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Video: 'And what women should do is mainly baking'—the case for 'traditional' marriage

HA, HA, HA, HA, HA:

[Tara Flynn]

Here's the source video, which gave the NOM crowd a major discrimi-gasm:

And here's another response vid, this one focused more on heart and fact than on humor:

[Rupert Morse]

Video: Brian Brown thanks NOM supporters for buying him a French vacation

This is one of the weirdest moves I've ever seen NOM make. Do at-home supporters really want them focusing their time in a completely other country? Especially at a time when we have actual marriage fights in actual American states and are gearing up for historic Supreme Court battles?

Seems tone deaf.

**BY THE WAY, no one puts the figure at 1,000,000. French police say 350,000. Even the march supporters only say around 800,000. Leave it to NOM to find a hidden many that only they can see (a pr...

Is Delaware's coming marriage debate about Satan's 'particularly evil lie'?

If I were leading Delaware's leading "pro-family" policy group and my state was about to get a lot of attention when its legislature debates marriage equality, I probably wouldn't recruit a speaker who has gone on record to call homosexuality "a particularly evil lie of Satan." However, that is exactly what the Delaware Family Policy Council has done, selecting Focus on the Family's Glenn Stanton as a headliner at its upcoming event:

[Delaware Family Policy Council]

Don't get me wrong—I'm not t...

Audio: Tony Perkins calls It Gets Better a 'deceptive lie'

Gays are innately depressed and suicidal because of our "destructive lifestyles," and it's a "deceptive lie" to tell LGBT kids that it gets better. Just another day in the thoroughly cruel pundi-ministry of one Tony Perkins:

[Tony Perkins' AFA radio show, 1/17/13]

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The absurdity of 'interchangeability'

Of all the ridiculous conservative arguments, this one always drops my jaw:

How, exactly, does same-sex marriage speak to interchangeability anymore than different-sex marriage? In every form of marriage, a man or a woman joins with a man or a woman because either a man or a woman is the gender to whom he or she is drawn. Yes, one can be attracted to both genders—but again, bisexuals might enter into a same-sex or a different-sex union. None of it speaks either or in support or against marriag...

Photo: Spotted at the Rhode Island marriage hearing

In addition to multiple signs calling same-sex marriages "inmoral," these signs also peppered Tuesday night's anti-gay protest at the Rhode Island state house:

Because if there's anyone you want telling you to how to handle language, it's the people holding these signs.

NOM runs ad for 'King & King' (on sale at Amazon and other retailers)

The National Organization for Marriage, realizing that a group that protests to be a "values" organization should strive to be truthful, has made a stunning turnabout in Rhode Island. The organization has released a new print ad that eschews the usual fear lines and instead focuses on the concrete lack of merit that they see in civil marriage policy proposals. The ad is measured and rational, relying only on persuasive arguments steeped in constitutional law and not the old-style claims that...

NOM EXPOSED: NOM co-founder puts biblical ‘evilness’ on millions of marriage supporters’ hearts

NOM co-founder puts biblical ‘evilness’ on millions of marriage supporters’ hearts
[NOM Exposed]

Now available on Nook

If It's A Choice, My Zygote Chose Balls: Making Sense of Senseless Controversy is now available on the Barnes and Noble's Nook platform as well. With that, it is now on all three of the majors: Kindle, iBooks, and Nook.

Sorry for the delay on that

MN for Marriage guy's new gig: Berating John Piper for not preaching against civil marriage

Andy Parrish was the top guy and most visible face working on the failed Minnesota For Marriage (so-called) campaign. John Piper is a very famous evangelical who happens to call Minnesota home.

Andy Parrish is still really, really, really, realllllllly sore over the historic loss that he helped bring about for his side. So to help salve his wounds, Andy—who is also in the news for vowing to not abde by gun laws— has a new Twitter habit: responding to just about anything John Piper tweets with...