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08/20/2011
Days and Slights: This week in NOM (Aug. 15-19)
Dear NOM Watcher, School's starting back and students nationwide are searching for the thinking caps they stowed away for the summer. So seizing on that spirit of brain-re-engagement, the National Organization for Marriage staff this week took to their various...
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NOM's Jennifer Roback Morse: 'Anal sex is icky'
National Organization For Marriage affiliate leader Jennifer Roback Morse pinpoints three primary reasons why she is standing against same-sex couples' civil equality. In a post defending that Florida teacher who took to his Facebook and referred to same-sex marriage as...
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08/19/2011
When Uncle $am meets Anti Equality
It's always shocking to remember that many of the groups advocating against our lives and loves (sometimes viciously so) actually manage to secure government funding for their work in other (and sometimes even related) areas. Go check out Andy Birkey's...
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Crafting NOM's civil unions policy (since they haven't)
The National Organization For Marriage doesn't have an official civil unions policy. So here, let me write a brief sketch of what is, quite undeniably, NOM's organizational stance on this, a crucial matter that comes before both them and us:...
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NOM-ALIZING Pedophilia
In his latest weekly newsletter, National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown includes the following little blip. You know, just to throw it out there: NORMALIZING PEDOPHILIA When you knock over a core pillar of society like marriage, and then...
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Video: Ken Blackwell gives MSNBC another reason not to re-book FRC
I'll leave it up to you: You can or cannot watch this five minute clip from June 28, 2011, featuring the Empire State Pride Agenda's Ross Levi and the Family Research Council's Ken Blackwell debating on MSNBC airwaves. Though if...
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Tony Perkins to LGBT teens: You're immoral, it won't get better, 'disgusting' to say it will
Considering president Tony Perkins went on NPR and said that gay kids commit suicide because they know they are "abnormal," the following document probably shouldn't come as any surprise. But when you consider that this condemnation of the "It Gets...
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Video: Brian Brown tries talking points on a 'not convinced' Stossel
At 4:56, the Fox audience literally laughs out loud: [YT:CaptainUSA] If ever there was a time for Stossel to work his patented "Give Me a Break" line! Oh, and one interesting thing about this otherwise mechanical appearance: At the end...
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08/18/2011
Sorry Christine, but no
Convenient thing to say: [Christine] O'Donnell told FOX 5 that she has gone on the record about her position on gay marriage and that her position is the same as Barack Obama’s, Rudy Giuliani’s, Hillary Clinton’s and Michelle Bachmann’s. Video...
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Video: 'The Lord has called you and I [sic]' to petition against inclusive education
California church networks are again using their resources. To feed the hungry? To clothe the poor? To house the homeless? Well, hopefully they're doing that too. But in this case, it's to stop *public* schools from teaching that LGBT people...
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But did your newspaper pals call gays a 'particularly evil lie of Satan,' Gary?
This testimony from Focus on the Family's head communications guy, Gary Schneeberger: [@gschneeberger] And now this claim from Focus on the Family's director for Family Formation Studies, Glenn Stanton, as it is prominently running on the marriage section of FoTF's...
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Video: Kenneth Cole kisses off summer, anti-equality social conservatives
Fashion's all about being open to combinations. This skirt with that top. This belt with that boot. This pair of lips paired with the right puckered face: GAY RIGHTS In Kenneth Cole Fall 2011 campaign from xxxpress.net on Vimeo.
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NOM's 'Let the People Vote' effort has hauled in 4.5 million. At least that's what Brian Brown's spinoff site says
Has the National Organization For Marriages "Let The People Vote" campaign earned nearly 5 million bucks in only a month or so of existence? Yes, if you are to believe this ludicrous figure running on Brian Brown's partisan political spinoff...
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NOM EXPOSED: NOM’s 100K Challenge: Even the ‘k’ might’ve been too lofty (much less the 100)
Regular NOM Watchers might remember the National Organization For Marriage’s 100K challenge. That’s the one where a nameless, faceless “generous donor” promised to give NOM one buck for every Facebook “like,” Twitter follow, and text message they receive between June...
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Tony Perkins: Gays 'broken' need a church 'hospital'
In just over a month, all of the conservative stars (including most if not all the GOP primary candidates) will turn up at the Family Research Council's so-called "Values Voters Summit. And when they do, this is the sort of...
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Refreshing: National Organization for Marriage now owning religious group status
The National Organization is now fully admitting it: They want to push "God's intent" for marriage into our civil law: [NOM's Facebook Wall] I welcome this move, actually! We've long known that NOM is fighting on the basis of personally...
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Video: Obligatory awkwardness of the day
A lesson in how not to handle a "culture war" question if you have positioned yourself as a "family values" kind of person. A lesson in how not to handle an interview if you have positioned yourself as a media-trained...
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08/17/2011
'And I have to admit, Blaine would be a really cute son-in-law.'
Love this: My oldest son is six years old and in love for the first time. He is in love with Blaine from Glee. For those who don’t know Blaine is a boy…a gay boy, the boyfriend of one of...
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When polls backfire: The Family Leader puts wind under Pres. Obama's sails
The very anti-LGBT, deeply conservative Family Leader group is currently hosting a "Quarter Poll" at their Iowa State Fair booth. So who's winning this, a poll intended to show strong GOP resistance to the current administration? Well here, take a...
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Before the Values Voters Summit, we get Tony Perkins' Partisan Prettiness Pageant
What a nasty, petty, sexist, needlessly partisan thing for the head of a supposed "values" group to tweet: (tweets in reverse order) Since I refuse to rank Phyllis Schalfly and Nancy Pelosi (six and five kids, respectively) on a "hotness"...
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Focus on the [obvious pedo-linking agenda]
How does Focus on the Family (not so) stealthy reinforce a belief within readers that homosexuality and pedophilia are just a hop, skip, and slippery slope from each other? Easy: They get staffer Karla Dial to write an article about...
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Video: 'No, they will fail' -- Sen Gillibrand on those wishing to roll back rights
So proud to have Sen. Gillibrand in my state, in my corner: "Let's at least repeal the Defense of Marriage Act so that your marriage here in New York can get the full benefit anywhere you are in the country,...
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Bryan Fischer's definition of marriage: The man always gets final say
Lest you think the American Family Association staffers' desire to define people's unions is limited to same-sex couples: "Marriage is not and can never be a democracy. Somebody has to have the tie-breaking vote when the poll reveals a one-to-one...
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Pens at ready, Mainers: Push to regain removed rights begins today
Just in from Maine: Secretary of State Approves Marriage Statute, Clearing Way for Signature Gathering Today, same-sex marriage advocates in Maine announced that a citizen initiative campaign for a law allowing same-sex couples to marry cleared its first major hurdle...
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Audio: Rhode Islanders wait for fully defined civil equality
NOM's Chris Plante thinks the lack of Rhode Islanders running to "civil union"-ize their bond is evidence of some sort of greater "redefinition" plan: *AUDIO SOURCE: Few Sign Up for RI Civil Unions [FoTF Citizenlink] But here's the thing: *CIVIL...
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NOM EXPOSED: 'For' what, exactly?
*Note to readers: As part of a new partnership, I will be writing select pieces exclusively for NOMExposed.Org. These pieces (which I will excerpt here under a 'NOM Exposed' label) will pertain to the National Organization For Marriage, that org's...
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NOMmers again ignoring what poll says about *them*
This blip is currently running on NOM blog: SOURCE: [NOM Blog] Right, so I wish these Michigan poll numbers were different, no doubt. But the larger point for me, here, in terms of the opposition group that posted the poll,...
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Video: Christians should oppose same-sex marriage; Marriage of God and law totally kosher
Pastor Kellan Criswell used to canvass for the Human Rights Campaign. Now he petitions young people to believe that the "homosexual lifestyle" is against God, that one cannot be both Christian and religious, and that people of faith are called...
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08/16/2011
Audio: In court, proving animus is always our burden. Group that goes to court against us will now help our case:
This is the legal organization that New York's chief anti-equality lobby group (and big NOM ally) has recruited to go to court for the purposes of overturning civil marriage equality: "Acts of homosexuality are the opposite of what God intended...
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Spurn of phrase: NOM's Jennifer Roback Morse says same-sex marriage = square circle
And now a "culture war" vocabulary lesson from The National Organization For Marriage's Jennifer Roback Morse: "You may have noticed that I do not use the term “same sex marriage” very often. In fact, I am making a conscious decision...
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NOM pushes undeniably hostile column; undeniable until next campaign, where they'll aggressively deny animus
If you read this site yesterday, you probably saw the article wherein conservative columnist and University of North Carolina Wilmington professor Mike Adams used his dual positions and access to condemn his school's diversity office for providing a list of...
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NH's leading lobby group pushes 'ex-gay' therapy; Rick Perry to either repudiate it or lend tacit approval
On October 28, Texas Governor and current GOP presidential frontrunner Rick Perry is going to toast New Hampshire's Cornerstone Policy group, keynoting the organization's annual fundraising dinner. So when he does, it's important for people to know that the potential...
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Video: Aussie conservs import U.S. voice; 'Gays will legalize pedophilia' sounds just as noxious in Southern Hemisphere
Rebecca Hagelin is a conservative writer and Heritage Foundation staffer. Oh, and also pusher of the deeply offensive, intellectually cheap claim that marriage equality for gay adults will lead to legally sanctioned pedophilia: Local gays are already referring to this...
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'Wallbuilders' pushes fringe ACP as 'leading pediatric' group; pushes cutting agenda as 'cutting edge'
Several times in the past, I've told you about the so-called American College of Pediatricians, a tiny, conservative, faith-based splinter group (between 60 and 200 members, reportedly) that was solely designed to spin the research data that comes from the...
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08/15/2011
Video: 'Many different perspectives of disliking gays'
This guy's eager to point and laugh at you: "There's many different perspectives of disliking gays and it makes me hopeful for the future." ... "Gays should not be invited to the party. Gays should feel discluded and ashamed and...
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Class(y) action: GLSEN schools FRC on Family Research accuracy
Remember that clip I showed you wherein Family Research Council and specifically that group's president, Tony Perkins, blatantly lied about GLSEN and a document the organization didn't create or willingly distribute? Yeah, well -- today this happened: This morning, GLSEN...
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Univ. professor receives inter-office communique, lives to tell (tall, condemnatory) tale
How does University of North Carolina Wilmington criminology professor and American Family Association columnist Mike Adams use his dual positions to his best advantage? Well, he takes a university-distributed list of inclusive churches, posts their information in a column, then...
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B/c in our trying times, what better for campaign debate than a soldier willing to fight and possibly die for his or her nation?
With this one, the anti-gay charms never seem to cease: Bachmann would reinstate US gay troops ban [AFP via Google] Because nothing says "profile in courage" like telling the minority of soldiers concerned with repeal that there really is something...
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Vintage Video: 'There are about 1,200 detected cases'…'we have to find the cure and we have to find it quickly'
His role in the history of HIV/AIDS is a controversial one. But in 1983 -- when much, including the immeasurable price of silence, was largely misunderstood -- Mayor Ed Koch greeted an MSG audience to rapturous applause: "You think there's...
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Video: Gays, ring fingers, and floods -- 'Does it really matter what the goyim do?'
Umbrellas make the perfect wedding gift. At least for New Yorkers, at least if this YouTuber's Torah read is to be believed: Well it is raining today in New York. Could be because of nature's typical patterns or could be...
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Justified pushback leads to company's free choice; cue far-right's war on merit
You don't have to know any of the details, really. In this case, all you have to know is that a summit was scheduled, a CEO was booked, and eyebrows were raised. And you also need to know that when...
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08/12/2011
Bryan Fischer: Women only fit for presidency if 'God can't find any men'
Lest you thought his he was seeking only to limit the lives and opportunities of LGBT people and Muslims: [American Family Association] Mmm hmmm -- Speaking purely for himself, as a paid employee of the American Family Association, on the...
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Maggie seeks *more* Bachmann-mouthed marriage opposition; Veruca Salt all like, 'Wow that's greedy'
Many of us have many things to say about Michele Bachmann. But when it comes to marriage equality, most of us would agree that she's been pretty darn consistent in her opposition towards basic civil fairness. At a state senator,...
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Why are so few #tcot taking the @valuesbus?
Not only is the so-called Values Voters Bus' physical turnout a total failure (even organizers put Sioux City at the tour's high point, where just over 20 voting-age people showed up), but it's also an unquestionable failure in terms of...
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After years of licensing any kind of straight duo sans morality test, another NY town clerk decides now is time for one
Another NY town clerk is reportedly seeking a special exception regarding the duties of her job. The Citizen reports: A town clerk in Cayuga County has informed her town board that because of her religious beliefs, she does not believe...
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NOM's push for special rights again shot down
NOM keeps fighting transparency, NOM keeps losing: BOSTON –– A federal appeals court panel Thursday rejected an anti-gay marriage group’s bid to block its need for compliance with Rhode Island campaign disclosure laws. The National Organization for Marriage had challenged...
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Who's exploiting the word 'hate', exactly?
Over the past year, and particularly in the time since the Southern Poverty Law Center added a few more names to its anti-gay "hate groups" list, social conservative outlets and personalities have been in overdrive arguing against the notion of...
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Video: Injecting divisive politics into Iowa's benign legal reality
From last night's GOP presidential debate: *MORE and transcripts: All The Anti-Gay Rhetoric From The GOP Presidential Debate…In Under 2 Minutes [Think progress] [YT: SuchIsLifeVideos]
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08/11/2011
Audio: Sally continues to clarify that which confused no one
You just gotta laugh at Sally Kern's current book tour, where the Oklahoma state Rep. keeps trying to explain and expound upon the easily understandable comments that earned her a national reputation. Like listen to this clip from Stacy Harp's...
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Striking Ablow: Fox News doc lumps apples with oranges, agenda with science
Dr. Keith Ablow's latest column for FoxNews.com is almost too remarkable for words. In it, Ablow manages to connect pedophilia to sexual orientation (specifically homosexuality), even though the former is scientifically recognized as a paraphilia/sexual disorder. He also pushes the...
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