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Yervant1, I think you knew my answer. I am a direct descendant of the last royal family of Cilician Armenia. They were members of the Catholic Church, associated with Rome not Etchmiadzin.

Thanks to my father, after the church incidents, we left the Catholic Church to be raised as Protestants. I had spoken up as I was a precocious child. As for Arpa's comment that persons such as myself despise women, that is a stretch. I have had many rewarding opposite-sex relationships, sexual and otherwise. Now I will disappear for another few years.

Serop Der-Boghossian and Jerry Sandusky, two prominent and powerful persons in their respective communities, tied to the highest levels of society. Now do you all believe that I, known as a young child as "payloon eres," was being raped by a young Catholic priest in one of the then most affluent communities in America, while Damadian played his violin just blocks away. Think about this when our Catholicos breaks bread with the Pope, who is documented as having covered up this kind of stuff for decades.

Baron Zakaryan, If you wish to make sure that there is no homosexuality in Armenia in the future, the place to fix this is not in the schools but in the bio-genetic labs, through genetic engineering. No amount of education nor psychological counseling can stop this when the student reaches adulthood. Homosexual relations are found in every culture and historically found in ancient history as well. Heterosexual mothers and fathers carry the recessive gene which they sometimes pass on to their children. Bisexuals also marry and pass the gene on to their heterosexual children as a recessive gene which surfaces generations later. /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Psychosexual education should become a compulsory subject in kindergarten and school curricula, according to Ph.D. Candidate of Sexology Marat Zakaryan, Assistant in Sexology Chair at Yerevan State Medical University. `The absence of such education causes deviations like homosexuality etc. This is a problem that should be resolved on state level,' he told today a news conference. At that, he stressed the importance of raising awareness among teachers. `The country's main problem is the existence of a great number of poor quality books whose accessibility disorients teenagers. Free access to the Internet can also have harmful effect,' Mr. Zakaryan said, stressing the importance of starting psychosexual education at pre-school age.

The fear of the Turkish public of all things Armenian is irrational. A nation of 70 million fearing a nation of 3 million? Or is the fear based on the sword of Damacles sitting above the Turkish nation, namely the expose of the extermination of the Armenians? A re-education is beginning in Turkey so that Turks can admit to themselves what they already know, but fear. That their Eastern provinces were a killing fields.

We are witnessing the most tectonic movement in Turkey to have transpired in 100 years. We are seeing the re-Ottomanization of Turkey. We are finally seeing the weakening the power of the Doenmeh.

The descendants of the Cilician Armenian dynasty are members of the Priory of Sion. They mingle in your midst.

Gonul only stated what most Turkish leaders accept as truth. His "mistake" was "letting the "cat out of the bag."

These monks know nothing of the essence of Jesus' teachings. It is not about ritual. Both of these churches, as well as the other major Christian denominations, lost their way many centuries ago.

Genocide Recognition, in and of itself, means nothing. We should press for a return to a time when the Armenian presence in the Turkish state was acknowledged. The current situation in Turkey is like the mantra in the novel "1984." "Armenians never existed in these provinces." They have no history here." Tabula Rasa must end!!

In the 2004 Presidential election, I found newspaper articles of Armenian-Americans praising George Bush. 2008 is a "no-brainer." Will any self-respecting Armenian-American support John McCain? There has never been a clearer choice on Armenian issues.

John McCain at his Saddleback appearance today spoke of Georgia as the second earliest Christian country. He spoke of this at length, never mentioning Armenia. He also discussed Genocide at length, but never mentioned the fate of Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey. As for the present conflict, he did not mention that Georgia was the initial aggressor who entered South Ossetia to bring it back under Georgian control.

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While you guys chat here and make a lot of noise, OUTCASTS such as myself are making major inroads for the Armenian Cause. I have single-handedly revolutionized Armenian-American power in the US government processes. Obama will pick a shocking VP, who is totally dedicated to the Armenian Cause, and who will help him reach the White House.

Armenians have an isolationist syndrome problem due to centuries of persecution. In Jerusalem, the Armenian sector is rarely visited by odar tourists. It is isolated. The majority of the Armenian diaspora attend the Armenian Church and have social relationships mainly with fellow Armenians, again causing isolation. The most successful Armenian-American politicans have been either Protestant or Catholic, because they have had to learn to interact with odars. The Jews learned this lesson may decades ago, but we are in our political infancy. Yes, Ed, money is the milk-blood of politics and close associations count. The days of Lincoln are long past. Campaigns need millions to compete effectively on television. Look how millions of Turkish government dollars have stymied the recognition of what the Association of Genocide Scholars know to be a reality. We can no longer afford to be purists who ignore reality.