Like the energizer bunny, it just keeps going and going. And our readers are doing our research for us now. The National Council on Family Relations has clammed-up, big-time, after we've pointed out how their federally-funded website on straights-only marriage breaks their own rules and forces them to ban their own research on gay families. They refuse to even talk with anyone about it until the website goes live in June. I'll quickly sum up: Compare the demands of this:
As defined by ACF [the Administration on Children and Families at the Dept of Health and Human Services], the project has an exclusive focus on heterosexual marriages.with this:
The executive director [of NCFR] shall not allow practices, activities, decisions, or organizational circumstances which violate the Board's value that NCFR provide a context supportive of diversity by race, ethnicity, culture, age, gender, religion, physical ability, country of origin, and sexual orientation.NCFR is based in Minnesota. One of their partners in this anti-gay website -- their neighbor, The University of Minnesota. Of course, like their other partner Syracuse, the University of Minnesota has rules too:
The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance, veteran status or sexual orientation.U of M has a GLBT Program office that might want to be let into the loop.
Is Michael Benjamin (mbenjamin@ncfr.org , (202) 659-1190), the executive director failing to enforce his own rules, even listening? How arrogant do you have to be?
It gets worse. more soon...
