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Wednesday: Republican Senators, Reps join some of nation's most anti-gay activists for streaming prayer

Tomorrow, streaming live from Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, a group of elected members of Congress will join forces with some of this nation's most vocal anti-LGBT activists in order to create what they hope will be "a spiritual turning point for the nation as Americans witness members of Congress reaching out to God in penitent prayers from inside the nation’s Capitol." Speakers will include Sen. Ted Cruz, Fox News host Mike Huckabee, Representative Louie Gohmert, Representative Michele...

NOM's ally, March For Marriage co-sponsor: Gay people are *this close* to murdering America

The Coalition of African-American Pastors is a National Organization For Marriage affiliate, it's a co-sponsor of NOM's upcoming March for Marriage, and its leader, Willie Owens, is one of NOM's religious liaisons. This is what that organization is now telling its supporters about people like us and families like ours:

Friends, we can no longer turn a blind eye to what is happening across our nation; it is becoming all too clear that we are dealing with an agenda that is attempting to unravel...

Prominent Prop 8 activist, former NOM senior staffer defends Singapore's ban on gay sex

In a pair of posts last week, I told you that prominent Proposition 8 voices Jim Garlow and Jennifer Roback Morse were in the country of Singapore, speaking before and advocating with an organization that fights to keep homosexuality as a criminal act in the nation. Now check this out. In a Facebook exchange with LGBT activist Penny Marie Sautereau, Roback Morse, who was a senior associate with the National Organization For Marriage until late last year, actually defends her actions in that c...

Read: Attorney General on why out-of-state NOM should keep its standing-deprived nose out of Oregon's business

As you surely know, the National Organization For Marriage is trying to step into Oregon courts and defend discrimination simply because discrimination is the tattered rag from which NOM wrings its financing. In a response filed late last week, the Beaver State's Attorney General makes NOM's motion to intervene sound as bunk as it really is:

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Catholic NOM embraces Catholic motivation it pits against our *CIVIL* rights

While some of the funding and board representation has been Mormon, it is Catholicism that has always driven the National Organization For Marriage's existence. Happily, NOM is starting to more fully embrace that which spurred the discriminatory special interest group into being:

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In a more honest world, the (very Catholic) Robby George, (very Catholic) Maggie Gallagher, and (very Catholic) Brian Brown would've chosen a name like "Catholics Against Same-sex Marriage," back when the idea...

Watch: Kirk Cameron stars in infomercial for anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom

This is essentially a half-hour cash plea from the most anti-LGBT legal outfit working in America today, which I can only presume the ADF is hoping to place on TV stations alongside paid ads for exercise equipment and new ways to chop carrots. And to help on the legitimacy front, the spot features the most anti-LGBT former sitcom star working in America today:

(h/t: Chris DiRico)

Operators are standing by. So is the ADF agenda, while history passes right by it.

NOM cordially invites 'advocated' to gather to defend marriage between 'husband and wide'

This is an official invite for the National Organization For Marriage's upcoming gala, which is to be held on the same day as their silly little march for marriage. Highlighting is my own:

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Well that's just rude, NOM! Eve might have eaten the apple, but there's no reason to make her feel guilty about her width!

Although to be fair, "husband and wide" is just as accurate as NOM's usual "protect marriage" language.

*And yes, I know I make typos. But I'd like to think I'd proof—and proof and...

Video: Anti-gay MRC uses fourteen year old Hillary Clinton quote to (not at all) make (any sort of) point

Virtually no one on the political stage supported marriage equality in the year 2000. Everyone should've, always; but almost no one did back when the idea was theoretical and the polls showed it a non-starter for candidates in even progressive areas. The very conversation was in its infancy.

Hillary Clinton did actually support civil unions back then, which was (a) all that was legal in any of our states and (b) pretty much all we could expect from Democrats at the time. That partial support w...

Josh Duggar's new reality: using his TV fame to deny human beings their deserved civil rights

In two weeks, the pro-discrimination National Organization For Marriage will lead a rally designed to keep same-sex couples from access to civil marriage equality in the state of Virginia. As he's done several times over the past year, TLC's reality TV star and Family Research Council Action's current executive director, Josh Duggar, will join this coalition of professional anti-gay activists, lending his name and TV fame to the pro-discrimination cause:

(*Note: the flyer says "John," but they...

Audio: What NOM's Chair endorsed

John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization For Marriage, gave a glowing endorsement to Robert Reilly's new book, Making Gay Okay.

"Reilly has drawn on his extensive knowledge of classical political philosophy to explain the full scope of the dangers inherent in the modern homosexual rights movement. The movement threatens our very understanding of human nature, and hence of the American political regime that derives its understanding of rights and legitimate government from that natur...