GLAAD responds to Becket Fund "No Mob Veto" ad
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December 15, 2008 2:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/glaad_responds_to_becket_fund_no_mob_vet.phpEditors' note: Rashad Robinson is the Senior Director of Media Programs at GLAAD.
Last week, GLAAD issued an action alert about a full page ad in The New York Times paid for by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, an ad which made a series of deliberately misleading claims about the national response to the passage of Prop 8. Later that week, Seamus Hasson, founder and CEO of The Becket Fund, drew comparisons between LGBT advocates and al-Qaida during a radio interview. After GLAAD and HRC issued responses about their outrageous claims, The Becket Fund struck back, criticizing GLAAD and HRC for having challenged their claims.
Let's be clear. What The Becket Fund is doing is character assassination by innuendo with a wanton disregard for the facts. They would evidently prefer, in the face of laws that strip essential legal protections from hardworking Americans and loving committed couples, that we roll over and meekly accept it. And when we raise our voices and speak against these injustices, they attack us and call us "nearly mobs, seeking not to persuade but to intimidate."
