The Pilgrims Covenant Church, a group with a long history of anti-gay activism in Wisconsin, has launched an attack against Patrick Flaherty, a candidate for Common Council in Milwaukee’s Third Aldermanic district, according to GayPolitics.com, a news service of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.
According to their report, the literature is being dropped in wards with high voter turnout, and argues for the public discrimination of gays and lesbians who shouldn’t be allowed to “adopt and teach children, marry one another, be policemen or medics, serve in the armed forces” or “be elected officials or judges.”
The literature doesn’t name a particular candidate in the race, but GayPolitics.com notes the group and Pastor Ralph Ovadahl “engaged in similar tactics with openly gay state Sen. Tim Carpenter when he ran his campaign”
Flaherty served as director of community relations for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of Milwaukee and was active in trying to defeat the 2006 anti-gay marriage amendment. Flaherty’s opponent is free-lance journalist Nic Kovac, and you can find a profile of both candidates here.
You can find pictures the church has posted of Ovadahl hassling Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin here.
Friday, March 21, 2008
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4 comments:
Hopefully this snow will melt soon so the prurient "Pastor" Ovadahl can get back to his regular employment as a peeping tom at Mazo Beach.
I can't believe that individuals spend their time doing this. There are so many other pressing political issues in our society- what good is being done by this Pastor or his church? IF anything, he encourages hate, violence, and divisiveness. I am a christian with values but a person'a sexual orientation does not determine how good of a parent, politician, or military official.
[W]hat good is being done by this Pastor or his church?
Well, for one thing he's given me a lot of laughs over the years. But I think you're right, these antics do little more than sow discord.
I am a christian with values but a person's sexual orientation does not determine how good of a parent, politician, or military official.
Right on brother, or sister as the case may be. I'm no Christian, but my understanding is that the finest qualities of Christianity are those that recognize and encourage the fundamental freedoms and dignity of humans equally.
Ovadal may be a raving closet case himself, but that's okay too.
I live in the Third District, and I haven't seen any anti-gay literature.
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