News: Petition-Nat. Park Service showing offensive video!

The video, showing in the Lincoln Legacy Room at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. is an outrage. Shamelessly slanted, it is a disgraceful revision of history.

"Peddling pure propaganda, the video features an actor impersonating Lincoln's voice over visuals of protest marches showing such signs and banners as 'The Lord is my Shepherd and Knows I am Gay,' 'Gay & Lesbian Sexual Rights' and 'Council of Churches Lesbian Rights,'""National Organization for Women," "Reagan's Wrongs Equal Women's Rights," "ERA Yes," "Ratify the ERA," "I Had An Illegal Abortion In 1967 - Never Again," "Keep Abortion Legal" and "I Am Pro-Choice America."

Americans are being seduced by their own government into believing that fighting for homosexual sodomy is the same as marching through Selma.

Please sign the petition to the National Park Service to end the showing of this offensive video.
http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions.php?id=136

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Well, Joshua, it must be the company you keep because it sure comes up in my Baptist church!

I also had trouble with the page and wrote them about it.

Diane

 

RSR... I've never seen porno shows or live sex acts on stage but I protest those. I've never had an abortion but I protest that!

I trust Phil Sheldon, Concerned Women of America, Conservative News Service and Rightgrll to check this stuff out and keep me informed!!

National Park Service Now Reviewing Controversial Lincoln Video
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
February 06, 2003

(CNSNews.com) - The chief spokesman for the National Park Service Thursday announced that the agency had officially begun reviewing a controversial video that tourists have been viewing at the Lincoln Memorial for the last seven years - a video that implies Abraham Lincoln would have supported liberal causes like homosexual and abortion "rights."

"The issue has been raised to the Department of the Interior and the Park Service management, and so we have asked our cultural resource staff to review the film to see if it's appropriate in the context of interpretation...at the Lincoln Memorial," David Barna, chief of public affairs for the National Park Service, told CNSNews.com. The National Park Service is an agency of the Interior Department.

Barna's reaction followed a Feb. 3 CNSNews.com report describing the contents of the video. National Park Service Director Fran Mainella and several employees watched the Lincoln tape this week after hearing of the CNSNews.com report.

"There have been people here that have watched [the video] that said, 'Gee, using [Lincoln's] second inaugural as a text to highlight these modern-day protests is inappropriate,'" Barna said.

"So we had a nice airing of it with our director (Fran Mainella), and she got the whole raft of opinions and said, 'You know, we better look at this and make sure we know what we are doing,'" Barna explained.

"We do need to be absolutely sure we are telling both sides of the story," he added.

According to Barna, the video has been showing for about seven years at the Memorial, and he has not been aware of any previous complaints.

Barna said he first become aware of the controversy surrounding the video this week because of the "hate mail" he received.

U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced Wednesday that he has "contacted [Bush] administration officials" and might possibly begin "exploring legislative options" regarding the Lincoln video.

The video features an actor impersonating Lincoln's voice over visuals of protest marches. Some of the visuals include signs and banners reading "The Lord is my Shepherd and Knows I am Gay," "Gay & Lesbian Sexual Rights," "Council of Churches Lesbian Rights," "National Organization for Women," "Reagan's Wrongs Equal Women's Rights," "ERA Yes," "Ratify the ERA," "I Had An Illegal Abortion In 1967 - Never Again," "Keep Abortion Legal," "I Am Pro-Choice America,"

Paul Meisius, a tourist from Sheboygan, Wis., who viewed the video during his visit to the memorial, called it "awful" and said the "political correctness of it is beyond words."

Bill Line, a National Park Service spokesman, previously told CNSNews.com he was "reluctant" to comment on the Lincoln video because the whole issue had the "potential to be quite controversial."


Congressman Questions 'Controversial' Lincoln Memorial Video
http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200302/CUL20030206a.html


Video Implies Lincoln Would Have Supported Liberal Causes
http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200302/NAT20030214b.html

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