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From: gordonz@dont-email.me
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Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> My name is Rivka Edelman, and I am the product of same-sex parenting.
>
> Recently I published an essay on Public Discourse about the ruthless
> misogyny that pervades LBGT culture. I pointed out it that it can and
> will victimize women and children with impunity and then, in America’s
> narcissistic fugue, get hailed as brave and heroic.
>
> Since my essay was published, there have been hundreds, maybe thousands,
> of posts calling me a liar or trying to shame, discredit, intimidate, and
> threaten me. Read this for details. People I do not know have gone
> directly after my family and my job. They have posted information, mis-
> information, accusations, and threats against me. A vicious abusive
> “activist” well-known for his unhinged misogynistic cyber-stalking and
> violent threats, Scott Rose, sent blast e-mails to the university where I
> teach, describing himself as a “human right activist and an investigative
> journalist.”
>
> Scott Rose has made threats of violence against Ryan T. Anderson, the
> editor who published my piece on October 2, 2014:
>
> [IMAGE]
>
> "The only good anti-LGBT bigot is a dead anti-LGBT bigot."
>
> And menacing threats against me:
>
> [IMAGE]
>
> As with other adults who have come forward to criticize their childhood
> with gay parents, I am framed as a bigot or a liar or in some other way
> “unreliable.” In this flip-flop, a children’s rights activist and
> feminist is called “anti-gay” and a “bigot.”
>
> Jeremy Hooper, Mr. Rose, and a gang of the allies who congregate and
> exchange information on Hooper’s blog, “Good As You,” are concerned about
> an amicus curiae brief I wrote in the Texas case regarding same-sex
> marriage (Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals). Along with three other
> adults who were raised by same-sex couples, I came forward to push back
> against the assertion that children have no disadvantages when raised by
> same-sex couples. Our arguments are not so easy to dismiss.
>
> On Jeremy Hooper’s blog, activists have dug through all my past to make
> it public. They have also discussed contacting my ex-husband to get him
> to lie about me for them.
>
> [IMAGE]
>
> The Texas case is still pending. To date, the voices of adult children
> of the LBGT community have been stifled, but by some miracle four briefs
> were accepted in Texas against the objections of the pro-gay lobby side,
> which invoked procedural technicalities to try to get the four briefs
> thrown out. Three of the four amici curiae have published commentary on
> same-sex parenting here.
>
> Once “activists” connected my Public Discourse piece of October 2, to the
> Texas brief, they went full throttle. Jeremy Hooper, the blogger at Good
> as You, uses his blog as a platform to harass, bully, and silence with
> impunity. Hooper published comments from his readers and thereby shared
> our home address and my daughter’s private information. They contacted
> other family members looking for information. They are not picky; true
> or made up assertions work for them equally.
>
> To my ex husband, Rose wrote:
>
> We can conclude with reasonable certainty that significant
> details of her young life were left out of her brief[.]
>
> Mr. Rose wants my ex-husband to fill in the blanks. He was told never to
> contact my ex again. He has harassed me with the e-mail version of
> drunken dialing. And as the outrage against Mr. Hooper grows wider, he
> says he has no control over the comments. He says he never even met
> Rose. He cites law for polish. Hooper is careful and deliberate to say
> that sometimes he does not agree with Rose’s tactics.
>
> I do not believe Mr. Hooper. He indeed allows commenters to leave
> violent threats against me. Under Hooper’s editorial review, my work
> information, along with my child’s name and people’s addresses,
> circulated freely.
>
> Here Mr. Rose, human rights activist (is that a day job?), threatened my
> career with much bravado:
>
> [Scott Rose]
>
> She thought she was going to get away with demonizing gay people behind
> pseudonyms “Ryvka Edelman” … et cetera, but my message to the gay-bashing
> bigot is YOU’LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN.
>
> She can forget that one.
>
> And now that editors and English Department Chairs know that [Rivka
> Edelman] is a vicious anti-LGBT bigot, they have more information for
> their publishing and hiring decisions.
>
> P.S. to Rivka – Rots a Ruck getting your work published in any non-
> religious, non-bigot publication, now that the world knows that [Rivka]
> is a malicious, lying, anti-LGBT bigot.
>
> [/Scott Rose]
>
> The police have his name now.
>
> Perhaps they see us, the adult children of gay homes, as a threat, so we
> are attacked and our families threatened. They posted on Craigslist
> looking for information about me.
>
> [IMAGE]
>
> Good God. Maybe I’m on Grindr, too.
>
> Next they deploy “activist” “Straight Grandmother.” She is the one who
> floats the idea of contacting my ex in the first place.
>
> She states in an e-mail to my ex-husband:
>
> ... Her Amicus Brief to our Federal Court Judges in the 5th Circuit
> Court of Appeals ... The only thing they have going is their personal
> narrative, which makes it very difficult to discredit ... how much if
> their personal narrative is made up just to further their Hate Agenda.
> The only way we have to discern the truth is to delve into their personal
> narrative.
>
> They savage, bully, and threaten adults who grew up with gay parents in
> order to force a false narrative of happiness on them. More Orwellian
> logic.
>
> Straight Grandmother goes on explaining the ins and outs:
>
> It invades people's personal privacy. But then on the other hand,
> they are the ones themselves who are offering up their personal lives as
> reasons to deny gays Civil Rights. See how this puts gay rights advocates
> between a rock and a hard place? They kind of force us to do something
> distasteful, but if we don't then their lies stand.
>
> They admit a pattern to invade people’s privacy – the new McCarthyism.
>
> SGM says:
>
> This is why I am contacting you and what I would like
> to know about XXXX, well specifically XXXX's mother ...
> if you are able to get an actual affirmation or
> rejection from the brother[.]
>
> Here they are looking for more family. I can’t help but feel that
> whatever organization pays these men should be investigated.
>
> The writer continues:
>
> I don't know if you will provide the true answer to my question or
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