I for one am beyond over watching Congress hold hearings on LGBT related issues only to see the talking heads of registered hate groups providing utterly fraudulent testimony based solely on extreme religious beliefs and/or discredited junk science - all typically without challenges or any serious questioning. Examples include anti - DADT doyenne Elaine Donnelly, self-enriching political whore Maggie Gallagher, self-loathing closet cases like Robert Knight and many others. Now, Change.org has started a petition to demand that Congress stop providing a platform to anti- LGBT bigots, liars and religious extremists. If you're willing to sign the petition - I've already signed it - do so by going here. As my blogger compatriot Alvin McEwen states:
In June of this year during a Congressional hearing on the Defense of Marriage Act, Sen. Al Franken exposed Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery's attempt to inaccurately cite a study to defame same-sex households.
Earlier this year during another Congressional hearing on DOMA, National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher committed the same distortion – i.e. inaccurately citing a study to defame same-sex households.
The Family Research Council was declared as an official anti-gay hate group last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its tendency to spread propaganda about the gay community such as gays molest children at a high level and same-sex households harm children.
However, the head of the Family Research Council - Tony Perkins - is frequently called as a Congressional witness on many occasions from discussing issues of gay equality to the selection of Supreme Court judges.
This false testimony needs to be stopped. Please consider signing the petition.
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