Activists’ renewed efforts in Indiana’s fourth largest city to pass an LGBT-inclusive human rights ordinance into law have unexpectedly met with some disparaging and bizarre claims from socially conservative organizers who oppose the measure.
With a vote expected from the South Bend’s Common Council on Monday, July 26, the Citizens for Community Values of Indiana have ramped up their efforts to thwart the amendment. The CCVI claimed in an e-blast “radical GLBT activists are back to try to push their agenda once again in the middle of summer when many families are on vacation.” The message further encourages South Bend residents to pray and contact their council members and urge them to “lovingly oppose the special rights for homosexuals, bisexuals and transgendereds [sic], agenda.”
The e-mail goes on to contend the amendment’s passage would affirm “homosexual behavior,” promote “pro-homosexual propaganda” and even lead to an invasion of “men in dresses” into women’s restrooms and same-sex couples into neighborhoods.
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