Saying she has a "bull's eye" on her back, freshman GOP Rep. Marilyn Musgrave sent a mass e-mail Friday begging for money to help her combat the "radical homosexual agenda" that is trying to oust her from office.

Musgrave, whose campaign against Democrat Stan Matsunaka has featured a series of colorful ads, said she has been declared public enemy No. 1 because she introduced the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage. The measure recently stalled in Congress.

....The message was distributed on the mailing list of the Traditional Values Coalition, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative Christian group. The Rev. Louis Sheldon, chairman of the group that says it has 43,000 member churches, said Musgrave should be applauded for taking the lead on protecting the sanctity of marriage.