Thursday, September 09, 2010

American Family Association attacking lgbt families and other Thursday midday news briefs

The AFA: Taking the "Family" Out of Family Values - Poor American Family Association. They can't help it if they don't want to recognize same-sex families.

Related post - Home Depot attacked for supporting THE GAYS

Brian Brown added me to wall, then put up a wall. But verbal firebombs still make it over - What the heck is "government enforced sodomy" anway?

Governor names new justice - Not bad. Colorado gets gay judge.

Another Wound For Muslims Who Lost Loved Ones On 9/11 - With Sarah Palin and company getting the most face time on this matter, we forget those who lost family members on 9-11. Unfortunately Muslims in this country are getting ugly doses of discrimination:

(Talat)Hamdani said because her son was a Muslim, authorities investigated whether he was connected to the 9/11 plot. FBI agents interrogated Talat Hamdani and her now deceased husband, while a New York Post headline asked if her son was, "Missing or Hiding?" Only when Salman's remains were found at Ground Zero six months later was he cleared of suspicion and recognized as a first responder and a victim.

"He was an NYPD cadet, he was an EMT, he was a first responder, and he wasn't given dignity," said Hamdani.

Ashrafi, who wears a hijab, said teenagers hurled coke cans and anti-Muslim epithets when she picked-up her daughter after school a few years ago, while at a local grocery store, a customer muttered something about "Muslims" before switching out of her check-out line. In another shopping experience, Ashrafi offered to get a product that a wheelchair-bound woman couldn't reach. The woman told Ashrafi she didn't "need help from a Muslim."



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