Last week, GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) issued a cease-and-desist letter via its attorneys to the Family Research Council "demanding that FRC cease distribution and publication of a video clip containing false and defamatory statements about GLSEN, as well as any other similar false and defamatory statements that may be contained in a longer video associated with that video clip."
The cease-and-desist letter has to do a video in which Tony Perkins, head of FRC, and Brian Camenker, head of the Massachusetts anti-gay group Mass Resistance claimed that GLSEN and the Massachusetts Public Schools distributed an explicit safe-sex guide called The Little Black Book to fifth to ninth graders at a conference in 2005.
This story had been debunked by several groups, including Media Matters .
If one were to look at the video now, he/she would see the following:
The new video (seen below) does not say that GLSEN had anything to do with distributing The Little Black Book. However it continues to refer to Brian Camenker regarding GLSEN and repeats the nonsense regarding "Fistgate," a controversy which Camenker played a huge role in.
To get the true story on "Fistgate," click on the link. Needless to say the controversy, like the original claim about The Little Black Book which FRC was forced to take back, is a lie.
I should also mention that Camenker's group, Mass Resistance, is also Southern Poverty Law Center declared hate group, just like FRC.
The bottom line is this - why should anyone believe any claim about GLSEN coming from FRC? The organization's reponse to GLSEN's cease-and-desist letter clearly showed that it erred (intentionally?) in its claims about GLSEN and The Little Black Book.
And FRC didn't even have the good Christian grace to apologize. Instead the organization takes the tone of "we may have been wrong about that charge, but these new charges prove our point."
Not true, FRC. Your repeated attacks on GLSEN only prove yourself to be a homophobic, lying group hiding behind the mask of Christian integrity.
A killer wearing the facial skin of his victim would look better than you right now.
The cease-and-desist letter has to do a video in which Tony Perkins, head of FRC, and Brian Camenker, head of the Massachusetts anti-gay group Mass Resistance claimed that GLSEN and the Massachusetts Public Schools distributed an explicit safe-sex guide called The Little Black Book to fifth to ninth graders at a conference in 2005.
This story had been debunked by several groups, including Media Matters .
If one were to look at the video now, he/she would see the following:
The new video (seen below) does not say that GLSEN had anything to do with distributing The Little Black Book. However it continues to refer to Brian Camenker regarding GLSEN and repeats the nonsense regarding "Fistgate," a controversy which Camenker played a huge role in.
To get the true story on "Fistgate," click on the link. Needless to say the controversy, like the original claim about The Little Black Book which FRC was forced to take back, is a lie.
I should also mention that Camenker's group, Mass Resistance, is also Southern Poverty Law Center declared hate group, just like FRC.
The bottom line is this - why should anyone believe any claim about GLSEN coming from FRC? The organization's reponse to GLSEN's cease-and-desist letter clearly showed that it erred (intentionally?) in its claims about GLSEN and The Little Black Book.
And FRC didn't even have the good Christian grace to apologize. Instead the organization takes the tone of "we may have been wrong about that charge, but these new charges prove our point."
Not true, FRC. Your repeated attacks on GLSEN only prove yourself to be a homophobic, lying group hiding behind the mask of Christian integrity.
A killer wearing the facial skin of his victim would look better than you right now.
Of course they will not apologize. That, in of itself, is testimony to how they regard the tenets of Christianity. A truly convicted Christian would apologize for lying. Then again, people like Tony Perkins believe they are above the 9th Commandment.
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ReplyDelete"The bottom line is this - why should anyone believe any claim ... coming from FRC"
ReplyDeleteFixed that for ya
The only research produced by the Family Research Council is how NOT to form a family.
ReplyDeleteFamilies are based in love, acceptance, compromise, and honesty; the Family Research Council is based in hatred, discrimination, obstinate refusal , and lies and half-truths.