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Those of you who follow us on facebook

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may wonder why we have

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things like this on facebook

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And I do hope everyone is following us

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but if you follow us on facebook

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you know that we have a laugh

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in the afternoon everyday

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Can you all see that?

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So, you know, we have things

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like this, or, things like this one

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This one was just up earlier this week

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It's a scientist tip on how you tell an

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alligator from a crocodile

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by whether the animal will see you later

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or in a while. That's how you can tell

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There's another way you can tell

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the difference between them

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and that is if the animal is singing

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and dancing and playing a musical

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instrument, it's certainly an alligator

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Crocodiles would never do anything

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like that, so why do we do this?

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Why are we 'yucking' it up all the time

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Well, the fact is that the topics we

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deal with on a regular basis are very grim

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We deal with a lot of dark stuff

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As you just saw, our previous speaker,

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practically in tears,

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And he's not the only one that's going

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through this type of stuff.

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And one of the least fun things that

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we deal with now, is child abuse.

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These are not fun things to deal with.

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So we laugh, we try to yuck it up and have

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a good time, because if we don't,

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we give up. We gotta be in it for the

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long haul, which means you gotta be

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able to, you know have some fun once

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in a while. So that's why we have

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stupid alligators and chick magnets

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and things like that on our website

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every afternoon.

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So, I mentioned this pamphlet,

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"Do you know a survivor

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of the Sexual Revolution?"

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If you open that up and study it,

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you will not see survivors

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of sexual abuse on there.

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And the reason they're not on there

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is because when I was working this out on

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2013, I said to myself, "Well you know

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there's always been sexual abuse,

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it isn't really fair to attribute that to

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the sexual revolution. And besides look at

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all these other stuff we have to work on.

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Isn't this enough for one organization?

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And besides secretly, I didn't want to

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deal with it because it's not...

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It's awful. No one really wants to deal

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with it, but then last year

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these issues started coming up, with the

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sexual harassment issues with

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Harvey Weinstein, and all of these things

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And you could kind of see that the girls

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were trying to solve the #metoo movement

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but they weren't really going to get it

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done because they were kind of hanging

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on to the sexual revolution.

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They were hanging onto things they

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shouldn't be hanging on to.

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And, so I thought "You know, maybe we need

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to be talking about this" And then

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the whole thing, clergy sexual abuse

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within the catholic church, and then I

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just became really convinced

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"yeah, we gotta deal with it"

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First off, nobody else will deal with

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the broad spectrum of the sexual

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revolution like we will, so therefore

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we're the only guys in the field.

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And also the sexual revolution is deeply

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implicated in this whole thing.

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For this reason. The sexual revolution is

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a set of ideas, and those ideas

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empower predators. They encourage

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predators. The core idea of the

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sexual revolution is that everybody is

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entitled to sex! Everybody is entitled to

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guilt-free, child-free, problem-free, sex.

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And anybody who says otherwise is

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violating your human rights, for crying

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out loud. Who really thinks

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you're entitled to sex. I mean come on,

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that's the view of a rapist. That's not

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real to think you're entitled to sex.

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So that one idea, has many tentacles

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and is a very poisonous idea. And at the

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same time, these ideas also undermine the

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victims. They disarm the victims.

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And so the sexual revolution is profoundly

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implicated in the whole thing. And so,

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that's what motivated me to reach out

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to our next speaker, Moira Greyland Peat,

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whom we're going to honor as

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the public witness of the year.

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I met Moira at an event sponsored by

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in texas, and I heard her story of growing

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up with openly, actively, gay, and

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lesbian parents. She's the author of the

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best selling book, "The Last Closet", and

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she's the daughter of famous gay

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authors, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and

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Walter Breen. And this is a photo of Moira

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there in the center with her mother

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and her brother. Her mother was the

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author of this series of books,

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"The Mists of Avalon". She was married to

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Walter Breen, who was also a famous author

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Moira's mother had a long time lesbian

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lover, and Walter Breen lived an active

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homosexual life and was himself, an

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unrepentant child molester. Both of her

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parents sexual abused Moira and her

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brother, for years. And since they were

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famous authors, and icons really, in the

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science fiction community, people didn't

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really do much about it.

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Her father enjoyed being in hot tubs

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with children. Sometimes without any

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clothes on, he would encourage

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kids to get into the hot tub with him

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without any clothes on. And numerous

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adults saw or could have seen that the

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kids were being groomed.

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and really, for all practical purposes

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nobody did anything about it.

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As a teenager, Moira called the police

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on her father, when she caught him

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in the act of molesting an 11 year old boy

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Her father was arrested, put in prison,

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where he died, and her family considered

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this an act of betrayal. Rather than

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denying what her father did, her mother

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said, "well children have the right to

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make up their own lines about having sex

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with adults. Her father had made his views

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clear in this book called, "Greek Love",

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and a journal called, "The Journal of

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Greek Love", which she edited.

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In 2014, Moira revealed all these things

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about her parents. People were shocked,

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and she was shocked, to find how many

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people who were also children of gays,

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reached out to her with similar stories.

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So the last closet..... book

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it not simply a taill of victimization

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its also a tail that explain how her parent

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became who they became

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but more regad your self as lucky of one way

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her life will pay resorted

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as a result she is a successful professional

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musician you wrote this girl

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im taking this right of your bio

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she is the founder and former artistic

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director of the royal english opera

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she is a ward winning dramatic color true

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sabrentel. with the new life out of range

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she is an acomplished concert harpest

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singer composer recruting artist and

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movie actress. topnight oops

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tonight we're gonna hear her

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tell her story and perhaps recite

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a poem or tow from her work

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but first of all help me welcome our

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ruth institute public witness of the year

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a ......

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thank you so much .....

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thank you

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good eavning, how are you doing ?

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usually when I'm in front of

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crowd of people im sitting in the corner

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with a harp and i dont have to talk

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im just going to sit their hmmm

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im the radio and that is i think very much

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how i felt about my parents

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for a long time. im just going to watch

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and not say anything i want just

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to play the harp over here

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anyway