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And even the "American Family Association" can't stand him!
Waging a One-Man War on American Muslims
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Published: December 16, 2011
During the mid-1990s, after hearing about the harassment of gay students, the principal of Largo High School in Florida created a support group for them. Over the next year or two, the meetings also drew sympathetic friends, evolving into a club called the Gay Straight Alliance. For a while, it operated in comfortable obscurity.
Then, in 1998, the principal, Barbara Thornton, began receiving postcards, many bearing the identical message bizarrely denouncing the alliance as a government-funded witch hunt. The local school board felt compelled to take up the issue, with 400 parents attending a meeting at which one speaker compared the gay students to murderers.
During that session, Ms. Thornton encountered the man who had manufactured the entire controversy: David Caton. An accountant turned rock-club owner, the author of a book about his pornography addiction, Mr. Caton had become a born-again Christian and the founder and sole employee of a fundamentalist group called the Florida Family Association.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/us/on-religion-a-one-man-war-on-american-muslims.html?_r=1
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Jeez.
DURHAM D
(32,618 posts)Initech
(100,146 posts)It seems like they're a bonafied hate group.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)about the whole thing. One guy can do so much damage. But yes, there should be an investigation into this "group".
Initech
(100,146 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Initech
(100,146 posts)This is deserving of more than a few lawsuits, and the Florida Family Association needs to be heavily investigated.
DURHAM D
(32,618 posts)Canton's single concern is scaming fools in order to raise money to sustain his porn addiction.
Archae
(46,374 posts)formercia
(18,479 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)a poronography-addicted jerk turned born-again Christian and seeming peddler of hate. Way to go Lowes. Three cheers.
Bozita
(26,955 posts)Certainly NOT a fundy assclown in Florida who has found he could make a living out of hate and prejudice.