2005-01-26
NEWS BLIPS + UPDATES
Mississippi Lawmakers confer with racist group | By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press
Some Mississippi lawmakers are scheduled to speak Thursday to the Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls "a patently white supremacist group."
Bill Hinson of Pearl, president of the Great Southern chapter of CCC, announced on the group's Web site that "several House and Senate members" are to speak | He wouldn't tell The Associated Press the names of lawmakers or where the event is taking place, although AP learned it will be at a south Jackson fish house | Hinson said he wouldn't release details of the meeting because, "we've had so much negative publicity" | He said the CCC does not make an issue of race.
"Our chapter is more focused on taxation, Southern heritage," Hinson said. "I guess you could call us the Christian right, something like that." | READ THE FULL STORY | FROM Steve Gilliard via Atrios
"Ex-Gay" Therapist expelled from counseling organzition for ethical violations | NEW YORK (Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005) AP Author Wayne Besen today released a letter he uncovered from the American Counseling Association that "permanently expelled" reparative therapist Richard Cohen in 2003 for serious ethics violations | The letter referred to Cohen's violations which included inappropriate behavior such as fostering dependent counseling relationships, not promoting the welfare of clients, engaging in actions that sought to meet his personal needs at the expense of clients, exploiting the trust and dependency of clients, unethically soliciting testimonials from clients and promoting products to clients in a manner that is deceptive | READ THE FULL STORY | FROM Wayne Besen
Alabama Boy Scouts falsify enrollment records by the thousands | Apparently an effort at helping prepare impressionable minds for the next generation of ENRON and WorldCom scandals, the Greater Alabama Boy Scout Council was listing fake members to boost enrollment, perhaps to bring in more funding from agencies like the United Way | The FBI is investigating to determine whether or not fraud occurred | READ THE FULL STORY | FROM Corrente
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Mississippi Lawmakers confer with racist group | By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press
Some Mississippi lawmakers are scheduled to speak Thursday to the Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls "a patently white supremacist group."
Bill Hinson of Pearl, president of the Great Southern chapter of CCC, announced on the group's Web site that "several House and Senate members" are to speak | He wouldn't tell The Associated Press the names of lawmakers or where the event is taking place, although AP learned it will be at a south Jackson fish house | Hinson said he wouldn't release details of the meeting because, "we've had so much negative publicity" | He said the CCC does not make an issue of race.
"Our chapter is more focused on taxation, Southern heritage," Hinson said. "I guess you could call us the Christian right, something like that." | READ THE FULL STORY | FROM Steve Gilliard via Atrios
"Ex-Gay" Therapist expelled from counseling organzition for ethical violations | NEW YORK (Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005) AP Author Wayne Besen today released a letter he uncovered from the American Counseling Association that "permanently expelled" reparative therapist Richard Cohen in 2003 for serious ethics violations | The letter referred to Cohen's violations which included inappropriate behavior such as fostering dependent counseling relationships, not promoting the welfare of clients, engaging in actions that sought to meet his personal needs at the expense of clients, exploiting the trust and dependency of clients, unethically soliciting testimonials from clients and promoting products to clients in a manner that is deceptive | READ THE FULL STORY | FROM Wayne Besen
Alabama Boy Scouts falsify enrollment records by the thousands | Apparently an effort at helping prepare impressionable minds for the next generation of ENRON and WorldCom scandals, the Greater Alabama Boy Scout Council was listing fake members to boost enrollment, perhaps to bring in more funding from agencies like the United Way | The FBI is investigating to determine whether or not fraud occurred | READ THE FULL STORY | FROM Corrente
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