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The Campaign for Michigan Families, a political group run by Gary Glenn of the American Family Association of Michigan, has started blanketing the 99th State House District with robocalls attacking Democratic candidate Toni Sessoms.
During the robocall, Glenn repeatedly uses the word “homosexual” 10 times in the one minute and thirty-six second robocall. Glenn and the Campaign for Michigan Families launched a similar robocall and radio attack program against Garnett Lewis in 2008. Lewis was running as an out lesbian.
Glenn voices the robocall and starts by introducing himself as the co-author of the Michigan’s Marriage Amendment. That’s the amendment to the Michigan Constitution that voters approved in 2004. It defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Michigan courts have ruled the Amendment bars the use of domestic partner benefits solely for same-sex partners, and instead requires public entities offer such benefits to both same-sex couples and opposite sex unmarried couples.
The Sessoms campaign has not responded to the robocall.
Here’s the audio of the call:
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