Pro-Family Leader Pleased to Find Ohio at Bottom of Homosexuals' List
by Chad Groening
May 23, 2006
(AgapePress) - - An Ohio pro-family activist says the state should consider it a point of pride that a radical homosexual rights group has ranked Ohio last in the United States in terms of providing special rights to homosexuals and similar groups.
A pro-homosexual group calling itself Equality of Ohio recently published a nationwide study about so-called discrimination against "gays," lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals. The study rated the state of Ohio dead last in protecting the "equality" of those groups.
But Phil Burress of the Cincinnati-based pro-family group Citizens for Community Values (CCV) says one has to understand what homosexual activists mean when they talk about equality. What they are really talking about, he asserts, is "special rights" for homosexual, bisexual and transgendered people.
"You would be surprised what it is that they really want," Burress says. "What they call equality is for everyone to accept their behavior and for them to have access to our children at a very early age, promoting homosexuality as normal." Opposing the homosexual activists' agenda is "what they call intolerance," he contends.
Equality of Ohio recently conducted a Lobby Day in Columbus, hoping to persuade Ohio lawmakers to support a bill that would give individuals special rights based on their sexual orientations and prohibit "discrimination" on that basis.
"What they're complaining about," Burress asserts, "is ... that they don't have rights and privileges that override the rest of us who are average working families and people here in the state of Ohio. They want special privileges."
Also, the pro-family advocate says, homosexual activists want access to the educational system and government sanction of same-sex marriage. "They want to have all the things that the people and the governments and the laws have said that they can't have," he says.
And because the majority of the people and their pro-family representatives are opposed to all these things the homosexual activists are demanding, Burress adds, "they feel like we're intolerant. So I guess we should wear that as a badge of honor."
Groups like Equality of Ohio want to force acceptance of their behavior and to promote it as normal, Burress points out; but he says the citizens of the state have apparently been resistant to that agenda. He feels Ohioans should be proud to come in last on the pro-homosexual group's list of states advancing "special rights" for homosexuals and other groups.
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
