National Coming Out Day

COME OUT AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                              CONTACT:  SALLY ACTIVIST
DATE                                                           123/555-0000


        HOMETOWN NOW PLANS (EVENT) TO OPPOSE PROMISE KEEPER'S
        ANTI-WOMAN, ANTI-LESBIAN AND GAY AGENDA

Hometown National Organization for women will stage a (event)at(location) 
as part of a national response to the radical right wing organization 
Promise Keepers, according to Hometown NOW President Phoebe 
Feminist.  The (event) is part of a national campaign coordinated by NOW.  

"We stand united to challenge the extremist positions of the Promise 
Keepers," said Feminist, "including their call for women to submit to the 
authority of their husbands."  

Promise Keepers, Inc. is a product of the leadership of well-financed 
religious and political extremists organizations, designed to create a 
men-only movement to promote their ultra-conservative agenda.  

With a reported annual budget of over $115, Promise Keepers' supporters 
read like a who's who of the right wing, including Pat Robertson of the 
Christian Coalition, Jerry Falwell of the 700 Club, and Gary Bauer of 
the Family Research Council.  The Promise Keepers are attempting to roll 
back the historic gains in women's equality, as well as in lesbian and gay 
civil rights.  

A look at the men behind the Promise Keeper's movement reveals their true
agenda:  Extremist Pat Robertson once claimed that "AIDS is God's way of 
weeding his garden," and Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney served on 
the board of Colorado for Family Values, the organization that sponsored 
the anti-gay ballot measure, Amendment 2, to exclude lesbians and gay men 
in Colorado from civil rights protection.  And to clear up any doubt about 
PK's political designs, Raleigh Washington, leader of the Promise Keepers' 
1997 "Stand in the Gap" march on the capitol said, "We are producing leaders
in this organization.  They will enter the political sphere."  

Hometown NOW President Feminist responds:  "We will come together at this 
(event) to expose the truth behind the Promise Keepers.  We will not allow 
them to cloak themselves in pseudo-religion and morality while advancing 
their political agenda to the detriment of women and lesbian and gay 
people."  


                       WHAT:           (event)
                       WHERE:          (location)
                       WHEN:           (day and date)
                                       (time)

        
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