Fox's Ben Carson To Keynote Anti-Gay Group's Gala Dinner Latest Sign Of Fox News' Cozy Relationship With Extreme Anti-Gay Groups

Fox News contributor Ben Carson is slated to be the keynote speaker at the first Gala dinner of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), becoming the latest Fox figure to appear before an extreme anti-gay group.
In a May 6 email to supporters, NOM President Brian Brown wrote that "it's 1972 for marriage," referring to the year before the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a woman's right to an abortion and the growing expectation that the Court will take up marriage equality once again by 2015. To protest the frightening possibility that same-sex couples nationwide will soon enjoy civil equality, NOM will hold its second annual March for Marriage in Washington on June 19. Brown's email touted Carson's upcoming appearance:

“It was a crisp winter day in 1973 when the United States Supreme Court issued their horrific decision in Roe v Wade. How much would you sacrifice to go back in time to a few months before that fateful decision, to the Fall of 1972, and mobilize the American people BEFORE the Supreme Court issued that infamous decree?”
“Just about anything, right? Well, when it comes to marriage, we have that chance!”
“You see, it's 1972 for marriage. Within the next 12 months, it is very likely that the United States Supreme Court will take up the marriage issue again. Many people have bought in to the lie that the courts redefining marriage is somehow "inevitable." Well, I refuse to believe that, because it's simply not true!”
“That's why the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is organizing its second annual March for Marriage this summer on June 19th in Washington, DC -- bringing together thousands of marriage activists from all across the country to make sure the elites in our nation's capital hear loud and clear: Marriage matters because every kid deserves a mom and a dad!”

Although Brown and NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher have billed NOM as an organization focused exclusively on the marriage debate, the group's anti-gay animus runs deep. Brown calls homosexuality a "sin" that is "deceitful, harmful and degrading to the human soul." Last year, he traveled twice to Russia to meet with leaders of that country's draconian anti-gay crackdown and assist with the planning of the 2014 World Congress of Families, which will be held in Moscow in September.
Carson himself has lauded Vladimir Putin's Russia, writing in February that thanks to the religious conservatism adopted by the current regime, the country was "gaining prestige and influence throughout the world" while the U.S. was at risk of "becoming godless and moving away from Christian values." His affinity for the vehemently anti-gay Kremlin leader isn't surprising, given that Carson has compared homosexuality with pedophilia and bestiality and called marriage equality "a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire."

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