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May 13, 2013
IFI's Higgins: Homosexuality is 'destructive foolishness,' should be rejected (*kind of like child sacrifice)
And now this one from Laurie Higgins, the Illinois Family Institute writer whose penchant for off-message hostility unwittingly helps the pro-equality movement move the needle in our direction.
The Left insists on abusing MLK Jr.’s paraphrase of Thomas Parker in the service of normalizing homosexuality: “The arc of the Moral Universe is Long, but it Bends Toward Justice.” Those wordshave a pithy quotable ring to them, but they’re not absolutely true. Or perhaps it’s the “long” part to which w...
May 10, 2013
As part of official marriage talking points, USSCB pushes 'ministry to persons with same-sex attraction'
As the United Conference of Catholic Bishops ratchets up its attempts to shape civil marriage policy here in America, at least they are getting more honest about the fact that they really don't want us being actively gay. This comes from a newly released document of "lead messages" that the leadership is handing down to clergy, leaders, and lay Catholics:
This is the real story. Sure, they want to stop us from being married. But beyond that, they...
Roback Morse's latest: Only 'a few hundred white people' stood for equality outside Supreme Court
A few things.
(1) Regardless of how many times the National Organization For Marriage and its staffers push the lie, they did not have 10,000 marching on their side. I was there, and I have eyes. Even NOM's own supporters, writing on NOM's Ruth Blog, put the figure at around 2,500.
(2) The Catholic boys with a band and banners were not from a boys school. The band/banners boys were from TFP, the truly extreme organization that cosponsored the NOM march.
(3) Yes, various groups were bussed in to...
The conversation is changing; thanks, NOM!
For years I've been saying that the National Organization For Marriage, though its bad political practices and missteps, is actually helping our side reach equality even faster than we would've had the anti-LGBT side left their movement more piecemeal. I was gearing up to write yet another piece along these same lines when I stumbled on this interesting thread on NOM's own Facebook page:
(*subject is yesterday's House passage in Minnesota)
[NOM F'book]
Truly fascinating for a NOM geek like mysel...
May 9, 2013
MN House easily advances marriage!
75–59!
The bill now goes to the Senate, possibly as soon as Saturday.
Brian Brown repeats talking point comparing gay families to those torn apart by death, divorce
Two days later, the National Organization For Marriage got around to acknowledging that Delaware passed marriage equality. In said acknowledgement, NOM prez Brian Brown repeats this truly heinous claim:
"It's bad enough when families break down through divorce or death, but it's unconscionable when a state encourages this through policies that deprive children of the love of both a mother and a father. This is a very sad day for Delaware." [NOM Press Release]
Just in time for a weekend celebrat...
MN For Marriage confuses 'Respect All' with 'Erase'
Meanwhile in Minnesota, this seems to be the most popular kind of sign at today's House vote on marriage:
Such noise. The marriage bill will respect all marriages and, by extension, show greater respect to those who choose to have children. No erasure necessary or sought.
NOM's most heterosexist claim yet?
In a desperate new attempt to derail civil equality in Minnesota, NOM is working the idea that new marriages are going to weaken the state's economy:
"Gay marriage activists continually try to push the lie that redefining marriage is an economic stimulus, but this report shows the opposite is true — redefining marriage hurts the economy." — Brian Brown, NOM president —
Washington, D.C. — Earlier this week, Minnesota Management and Budget predicted that redefining marriage would cost the state o...
