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Title: Immigration Equality on 'Exporting' LGBT Americans from United States
Post by: Natasha on March 20, 2008, 06:04:20 PM
Immigration Equality on 'Exporting' LGBT Americans from United States

Miami Herald (http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/03/immigration-equ.html)
03/20/2008

"New York, March 20, 2008 - Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, discussed the group's opposition to the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) saying "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society."
Title: Re: Family Research Council Wants LGBT Americans Exported
Post by: Shana A on March 20, 2008, 09:31:25 PM
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Family Research Council Wants LGBT Americans Exported

http://causaoregon.blogspot.com/2008/03/family-research-council-wants-lgbt.html (http://causaoregon.blogspot.com/2008/03/family-research-council-wants-lgbt.html)

Today, while discussing the Family Research Council's opposition to the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at FRC, had this to say:

    "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society."

Immigration Equality, a national organization that works to end discrimination in U.S. immigration law, to reduce the negative impact of that law on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive people, and helps obtain asylum for those persecuted in their home country based on their sexual orientation, transgender identity or HIV-status responded to FRC's callous comment by saying:
Title: Re: Immigration Equality on 'Exporting' LGBT Americans from United States
Post by: tinkerbell on March 20, 2008, 09:32:14 PM
Sheesh!  >:(

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Title: Re: Immigration Equality on 'Exporting' LGBT Americans from United States
Post by: tekla on March 21, 2008, 08:28:37 AM
Funny, I keep thinking that the Family Research Coun. would be better off in a place were religion runs the state, like Saudi Arabia.