MEDIA ADVISORY
Oct. 7, 2011
Contact:
Apreill Hartsfield
334.956.8458
apreill.hartsfield@splcenter.org
Southern Poverty Law Center to Hold Press Conference Outside Values Voter Summit
The Southern Poverty Law Center will hold a press conference this Friday, Oct. 7, to release a report on the Family Research Council (FRC) and American Family Association (AFA), two groups that spread false propaganda that demonizes the LGBT community. The FRC is hosting the annual Values Voter Summit this weekend Washington, where many prominent public officials will be speaking. The AFA is a major co-sponsor.
WHO: Mark Potok, Director, Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center
Wayne Besen, Truth Wins Out
WHEN: Friday, October 7
8 a.m. (EDT)
WHERE: Omni Shoreham
2500 Calvert Street NW (at Connecticut Ave.)
Washington, DC
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Alabama with offices in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. For more information, see www.splcenter.org.
Truth Wins Out is a non-profit organization that fights anti-LGBT religious extremism. TWO specializes in turning information into action by organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality.
It’s about time an organization with mainstream credibility is shining a light on the GOP’s willingness to associate with these horrible hate groups and to lend acceptability to their (sometimes) thinly disguised message of discrimination against lgbt Americans. The mainstream media corporations and the Democratic party should join in and denounce the GOP’s pretense that these hate groups have a legitimate viewpoint.
Why high-profile politicians would appear at an event hosted by the distasteful FRC and AFA is beyond me. I was startled to see so many big names confirmed for the conference.
Kudos to Truth Wins out and SPLC for doing this! Post video!
Want a giggle? Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association smugly tweeted that the press conference was a “Bust. Nobody showed for the SPLC, PFAW hater press conference, not even SPCL, PFAW. Nobody. No media. Only 1 lonely lesbian with a rainbow flag.”
Moron was in the wrong room. SPLC tweeted back a few minutes later, “Wrong room Bryan. We had a full house.”
The SPLC is a joke.
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