From Truth Wins Out’s full page ad (Graphic: Truth Wins Out)
Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out has had it with the latest lies and the lying liars of the radical religious right who are telling these bald-faced lies about the queer community.
This Thursday, in the Salt Lake Tribune, Truth Wins Out will publish a full-page ad entitled, Lies in the Name of the Lord. Click here to check out the ad. The deliberately provocative ad is intended to counter the NoMobVote nonsense that was published in the New York Times last Friday. The NoMobVote full page ad was sponsored by the right-wing Becket Fund for Religious Freedom. In case you had not heard, the Becket Fund’s founder and chairman, Seamus Hasson yesterday compared anti-H8 demonstrators to Al-Qaeda:
Hasson: Well, whether it’s an organized movement like Al Qaeda or whether it’s the Al Qaeda-like, um, inspired acts of terrorism elsewhere, people are right to be concerned about, um, radical Islamist violence
Author and activist, Wayne Besen explains his motivation for placing the confrontational ad:
Clearly, the goal of anti-gay activists is an orchestrated campaign to rewrite history and vilify the gay and lesbian community. Yet, history teaches us the danger of ignoring the “Big Lie” and we do so at our own peril. This is why I felt Truth Wins Out (TWO) had no choice but to act – and do so decisively.
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‘People of Faith’ or ‘People of Fibs?’
In a breathtaking display of lies and hypocrisy, a group of anti-gay culture warriors and long-time Mormon bashers placed a full page ad in the New York Times pretending to be both victims of alleged homosexual “mobs” and staunch defenders of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons). Both claims are absurd and a cruel attempt for the victimizers to claim the mantle of the victimhood – which is a manipulative and cynical political ploy.
The dishonest Times ad essentially claimed that violent mobs of gay protesters were attacking the Mormon Church and its followers in the aftermath of California voters narrowly approving Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in that state. They even launched a website www.NoMobVeto.org. (It seems they forget that they put basic human rights up for a vote, which is essentially mob rule)
This Times ad is full of blatant lies – much like the immoral television ads attacking same-sex families during the Prop. 8 campaign. The fact is, the vast majority of the rallies across America were peaceful. Considering gay families just got stripped of their basic rights by deception and deceit, the protests were remarkably tame. If any other group had been subject to such humiliation through a multi-million dollar smear operation, there would likely have been riots in the streets – not the fake “violence” conjured in the bogus Times ad.
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