those wacky republicans are at it again.

http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/122303natParks.htm
All images of gay gatherings at national sites, including the Millennium March on the Washington Mall have been ordered removed from videotapes that have been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 according to a civil service group.

Also ordered cut from the tape were scenes of abortion rights demonstrations at the memorial, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations "because it implies that Lincoln would have supported homosexual and abortion rights as well as feminism."

In their place, the Park Service is inserting scenes of the Christian group Promise Keepers and pro-Gulf War demonstrators though these events did not take place at the Memorial in what Murphy calls a "more balanced" version.

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EDITED WITH AN UPDATE:
http://www.planetout.com/pno/news/article.html?date=2003/12/23/2

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Footage of gay rights demonstrations will not be removed from a videotape
shown at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C, according to
spokespeople from the National Park Service and the Human Rights Campaign.
Earlier reports in various news outlets said the gay images would be
removed.

"We have been assured that they are redoing the tape, but are not
stripping out scenes of gay and lesbian events at the Lincoln Memorial,
because to do so would be historically inaccurate," said Winne
Stachelberg, political director at the Human Rights Campaign ...
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As part of its update, the National Park Service plans to add scenes
including rallies by the Promise Keepers, a fundamentalist Christian men's
group, and by pro-life groups to the video.

To do so, however, may not be historically accurate after all. Those
rallies did not occur at the Lincoln Memorial or even on the nearby Mall,
said Bill Line, a spokesperson for the National Park Service.