Gun-related murders? Blame it on the gays
Bill Berkowitz: Gun-related murders? Blame it on the gays
by Bill Berkowitz,
Religion Dispatches
There's a link between the epidemic of gun-related murders in the U.S. and the campaign for same-sex marriage, says Morality in Media's Robert Peters.
Three days before the 1994 mid-term elections, Newt Gingrich decided the time was right to link the case of Susan Smith -- the South Carolina woman who had been accused of murdering her two sons -- to the upcoming election. As reported by journalist Norman Solomon, then Congressman Gingrich, responding to an Associated Press reporter who asked him to assess the campaign, stated: "Slightly more moving our way. I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things." Gingrich concluded, "The only way you get change is to vote Republican. That's the message for the last three days.".......
............Nearly 15 years later, Robert Peters, the head of an outfit called Morality in Media, has put his own personal stamp on Gingrich's theme, only instead of blaming the Democrats for society's woes, he's blaming the gays. In a Morality in Media press release dated April 9, Peters commented on two articles that appeared of the front page of The New York Times five days earlier: One was on the Iowa Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage, and the other was about the gunman who had killed 13 people in Binghamton, New York................
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