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This KKK killing is regarded as somewhat unusual because it involved a female recruit who tried to back out at the last minute during an initiation and was murdered:
A Tulsa, Okla., woman who traveled to Louisiana to join the Ku Klux Klan was shot to death by the leader of the group's Bogalusa chapter Sunday after she tried to back out of initiation rites at a remote, sandbar camp in northeastern St. Tammany Parish, authorities said Tuesday.
An investigation Monday resulted in the arrests of eight members of the Klan branch, which had flown under the radar of officials in St. Tammany and Washington parishes, investigators said. The suspects, all from the Bogalusa area, include Raymond "Chuck" Foster, who has been booked with murder in the shooting of the unidentified woman.
Pictures of the area and of the accused are at the NOLA link.
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Some gay activists need to take a Dale Carnegie course.
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Same-sex marriage is now officially legal in Connecticut.
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Speaking of SSM, California Musical Theater artistic director Scott Eckern quit after gay groups protested against his continued employment there because he dared to exercise his right to support causes he believed in, causes that didn't dovetail with what gay rights people think are "correct."
Welcome to the new "tolerant" America. McCarthyism redux:
On Tuesday, Kellie Randle and a group of like-minded friends launched www.supportscotteckern.blogspot.com to advocate for Eckern.
"It's everyone's First Amendment right to contribute to the causes they believe in and voice their political choice," Randle said. To show the abuse against Eckern, Randle's site links to the Clyde Fitch Report, one of numerous blogs now weighing in on the debate.
"I'm so enraged at the hypocrisy of the No on 8 community. I could care less how he voted on any issue. It's about what he does in his job. This is persecution," Randle said.
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Elton John knows what the problem with the push for same-sex marriage presents:
In December 2005, John and Furnish tied the knot in a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor, England. But, clarified the singer, "We're not married. Let's get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage."
Pushing this just sets the gay rights movement back, MA and CT notwithstanding.
I am reminded of Nicholas von Hoffman's piece of five years ago, which still rings true. "Often obnoxious, in-your-face arrogance" is an apt description of too many activists, to their detriment. They forget just how tiny a minority they really are.
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