Family Research Council In A Panic Over Looming DADT Vote

[t0dd]

Source: TPM

The prospect of a vote moving Don't Ask, Don't Tell one step closer to being repealed in the Senate tonight is sending the vehemently anti-repeal Family Research Council into a bit of a tizzy. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to call for a cloture vote on the defense spending bill that includes a repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service -- possibly sometime this evening -- and the FRC is firing up its phone banks in response.

"Call your Senators today," an "Action Alert" email sent this afternoon by the FRC reads, "and tell them to stop using the military to impose this Administration's radical anti-life/pro-homosexual agenda."

The FRC, a leader in conservative social politics, has led some of the most ardent opposition to repealing DADT. The action alert email tonight could signal that the group is worried that the end of the fight is near -- and that it's not ending the way they hoped.

The group's continued support for a ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen -- as well as other anti-gay rights rhetoric coming from the group -- recently earned the FRC a place on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups.


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[MineralMan]

1. And you know what? A higher percentage of the people who

visit that website will call than will the people who visit DU. Happens all the time. That's why they win some of these battles. They act. We talk, to a large degree, but do not act. I'm sorry, but that's the reality of it.

Disclaimer: I've sent out dozens of emails today to legislators. I assume you have too. I'm just speaking in general.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. FRC, FoTF and the rest of the right-wing fucknut groups...

needs to fucking move to Somalia, like now.

[mudplanet]

3. I can hear it now in fundamentalist churches accross the nation:

Look. I've been married for fifteen years and everything was fine until a couple of fa***ts down the street got married. Suddenly I started beating my wife and then last week she left me without warning or reason. I'm not stupid, I can correlate things. Gay marriage is going to destroy civilization as we know it.

or the one that is a true story:

"We can't let them lesbians open a battered woman's shelter in our town. When a man beats his wife she'll go down there and they'll make a lesbian out of her." (paraphrased but nearly the exact words the resident of a small town in Mississippi said on NPR when asked how he could object to the opening of a battered woman's shelter on private property).

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. There were four threads urging DUers to call their Senators on DADT

They had to be kicked multiple times by the authors, and received less than ten replies. They never broke 10 recs, and even received several unrecs.

It was rather disturbing, as everyone knows these FRC nuts are making it top priority.