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04/29/2011
NOM spins RI: Refusing to sip from half-empty glass = 'Who said your gay butt could have a glass?'
This headline sums up the false equivalency that the National Organization For Marriage wants you to accept, with the idea being that neither side is willing to compromise: Both [Marriage Equality Rhode Island] and Catholic Church Oppose RI Civil Union...
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Audio: MN state Sen. Barb Goodwin (DFL-50) to GOP colleagues: Put your 'protect marriage' mettle where your mouth is!
People are always telling supporters of marriage inequality that if they are really so concerned about "protecting marriage," then they should go after things like divorce and remarriage. Today, as the MN Senate Judiciary Committee debated a constitutional ban on...
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Video: 'As if gay people's lives are of no more import than a Pepsi ad'
A good one from the prolific Zinnia Jones: The reference clip: *** *REMINDER: This is the same Bryan Fischer who's said "Homosexuals in the military gave us...six million dead Jews". The guy who's said "homosexuals should be disqualified from public...
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MN: 'Let us vote' says 'ex-gay' advocate who compared gays to alcoholics, pedophiles, and adulterers
With Minnesota Republicans hoping to rush a discriminatory marriage amendment (first Senate hearing this afternoon), the anti-equality side seems to be positioning Pastor Brandon as a voice for the supposed "civil right' of voting on minority rights: Pastors Discuss Gay...
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Audio: Tony Perkins once again likens gays to terrorists; will likely still get booked on cable TV
And now Tony Perkins will remind America why the Southern Poverty Law Center singled out his group for its anti-gay "hate groups" list: "This has moved from cultural terrorism to corporate terrorism. That's what this is. Now, back in the...
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Royal marring: FRC fellow pits Will & Kate against Elton, equality, measured discourse
And today's list of Family Research Council-initiated offenses continues. To recap: FRC prez Tony Perkins has already likened us to terrorists, and his staff has teased a forthcoming documentary purporting to show what "a frightening place" a gay-accepting America will...
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Coming (condemnation of certain) attractions
Just in time for summer blockbuster season comes this, an anti-civil-rights documentary tease from the ever esteemed filmmakers at the Family Research Council: Be on the lookout for a documentary from FRC that explains exactly where this march toward "tolerance"...
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FRC's unwitting admission: Prop 8's public school fear-mongering was bunk nonsense
With the following three lines, Family Research Council staffers intend to slight the recently-passed bill that will work to enshrine the historical contributions of LGBT Americans in state's textbooks, as well as drum up fears that link marriage equality to...
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That booming voice: Mixed-to-supportive on gay issues #royalwedding
Many red-eyed royal wedding watchers were struck by the preacher with the soothing, narrative, James Earl Jones-like voice. So that being the case, we thought we'd give a little more insight into how that man, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan...
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04/28/2011
Sorry, @mbwithcrc, but considering your job is to royally screw our own marriages...
We appreciate and even agree with the sentiment in this retweet: But considering it comes from the press representative for the National Organization For Marriage... ...you'll have to forgive us if we're not too sympathetic about her seeing "too much...
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Focus on the Family's judicial analyst defines bullying, indicts his side's own 2008 efforts
In light of the controversy regarding DOMA defense and the law firm King & Spalding in particular, Focus on the Family's Bruce Hausknecht attempts to explain the difference between boycotts (which he apparently supports) and behind-the-scenes bullying (which he purports...
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Video: 'Lesbians are lesbians because they're too ugly to get a man'; 'should not be allowed to vote'
Evangelical Christianity's PR department suffers another misstep: ANNOUNCER (In hushed whisper): We've secretly replaced the Phelps family with "I Can't Believe It's Not Westboro." Let's see if anyone notices.
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Audio: Sally 'gays bigger threat than terrorists' Kern expands scope; myopia remains
"Are they in prison just because they are black or because they don't want to study as hard in school?" ..."I've taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn't study hard because they said the...
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Pop quiz: Which politico is Gaga for Glee?
Which archteypical political figure recently said the following: "We looked for Chris Colfer," she said, but they didn't find him. "We don’t watch TV, generally speaking. But the kids were thrilled. What kids don’t watch Glee?" (a) A Ted Kennedy-like...
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NOM-entrenched Haas family: Reared on diet of 'ex-gay' therapy?
We've already established that Brian Brown, Charles Limandri, David Lejeune, and any number of other (male) National Organization for Marriage personalities are members of the Catholic organization Legatus, so just the fact that words like the following appeared in that...
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04/27/2011
The lam of God: Ignoring court orders like Jesus (& Rosa Parks?!) would do
And now here's the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer on why "ex-gay" Lisa Miller was right to flout the law so as to keep her biological daughter from her former lesbian partner (who has been awarded custody): "Lisa did what...
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Fun GOP-in-'12 fact of the day: NOM's lawyer steering Republican debates
The Republican National Committee recently announced that attorney Jim Bopp will serve as Chair of the RNC Committee on Presidential Debates. Which matters to you, the equality-minded, because... Lest you thought the GOP was planning to give your basic rights...
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Is NOM really this obtuse?
Check out how America's most prominent house of marital discrimination is phrasing Joe Solmonese's comments about basic nondiscrimination: [SOURCE] Uhm, did Joe say anything about marriage in regards to education? He talked about the general lack of right to "discriminate...
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Video: NOM shelter
Oh the novel ingenuity of college life. Beer bongs fashioned out of an old milk jug and garden hose. Four course meals made out of ramen and Funyons. Oh, and sometimes: Parodic bomb shelters inspired by growing up during a...
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RI: 'Tragic situations' and 'teacup dogs' trump basic civil rights
Not surprising. Still annoying: MARRIAGE EQUALITY EFFORTS IN RHODE ISLAND ARE DEAD FOR THE YEAR [Towle] So congratulations, Rhode Island: This prevailed: NOM Rhode Island Director Chris Plante
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Audio: Roback Morse's Adoption Q&A (*or more like Q & strategically rephrased Q)
This is simply unbelievable logic. At a speech delivered at Stanford University, NOM affiliate Jennifer Roback Morse completely sidestepped an audience member's honest question about same-sex adoption and bans thereupon, so that she could instead conflate an anti-LGBT Christian's "right"...
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It's not just gays that 'WorldNetDaily' surrounds with fear quotes
WND apparently thinks the now-posted birth certificate is still alleged rather than factual: Not surprising. This conservative "news" site has put all stock in the "birther" idea. So they will never admit they were wrong. Never admit they were distracting....
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If anyone should understand family protection in federal law, it's Viet Dinh
The firm he founded, Bancroft PLLC, has chosen to defend DOMA/take on DOMA defender Paul Clement as a client. So that being the case, we want to ask Viet Dinh to just consider a few things about America. And family....
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FRC calls us 'spineless bullies'; we call on FRC to spin less bull + lies
In their daily "Washington Update," Family Research Council staffers are using King & Spalding's ultimately principled decision to step away from the DOMA case (i.e. not defend discrimination for gay Americans) to brand all equality advocates with a "spineless" label:...
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04/26/2011
Wow, even NOM's stock photos are largely faith-motivated?
In the mood for a funny/interesting/telling aside about that photo the National Organization For Marriage is now running on all of its "Defend DOMA" posts? [Source for just one example (NOM's used the graphic on six posts and one e-blast...
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Video: Focus on the Family says 'dude' a lot, uses fear music, ends on dramatic coda...
...all in the name of smug oversimplification:
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MN: Three GOP Senators move to make gay scapegoat official state animal
Three more Republican state Senators are wasting their constituents' time and energy with the divisive belief that certain, largely faith-based views on marriage deserve exclusive codification within CIVIL law. This time, Minnesota: St. Paul– Senator Warren Limmer (R-Maple Grove), Senator...
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America's melting pot: Liberals add dashes of gay to make Christians stew?
William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, has a thought or two about The Uniting American Families Act and LGBT immigrants in general. In Mr. Gheen's socially conservative eyes, the whole "want to come to America, land of the...
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#BancroftSeemsToBeLovingTheAttention #AttentionEqualsDollars #JustSayin
It's interesting that the eight year old Bancroft P.L.L.C. never thought to join Twitter until yesterday -- the day the law firm announced it was taking on Paul Clement as a partner/DOMA defense as focus: @bancroftpllc [Twitter] Not saying this...
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Too 'mo to adjudicate: From fringe commentary to official legal motion
If you haven't already heard: Those same forces that have tried in every way to stop gay rights, writ large, are now offensively targeting the life and work of one particular gay man for no reason greater than his sexual...
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Photo: In which FRC redresses 'Superior Settings'
The Family Research Council intended the following post/graphic to slight LGBT people and their families, as part of the overarching organizational goal of slighting certain sexual orientations and gender identities in general. So it's odd they chose clip art wherein...
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NOM plans to 'fight back' on DOMA; oddly, giant mirror not their target
So let's recap: - In 1996, social conservatives implement DOMA as a way of stopping those darn gays from getting too rights-happy. - Gay people remain slighted on a daily basis. - Throughout the first decade of the 21st century,...
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04/25/2011
Nu uh, NY anti-gays: Don't indict a deity for your organizational missteps!
Staffers at New York state's chief anti-marriage-equality lobby group, which works under the dual names New Yorker's Family Research Foundation and New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, have pretty high impressions of themselves. In fact, they think that when we push...
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Marc Mutty all like, 'No -- by 'dangerous' and 'hyperbole' and 'not completely accurate' I meant 'AWESOME!''
Remember those clips from the forthcoming Question 1 documentary wherein Marc Mutty, the director of Maine's "Yes on One" campaign, pretty much admitted that his side's ads were disingenuous, at best? Yea, well: Mutty has now broken his silence. But...
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Audio: Brian Brown admits he's working for Scriptural marriage, likens self to Christ
More from the National Organization For Marriage's recent appearance on Charles LiMandri's Catholic radio show. This time Brian, someone who's fighting against *CIVIL* marriage equality, comes right out and admits that his impetus is almost exclusively faith-based. Oh, and then...
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Video: American not Idle: YouTuber gives voice to Respect for Marriage Act
This is Kendra Wolcott. Her voices are great, both the one she uses for singing and the one she puts towards DOMA repeal: Cover of Rise Against's "Make It Stop (September's Children)" [YT] *** *NOTE: This is the description under...
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Focus on Antonin Scalia's open door
This interesting mention comes from Focus on the Family's Citizenlink site: [Justice Antony] Kennedy wrote the majority opinion striking down a state sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), saying among other things that there is “no legitimate state interest”...
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Audio: Threats, Brian? You mean like the one waged against Abbott & Assoc. (and how ever many more)?
During his recent appearance on Charles LiMandri's Catholic radio show, NOM president Brian Brown said this about his role in history and the "threats" he and his cronies supposedly faced for choosing this "historic" role in backing discrimination: Victim, victim,...
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NY 'protect marriage' group confuses ring finger for trigger finger; basic equality retains the middle
This is how the so-called New Yorker's Family Research Foundation (which also operates as New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms) is choosing to visually represent the threat we gay New Yorkers supposedly pose to the institution of marriage: [SOURCE: NYFRF] You...
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Friends 'til the end ('of society as we know it'): Brian Brown commiserates with Charles LiMandri
Charles LiMandri, NOM's onetime general counsel and current cohost of a radio show alongside NOM's Jennifer Roback Morse, likes to claim that marriage equality = "the end of society as we know it": But the above isn't his only "culture...
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04/23/2011
NOM: 'We have no intent interacting with him'; Jeremy: 'Great, I'll gladly run this conversation'
How Jeremy Hooper discovered Opus Fidelis/NOM connections, in 7 easy steps: Step 1: Notice that NOM is suddenly posting around the web under a new name known as "NOM Social Hub." Step 2: Google that phrase. Step 3: Notice that...
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04/22/2011
Audio: Jennifer Roback Morse's fairy tale theatre casts gays in 'suffering' role
So here we have it: Yet another National Organization For Marriage official admitting he or she sees homosexuality as something one "suffers" with/from/through. This latest one comes courtesy of Jennifer Roback Morse, head of NOM's affiliate Ruth Institute. In a...
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Video: The bedrooms are too damn policed, the species too damn horny
The Rent is Too Damn High Party founder Jimmy McMillan addresses Quinnipiac University students: "It's none of your damn business what I do in my bedroom" Daddy’s here: Jimmy McMillan addresses Quinnipiac students [QU Chronicle] Damnation never sounded so open-minded....
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5/15/11: Ruben Diaz gives us reason to take early Hamptons trip
Predictable: Arch homophobe Sen. Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) will once again work with anti-gay Hispanic evangelicals to stage a massive anti-marriage rally in New York City on May 15th. NEW YORK: Sen. Ruben Diaz To Stage Massive Anti-Gay Marriage Rally [J.M.G.]...
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Go see 'The Normal Heart'!
I've seen literally hundreds of Broadway and off-B'way productions. Never have I experienced a packed house make a transition from full standing ovation to deafeningly stunned, deeply pensive silence -- a hard turn I wouldn't have even thought possible. Until...
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Dobson-, FRC-backed campaign: Gay activists are 'zealots' who'll bring 'the destruction of Western Civilization'
And now another story for your "marriage movement is getting eye-openingly aggressive" file: A new effort, supported by such conservative top dogs as James Dobson and the Family Research Council, is branding pro-equality activists with a "zealots" label, and flat-out...
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G-A-Y Exclusive: NOM's 'war team' targeting more than just our ring fingers
In May of 2008, a man named Pedro Vega contributed these posts to his pseudonymously-written "Vivificat" blog: Homosexuality: Theological Issues Folks, there are "theologians" out there who see no discrepancy, no contradiction, between homosexual activity and Christian living. Those who...
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04/21/2011
Marinelli: NOM tasked me with taking 'crazy photos of our opponents'
Just read: In Albany, counter-protesters arrived at our rally with rainbow umbrellas and were silent. As you can see from the photo I took, the counter-protesters had their backs to us. They were giving us the silent treatment, so to...
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We're not the only ones paying price for Gallagher's career choice
Just in terms of mechanics alone, I can't imagine why anyone would pay $1200 to hear Maggie Gallagher speak on marriage. And that's not to slight Maggie's public speaking ability -- honestly. It's just that she literally gives the same...
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NY: Wedding planning, from party that crashed last bash
Since a unanimous band of Senate Republicans (and eight Democrats) are the ones who defeated New York's marriage bill in '09, it makes sense that the LGBT Log Cabin Republicans would join the fight to push for a better band...
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