“(The Super Bowl is) still an American institution, and I hope it will endure the embarrassment that happened last year, because people just assume it’s something they can enjoy with their children,” said Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan. “People are more aware of what’s on TV now and there’s no question that it’s gotten more sexual, more offensive and more obscene.”

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“Supporters of Proposal 2 said the rally will not change the opinions of those in favor of the (Marriage Protection Amendment). ‘They can hold a protest rally once a month, and it won’t change the way Michigan voters feel about this issue,’ said Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan.”

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MIDLAND DAILY NEWS
Midland, Michigan
January 21, 2004

(Letter to the Editor)

Whose rights are threatened?

To the editor:

No one takes greater offense than do African-Americans when folks such as Janea Little offer the tired and false assertion that homosexual behavior is the moral, legal, and social equivalent of having been born with dark skin.

In October, I had the privilege of speaking in African-American churches in Pontiac and Detroit and also of driving Dr. Alveda King – niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – around Michigan to speak and campaign in favor of the Marriage Protection Amendment, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters.

When audience members asked how her uncle Martin would have felt about attempts by homosexual activists to redefine marriage, Alveda simply reminded them that long before he became a nationally-known civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was first and foremost a conservative southern Baptist pastor.

MLK’s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, also last month led a faith-based march in Atlanta in support of protecting one-man, one-woman marriage from homosexual activists’ political agenda. Of course, Rev. Bernice King was criticized by people like Ms. Little, who try to put a “civil rights” mask on that agenda.

Whose rights are truly at risk?

In Sweden last year, a Pentecostal pastor was jailed for one month for preaching a sermon in his own church in which he said homosexual behavior was a sin and a threat to community values and health.

Last year in Ireland, Catholic priests were threatened with six months in jail if they read (from their own pulpits) a Vatican statement reaffirming support for one-man, one-woman marriage and declaring homosexual behavior “evil.”

In Philadelphia right now, four Christians await trial – facing multiple felonies such as “ethnic intimidation” and up to 47 years in prison – for peacefully exercising their First Amendment free speech right to attend a public “gay rights” rally and read from the Bible to express their opinion that homosexual behavior is wrong.

That’s what used to happen to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., too, when he marched and spoke the truth. (He always quoted from the Bible too.)

Protecting and preserving one-man, one-woman marriage for our children is not “discrimination,” and if anyone needs protection these days, it’s those who dare publicly disagree with homosexual activists’ attempts to hide the radical nature of their demands behind the legacy of a true civil rights movement led by the African-American church.

Gary Glenn, President
American Family Association of Michigan

by Thomas Sowell

In all the states where gay marriage was on the ballot this year, the voters voted against it — as they should have.

Of all the phony arguments for gay marriage, the phoniest is the argument that it is a matter of equal rights. Marriage is not a right extended to individuals by the government. It is a restriction on the rights they already have.

People who are simply living together can make whatever arrangements they want, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual. They can divide up their worldly belongings 50-50 or 90-10 or whatever other way they want. They can make their union temporary or permanent or subject to cancellation at any time.
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“Gary Glenn, president of the Midland-based American Family Association of Michigan…said moral values likely will come back to bite (Gov. Jennifer Granholm) in a state that overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment barring homosexual couples from marriage.

The gay-marriage ban passed by an 18 percent margin, rallying support from both sides of the political aisle. Glenn said it illustrates the governor’s moral disconnect from the rest of the state.

“(The governor) is going to answer for that in the 2006 election,” Glenn said. “I don’t think there is any doubt about it.”

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“Gary Glenn, Marlene Elwell, Jerry Falwell, and Pope John Paul II…Stop hurting us.”

An over-the-edge commentary (link below) by prominent homosexual activist Sean Kosofsky, obviously distressed by Michigan voters’ overwhelming support for the Marriage Protection Amendment.

I’ve done numerous debates and panel discussions across the state with Sean. He’s passionate and articulate. (If you have high speed Internet access, go here to watch an hour long debate on marriage earlier this year at Grand Rapids Community College.)

Please add Sean to your prayer list and pray that his passion may some day soon be enlightened by the Truth (and the Way and the Life). [John 8:32 and John 14:6]

Gary Glenn

Here’s the link to his editorial.
http://www.fairmichiganmajority.org/2005/01/come-out-or-die.html