saw that what they couldn't get from legislatures they would try to get by going to court."

And so Mr. Burress became a Paul Revere for the movement against same-sex marriage, not only sounding warnings across the land but also laying the groundwork for a church-based conservative movement that he hopes will transform Ohio politics for years to come.
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Just days after their thundering victories in the fall elections, Mr. Burress and other Christian conservative leaders met in Washington to discuss next year's constitutional amendment battles, which will focus on about 10 states, including Arizona, Florida and Kansas. They hope those fights will be the prelude to their real goal: amending the United States Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, which could take years.
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"I'm building an army," Mr. Burress said. "We can't just let people go back to the pews and go to sleep."

For someone who can sound so combative, Mr. Burress comes across as anything but. Tall, with thinning gray hair, he exudes a folksy, earnest charm. But he also has an inner toughness developed from years as a union negotiator for truck drivers, and he is clearly willing to play political hardball.

http://nytimes.com/2004/11/26/national/26gay.html?hp&ex=1101445200&en=2088b6f2d503fadf&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Oh, do read on about this whack job's sinful youth, conversion and plans to run religiously extreme candidates against any moderate repubs (go Burress!)

[teach1st]

1. OK, who left their gay agenda hanging around.

"We saw a stepped program, a plan by gay advocates," Mr. Burress recalled. "It would lead to homosexuality being taught in schools as equal to heterosexuality.

I don't think it's a math problem.

[clydefrand]

2. Who among us presently teaching or retired teachers ever

teach homosexuality OR heterosexuality? I taught both high school and upper elementary. I never taught about either even when I taught the reproductive system in humans or when I taught about how other animals or plants reproduce or in sex education. Is it taught now in high school?

[ruggerson]

3. I stopped fighting for the gay agenda

after I had collected way too many toasters

[Judi Lynn]

4. Phil's on the job. He's way too busy, isn't he?

There's so much evil to expunge.



Only in 2002, a mere two years ago, he was ONLY a lowly anti-porn activist. Look how far he has come!

Sunday, December 15, 2002
Anti-porn crusader takes fight to hotels


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Burress pushes prosecutors to investigate adult movies

By Sheila McLaughlin
The Cincinnati Enquirer


Phil Burress says he saved himself from pornography. Now, he and the increasingly influential group he leads want to save you, too.


Phil Burress and his wife, Vickie, at CCV headquarters. Pushpins on the Tristate map locate what CCV considers sexually-oriented businesses.
(Michael Snyder photo)
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From X-rated movies in video stores. From sexy magazines in convenience stores. From nude dancers in clubs. From hard-core Internet sites you can access on your personal computer.

"Every bit of it is harmful. We want it totally gone," says Mr. Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, a Sharonville-based, pro-family group backed by some of the biggest names in American conservative religion and Tristate corporate and sports circles.

For 25 years, the group has fought the sale of explicit magazines in Tristate stores, and battled clubs and art it finds obscene.

Now, it's engaged in another high-profile campaign. In an assault on the billion-dollar hospitality and pay-per-view movie business, the group vows to eliminate all X-rated films from the nation's hotels.
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http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/12/15/loc_ccvmainbar.html

[lawladyprof]

5. No saint like a reformed sinner--eom

[George_S]

6. Bet he's just bragging...

... and was never really addicted to porn.

He's got the same compassion Bush and Rush have about their past addictions.

[sakabatou]

7. Prejudicial, hatefilled and stupid...

This guy says it like its the Jewish agenda, and that white MEN are better then enyone else... Jeeze, what donkey-hole.

[daleo]

8. It sounds like he found a good racket

He's got some nice threads, for an ex-truck driver. On his third wife, too. Its always nice to be lectured at by these types.

[Rose Siding]

9. He's perfect for the emerging United States of...

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