Michigan State House Candidate Is Hard-Line Anti-Gay Activist
Gary Glenn, who announced earlier this week that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the 98th district of the state House of Representatives, says nothing whatsoever about LGBT people on his campaign website. But the reality is that he is the Michigan leader of one of the nation’s most vicious anti-gay hate groups.
Glenn’s platform, as described on his campaign site, is conservative but not radical. He wants to defend Michigan’s right-to-work law, prevent the implementation of “Obamacare,” and reform the educational system. Glenn neglects to mention his decade-plus history of hardline anti-gay work, and totally absent is any reference to his position as president of the American Family Association of Michigan.
The American Family Association (AFA), headquartered in Tupelo, Miss., is not some ordinary conservative Christian group that is critical of homosexuality or same-sex marriage. After it was started in 1977, it was widely criticized after its founder suggested that obscene media content is largely due to Jewish control of the press and Hollywood. In recent years, it has become even more openly vicious. The AFA’s spokesmen have argued that “homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler … the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews” that gay men molest children at vastly higher rates that others; that President Obama “nurtures a hatred for the white man” that welfare incentivizes black people who “rut like rabbits” and that Muslims have in America “have no First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.”
Each of these claims is entirely false, which is why the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed AFA as an anti-gay hate group since 2010.
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