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NBC News: DOJ to file anti-Prop 8 brief; 'allow same-sex marriage to resume in California'

Pete Williams gets another big scoop:

Administration officials say the Justice Department will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriage to resume in California, wading into the protracted legal battle over Proposition 8 and giving gay-rights advocates a new court ally.

KEEP READING: Obama administration to express support for gay marriage before Supreme Court [NBC News]

USCCB sends letter to EVERY U.S. BISHOP (!) telling them to support NOM's D.C. march; take that, hungry and homeless

And now here's a truly outrageous waste of resources for a church whose members actually support marriage equality in strong numbers. According to NOM, this went to every single Bishop in America:

[USCCB]

A large (and growing) coalition United For Marriage

With the historic Supreme Court cases in just 26 days—26 days!—I'm honored to be a part of the coalition behind the upcoming marches and rallies that will take place both in D.C. and nationwide:

United For Marriage: Light The Way To Justice

MORE INFO: Organizing Toolkit

**ALSO: Keep LIKING our March 4 Marriage Facebook page , which is now the official "United For Marriage" home**

FRC prayer: Marriage equality = 'onslaught of evil'

And now this prayer from one of the sponsors of the upcoming march for inequality that will be held outside the Supreme Court on the day that the Prop 8 and DOMA cases begin:

[Family Research Council]

Oh please, please, please—pretty please with sugar on top—let them say this kind of stuff in front on both the Supreme Court Justices and the throng of mainstream media cameras that will surely be covering the SCOTUS marches.

Go ahead, Tony Perkins—stand up and say that you think someone like Edie...

ADF's 5th week of prayer: Jeffrey Zarrillo gets the middle, lack-of-blessing square

Those of you who have seen the past four weeks' sheets know how it goes: The first box, which always features someone from the anti-gay side, gets a blessing; the third square, which is always a Supreme Court justice, gets a largely neutral call for "wisdom and discernment"; the middle square, always someone on the side of LGBT equality, gets a prayer about "manifest[ing] goodness in his/her life" (because, you see, the goodness cannot possibly be there already).

Here's this week's take, with...

Video: Prescient ally Gavin Newsom on a society that's catching up

He knew it was right and was willing to stick his neck out at a time when even progressive Democrats were not. I'm talking about the Lt. Governor of California, the model of a strong ally:

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NOM announces three new march sponsors: Gary Bauer, Focus on the Family, Focus on the Family Part 2

CitizenLink is actually just the recently rebranded name for Focus on the Family Action, so really it's more like two new sponsors:

So with Bauer, they now have another voice who believes that if America gets marriage equality "we really do risk God taking His hand of protection off of our country." With Focus on the Family, they get an organization that claims, right on the marriage section of its official website, that homosexuality is a "particularly evil lie of Satan":

[Focus on the Family]...

Same coalition that failed in MN in '12 to march in St. Paul, hope for different result

Minnesota For Marriage, a largely NOM-led coalition that failed to put a marriage discrimination amendment into the state's constitution, will show up in St. Paul next week in hopes of convincing the legislature that the state—the same state that rejected their agenda in 2012—is on their side:

Minnesota for Marriage — a coalition that supports the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman — is sponsoring the Minnesota March for Marriage rally and lobby day from 2 p.m. to 5 p...

UPDATE: Marilyn Musgrave denies NYT report; says she hasn't changed marriage position

Turns out I was right to be shocked:

“I’m very befuddled by this story,” Musgrave told FOX31 Denver. “There’s absolutely no truth to that [New York Times report]. I’m reading it thinking, ‘what in the world?’

“I wasn’t even aware of it. I have not changed my position. I’m trying to imagine where anyone would get that information and I can’t figure it out.”

Marilyn Musgrave denies NYT report that she supports gay marriage [KDVR]

Okay, now I'm REALLY confused. The New York Times would not report so...

Audio: To frame gays as 'lonely,' NOM's Roback Morse casts aspersions on Tyler Clementi; claims 'more to the story'

Carlos Maza brings us this truly shocking turn from the ever-shocking National Organization For Marriage surrogate:

"Sometimes you hear about these things and you don’t hear the whole story in the media.That kid Tyler Clementi who killed himself, who threw himself off the George Washington Bridge? Do you know this story? Okay, then I’m not going to tell it. There was a much older man in the picture. There’s usually more to the story, right? And so I think friendship is what you have to offer....