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Related: About this forumTV campaign for gay equality starting in Miss
By JAY REEVES
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) Mary Jane Kennedy considers herself a conservative Christian Republican, and she's led Bible studies in her native Mississippi for decades. She's also the mother of two gay sons and one of the faces in a new advertising campaign aimed at softening religious opposition in the Deep South to equal rights for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
The Washington-based Human Rights Campaign is taking on the region's longstanding church-based opposition to homosexuality in a series of groundbreaking television commercials, direct-mail messages and phone-bank operations designed to promote equality and legal protections for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi.
TV commercials will begin airing Monday in Jackson, the state's largest city and prime media market, with Kennedy featured as a mom who struggled to understand her own sons' sexuality and believes God loves them, just like everyone else. The commercials also will be available online, as will banner ads on websites.
Other commercials may follow in Alabama and Arkansas depending on the reception and results of the Mississippi campaign. The Mississippi effort which will cost $310,000 is part of an $8.5 million, three-year effort launched six months ago in the three states.
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In this Nov. 5, 2014, photo, Mary Jane Kennedy, mother to two gay sons speaks about her faith, her belief that God loves them like everyone else and the need for people of faith especially in the Deep South, to envelop gays, lesbians, and transgender people, at her Brandon, Miss., home Wednesday. The Washington-based Human Rights Campaign is taking on the region{2019}s longstanding church-based opposition to homosexuality in a series of television commercials, direct-mail messages and phone-bank operations. Commercials will feature people like Kennedy, who{2019}s led Bible studies in her native Mississippi for decades. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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