In doing some research recently on the latest Washington, DC scandals in the Obama White House, this news article, dated October 2012, appeared in the mix.  I have to admit that I have heard mumblings in the background of the political din over the past seven years, something akin to like the Hollywood whispers about Sal Mineo, Tab Hunter, Rock Hudson, Richard Chamberlain, Johnny Mathis and Liberace ~ discreet, not mentioned, but a constant prolonged undertoned drone. I reproduced the article unchanged, leaving in the hyperlink references, read it and you be the judge...   
The press has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last  generation. A field once dominated by the Washington Post, the New York  Times and the “big three” broadcast networks today offers a multitude of  choices – thanks largely to groundbreaking communications technologies  like the Internet. Thus, today many of the hottest stories you hear on  cable TV news or talk radio or even the Old Media establishment  originate not in corporate mega-newsrooms, but in the revolutionary  online world of the “New Media,” where WND has long been the leader.
In  journalism, they’re called “Hey Martha” stories, news items so  amazing  that when you hear them, you just want to shout across the room:  “Hey Martha, listen to this!” Here is a recent example, culled from countless “WND Scoops” – stories first reported by WorldNetDaily.com:
 
WND EXCLUSIVE
 
Trinity Church members reveal Obama shocker!
'Matchmaker' Rev. Jeremiah Wright 'provided cover for gays'
Published: 10/02/2012 at 8:12 PM
 
Jerome R. Corsi |  Email  Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter.  He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The  Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is the  forthcoming "What Went Wrong?: The Inside Story of the GOP Debacle of  2012 … And How It Can Be Avoided Next Time."

After  nearly four years in office, many Americans still express frustration that much about Barack Obama remains a mystery as establishment media  remain incurious about the Democratic president, while seemingly ready  to dispatch crack investigative teams at a moment’s notice to probe into  the personal lives of Republican figures such as Sarah Palin. Largely  ignored in 2008 was research by the Hillary Clinton campaign based on  contacts developed with members of the church Obama attended for two  decades, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. This is the first  of a series of articles WND has developed from months of in-person  interviews with church members who have known Barack and Michelle Obama  over many years. The sources requested that their identities not be  published because they believe their disclosures would put their  security at risk.
NEW YORK – Ten years ago, the New York Times reported on a growing  underground subculture in the black community known as "Down Low",  comprised largely of men who secretly engage in homosexual activity  while living “straight” lives in public.
 
It’s within that subtext that opposition researchers for Hillary  Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign began investigating rumors that  Rev. Jeremiah Wright was running a “matchmaking service” for members of  his Trinity United Church of Christ known as the Down Low Club, which  included Barack Obama.
 
Over the past several months, WND investigators have interviewed a  number of members of the church who claim the president benefited from  Wright’s efforts to help black men who engage in homosexual activity  appear respectable in black society by finding them a wife.
 
The 2003 New York Times story, “Double Lives on the Down Low,”  said that though many black men reject “a gay culture they perceive as  white and effeminate,” they “have settled on a new identity, with its  own vocabulary and customs and its own name: Down Low.”
 
The Times said that while “there are black men who are openly gay, it  seems that the majority of those having sex with men still lead secret  lives, products of a black culture that deems masculinity and fatherhood  as a black man’s primary responsibility – and homosexuality as a white  man’s perversion.”
 
The Down Low Club at Trinity “doesn’t have meetings, and it isn’t  like the Rotary Club,” a source identified for this article as “Carolyn”  explained to a WND investigator in Chicago.
 
“It was more that Wright served as a matchmaker,” said Carolyn, a  20-year member of Trinity who has played a role in church administration  and knows the Obamas personally.
 
“He kept his eye on the young guys coming up in Trinity,” she said,  “and if he spotted someone that acted or looked gay, then Wright would  give them kind of a guidance counselor-type direction on how to keep  down low – how to do the things they wanted to do, but then also getting  married and looking ‘respectable’ – being part of black society.”
 
To Trinity insiders, the Down Low Club was simply known as “the program.”
 
“That’s the terminology. At Trinity, you’re urged to ‘get with the  program,’” explained a male beneficiary of the Down Low Club. “What that  means is it’s OK to go ahead and have sex with men, just as long as you  ‘get with the program’ and marry a woman, somebody no straight guy  would want to marry.”
 
The wife, the Down Low Club member explained, is “your ‘beard,’ your  cover – so you can look like you’re living a straight life, even though  you’re not.”
 
The male source was a “computer consultant” who claims not to know  “scratch” about computers. But “getting with the program” at Trinity  meant he could keep living a “gay” life and receive lots of computer  consulting work thrown his way by Trinity, as long as he was willing to  marry an unattractive woman who otherwise might have ended up a lonely  spinster with no means to provide for living.
 
Carolyn explained that for many black families, attending Trinity was a way out of poverty.
 
“Trinity was a chance to network,” she said. “The stuff preached was  hateful, but about 70 percent of those who go there ignore the radical  rhetoric and just trying to get ahead.”
 
Carolyn said Trinity “helped a lot of blacks get successful and connected.”
 
“That’s what Wright did for Obama,” she claimed. “He connected Obama  in the community, and he helped Obama hide his homosexuality.”
 
Openly homosexual author and commentator Keith Boykin, a former White  House adviser to President Bill Clinton, mentions Obama’s former  pastor, Wright, on pages 264-265 of his 2005 book “Beyond the Down Low:  Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America.” While Boykin doesn’t refer to  the Down Low Club by name, he regards Wright as among a small group of  ministers who are “coming to grips with sexuality and opening up a  dialogue with heterosexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals in the pews.”
 
Chicago-based author, businessman, speaker and HIV/AIDS activist J.L. King wrote  a controversial book in 2005 called “On the Down Low: A Journey into  the Lives of ‘Straight’ Black Men who Sleep with Men.”
 
He was a guest on Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based TV show in 2004,  which described him this way: “J.L. King had a life most would envy. He  married his high school sweetheart, had two healthy children and was on  the fast track to success. But, unbeknownst to his family and friends,  he had a dark secret—he was living on the down low.”
 
Remember the choir director
 
Carolyn and the other members of Trinity who provided statements  corroborating her testimony were insistent that WND conceal their  identities as a condition of being interviewed.
 
“I’m still scared to discuss any of this,” Carolyn said.
 
“At Trinity, if you even hint at talking about Obama being gay, you  are reminded of our dear departed choir director,” she said. “He was  killed, and it wasn’t a robbery. The Christmas presents weren’t touched.  The TV was not taken, nothing in the apartment was missing.”
 
Carolyn’s reference was to Donald Young, the 47-year-old homosexual  choirmaster at Trinity who died of multiple gunshot wounds in his  Chicago apartment Dec. 24, 2007.
 
Young’s murder was preceded Nov. 17, 2007, with the execution-style  murder of 25-year-old Larry Bland, another black gay member of Trinity  United. He also was murdered in his home, dying of multiple gunshot  wounds, according to his death certificate.
 
Just two days after the murder of Young, a third openly “gay” member  of Wright’s church, Nate Spencer, reportedly died of septicemia,  pneumonia and AIDS.
 
Sensational charges
 
As WND reported last month, a prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims Obama’s  participation in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene was so well known  that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for  president and finally won the White House.
 
In April, WND reported a federal judge dismissed a libel case against Larry Sinclair, a  homosexual who claimed Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign had paid to  rig a polygraph test regarding Sinclair’s sensational charge that he had  sex and used cocaine twice with Obama while Obama was an Illinois state  senator. Sinclair tells his story in “Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder.”
 
WND also reported former radical activist John Drew has said that when he met Obama when  Obama was a student at Occidental College, he thought Obama and his  then-Pakistani roommate were “gay” lovers.
 
In addition, rumors have swirled around Obama’s relationship with his personal aide and former “body man,” Reggie Love, who resurfaced on the eve of the Republican National Convention to support his old boss.  Love resigned from the White House in November 2011 after compromising  photographs of him as a college student received wide circulation.
 
WND also has documented in two separate articles, here and here, that Obama wore a gold band on his wedding ring finger from the time he  attended Occidental College through his student days at Harvard Law  School.
 
Shocking phone call
 
Sinclair gave an affidavit to the Chicago Police Department regarding  contacts he says he had with Young just prior to Young’s murder.
 
According to Sinclair’s affidavit, published in its entirety  beginning on page 56 of his book, he contacted Obama’s presidential  campaign in September 2007. Sinclair says he requested that Obama  correct claims he made about when he stopped abusing drugs to reflect  use of crack cocaine during their sex encounters in November 1999.
 
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama had stated famously he stopped using marijuana and cocaine in college, implying his drug abuse ended when he had completed his first two years of college at Occidental in Los Angeles.
 
Sinclair explained that when he made contact with the Obama campaign  in September 2007, he provided callback numbers, in case the campaign  wanted to get in touch with him.
 
Then, in late September or early October 2007, as Sinclair stated in  his affidavit, he received a call from a male identifying himself as  “Mr. Young,” who stated he was responding to calls Sinclair had made to  the Obama campaign.
 
“This first call shocked me in that this ‘Mr. Young’ asked me why I  had not asked Senator Obama to disclose sexual encounters I had with Mr.  Obama in 1999,” Sinclair’s affidavit reads. “I was shocked as I had  never mentioned to the campaign or anyone working for the campaign any  sexual encounters. The call ended with Mr. Young stating I would hear  from someone in a few days.”
 
Sinclair claims it was in a second call from “Mr. Young” that he  began to suspect the man had been sexually intimate with Obama. Sinclair  said he drew that conclusion “by the tone of the conversation” and by  its “sexual nature.”
 
In late October 2007, Sinclair received a text message from “Mr.  Young” stating Young “was intimately involved with Senator Obama and  that Obama was discussing with him and his pastor how to publicly  acknowledge Senator Obama’s drug use in 1999.”
 
The text message also indicated Obama wanted to make sure Sinclair  had not discussed the sexual encounters or drug use with any media at  that time.
 
In November 2007, Sinclair received a second text message from “Mr.  Young,” advising him that Obama would publicly correct his statement as  to the last time he used drugs and that Sinclair did not need to concern  himself with publicly disclosing it.
 
Then, in early December 2007, Sinclair received his last contact with  “Mr. Young,” with Young making it clear Obama had no intention of  acknowledging publicly his use of crack cocaine in 1999.
 
After Young was murdered, Sinclair had several contacts with Young’s family.
 
“In several telephone conversations with his sisters, brothers,  nieces and others, I was reassured that the family of Donald Young  believed he was murdered to protect Barack Obama,” Sinclair wrote. “It  also became clear, right from the start that members of the Young family  were truly fearful of speaking out publicly, to this day, they fear for  their own personal, physical safety.”
 
On July 17, 2010, the supermarket tabloid The Globe published an  interview with Norma Jean Young, the 76-year-old mother of the slain  choirmaster, in which she expressed fear that her son was murdered to  protect Obama.
 
“What was the cause of my son’s death?” Norma Jean Young asked in the  Globe interview. “I’m very suspicious that it may have been related to  Obama. Donald and Obama were very close friends. Whatever went on with  this is very private. I am suspicious of a cover-up!”
 
She insisted there is “more to the story,” calling on Chicago police to ramp up their investigation.
 
“I do believe they are shielding somebody or protecting somebody,” she told The Globe.
 
Asked who would benefit from a cover-up, Norma Jean Young said, “It could be anyone, including Obama.”
 
Shortly after the Globe interview was published, Norma Jean Young  left Chicago and lived for a while in Peoria, Ill. Her current residence  is unknown.
 
The murders of Donald Young and Larry Bland remain today open cases of unsolved homicide.
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