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NOM's Jennifer Roback Morse on Edie Windsor: She didn't want to pay for 'her friend's' estate

On August 6, 2012, the Disqus user "posterchild1" left a comment identifying herself as the person who booked ITAF, the annual conference of the National Organization For Marriage's Ruth Institute:

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"Posterchild1" also left this comment linking herself to Ruth:

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Also, the Facebook page linked to this account points backs to Jennifer Roback Morse, the Ruth Institute's head:

And, up until yesterday, the person who operates this account was using a photo of Ms. Roback Morse as her ava...

Audio: Rick Santorum, Josh Duggar commiserate on marriage and its 'destruction'

Reality TV star turned FRC Action Exec. Director Josh Duggar filled in for Tony Perkins today, where the mult-siblinged young protégé hosted former Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Rick, as you'd expect, went into a spiel about "the destruction of marriage" and the "lethal" blow it poses; Young Duggar was eager to agree:

FULL SPEECH: Washington Watch [YT]

"Attack"? "Destruction"? "Lethal"?

Tonight the hubby and I are making tacos and watching Big Brother. I'm thinking "borin...

Video: Mat Staver says SCOTUS marriage rulings should be treated like Dred Scott, internment, outlawing of gravity

Dred Scott v. Sanford denied citizenship to African Americans.

Korematsu v. United States forced Japanese Americans into internment.

Buck v. Bell supported sterilization of those deemed genetically inferior.

Anyone v. Gravity is a theoretical case that pits humans against logic and science.

All of this is totally, absolutely, in every way like granting same-sex couples their civil marriage rights. Or so says Mat Staver:

Speaking of historical connections, Matt: this legal analysis is historically...

Another social conservative admits 'gay marriage is already won'

Ken Ham is the head of Answers In Genesis. Answers in Genesis is the organization behind that big conference that social conservatives are currently enjoying in Dolly Parton's neck of the woods. This comes from Ham's keynote speech at said conference:

FULL SPEECH: Answers Mega Conference, 2013 [YT]

I can only imagine the cringes that fellow conference speaker Tony Perkins had to suppress when he hear Ham say this. For Tony, a fight that's over is a fight that's unprofitable.

And now this report from #Prop8 fantasy world...

The headline at the American Family Association's One News Now:

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(h/t: Scott Hutcheson)

Also, Ronald Reagan is still governor.

By 'mean comments,' Jen, did you mean the one calling us 'filthy f*ggots'?

As is her wont, the National Organization For Marriage's Jennifer Roback Morse is once again claiming that the mean gays are attacking her and her lovely supporters:

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I went over to the post in question, and I have to admit—Jen's right. There are means comments there. Here are three of them:

[COMMENT THREAD: ActRight]

So weird, Jen—it's almost as if taking people's rights aways for the sake of political connectivity and profit breeds ill will. Who'd have thought?

Stop saying Orson Scott Card simply opposes gay marriage. You are lying. Stop it. Now.

This defense of Orson Scott Card comes from Focus on the Family's CitizenLink division:

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"All because of his support for marriage between one man and one woman"? NO! No, no, no, no, no. Not even close:

-- Suggests married heterosexuals should work to overthrow a government that has marriage equality: "If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law and forced to attend schools where they are taught that cohabitation is as good as marriage, that motherhood doesn't r...

The problem is that they see this as two-sided fight in which their position has merit

On her eponymous radio show, Janet Mefferd shared this exchange with extremely anti-gay commentator Matt Barber:

Janet Mefferd Show, 7/24/13 [Relevant Radio]

Okay, so first off—Matt Barber says in a later segment of this very same show that he will personally defy any man-made marriage law that runs afoul of his religious beliefs:

Janet Mefferd Show, 7/24/13 [Relevant Radio]

It's also the same Matt Barber whose organization helped draft a document essentially calling for open defiance against the...

Listen to new chair of U.S. Commission on Intl Religious Freedom call for 'national rebellion' against marriage equality

And now here's even more for Robert George, the the National Organization For Marriage co-founder who is now the CHAIRMAN of a United States federal government commission on religious freedom:

Drew Mariani Show, 7/11/13 [Relevant Radio]

This is the "moral example" French protestors have set:

SOURCE: ThinkProgress


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IL's 'protect marriage' group says gay couples' 'parts don't fit'; is clearly doing it wrong

The Illinois Family Institute continues its penchant for downright nastiness:

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For starters, it doesn't even make sense. "Acquit" means to free someone from a criminal charge, so essentially they are saying our parts don't fit and therefore we must be exonerated of the charges against us. Considering the IFI senior staffers' over-the-top rhetoric about gay people, I'm not convinced that's what they mean to say. They seem quite fond of harsh charges.

But beyond that, I think it's laugh out l...