NOW's Prez Sounds Alarm Over "Extremist Fathers' Rights Groups"

Roy writes "In her
February 8th newsletter, NOW's Prez Kim Gandy approaches her usual near-hysteria over program funding cuts proposed for the FY 2006 federal budget, while shrieking especially loud about funding fathers' rights groups and pro-marriage initiatives:

'This legislation includes up to $50 million annually to fund questionable fatherhood programs ... NOW suspects that some of those monies will end up with extremist "fathers' rights" groups. The authorized total would be $150 million annually for both fatherhood and marriage promotion initiatives; all states will be mandated under this bill to establish marriage promotion programs and to meet numerical performance objectives. NOW regards marriage promotion efforts targeting low-income women as potentially coercive, discriminatory and an invasion of privacy.'"

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