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July 2, 2015
NOM president: Marriage ruling is 'Dred Scott decision of our time'
Brian Brown's organization literally vowed to "drive a wedge between blacks and gays." Remember that as you read Brian, now one of the most desperate clothes-less emperors in all of American politics, directly compare a ruling that extended freedoms to a minority population with a ruling that once upheld slavery:
This not the first time that the Court has relied on its own conception of liberty to justify a decision. One of the best examples of this phenomenon was the Dred Scott v. Sandford...
July 1, 2015
Episcopalians approve ceremonies for all legally-qualified couples
Here's something novel: an advancement from the religious world:
Details: AP via ABC News
And of course all of the anti-gay conservatives will fully respect their religious freedom. Right?
NOM's wishful (and disrespectful) thinking: SCOTUS ruling is 'illegitimate'
In yet another fundraising plea (because NOM does little else these days), the already-done-even-if-they-don't-know-it-yet National Organization For Marriage has taken to calling the Obergefell decision "illegitimate":
[NOM]
Of course if it would've been 5–4 the other way, and the majority had only written "Hibbity Jibbity O'Mibbity Schibbity," NOM would be praising the ruling as historic and definitive and the greatest victory ever known. It wouldn't have mattered that 40+ federal deci...
June 30, 2015
Focus on the Family creates itemized price list for 'saving' marriage
You guys, if you donate forty buckerooskies to the notoriously and infamously anti-gay Focus on the Family, you can save one marriage. Or, um, two. They claim different things in different places.
Either way, they definitely have managed to put a price tag on the reparation of heterosexual marriages ruined by gays:
[Via email]
But if you only give $39.99, the straight couple(s) will quietly resent one another over brunch. Anything less than that? Affairs. Annually.
Fox News pays this person for his opinions
God's probably about to drown us all because of marriage equality. So suggests Fox News' own Todd Starnes:
[Facebook]
(h/t: Joe)
For starters, it doesn't even make any sense. The prideful White House came before D.C. precipitation. Since the rainbow of the bible was a sign of hope following the torment, if anything the Obama White House's pro-gay move would be symbolic of the hope that now follows decades of anti-gay demagoguery. If following the Noah's Ark tale logically, the rainbow is...
June 29, 2015
Pat Buchanan doubles down on 1983 column claiming AIDS is nature's punishment
Conservative pundit and Fox News regular Pat Buchanan is very angry at the idea of same-sex couples pledging committed love to one another. To drive home his point, he's celebrating the three-decades expansion of a particular disease:
Three decades ago, this columnist was denounced for writing that homosexuals “have declared war on human nature. And nature is exacting an awful retribution.” Hateful speech, it was said.
Yet, when I wrote that line, AIDS victims in America numbered in the hu...
Is NOM really going to push for a constitutional convention on marriage?
A while back, I told you about the National Organization For Marriage purchasing a few domain names that pointed to the possibility of a "marriage convention." At first I assumed the domain names to be about a summit or conference of some sort that NOM was cooking up. However, after I saw that they'd also purchased names referring to a "Marriage ConCon" it became clear that a constitutional convention focused on marriage inequality was what they had in the cards. The idea being that a group...
June 28, 2015
Video: Great piece from 'CBS Sunday Morning' highlights sweet success
The contrast between the ugly bitterness and the sweet success has never been so stark:
Video: Great piece from 'CBS Sunday morning' highlights sweet success
The contrast between the ugly bitterness and the sweet success has never been so stark:
Yes, the American marriage equality fight is over—the rest is just bluster
I can't tell you how many times I've opened a window prepared to start a new blog post about this or that or the other ant-LGBT activist who said something ridiculous about Friday's historic SCOTUS ruling. Sometimes it's from a politician who vows to overturn what the court has done. Sometimes it's a professional (read: for pay) activist who insists that the fight will go on. Sometimes it's a media personality who ups the "shock jock" factor in order to keep the base nourished on the fatties...
