Newsday columnist accused of faking antigay remarks

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The Reverend Lou Sheldon, head of a conservative lobbying group, accused Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin of making up quotes attributed to him in Wednesday's column. In the column, Breslin wrote, "'Homosexuals are dangerous,' Sheldon assured me one day.... 'They proselytize. They come to the door, and if your son answers and nobody is there to stop it, they grab the son and run off with him. They steal him. They take him away and turn him into a homosexual."' Breslin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, dismissed the allegation, saying the quotes came from a 1992 interview. Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, said he has "never met Jimmy Breslin, never had the conversation described in his column today, and never said those sentences to anyone in my life." He said the column, in which Breslin refers to Sheldon as "a fruitcake," is intended "to demonize me."

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=12004&sd=04/09/04

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The lying Bastards are to the point that they won't even admit to what they say anymore!