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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsGay Rights Groups in Conflict on Free Speech
By Ed Brayton
Colbert King reports in the Washington Post that gay rights organizations are lining up against one another on the question of whether to push for censorship of an anti-same sex marriage ad on Washington DC buses.
Some Metrobuses are carrying advertisements paid for by Stand for Marriage DC, a group that opposes civil marriage for same-sex couples. The group wants to subject the District's recently passed law permitting same-sex marriage to a public referendum.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 03, 2010 (boomark / email).
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