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Our Opponents’ Confessions
Sometimes I hear a line of reasoning so bizarre that all I can do is look for the psychological issues behind it. I find this happening quite a lot with opponents of same-sex marriage, and the irony is...
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A Conversation, Not a Lecture
I’m thinking we could start a whole new blog about all the things our opponents do that doom them to failure. For instance, right now the National Organization is pushing really hard on a strategy that...
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It’s Not the Principle, It’s the Prejudice
Here’s something that baffles me. Our opponents complain that laws banning anti-gay discrimination violate their religious liberty, but they have no qualms about laws against religious discrimination....
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Our Opponents Do Not Understand Their Own Argument (and that’s how they like it)
I’m starting to think opponents of same-sex marriage talk to their followers and themselves the way I talk to my dogs. Long ago I began saying to my Shepherd-mix Lucas, “Who is you? Who is you? You is...
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NOM Gets Economics Wrong. Again.
Feeling wonkish? The UCLA Williams Institute (I’ll call them “WI”) is predicting an economic boost of $54-103 million in new spending for Illinois if the state legalizes same-sex marriage. NOM’s Dr....
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HELP!
My partner Will is on antibiotics for strep and he’s laid low on the couch. He’s still doing the AIDS/LifeCycle next week, though, and he’s ACHINGLY close to his $5000 goal. Could you please help push...
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I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!
Will’s pulling out of his strep coma and he just told me he met his fundraising goal. When I asked who put him over the top, he said, “Some people I don’t know.” That’s you folk! Thanks so much. We...
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Up in San Francisco
AIDS/Lifecycle starts tomorrow! I’ll be tweeting the ride @robtish. In the meantime, we had a lovely breakfast at Taylor St Cafe.
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NOM Welcomes Me Home with Hilarious Incompetence
Hi all, I’m home from the AIDS/LifeCycle. Thanks again for all your support. I’ll be writing more about it soon (I’d planned to tweet the event, but discovered — too late — that my backup batteries for...
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How Brave Will You Feel When the First Child Dies?
A mob — I mean, a horde — I mean, a coalition — of Christian-based anti-gay activists has taken a stand against any Supreme Court decision that favors marriage equality. They vow to…well, that part’s a...
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Hey Facebook Users…
In anticipation of the SCOTUS ruling, I made a small improvement to the Equality graphic people are using as a profile pic. We’re gay, we should have more flair. Feel free to steal it.
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Our Huge Yet Limited Victory
BOTTOM LINE: The federal government will now recognize same-sex marriages from states that allow such marriages, and California now joins that list . The California decision is based the premise that...
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Not Just the Rights, But the Responsibilities As Well
Here’s one easily-overlooked bit from the SCOTUS ruling that I dearly love. SCOTUS grants us the dignity of recognizing we not only want the rights of marriage, but the responsibilities too. Contrary...
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Thomas Peters Drowning in Denial River
From Thomas Peters, Communications Director at NOM: SCOTUS makes bad decision on Doma, saying its up to the states. Refuses to rule on prop8. But gay activists failed to get what they wanted. — Thomas...
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The Happy Stories Begin
Posted on Facebook: At 10:30 a.m. EDT this morning in a New York Immigration Court, attorneys from our law firm (Masliah Soloway) requested and were granted a continuance in removal (deportation)...
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How to Inspire a Movement
Our opponents are putting their bravest faces. Thomas Peters, NOM’s Communications Director, works with a group called Catholic Vote and is pushing the slogan, “The Supreme Court has not ended the...
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From West Hollywood’s Equality Day Rally
I have an uneasy truce with cameras: I always look either uncomfortable or insane. All my friends look like happy reasonable folk in this shot, while I’m all: Oppose marriage equality and I will devour...
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Enraged
This may ramble a bit, and I’m sorry, but I was enraged yesterday — not annoyed, disgusted, or weary, but full-on enraged — and I need to vent it out. The National Organization for Marriage is...
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Just Enjoy the Sparkly Lights
“Jennifer Thieme is the Director of Finance for the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage Education Fund.” That’s according to the Ruth Institute’s website. Jennifer is...
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A Most Perfect Description
Yesterday someone messaged me a most perfect description of our opponents. He and I had been tangling with NOM’s Jennifer Roback Morse on an anti-gay website, pointing out the error of using a tragic...
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