Bush Administration Funds “Disadvantaged” Homosexual Businesses

Think-Tank Questions Special Treatment for Gay/Lesbian Businesses

CWNews.com – August 8, 2005

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Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, reports that he wrote to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, requesting an explanation for an agreement struck by the Interior Department with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The agreement would give homosexual and lesbian business owners access to funding that Congress has established for “small and disadvantaged businesses.”

“Beyond the obvious question of whether [gay and lesbian business owners] are actually ‘disadvantaged,’” Perkins observed, “there is no basis whatsoever in federal law for such special treatment.”

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