Gay conservative
David Benkof has closed down his blog Gays Defend
Marriage, in which he supported marriage as a union between
one man and one woman. In a statement to LGBT advocacy
group Truth Wins Out the writer, formerly known as
David Bianco, said, “I no longer feel
comfortable being allied with the people running the Prop. 8
campaign.”
Gay conservative
David Benkof has closed down his blog Gays Defend
Marriage, in which he supported marriage as a union between
one man and one woman. In a statement to LGBT advocacy
group Truth Wins Out the writer, formerly known as
David Bianco, said, “I no longer feel
comfortable being allied with the people running the Prop. 8
campaign.”
In his last
blog entry, posted Sunday, Benkof wrote, “I
recently learned quite a bit of disturbing information
that makes it impossible for me to continue supporting
a movement I no longer respect.” Benkof did not
identify what it was he’d learned about Proposition 8
or its backers.
According to
Wayne Besen, the founding executive director of Truth Wins
Out, Benkof must have encountered “unsavory elements
within the California [Proposition 8] campaign that so
repelled him that he decided to halt his antigay
campaigns.”
Benkof’s
campaigns, which Besen refers to as “horrible antigay
diatribes,” included negative faith-based claims
about gay sex and LGBT lifestyles. (Hannah Clay
Wareham, The Advocate)
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