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(Salt Lake City, Utah) State Senator Chris Buttars
took his campaign to ban gay-straight clubs to Utah's most outspoken
conservative group on the weekend.
Buttars told the Eagle Forum his bill to ban the
clubs from meeting on school property will be introduced in the Utah Senate this
year.
"This gay issue is everywhere -- they're
getting into everything," he told the group's annual convention at Salt Lake Community College's Redwood campus in Taylorsville.
Buttars accused gays of changing the landscape of
morality in America.
"Their definition of morality is to have no
morality," he said, adding that gays and lesbians are targeting "your
kids."
Buttars then told the group that they have to
stand up and be counted or risk losing the war against "the gay
lifestyle". He said that LGBT rights groups are winning court battles
by portraying gays as "victims" and by characterizing their opponents
as bigots, narrow-minded and out of touch with reality.
Buttars also said that gays harbor diseases at a higher rate
than the general population.
His speech was seen as 'preaching to the choir'.
The Eagle Forum in a national conservative movement founded by Phyllis Schlafly
who was the keynote speaker at the Utah convention.
Buttars has not released the wording of his bill
but said that lawyers have told him it would withstand constitutional
challenges.
Courts have ruled in jurisdictions across the
country that banning gay clubs violates the Federal Equal Access Act.
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