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January 17, 2013
Video: The UK gets its own Kalley Yanta
Many of you will remember the series of "Marriage Minute" videos in which Minnesota For Marriage's Kalley Yanta tried, unsuccessfully, to convince her state citizenry to vote in favor of discrimination. Well now she has a British analogue who uses the same "marriage minute" title and a near-identical script:
The whole thing makes me wonder if the National Organization For Marriage and/or Frank Schubert might be directly involved with this UK effort. As you likely know, NOM and Schubert were th...
January 16, 2013
Tony Perkins' three examples of a 'nation gone under': Mass murder, kidnapping, and—gay soldiers?!
He delivered the sermon this past summer, thus the reason for the dated references. But it's not the topicality of the references that makes it worth posting now—it's the jaw-dropping offense attached to one of the reference's inclusion on Tony's list of three awful things:
Homicide.
Kidnapping with implied molestation and/or trafficking.
Men and women who fight and sometimes die for their country taking a one-day respite so they can march down a sunny street amid colorful floats, c...
Maggie is so tired—SO TIRED!—of 'the enemy' being so uncivil to her
In the first passage, Maggie Gallagher talks about civility, as if she is an innocent who has done nothing to foster the intense reaction that she seems used to receiving. But then in the very next section—the very next breath, really—she refers to her fight as being against "the enemy." It's kind of definitive, actually.
Snips comes from Salvo, a Christian magazine; Maggie is the subject and Marcia Segelstein (formerly of the American Family Association) is the interviewer:
I w...
NOM's Roback Morse says her #RI4M testimony is 'New Gettysburg Address'; history, Spielberg beg to differ
With its talk of equality a "new birth of freedom," the Gettysburg Address is considered one of the most monumental moments of Abraham Lincoln's presidency—a preamble of sorts to what he would accomplish in his cut-short life. So what's it's historic parallel, you ask? Why Jennifer Roback Morse's testimony against marriage equality, of course!
The pro-"conversion" NOM employee has seriously given the testimony that she delivered before the Rhode Island House Judiciary Community the title of "N...
Video: NOM's Roback Morse assures RI inequality supporters that they're 'doing the right thing'
Jennifer Roback Morse, NOM's in-house supporter of gay "conversion" and reliable sayer of incendiary things, took to the line at last night's Rhode Island House Judiciary hearing to (a) assure the assembled that their push for civil discrimination is justified and (b) recruit support for her own NOM-branded operation:
What a cheerleader! It's just too bad (for her) that the myopic human pyramid as her faith-motivated self has stacked it (i.e. gays on the bottom—always, forever, constitutions...
Peter Sprigg not excited for LGBT museum; likely fears the 'Can you believe FRC did that?!' wing
Tim and Mitchell Gold are working to open an LGBT museum in D.C. To his limited credit, Family Research Council Senior Fellow Peter Sprigg says that FRC won't challenge the idea. However, Peter does want you to know that he despises the plans, what with gayness being so threatening to the world and all:
Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, a Christian advocacy group that opposes same-sex marriage, said his organization is unlikely to try to obstruct th...
Video: Scenes from last night's #ri4m hearing
Some had the pertinent civil rights debate at the heart of the matter. Others preached about the always-ancillary, always-optional faith component of marriage and carried signs that pushed for gay "change." Such is the common culture surrounding this nation's marriage debate:
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Illinois' Bishop Paprocki: No religious exemption will ever satisfy us (*but we'll demand you give them to us anyway)
Those of us who are engaged in the actual civil marriage debate that is playing out across the country are more than okay with granting certain religious exemptions, since we know that the religious ceremony and the civil licensing are two separate things. The religious exemptions are largely designed to appease those who raise fears. Contrary to popular belief, raising fears is not our goal—obtaining civil rights is. So we are largely fine with implementing language that might quiet religiou...
January 15, 2013
Big shocker—'ex-gay' sign spotted at Rhode Island marriage debate
Thanks to Jenny Norris for this picture, taken just moments ago at the Rhode Island State House:
It never stops at marriage. The "change" always goes far beyond.
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