AFA on 10-Year-Old Pride Grand Marshal: Child Abuse

The American Family Association believes that 10-year-old Will Phillips's participation in the Northwest Arkansas pride parade in Fayetteville is tantamount to child abuse.

"It's shameful that adults would abuse a brain-washed child in this way," AFA president Tim Wildmon writes in a press release. "He's obviously just parroting the nonsense he's been told by manipulative adults. For gay activists to trot out this child and make him the poster child for promoting unnatural sexual expression is a form of child abuse."

Wildmon then uses the Food and Drug Administration's ban on gay blood donors as justification for discouraging acceptance of gays. "There is nothing about homosexual conduct to be proud of, and much to be ashamed of," Wildmon writes.

Phillips has refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance as a protest against antigay discrimination. He will serve as grand marshal of the parade on Saturday.