In the Wake of KnowThyNeighbor.org's Posting of 83,000 Names of Anti-Gay Petition Signers in Arkansas Last Week, The Pro-Gay Activist Group Sets Sights on Maine and Washington
KnowThyNeighbor.org in unison with Arkansas' Center for Artistic Revolution made national news last week with our joined effort posting online 83,000 signers of Act 1, the Arkansas Anti-Gay Adoption and Foster Ban. Press drew recognition from the Advocate.com, Daily Kos, The Arkansas Times, the Human Rights Campaign and a Contributing Editor of Fortune Magazine which led to yesterday's Huffington Post article of KTN exposing the CEO of Wal-Mart, Mike Duke and his wife as signers of the anti-gay/anti-child petition.
Director, Tom Lang, took a call from an Arkansas college professor of Political Science who told him that as she was lecturing her class on KnowThyNeighbor's "brilliant" strategy, her students were on KTN's site searching the database, finding signers within social and family circles and even a professor at her university. KnowThyNeighbor was lauded by this Poli-Sci Professor for changing the way that Secretary of States all over this country will be disseminating petition information to the public as well as creating a method of database research that will prove invaluable to future generations while at the same time using our strategy for social change in the Gay Rights Civil Right Movement.
KnowThyNeighbor.org was an essential part of the fight to save marriage in Massachusetts. The dialogue created by our strategy would have not happened otherwise if we had not risen to the occasion. Recently, we have been receiving calls from Washington State LGBT to battle a potential referendum there and of course KnowThyNeighbor will be watching Maine closely and posting the names of signers of the anti-gay petition in that state as well. Anti-gays will not have to be CEO's of companies like Wal-Mart to go down on the wrong side of history in a very public way. These signers in Maine and Washington will need to reconcile with their family, friends, co-workers as to why they took a stand which will unquestionably hurt others. And KnowThyNeighbor.org will be there to shine a light on it all. History lasts a long time.......(thanks to the internet).
Tom Lang, Director