TFN PRESIDENT CONDEMNS HATEFUL MAILER IN NORTH TEXAS SENATE RACE
Texas Voters Rejected Similar Anti-Gay Hate Campaign 12 Years Ago
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 28, 2014
Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller is condemning a reprehensible anti-gay campaign mailer attacking the Democratic nominee for a state Senate seat from North Texas.
“These kinds of hateful campaign tactics represent politics at its worst,” Miller said. “To smear a candidate because she supports equality for everyone is shameful and out of step with Texas voters who are leaving that kind of bigotry in the past.”
Reports indicate that an out-of-state organization called the National Family Coalition sent out mailers to voters in the District 10 state Senate race between Democrat Libby Willis and Republican Konni Burton. The mailer charges that Willis is “pushing the radical homosexual agenda” and supports allowing sexual predators to use women’s restrooms and “forcing homosexual marriage” on Texas. The mailer includes a photo of shirtless men participating in a gay rights march and asks: “Is this Libby Willis’ vision for Texas?”
In 2002 a far-right political action committee, Free PAC, used similar anti-gay mailers in an effort to defeat a half-dozen Republicans — including then-acting Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff — in GOP legislative primaries in Texas. None of the targeted incumbents lost their races.
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The Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of religious and community leaders who support religious freedom, individual liberties and public education.
