FalsePromises: Right Deploys Homophobia 2Win Support frm African Americans

[Ian David]

NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
Press Release


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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute to release
False Promises: How the Right Deploys Homophobia to Win Support
from African-Americans

Report exposes cynical attempt by Republican Party leaders to
win black votes
Audio Press Conference
Tuesday, April 4 - 1:30PM EST


View report at:
http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/FalsePromisesReport.pdf

What: Audio Press Conference. The National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force Policy Institute to release a new report -- False
Promises: How the Right Deploys Homophobia to Win Support from
African-Americans

Who: Matt Foreman, executive director, National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force
Nicholas Ray, policy analyst, National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force
Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder, presiding bishop, Refuge Ministries
Alexander Robinson, executive director, National Black Justice
Coalition

False Promises: How the Right Deploys Homophobia to Win
Support from African-Americans exposes the dishonesty of
attempts by leaders of the Republican Party to lure black voters
based on 'moral values,' and spotlights the false promises
inherent in Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman's
call for African-Americans to come "back home" to the GOP. The
report compares the voting records of key Republican
policymakers in Congress to polling of African-Americans' top
voting priorities and finds that Republican lawmakers have
abysmal voting records on these issues.

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[etherealtruth]

1. The "right" employs ...

... fear, hatred and bigotry every chance it gets.

What is demoralizing is that it often works:banghead:
They'll villify their own grandmother if it'll get them a vote.
DISGUSTING!

[ThomCat]

2. "What is demoralizing is that it often works"

You're right. And it will keep working. Most people enjoy having some other group to hate, and we're very convenient targets.