Friday, January 09, 2004
Anti-gay marriage group suppresses polling results that show civil unions are popular
They've just kicked off their campaign and already they're lying. AP here:
Say, isn't lying a sin or something? Not that you'd know it from Bush....
The leader of a state group that opposes gay marriage acknowledged it did not release portions of a poll that indicated voters are deeply divided on whether to ban same-sex marriage.
Ron Crews of the Massachusetts Family Institute said he regretted downplaying the omitted survey results as irrelevant.
"I want to apologize," Crews said. "I misspoke. I misspoke primarily out of ignorance, but that does not excuse misspeaking. There were other questions, and we are ... going to release those other questions."
At a rally Wednesday, the group touted Zogby poll results that indicated 69 percent of respondents wanted a chance to vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
The group also highlighted a question that showed 52 percent said that "only marriage between one man and one woman should be legal," with 42 percent disagreeing.
The group didn't release information that poll respondents opposed the constitutional amendment, by a split of 49-48 percent. It also didn't mention that poll respondents, by a margin of 48-46, did not want lawmakers to prevent marriage licenses from being issued to homosexual couples in May, when the Supreme Judicial Court decision legalizing gay marriage takes effect.
Say, isn't lying a sin or something? Not that you'd know it from Bush....