Listener anti-gay rebukes Radio announcer to play Yelle ' love '

Artimis Radio host at 92.9 FM in Indiana had no idea who playing chup and Ryan Lewis hit "the same love" that evoke a response so passionate and fanatical of a listener, identifying himself as "Craig". After initially playing the anthem of the gay rights, Craig rebuked station call after call - finally galvanivng the host to record the conversation and post it on the Facebook page of the station.

"I am a Christian, I am a God-fearing man, and I know that homosexuals have no place in America," Craig proclaimed flatly as he defended his stance on the song. The caller also shared with the radio announcer which was only exposed to the track as his son tried to share his message with his father. When the host pushed Craig on why her son wanted to hear "The same love", the person who called said that his son "didn't know any better".

After being informed by Craig that "God does not loves everyone", the radio announcer tried to rationally remind the caller that the United States is the country of freedom.

Response of Craig. "Yes! And I need to be free of gays!

(h/t have a Gay day)

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HuffPost Radio: BOTH SIDES NOW: After 9/11, Is Obama's NSA Really a Version of Hoover's FBI?

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Talk about 'Beyond Right & Left' -- when Franken-Rove clash with Scahill-Beck over the NSA program, knee-jerkers are confused. So Huffington & Matalin debate domestic snooping not by Hoover against protestors in the '60s but by Obama after 9/11 and Boston. Is Snowden an Ellsberg or Manning?

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True, Bush's cherry-picked intelligence on WMD was abusive, Cheney's "unitary government" philosophy extreme and Rudy [Mr. 9/11] Giuliani a near-parody on terrorism...but it's also true that our intelligence agencies failed to "connect the dots" before September 11th. Seven years after USA Today and the NYT first revealed this NSA program, how can we now better enhance safety without shredding privacy? Then: women at work (again!); what's wrong with the HPV vaccine; what's wrong with the case against Zimmerman.

On the NSA & Snowden. We listen to Edward Snowden grandiosely assert he had the clearance to tap anybody and Obama respond, in effect, that our dangerous world means Ben Franklin was wrong to conclude that we couldn't sacrifice a little privacy for more safety. That right?

Not to Arianna, who highlights the HuffPo headline "George W. Obama" about our growing national surveillance state. "For Democrats to trust blithe assurances from a Democrat in the White House is meaningless...Of course we can't have 100% security no matter what we do and obviously Obama didn't want this debate since we're having it [only because of Snowden]. I don't trust Bush-Cheney or Obama-Biden."

Mary concurs that there's now "a major mistrust of major institutions...because of the surveillance state and the myriad scandals like the IRS and Benghazi. In the Bush White House, we tried to protect civil liberties as much as possible." While the NSA program is "a useful tool," she goes on to worry that a) aggregating all phone calls plus a FISA warrants system "is a hammer to kill a mosquito" and b) it would be preferable "to better target likely suspects and collect more human intelligence instead of just killing them."

Host: "Better targeting suspects would be nice but the whole point of meta-data analytics and algorithms is to look for calls or patterns that can 'connect the dots.' Sounds like you're against the Bush-Obama NSA program." Mary pushes backs that there's no simple yes-no answer as both women warn about potential abuses in the wrong hands.

Since the Supreme Court concluded in 1979 that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy when you merely send a letter (or make a call) & since we ok public cameras and TSA pat-downs for enhanced security & since we consent to Google, Facebook using private data to place ads, why not comparable information to stop bombs? Is this debate ultimately about disrupting or thwarting real threats against abstract, slippery slope, sky-if-falling rhetoric "Big Brother...1984...Nixonian...King George...Cointelpro...police state?" (Joked Bill Maher: "the only time Republicans complained about Big Brother was after we elected a 'Big Brother.'")

Which raises the issue of partisan trust. No D or R should give a blank check to a White House merely because of party label. But it seems rational to, say, trust an Obama over a Bush if the former runs as a "against-dumb-wars" constitutional law professor who's well-known as a deliberate decision-maker and twice handily beats GOP warriors associating with the Giuliani School. Don't we have elections to choose the person we trust with our lives and then live or die with the results (JFK-Cuba), with congressional, judicial and Fourth Estate oversight, of course?

Many ardent critics of Obama on Big Data are either a) liberals who conveniently refuse to acknowledge that there are plotting terrorists (I for one am happy my last subway ride with family didn't blow up) or b) conservatives who want it both ways depending on the event - robustly chiding 44 as weak-on-terror after say the Boston Marathon or as "over-reaching" if he continues a Bush program that appears to work (see 'Hannity' every night).

Arianna objects to comparisons between private use of data and public use "which can get you thrown in jail" (after a jury verdict). And she complains more generally about a national surveillance system that earns private contractors multi-billions and allows them to actually issue security clearances. Mary notes that "profits alone aren't a bad thing" and the reason for this privatization is because government has failed to follow the law previously. "And what's the penalty for violating the current law? Apparently not enough."

When asked how they'd ratify or change the current process - "what's your cost-benefit analysis?" -- each lauded the new debate and urged that we allow the process to play out.

Ok, is Snowden an Ellsberg or Manning - will he end up being lionized or imprisoned? Mary says he should be prosecuted for "treason". Arianna seems to agree with Ellsberg that Ellsberg is more like Snowden than Manning. (The Pentagon Papers leaker was indicted and his case later thrown out after a hung jury and disclosures that the government had engaged in illegal wiretapping and break-ins.) His 1971 disclosure was a classified history of the Vietnam conflict that revealed numerous examples of government lies; so far, authorities don't know much about the accuracy of Snowden's claims of "abuse...and criminality.")

On Working Women and on Rape: when will GOP Learn? PEW released a survey showing that women are the primary bread-winner in 40 % of all families (including single-moms) with children under 18, and a quarter of all married couples with young children. And we listen to Erick Erickson (founder of RedState.com and occasional BSN panelist) and Lew Dobbs maintain that it violates the laws of nature and is "anti-science" for liberals to urge women to work because two-income families supposedly are more likely to lead to more broken families.

Consensus alert! "This is such a ridiculous, retro argument," argues Mary. "It's a false choice to say it's either, neither, or both." Each family has to decide and balance work and child-rearing for themselves. "It's wrong to say a wife working reveals a bad man while a wife not working means a bad feminist. "

Arianna agrees that this is a wrong and "antediluvian debate" both because of course women should be able to choose their work and home life but also because "there's a third women's revolution beyond Friedan and Steinem about women in the workplace accepting men's definition of success and stress. It's not sustainable for anyone to work 12 hours a day -- change in the workplace is in everyone's interest."

Also this past week, the House Judiciary Committee voted out a bill to prohibit abortions after 20-22 weeks of conception, with its author, Rep. Trent Franks (R - AZ) saying that "the incidence of rapes resulting in pregnancy are very low" (30,000 a year). Mary is asked whether elected Republicans should take a class on how to avoid using words like "rape" and "abortion" in proximity which serve largely to continue the record 2012 gender gap. She objects to any implication that the GOP is "Cromagnan" here rather than taking a principled stand for human life after viability. Arianna disagrees with the Judiciary abortion bill (unpassable and "grandstanding") and thinks that comments about rape are foolish but marginal.

Quick Takes: HPV, Zimmerman, Turkey. Increasing number of parents don't vaccinate children against the sexually transmitted HPV virus because of concerns about promiscuity and safety. Mary stresses that parents, especially moms, have to make the final gut decisions since the shot is too new to be able to know conclusively that there aren't problems -- Arianna too worries about too little generational testing.

They both worry that Prime Minister Erdogan moved too quickly and militantly to clear out protestors from Taksim Square concerned about the growing Islamic state in Turkey and both express concern about the racial aspects of the Zimmerman trial since there are no eyewitnesses and one of the parties is dead. Arianna deplores how, at the least, the defendant appears to have "been trained from youth how to look at black people with suspicion." From a different perspective, Mary urges that "we have to move past the vitriolic hurling of racism in these situations." Whatever the verdict, should "stand your ground" state laws be reconsidered in light of this tragedy. Mary thinks not.

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Obama Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett Discusses Youth Employment

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Young people 16-24 are unemployed at more than twice the national average, and teenagers are unemployed at more than three times the national average. Youth Radio reporter Ashley Williams interviews Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, about Youth Jobs+, a program piloted by the White House to create summer job opportunities for thousands of young people across the nation.  

Below is an excerpt from the Q & A with Valerie Jarrett:

ASHLEY WILLIAMS: Unemployment for 16-24 year olds is more than double the national average, and for teenagers 16-19, it’s more than triple the national average. Why is youth unemployment so high?

VALERIE JARRETT: Well, as you know, when the president took office over four and a half years ago, our economy was going through the worst recession since the great depression. This did have a disproportionate effect on young people. Oftentimes employers make the decisions on who they lay off based on who was the last to come in the door... Those are unfortunately the first ones to lose their positions.

So, the President’s top priority since he took office has been growing our economy, growing the middle class, strengthening it, and providing ladders of opportunity for those who are not in the middle class to move into the middle class. Specifically, he has targeted young people for a variety of different reasons. Not just because it’s important that they have those dollars --and for many young people those dollars are vitally important to themselves and for their families, but also because having work experience early in life, creates opportunities for mentors, it exposes young people to a range of opportunities that they may not have thought about.

I love to tell the story about Ursula Burns who grew up poor, living in public housing. But she had an aptitude for STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). Early on as a young person, she was able to get an internship with Xerox Corporation. It had never occurred to her to work for a huge company before, but once she got her foot in the door, she discovered this passion she had for engineering, and today she’s the CEO of Xerox.

WILLIAMS: This year the White House launched Youth Jobs+. Other than the name, how has the program changed since Summer Jobs+ was piloted a year ago?

JARRETT: One of the things we learned as a result of last year’s program, which was very successful -- we created over 300,000 jobs around the country and we had a lot of support from the private sector and local governments. This year we thought in our conversations with mayors around the country that it would be important to let them take the leadership role because they’re closer to the ground, they’re in the communities, they have relationships with the business community, that could be instrumental in this effort...

Mayor Nutter from Philadelphia who chairs the U.S. Conference of Mayors, took the mantle and he said, ‘Let me take the leadership,’ and encouraged mayors across the country to engage in this effort.

WILLIAMS: More than 40% of black & brown teens report that they are unemployed. Why are teens of color so much less likely to find work, and what can be done to change that?

JARRETT: Making sure that they have access to quality education, making sure that we’re doing everything we can in elementary and secondary education, and then making college affordable and accessible. Oftentimes job opportunities are not immediately accessible, they’re not in the community where young people are living, and so encouraging employers to look into areas that have been underserved in terms of providing job opportunities, and targeting the youth in those areas is something else that’s a part of our initiative going on this summer with the mayors. We have to make sure all young people have access to those job opportunities, not just a fortunate few.

WILLIAMS: Did you have jobs as a young person? And if so, are there things you learned that helped you later in your professional life?

JARRETT: First, I worked without getting paid in the summers for my dad who had a laboratory at the University of Chicago. I would go over there and I would work in the lab, and just get used to getting up every morning and going to the office with him.

As soon as I was old enough to work I had two jobs. One, I was a clinic coordinator at University of Chicago, so I was the person when you go to the hospital at a clinic and you meet a person at the desk and they take your name and they find out why you’re there, and they order whatever test the physician wants ordered, and keep track of medical records, I did that. And at the same time that summer, I had a second job as a docent at the Museum of Science Industry.

Those early experiences I had in Chicago taught me a lot about the city and gave me a passion for giving back to the city I grew up in and has really shaped my career. So I encourage all young people to take advantage of that opportunity if they have it, and to try hard to find it. You might have to start out by volunteering, like I did in my father’s lab, and you have to prove yourself. After that perhaps someone will bring you on part-time and that will lead to a full time position. You have to sacrifice in the beginning and that will pay off enormously later on in life.

WILLIAMS: Why is it in the best interest of the business community to engage in employing youth? How does that affect the American economy going forward?

JARRETT: It strengthens our economy to have young people a part of the workplace. They’re being productive, they’re earning an income, they’re able to go out and spend that money which is good for the economy. Many young people are contributing to their family income, so providing a little extra money in the pockets of their family is important. All of that helps get our economy going again.

I want to encourage all young people out there: Don’t give up because it’s hard. Keep looking for jobs. Take advantage of any opportunities there are to improve your education so your skills are up to speed when that job opportunity comes along. 

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe.

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