2. WASHINGTON POST Traditional Values Coalition files complaint against
radio station where gay activist Frank Kameny solicited sodomy from every
adult citizen
Washington Post, January 12, 1999
Funny Business: 'Marketplace' Keeps It Light With Music & Humor (excerpt)
By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer
The Traditional Values Coalition, a national political action group, has
filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over a Dec. 23
broadcast on WZHF-AM (1390) in Arlington, charging the station was a "party to
a commission of a felony" during a talk show on gay issues.
During the show _ a sponsored segment, something like an infomercial _
area activist Frank Kameny, who is seeking to repeal Virginia's sodomy law,
announced: "I hereby solicit, urge, entreat and invite every person in the
state of Virginia of the age of 18 years or above to engage with me in an act
of sodomy of his or her choice."
"We support the sodomy statute in Virginia and we felt this was a new
startling use of the media," says coalition spokesman James Lafferty. "The
FCC has pretty tough standards for [Don] Imus and [Howard] Stern and this
exceeds anything on the Stern show. It's still a felony in Virginia."
Richard Trodden, Arlington commonwealth's attorney, says he will not
charge Kameny for soliciting sodomy.
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