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<[[Brennen]]> Late January 2006, ''RollingStone'' carried a sort of hysterical smear piece on Brownback. Not exactly well-written, and the writer seems to know approximately jack about Kansas, but scary enough all the same.
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* [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator The ''Rolling Stone'' piece in question], by JeffSharlet.
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* A specifically anti-Brownback [http://www.theantisam.com/ blog].
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<[[Brennen]]> So, there's this guy who was in my dad's fraternity at KansasStateUniversity. Name of Sam Brownback. I get the impression my parents knew him to talk to and that was about it. He used to come up in conversation once in a while - you know, the "that guy could be president some day" kind of statement that pops up every now and again. These days Sam Brownback is a [http://brownback.senate.gov/ Senator from Kansas] - he replaced Bob Dole back in '96, and he'll almost certainly be re-elected this year. I keep running into his name. Usually in connection with things like [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/brownback200407090921.asp this National Review piece]:
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:If the movement for civil unions and same-sex marriage succeeds, we may well be dealing a fatal blow to an already vulnerable institution. It is possible to lose the institution of marriage in America. And that is precisely the hidden agenda of many in this cultural battle: To do away entirely with the traditional definition of the family. An influential organization of lawyers and judges, the American Law Institute, has already recommended sweeping changes in family law that would equalize marriage and cohabitation, extending rights and benefits now reserved for married couples to cohabiting domestic partners, both heterosexual and homosexual.
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:Once the process of "defining marriage down" begins, it is but a short step to the dissolution of marriage as a vital institution.
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Or [http://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2003/030103/epf504.htm this legislation]:
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:If we do not ban the cloning of human embryos now, we will quickly find ourselves unable to put the genie back in the bottle.
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:The only solution to the problem now facing humanity is to act quickly and to ban all human cloning now.
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:Along with Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., I have authored a bipartisan bill that bans all human cloning. The House has passed such a bill, and the president has indicated his strong support for this measure. Congress and the country can afford to wait no longer.
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Or [http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0511/p09s01-coop.htm this song and dance]:
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:Parents naturally want what's best for their children. Unfortunately, when it comes to sex education, our schools aren't giving children enough of what we know is best for them: real education about abstinence.
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:The idea of teaching children to avoid sex during their teen years is supported by nearly all parents. According to a recent Zogby International poll, 85 percent of parents said that the emphasis placed on abstinence for teens should be equal to or greater than the emphasis placed on contraception. Only 8 percent said teaching teens how to use condoms is more important than teaching them to abstain from sexual activity.
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:Sadly, we aren't delivering the message parents want. Governments - federal, state, and local - spend $4.50 to promote teen contraceptive use for every $1 spent to promote abstinence among teens.
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<[[Anonymous]]> someday could be who's president? give me a break.
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<[[Brennen]]> Three words: George W. Bush. How far apart are those social agendas?
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I'm not seriously suggesting that Brownback will ever be President of the United States, but he's already a Senator. Which is far enough up the ladder, isn't it?
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