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Friday, January 20, 2006

Family Research Council: We’re Not Supporting Rev. Hutcherson’s Boycott

Posted by on January 20 at 13:00 PM

Amber Hildebrand, a spokeswoman for the conservative Family Research Council, tells me that FRC is not backing Rev. Hutcherson’s boycott of companies that support Washington State’s gay civil rights bill.

“Hutcherson is a good friend of FRC,” Hildebrand told me. “FRC opposes laws protecting people based on the language of ‘sexual orientation.’ But FRC is not participating in the boycott. We don’t participate in any boycotts.”

Funny, that’s not what Rev. Hutcherson told the Associated Press:

Hutcherson said he has the support of several national organizations, including the Family Research Council, Southern Baptist Convention and Focus on the Family. Several of those organizations’ offices could not be reached after hours Monday.

But at this point, I’m not surprised that yet another thing Rev. Hutcherson told the AP isn’t checking out.