Pennsylvania Official Charged With Using Position to Push Homosexual Agenda
by Allie Martin
April 6, 2006
(AgapePress) - - The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA) is accusing the Human Relations Commission in that state of overstepping its stated purpose and goals to promote pro-homosexual causes.
The pro-family group charges that Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission Chairman Stephen Glassman has been using his position to promote homosexuality as a normal lifestyle. Glassman, who is homosexual, is accused of encouraging municipalities to go beyond the law to extend special rights to individuals based solely on sexual orientation.
Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA, says Glassman should not be allowed to go outside the boundaries of the Commission's stated agenda, as she feels he has done lately. "He's been very active in opposing our marriage protection amendment," she notes, for example.
Also, only a couple of weeks ago, Glassman actually addressed a group of ten homosexual groups in the Lebanon Valley College, Gramley points out. "Those homosexual groups, of course, are working against passage of our marriage protection amendment," she says, "and Steve Glassman was there in his official capacity as chairman of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission."
Glassman is "using his position as the chairman of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission as a bully pulpit to change policies in Pennsylvania that are not mandated by the law," the pro-family leader contends, "and it's not in the mission statement of the Commission."
She feels this is an abuse of office that calls for official censure.
Gramley believes Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell should intervene on behalf of state taxpayers by putting Glassman's pro-homosexual advocacy in check. She is asking Rendell to rein in the Human Relations Commission chairman's use of the agency in efforts to normalize homosexuality and derail the proposed marriage protection amendment.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
