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July 10, 2013
Not as 'telling' as you think, NOM Comm. Director
His new line:
“We think it’s very telling gay marriage advocates are using the courts so heavily,” …“They only support the voice of the people when they think it go their way.”
—National Org. For Marriage's Communications Director Thomas Peters
First off: Maine, Maryland, Washington, Minnesota, Delaware, Rhode Island. In the past eight months, all six of those states have fought for and won marriage equality. None of them were court battles.
But that out of the way, let me be the first to tell Th...
NOM says it needs millions to pass a Fed. Marriage Amendment; forgets to mention genie, lamp
From the National Org. For Marriage's latest fundraising blast:
We're going to need millions of dollars to effectively push for a constitutional amendment. That's what it will cost to hire trained lobbyists, mount new grassroots efforts, organize rallies and events and deploy effective communications efforts. It's only if thousands of marriage supporters like you stand up and give generously that we can be successful. [NOM]
NOM links the above text to a place for supporters to donate. You know,...
July 8, 2013
Gagnon: Gay couples only deserve what 'would be given to close but non-sexual friendships'
More from the exceedingly anti-gay guy who speaks every summer at the National Organization For Marriage's "It Takes A Family" conference:
"Persons in a homosexual union should not have the sexual component of their union validated, as though they had now become “one flesh” with their same-sex “partner” through an immoral sexual bond. They should not have any special treatment beyond the treatment that would be given to close but non-sexual friendships. By the way, we do hope for a refashionin...
Anti-gay activist seeks CA clerks willing to put discrimination before duty
Back when Prop 8 was up for debate, Randy Thomasson compared clerks who might have to marry same-sex couples with Nazi officers who were forced to "gas the Jews." Now that marriage equality is the law of the land in his state, this longtime California activist is turning his attention back to state clerks, this time seeking a few who will turn themselves into fake "victims" for the anti-LGBT cause:
TO FIND A PRINCIPLED CLERK
On July 3, I spent the day driving through much of the Central Valley,...
This NOM board member said gay-accepting government is his 'mortal enemy'; do you want to make him a Hollywood hit?
I've never been a big boycott guy. However, I'm actually quite okay with (/fond of) this effort:
Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card is an anti-gay activist, writer, and board member of the National Organization for Marriage.
“ Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual...
Actually, NOM, nondiscrimination is an American freedom
On the 5th of July, the National Organization For Marriage posted yet another entry into its new "gays vs. America" folder:
Okay, let's break this down. When NOM talks about these wedding-centered businesses doing "business in accordance with their faith beliefs," what they are really talking about is the supposed right of these shops to arbitrarily pick and choose which kinds of customers meet their morality tests. NOM and its supporters are seeking the freedom to determine that...
Video: Here's how they're talking about us at Houston's First Baptist Church
In an earlier segment, he directly connects homosexuality to pedophilia. But this cued up segment, in which pastor Greg Motte uses Paul Cameron–style junk science (from his own book) to say that marriage will not bring peace to gays because ours is "a young movement that is bringing great death," should give you a taste of what the congregants of this Texas mega-church are learning to accept as the gospel:
Notice Pastor Motte also tells them that the way they stop us is to go out and vote. He...
July 5, 2013
Is NOM planning a 'Marriage Convention'?
At the end of last week, the National Organization For Marriage purchased a whole cache of domain names hinting that the pro-discrimination organization is planning to hold a "marriage convention":
I'm so there! In fact, I'll totally keynote the thing, if they want.
**UPDATE: When I read this, I just accepted that it was for some sort of conference. Even though I saw the "Con Con" addy, it never occurred to me that this could be for a proposed Constitutional Convention centered around marriage....
