STATE HIRING EVANGELICAL ORGANIZATION
A First-in-the-Nation Decision of State Legislature to Hire Evangelical Group Demands Scrutiny.
Let me preface this by saying that the group they have chosen is the Alliance Defense Fund. The Alliance Defense Fund has an extensive history of anti-gay actions.
Recently, the group was involved in a lawsuit to overturn a voter-enacted domestic partner registry in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Alliance Defense Fund co-founder James Dobson has attacked SpongeBob SquarePants for being gay and has called for a "second civil war" in the United States. Bring it on James.
The people of Wisconsin elected the Attorney General who should be the one seeing this case through - not an extremist right-wing Christian cult. The Legislature has seriously overstepped its bounds here.
In expressing his discomfort with the selection of the Alliance Defense Fund, Rep. Mark Pocan said in a May 17 statement, "If bringing in fringe extremists who think cartoon characters are gay is the only way to fight providing health care benefits to Wisconsin families, it is a sad day in Wisconsin."
"The decision by the Republican leadership to hire an evangelical Christian group to represent the entire state legislature in a lawsuit—apparently the first such move anywhere in the country—is shocking and unprecedented.
"It demonstrates the dangerous trend toward politicizing the judicial process. It is an attempt to usurp the role of the duly elected Attorney General in defending the state of Wisconsin. And it reveals a level of personal hostility toward gay Wisconsinites on behalf of a small group of Republican leaders that appears to know no bounds.
"Republican leaders have told us they hired the evangelical Christian group because the Legislature--not the courts--is the proper body to consider this issue. Yet the Legislature has consistently refused to even consider the issue. Domestic partner benefit bills introduced in past sessions were refused hearings. And now the Joint Finance Committee is refusing to give fair consideration to Governor Doyle's request for UW System domestic partner benefits.
"Republican leaders have told us they oppose partner benefits for state employees because they must defend taxpayers. Yet any one of the 233 Fortune 500 companies that offer domestic partner benefits will tell you their cost increase was insignificant, and that there is actually a bottom-line benefit to offering them.
"Republican leaders have also told us they must amend the Wisconsin Constitution to 'define' and 'protect' marriage. Yet the amendment they propose would ban civil unions and any meaningful legal protection to thousands of Wisconsin families.
"So what's the real issue? Legislative leaders seek to deny gay and lesbian citizens of Wisconsin even the most basic protections afforded to other families--and they're willing to put that ideologically driven goal before the best interests of the state.
Statement by Action Wisconsin Executive Director Christopher Ott
Let me preface this by saying that the group they have chosen is the Alliance Defense Fund. The Alliance Defense Fund has an extensive history of anti-gay actions.
Recently, the group was involved in a lawsuit to overturn a voter-enacted domestic partner registry in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Alliance Defense Fund co-founder James Dobson has attacked SpongeBob SquarePants for being gay and has called for a "second civil war" in the United States. Bring it on James.
The people of Wisconsin elected the Attorney General who should be the one seeing this case through - not an extremist right-wing Christian cult. The Legislature has seriously overstepped its bounds here.
In expressing his discomfort with the selection of the Alliance Defense Fund, Rep. Mark Pocan said in a May 17 statement, "If bringing in fringe extremists who think cartoon characters are gay is the only way to fight providing health care benefits to Wisconsin families, it is a sad day in Wisconsin."
"The decision by the Republican leadership to hire an evangelical Christian group to represent the entire state legislature in a lawsuit—apparently the first such move anywhere in the country—is shocking and unprecedented.
"It demonstrates the dangerous trend toward politicizing the judicial process. It is an attempt to usurp the role of the duly elected Attorney General in defending the state of Wisconsin. And it reveals a level of personal hostility toward gay Wisconsinites on behalf of a small group of Republican leaders that appears to know no bounds.
"Republican leaders have told us they hired the evangelical Christian group because the Legislature--not the courts--is the proper body to consider this issue. Yet the Legislature has consistently refused to even consider the issue. Domestic partner benefit bills introduced in past sessions were refused hearings. And now the Joint Finance Committee is refusing to give fair consideration to Governor Doyle's request for UW System domestic partner benefits.
"Republican leaders have told us they oppose partner benefits for state employees because they must defend taxpayers. Yet any one of the 233 Fortune 500 companies that offer domestic partner benefits will tell you their cost increase was insignificant, and that there is actually a bottom-line benefit to offering them.
"Republican leaders have also told us they must amend the Wisconsin Constitution to 'define' and 'protect' marriage. Yet the amendment they propose would ban civil unions and any meaningful legal protection to thousands of Wisconsin families.
"So what's the real issue? Legislative leaders seek to deny gay and lesbian citizens of Wisconsin even the most basic protections afforded to other families--and they're willing to put that ideologically driven goal before the best interests of the state.
Statement by Action Wisconsin Executive Director Christopher Ott
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ByWhat would it matter? I bet you'd rather them hire a gay group right? Ah, but then you admit you only want groups that you like to be called on, and no other group. You admit you hate some groups and think they should have no contribution, right?
You do the very thing you accuse others of doing to the gay rights group - and you have been caught!
BTW - why do you remove the comments of posts where I have posted? Why are you so fearful of words?
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it is not the fear
it's possible that he dose'nt like to post hateful shit on his boards
just like i said in my other comments you guys are no different than any other hate organization so why dont you shit heads(oops my bad skinheads) go and fined some other black guy to pick on cause i aint the one fear me bitchs(i am a 17 yr old black guy a a white chistians hateful worse nightmere)
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First - I erased your last comment because it was simply ridiculous. After all, this is my blog.
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I am not saying I think they should hire any particular group. The Alliance Defense Fund just happens to be the sme group that is saying that Sponge Bob Square Pants is gay. I have updated the post with more information. Please read if interested.
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Dobson didn't say spongebob was gay. If you have to lie to make your point then maybe it isn't a very good point.
Dobson's concern was that spongebob appeared in a "tolerance" video where students were encourage to go to a website and sign a "non-discrimination" form that included sexual orientation.
Those are the facts.
I agree with what justadog said, as for anonymous, I am afraid of you poor English skills and that's about it. Your ranting is incoherent and it is obvious that you are a child.
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Fucking please Daniel. Here: Click Here
As for making fun of a kid - that's just ridiculous. Glad you to see you making 'valid' arguements - yet again.
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