Family Advocate Questions Representatives' Signatures on 'Diversity Statement'
by Allie Martin
August 16, 2006
(AgapePress) - - The American Family Association of Pennsylvania is blasting three U.S. congressmen who have signed a "diversity statement" from two pro-homosexual groups.
A pro-family activist in Pennsylvania is bothered that three U.S. House members from the Keystone State -- Republican Jim Gerlach and Democrats Robert Brady and Mike Doyle -- have signed the statement from GenderPAC and the Human Rights Campaign. That statement says the congressmen will not discriminate in their hiring practices based on an employee's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. According to the two sponsoring groups, 168 members of Congress -- mostly Democrats -- have signed the statement.
Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of Pennsylvania, is disturbed that three of the representatives from her state are among the signatories. Gerlach, Brady, and Doyle, she says, are sending the wrong message to their constituents.
"I don't know that they fully comprehend what the term 'gender identity and expression' means," says Gramley, offering this definition: "That phrase right there means that they are willing to hire men dressed as women to come to work -- and I don't think a constituent going into any of these congressmen's offices would want to encounter a man dressed in a woman's clothing."
She contends the three congressman -- and presumably the others who have signed the statement -- are kowtowing to radical groups.
"The Human Rights Campaign is the largest pro-homosexual [lobby] group in the nation, and Gender PAC is just a very radical group," she offers. "They're so radical that they are supporting the parents of a five-year-old Florida boy who wants to start kindergarten as a girl. So they're supporting those parents who have enrolled their son as a little girl in Florida."
Gramley's group has asked Congressmen Gerlach, Brady, and Doyle to reconsider their signatures on the pro-homosexual diversity statement.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
