[Equal Marriage] Fwd: Press Release - Phelps Family Pickets in Healey's Hometown

[Owen Broadhurst]

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From: Tom Lang <info at knowthyneighbor.org>
Date: May 6, 2006 4:09 PM
Subject: Press Release - Phelps Family Pickets in Healey's Hometown
To: owen.broadhurst at gmail.com

   *PRESS RELEASE*

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tom Lang
Cell: 978-335-0477 *

*Phelps Family to Picket Gay Wedding in Hometown of Lt. Governor Kerry
Healey*

Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, May 6, 2006 --The Topeka, Kansas-based extremist
group, The Phelps Family of the Westboro Baptist Church, has announced that
they intend to picket the wedding of Rev. Craig Collemer and Gary LaParl
which is scheduled for 7:00 P.M. on Saturday, May 6th at the First Baptist
Church, 221 Cabot Street in Beverly.

Phelps is a well known disruptive force who uses his First Amendment right
of protest to voice hatred of gays and lesbians and is infamous for using
inflammatory slogans like, "God Hates Fags." Various local groups plan to
voice opposition to Phelps' presence.

KnowThyNeighbor.org, the Manchester-by-the-Sea-based citizen watchdog group
which posted on their website the names and addresses of 143,000 people who
signed a petition to end same-sex marriage rights, will have representatives
present at the protest. Tom Lang, Director of KnowThyNeighbor.org, stated,
"First and foremost this is an important day for the couple who will be
marrying and it is extremely disrespectful that the Phelps group is here.
However, Phelps and his actions are only the flowering of the tree that is
growing regarding anti-gay, anti-family and anti-equality sentiment. Efforts
like the currently proposed anti-gay marriage amendment which would clearly
segregate and discriminate against couples like Reverend Collemer and Gary
LaParl undeniably give nutrients to this tree."

Beverly is the hometown of: Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, who supports civil
unions but opposes marriage equality for gays and lesbians; Darrell Crate,
the Chairman of the GOP State Committee whose poltical director, Rob
Willington, has called gays and lesbians, "the forces of evil,"; and, Tom
Shields, the Director of The Massachusetts Family Institute, the
organization spearheading the present campaign against marriage rights for
gays and lesbians.

KnowThyNeighbor.org wants to know how these people feel about Phelps being
in their hometown. Lang says, "At least Phelps is honest about his hatred,
these others hide behind the hypocrisy of rhetoric and political maneuvers
to express theirs."

*Contact: Tom Lang, Director of KnowThyNeighbor.org 978-335-0477*

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Owen R. Broadhurst
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