Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 11:27:00 EST
From: TCCP00D@prodigy.com (MR ANDREW B EDDY)
Subject: Re: PresidencyIII-Buchanan sneers at GAY


PRESS RELEASe
                        "We Are One"
                 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF VETERANS
               "An Alliance for Equality of Rights"
                    Veterans Hall - Suite 811
                 346 Broadway -New York, New York

Contact:  Karl Clark, Executive Vice President
          American Federation of Veterans
          (305) 782-1095
          e-mail Karlclark@aol.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 17, 1995

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                  PAT BUCHANA'S RAG-TIME BAND PLAYS ON

Friday November 17, Orlando Florida, Westridge Middle School. Once again,
Pat Buchanan echoes the rhetoric of the extreme evangelical fundamentalist
right, sneering at equality of rights for gay women and men who ask nothing
more than what "we fought for 'one nation under God with liberty and
justice for all,'" stated Karl Clark National Vice President for the
American Federation of Veterans.

"Many of our members were and are Green Berets. German Lopez, our AmFedVets
National President is a Purple Heart, Silver and Bronze Star decorated Nam
Green Beret. How dare these exclusionists play 'The Ballad of the Green
Berets' and proclaim that we, because of our sexual orientation, have no
equality of rights to their God nor a place at this Nation's decision
making table," he exclaimed further.

It's time for America to wake up and expose this "ragging" for what it
really means and really is. It's time to secure solutions to the real
problems of a nation under siege and not legitimize distortions at the
expense of an escapegoat minority using biblical misquotes and
mind-altering interpretations which refute that "We Are All God's
Children." It's time that we open the doors of equality for all and close
the gates to special rights for a majority as dictated by a church through
state.

"It's time for our politicians to earn our votes and not just expect them."
It's time for them to separate the good message from the hate and to walk
away from those who have only self-serving motives. It's time to
expose that which is fallacious "born again distorted rhetoric" and strip
it from the heads and backs of innocent victims.