In response to a colleague who asked the Gay & Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation to explain its anti-gun ownership press
release (see
our April 17 posting), GLAAD's John Sonego responed, in
part:
"Some of the LGBT organizations we work with also had concerns, including specifically gun-related concerns, and we were happy to have the opportunity to include them, both as a news hook and as a service to our sister organizations."
No mention of why the Pink Pistols, a group of gay and lesbian gun owners and 2nd Amendment defenders, aren't considered a "sister organization," though.
No Family Picnic.
The Washington Post delves into the blowup around anti-gay activist Randall Terry's adopted son coming out.
Asked if he tried to broach this subject with his parents, Jamiel returns a look that suggests you're on crack. As he noted in Out magazine: "When you grow up in a house where to be the thing you are is an abominable sin, you tend to try and shed those behaviors."
Jamiel even went to Vermont to work with his father against civil unions. Now that he's broken free, here's hoping him all the best.
Rights for Me, but Not for Thee.
Perhaps nothing is sadder than anti-gay clergymen who hold
themselves out as champions of the black civil rights struggle.
Writing
in the Baltimore Sun, the Rev. Dick Richardson is a case in
point. Taking aim at gays who make the civil rights analogy,
Richardson declares:
It boggles our mind that some folks today want to compare the time-honored institution of traditional marriage to the despicable institution of slavery. ...
The time-honored institution of marriage is under attack. And activists pushing for same-sex "marriage" ... will prevail unless people who know the value of traditional marriage put up a resistance on behalf of children.
But, he pontificates, "the defense of marriage is not about
discrimination. ... The defense of marriage is about children. It
is about lifting them up." Just not children like Jamiel
Terry.
--Stephen H. Miller