Good As You: Maryland Roundup
11/05/2012
More extreme comments from Maryland 'traditional marriage' supporters
At a weekend rally in opposition to Maryland's Question 6, Pastor Luke Robinson framed Hurricane Sandy as judgment for LGBT-supportive states and actions. Michael Lavers reports: “So here was the mayor of New York giving a quarter of a million...
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11/04/2012
Maryland Marriage Alliance figure: 'God of all creation says [gays] are not born this way'
On his Facebook wall, Bishop Angel Nunez makes his view perfectly clear. It's not just about denying gay people marriage but rather denying the reality of sexual orientation: So what does such a view earn Mr. Nunez? Prominent speaking gigs...
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10/25/2012
Audio: Marylanders 'fired up and ready to go' for equality
Unlike the opposition, our side doesn't threaten that gay marriage supporters will be on the wrong side of eternity. They do, however, make salient points about civil fairness: TRANSCRIPT: WOMAN 1: So who are you voting for President? WOMAN 2:...
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10/24/2012
Audio: HOLY WOW–Maryland Marriage Alliance repeats 'right side of eternity' thing (this time in an ad)
In the wake of the "worthy of death"/"wrong side of eternity" controversy, the Maryland Marriage Alliance has put out a new radio ad featuring Alveda King making the same afterlife prediction: "Hello, I'm Dr. Alveda King, the niece of the...
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10/23/2012
'Catholic Bandita' Lisa Graas brings more attention to MD Marriage Alliance extremism; yay!
Lisa Graas is a NOM supporter who runs the Catholic Bandita blog. This is how Ms. Graas regards gay people: Homosexual inclination is objectively disordered. It is not “okay” to be “gay” any more than it is “okay” to hate...
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10/22/2012
While we're on the theme of the Maryland Marriage Alliance and extreme outreach…
…here's Michael Lavers' report from yet another weekend appearance that proves how far beyond marriage the anti-equality agenda really goes: BALTIMORE — A California pastor referred to gays as as “predators” during an event against same-sex marriage at a local...
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Video: Is this really what the Maryland Marriage Alliance supports?
I put two of the worst moments from the earlier video clips (see four prior posts) into one easily shareable minute: (**Rmdr: The guy who hysterically laughs at the end of the clip is MD Marriage Alliance head Derek McCoy;...
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Video: MD equality foes desperately twist FLOTUS; try to make it appear she supports their discrimination
A new ad from the eye-openingly extreme campaign that's trying to block civil marriage equality in Maryland:
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Maryland Marriage Alliance panel claims gays and supporters are 'worthy of death'
So I've already shown you this MD marriage panel, focused on the fact that it includes an "ex-gay" president alongside the official campaign. Now let's cue it up to another point, where the man sitting right next to campaign head...
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10/18/2012
Video: Opus Dei Catholic Ceci Royals thinks she's the victim
Ceci (or Cecilia) Royals, a devout Catholic involved with Opus Dei, is committed to using her personal faith beliefs to stop her fellow Marylanders from obtaining *civil* marriage equality. But she's the one really being harmed here: (H/t: Joe.My.God.) No...
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10/15/2012
Maryland Marriage Alliance deletes fair discourse; here's the proof
This is how it looked three hours ago: This is how this same post looks now: [SOURCE] And of course I'm blocked from any further comment. Because I always am, no matter how on message, measured, or pertinent my views....
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10/10/2012
Maryland Marriage Alliance head: Gay families 'not God's best'
He begins by mispronouncing the name Regnerus. But it's his misstatement of the flawed, skewed, far-right-crafted study's meaning in terms of families like mine that concerns me more: "And they're just not faring as well because—guess what?—it's not what God...
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10/09/2012
Another marriage campaign cites conservative publication, pretends it's mere 'scholarly journal'
Minnesota For Marriage has done it. Protect Marriage Maine has done it. Now it's the Maryland Marriage Alliance's turn to act like a social conservative print outlet is nothing more than a "scholarly journal": [SOURCE: Maryland Marriage Alliance] "Ooh, Harvard—that's...
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10/08/2012
How to make a Maryland marriage ad (in 8 easy stock video purchases)
I'll leave it to you to find your own voiceover artist. However, if you are a Marylander looking to discriminate against gay couples, here are eight of the nine stock video clips that the Maryland Marriage Alliance purchased to represent...
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10/05/2012
Video: Anti-equality Matt Birk cuts Maryland Marriage Alliance ad
Oh Matt—your community redefined the mortal existence of a pig so that it could become a ball that you pass around for lucre in a game that demands a plethora of padding so that you and your teammates' lives are...
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10/04/2012
Audio: Maryland Marriage Alliance's aligned church: Gays live 'lifestyle of hatred towards God', are 'going to hell'; more
The Maryland Marriage Alliance has been quit cozy with Bel Air's Oak Grove Baptist Church. Just two weeks ago, the organization trying to rollback civil marriage equality in the state had a big rally on site at the church: [Maryland...
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10/03/2012
Audio: Other side's four-state conference call
I just got off a conference call, which I will now share with you. What to expect: A whole lot of talk about "protecting God's design," even though all four campaigns are fighting *CIVIL* equality. At one point Carroll Conley...
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10/01/2012
Maryland Marriage Alliance's callous 'nonsense'
An example of the disrespect that the so-called "protect marriage" crowd so routinely shows to our lives, loves, marriages, rights, and families: No compromise? You mean you aren't willing to accept that LGBT people are a natural, normal part of...
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09/18/2012
Bradlee Dean to clue Marylanders into extremity of anti-equality advocacy
You know Bradlee Dean, the intensely anti-LGBT Minnesotan who has one of the most incendiary quote banks of anyone advocating against human rights? Yeah, well—he's about to join an "ex-gay"/anti-equality coalition for the purposes of opposing marriage equality Maryland: Maryland...
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08/06/2012
And now in news about $$ we could direct to actual threats if social cons. would stop playing games w/ certain humans' lives…
The Human Rights Campaign is chipping in $250k to each of the four states (Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, Washington) where we face ballot fights this fall: $1 million for gay marriage efforts [Politico] This figure will likely climb higher before November,...
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07/20/2012
#GLAADCAP goes local; launches with Maine
New York, NY, July 20, 2012 - GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti- defamation organization, today announced the addition of several anti-gay activists to the Commentator Accountability Project (CAP), focused on states that...
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06/25/2012
NOM goes full on religious in Maryland; no longer even pretending
I'm told that the Rev. John Boyles just attended a marriage rally in Maryland, where he identified himself as an official National Organization For Marriage spokesman. I've yet to hear audio or video from today's speech, but check out this...
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Audio: Maryland Marriage Alliance personality pits Satan against gay people's love #glaadcap
Harry Jackson tells his Maryland congregants why they must take away marriage equality in their state. Spoiler alert: It's so they can defeat their enemy, Satan: SOURCE: [Harry Jackson, 6/24 AM service] What I know, Harry Jackson? That every time...
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05/31/2012
How NOM's seemingly limitless cash well is shaping Maryland
This year, the National Organization For Marriage is trying to drive a wedge between gays and [insert whoever] in every single state where our rights are on the ballot, masterminding the fifty state plan from the cozy NOM office on...
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Audio: Maryland pastors take on Satan's tactics (a.k.a. increased peace of mind for gay families)
Harry Jackson admits that his coalition doesn't have the support of basically anyone in a place of power, authority, or legal scholarship. However, this marriage alliance does have the audacity to accuse gays of following "the tactic that Satan has...
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05/24/2012
Friday: Maryland Marriage Alliance to pray for gays' defeat, repentance
Tomorrow and on subsequent Fridays thereafter, those working to stop *CIVIL* marriage equality in Maryland will be holding webcast prayer sessions designed to "confound the enemy": For those who find the beach to coarse, start your Memorial Day weekend with...
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04/04/2012
NOM EXPOSED: Another NOM loss: Spent $10k, watched pro-equality Dem. grab 74% of vote
Just filed FEC reports show that NOM spent $10,000 in last night's Maryland state primary hoping to push anti-equality Democrat C. Anthony Muse, a current state senator who voted against the marriage bill, above incumbent U.S. Senator Ben Cardin. KEEP...
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04/02/2012
Churches as campaign HQs -- MD edition
The so-called Maryland Marriage Alliance has listed the places around the state where one can go to pick up petitions against civil marriage equality. Notice the one thing that connects them all: Petition Distribution Centers in Maryland Below are a...
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03/24/2012
Come for the uplifting prayer and fellowship, stay for the cynical political activity
From Baltimore's CBS affiliate: More than 1,000 churches across Maryland are expected to offer a petition to their members so the issue can get on the ballot. … “In order to save America, to save our families, we must take...
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03/02/2012
Maryland for [church/state] marriage
Here, a day after Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) made civil rights history in his state by signing marriage equality into law, it's quite interesting/telling to find the so-called Maryland Marriage Alliance, the organized campaign to put those same CIVIL licensing...
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03/01/2012
Live at 5PM ET: Gov O'Malley makes MD a better state (i.e. signs the marriage bill)
statemaryland on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
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02/24/2012
'Parrotting' past mistakes: MD delegate moves forward with ignoble popularity contest
Even his own Facebook followers tell him that they do not want a marriage referendum: [Neil Parrot] But regardless, Maryland Del. Neil Parrott has gone forward with the plan to put his citizens' civil rights up before a public vote:...
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02/17/2012
Maryland House passes marriage bill!
We got the 71 needed votes in the Assembly!! Now on to the (presumably much easier) Senate and then, hopefully, Gov. O'Malley's welcoming desk!! Of course even upon passage and signage, there's still that pesky threat of a referendum hanging...
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02/01/2012
Video: 'There's some sickness going on': The 'loving' voice of Maryland 'marriage protection'
Charles Lollar from something called the New Day Maryland PAC, speaking at Monday's anti-equality rally in Annapolis: [OpDitch:YT] I can honestly say I've never stood up and cheered for my neighbor to have a tougher shake at life, liberty, or...
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Video: Maryland AG says equality is 'moral imperative and a logical, historical inevitability'
From yesterday's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing, here's Maryland's Attorney General, Doug Gansler (D), making the right and fair case:
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01/20/2012
Maryland Marriage Alliance sure has odd dreams
Even if you strongly oppose marriage equality, is the desire to stop it really a "dream"? I mean, regardless of your view, it's certainly just keeping status quo, at best, and discrimination, at worst truest. So I really have trouble...
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01/18/2012
MD: I now pronounce you church and state; you may conceive a child
The so-called Maryland Marriage Alliance is encouraging pastors to pass these out to their congregants: SOURCE: Pastor Resources, MD For Marriage Marriage is the only relationship capable of bringing children into the world? Well forget our fight for a second....
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01/13/2012
Exclusive: Maryland Marriage Alliance comes out for transgender children (*or at least the clipart version thereof)
Even though I stand firmly against their campaign to stop civil marriage equality in the Old Line State, I'm thrilled to see Maryland For Marriage supporting transgender children. Why do I say they are? Oh. Well, because just like Minnesota...
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01/12/2012
Noun-as-adjective; NOM-as-partisan
Q. What does a Democratic state lawmaker get for standing with the "traditional marriage" conservatives? A. He gets Republican groups like NOM doing that truly silly conservative game where they refuse to use the proper adjective form (Democratic), instead resorting...
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01/11/2012
War imagery as punditry: Love as attack, par for course
Oh look, another top politico portraying our families as dangerous meteors headed straight gayly towards peaceful society. Hit it, Maryland Senate President Mike Miller (Democrat): "I’m a historian and I look at civilizations, I study civilizations, I read history every...
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01/04/2012
Must See Video: Harry Jackson shows Maryland Marriage Alliance's true underpinnings
Longtime Family Research Council and National Organization For Marriage ally Harry Jackson is a big part of the so-called Maryland Marriage Alliance that's trying to stop the inevitable in the state. You might have seen Harry front and center at...
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12/01/2011
Maryland, Marriage, Appliance: 'What's to stop a woman from marrying a computer?'
Since Maryland's anti-equality forces are ramping up their efforts to stop basic fairness in that state, I thought it'd be fun to remind folks of what one of that movement's top guys, Protect Marriage Maryland's Robert Broadus, said while speaking...
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10/21/2011
Video: Brendon Ayanbadejo takes break from pigskin, fights to end bull byproduct
[Marylanders For Marriage Equality]
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10/03/2011
Gov. O'Malley picks up Cuomo-ian torch, runs with it
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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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07/13/2011
Video: To cure past missteps, MD follows NY's prescription
Diverse coalition, common goal: [MD Delegate Heather Mizeur] Two words, Maryland: Duff Goldman. Here in NY, we had Sandra Lee -- there in Baltimore, you have your own Food Network star. Never underestimate the transformative power of celebrity + carbs.
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03/18/2011
Video: 'I would love to see this kind of mobilization when it comes to...public schools'
[YT] But..but..but -- personal faith. The children. Religious ceremonies that will not in anyway be affected. Talking points with no factual basis. And...
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03/15/2011
A very wrong estrangement: Capehart on #MARRYland's troubling divisiveness
Kudos to Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart for noting the disturbing way the "protect marriage" crowd exploited race during the Maryland debate: What I find even more troubling is the wedge being driven between African Americans and gays. After the marriage-...
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03/14/2011
The arc of history is long -- and frequently ambivalent
Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks accurately notes Gov. Martin O'Malley's failure to make a strong push on marriage equality: On the matter of same-sex marriage, you publicly state a preference for the lesser option of civil unions but pledge to...
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NOM's new MD: A second opinion
One more thing about the National Organization for Marriage abruptly shifting their Maryland-centric site. Interesting how on the new web home, NOM, a so obviously Catholic organization (with Mormon undercurrent), now fully admits to strong ties with the local Catholic...
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