Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Thumbs down to bigots in Utah

Following on the heels of Utah Governor Jon Huntsman's courageous stand backing civil unions for gay and lesbian people in Utah, some outfit called Americaforever took out this despicable ad in the Salt Lake Tribune, which compares gays and lesbians to "hookers" and "druggies".  After reading through the ad, I agree with Andrew Sullivan that an ad like this would never be published if it were attacking any other group in the US.

To give you an idea of the level of discourse engaged in by Americaforever, I refer you to the following sentence from the ad:

In 10 years, 10 generations of voting Children of today will be voting adults, and because they have been taught to believe that disagreeing with homosexuality is discrimination, they will vote to remove amendment 3.

Anybody interested in writing to the Salt Lake Tribune op-ed page to counter the Americaforever ad can address their email to letters@sltrib.com or can donate to Equality Utah here.

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