Good As You: Stand For Marriage Maine Roundup
11/09/2009
Accurate assessments of LGBTs worth? Not so much. But as for Linda's ability to assess fallacious campaigns? Well...
One of the things that infuriated us the most about the Stand For Marriage Maine coalition that recently duped Mainers into adopting bias is that behind the typical surface that Shubert-Flint advises these kinds of anti-equality campaigns to adopt in...
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11/05/2009
Maine: You were duped
Maine's longtime anti-gay leader, Mike Heath, is revealing some very interesting points in his latest blog post. For one, he confirms exactly what we told you for many months, which is that even though his ties with them run deep,...
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11/04/2009
Some Mainers who voted against your 'whacky oversexed version of progress'
Congratulations, gay Mainers. You have lost your equal citizenship to this: Stand for Marriage Maine [Facebook] "Sign a petition to end this foolishness." That's truly what they think of us, that a pull of a lever or a move of...
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We go to bed more hurt, more unequal, more hated, more harassed, more dehumanized. Sleep well.
They lied. They dehumanized. They used personal faith to address civil law. They sought out any and every opportunity to confuse the issue. They went after anyone who got in their paths, with zero to less-than-zero regard for the well-being...
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11/01/2009
Maine's Question One: War on gay existences not limited to ring fingers!
Just a reminder, because it can't be said enough: Maine's Pastor Bob Emrich supports "ex-gay" therapy. The same Bob Emrich who was just today cited by Bangor Daily News as the "leader of the Yes on 1 campaign to overturn...
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Don, we now are gays in peril: And we're the one's getting decked in the halls
FACT: Donald Mendell, a guidance counselor at Maine's Nokomis Regional High School, chose to inject himself into the gay rights debate. In a 12/01/08 letter to the Bangor Daily News, he referred to marriage equality as "a change that strikes...
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10/31/2009
We always knew their campaign would culminate in a con(junction)
Last night, Stand For Marriage Maine sent out the following: (highlighting and phone number redaction is ours) No word if the campaign is also nearing other conjunctions such as "but," "or," or "so." Though considering the way their fallacious tactics...
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10/30/2009
Video: DPs: They were against them before they were [secretly still against] them
Having followed national LGBT goings-on for the past several years, we were beyond shocked when we heard Stand For Marriage Maine acting as if they are totally cool with domestic partnerships, just as long as the word "marriage" is not...
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'Yes on 1 (at any cost)' embraces campaign's 'silly season'; forgive us if we don't crack a smile
As we round the bend and aggressively push towards the finish line, our opposition in Maine is getting ever more heated in their attempts to turn the public against us. Earlier this week we saw Brian Camenker, Peter LaBarbera, Maggie...
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10/28/2009
Camenker, LaBarbera, Madore: They came, they saw, they bore out the 'Yes on 1' connections
The "No on 1" campaign's Jesse Connolly is back from today's "yes on 1" press conference featuring Brian Camenker, Paul Madore, and Peter LaBarbera, and he's in no mood to mince words: "This is not the new face of the...
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Stand For Marriage Maine has damaged their state with lies. It'll take time to fix.
Check out this landing page that's being used to scare visitors to the StandForMarriageMaine site: Okay, let's break this bullcrappy down: 1) We're not sure if the teacher is supposed to be a pro-gay "indoctrinator," or simply a teacher. But...
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10/27/2009
Taking stock of Yes on 1's families
Interested in knowing what "real" Maine families are working to take away you rights? Well, in Stand For Marriage Mains' latest ad, there are five of them. First up is the "A father gives his daughter a piggy-back ride while...
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Video: 'Yet we want to be tolerant of gays'?!?!?!?!
The title should have an apostrophe. More thoughts after this short interruption (which seeks to interrupt your lives and loves): 0:00-0:07: Majority support is NEVER a suitable basis for denying civil rights. Almost every progressive move that has been made...
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'Yes on 1': Any [dehumanizing attack] will do
“any two will do" To get a sense of just how nasty Maine's "yes on 1" campaign is and has been since the beginning, just turn to the above four words. On several occasions now, the campaign has used that...
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10/25/2009
Yes on 1's largest donor: An examination (Complete Set)
Volume 1: Unhinged billboard campaign Volume 2: Oversimplified reduction of pro-gay comments Volume 3: Ridiculous Vaclav Havel/Soviet empire comparisons Volume 4: NOM board member wants to overthrow pro-gay governments Volume 5: NOM's general counsel = quite extremist Volume 6: Heated...
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10/24/2009
Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 13)
A "grassfire [that] would spread across America!" That is the way that former U.S. Senator Rick "man on dog sex" Santorum reduced and condemned same-sex unions in a recent pitch letter that he penned for the National Organization For Marriage:...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 12)
On 9/4/09, the National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher appeared on "The Ken and Mike Morning News Show." Things to listen listen up for: Maggie once again using the Ocean Grove, NJ, thing, neglecting to mention the actual facts at...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 11)
This comes verbatim from page 54 of the Iowa marriage ruling: Promotion of optimal environment to raise children. Another governmental objective proffered by the County is the promotion of “child rearing by a father and a mother in a marital...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 9)
National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher, from a Catholic radio program: *Source: Catholic Answers Live -- 6/30/08 Are you going to let canon law put a cannon to Maine's civil law? $1.1 million of the $1.4 million raised by Stand...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 8)
All of these quotes come from the National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown. Personally number five is our "favorite": "Same-sex unions are not marriages and Iowans should not be forced by law to treat them as such.” ... "This madness...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 7)
How extreme is the National Organization For Marriage? Well get this. Back in 1996, when that awful Defense of Marriage Act was passed, NOM's Maggie Gallagher actually spoke out against it. Because she found it to be -- get this...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 6)
This comes from The National Organization For Marriage's founder, Robert George: "...it is not really about benefits. It is about sex. The idea that is antithetical to those who are seeking to redefine marriage is that there is something uniquely...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 1)
Back in October of 2007, when the average person still thought NOM was nothing more than an onomatopoeic way to express the sound of eating, the group that commonly operates under that very acronym, the National Organization For Marriage, installed...
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10/23/2009
Audio: Can't 'Yes on 1' be factual about anything?
Because her name's Monique (MO-NEEK), not Monica: Anti-'mo marriage and anti-MO names? Well that's an unfortunate M.O. Think we'll vote NO. **EARLIER: We've already picked apart the ad's claims. Find that here.
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WGME used to GAG-US
You know that WGME-TV news report that we warned you about on Tuesday and groaned about on Thursday? And you know how we basically felt that the finished product came across like a "yes on 1" press release? Yea, well...
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10/21/2009
Video: 'Or an asparagus plant'
Vote No on 1 in Maine - Conversation With Bigotry [YT] This should really be their new tag line: "Yes on 1: We Don't Care If Your Marriage Is A Sham, Just As Long as It's Penis-Vagina."
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10/20/2009
SFMM yanks everyone's chain; NPR yanks their vid
When this writer first heard that NPR had the latest Stand For Marriage Maine ad pulled from YouTube, the fair use advocate in me was concerned about the slippery slope element of pulling an ad on the basis of a...
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10/19/2009
Audio: Muttying reality
Even Marc Mutty seems to know that his campaign has been deceiving Mainers. This from MPBN: (Money part comes around 2:15 part) *Source: Controversy Rages Over Question One's Impact on School [MPBN] (H/t: Adam Bink) Okay, can we talk for...
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Sorry, Ms. Lee: Your faith is not faith-y enough for 'Yes on 1' campaign
The following was posted to Stand For Marriage Maine's Facebook wall: StandForMariageMaine [F'book] It was of course deleted within minutes. But unfortunately for SFMM, they can't delete either the awareness that their hurtful and divisive campaign has cultivated, or the...
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Yes on 1: No on 'the enemy'?
While they've been working all summer and fall to disconnect themselves, we have well established that the Stand For Marriage Maine coalition that's trying to pass Question One in Maine has so many ties to the rabidly anti-gay Christian Civic...
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10/18/2009
'That's a Family!': Why'd SFMM choose this DVD over 'Transformers 2'?
We've already told you that Maine's anti-marriage equality campaign made a purchase from Groundspark Entertainment, the pro-acceptance company that creates instructional films about how and why LGBT and S people can and should live together in harmony, if we as...
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10/16/2009
Stand For Marriage Maine: The most intellectually offensive campaign we've ever faced
We've expended scores of words on Maine's "yes on 1" campaign, and their insistence that the carrying out of Maine's already-passed, already-signed marriage equality bill will lead to same-sex marriage being taught in schools. And by "we," we don't just...
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Video: 'All Things Considered' -- except for tax-paying citizens' right to civil equality
The Attorney General may have eviscerated the idea. But why should that matter to Stand For Marriage Maine? They are back on the air with another ad claiming that marriage equality is all about schools: Can and should gay families...
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10/15/2009
We've hit a 'yes on 1' nerve
Remember yesterday when we showed you that Facebook comment from a Stand For Marriage Maine supporter who went after someone solely because they claimed to be both a Christian and a "No on 1" supporter? Well that same Facebooker saw...
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Pro-acceptance films: What Sparked SFMM's interest?
Looking over Stand For Marriage Maine's latest campaign filing, we found this expenditure to be interesting: Why? Well, as you may or may not know, Groundspark is the pro-equality company that's been responsible for some of the most powerful pro-LGBT/anti-harassment...
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10/14/2009
Yes on One (and only one version of Christianity)
Yesterday, we showed you how a Catholic group is gunning for a Maine grandmother and the pro-equality campaign that she supports, simply because she professed to have a fondness for both the Vatican and her gay son/son-in-law/grandchild. But now for...
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10/13/2009
Rights-stripping Mainers are feeling a lil' cash-strapped
Ya know, it's one thing to be sour because your opposition has outfundraised you to the tune of $1.6 million. It's quite another to act as if your opposition is doing something to you by raising the excess of cash,...
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10/09/2009
Hey Marc, I need you to make some copies, mail this letter, and, oh yea -- roll back civil equality for gay people
People often ask me why I care so much about this equality fight. For me, that question is almost offensive. Because how could I not care about my life? My citizenship? My family? My country and the fair fulfillment of...
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10/08/2009
Audio: BOBbin' for apples, finding rights-stripping razor within
In this clip, you'll have to tune out the excess clamor and racket in order to get to the truth. Oh, and you might have to tune out the background noise too: *Source: Michelle Anderson Interview: Bob Emrich, Stand for...
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AG exam: Will 'Yes' get a 'NO!'?
We can write as many blog posts, create as many parody videos, and haul out as many facts as we want. But as for a surefire way that we can answer the politically-motivated questions that Maine's "Yes on 1" campaign...
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10/07/2009
Stand For Marriage Maine doesn't want you to see this. That's exactly why you should
As expected and predicted, Stand For Marriage Maine disabled the comments and ratings on their latest YouTube video, once they realized that they were all going in the one-star-rated, pro-equality direction. But fortunately (and humorously) one of our enterprising commenters,...
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10/06/2009
Disrupting the echo chamber: Another look at the 'Yes on 1' campaign's censorship
Below you will find an image. On the left, you will see how a certain thread from Stand For Marriage Maine's Facebook page looked as of 3:14 PM. On the right, you will see how a certain thread from Stand...
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Video: Stand for ['ex-gay' therapy] Maine?
*Pastor Emrich's YouTube Channel *This video on YouTube: Stand For Marriage Maine's Bob Emrich supports 'ex-gay' therapy [YT]
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Video: Donald ducks into 'Yes on 1' stable
Last week we told you all about Donald Mendell, the guidance counselor who has a history of opposing gays in the Pine Tree State, claiming that gays "ridicule tradition and belief in natural law" and that their marriages constitute "a...
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10/05/2009
Delete, delete, delete: Stand For Marriage Maine's continued war on dissension
This is how a certain thread on Stand For Marriage Maine's Facebook page looked just ten minutes ago: Mostly against us, but there is some principled and accurate (but perfectly fair and congenial) pushback from Matt Algren and Geoffrey Beaumont...
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Stand For [Stigmatizing your gay neighbors as doomed] Maine?
When we saw that a Mainer by the name of Susan Conroy has written a letter to the Portland Press Herald's editor, inexplicably linking marriage equality (i.e. legalized monogamy) to an increase in AIDS infections, we were annoyed: I love...
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Stand For Marriage Maine = Christian Civic League of Maine
We've found yet another connection between Stand For Marriage Maine and the extremely far-right Christian Civic League of Maine/Maine Family Policy Council (from whom they've been trying to distance themselves since the "yes on 1" campaign began). This time it's...
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It's not only bad campaign practice: It's bad humanity!
This comes directly from the "walking script" (download pdf) that Stand For Marriage Maine is giving to their door-to-door canvassers: Question 1 repeals and locks from ever taking effect a bill passed by the legislature and signed by the governor...
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One man, one woman, one party
So much for Maine's "yes on 1" campaign being a sweeping, non/bi-partisan affair. Stand For Marriage Maine just sent our this call to (right-handed) arms: What's at 9 Higgins Street, you ask? Well, that would be the headquarters of Maine's...
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10/02/2009
Audio: Fishin' for an unprincipled catch
We gay activists don't pop up at certain predetermined times to decidedly demand this or that or this. We exist at ALL times with the solid, unapologetic goals of equality under the civil law, protection from demonstrated harm, and decent...
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