According to the group Maryland Citizens for a Responsible Government, several volunteers participating in a petition drive to put a new ‘gender identity’ bill recently passed by the Montgomery County Council up for a referendum have reported several incidents of harassment and intimidation.
Dana Beyer, a senior aide to Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg, and a member of Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Steering Committee, is seen on a cell phone video falsely telling petition collectors and would-be signers they would be asked to leave a Giant food store’s sidewalk, saying “An email went out; you’re going to be asked to leave. Any petitions gathered today are illegal.”
The video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYqz2rffZ0w
When Beyer realized she was being videotaped by a volunteer for the citizens’ group, she promptly left the scene. A call to Giant’s corporate headquarters found that no such email was sent. A spokeswoman for the company said the only email she was aware of regarding the petition drive was the one granting permission to Maryland Citizens for a Responsible Government to collect signatures in front of the stores.
It has been reported that Beyer and a group of others went around the county, blocking access to petitioners, yelling invectives at them, arguing with would-be signers, and then complaining to management that the petitioners were causing a disturbance or had no right to be there.
“This conduct by Beyer and others is highly unethical and violates the public trust as well as Federal and state civil rights statutes,” according to John Garza, an attorney who is assisting the group. Garza is also acting as an attorney for several volunteers who were harassed and intimidated. He indicated he will probably file a civil rights violation lawsuit soon.
The petition drive collected 32,000 signatures. If 25,001 signatures are validated by the Elections Board, the bill’s enactment will be halted and it will be put up to a popular vote next November.
Many Massachusetts pro-family activists will remember during both marriage amendment petition drives, in 2001 and 2005, homosexual activists frequently attempted to harass and intimidate both volunteers and would-be signers. In one particular incidence, a homosexual activist physically attacked a signature collector in front of a supermarket. Despite the rampant harassment, VoteOnMarriage.org was able to collect over 170,000 signatures, the most successful signature drive in state history, far surpassing the 65,825 required by law. However, the Legislature failed to approve the Marriage Amendment in two consecutive sessions, defeating it in June 2007 after 11 legislators changed their votes.
The moral of this story is that Hilary Clinton, all other liberals, and gays are totalitarians. Equality and freedom will become the special privilege of the illiberal liberals and sadomasochist gays if they have their way. Who said the religious Right seek to force their moral values on America? The truth is it is the secularists like Clinton and LGBT that are forcing their values on America. What the Right is actually seeking to do is restore the dominate values the nation was founded on. The cultural and religious values supporting freedom of religion. Secularist lie about the Right’s plans for a theocracy so that their oligarchy of radical anti-religious socialism is hidden from criticism.
Additional information about this issue can found at Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays (PFOX).
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