Exclusive Brethren behind Canadian gay marriage ban campaign
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The Vancouver Sun has learned that the secretive religious sect known as the Exclusive Brethren is behind an aggressive yet anonymous direct-mail and advertising campaign against gay marriage that has triggered complaints in Parliament and in the media. The sect which shuns relationships with non-members and requires women to wear head scarves in public, organized and funded the campaign. The campaign\\\’s sponsors identify themselves in the anti-gay ads and mail-outs only as "concerned Canadian parents," or CCP, with a post office box address located in a Toronto convenience store. Their meeting rooms, pictured, have no windows.
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