Family Research Council Attacks Bradley Manning With Homophobic Lies
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The Family Research Council has finally sunken to a level that even I canÂ’t begin to ponder.
In the current news, there is a huge controversy involving a website called Wikileaks. This site has displayed classified documents of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. In the center of this controversy is Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old gay soldier suspected of leaking documents to Wikileaks. He is currently awaiting court martial.
There is much speculation as to why Manning may have leaked these documents. But not to the Family Research Council. A post on the organizationÂ’s webpage says the following:
This is the excerpt taken from the FRC Article shown in Sky's blog.
It turns out that Manning is an extreme homosexual activist, whose fury over the servicesÂ’ homosexual policy may have led him to publicize highly classified documents about the wars. According to the U.K.Â’s Telegraph, Manning has an extensive history of campaigning for gay, lesbian, and transgendered causes and sources say he may have even been considering a sex change when he leaked military secrets on the Internet.
Although the U.S. press is relatively mum on his personal life, the British paper questions how Manning got away with “flaunting” his sexuality when DADT is still in effect.
There are several serious problems with FRCs claims. If you look at the link to the British article so generously provided by the organization, nothing in it connects DonÂ’t Ask, DonÂ’t Tell to ManningÂ’s alleged leaking of documents.
The FRC article has a direct link to Military Homosexual Scandal Tied to WikiLeaks Treason | US Opinion and Editorial Right Side News the article that they were quoting right in their article, and that is what they sourced it too. The FRC article never claimed that the British article made this claim. So, the actual article they were citing in the FRC article also was also generously provided by the FRC, so this is a lie by the author of the blog article.
Furthermore, there is nothing in the British article about Manning seeking a sex change.
The article on FRC never said that the British article was the source that they used to print that information in their article. So, this is a lie by the author of this piece. I will document below from the actual FRC article to show as proof.
And lastly, there is nothing – not one thing – in the British article which poses any question about Manning allegedly “flaunting his sexuality.”
The FRC correctly sourced Cliff Kincaid as the source for their article right in their piece, which I will link below for anyone to go directly to the FRC article and see for themselves, so this is a lie by the author of the blog piece.
FRC attributes these speculations to the British article when they actually came from another source – Cliff Kincaid of the right-wing group Accuracy in Media.