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08/31/2011
Note to readers...
I'm in the middle of a big apartment move, thus the delay in posting. Regular operation should resume this afternoon. Enjoy the temporary quiet , NOM.
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08/30/2011
In which an obsessed man seeks to criminalize his obsession
"But by the time of the founding until the late 20th Century, homosexual activity was a felony offense in the United States of America, there is no reason why it cannot be a criminal offense once again, absolutely none." Fischer:...
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Plante joins MN For Marriage campaign; plants seeds for our side
The Minnesota Catholic Conference has announced the NOM's Christopher Plante will be working on the effort to write largely faith-based discrimination into the state constitution: Mailers, TV ads, print ads and more can be expected as future elements of the...
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TVC: Putting the Sunday in school, one policy at a time
The Traditional Values Coalition, one of the groups leading the fight against fair and inclusive education in California, has announced partnership on another public-school-based effort: Traditional Values Coalition is joining the Question Evolution Campaign! [TVC] Yes, that's right: In addition...
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Flier belier: Debunking MN For Marriage's latest handout
MN For Marriage's latest, in two parts: (highlighting/numbering = mine) 1. No, nobody is seeking "two irreconcilable and conflicting definitions" of marriage. Equality activists are seeking *one* concrete definition that doesn't discriminate on the basis of gender. The ones creating...
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08/29/2011
NOM defines 'bigot'; Unfortunately for NOM, Webster's still defines accuracy
Over on the National Organization For Marriage's Facebook wall, staffers are running this definition of "bigot": [SOURCE: NOM Facebook] Which is fine. Whatever. With six states and the nation's capital on board with us, we in the true pro-marriage movement...
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'It makes me want to throw up, the idea of two grooms -- well that's the way a lot of people feel'
The American Family Association's Tim Wildmon, Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, and Liberty Counsel's Harry Mihet are very engaged figures on the conservative side of this modern marriage conversation. And at around the 4:06 mark of this clip, their juvenile...
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'President of a conservative Christian organization'
I spent twenty-two years below the Mason-Dixon line, part of that time in a very small town. So trust me: I know from conservative Christians. My past, present, and Facebook friends list is filled with folks who identify that way....
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Does NOM think gayness is 'illegitimate' & 'destructive' & 'changeable'? Because the guy they're defending does.
So okay, groups like the National Organization For Marriage can keep defending Frank Turek as just a mere "marriage protector" who's being targeted by "bigots and bullies" if that's what they care to do: [SOURCE: NOM Blog] But here's the...
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Misledophilia (noun): Fetish for linking gays to unlike things; typically done for strategic political purposes
We've seen it from Focus on the Family, the National Organization For Marriage, Liberty Counsel, and many more groups that work to exclude LGBT people from the family photo frame. Now Baptist Press columnist Kelly Boggs nurses the social conservatives'...
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MN state campaign against *civil* marriage: Planted firmly in church's front yard
This was the scene outside the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, where the so-called "Minnesota For Marriage" group set up its information booth: [SOURCE: Minnesota For Marriage's Flickr (more photos at link)] Same NOM stock photos we're used to;...
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B-I-A-S not B-y-U-s: Pitting God vs. inclusive service
Retired Col. Ron Crews on why chaplains should not fear Don't Ask Don't Tell's repeal: "I remind our chaplains that -- number one -- promotions come from God; and secondly, that G-O-D is bigger than D-O-D and that God can...
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'Gee, odd': Another conservative, another misappropriated holy war
I showed you how Brian Brown claimed both a "fatwa" and a "jihad" in last week's NOM newsletter. But it seems the NOM president was just keeping with the tone of the conservatives times, as GOP presidential candidate (and NOM...
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08/27/2011
Days and Slights: This week in NOM (Aug. 20-27)
"OM, NOM, NOM, NOM, NOM." Dear NOM Watcher, Just a few short years ago, when any of us heard the sound "NOM," we thought of only one thing: Devouring food. The onomatopoeia signified some sort of Cookie-Monster-like dining experience, the...
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08/26/2011
HURRICANE! (*in Miami, on NBC, in 1992)
Hurricane Irene demands I say something about weather and the weekend. This site's gay theme demands it involve Rose Nylund: In all seriousness: Be safe, kiddos.
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Tony Perkins vs. inclusive education: 'Disturbing…misguided…harmful'
As opposed to Tony Perkins, who claims that gay kids commit suicide because they know they are "abnormal" and sends around fundraising pitch letters saying it's "disgusting" to tell "immoral" gay kids that they're okay. **REMINDER: Tony isn't the only...
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NOM EXPOSED: NOM is right. Very, very right.
The National Organization For Marriage loves to give off a nonpartisan/bipartisan vibe. Particularly when it comes to something like the Defense of Marriage Act, the organization is quite fond of highlighting any sort of Democratic support, past or present, as...
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In which Jennifer Roback Morse un-friends majority of NY lawmakers, population
"[I]t is pure foolishness to assert that because “our friends” in NY redefined marriage, no one else has any right to say anything against it. It is highly dubious that those responsible for redefining marriage are “friends” to anyone else...
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'Protecting marriage': The most mislabeled political fight in American history?
In 2004, Mississippi passed an anti-gay-marriage amendment by a whopping 86%-14% margin. In 2011, this: For all its pro-family reputation, Mississippi is more wedded to the institution of divorce than most other states, a new U.S. Census Bureau report suggests....
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Federal marriage endowment: Uncle Sam reportedly helped Iowans take away your rights
The Iowa Family Policy Center (which is umbrellaed with The Family Leader, LUV Iowa, and other groups) is one of the most "egads!"-inducing of all the state groups, having run those frightening programs that directly compare gays to secondhand smoking,...
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The National Organization For Marriage is a religious group, as evidenced by this week's hymnal
I've already shown you how Brian Brown's weekly newsletter -- which last week, as you might remember, attempted to link gays to pedophilia -- this time refers to the investigation into Florida teacher Jerry Buell as a "fatwa" that's part...
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Rails, NOM, off: Brian Brown says Buell investigation was 'fatwa', 'jihad'
This is how Brian Brown begins his latest weekly newsletter: Dear Marriage Supporter, Good news! The fatwa against Jerry Buell—a Florida schoolteacher who was suspended by a public school for posting on his Facebook page that he was repulsed by...
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08/25/2011
On gag reflexes, cesspools, and NOM's odd idea of 'victory'
Over on the official Facebook wall, National Organization For Marriage staffers have posted the following: Okay, so the free speech thing I can understand. I reject it, because Jerry Buell's situation didn't involve whether or not he had the right...
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Cash for clunker of a marriage stance? Not from me, not right now
I just can't open the wallet. I still very much support the President and can't foresee a 2012 scenario in which I won't support his re-elect. I also hold on to the undeniable positives of this administration, recognize the unique...
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I'll ask: Why's NOM telling supporters to fear DADT repeal?
The National Organization For Marriage continues to prove that the agenda goes beyond the civil marriage debate on which the group purports to focus: SOURCE: NOM Blog Linking to the American Family Association's fringe, highly skewed One News Now for...
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LGBTs spread both wings (even if right wing continues to lag)
We're everywhere! So reports the New York Times: REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — So much for San Francisco. The list of top cities for same-sex couples as a portion of the population does not include that traditional gay mecca, according to...
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Bachmann in Florida: Running head first into anti-gay, church/state-enjoined 'culture war'
Of all of the campaigns to put a discriminatory marriage amendment in a state's constitution, the Florida Family Policy Council's 2008 effort might have been the most unabashedly faith-based, pitting same-sex couples' civil rights against God. Here's that group's leader,...
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Audio: City famed for space travel braces for even less grounded flight of fancy
Sometimes, a gay person grows up to be a mayor of a vibrant American city. That's the aspirational reality that LGBT kids of Houston currently know to be true, having lived for two years now with out lesbian Annise Parker...
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08/24/2011
Video: Rep Keith Ellison (D-MN): Minnesotan for Marriage
Message from Rep. Keith Ellison from Chris Gegax on Vimeo.
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FRC: 'Just Say No to Homosexuality'
In just a little over a month, House Speaker Boehner, House Majority Leader Cantor, Virginia Attorney General ken Cucinelli, Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Rep. Steve King, Rep. (and GOP prez candidate) Ron Paul, Rep (and GOP prez candidate)...
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Reviewing MN For Marriage's 'scholarly review'
This blip is running on the newly-launched "Minnesota For Marriage" site: [Minnesota For Marriage] Now, clearly this snip, found under MN For Marriage's "Why Preserving Marriage Matters" section, is meant to sound like marriage equality opposition has a broad base...
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Pride parades = left's values, says he whose gay obsession = odd and unending
Mocking people's looks? Condemning homosexuality as a "enjoy-now-pay-later lifestyle"? Lumping the supposedly monolithic attendees of a standard gay pride parade of being anti- both American and God? Why it's just another day in the career of The Liberty Counsel's J....
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National Organization for [Resisting Anti-Discrimination Laws]?
Does Maggie Gallagher still oppose basic anti-discrimination protections for gays? These days, as she invests so much stock in denying civil marriage rights to gays, you're unlikely to hear the National organization For Marriage chair say she stands against anti-discrimination...
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His name is Anthony Bellotti and here's why you should know him
Campaign Solutions is a prominent GOP online consulting firm, whose clients include the National Organization For Marriage, as well as various ballot campaigns against same-sex marriage. One of Campaign Solutions' rising stars is a man named Anthony Bellotti. Here's Bellotti's...
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NOM EXPOSED: MEMO: Circumventing campaign finance law for donor secrecy
NOM Exposed's Kevin Nix rounds up the National Organization For Marriage's curious state-by-state attempt to flout donor disclosure laws: MEMORANDUM To: Interested Parties From: Kevin Nix, Human Rights Campaign Re: Circumventing campaign finance law for donor secrecy Date: August 24,...
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NOM's featured press conference speaker: 'There is a direct connection between earthquakes and homosexuality'
At a recent press conference on the steps of the State Capitol in Albany, the National Organization For Marriage opened up their coalition to include one Rabbi Yehuda Levin. As you can see in the following screen cap from NOM's...
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08/23/2011
Maggie Gallagher's new website: Where gay is alleged?
Earlier today I showed you Maggie Gallagher's new "Drudge Report"-emulating website. Well now check this out: I just noticed that Maggie is apparently planning to follow the editorial guidelines of far-right sites like WorldNetDaily and the AFA's One News Now,...
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How to talk to kids about the world's normalcy
Someone very close to my life once told me that she had no problem with my sexual orientation, but that she just can't tell her kids -- a don't ask don't tell policy that's kept both her and the progeny...
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Maggie Gallagher: Marriage equality is 'government takeover', biblical defacement
Maggie Gallagher writing for Public Discourse: Far from being a neutral or pro-liberty position, same-sex marriage amounts to a government takeover of an ancient and honorable institution. Here, there are deep similarities philosophically between the abortion and gay marriage movements....
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This exists: 'Maggie Report'
The American Principles Project (founded by NOM's Robert George) and Tea Party Review magazine have launched a new, Drudge-emulating website called "Maggie Report." Yes, named for and hosted by the Maggie you think: [The Maggie Report] It's yet another highly...
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More than one way to skim a 'Skinner'
On the newly-launched (and predictably stock-photo-laden) "Minnesota For Marriage" site, the anti-equality side writes the following: SOURCE: [Minnesota For Marriage] This is a quote I've seen casually dropped onto a number of "protect marriage" sites, the idea being that SCOTUS...
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Oh look: Another state's Catholic leadership gunning for our civil rights. That's different.
The Minnesota Family Council, the National Organization For Marriage, and the Minnesota Catholic Conference are the three coalition partners working to alter the state's most precious governing document so that it speaks in a direct, weaponized way against the *civil*...
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NOM-ALIZING Pedophilia: Part 2
Last week, I showed you how National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown dropped a pedophilia segment into his weekly newsletter, in an obvious attempt to build links within his anti-same-sex-marriage supporters' minds. Now check this: NOM has just posted...
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Audio: Liberty Counsel attorney calls pedophiles LGBT activist movement's 'cousins'
"Values" groups from Focus on the Family to the National Organization For Marriage have been working overtime in recent days trying to connect the LGBT equality movement to pedophilia. Now listen to reliably hostile Liberty Counsel staff attorney and Liberty...
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08/22/2011
Video: Bryan Fischer books guest from outside own echo chamber; still listens to only his own echos
Bryan Fischer probably thinks he sounds tough in this, his attempt to make teacher Jerry Buell's case a "free speech" matter that constitutes an anti-religious "hate crime" and his overall effort to chastise anyone who understands the obvious reasons why...
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NOM EXPOSED: "…and the faith communities that sustain it"
Obviously, we NOM Watchers focus on the "protecting marriage" portion of NOM's mission statement. We clobber the claims that turn benign progress into weaponry, while pointing out the sheer silliness of the idea that same-sex couples' legal bonds are somehow...
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'Miserable, damaging, deviant, abnormal, immoral, counterfeit': Rebecca Hagelin paid by the attack, apparently
Last week, I showed you a clip of author, Heritage Foundation staffer, and longtime conservative commentator Rebecca Hagelin linking Australia's push to legal same-sex marriage to the possibility of legalized pedophilia. Yesterday in the Washington Times, Rebecca steamrolled ahead with...
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Randy Thomas: 'Ex-gay' SUPERSTAR!
Welcome To Confessions of An Ex-Gay Superstar from Randy Thomas on Vimeo.
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Won't work: NY town clerk on why she needs special employment rights
Ledyard, N.Y, town clerk Rose Marie Belforti on why she can't offer *civil* marriage licenses to same-sex couples: "I am a Christian. God is the final word. He is the Truth, and I believe what the Bible says. When I...
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Video: Udall (D-CO) marries good intentions with proper vehicle
Colorado activist Sunnivie Brydum gets Senator Mark Udall D-CO on the record for full marriage equality: [YT: Sunnivie] MORE: BREAKING: Sen. Udall comes out for marriage equality [Examiner] In the past, Udall had been a civil unions only kind of...
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