A Human Rights Campaign study found that most Fortune 500 companies have policies opposing discrimination against same-sex-attracted workers. And a rising number of top companies reportedly offer some limited benefits to the families of gay workers or advertise to gay…
Focus on the Family – FRC
Mike Haley, chairman of the board of Exodus International and a spokesman for Focus on the Family, fumed at CBS Aug. 21 for “The Amazing Race,” a show that had the gall to include among its contestants a gay couple…
Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family have steadily increased the volume of their antigay press releases this week. One item in particular seems brazen in its defamation of author Judith Levine. At this point, I can’t keep…
From the July 29 CitizenLink newsletter, there’s plenty for me to comment on later today. Focus on the Family seems to have taken its conspiracy theories, strawman arguments, sexual putdowns, stigmatization, and affirmations of antigay discrimination to a new low…
Religious Right to AT&T: Fire Gays
Ex-gay movement underwriter Focus on the Family wants AT&T to discriminate against gay employees in the name of “family values.” This week, AT&T shareholders have an opportunity to retract “sexual orientation” from the company’s employment clause. Pro-discrimination activist Chris Stefan…
A “news brief” from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink today: Boy Scout Funding Pulled The United Way of Miami-Dade County has pulled its yearly grant of $480,000 from the Boy Scouts of South Florida because the Scouts refused to submit…
FRC Opens Fire on Bush Campaign
The Family Research Council ratchets up its threats against President Bush’s new 2004 campaign chief, Marc Racicot. In today’s Washington Update, FRC president Ken Connor asks, “Is Bush Campaign Chief Fit for the Job?” Marc Racicot is so out-of-touch with…
FRC: White House ‘Gay Strategy’
Ken Connor, president of the Family Research Council, expresses dismay in today’s FRC Washington Update. He’s upset about the meeting of White House senior aides with 200 members of the Log Cabin Republicans last week. One Log Cabin member quoted…
FRC Threatens Gays Working in Bush White House
AgapePress, a religious-right propaganda service frequently cited by Exodus as a source of accurate Christian news, reports that FRC is pursuing a witchhunt to root out gay-tolerant aides at the White House. A spokeswoman vows to publicly expose and harass…
FRC: Bush “Tepid” on Santorum, Sex Laws
President Bush says he supports Sen. Rick Santorum, but not necessarily Santorum’s verbal attacks on privacy and same-sex couples. — CNN In response, FRC escalates its retaliation against the White House and GOP. FRC President Ken Connor and Focus on…