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“At a bare minimum, the [marriage] legislation should be amended to provide all the provisions of the Corvese amendment to our civil union law and to ensure that individuals, small businesses and religious-based charitable and educational groups are not targeted by government or others with lawsuits, fines, denials of contracts and other forms of punishment for refusing to accept this …

“Dear Marriage Supporter: The news this week is tough. I’m not going to sugar coat it. In Rhode Island, all five Republican state senators joined the Democrats in the state senate to pass a same-sex marriage bill. It now goes back to the House which had previously passed a gay marriage bill and the governor has promised to sign it. …

As violent anti-gay French protesters commit brutal bashings, battle riot police using toddlers as human shields,  and smash the windows of gay bars, Brian Brown writes on NOM’s blog: In France spontaneous peaceful demonstrations by young people protesting their government’s determination to ignore the voice of the people is causing headaches across the country. For the government, this is becoming …

Two years ago Canadian sportscaster Damian Goddard claimed that he was fired by his network for sending a single tweet against same-sex marriage. Rogers Communication denied that claim, saying that Goddard’s termination was related to other issues which they declined to disclose at the time.  Six months later NOM hired Goddard as a spokesman for their silly Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance …

Over at NOM Exposed, blogger Jeremy Hooper has discovered that NOM is set to begin formally exporting its brand of bigotry to other nations.  They are starting, unsurprisingly, in France.  Hooper writes about the above mailer: Even more interesting than NOM’s obvious connection to this one fight [in France] is the line at the bottom of this e-blast which notes …

“We commend Senator Pryor for standing tall for marriage as the union of one man and one woman and for resisting political pressure to switch positions on such a foundational issue of critical importance to society. The media has often portrayed the marriage debate in partisan terms, but there is nothing inherently political or partisan about marriage. Many of the …

Posted to NOM’s blog yesterday: When issues of consequence like this were raised during the campaign against same-sex marriage, the backers of same-sex marriage said things like this would never happen. They went so far as to claim we were lying and that religious freedom was fully protected. That so-called “protection” didn’t even last a matter of weeks. This is …

This weekend Boing Boing noticed some interesting torrent activity from IP addresses assigned to the Vatican.  The New York Post breaks down the titles. The tiny city-state within Rome that houses around 800 people doesn’t exactly have the highest downloading levels in the world, but that hasn’t stopped some of its residents from swiping files starring the likes of female …

Yesterday the Archdiocese of Philadelphia permanently discharged three priests accused in a 2011 molestation scandal. The Revs. Joseph Gallagher and Mark Gaspar were suspended following a scathing 2011 grand jury report that ultimately led to the landmark conviction of a high-ranking archdiocese official on child endangerment charges. Two other priests and a Catholic school teacher were also convicted. The February …

NOM’s website has been uncharacteristically silent since the above entry was made six days ago.  Comments have been disabled the entire time.  Brian Brown did appear on Meet The Press this Sunday but otherwise we’ve heard nothing from them since the Supreme Court expressed its skepticism regarding DOMA.  Their automated Twitter feed continues to pump out links to old stories. …

“A diverse crowd of more than 10,000 marched today to show that those who protect marriage are on the right side of history. The fact that our supporters remained peaceful, kneeling in prayer and singing songs and chants even in the face of verbal attacks and intimidation by our opponents is a testament to the respectful way pro-marriage activists carry …

The guy doing the translation for NY Sen. Ruben Diaz also translated for the preacher who declared that “gays are worthy of death” at NOM’s 2011 hate rally in the Bronx.

That’s three times the number estimated by the press and it’s STILL shitty. This after six months of daily pleas for buses and money. From watching the coverage on CSPAN, it looked to me that about half of the people there were the Hispanic evangelicals bused in by NY Sen. Ruben Diaz. They certainly spent a lot of time translating …

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“We are disappointed that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has taken the transparently political step of endorsing same-sex marriage in an attempt to influence the US Supreme Court. They have done a grave disservice to America’s children by endorsing a policy that intentionally deprives children of either a mother or a father. Their position seems to be that the …