Religious right tries to use Proposition 8 protests for advantage in Obama Administration
by: The Author
Tue Dec 02, 2008 at 19:02:38 PM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8475( - promoted by Pam Spaulding)
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
The following item from Pam's House Blend gave me pause today:
The Blend has received word that the The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is pulling together a full page ad to run in the NY Times within the next few days, charging the LGBT community's response to Prop 8 is a "Campaign of Violence."
According to our source, the ad will cite an incident where a white powder was sent to a church, and "document" disruptions of services at houses of worship. The Becket Fund is also allegedly contacting like-minded anti-gay organizations to request that they sign on to the ad.
Here we go again - the time honored religious right tradition of using anecdotal information as a way to stigmatize the gay community.
It's highly ironic that this group is doing this given the number of times the gay community has been accused of trying to "use the emotional argument" to sway the so-called cultural war.
