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AFA ActivismCurrent Action Alert - 6/18/02
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American Family Association is pleased that President Bush has turned down a government employee group's request for a second straight year to issue a proclamation recognizing June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Bill Clinton issued the declaration each of his last three years.
But American Family association is very disappointed to learn about the gay pride celebration that will take place tomorrow at John Ashcroft's Justice Department in the Great Hall on Pennsylvania Avenue. Ashcroft's No. 2, Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson, will speak.
AFA President Tim Wildmon contacted Attorney General Ashcroft's office with questions about the gay pride event but his call has not been returned. "I can't believe that this is the same John Ashcroft who has publicly equated homosexuality with sin and, as a senator, opposed a nominee as ambassador to Luxembourg because of the candidate's sexual preference. It now appears that the Attorney General is trying to accomodate homosexual and moderate republicans and doing so at taxpayer's expense. How else are we to read these actions?" asked Wildmon.
Meanwhile, at the Commerce Department, management is allowing homosexual employees to proceed with gay pride events but has withheld official sponsorship. They have allowed the cabinet departments, each headed by a presidential appointee who represents the president, to have their own gay pride events. Secretary Mineta at Transportation and Christine Todd Whitman at the EPA will both issue statements of support for Gay Pride Month. The State Department is holding their own events sponsored by Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies.
Bush has named to head his Office of National AIDS Policy Scott H. Evertz, the first openly gay appointee of any GOP administration, according to Human Rights Campaign, a national lesbian and gay group.
Since Evertz, the administration has appointed at least five other openly gay people, including Ambassador to Romania David Guest. At Guest's swearing-in, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, even acknowledged Guest's partner, who was to accompany him to Bucharest.
Here is more reason for concern taken from The Log Cabin Republican's (LCR) website. The LCR is the nation's largest gay and lesbian Republican organization.
- On April 18, about fifty LCR national leaders, including LCR Board and Trustee members, attended high-level policy and political briefings on Capitol Hill and at the White House with senior GOP leaders. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill hosted LCR's senior leadership at a briefing in the Treasury Department, reviewing U.S. economic policy and the continued progress of private sector benefits for domestic partners.
At the White House briefing -- a first-ever such briefing in a GOP administration for a gay organization -- LCR leaders heard from Mary Matalin, assistant to the President and Counselor to the Vice President, who gave a political briefing. Lezlee Westine, assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, welcomed LCR's leadership to the White House, while former LCR Wisconsin president Scott Evertz, now director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, also welcomed old friends to the White House and discussed the President's accomplishments on AIDS policy over the past year.
White House Associate Counsel Brad Berenson reviewed judicial nominations, thanking LCR for its support on the Pickering nomination and urging continued partnership. James Wilkinson, deputy director of White House communications, discussed message development and his experiences running the "war room" communications center during the war in Afghanistan. Former Bush campaign political director Maria Cino discussed free trade and the impact on small businesses, such as those in the gay and lesbian community across the nation.
ACTION NEEDED
Unfortunately, the White House seems to be trying to have it both ways on the issue of homosexuality. Please call and e-mail President Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft to respectfully urge them to stop advancing the homosexual agenda by endorsing gay pride celebrations.Attorney General John Ashcroft
Phone: 202-514-2001
E-mail: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
President George W.Bush
Phone: 202-456-1414
E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov
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