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03/24/2011
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Some thoughts on the National Organization for Marriage, Skyped in to HRC's NOM Exposed site: *More vids: VIDEO: HRC talks to blogger Jeremy Hooper about Nat’l Org. for Marriage, Maryland, politics of marriage equality, Catholic Church [NOM Exposed] *** *Further...Video: This is what school indoctrination really looks like
Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall of a Catholic high school so you could hear the way instructors talk about gay people, their existences, and the "non-option" that is same-sex marriage? Well it's your lucky day, for...Video: Two Sens committed: Gillibrand, Schumer doing right by their state
New York Senators Push for Same-Sex Marriage Right [NYT's Caucus Blog]Families built on love, not rhetoric; Values expressed by action, not talking point
The New York Times accurately sizes up the DOMA debate: Republicans like to cast themselves as the protectors of “family values.” But that mantle properly belongs to President Obama and the Congressional Democrats committed to ending this atrocious law. Real...Video: Lawrence looks at rosary, wholly
As the almost exclusively Catholic National Organization For Marriage leadership continues to partner with state and national Catholic leaders on the issue of CIVIL marriage equality, there is one thing they always overlook: The fact -- THE FACT -- that...'Black-robed masters': A dangerous label pushed by those warring against accountability
Judges shunned for both accurately doing their job and properly donning their required wardrobe: Just another day in Michelle Bachmann's America: DES MOINES – Ripping judges as “black-robed masters,” Michele Bachmann praised conservative Iowans on Wednesday for sacking three members...NOM's careless discourse: Apple corporate decision edition
The National Organization For Marriage's thoroughly measured response to the Exodus International iPhone app controversy: [SOURCE] A "protect marriage" group comparing a corporate decision about an "ex-gay" app to some sort of holy war? Gee -- odd.With Apple, Exodus must stop acting like an innocent peach
We haven't weighed in all that much on the whole Exodus International iPhone controversy and the merits of Apple's corporate decision to pull the app. And we don't really intend to now. But we do want to talk a little...Focus on the undying obsession
These are the last ten stories posted to the RSS feed of Focus on the Family's Citizenlink site: And even the one we didn't highlight has LGBT elements, encouraging Focus' followers to lobby lawmakers on issues like marriage. So to...Olson & Boies have 'impressive streak of losses'? What, at Scrabble or something?
This is the National Organization For Marriage's big talking point regarding the Ninth Circuit's decision to not lift the stay (thus not letting CA gay couples get married) while the Prop 8 federal trial continues on appeal: "This is good...Video: Dan, Oprah's BFF, and the ongoing struggle towards 'Better'
"The Gayle King Show" on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network03/23/2011
Surprised Peter Sprigg even likes the Exodus app, considering he wants to go much further
Peter Sprigg will now tell you what's "shocking in America": Well of course Peter's mad. Duh. Because this fares terribly for any planned apps pertaining to his own suggestions for dealing with the gays: International exodus/jail time: *SOURCE: Gays seek...Video: 'No it's basically everyone living but them'
Terse Verse #3 -- Fred Phelps [YT]Believing in Jesus while gay vs. Picketing funerals while Phelps
One and the same, says professional anti-LGBT activist Peter LaBarbera: [Twitter]We're gonna take this as Nora Dunn's reply to Victoria Jackson
From the SNL vet's public Facebook wall: Your turn, Jan Hooks! *** *EARLIER: For those not familiar with the Victoria Jackson thing: Victoria Jackson's 'It Gets Worse' campaign [G-A-Y]Ninth Circuit rains on CA's spring wedding season
Towle has the scoop: "Filed order (STEPHEN R. REINHARDT, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS and N. RANDY SMITH) Having considered all of the factors set forth in Nken v. Holder, 129 S. Ct. 1749, 1756 (2009), and all of the facts and...Video: Judge Vaughn Walker on cameras, Prop 8, need to see the 'train of thinking' (*including exclusive trial clip)
Most Prop 8 talk comes after 30:50 mark, including a compelling, exclusive trial clip at 33:45 mark:Its framers just ran out of quill ink before writing 'evangelical dominion'
Recently, The New York Times used this man as the lone unelected voice to speak on the Defense of Marriage Act: @BryanJFischer We've been meaning to get the Extended Directors Cut of the U.S. Constitution. Then again, maybe Bryan will...Teaching new directions: Mr. Schue sings Kurt's praises
Matthew Morrison in Out: On his "Glee" character Mr. Schuester being an important part of the conversation about LGBT visibility on TV: "He’s very supportive. He has such a love for Kurt and is instrumental in getting him to be...Elizabeth Taylor: She showed up early
(AP) R.I.P.Duplicity per multiplicity: 'Traditional marriage' advocates lay path to polygamy
As we've said a million times when conservatives have tried to blame us for theoretical legalization of polygamous marriages: If plural marriages ever do obtain any measure of legality, then it will be because of the activists' ability to make...03/22/2011
'Advancing the human rights of minorities and the marginalized'
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2011 Statement by the Press Secretary on Ending Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity President Obama believes that advancing the human rights of minorities...NOM's Defend DOMA video: It's a hit!
[SOURCE] Forget marriage: It's apparently your own followers ability to hit the "like" button that you NOM kids really need to be defending! *** EARLIER: NOM's DefendDOMA site now live [G-A-Y]Video: Shaking up a stale marriage debate
TFP says we offend and banish God. But yea, NOM -- it surely is this one counterprotestor who's the meanie
When TFP (American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property) launched its current marriage focus, spokesperson John Richie called civil marriage equality "morally wrong, sinful, offensive to God and a violation of natural law and "a flat denial...Suck it, world peace: What Huck's army really wants is a big gay closet
Presidential hopeful: Huckabee Would Reinstate DADT: "That's Really What The Military Wants" [Right Wing Watch] "The military" wants discrimination? Really? That's a monolithic statement the former Arkansas governor (and person who compares children of gays to puppies) is comfortable making?...Victoria Jackson's 'It Gets Worse' campaign
*** *EARLIER: Victoria Jackson says gay love's a skit, liberals want to destroy U.S.; Melanie Hutsell yet to weigh in [G-A-Y]03/21/2011
NOM's DefendDOMA site now live
We've warned you about it for weeks. Now, with this launch vid, the National Organization for Marriage's latest has gone live (this time with record scratching and everything!): Interesting that in the first four seconds, NOM chose to show a...Must See Video: Rhode Island 'traditional marriage' guy calls same-sex marriage a Communist, Hitler-like 'population reduction program'
And this is what some of them want to teach our children: [YT: Mirani2]Video: If Archbishop Dolan can't be Derek Jeter or Oedipus, gays can't be civil equals
Playing shortstop for the Yankees and marrying your mother. These are the two points analogs New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is using to justify his faith-based resistance to CIVIL marriage equality: NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan: Gays Shouldn't Marry 1) Because...NOM revisits crushing 'Economist' loss: This time with 'moderator was brainless' claims
And now from the "Huh, what, are you seriously kidding me right now?!" file: The National Organization For Marriage has just posted this to the NOM Blog: In January Maggie Gallagher debated SSM with Evan Wolfson over at The Economist....Oh shoot, the messenger: NARTH wishes XGW wasn't so darn diligent
A couple of times over the past few years, we've shown you how National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins has repudiated the way groups like National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and other "ex-gay"...Scientist rejects Exodus app; pigeons yet to acknowledge Angry Birds
When it comes to the "ex-gay" community, a scientist rejecting the way his or her work is represented is old hat at this point. So like most of life's commonalities, there's now an app for that: University of Minnesota researcher...
Audio: Urinal retentive: Focus, SBC fret over peeing privilege
Focus on the Family and their allies/donor base at the Southern Baptist Convention are yet again taking an ordinance solely designed to prevent discrimination and hardship for the public and making it all about them. This time it's in Nashville,...03/20/2011
...and civil rights lost
Does nobody else see how thoroughly anti-American this is? [SOURCE] "The churches won." On civil marriage. Vs. equal protection. Vs. Due process. Vs. freedom. Whereas groups like NOM used to be more careful about their almost exclusively faith-based attacks on...03/18/2011
'...for the Bible tells me so'
Man Confesses to Stoning Man to Death for Homosexual Advances Because Bible Told Him to Do So [Towle]
'...for the Bible tells me so'"> 
