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News Release
For Immediate Release: May 2, 2009
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

PA Governor Rendell and Anti-Family Equality Forum

(Philadelphia) – As Governor Rendell is the Honorary Dinner Chair at Equality Forum’s ‘International Equality Dinner’ tonight, he turns his back on the majority of Pennsylvanians. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA) notes this is further evidence of Rendell’s inability to connect with or even understand that Pennsylvanians do not believe the homosexual lifestyle is normal and don’t want their elected officials to force that agenda.

This event is part of Equality Forum’s week-long event of panel discussions and seminars discussing homosexual marriage, adoption by homosexuals, ‘religion’, transgenders, bisexuals and health issues. Additionally, one session is about the LGBT sensitivity training given to the Philadelphia Police Department. Its overall purpose, with the help of our tax dollars, is to undermine traditional marriage and family.

Equality Forum is using the International Equality Dinner this year to honor San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome who briefly legalized same-sex marriage in 2004. His illegal activity was quickly shutdown by the courts. They’ve also chosen to honor the very liberal New York Times which is one of America’s most homosexual-friendly news sources. It is so liberal a national boycott has been called.

“San Francisco and the New York Times go hand in hand, evidenced by the booth at last year’s sadomasochism fest Folsom Street Fair. I suppose it’s only fitting that Governor Rendell, Mayor Newsome and the New York Times share the same stage. They have the same goals . . . to destroy traditional marriage and traditional family and to ‘normalize’ through the force of law a very dangerous lifestyle,” noted Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

The AFA of PA calls on Governor Rendell to stop permitting the use of our tax dollars through Department of Community and Economic Development grants to anti-family activities like Equality Forum. During this time of a $1 billion financial shortfall in the 2008 and 2009 budget, every penny should be used wisely. Tax payers increasingly are expressing discontentment over the misuse of their tax dollars. As Governor Rendell and the legislative body works out the budget, they should keep the taxpayers—their bosses -- in mind.

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