(church lobby false) claim "majority of Americans" object to PBS cartoon

[truthpusher]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501310001

Traditional Values Coalition's Lafferty used gay marriage bans to claim "majority of Americans" object to PBS cartoon

Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the conservative "church lobby" group the Traditional Values Coalition, appeared on MSNBC and ABC to criticize an episode of the PBS program Postcards from Buster titled "Sugartime!" in which an animated rabbit visits real-life children whose parents are a lesbian couple. Lafferty claimed that her opposition to the episode was "mainstream," and she suggested that "the majority of Americans" believe homosexuality is "inappropriate and immoral and invalid." But polling data contradicts Lafferty's claims.

To support her claim that her opposition to the episode was "mainstream," Lafferty referred to recent state-level measures banning same-sex marriage, claiming on the January 27 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country:

LAFFERTY: The American people in California voted overwhelmingly against homosexual marriage. Other states have done that as well, not just conservative states. The American people don't want their children mixed into this subject. ... The position that I've taken -- the position that the Secretary of Education has taken -- is a mainstream position.

more:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200501310001

[Roland99]

1. Just keep feeding the radical right more rope...

They'll eventually hang themselves with their own bigotry.

[xchrom]

5. yes, but maybe not before they hang me.

i'd prefer a different strategy thank you.

[heidiho]

2. Coincidentally, I just received my renewal from PBS

for my yearly donation, which I promptly returned today with a scathing note and asking them to take my name off their mailing list.

[Catfight]

3. Great, that's the way to end American intolerance and oppression! nt

[Bill McBlueState]

4. not about morality of homosexuality

But this issue isn't about the morality of homosexuality. It's about simply acknowledging the existence of children whose parents are of the same gender, and acknowledging that they should be treated no differently from other children.

Lafferty is saying that hatred of those who come from unusual families is a mainstream value. Not surprising from someone like her.