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GOP To Spotlight Woman Who Compared Gay People To Supporters of Hitler

HeadlineAug 30, 2004

In news from inside the Republican National Convention, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will headline tonigh’s events.

The convocation will be conducted by Utah resident Sherry Dew who delivered a controversial speech at an event sponsored by the Family Action Council International where she compared gay people to supporters of Hitler. She criticized same-sex couples who have children and compared gays and their supporters to those who lined up with Hitler in the 1940s. She said QUOTE “Before this era is over, every living human being will have chosen. Every living human being will have lined up in support of the family or against it. Every living human being will have either opposed the onslaught against the family or supported it.”

Dew however is not expected to make such comments tonight.

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