RECENT  POSTS:  » Boy Scouts president cuts through the noise: 'Let in gay boys' » Video: GOP Congressman from Oklahoma attacks 'intolerance' of supporting gay boys in khaki » Equal #BoyScout opponents don't want to hear how anti-gay their allies are » Maggie doesn't want us treated cruelly, just as less 'normative' than heterosexuals » GLAAD: Opponents of Equality in #BoysScouts Project Adult Baggage Onto Supportive Future » Freedom to Work files suit against oil company I drive miles out of way to avoid » Gee, I wonder if Disney is okay with French coalition using Darth Vader for its anti-gay poster » Video: Equal Scouting pioneer ponders blazed trails, brighter paths » Liberty Counsel & Liberty Univ. personality proud of his extreme rhetoric; I applaud him for owning it! » Audio: Anti-gay activist compares Harvey Milk Day to Hitler  

« Go back a post || Return to G-A-Y homepage || Haul tail to next post »

02/21/2013

Yesterday's anti-gay rally in Illinois: Weak crowd lacking in diversity

by Jeremy Hooper

This is the Illinois Family Institute's very own photo. Click for the full size version:

Rally-4
[IFI]

Despite the IFI's claims of thousands, most local reports put the number in the hundreds range. Even the IFI's own ardent supporters seem disappointed by the turnout:

201302210827

This for a rally that the IFI has been promoting for weeks on end, on an issue that state conservatives supposedly consider to be of utmost importance. It's hard to see this as anything but a failure. For them, I mean.

space gay-comment gay-G-A-Y-post gay-email gay-writer-jeremy-hooper


Your thoughts

comments powered by Disqus

G-A-Y Comments Policy


 
Related Posts with Thumbnails