This was sent to me from another news junkie. I swear people are so freakin\' ignorant!
Call on Clear Channel Communications to Sanction Syndicated Radio Host
Jim Quinn for Defamatory Comments; "Gay Sex Produces AIDS"
November 7, 2008
Contact: Cindi Creager, Director of National News
Phone: (646) 871-8019 Email: creager@glaad.
Contact: Richard Ferraro, Director of Public Relations
Phone: (646) 871-8011 Email: ferraro@glaad.
New York, NY, November 7, 2008 – On November 6, Jim Quinn of the nationally syndicated radio program, The War Room with Quinn & Rose, made defamatory statements about marriage for same-sex couples. As noted by Media Matters for America, "Discussing the passage of a California ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, radio host Jim Quinn asserted: \'[G]ay marriage doesn\'t produce anything that the state has an interest in. Gay sex produces AIDS, which the state doesn\'t have – or should have an interest in. They should charge homosexuals more for their – for their health insurance than they charge the rest of us.\'"
Media Matters released a transcript and audio of the comments.
To listen to the segment click on this link:
http://mediamatters
The War Room with Quinn & Rose originates in Pittsburgh and is syndicated by Clear Channel Communications. It can be heard in 12 markets across the country in Alabama, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, and nationally on Satellite XM radio.
Please contact Clear Channel to voice your concerns about Quinn\'s reprehensible remarks about gay people and people with AIDS. Call on Clear Channel to reprimand him and stop providing a national platform for these kids of defamatory attacks.
CONTACT:
Lisa Dollinger
Chief Communications Officer
Clear Channel Communications
(210) 822-2828
lisacdollinger@
Kathryn Johnson
Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations
Clear Channel Communications
(210) 822-2828
KathrynMaysJohnson@
Sanda Coyle
Clear Channel Radio
(210) 822-2828
sandacoyle@clearcha
