Washington religious leaders rally for gay rights

[Thom Little]

Religious leaders who favor increased protection for gays took their cause to the Eastside Wednesday, directly challenging the Rev. Ken Hutcherson and his supporters

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The group also met "to counter the very loud voices by a very few fundamentalist religious leaders" who oppose the bill, which was narrowly defeated in the 2005 Legislature and is expected to be reintroduced in the upcoming session, said Robert Jacobs, Northwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Jacobs later said he was referring to Hutcherson -- whose Antioch Bible Church meets at the high school -- and Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Mercer Island. He is president of Toward Tradition, a national coalition of Jews and Christians.

"They speak so often ... as if they represent the word of God," Jacobs said.


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/253817_bill29.html

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1. Good for them

This is what it's going to take, again and again. A consistent presence, and as distasteful as it is for a lot of people of faith, contacting the local media to make sure that both sides of the story are getting told.

I think it's humorous that the reporter felt like he had to explain to readers who Jacobs was talking about when he referred to "a very few fundamentalist religious leaders." A quick check on the P-I's search engine turned up more than 80 matches for Hutcherson and Lapin.