Kind of. But I don't get the correction.
The New York TimesI suspect that this correction will only fuel the controversy and not quell it. In my view, the problem that HRC and other gay groups, and other non-gay groups (like the enviros, women, anti-gun folks, etc.), faced over the past year was not that their tactics were too tough. But that's what this correction is suggesting - that HRC now thinks it needs to moderate its tactics. I simply don't agree. I've said before on this blog that I tend to be a defender of HRC - I still think they're probably the best group of the "big" gay groups - but one thing I haven't felt about HRC (and every other progressive nonprofit out there) in a while is that they're too tough in their tactics. Hmmm...
Dec. 17, 2004
An article on Dec. 9 about the debate among gay rights leaders over efforts to legalize same-sex marriages referred incorrectly to the outcome of a meeting of the Human Rights Campaign a week earlier. After the meeting, leaders said they had agreed on a need to moderate their tactics and message after losing 11 ballot initiatives on Nov. 2. They did not conclude that they needed to moderate the pursuit of fundamental goals, including full rights for gay men and lesbians.
