AFA of PA targets Western PA Anti-Discrimination Legislation
by: PghLesbian
Mon Dec 29, 2008 at 09:01:23 AM EST
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Surprise! Diane Gramley, self-proclaimed spokesperson of the Pennsylvania hatefest known as the AFA and resident of Venango County, is bringing her show on the road to Allegheny County in Southwestern Pennsylvania to challenge legislation that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of classes including sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Allegheny County is home to the City of Pittsburgh which already has such protections in place. Statewide, legislation has been introduced and proponents hope to see movement in late winter/early spring.
Gramley is using the typical weapons of hate: misinformation and fear. Her arsenal includes false claims that companies will be "required" to hire gay people (at the expense of good Christians). She also purports that this threatens this could prevent the Boy Scouts from using government parks and buildings, building on the anger over a situation in Philadelphia wherein the Boy Scouts lost their government-subsidized rental property because of their ongoing discrimination against gay scouts and scout leaders, neatly ignoring all the efforts the Philadelphia elected officials made to minimize the fallout of this on the children themselves. And, you won't be surprised to read, she brings out the tiresome threats of men invading women's bathrooms to lounge about in women's clothes and terrify the poor hapless Christian women who enter unknowingly.