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GLAAD Gets Political
November 05, 2004
In a broad ranging warning to media over post-election coverage, the nation's media watch dog for gays and lesbians, GLAAD, gets political.
"It would be a mistake to conclude that the 22% of voters who placed 'moral values' at the top of their list were uniformly anti-gay in their voting," Garry explained. "Moral values can encompass whole host of issues and opinions -- issues like a woman's right to choose; social, racial and economic justice; stem-cell research; gay and lesbian equality; the honesty and integrity of public officials, and much more. To assume a direct correlation between 'moral values' and the anti-gay intolerance that led to the passage of yesterday's amendments is both inaccurate and an unsophisticated approach to a set of complex data."
[GLAAD Calls on Media to Present Complete Picture of Gay Issues and the 2004 Vote - GLAAD - 11-04-04]
I haven't seen any media saying voters who cited "moral values" as the nation's top election issue were "uniformly anti-gay." Even so, GLAAD would be hard pressed to produce more press clippings, direct mail solicitations or television transcripts from the past year's election coverage that eclipses the issue of "gay marriage" as the top moral concern of Christian conservatives.
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