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09/30/2011
NOM's Jennifer Roback Morse doesn't 'accept the category of gayness'
National Organization For Marriage affiliate leader Jennifer Roback Morse, while speaking to far-right flamethrower Michael "God Has A Better Way" Brown, gets more honest than we're used to, admitting that (a) she essentially does not see gay people as gay,...
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NOM EXPOSED: Brian Brown, 'ex-gay' advocate
Brian Brown, writing in this week's NOM newsletter, pushes a far-right, religiously motivated, agenda-filled "study" which purports to show that gays can "change." Brian writes: KEEP READING: Brian Brown, 'ex-gay' advocate [NOM EXPOSED]
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NOM's Jennifer Roback Morse: I 'could get shot at any moment, pratically'
National Organization For Marriage affiliate leader Jennifer Roback Morse: *AUDIO SOURCE: Michael Brown Interview [Catholic Radio of San Diego] The anti-LGBT wing of the modern conservative movement will go to any lengths to hurt us and our public image. I...
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'The curious moral authority of [one who collects paycheck for shunning] gay men'
In a column that reads a bit like an emotional breakdown after years of stirring up divisive tension against certain kinds of people, the modern anti-equality movement's most visible figure, Maggie Gallagher, ponders her role in civil rights history. Here's...
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Video: Maggie Gallagher on 'taking over the world for Christ'
If you start this new "Maggie Report" video around 10:30, you'll hear Human Events editor Jason Mattera accuse "the left" of being obsessed with same-sex marriage, even as he sits right there next to a person who has defined herself...
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FRC on Galllup circa May of 2011: 'Venerable'; Gallup on FRC circa May of 2020: 'Lost marriage war'
Usually when it comes to mainstream polling, the far-right uses words like "liberal" to discredit whichever firm is showing a portrait that runs afoul of a certain agenda. So I am thrilled to see that the Family Research Council considers...
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Video: Oh look, another terrible, insensitive NOM decision
(Via ThinkProgress)
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Seeing the Forresters for their truth-obfuscating trees
With North Carolina state senator Jim Forrester under great fire for his choice to falsify credentials, I just want to remind folks that public rebuking of false claims runs in the Forrester family's political family. To wit: In 2008, Mary...
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Video: Because throwing gays in a 'cesspool' makes one an 'Anti-Defamation' icon?!
Jerry Buell's comments about gay marriages being part of a "cesspool" that made him want to vomit were so over the top that even longtime conservative flamethrower Chuck Colson spoke out against his verbal style. But the National Organization For...
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09/29/2011
Go read now: Jim Forrester's false claims not limited to gays
I'm running out to nosh on some yummy Cauliflower and Leek Kugel at my family's Rosh Hashanah celebration. But this one is to hot to ignore, so I had to hop on ye ol' phone and give you this link:...
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More from NOM's 'Anti-Defamation' poster boy, Frank Turek
If you believe NOM's terribly rated YouTube video, "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance" spokesman Frank Turek has been "discriminated against" simply because he "supports traditional marriage." Now I give you more examples of Mr. Turek proving that his views go way beyond...
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'The only causes that die': NOM's convenient quote, reconsidered
Consider these words: "Love is so strong it surpasses narrowness by devotedness and forgetfulness of self. In history, the only causes that die are those for which men refuse to die. The more love grows, the more its eyes open...
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Mar T? Not at Wal
Good news from the nation's largest retailer: Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart has added gender identity to their list of protected categories for employees Wal-Mart Adds Transgender Protections for Employees [Advocate] Expect breathless American Family Association press releases by week's end. Would...
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'I am not overstating,' says man who proceeds to totally and utterly overstate
From president Brian Brown's latest National Organization For Marriage email blast: Not overstating? Well okay, Brian -- if you prefer the terms "embellishing," "exaggerating," or "fear-mongeringly hyperbolizing," then that's your prerogative. Though honestly, it's not Brian's overstating that concerns me...
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09/28/2011
Minnesota equality foes to talk strategy -- and you're invited!
Not sure what this event is all about. But I do know that when we see the official proponents of Minnesota's marriage ban uploading a file with a "strategy" label, it might be in our interest to find out more:...
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NOM EXPOSED: More than marriage: NOM’s new Board Chair vs. inclusive schools
It’s unlikely that NOM will weigh in on California’s current discussion regarding inclusive teaching, since (a) going after such fair public school practices would prove that they want to stop more than marriage, and (b) going after such public school...
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NOM can change: Once pragmatic organization now running 'ex-gay' press releases
Currently running on NOM Blog: [SOURCE] The Jones & Yarhouse study has been picked apart within an inch of its agenda-laden life. Box Turtle Bulletin and Warren Throckmorton have done great work covering the religious agenda masking as science. But...
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Misappropriated Ros-Lehtinen pic: Perfect example of NOM's myopic partisanship
If the National Organization For Marriage wants to knock Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) for supporting certain American policies…. [SOURCE: NOM Blog] …they could, at the very least, use a picture that was taken in the country in question. I say...
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Liberty Counsel attorney and Liberty Univ. Dean: Gays know they're 'internally disordered'
And now longtime liability to his movement Matt Barber will continue to demonstrate the deep and undeniable animus that underwrites the entire "pro-family" movement: *AUDIO SOURCE: Liberty Counsel's "Freedom's Call" radio show Matt's employers, both Liberty Counsel and Liberty University,...
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If Peter Sprigg called to 'export' or criminalize any other minority group, would 'WaPo' still give him ink?
Yet another mainstream press outlet continues to give credence to Peter Sprigg, a man who has admitted on video that he'd like to "export" and/or criminalize gay people. This time it's The Washington Post that is giving the FRC policy...
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Audio: Signorile grills NC's head marriage banner; said banner can't take heat, leaves kitchen, blames cook
In an interview with SiriusXM's Michelangelo Signorile, North Carolina state senator Jim Forrester (Very Far R-41st District) tried and failed to defend the "merits" of the marriage amendment that he has carried all the way to the 2012 polls. And...
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09/27/2011
Sense us: Hundreds of thousands of couples who are denied in federal law
The latest attempt to count us: The U.S. Census Bureau released today new statistics on same-sex married couple and unmarried partner households. According to revised estimates from the 2010 Census, there were 131,729 same-sex married couple households and 514,735 same-sex...
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Video: Stop inclusive schools -- teach kids about electoral bait and switches instead?!
[YT: watersrobmax] Anti-Gay Activists Using Child Molestation to Fool People Into Signing Petition Against California LGBT History Bill [Towle]
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Maggie Gallagher: Gays want all to 'acknowledge their sovereignty over God’s'
And now even more from Maggie Gallagher, who, in her fury to make her ridiculous "Anti-Defamation Alliance" happen, is now coming right out and admitting that she wants government employees to put "God's sovereignty" above civil responsibilities: “Kudos to those...
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NOM EXPOSED: NOM's next 'Anti-Defamation' martyrs
Now that the video of Frank Turek -- a man who compares gays to animals who eat their young, says homosexuality is a "destructive behavior" that "we ought not act on"; gives lengthy lecture speeches about 'illegitimate' homosexuality; and who...
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Video: Jamey's life now filled with yesterdays; poignant 'Today'
Kudos to Ann Curry for hitting some strong points regarding what is so obviously exacerbating the harm. Deepest shame to those heartless beings who (allegedly) chanted "you're better off dead" at a recent school dance: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news,...
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NOM's 'anti-defamation' poster boy: Says gays and 'radical Muslims' 'both hate Western Civilization'
Frank Turek, the man who the National Organization For Marriage positions as a mere "traditional marriage supporter": Gays and "radical Muslims": "both hate Western civilization, both hate Judeo-Christian natural law values that our Constitution and particularly our Declaration of Independence...
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Video: An 'ex-gay' pushing governor? Better know your candidates, NH!
Since 2006, Kevin Smith has worked as a director at New Hampshire's Cornerstone Policy Research, and since 2009, he has sat in the head chair. The head chair of an organization (a major NOM ally) that suggests one and only...
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Rep. Ilena Ros-Lehtinen (TheDarkSide-FL)
"[H]as joined the dark side." That's what the Family Research Council (in a post attributed to Tony Perkins) is saying of Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, simply because she has come out in support of DOMA repeal and fair adoption practices:...
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Lou Sheldon holds anti-gay presser; hopes empty sidewalk is registered to vote
What happens when the Traditional Values Coalition's Louis Sheldon throws a press conference in opposition to inclusive public school teaching? Five people show up -- three of them from the pro-equality Courage Campaign, one from Lou's own payroll, and one...
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09/26/2011
My marriage is 'a lie about human nature,' and other things Maggie says in the name of 'Anti-Defamation'
"Gay marriage is founded on a lie about human nature, and it cannot stand in the long run. It takes too much energy to persuade people of the lie that is “marriage equality” that same-sex unions are not different than...
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'Is my phone a fortune teller?'
A new phone app: Now on sale on the Android Market: an app that asks — and purports to answer — "Is my son gay?" [MSNBC] Ironically, any father who actually buys into the app's abilities will have proven himself...
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'A Queer Thing Happened to NOM': Org keeps proving generalized animus, seemingly unconcerned that it'll destroy them
Michael Brown is the far, far right personality who writes self-published books all about gays needing to "change" their "lifestyles," who marches through North Carolina's streets telling Pride participants that "God has a better way," and who has gone so...
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Wherein back-to-back YouTube clips destroy NOM's ridic. 'Anti-Defamation' lies
If one does a YouTube search for Frank Turek, sorted by date of upload, two videos come back positioned one on top of the other: The first is that responsibility-shirking launch video that I showed you last week, where anti-LGBT...
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Video: Bryan Fischer keeps talking; more moderate members of his movement keep smacking heads in frustration
In the first five minutes of this clip, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer tried to add new fuel to the "gays are the ones really committing the hate crimes" meme that only he and maybe a handful of his...
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NOM EXPOSED: Yet another 'ex-gay' advocate joins NOM's ranks
"Courage" is a Catholic organization that pushes the "ex-gay" belief that people with "same-sex attractions" can be ministered out of homosexuality. A wholly scientifically-discredited belief, of course. Damian Goddard is the Canadian sportscaster who was released from his role as...
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Alien and sedition: Linda lumps gays into incestuous, abusive, sorcerous, bomb-making box
Speaking to WorldNetDaily about the LGBT-inclusive tomes featured on the The American Library Association's list of frequently banned books, far-right activist Linda harvey is sure to note the true agenda at play. And by "true agenda," I of course mean...
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Minnesota for (Catholic) marriage
The coalition hoping to mar Minnesota's constitution with abject bias is praising Archbishop Timothy Dolan for his letter accusing the Obama administration of "attacking" marriage: “The Minnesota for Marriage Coalition commends Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York for his letter...
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Gays 'defying God's natural laws': The widely unaddressed belief hiding behind 'protect marriage' masks
Usually we activists have to prod and dig a little bit to get opposition voices to admit the personally-targeted goals that underly the "protect marriage", "traditional values" movement. But sometimes we get folks like Michael Youssef, columnist for the American...
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09/25/2011
Days and Slights: This Week in NOM (Sep. 18 - Sep. 24)
Dear NOM Watcher, Life is marked by transitions. Birth. Death. Switching shampoos. Oh, and perhaps biggest for our interest: Marriage. So too, NOM. This week, we saw all kinds of NOM transitions, from the birth of a new group to...
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09/23/2011
MD lawmaker used role to boot marriage bill, foot marriage bill
You can't make this stuff up: Maryland Del. Tiffany Alston (D-P.G. County) has been indicted on felony theft and other charges and is accused of using campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including costs associated with her 2010 wedding....
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NOM EXPOSED: Redefining Defamation: New group, same NOM strategy
NOM describes it like this: "If you have been threatened, harassed, or made to feel afraid because you believe in the great, foundational truth of Genesis –we are born male and female and called to come together in love to...
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Video: NOM launches anti-defamation project -- with man who defames 'destructive', 'illegitimate' gay 'behavior'
The National Organization For Marriage has launched a ridiculous new project called the "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance" and made Frank Turek its first poster boy: What NOM won't tell you? That this Frank Turek goes WAY beyond simply opposing marriage equality...
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FRC determined to shape 2012 election; GOP slate in Tony Perkin's bed, ready to let him
In just a couple of weeks, the bulk of the GOP presidential slate will cater to what is probably the most vocal anti-LGBT group working today, the Family Research Council. Next week, Tony Perkins will give a preview of how...
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NOM's new Chair: Cited Judge Walker's ruling as path to SCOTUS win (for us)
NOM's new Chair, John Eastman, speaking to the Los Angeles Times back in August of 2010: At least some legal experts said [Judge Walker's] lengthy recitation of the testimony could bolster his ruling during the appeals to come. Higher courts...
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NOM's new Chair: GSAs are 'incubators of moral relativism'
John Eastman, 2/8/2000, speaking out against gay-straight alliances in public schools: "Our public schools are not supposed to be forums for alternative lifestyles, nor incubators of moral relativism. Since the earliest days of our nation, schools have received public support...
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NOM's new Chair: Homosexuality is modern day 'barbarism'
John Eastman, 6/26/2000: "In 1856, the Republican Party — the party of Abraham Lincoln — included in its platform a stinging criticism of slavery and polygamy, referring to the two institutions as the "twin relics of barbarism." Slavery was barbaric...
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Soldier puts life on line; GOP crowd puts boos on voice
Some members of the audience at last night's GOP presidential debate actually booed -- BOOED! -- when active duty servicemember Stephen Hill posed a question pertaining to DADT repeal -- a booing that drew not even an ounce of pushback...
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Chuck Colson: Oppose gays like they're 19th Century slave traders
Just a couple of weeks ago, convicted Watergate figure turned "pro-family" activist Chuck Colson (on right, with buddy Brian Brown) was actually speaking out against that Florida teacher who made the excessively nasty comments on his Facebook page, commanding Christians...
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Video: Olsen and boys (who likes boys): Olbermann cites Perry co-chair to prove God's gay love
From last night's show:
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