Back in May, AMERICAblog reported that the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) was ignoring its own rules about discrimination to build a $5 million online "National Healthy Marriage Resource Center" for the White House.
The Web site strictly forbade any mention of gay marriages (so no Mary Cheney and Heather Poe, please). Our readers contacted NCFR's Board of Directors and Executive Director and asked them to respect their own rules. Apparently, more than a few NCFR members protested as well.
Today we learned that NCFR has canceled its contract, citing "the lack of a broad member consensus for this policy activity." This is a HUGE victory for gay families, and friends, everywhere. But I just had to chuckle when NCFR send this in an email to its membership on Wednesday:
A more recent development and a significant factor in the Board’s decision to exit the cooperative agreement is the government’s request that the NHMRC Website include a statement by President Bush and a picture of President and Mrs. Bush on the home page.Constructing an anti-gay website: Five million dollars.
Refusing money because you'd have to show Bush's face: Priceless.
