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05/10/2013
The conversation is changing; thanks, NOM!
For years I've been saying that the National Organization For Marriage, though its bad political practices and missteps, is actually helping our side reach equality even faster than we would've had the anti-LGBT side left their movement more piecemeal. I...
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05/09/2013
MN House easily advances marriage!
75–59! The bill now goes to the Senate, possibly as soon as Saturday.
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Brian Brown repeats talking point comparing gay families to those torn apart by death, divorce
Two days later, the National Organization For Marriage got around to acknowledging that Delaware passed marriage equality. In said acknowledgement, NOM prez Brian Brown repeats this truly heinous claim: "It's bad enough when families break down through divorce or death,...
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MN For Marriage confuses 'Respect All' with 'Erase'
Meanwhile in Minnesota, this seems to be the most popular kind of sign at today's House vote on marriage: Such noise. The marriage bill will respect all marriages and, by extension, show greater respect to those who choose to have...
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NOM's most heterosexist claim yet?
In a desperate new attempt to derail civil equality in Minnesota, NOM is working the idea that new marriages are going to weaken the state's economy: "Gay marriage activists continually try to push the lie that redefining marriage is an...
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MN legislature can distance itself from its Bachmann-ian past
Nine years ago, a Minnesota state lawmaker who'd built her local profile on the issue of marriage (in)equality was busy comparing colleagues who didn't heed her call to ban gays to soldiers who missed the warning signs at Pearl Harbor:...
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EXCLUSIVE: 'On My Honor' coalition 'likes' viciously anti-gay letter #standstrongbsa
As of this writing, seven Facebook users have "liked" Eugene Kovach's letter to Boy Scouts officials. One of those is the official coalition leading the charge against equal scouting, On My Honor: Without further ado, here is the truly vicious...
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Minnesota For Marriage pits Jesus, prayer against civil rights
Not only is the so-called Minnesota For Marriage coalition (*pretty much the same group of people who lost in November 2012, btw) suggesting that the possibility of civil marriage equality in the state is something that can and should be...
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Where gun control, gay marriage, and pro wrestling collide
Pro wrestler Jay Briscoe tweeted the following: (tweets in reverse order) MORE: Pro Wrestler Jay Briscoe Says He'll 'F**king Shoot' Anyone Who Tells His Kid Gay Marriage Is Okay [Towle] Well that just seems dumb. I mean, when you go...
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One Million Moms seeks Mouse House's mass discrimination
The American Family Association's "lets boycott anything gay" group, One Million Moms, is now going after the upcoming "Gay Days" at Walt Disney World. Even though the event is not sponsored by the park and there is really no way...
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5/9/2012
A year ago, a reporter asked me to share my feelings on a historic day. This is what I said in that moment: "When working so hard towards a specific goal, it's sometimes hard to imagine what the end will...
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05/08/2013
Countless people have availed themselves of delicious, premium, pro-gay marriage Starbucks. Want me to bring you some?
Here's one take on what has transpired over the past year, courtesy of the National Organization For Marriage's Comm. Director: Here's another, courtesy of hard data: Shares of coffee giant Starbucks Corp. ( SBUX - Analyst Report ) reached a...
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US Bishops, determined to alienate through distracting politics, launch national pro-discrimination bulletin
This is to set drop in Catholic church bulletins across the nation over the next two months: Bulletin Insert Marriage and the Supreme Court Spring 2013 [US Conference of Catholic Bishops] Whether or not you want to be bound by...
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NOM EXPOSED: No religious protection is good enough for Brian Brown
No religious protection is good enough for Brian Brown[NOM Exposed]
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Sure you want to use the Jefferson Memorial, NOM?
To make a case about how marriage threatens religious freedom (more on that coming up), NOM is running a pic of the Jefferson Memorial's second panel: "Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal...
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Bryan Fischer: Inclusive immigration reform would be 'importing' 'sexual dysfunction'
Sen Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has announced plans to introduce amendments that would allow same-sex couples the same rights that many opposite-sex couples take for granted (e.g. the ability to sponsor foreign partners for green cards; equal protection for binational couples;...
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05/07/2013
Delaware Family Policy Council supporters speak out: Gays are like 'pig slop,' going to get it in the end
From the Delaware Family Policy Council's Facebook post mourning today's win for civil freedom: [DFPC] Wouldn't it be really hard to "slice" pig slop? Just asking.
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DELAWARE PASSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY; 11 STATES!!!!
By a vote of 12–9, the Delaware Senate just passed marriage equality. Gov. Jack Markell (D) will soon sign. 22% of our united states now have marriage equality (*23.53% if you count D.C. and use a 51 "state" frame). We're...
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One New Yorker pushing the lie that 'every New Yorker is living the lie'
This is an outrageous lie: "In New York, we were promised that the religious freedom amendment to our same-sex marriage legislation would do the job," said the Rev. Jason McGuire, CEO of the New Yorker's Family Research Foundation. "Our legislators...
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DOMA turns 17 years old today; still not legal
From Lavi Soloway and our friends at the DOMA Project: [DOMA Project] May its horrid existence never reach its eighteenth year.
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Delaware Family Policy Council working to ban divorce, penalize single parents, make reproduction a marital requirement (apparently)
Since all of the "protect marriage" arguments that they repeated for more than a decade have pretty much proven to be failures, the organized far-right is placing all of its bets on this strategy: [DFPC] We ran down the holes...
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05/06/2013
NOM's new social media meme: Attacking gay people's marriages as 'based on a lie'
Their denigration of our families is now on full blast. This is an actual image that the National Organization For Marriage is encouraging its supporters to share: [NOM] It's just nasty. And mean. They are no longer telling us that...
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'The New Yorker' salutes Mothers' (note the apostrophe) Day
I suspect we are just a few years away form covers and cover stories like this one being thoroughly unremarkable. But they will still be beautiful then, as they are now: Now that the numbers are in on same-sex marriage,...
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No, NOM Comm. Director, we answer—you just don't listen. (#StrawmenNOMstaffersThinkAreMoreCompellingThanTheyAre)
(1) Reproduction is not a marital requirement. Unless our dedicated opposition movement wants to make it a requirement, they cannot make questions regarding parenthood the key questions that those of us who advocate for civil marriage equality must answer. (2)...
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Robert Gagnon tries to make me look bad—by again equating my 'practice' with incest
You might remember my post from last week, where I shared an email that Rob Gagnon, theologian and annual speaker at the National Organization For Marriage's "It Takes a Family" conference, sent to a list of social conservatives. In that...
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Video: Illinois GOP Rep. pledges support for equality; anti-equality crowd boos him off stage
Over the weekend, the Illinois Family Institute organized a rally in protest of GOP Rep. Ron Sandack, where some of the supporters make their true views about gay people quite known: [SOURCE: Illinois Review] And this is what it looked...
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Video: Delaware pastors hope their faith opinions, beliefs, choices get to control (/limit) shared civil policy
Here now, thirty-five minutes of Delaware pastors denying we are born gay; suggesting our unions will lead to polygamy; reducing our sexual orientations to "changeable" "behaviors" and "lifestyle choices;" denying our fight is a civil rights struggle; saying our civil...
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Baptist pastor compares Jason Collins's sexuality to adult club signs, Ty Cobb's violent racism
The first openly gay NBA player is to be equated with Pete Rose while he was gambling an Ty Cobb while he was displaying violent racism. So says this Baptist Press writer: "I agree that it is a landmark moment,...
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05/05/2013
Audio: Anti-gay scout says gays aren't clean
From the "Stand With Scouts Sunday" event that Family Research Council and "On My Honor" held tonight: (*FRC prez Tony Perkins gives brief opening remarks before the anti-gay scout)
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Audio: Pastor kicks off pro-discrimination event by equating inclusive Scouts to termites #standstrongBSA
The Family Research Council's event designed to keep the Boys Scouts just kicked off (at 7pmEST). Pastor Robert Hall, who has many hostile things on record, began the event by saying we are in the last days, gays are "deviant,"...
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05/03/2013
Boy Scouts force anti-gay coalition to change logo
John Stemberger's "On My Honor" coalition is pretending it's a good thing. But it's clear they were forced to create this "new and improved" logo, sans its past BSA branding: [On MY Honor email] I'm not surprised that this coalition...
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Video: Oprah chats w/ b-baller's openly accepting parents
First Look: The Day NBA Player Jason Collins Came Out to His Parents For decades, NBA player Jason Collins struggled with his sexuality and hid his truth from those he loved most, even his twin brother and his parents, Portia...
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Labarbera, Barber, Mefferd twit-fight w/ Alan Chambers; I replenish popcorn bag
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Video: Brian Brown continues to write off any state 'too blue' to be part of real America
Twenty percent of our states (plus D.C.) now have civil marriage equality. Polls are heading one decided way. More than half of our U.S. Senators support full equality. And of yeah, America re-elected a President who is a fierce advocate...
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Rest, good civil servant—this Bishop's personal religious opinion can't hurt your rights now
Calling it "a serious regression in the public morality of our state," Rhode Island's Archbishop Tobin is doing what our national body of Bishops now pretty much do as their definitive public work: condemning gay people's civil marriage rights. Tobin...
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Audio: Matt Barber tells nat'l radio audience that gays 'are in rebellion to God'; is somehow still the 'victim'
Matt Barber continues his game of telling LGBT people they are broken and immoral by insisting that we "know" we are what he says we are: Janet Mefferd Show, 5/2/13 Matt is using a corrosive strategy that those of us...
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05/02/2013
GLAAD: Who is John Stemberger and what's really driving his Boy Scout's crusade? #AScoutIsEqual #StandStrongBSA
Who is John Stemberger and what's really driving his Boy Scout's crusade? [GLAAD]
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NOM's 'anti-defamation' spokesperson: Christians are supposed 'to be belligerent'
Damian Goddard, the fired sportscaster cum anti-LGBT activist who the National Organization For Marriage chose to lead its "Marriage Anti-defamation Alliance," on how Christians are support to behave against "enemy combatants to the culture": So wait—we are supposedly "defaming" Goddard...
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Three-year-old to Julia Gillard, Australian Parliament: 'I. WANT. A. HUSBAND!'
Ahhhh:
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NOM EXPOSED: NOM affiliate says political support for equality = End Times, AntiChrist
NOM affiliate says political support for equality = End Times, AntiChrist[NOM Exposed]
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FRC: God punishing us with war, terrorism, 'homosexualized politics'
The coarsening of the far-right rhetoric continues: The scourge presently upon our nation - wars, devastating weather, acts of terrorism, confusion and failure among our government leaders, spiritual confusion in many of our churches, decimation of the family, economic decline,...
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05/01/2013
Delaware Senate Exec. Committee advances marriage equality; 4–2
On to the full Senate, likely tomorrow! Forward.
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Audio: 'Consider yourself warned'—Delaware anti-equality testifier condemns gays, supporters #DE4M
From this afternoon's Senate Exec. Committee hearing:
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Video: Nasty anti-gay video equates lesbian moms with cigarettes, junk science with credible research
This seems to be another production of fringe activist Janet Folger Porter: *** Backup copy:
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Audio: Power 105 hosts aren't buying Chris Broussard's attempt to have it both ways
He says that gay people "aren't born that way" and have sinful lifestyles into which they "fall." But hey, he's friends with LZ Granderson despite that fellow sportscaster's gay "lifestyle," so there's no way he's anti-gay. That's the latest spin...
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Delaware's leading 'protect marriage' group backs claim that gays are in 'open rebellion to God'
By now, you probably know that ESPN sportscaster Chris Broussard went on TV and said that openly gay NBA player Jason Collins is "in open rebellion to God" simple because he is gay. And while that may be a view...
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NOM's star speaker attacks me, says 'unrepentant' gays are 'perverts,' repeats belief that 'homosexual practice' is more unnatural than incest
The National Organization For Marriage's Ruth Institute has held four "It Takes A Village..." conferences, and exceedingly anti-gay speaker Robert Gagnon has spoken at every one. Every year he speaks, folks like myself and Equality Matter's Carlos Maza take time...
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NOM's new fundraising pitch: Give us money to shape an outcome we can't possibly change
With the months since the November elections playing out like a bad dream, the National Organization For Marriage is simply desperate to find something—anything, maybe, please—that can bring in the money. Their latest: telling supporters that they still have the...
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