Good As You

And someone from NOM deletes any pro-same sex marriage statements immediately, ironically leaving the comments by NOM supporters who complain that their voices aren't being heard.

Actually, on their mother ship site, nomblog.org, the problems are worse. A few NOM members will post the usual "gays are pedophiles," "gays are bad parents" posts to which colleagues and I have responded with civil rebuttals with educational information and links. Amazing a NOM employee will delete these rebuttals, leaving the original harmful posts. As on the Facebook page, after the censoring it appears that no one has or can contest the harmful post, thus giving it false credibility.

If this isn't an action of a hate group?

heh - I actually /reported the guy saying same-sex marriage is evil.

There's another quip that I saw this morning that I particularly enjoyed. A pro-gay poster went off the handle swearing at the NOM people (totally a bad move), and one of the anti-gays said something to the effect of, "this is what we expect from you people - if you were polite, we'd actually engage with you!" Ummmm no, buddy, you won't because despite the fact I never once swore or was even uncivil on that page, I was banned.

Gee, I'm actually kind of missing CNN's blogosphere up-days that checked on what was being said on such sites as FB, etc.! Esp. if NOM's FB site were fair game. :o)

@ Bob Barns, some months ago I posted a rather long-winded post to one of their Blogs using my detached-sounding academic "voice", and it was up for at least a week, as far as *I* recall. Of course, when I presented evidence from antiquity and contemporary societies and religions allowing two people of the same gender to marry--and how and why religious marriages are different CIVIL and SECULAR marriage--I was "shot down" time and again by posters to censured me, with, "Those don't COUNT as REAL marriages!" Hell, someone over at YouTube told me his story of trying to get married eight years back:

He is an atheist, and so is his wife, but when he finally told his folks that he was going to get married, his family's church actually protested outside the clerk's office and tried to prevent them from entering, chanting, "Marriage is God's domain!"

On a local Iowan news blog I attempted to discuss history and anthropology re: marriage equality (as I did with NOM, citing references and examples they could easily look up), and one woman tried to defend "traditional marriage" as purely for the children! "Well," I asked, "What if people are elderly and don't want children? Even some Gay people don't want children--I, myself, don't particularly *like* children!" To which she reacted with "A HA!" as if she'd caught me admitting to something that should render me a depraved individual (even inferring that it was probably true, secretly, of ALL Gay people!), just because I don't like or want kids, and don't think I would be a good father.

NOM is nothing more than a front group for the right wing religious nutbags (Catholics, Baptists, LDS) members in order to line their own pockets with 501(c)(4) donations. They have no real agenda other than filling up their bank accounts with hate money.

Meethinks some very uneducated fools who THINK they are educated try to act like they know what "Moral Relativism" is... Good job NOM-ers, you took an introductory Philosophy class - now explain how it DOESN'T apply to your Nazi-asses

It sucks that one must be a "fan" in order to comment