HRC Back Story

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Last week, Cristina Finch, our senior counsel, posted on her interview with the Medill news service regarding same-sex bi-national couples that are being kept apart due to our immigration policy - and the legislation that would seek to remedy this problem, the Uniting American Families Act. Well, the reporter also interviewed Peter Sprigg of the arch conservative Family Research Council, who doesn't hestitate to give his own straight-faced immigration policy reform recommendation. And (suprise!) his right-wing wisdom is that gay people should be actually be exported from the United States:

Sprigg must have gotten some serious blowback from a Higher Authority, because here's Sprigg's attempt at an "apology":

In an interview with Medill News Service that was posted on the Internet last week, I discussed FRC’s opposition to an immigration bill that would allow foreign nationals who are the same-sex partners of American citizens to immigrate to the United States on the same basis as foreign spouses of American citizens. FRC does not believe that homosexual relationships are the equivalent of marriage, and we therefore oppose any legislation that would treat such relationships as the equivalent of marriage.

In response to a question regarding bi-national same-sex couples who are separated by an international border, I used language that trivialized the seriousness of the issue and did not communicate respect for the essential dignity of every human being as a person created in the image of God. I apologize for speaking in a way that did not reflect the standards which the Family Research Council and I embrace.

Ummmmmmm.....

Maybe there's someone in the radical right wing that 's finally seeking some redemption (...finally) from their long and colorful history of hatemongering. It's a very, very, very small step -- and there's a long, long, long way to go....