Word: antigay
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...good news may be that this is all the gay bashers have left. Recognition of a near marriage equivalent--domestic partnerships--is now official at more than 450 U.S. corporations. Even the Coors Brewing Co.--long associated with a right-wing, antigay agenda thanks to Coors family members' generous support of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation--began offering gay partners the same benefits as spouses in 1995. Coors had previously been the target of boycotts by gay-rights groups, but claims it changed its policy simply because, in the words of spokesman Joe Fuentes, "Peter Coors [Joseph...
Crane is the object of a tactic that is proving increasingly effective--going after local targets just below the national media radar. Even while the Christian right's media-savvy national leaders are downplaying antigay initiatives, its local soldiers are working to raise the issue that America's young people are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life. By pitching the attack closer to home, where parental fears are more easily aroused, conservatives are extending their influence while escaping the tough scrutiny that has greeted their more visible campaign in statehouses to ban same-sex marriages...
Soon flyers appeared on windshields in church parking lots denouncing the "Sodomite music teacher." Next the parents of Crane's 140 students were mailed packages that bore no return address and contained an antigay video called Gay Rights/ Special Rights, produced by the California-based Traditional Values Coalition; a 100-page antigay treatise titled "Setting the Record Straight" by the Colorado-based Focus on the Family; and a letter exhorting parents to "perceive the grave dangers that your child is facing." National religious-right groups deny involvement. "Their point," says a skeptical Crane, "is to flood people with misinformation...
...Will Perkins, the leader of Colorado Family Values, a group instrumental in passing the famous "antigay" amendment she said, "He can relate to homosexuals, he says, because he's a car salesman. 'People make fun of our pants and our white shoes.' Yes, that is so similar. That must be hell...
...have not heard about [the antigay slurs],and that surprises me," he said. "I will find outabout...