Is Bush drifting away from pro-family values?

Appointment of homosexuals leaves AFA wondering

President Bush campaigned as a conservative Christian who supported pro-family positions. American Family Association President Donald Wildmon wonders if Bush is still true to the cause of Christ.

"Now the Bush administration is opening its arms to homosexual activists who have been working diligently to overthrow the traditional views of western civilization regarding human sexuality, marriage and family," he said.

Wildmon pointed to several warning signs, beginning with the decision by the Bush campaign to meet last summer with the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of homosexual activists that work for acceptance from the GOP.

As president, Bush nominated Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci to the ambassadorship of Canada despite conservative protests about Cellucci's reported inaction concerning the promotion of homosexuality in the public school system of the Bay State.

Two most recent announcements underscored conservative concerns about this issue, Wildmon said. Bush named Scott Evertz, an open homosexual and a member of the Log Cabin Republicans, to be the director of the Office of National AIDS Policy. Evertz was one of the activists who met with Bush last summer, according to The New York Times.

Following that announcement, Human Events reported that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld hired homosexual activist Stephen Herbits as an assistant to help screen applicants for the Defense Department. According to the article, Herbits has worked unceasingly to overturn the ban on homosexuals in the military and was an original member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, an activist group that has continued to pressure Hollywood into promoting homosexuality on television and in films.

Wildmon added that it would be a tragic miscalculation if the GOP underestimated the depth of feeling on this issue among pro-family groups. "AFA would never support the policies of a political party which embraced the homosexual movement. Period."