Gay-Rights Foes See Opportunity in Furor
By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
March 7, 2004, 1:23 PM EST
NEW YORK -- Even as they issue dire warnings, many longtime opponents of the gay-rights movement are welcoming the furor over same-sex marriage as a chance to expand the audience for their unfavorable views of homosexuality. Activists in this camp -- clergy, conservative lobbyists, men and women who say they moved away from homosexuality through prayer or therapy -- have been dismayed by gay-rights advances in recent years. But they see new opportunities for their cause if, as polls indicate, a majority of the Americans oppose the spreading push for gay marriage.


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Bill Frist and George W. Bush to America's Gay Community: Drop Dead, Faggots!
By Jeff Koopersmith
Mar 7, 2004, 09:05
I am damn furious. And yes, you're damn right, I have a lot of close friends and colleagues, men and women, who happen to be gay. Many of them are in dedicated and loving relationships, and some arte raising the children that George W. Bush and his kind would leave dead, starving, and dumb rather than think about caring for, feeding, or educating.