Tag Archives: Beckett Fund

Lies In The Name Of The Lord

Wayne Besen’s Truth Wins Out has taken out a full-page ad to appear in tomorrow’s Salt Lake City Tribune to counter the anti-gay Beckett Fund ad that appeared in the NY Times last Friday. The ad uses direct quotes from the Beckett Fund ad’s cosigners in which they condemn the Mormon Church as un-Christian. Truth Wins Out (TWO) unveiled a …

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HRC Responds To Beckett Fund Ad

The Human Rights Campaign has posted a response to today’s ad by the Beckett Fund in the New York Times. It reads in part: Today, members of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion Council responded forcefully to a full-page ad in the New York Times that implies there is an organized attempt to foment mob intimidation and violence toward the Church …

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Full Page Ad From Beckett Fund In NYT Decries “Bigotry” Of Marriage Protests

As I reported here on Tuesday, today the Beckett Fund published a full page ad in the New York Times decrying the recent protests against the Mormon Church (and others) for their support of Proposition 8. You’ll have to embiggen the image above to read it, but the main quote is: “The violence and intimidation directed at the LDS or …

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Anti-Gay NY Times Ad To Protest Gay “Campaign Of Violence”

A source advises us that the Beckett Fund will be taking out a full-page New York Times ad in the next few days to decry the gay community’s “campaign of violence” since the Prop 8 vote. According to the source, the Beckett fund is presently looking for other major religious activism groups to sign on to their ad, which will …

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