From the Edge Boston:
The Chicago Independent Media Center posting related details about a local response to the “Truth Academy.” “Please join us in a protest against the opening ’lecture-banquet’ of the AFTAH event at 5:30 PM, Wednesday, August 4 at the AFTAH headquarters, 25W560 Geneva Road, Carol Stream, IL,” the posting read.
“For those traveling from Chicago, we will be meeting in front of the Ogilvie Transportation Center, 500 W. Madison Street at 3:45 PM sharp.”
More info from one of the groups organizing it:
Beginning August 4th a group which calls itself Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) is organizing what they call an “academy” to “train young people (as well as older pro-family advocates) how to answer ‘gay’ activist misinformation and fight the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda.”
AFTAH has a long history of telling lies about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and recently was designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. AFTAH’s literature about their forthcoming “academy” calls the LGBT rights movement “destructive to America” and invites people to donate money to fund scholarships for people as young as 14-years-old to attend.
Youth should not be taught to hate their peers and thus fuel the cycle of self-loathing, depression and suicide which too many LGBTQ youth experience. Bigotry must be vocally and publicly opposed, especially when haters try to recruit young people.
In difficult economic times, the message of hating any minority is especially dangerous and must be forthrightly opposed.
Please join us in a protest against the opening “lecture-banquet” of the AFTAH event at 5:30 PM, Wednesday, August 4 at the AFTAH headquarters, 25W560 Geneva Road, Carol Stream, IL. For those traveling from Chicago, we will be meeting in front of the Ogilvie Transportation Center, 500 W. Madison Street at 3:45 PM sharp.
The protest is co-sponsored by the Gay Liberation Network, DuPage NOW, Woodstock/McHenry County PFLAG and La Voz de los de Abajo.
Please support this protest now by joining the Facebook event set up for it, and invite your FB friends:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143863622296206#!/event.php?eid=143863622296206
For more information, email LGBTliberation@aol.com
Thanks for the update Andrea
Wish I could be there but Ill be there in spirit.
Are you sure that address is correct? It seems to be for a church that has come out against aftah in the past. Aftah hasn’t ever posted their address publicly…I hate the fact that as a carol stream resident I have these creeps literally in my back yard.
NOTE! The date and time of the protest has changed because AFTAH cancelled the banquet it was to target. The protest is now August 5 at 7:30 at the school where they’re holding the academy. See the FB event for details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143863622296206
Wayne, it would be great if you could do a second blog post.