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03/25/2013
My exchange with a NOM #marriagemarch speaker
This person is scheduled to speak at the National Organization For Marriage's "March For Marriage" (held on Tuesday outside of the US Supreme Court): Jeremy Email connection is fine / no problem Okay to jump in For starters: I preach...
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NOM EXPOSED: Does NOM think Ricky Martin is hell’s ambassador? Because its March for Marriage speaker does.
NOM Comm. Director defines equality: Relationship must ‘end naturally with a child’ [NOM Exposed]
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American Family Association makes typically high-minded case against marriage equality
Go ahead, B-dog—convince your side's lawyers to use that in court this week. I have lots of gay friends who'd love June weddings (and I myself would love federal recognition).
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Photos from NOM's last #marchformarriage
As we gear up for tomorrow's big rally in DC, let us look back at some of the signs that I spotted as NOM's last big rally—the one where they bussed supporters to Manhattan. Here are just a few of...
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Video: Man who says marriage equality is 'satanic plot to destroy our seed' promotes NOM #marriagemarch
Harry Jackson has described LGBT families as "discombobulated, Frankenstein structures" that are "out of order" with God, has said that gay activists' current marriage push is "just like during the times of Hitler," has claimed marriage equality as “a satanic...
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Because politicking against civil law is why you go to church on Palm Sunday, right?
From a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation's Davos Center: Take that, focused and faithful reverence!
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What nation LIKES the *National* Org. For Marriage?
With one day to go before their big pro-discrimination rally outside the Supreme Court building, look what remains the most popular city on NOM's Facebook organizing page: Yup, that's right: Paris. As in not the United States. For a march,...
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Video: New York unites for marriages
Murray Yarrum sends me this collection of shots from yesterday's rally in NYC: This is the week, folks. It's here!! To find your local rallies or for help getting yourself to DC, check out our United For Marriage coalition site.
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Just. cuz for just cause: Roberts' relative to watch him decide her class of citizenship
And then there's this: Jean Podrasky, first cousin to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on his mother's side, will attend Tuesday's hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court on Proposition 8, The Los Angeles Times reported. KEEP READING: Jean Podrasky,...
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03/24/2013
Claire says 'I do'; Southern senator backs Mason/Dixon's gay marriage
With its most historic moment just around the bend, another prominent Democrat gets on the record: "My views on this subject have changed over time, but as many of my gay and lesbian friends, colleagues and staff embrace long term...
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Hey, where'd Maggie go? #marchformarriage
On Friday, Maggie Gallagher was listed as a speaker at NOM's upcoming march outside the Supreme Court: Now, she's gone. Her photo has been replaced with the president of France's conservative Christian Democratic Party (which NOM writes as "Chistian" and...
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NOM pushes incredibly hostile document; says gays violate natural law, offend God, are 'changeable'
I've told you about TFP, one of the uber hostile cosponsors of the march the National Org. For Marriage will hold outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday. And on a couple of occasions, I've shown you one of that org's...
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Video: Evan Wolfson wins CBS News marriage debate; handily
Contrast Tony Perkins' same old spin (and masking of his true hostilities) with the able passion of Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson:
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03/22/2013
Fighting [to legally estrange me from my husband] with zeal and strategy
The headline alone makes me nauseous: Fighting Same-Sex Marriage With Zeal and Strategy [NYT] The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote a love letter to Brian Brown. I know for a fact that she spoke to at least four...
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Audio: FRC's Sprigg will work with gay Republicans (*who hide their 'conduct'); says gays are to 'go and sin no more'
This is the Senior Policy Fellow of one of the orgs that is co-sponsoring next week's pro-discrimination march outside of the Supreme Court. Here he is making it clear that gays and our "conduct" are two different things: And here...
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NOM EXPOSED: Does NOM think Ricky Martin is hell’s ambassador? Because its March for Marriage speaker does.
Does NOM think Ricky Martin is hell’s ambassador? Because its March for Marriage speaker does. [NOM Exposed]
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CWA cites 'ex-homosexuals' as reason to oppose marriage equality
This is the church bulletin that Concerned Women For America has created to oppose equality at the Supreme Court (/promote the NOM marriage march that CWA is cosponsoring). Note the pointed advocacy for the scientifically-rejected idea that gays can "change":
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This weekend: FRC promotes NOM's March for Marriage by telling congregants gays aren't going to heaven
The Family Research Council, an official co-sponsor of next week's pro-discrimination march outside of the Supreme Court, is encouraging churches to run the following insert in their bulletins. It manages to incorporate both Mark Regnerus' widely discredited attempt to paint...
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Video: When they know us, they know it's #time4marriage
Politico got the scoop on this, the latest from the Respect For Marriage coalition: The other side has myth. Spin. Carefully workshopped talking points. Misapplied "research." Untruth that trades on years of stigma and stereotype. Ad, in many cases: outright...
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03/21/2013
So much for my 'missing Maggie' theory
The National Organization For Marriage co-founder, who has been quite absent from the marriage debate in recent days, was just announced as a speaker at next week's pro-discrimination march outside the Supreme Court: I wonder if she's rally the crowd...
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Audio: RI senator cites Satan as #ri4m's adversary
Rhode Island's Senator Harold Metts (D-District 6):
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Audio: 'If homosexuality was a drug you could buy at the store…' #ri4m
From tonight's Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee debate on marriage:
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Audio: Chris & Kara Young show discrimination's unchecked extremities #ri4m
Just happened at the Rhode Island marriage debate. Kara spent most of her time comparing us to pedophiles and condemning us as "immoral": Husband Chris began by saying that he would file an injection against a passed and executed bill...
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In 'USA Today,' CWA president equates marriage equality with 'vices' like prostitution
This is part of a lengthy piece about those who oppose us. There are many notable oversights that fail to paint a full picture of who these folks are and what they've said about us (Rev. Willie Owens gets one...
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ADF praying for 'God to manifest goodness' in Edie Windsor's life
Edie Windsor has lived on this planet for eighty-three years, and was fortunate enough to share forty of those with the love of her life, Thea Spyer. So with all due respect, Alliance Defending Freedom, I think Ms. Windsor is...
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Osmond family members host Utah version of NOM's #marriagemarch
This will coincide with the Supreme Court cases and the National Organization For Marriage's march in DC: SOURE: A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman As you might know, Alan's sister, Marie Osmond, has a lesbian daughter. But I guess "My gay niece...
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Um, because no one's saying it's "better," NOM Comm Director
His canards are constant: 1m1w marriage has no bigger fan than myself. If you invite me to your man/woman marriage, I will shout the loudest "mazel tov!" when the glass breaks, raise my glass the highest at the cocktail hour,...
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Bryan Fischer wants Obama's 'dark minions' disbarred over DOMA
He's got a way with words, this one: "[S]o eager are Obama and his dark minions at the DOJ to drive a stake through the heart of natural marriage that they are making an eye watering attempt to get DOMA...
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Far-right itching to turn Doug Mainwaring's solo act into an orchestra
Earlier this year, I wrote a post about how the National Organization For Marriage is attempting to portray one human being, Tea Party leader Doug Mainwaring, as if he is an entire coalition. Ya see, Mr. Mainwaring identifies as a...
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FRC literally praying for Olson, Boies, et al. to have bad day in court
When all else fails, pray that the lawyers forget how to perform in court: [Family Research Council] Reminiscent of when the Focus on the Family guy prayed for it to rain out then-candidate Obama's convention speech.
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'Times' report: Dwindling number of younger professional conservatives cling to discrimination; hope slick rebranding will save their cause
The New York Times is running a piece this morning on the small and dwindling percentage of younger voters who oppose marriage equality. Here's one particularly annoying snip, delivered by NOM "March For Marriage" speaker Eric Teetsel: “Proponents of same-sex...
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03/20/2013
Audio: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH4) says reaction to pro-equality rulings will, should be 'explosive'
Congressman Jim Jordan, speaking to a man who has done everything he can to turn the LGBT rights conversation "explosive," is already laying the groundwork for an America with full marriage equality. It should be "explosive," teases the Republican Rep:...
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Video: Pastor Hagee says God's probably going to destroy us unless 'the righteous' stand up
RightWingWatch caught this, a shockingly non-shocking bit of antagonism designed for the cultivation thereof: I say it's non-shocking, because this is part for Mr. Hagee's rancorous course. It's kind of his thing. But I say shockingly non-shocking, because he is...
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NOM EXPOSED: Another March For Marriage sponsor, another call for gay people’s ‘healing’
Another March For Marriage sponsor, another call for gay people’s ‘healing’ [NOM Exposed]
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Head of org. that calls homosexuality 'particularly evil lie of Satan' promotes NOM's marriage march
And now here's Jim Daly, the man who is hung up on having a "softer" tone even though his organization's mission has not changed one iota, promoting the upcoming pro-discrimination march outside of the Supreme Court: You sound passionate, Jim....
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NOM's Roback Morse: Gays 'can stop acting in a gay way'
Carlos Maza brings us another quip from the one National Organization For Marriage senior staffer who is most on record admitting that she wants gay people to stop being gay: NOM's Morse: Gay Rights Aren't Civil Rights Because Gay People...
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Second Scythian member comes out against NOM's #marriagemarch, his bandmates' appearance at it
Earlier this week, I showed you how Scythian rummer Andrew Toy came out against his band mate's decision to form an alternate trio and perform at the National Organization's upcoming pro-discrimination march outside of SCOTUS. Now Josef Crosby, who handles...
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Video: Jim Garlow sets June 9 for pointed politicization of America's churches
Right as summer is set to begin, "Prop 8 pastor" Jim Garlow will turn his attention, and as that of as many of the nation's pastors and he can recruit, toward making life just a little colder for same-sex couples...
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FRC, NOM, ADF, Heritage issue sleek new brochure; sleekness can't polish this discriminatory turd
Despite its obvious misapplication and undeniably biased motivations, the following document cites the Regnerus study multiple times. It also rehashes some of those same Maggie-Gallagher-crafted talking points that we've been hearing (and beating back) for more than a decade now....
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03/19/2013
Audio: Tony Perkins has no hate for you or your 'destructive lifestyle'
Tony Perkins, possessor of one of the most hostile quote banks in all of the anti-LGBT punditry class, has no anger against gays. He tells us this immediately before he again claims that gay people have "destructive lifestyles": [SOURCE: Perkins...
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American Family Association goes after Amazon, Microsoft; both companies trembling, I'm sure
Because of the two companies' prominent ads in support of marriage equality, the boycott-loving folks at the American Family Association are firing off angry form letters to two different corporate giants: Two companies promoting homosexual marriage [AFA Action] Of course...
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Supreme Court to release same-day audio for marriage cases
According to the New York Times' Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak: [@AdamLiptak] For those wondering what the sound of a Scalia trying (and failing) to stop a clock actually sounds like.
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We already have our tenth marriage equality state?
The Washington Blade's Chris Johnson brings us this intriguing report: City officials in Sante Fe are asserting that same-sex marriage is already legal in New Mexico and are encouraging county clerks in the state to offer marriage licenses to gay...
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Q. Why's marriage equality winning? A. Because its foes still liken homosexuality to screwing dogs, abusing drugs, joining Taliban
Conservative writer Selwyn Duke is glad of one thing: that Republican Senator Rob Portman's son didn't come out as openly involved in bestiality, drug abuse, or Taliban recruitment, all of which he connects back to the son's homosexuality: Well, it's...
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Tony Perkins' hollow threats
I'm sure many within that 58% who support marriage equality will show up to vote. If Tony wants to hyper-motivate social conservatives in the GOP primaries so that the party nominates the Rick Santorums and Steve Kings of the world...
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Video: Tom 'gays can't serve on the Supreme Court' Minnery promotes NOM's pro-discrimination march
In 2010, when Elena Kagan was being considered for the Supreme Court and there became something of a national conversation about sexuality and high court justices, Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery told reporter Greg Sargent that “[s]omeone who is...
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Where in the World is Maggie Gallagher?
You would think this would be her shining moment. Maggie Gallagher was talking about the so-called Defense Of Marriage Act (which she found too "timid") back when few other conservative writers cared to dedicate the time. During Prop 8's initial...
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United these Methodists stand until our divisive bans (inevitably) fall
It's always good to see a church taking a stand like this. Even better when it's below the Mason-Dixon line: A United Methodist Church in North Carolina is taking a dramatic stand on the issue of marriage equality by announcing...
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NOM's latest #marriagemarch speaker: Being gay is like 'playing dodge ball in a busy street,' a 'public health risk'
Bob Vander Plaats once equated an LGBTQ Youth conference to "playing dodge ball in a busy street": "Our goal at The FAMiLY LEADER is to speak the truth in love. Ironically, the upcoming 7th Annual Iowa Governor's Conference on LGBTQ...
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Pro-gay artist gets NOM 'March For Marriage' ad yanked on copyright grounds
The thing is, you can't just use a pro-equality artist's music in your pro-discrimination ad spots without first obtaining the artist's permission. If you do, this might happen: As you might remember, I informed Herzig of the usage last week,...
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