The DNC just released the following. It's pretty clear that the Republicans are planning to use gay-bating as a technique to rile their base, yet they'll do it in a way that they hope won't get national attention (so as not to appear homophobic). Well, not to appear homophobic to those audiences which aren't homophobic. They have no problem appearing homophobic to those who are in fact homophobes.
Republican Leaders Attack America's Families
Claim that "Alternative Family Forms" are Inadequate
Washington, D.C. - Last week, the Republican Party ratcheted up efforts to promote the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment when party leaders distributed talking points which called same-sex unions a "national crisis" and, in the process, criticized half of American families as inadequate. Included among the talking points was a statement claiming that it is "a terrible message to the next generation [that] alternative family forms are just as good as traditional families," an assertion that suggests that families led by single mothers, grandparents, or same-sex couples are invalid and, thus, detrimental to children.
