Activist Admits Her Testimony To Senators On Texas Anti-Gay Bill Was False

[TexasTowelie]

A leader of the anti-gay organization Concerned Women for America has admitted her testimony to the Texas Senate over a bill that would shield clergy and churches from same-sex weddings was not true.

Last week lawmakers on a Texas Senate committee heard testimony on SB 2065, a bill designed to shield clergy members and churches from performing same-sex weddings. While the First Amendment already provides this protection, this bill would allow clergy members who are employed by the state as justices of the peace or county clerks to refuse to marry same-sex couples. Texas lawmakers are engrossed in a battle against their LGBT constituents, and this month over two dozen anti-gay bills before them, including one that would literally defund same-sex marriage in the Lone Star State.

On Monday, May 4, Beverly Roberts, an Area Director for Concerned Women for America, delivered testimony before Texas Senators. Concerned Women for America (CWA) is a right wing religious anti-gay, anti-abortion activist group that opposes same-sex marriage, a woman's right to choose, the teaching of evolution in schools, feminism, pornography, stem cell research, and advocates for school prayer.

"The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens — first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society — thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation," its website states.

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/breaking_exclusive_cwa_activist_admits_giving_false_testimony_to_texas_senate_on_anti_gay_bill

[Iliyah]

1. O on people who have Obamacare, please inform

As to Anti Gay, its just not TX.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I'm not exactly sure what you were referring to, but here is a thread

that may be of interest.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107825405

I do my best to keep up with the news, but occasionally I do miss a story. I think that this story may have been posted in another forum.

[xfundy]

3. You left out the important points

...which may be due to rules regarding posting more than a little of linked sources.

The New Civil Rights Movement reached out to Roberts via email on Monday, asking her to point us to "the story or stories you testified about," as – to our knowledge – there are no actual instances in reputable news reports of same-sex couples demanding that ministers perform their marriage ceremonies.

In an email response received Monday night, Roberts effectively admitted that her testimony was false.

"My testimony did not relate to a specific instance," Roberts told NCRM in her email, adding it was "to put a law into place ahead of a possible Supreme Court Ruling requiring all states to perform same-sex 'marriages.'"

[TexasTowelie]

4. Thank you,

I was trying to conform with the four paragraph limit.

[xfundy]

5. I do wish there'd been video of when she acknowledged she'd made up the fear

or copied it from the Moonie Times. Liars and fearmongers never divulge proof of their lies, but video can catch attention. A shame, really.

[TexasTowelie]

6. As my brother frequently tells me...

"We've have ways of making you talk..."

I'm not advocating torture, but there are exceptions to every rule.

[xfundy]

7. Wow.

That reply's out there. You've got the ball, run with it, but I have no idea what you're talking about.

See ya!

[TexasTowelie]

8. I think that it was from an old war movie referring to how the Germans treated their captives

when they wanted to get information.

It was intended as a joke because I also wish that Mrs. Roberts could get caught on videotape admitting to her lies.

[hobbit709]

9. Isn't there something in the bible about bearing false witness?

[Javaman]

10. I despise these people. nt