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04/30/2012
Video: Amendment 1 backer shoots holes in our side's sign; our side to stick with shooting holes in their logic
This guy is just so damn mad at equality that he has no choice but to turn his firearm on an inanimate object: (via Joe) I can think of few time-wasters more purposeless than this one. Oh wait—voting in favor...
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Audio: Amendment 1 voice (from @FRC) says 'poor, deluded' gays are doing work of their 'malevolent master' the Devil
I've already let you hear Vote For Marriage NC campaign head Tami Fitzgerald claim that the pro-equality side wants to "destroy all North Carolina families," as well as hear Amendment 1 supporter Frank Turek claim that gays are "trying to...
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Mean-spirited divisiveness unites LGBT voices (#Amendment1, #4marriagenc)
Pam Spaulding and Chris Barron disagree on many things. The 2012 election, for one. How best to proceed with legislative LGBT fights, for another. The level of blood pressure flux that would accompany an Ann Coulter dinner invite, for a...
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In #Amendment1 support speech, Frank Turek says gays 'trying to do the work of the enemy'; pushes outrageous lie that all lesbians were sexually abused
This comes from the same Vote For Marriage NC strategy meeting where campaign head Tami Fitzgerald said the pro-equality side wants to "destroy all NC families": (from a strategy speech delivered at a 2012 Concerned Women For America conference) Gays...
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Vote For Marriage NC caught being untruthful, self-victimizing; also, grass is green, sky is blue
Joe Jervis gets a big scoop about a reliably disingenuous campaign: Following up on the claim that an elderly North Carolina woman was "violently beaten" over her anti-gay marriage yard sign, I just spoke to Chief Detective Howard Branch of...
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Amendment 1 campaign head says pro-equality campaign wants to 'destroy all NC families'
Vote For Marriage NC chair Tami Fitzgerald: (from a strategy speech delivered at a 2012 Concerned Women For America conference) Most. extreme. anti-equality campaign. ever.
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Help @protectnc with one simple mouse click (#Amendment1 #4marriagenc)
What's a very easy way you can help the effort to defeat North Carolina's mean-spirited marriage amendment? Well, you can follow any—or better yet, all—of the following people, and, for each new follow, (at least) one dollar will go the...
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Maine's Mike Heath continues to sabotage his side; yay!!
And now more from Mike Heath, the man who is leading the charge to stop same-sex marriage in Maine. This time, Heath declares war: Their movement is built on lies. Ours is built on -- or should be built on...
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Audio: Official Amendment 1 voice says gays must 'change', claims man-goat marriage is next
Despite his demonstrable record of deeply offensive slights against the LGBT community, Patrick Wooden has been a major presence in North Carolina's Vote For Marriage NC campaign. Wooden is heavily featured in the campaign's latest videos, and has been sent...
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NYT: Amendment 1 crafters were 'careless' with always-careless notion that is discrimination
Prop 8 star defender David Blankenhorn gets it. Maggie Gallagher protégé Elizabeth Marquardt gets it. Original legislative supporter Jim Crawford gets it. The New York Times editorial board gets it: In their zeal, [North Carolina] lawmakers got careless with the...
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Maine 'marriage protectors' recruit Peter LaBarbera; our polls get automatic bump
To keep fueling a Maine marriage fight that is quickly ditching all pretense of nicety or pragmatism, it's going to take voices who are more than willing to write the word "perversion" on others' marriage screencaps, who call gay soldiers...
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04/29/2012
Discriminatory #Amendment is overreaching, wide-ranging, and generally ruinous
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Days and Slights: This Week in NOM (Apr. 22 - Apr. 28)
Dear NOM Watcher, Want to see how NOM president Brian Brown is now trying to spin the disturbing scandal that is now firmly embedded in the National Organization For Marriage's organizational DNA? Well here, look at what Brian, with an...
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04/27/2012
Amendment 1 campaign literature calls gay relationships 'fundamentally dysfunctional'
Q. What is the Vote For Marriage NC campaign using to scare voters? A. A document assembled by a Southern Poverty Law Center–designated hate group which says gay relations are "fundamentally dysfunctional on many levels" with marriage being something we...
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NOM EXPOSED: NOM's Ruth Institute recruits, touts Rob 'gay is worse than incest' Gagnon
GO. read. now. NOM's Ruth Institute recruits, touts Rob 'gay is worse than incest' Gagnon [NOM Exposed]
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Maine's 'marriage protectors' fighting publicly; anyone else want popcorn?
In 2009, I kept mentioning something about the state of Maine that I found as compelling as it was telling. During the spring and summer before that fall's marriage vote, I kept noticing the way the "official" campaign was trying...
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04/26/2012
Video: Vote For Marriage NC campaign head said gays are 'abomination', not living in 'greatest and highest good'
This year, the head of North Carolina's marriage campaign, Tami Fitzgerald, is being more coy about her feelings. But back before she had a campaign to win, Tami let us know what her fight is really about: "If we truly...
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A year in a peculiarly obsessed life—Bryan Fischer edition
I don't have the wherewithal to put these in chronological order. After seeing the kind of things I have to read all year, who can blame me? Eh, it's good to have a hobby, I guess.
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Video: Another Amendment 1 ad, another call to vote for 'marriage as God designed it'
Why should anyone believe that this campaign hold the truth cards when they won't even have the pertinent conversation about civil marriage, instead insisting to focus on their personal religious opinions?
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Oh look, another state campaign pitting religion against civil rights. That's diff.
From the Family Policy Institute of Washington: Did you know that 1500 churches in Washington State have already stepped up to be part of the effort to collect signatures for Referendum 74? Do you realize what an amazing opportunity this...
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Another intended supporter says @Vote4MarriageNC goes too far; 'Duh!', say gays, fair-minded allies, future
Democratic sponsor of North Carolina's anti-gay marriage amendment seeks to unring bell: Amendment One SPONSOR now says he will vote against it (and lies about his past support of it) [PHB] That's the thing about opening the Pandora's Box that...
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Video: *Even more* theocracy from NC's campaign against *CIVIL* marriage rights
In this one, we even get an all-out declaration that gay people cannot have joy in their marriages "because God ordained" marriage: Vote For Marriage NC: The marriage campaign that forever exposes (and demolishes) the "pro-marriage" community's typical campaign ruses....
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What Mitt Romney will be supporting when he speaks at Liberty (cc: @RichardGrenell)
A continued study, this one featuring Liberty Law School Associate Dean Matt Barber: *EARLIER: Does Liberty University even *want* Mitt Romney? [G-A-Y]
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Why we do this? Because 'I Kill Gays For Fun' sites still happen
The site is now gone. But as Kelly Canfield at FireDogLake notes: until last night, this Facebook page had been up since April 9th:" Hategroup on Facebook: “I Kill Gays For Fun” [FDL] The homo-homicide isn't enough? It has to...
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Today in NOM overreaches: Chair John Eastman advocates against inclusive school instruction
People often ask me why John Eastman, the man who last year replaced Maggie Gallagher as the National Organization For Marriage's board chair, has been virtually absent from the debate since his fall 2011 appointment. The possible answer: he's been...
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GLAAD notes Romney's support for inclusive scouting (fittingly tying social conservatives' tummies in knots)
GLAAD makes a smart connection: Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney: Gay people should be able to serve in Boy Scouts In 1994 video, former Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board member Romney says 'all people should be able to...
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Video: Vote For [Chillingly Aggressive Theocracy] NC
FYI: This video was filmed at Ron Baity's recent rally. About Ron Baity and why that extreme choice matters. *MORE: Video: *Even more* theocracy from NC's campaign against *CIVIL* marriage rights
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Amendment 1 Voice: Jay Bakker supports gays because he 'was injured' as a child
Saying he supports a "toxic and counterfeit gay-affirming gospel," Rev. Mark Creech—an official committee member of the Vote For Marriage NC campaign and a prominent spokesman for the cause—claims that Jim and the late Tammy Faye Bakker's son, Jay, supports...
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04/25/2012
Huskers coach puts crippling need to shun vibrant population above paycheck
In careers, it's always good have a plan: Nebraska assistant [football coach] Ron Brown says he will continue to speak out against homosexuality even if it costs him his job. Read more: [Sports Illustrated] No word if he will also...
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NOM’s latest ‘Anti-Defamation’ stars: People who call gay relations ‘acts of grave depravity’
NOM’s latest ‘Anti-Defamation’ stars: People who call gay relations ‘acts of grave depravity’ [NOM Exposed]
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Slash and burn: Ever-bellicose NOM rakes NY Senators over fiery coals
The (Washington D.C-based) National Organization For Marriage has a new way of showing disapproval of the four New York Senate Republicans who voted in favor of marriage equality. A slightly hellish way: I guess you could "turn up the heat."...
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NOM to supporters: Dump Starbucks is now a global failure
In an e-blast sent out yesterday, NOM brags about how its taken its Starbucks boycott international: Only problem for NOM? In the one month span since the boycott began, that campaign has still failed to get the number of petition...
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Does Liberty University even *want* Mitt Romney?
When it comes to Liberty University, there are no two people who more visibly represent the school than law school deans and Liberty Counsel (LU's affiliated legal firm/activist arm) personalities Mat Staver and Matt Barber. Even President, Chancellor, and heir...
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Video: Bryan Fischer's callers convince him his CNN appearance was beneficial
At the end of this clip, noted voice of extremism Bryan Fischer says something really revelatory. The visible and right-connected AFA personality admits that even many diehard conservatives are quite troubled by what Bryan sees as good punditry, but what...
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Tony Perkins, self-appointed arbiter of civil rights
Tony Perkins: "The march is already underway to small towns across the country. Human Rights Commissions, once an arbiter for civil rights and race issues, are being co-opted by homosexuals to power an anti-family, anti-Christian agenda. It's up to people...
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04/24/2012
Video: Vote for the Bible, says most-likely-to-be-overturned-in-court amendment campaign we've ever faced
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NOM connecting NC marriage amendment to HIV; ya know, just to put it out there
Partisan. Purposeless. Disconnected from their stated fight. Designed to stigmatize. Welcome to the National Organization For Marriage (Really? "Marriage"?) circa spring of 2012: [NOM Blog]
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Video: Fischer continues to show America what 'pro-family' really means
You gotta give Bryan Fischer credit for one thing: he does own his views. Whereas someone like Tony Perkins talks one way on FRC properties and another way on mainstream media channels, his buddy, AFA Radio colleague, and fellow Values...
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NOM EXPOSED: NOM mistakes cobbled-together clips for vindication
Go check out NOM's latest and weakest attempt to look unbothered by the organization's now-definitive scandal: NOM mistakes cobbled-together clips for vindication [NOM Exposed]
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Video: Newt hopes he can impart his electoral karma onto North Carolina; me too
Traditional marriage exemplar Newt Gingrich comes out for civil discrimination in North Carolina: Considering how fully Newt Gingrich has misread and continues to misread this election, I can't say I'm threatened by his poll-swaying heft.
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Video: Tony the Teflon tiger gets another mainstream media pass
Liberty University is one of the single most anti-LGBT institutions in the United States. Just look at the kind of things that its Associate Deans tweets out to the public. Tony Perkins (a Liberty grad) is one of the single...
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Video: Minnesota for [covenant] Marriage
At some point they, the citizens of an America that has had marriage equality in some states for almost a decade now, will have to stop claiming that marriage has been man/woman "throughout history and all societies." But today's not...
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04/23/2012
Tony Perkins lashes out against Mike & Ike; Fun Dip and Lemonheads safe for now
I actually do believe that high fructose corn syrup poses a problem for our nation's kids. However, my reasons differ from those of noted TV pundit and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins: These days, you can't get a sugar...
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Finally, a pundit embraces obvious motivator attached to conserva-loved 'controversy'
Several conservative pundits have hinted at it. It took Star Parker to come out and admit a big reason some "values" conservatives were so eager to build a contrived controversy around Hilary Rosen: The issue was not so much what...
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NOM EXPOSED: Careful, NOM—your overarching agenda’s showing
To understand the NOM agenda, one need only look at the org's own words. For instance, check out these three blog posts from the past four days: KEEP READING: Careful, NOM—your overarching agenda’s showing [NOM Exposed]
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Right on cue, Bob Emrich proves how far his (NOM-aligned) agenda truly goes
Bob Emrich wants you to watch a video: [Emrich's public Facebook wall] Not just any video, either. Bob's backed video is a forty-eight minute clip that's all about opposing the gay "lifestyle," not just opposing marriage equality. The pastor, Mark...
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Video: And the proud mother merit badge goes to…
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Audio: Legal scholar's firsthand insight is 'activist', says America's most known source of anti-LGBT activism
The far-right's absurd attacks on Judge Walker continue. This from Focus on the Family: *AUDIO SOURCE: Judge Comments on Marriage Case [Focus on the Family's Citizenlink] Well of course Judge Walker sees marriage equality as inevitable! Judge Walker arguably has...
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Don Wildmon's affinity for boat shoes, graphic tanks, and kitschy books that were once blogs remains in limbo
The American Family Association's offshoot, (nowhere close to)One Million Moms, is continuing its war on the Urban Outfitters catalog: "We also contacted Urban Outfitters by e-mail with an e-mail action alert, voicing our concern about their catalog and that we...
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Amendment 1 voice says not passing ban is 'treason in God's court' (second only to murder)
David Gibbs will make you gag when he talks about "exalting righteousness" and "making the Heavens smile." But then around the 4:40 mark, when he talks about the "second highest crime" a North Carolina voter can commit on May 8,...
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