Anti Marriage Equality Website Misleads

Following a San Francisco band demanding a New Zealand anti-marriage equality website remove one of their songs, a marriage equality advocate is highlighting the dishonest and misleading way in which his quote is being used to imply gay opposition to marriage equality.

http://www.protectmarriage.org.nz/quotes

Tony Milne, a strong advocate of marriage equality is outraged at the anti-marriage equality website taking a small part of an article out of context to imply opposition to marriage equality.

http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/5/article_11534.php

"This couldn't be further from the truth", Tony Milne said.

"Frankly it makes me sick to my stomach to think these people are using my own words out of context to try to attack marriage equality", Tony Milne said.

While Tony Milne's personal preference is for Civil Unions, the rest of the article talked about his unequivocal support for marriage equality and that "I will be doing everything in my power to ensure that gay and lesbian New Zealanders have the fundamental human right and choice to marry".

Tony Milne went on to say in his article that "there is no rational argument or logical reason to deny same-sex couples the choice. If two people love each other and want to make a commitment to each other then they should be able to do so".

Tony has organised a lobby training session on Sunday 12th August 1pm at the Christchurch New Zealand AIDS Foundation office called "Help make marriage equality happen" to help teach people how to lobby MPs and other things they can do to support marriage equality.

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