Sunday, November 02, 2003
The Rapid City Journal
November 2, 2003
Fund-raising means
October's "Marriage Protection Week" press conferences cloaked themselves as grassroots efforts, but a look behind the curtain finds 29 organizations with over a quarter billion dollars in their propaganda coffers.
Launching their PR offensive on the fifth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death, the consortium's calculated media appearances were intended to create support for a constitutional amendment, creating a second-, if not third-, class citizenship for their gay and lesbian neighbors.
Were their actual goals those of reaffirming the sanctity of marriage (and not merely denying those they disagree with the use of the seemingly copyrighted term "family") these "better than you" moralists might address rape and domestic abuse, fundamentalist dogma of subservient wives, aggression, addiction, livable wages and unemployment.
However, none of these sells videotapes, or add names of the prayer/mailing lists proselytizing comic books quite as well as an enemy in the flesh.
Concerned Women for America calls gay couples "domestic terrorists," helping to demean those willing to accept the responsibilities that come with loving, committed relationships
Pro-marriage Goliaths claiming victimization by those they know only from obscure medical surveys, for without continually dehumanizing their faceless neighbors, they heavily pad their bank accounts, worshiping profits over prophets.
November 2, 2003
Fund-raising means
October's "Marriage Protection Week" press conferences cloaked themselves as grassroots efforts, but a look behind the curtain finds 29 organizations with over a quarter billion dollars in their propaganda coffers.
Launching their PR offensive on the fifth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death, the consortium's calculated media appearances were intended to create support for a constitutional amendment, creating a second-, if not third-, class citizenship for their gay and lesbian neighbors.
Were their actual goals those of reaffirming the sanctity of marriage (and not merely denying those they disagree with the use of the seemingly copyrighted term "family") these "better than you" moralists might address rape and domestic abuse, fundamentalist dogma of subservient wives, aggression, addiction, livable wages and unemployment.
However, none of these sells videotapes, or add names of the prayer/mailing lists proselytizing comic books quite as well as an enemy in the flesh.
Concerned Women for America calls gay couples "domestic terrorists," helping to demean those willing to accept the responsibilities that come with loving, committed relationships
Pro-marriage Goliaths claiming victimization by those they know only from obscure medical surveys, for without continually dehumanizing their faceless neighbors, they heavily pad their bank accounts, worshiping profits over prophets.
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