Widower to Conservative Org: I Won’t Be Needing Your Services

(The Advocate) -- During Wednesday’s historic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Defense of Marriage Act, Ron Wallen, a 77-year-old veteran and resident of Indio, Calif., spoke plaintively in his allotted five minutes about how the 1996 law has cost him his home because he does not qualify for Social Security survivor benefits.

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Puzzling remarks by anti-marriage equality witnesses were legion at the hearing, but perhaps no more so than those of Focus on the Family senior vice president Tom Minnery, who spoke directly after Wallen's heartfelt testimony about his group’s firm stance against repealing DOMA. Minnery expressed his condolences for Wallen’s loss, then seemed to offer him counseling and outreach services from his organization, which until two years ago had sponsored an “ex-gay” summit known as Love Won Out.

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http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/07/21/Widower_to_Conservative_Group__I_Won/

The arrogance and the cruelty of Focus on the Family is mind-boggling.