President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated the fourth openly gay judicial candidate of his administration to the U.S. district court.

Michael Fitzgerald, a lawyer with Corbin, Fitzgerald and Athey in Los Angeles, was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Fitzgerald, 51, a graduate of Harvard University and the University of California Berkeley’s School of Law, previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in California and has been a practicing trial lawyer for 20 years.

“I am honored to nominate Michael Walter Fitzgerald to the United States District Court,” Obama said in a statement. “His impressive career stands as a testament to his formidable intellect and integrity. I am confident he will serve the people of California with distinction on the District Court bench.”

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Fitzgerald’s nomination follows Senate confirmation on Monday of Paul Oetken to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, making him the first openly gay male federal judge in the nation’s history.

Oetken, a Yale Law School graduate and a former Justice Department lawyer in the Clinton administration, was confirmed by a vote of 80-13.

The moment was marked with praise from New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, who called Oetken’s confirmation “a symbol of how much we have achieved as a country in just the last few decades.”

Alison Nathan, another openly gay nominee to the Southern District of New York, was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Edward DuMont, who was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has not yet been reported out of the Judiciary Committee.

Despite a backlog in confirming Obama’s judicial nominations, the president has surpassed his predecessors in putting forth diverse candidates to the federal bench, according to the White House and independent data collected by judicial scholar Russell Wheeler of the Brookings Institution.

Obama has nominated more female, African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and openly gay candidates as federal judges than Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush. That includes two female Supreme Court justices, one of whom is the high court’s only Hispanic justice.

The numbers are particularly striking for Asian-American nominees. Obama has nominated half of the Asian-American federal judges currently on the bench.

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Dangers of Homosexuality

The debate on whether to legitimise homosexuality or not has arisen again with religious bodies, some members of Parliament, Chiefs and in recent times, President Mills taking a stand against it. On the contrary some human rights advocate have also risen to the defence of what is largely and widely viewed as immoral and alien to our cultural setting. A Homosexual or gay is a person usually a man who is sexually attracted to people of the same sex.

Human psychology and biology in recent times have revealed that some persons are born with homosexual tendencies so they have the right to be so. This has been one of the most ridiculous and outrageous revelations in the 21st century.

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If this kind of flawed thinking is tolerated, very soon other social misfits like armed robbers, rapists and criminals will have findings defending them saying they were born with such tendencies. This situation can be likened to the Bible as a two edged sword. You can find any example in the Bible to defend any good or bad conduct you will want to indulge in. People who want to commit evil deeds will sometimes refer to some godly people in the Bible who fell short of such moral conducts. Truth as they say is one. There can be no middle grounds. What is evil is evil and cannot change with time. Such is homosexuality.

The Bible’s position on homosexuality is clear and straight forward. The Bible describes this condition as sin, immoral, evil and has the consequence of attracting God’s wrath. God in His wisdom created man and woman differently. He introduced marriage in the Garden of Eden between a man and a woman mandating them to procreate and fill the earth. This pre-supposes that marriage or by extension sexual relationship is limited to husband and wife. Therefore sex outside this parameter is either described as fornication or sex before marriage, adultery that is sex outside marriage, homosexuality or sex between same sexes and bestiality or sex between man and animal. We saw God demonstrate his displeasure at homosexuality by destroying Sodom and Gomorrah because they tolerated this kind of sin. The Bible in Deuteronomy 27 and 28 pronounces curses on those who practice it. These curses range from insanity to chaos, premature death to retrogression in life which will affect the 3rd and 4th generations of those who practice it. Also the Bible in Romans 1:27 describes homosexuality as shameful and reveals that those who practice it receive its due punishment from God. The Bible further warns that the final destination of homosexuals is hell fire where they will suffer perpetually after life on earth.

A nation’s spiritual and socio-economic life is intertwined. The spiritual life of a nation drives the physical. Therefore, if a nation commits such sin and God is displeased it will go against our national development. Homosexuality also has health implication for those who practice it. It is a fact that those who practice homosexuality destroy certain organs in their anus and will have to wear pampers because they pass out human excreta without any warning or restraint. Homosexuality also facilitates the spread of H.I.V. and Aids which is a bane of Africa’s development. Monies spent treating such avoidable conditions could have been used in more productive sectors of the economy.

If homosexuality is tolerated, very soon the human race will be extinct. This must not be entertained or else posterity will curse and judge our generation. It is on record that some powerful groups in the U.S and Europe who are linked to some satanic occults are sponsoring a major campaign to get this evil deed legitimised around the world. This is why President Evans Atta Mills needs to be commended for coming out to state Ghana’s position on homosexuals saying, the state will not entertain it since our laws abhor it.

Homosexuality must be a major campaign issue in 2012. Every political party must be made to state their position on it. Ghanaians must reject any party that roots for its legitimisation. Again some defend this evil culture by referring to the Americans who accept homosexuals into their army. Ghana must not follow America blindly. Ever since America opened its society to secularism, the crime rate in that country has soared to very alarming heights and this, is a source of worry to its well meaning citizens. The moral fibre of our society will be destroyed if such injustice as homosexuality is legitimized. The moral fibre of a nation is its foundation. So the question is: Of what benefit is economic development to a country if it is morally bankrupt? It is as worse as a poor nation.

We must not condemn homosexuals but condemn the act and sin of homosexuality. We must be kind to them and help them to overcome this degrading tendency. We must assure them they can overcome it. There is no human moral failure that cannot be overcome. There are many in our societies, who were once rapists, armed robbers and homosexuals who upon acknowledging those tendencies as sin and evil sought help and they are now free from its addiction. We use this opportunity to call on civil society, organs of governments, NGOs, political and religious bodies to rise up against any call or attempt to legitimise homosexuality.

Dangers of Homosexuality

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