Republican Legislative Aide Solicits 15 yr old boy for "animal sex"

Orie legislative aide charged with asking 15-year-old for sex



A legislative aide to Sen. Jane Orie, a former prosecutor who has championed state legislation to safeguard children, was fired Friday after the Attorney General's Office charged him with sexually propositioning a child online and suggesting the two dress up as animals and have sex.



Alan David Berlin, 40, who was paid $57,340 a year to do legislative services for Orie, used the Internet screen name "alan_panda_bear" and propositioned the 15-year-old boy several times this month, Attorney General Tom Corbett said.



Berlin of Carlisle was suspended without pay and benefits Thursday, said Russ Faber, the Senate's chief clerk. Shortly after Corbett's announcement yesterday, Orie said Berlin was fired. She would not comment on the criminal case.



"I was shocked and appalled," Orie said in a statement that noted she supports the attorney general's investigations of child abuse and sexual assault cases, including the work of the Child Predator Unit.



Court records did not indicate whether Berlin had an attorney. He was arrested Thursday on charges of unlawful contact with a minor, attempted sexual exploitation of children and solicitation to commit sexual abuse of children, among other offenses.



A district judge in Harrisburg jailed him under $250,000 bond and scheduled a preliminary hearing for June.



In profiles posted on Internet sites used for networking among furries, or people who dress as animals, Berlin identified himself as Alan The Panda with interests in baking, board games, classical music, fine dining, movies, travel, wine -- and diapers. The cartoon panda on his Pounced.org page wears a diaper.



In that profile, Berlin confesses his screen identity is "not the most original name, but it suits me. I'm not a complicated person." He notes he has "a good job where I am well respected," and that he holds a bachelor's degree in sacred music. "I have a deep personal faith in God which I sometimes question," he wrote.



"I am looking for a babyfur to be my mate and companion in a long-term committed relationship," he wrote. "I've been thinking quite a bit lately about where I am in life and what I'm looking for." The site said he was single, seeking a male ages 20 to 25 -- someone who can "enjoy being babied."



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ANN COULTER: "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'"


BOB DORNAN: "Don't use the word 'gay' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'"


DAVID BARTON: "There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America."


FOB JAMES: "A good butt-whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy."


FRED PHELPS: "American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!"


FRED PHELPS: "Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death."


GARY BAUER: "There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."


GARY NORTH: "The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship."


GARY POTTER: "When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."


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GEORGE BUSH, JR.: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."


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J.B. STONER: "We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created.... I praise God all the time for AIDS."


JAMES DOBSON: "State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse."


JAMES DOBSON: "Today's children... They're damned. They're gone."


JAMES KENNEDY: "The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."


JAMES WATT*: "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."

*Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan Admin. Responsible for National Policy regarding the Environment


JAY GRIMSTEAD: "We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."


JERRY FALWELL: "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."


JESSE HELMS: "The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."


JIMMY SWAGGART: "Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it...Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory."


JOHN WHITEHEAD: "The [Supreme] Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion."


JOSEPH MCCARTHY: "Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between Communistic Atheism and Christianity."


JOSEPH MORECRAFT: "Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than God. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."


JOSEPH SCHIEDLER: "I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure."


KAY O'CONNOR (Kansas State Lawmaker): "I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote."


LT. GENERAL WILLIAM P. BOYKIN: “George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”


PAT BUCHANAN: "There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."


PAT BUCHANAN: "Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."


PAT ROBERTSON: "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."


PAT ROBERTSON: "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."


PAT ROBERTSON: "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."


PAUL CAMERON: "Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals."


RANDALL TERRY: "I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."


RANDALL TERRY: "When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed."*

*It is interesting to note that Randell Terry's son is gay

ROBERT SIMONDS: "Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable."*

*The United States Constitution expressly forbids any "religion test" to hold public office.

ROBERT T. LEE: "Raising your children under Americanism or any other principles other than true Christianity is child abuse."

ROBERT T. LEE: "Democracy originated in the mind of a rational being who has the deepest hatred for God."

RUSH LIMBAUGH: "There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them"

STAR PARKER: "Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now."

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Rumsfeld, not a man who wore religion on his sleeve, appeared to be trying to manipulate - or curry favor with - the Bible-quoting Bush, according to an explosive story in GQ.

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A rather disgusting and scary perversion of a religion, don't you think? If you put a kaffiyeh on Rummy's head, you might think you were dealing with sha'aria-mad Al Qaeda.

Well, we now know that Bush had plans for an Iraq invasion before the 2000 election. We know the whole torture mess was not about preventing imminent terrorist attacks against Americans but was, instead, all about forcing prisoners to utter the magic words that there was a connection between Osama and Saddam. We know the ironclad proof of Saddam's WMD factories as represented by the "top-secret CIA photos" held up at the U.N. by Colin Powell were mere purchased images from a commercial satellite company that provides "taken from space" photos to anyone who wants to buy them. We know the White House and Cheney targetted Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson for exposing a crack in their strategy. We know the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo was orchestrated from the White House - from conception to planning to execution of the torture program.

So, this little tidbit about Rummy's abuse of religion is just another piece of the horror puzzle this country and other countries have been made to endure for the sake of one President's insanity.

Ick.