re: #69 Stanley Sea

Save this one for Walter:

I posted some more on Alveda (just some excerpts from wiki articles), when she was on stage earlier today. I’ll just cut and paste it here since it’s on topic:

She is the director of African-American Outreach at the Roman Catholic pro-life group Priests for Life. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative Washington, D.C. think-tank
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Regarding Martin Luther King Jr. and family, Alveda King claimed that “Mrs. Coretta Scott King knew that her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was pro-life” regarding Martin Luther King Jr. winning the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. In 1994, Alveda King wrote a letter condemning Coretta Scott King’s support for abortion and gay rights. According to Fox News, Alveda King has “long argued” that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King: “King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s.”

The Advocate magazine has quoted King speaking out against gay rights. At a 1997 rally in Sacramento protesting proposed state legislation to extend civil rights to gays and lesbians, King said: “To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights. No one is enslaving homosexuals…or making them sit in the back of the bus.” In a 1998 speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Homosexuality cannot be elevated to the civil rights issue. The civil rights movement was born from the Bible. God hates homosexuality.” King had been making public appearances throughout 1997 criticizing gay rights.

King is a pro-life speaker and often speaks on college campuses about abortion issues. She joined the pro-Life movement, crusading to offer women alternatives to abortion. King is also noted for her opposition to same-sex marriage. Angela D. Dillard classifies King as among “prominent black members of the Religious Right.” King is currently a board member of the organization Georgia Right to Life.

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The Priests for Life organization provides an extensive collection of photos of live fetuses as well as aborted fetuses, via the internet. Its photos have also appeared in print. According to Pavone: “There is no single thing that I have seen more powerful to change people on abortion than simply showing them the pictures…When people see what abortion does to a baby, they are stung to the heart and their consciences are awakened.”

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As part of the 1998 Tobacco Settlement Agreement, the Philip Morris corporation released millions of pages of documents concerning their operations. These detail how, after the Environmental Protection Agency moved in 1993 to have second-hand tobacco smoke declared a carcinogen, Philip Morris hired the AdTI to campaign against the move.
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AdTI was a member organization of the Cooler Heads Coalition which asserts that “the science of global warming is uncertain” and is focused on “dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis.”

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(I’d never heard of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution before reading that article :o)