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WATCH: Anti-Equality Activist Warns About Gay College RAs

WATCH: Anti-Equality Activist Warns About Gay College RAs

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Beware, Jennifer Roback Morse tells social conservatives: ''The other side has RAs in the dorm where your young people are going to school.'

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The National Organization for Marriage's Ruth Institute, which focuses on reaching young people with the group's antigay message, has identified a new bete noire -- gay resident advisers in college dorms.

In a Thanksgiving video posted on the Ruth Institute's website, institute founder and president Jennifer Roback Morse relates the story of a "good Catholic girl," an RA at a large university, who says she was pressured by her dormitory's head RA, a gay man, to join in a drag party, "where everybody dresses up in clothing of the opposite sex."

"I think a lot of our students are encountering this type of situation in their dorms and on their college campuses," Morse says. While social conservatives have been focusing on the need to get their message out in the media in the wake of their losses in the election, she says, "The other side has RAs in the dorm where your young people are going to school. There is no TV message that is going to do the job of countering that type of influence. Somebody's got to be there, talking to the young people, one at a time."

Watch the video below.


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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.