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    SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCILWOMAN ELISA CHAN REVEALS HER OPPOSITION TO HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN SECRET RECORDING

    "So disgusting!"

     

    That exclamation escaped the lips of District 9 Councilwoman Elisa Chan on May 21 in her City Hall office, where she was meeting with members of her staff to discuss the city's proposal to update its nondiscrimination ordinance, adding protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.

     

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    In the course of the conversation, Chan expressed her unvarnished views on homosexuality, which range from befuddled to intolerant.

     

    She revealed that she believes being gay is a choice and that gay people should not be allowed to adopt children, and she voiced revulsion toward the LGBT community.

     

    Unbeknown to the councilwoman, an aide, James Stevens, was secretly recording the meeting on his iPhone. (He's now a former aide; Stevens, 28, quit this week.)

     

    In the recording, which Stevens gave to me, the councilwoman and her aides strategize how to oppose the ordinance publicly without revealing her feelings.

     

    "My decision to record in the first place was that, during the staff meetings, we weren't really discussing the ordinance itself," Stevens told me. "We were really just talking about ways to appeal to the (voting) base and to get them fired up as opposed to analyzing the ordinance."

     

    Read the whole San Antonio Express-News story and listen to the audio recording. 

    ELISA CHAN'S TAPED REMARKS SPARK A WIDE REACTION

    Local leaders moved quickly Friday to distance themselves from homophobic comments made by Councilwoman Elisa Chan, while local and national LGBT advocacy groups and politicians called for her immediate resignation.

     

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    Mayor Juli�n Castro said Chan's comments - secretly recorded in May and released this week amid ongoing debates about updating the city's nondiscrimination ordinance to protect sexual orientation and gender identity - illuminate a "level of bias and ignorance that's astonishing."

     

    And in Washington, the Human Rights Campaign called for the third-term incumbent to leave office.

     

    "My initial reaction was that I was shocked by what I was hearing. My second reaction was that it gives the wrong impression of San Antonio when people outside our city hear it," he said. "It was also astounding how misinformed and downright ignorant a lot of that conversation was."

     

    Chan, 47, didn't respond to a phone call or text message seeking comment Friday.

     

    Read the whole San Antonio Express-News story 

     

    Watch the KABB-TV news story.  

     

    Watch the KSAT-TV news story.

     

    Read Glenn Beck's The Blaze report which includes a WOAI-TV story

     

    EXPRESS-NEWS COLUMNIST GILBERT GARCIA BLASTS CHAN AS 'PRE-HISTORIC'

     

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     San Antonio Express-News columnist Gilbert Garcia

     

    Chan's prehistoric view (still shared by a depressingly large segment of the public) IS that being gay is not part of a person's nature, but behavior fostered by a deviant cult of immorality that goes around brainwashing innocent minds - a behavior that can be prayed away.

     

    Read Gilbert Garcia's pro-homosexual San Antonio Express-News column. 

     

    SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS EDITORIAL BULLIES ELISA CHAN FOR TRADITIONAL VALUES

     

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    In a sad sense, it's a breakthrough to hear City Councilwoman Elisa Chan's unvarnished views on lesbians, gays and transgender people.

     

    The veil has been lifted.

     

    We can finally have an honest dialogue about the proposal to update the city's anti-discrimination ordinance, and resistance to including the LGBT community.

    As Chan makes clear enough in the recording from a staff meeting, revealed by Express-News columnist Brian Chasnoff, resistance to the ordinance is not about bathrooms, First Amendment rights or religious freedom.

     

    read the San Antonio Express-News pro-homosexual editorial 

      

    STAR TREK HOMOSEXUAL STAR GEORGE TAKEI:  

    "SAN ANTONIO, DUMP ELISA CHAN"

     

    George Takei - a former Star Trek star turned powerhouse LGBT activist - took Chan to task.

     

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    He wrote: "It's always disappointing when Asian Americans in leadership positions fall short. Personally, I find this woman's actions repugnant. San Antonio, it's time to dump your trash and make sure the likes of Elisa Chan are never reelected.

     

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    George Takei of Star Trek fame in bed with his homosexual lover.   

     

    "The Japanese American Citizen's League was the very first minority civil rights organization to support marriage equality for LGBTs back in 1996. I call on Asian American leaders and organizations to condemn Chan's behavior and her ugly political cynicism."

     

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    Read the whole San Antonio Express-News story 

     

    HOMOSEXUAL GROUP ISSUES SAN ANTONIO 'TRAVEL ADVISORY' TO FELLOW GAYS

     

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    In its travel advisory, GetEQUAL Texas states, "This alert has been issued based on the fact that San Antonio refuses to pass a non-discrimination ordinance that would protect LGBT travelers from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Although the San Antonio City Council has expressed an interest in revising the city ordinances to prohibit discrimination against LGBT travelers in public accommodations (i.e. hotel stays, restaurant visits, etc.), city officials have repeatedly delayed a vote on the ordinance amendments."

     

    read story 

     

    ELISA CHAN'S DEFENDS TRADITIONAL VALUES REMARKS

     

    This morning, Tuesday, August 20, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., San Antonio City Councilwoman Elisa Chan of District 9 in North San Antonio took the time to address her critics.

     

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    Watch the 5-minute video of her remarks this morning.

     

    Watch the KENS-TV report which includes Allan Parker's defense of Elisa Chan.

     

    JUSTICE FOUNDATION DEFENDS CHAN'S RIGHT TO DISAGREE WITH PEDOPHILIA, BESTIALITY AND HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR

     

    Allan Parker, President of the San Antonio-based Justice Foundation, defends Councilperson Elisa Chan's statement which was attributed in the newspaper as being homophobic. These are natural reactions and legitimate points of view which as an American citizen, and as a Texan, she has a right to express and act upon. Her thinking should not be criminalized by the passage of the proposed city ordinance. The Justice Foundation offers her any assistance to protect her legal rights.

     

    1.  She stated she felt a natural disgust at some sexual perversions. Things such as sadomasochism, anal intercourse, dominance, etc. are viewed with disgust by many members of society. Their views should be tolerated and discussed openly, not criminalized.

     

    2.  She stated that children should not be raised by homosexual couples. While she respected the rights of consenting adults to participate in behavior they chose, who chooses for the child? Gay adoption is a modern social experiment and the social results are not in. A University of Texas professor has already stated that there can be damaging consequences. Whether it is good or bad, the child cannot give his or her consent; therefore it is human experimentation without consent.  

     

     

    3.  The words of Councilperson Chan would be criminalized under this criminal ordinance. The proposed ordinance criminalizes the beliefs of the majority of Texans that marriage should be between a man and a woman, along with thousands of other acts of alleged discrimination against the homosexual, bi-sexual, transgendered and asexual community.

     

    HOLY BIBLE  

     

    McManus Note: Finally, in God's Word, we read our Creator's mind found in Romans 1:24-27 which states, "Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.

      

    "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error."

     

    THE BIG PICTURE

     

    It is anticipated that the San Antonio City Council will take up the proposed homosexual ordinance for the first time on Wednesday, August 28. If passed, the ordinance would set a dangerous precedent that could spread to other cities in Texas.

     

    ACTION STEPS FOR ADAM'S ARMY:

     

    1.  Call San Antonio City Councilwoman Elisa Chan's office at 210-207-7325 and express your support for her support for traditional values.

     

    2. Send San Antonio City Councilwoman Elisa Chan a 1-2 sentence long email of support: district9@sanantonio.gov.

     

    3. Contact all the members of the San Antonio City Council and express your opposition to the proposed homosexual ordinance. 

     

    4. Send an email to all of the San Antonio City Council through the Texas Values website. 20,000 similar messages have been sent. 

     

    5. Send a letter to the San Antonio Express-News editor - preferably 2-5 sentences long - supporting San Antonio City Councilwoman Elisa Chan for stating that homosexual behavior is not genetic and for affirming traditional Judeo-Christian values. letters@express-news.net. Maximum length: 200 words.

     

    6. Read about the legal problems with the proposed homosexual ordinance.  

     

    7. Read the proposed homosexual ordinance itself.

     

    You might recall that while I was KSLR's afternoon talk show host, I used that platform to speak out against Castro's decision to serve as Grand Marshall of the Sodomite Pride Parade.  Watch the TV news story below.

     

    Adam McManus vs. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro on Gay Pride Parade 
    Adam McManus vs. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro on Gay Pride Parade


    DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S LURKING IN YOUR WATER?

    HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT TESTED?

     

    If you knew you could rejuvenate your immune system without drugs, reverse and prevent disease, would you?

     

    Bring a bottle of your tap water to have it tested on site. What long-term impact is the chlorine and fluoride in your tap water having on your body? Even bottled water has problems which you might be unaware of.

     

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    It's time to consider the better option of alkaline, ionized water. Change your water. Change your life.

     

    Gary Sutton, a top nutritional expert to the Olympic and Pro Athletes will be the guest speaker on Sunday, August 25th from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at San Antonio's historic Bright Shawl located at 819 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Texas 78215. Doors open at 3:15 p.m.

     

    For more information about becoming fully hydrated the way God meant you to be and to make reservations call Gary Sutton at 830-857-4290 or Elizabeth Anderson at 210-274-2209.

     

    This event is free with the cost of dinner ($15).

     

    This event will sell out!

     

    CHRISTIE: HOMOSEXUALITY INNATE, NOT A SIN

     

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican who has opposed same-sex marriage, said that gay people are born that way and it is not a sin.

     

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    The statement was released as he signed a bill banning therapy that tries to change a minor's sexual orientation. Christie said such efforts pose "critical health risks including, but not limited to, depression, substance abuse, social withdrawal, decreased self-esteem and suicidal thoughts."

     

    read story 

     

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    TO WIN JERRY JENKIN'S LATEST BOOK I, SAUL

     

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    A young seminary professor, Augustine Knox, is drawn into a deadly race to save priceless parchments from antiquities thieves and discovers a two- thousand-year old connection with another who faced death for the sake of the truth. I, Saul consists of two riveting adventures in one, transporting you between the stories of Augustine Knox and Saul of Tarsus.

     

      I SAUL

     

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    ACTION STEPS:

     

    1. Buy Jerry Jenkin's book I, Saul. 

     

    2.  If you are one of the first five to send me a compelling 2-10 sentence email at TalkRadioAdam@gmail.com about why you should win I, Saul, I will send you a FREE copy. Make sure to include your first and last name as well as your physical mailing address with zipcode.

     

    PASTOR SET TO BURN 2,998 KORANS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH IN FLORIDA

     

    Dr. Terry Jones has announced he will be burning 2,998 Korans on September 11 at a Mulberry property. The Koran is the Islamic religious book. He said he will burn one book for each life lost during the 9/11 attacks.

     

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    Dr. Jones said he has burned 3,000 Korans every September 11 since 2010.

    The residents of Mulberry do not understand why Dr. Jones has chosen their town to raise awareness about Islam.

     

    Read story and watch TV news story  

     

    NEED A HANDYMAN IN SAN ANTONIO?

     

    Do what I did. Call Alamo City Handymen.  

     

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    One of our guests broke our guest bed several weeks ago and I needed it fixed in a flash on a Saturday.

     

    After calling at least 15 businesses listed on the internet to no avail, I finally stumbled across the website for Alamo City Handymen.

     

    Not only did the owner David Palomo answer the call, but he fixed the bed just four hours later. And he had a great attitude and a smile. Now that is good, old fashioned service!

     

    I'm not the only one impressed. Read their testimonials

     

    Plus, Alamo City Handmen offers kitchen and bathroom remodeling, home additions, carpentry, fencing, flooring, decks, painting, siding and any other handyman jobs you may need.

     

    They are licensed, insured and an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau.

     

    ACTION STEP:

     

    1. Call David Palomo of Alamo City Handymen at 210.535.1000. (Please tell him that Adam McManus sent you.)

     

    'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR BLASTS ABORTION CULTURE:  

    'WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO US?'

     

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    In a video featuring Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, the TV star - in what appears to be a sermon - declares his pro-life stance on the issue of abortion. When discussing the ethics of, and that there's even a debate on, the issue, he asks, "What in the world happened to us?"

     

    "Listen, from the time you started inside your mother's womb, Thomas Jefferson had it right, you have the God-given right to life for crying out loud. You're this long (pointing to his finger). You're a week old inside your mother. They suck you out of there when you're about like that (point to finger again). You wouldn't be here tonight!

     

    Another reason to love the Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson! He's Pro-Life! :) 
    Another reason to love the Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson! He's Pro-Life! :)
      

    "And, when you got to be the size of my thumb, they suck you out. You wouldn't be here. Then, you grow a little bigger, like my fist - and finally eight, nine months later you come out.

     

    "And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?"

     

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    DR. OZ HELPS NYC TOURIST WHOSE LEG WAS SEVERED BY RUNAWAY CAB

     

    A tourist reportedly lost a leg when a cab jumped a curb and smashed into her in Rockefeller Center on Tuesday morning.

     

    It happened at 49th and 6th Avenues at about 11:10 a.m.

     

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    Sources tell MyFoxNY.com that a cabbie had gotten into a road rage argument with a livery cab driver and the cars were trying to out run each other.

     

    The cabbie apparently lost control and jumped the curb, hitting the woman who had been sitting on the fountain ledge.

     

    Apparently, Dr. Mehmet Oz, saw the scene from an office window and raced to the scene to help the seriously injured victim, who was visiting from England.

     

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    A hot dog vendor reportedly helped pack her severed leg with ice to transport to the hospital.

     

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    LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER; BABY GIRL BORN IN PARKING LOT

    It was d�j� vu for a Yorkville family last weekend, when Erica Pavlik went into labor and gave birth in a gas station parking lot.

     

    WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports little Hannah Grace Mary Pavlik's father had been born in a parking lot too, almost 33 years to the day before his daughter's birth.

     

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    Frank Pavlik was born in the parking lot of the Louis Joliet Mall, unable to wait for his parents to make it to the hospital.

     

    His daughter was just as eager to enter the world; as one day before Frank's 33rd birthday, Hannah was born in the parking lot of a gas station in southwest suburban Oswego, while Erica's mother was driving her to the hospital on Saturday.

     

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    Having given birth to two sons - and gone through a false labor during her second pregnancy - Erica figured she had plenty of time.

     

    read story 

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