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 Family Support Nominee Bias Against the Unmarried Feared if Wade Horn is Confirmed NGLTF: Horn's Reactionary Views are Threat to Gay Families |
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Compiled By GayToday
As the head of the National Fatherhood Initiative, Horn has aggressively advocated denying access to federal programs to families not headed up by a married man and a woman. These programs include Head Start, public housing, financial aid for education expenditures, job training and others. Horn has written, "If we are serious about encouraging marriage, and by extension, fatherhood, we should make these limited-supply benefits available first to married, two-parent families." "More than half of the children growing up today will spend some of their childhood in a single-parent family - whether because of choice, divorce, separation, death or - in the case of many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples - because they cannot legally marry," said NGLTF Executive Director Lorri L. Jean. "George W. Bush campaigned on a theme of 'Leave No Child Behind.' If the U.S. Senate confirms Horn's nomination, we might as well change that slogan to, 'Leave No Child Behind As Long As Their Parents Are Happily Married Heterosexuals.'"
Horn was also involved in the "parental rights" movement of the early- to mid-1990s that sought to make it more difficult for the government to investigate child-abuse cases and easier for parents to prevent not only their children but other parent's children from being exposed to sexuality education and life-saving information on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. That movement failed, largely due to opposition from teachers, progressive clergy and social services advocates. Groups that Oppose HHS Nominee: Wade Horn Abortion Access Project ACORN AIDS Action Committee Alternatives to Marriage Project American Ethical Union Applied Research Center Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Boston Coalition of Black Women Boston Women's Health Book Collective Business and Professional Women/USA Center for Community Change Center for Reproductive Law and Policy Center for Third World Organizing Center for Women Policy Studies Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy Chicago Jobs Council Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network Children's Foundation Choice USA Coalition Against Poverty Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Coalition of Labor Union Women Colorado Center on Law and Policy Communications Workers of America Community Voices Heard Democrats.com Displaced Homemakers Network of New Jersey Empire State Pride Agenda EMPOWER Family Economic Initiative Family Planning Advocates of New York State Feminist Majority Finding Common Ground Project at Columbia University Grassroots Organizing for Welfare Leadership (GROWL) Hawaii Coalition for the Prevention of Sexual Assault Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Hesed House inMotion, Inc. Institute for Wisconsin's Future Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence Jewish Women International Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness Make the Road by Walking Massachusetts Welfare Rights Union McAuley Institute Men for Gender Justice MOTHERS Now National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Association of Commissions for Women National Black Women's Health Project National Center on Poverty Law National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs National Employment Law Project National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association National Gay and Lesbian Task Force National Organization for Women (NOW) National Women's Conference National Women's Political Caucus New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project 9to5, National Association of Working Women Nontraditional Employment For Women North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence Northeast Missouri Client Council for Human Needs Northeast Washington Rural Resources Dev. Assoc NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund PADS, Inc Pennsylvania Lesbian and Gay Task Force People United for Families Planned Parenthood of New York City Poor People's United Front Progressive Challenge Project, Institute for Policy Studies Public Justice Center Rural Law Center Sociologists for Women in Society Survivors Inc. Texas Council on Family Violence Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Voters For Choice Action Fund WEEL (Working for Equality and Economic Liberation) Welfare, Education, Training Access Coalition Welfare Law Center Welfare Made a Difference Campaign Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition Welfare Warriors Women's Center at the University of Oregon Women's Committee Of 100 Women Employed Women's Environment and Development Organization Women's Housing and Economic Development Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press Women's Institute for Leadership Development Women's Law Project |
