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Best Wishes and Hopes for Thomas Peters
NOM’s communications director Thomas Peters has been in a serious accident: Thomas was involved in an accident yesterday evening and has sustained major injuries. He is awake, responsive, and in stable...
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Civil Disobedience vs. Lawlessness
In Pennsylvania, as you may know, County Clerk Bruce Hanes has issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Here’s the reaction from NOM, called The...
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Where’s the Backlash?
Our victories at the Supreme Court came over a month ago and I’m still waiting for the backlash. The National Organization for Marriage is obviously hoping for one, and they’ve reported gleefully on...
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AN INFERTILE MARRIAGE IS A PROFITLESS COMPANY
Stop for a moment and note your reaction to this entry’s headline. Specifically: 1. What was your first thought about what it meant — your first interpretation? 2. What your immediate feeling, your gut...
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New Jersey: Maggie Gallagher Gets It Wrong
Maggie has finally weighed in on New Jersey’s law banning reparative therapy. She’s been holding off: “I will read the bill Chris Christie signed carefully before I issue any statement, if I do.”...
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When Doctrine Overrides Humanity
Thomas Peters, NOM’s communications director, shows us the limits of empathy. Peters suffered a diving accident that left him with a fractured fifth vertebrae, a severe spinal cord injury, and doubtful...
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Funny money-beg from NOM
I got my regular NOM money-beg email today and it contained this unintentionally hilarious line: The good news is that 2014 promises to be a year full of opportunity for the marriage movement to regain...
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Bigotry, Duck Dynasty, and Courage
I don’t think we’re learning the right lesson from the uproar over Phil Robertson, A&E’s Duck Dynasty star and sex-with-minors advocate. The real lesson is this: We know we’re right and we know we...
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HELP! Homosexuals Want to Socialize with Nice White People!
[Trigger warning for racism, sexism, religious bigotry, and homophobia.] Everything we do as gay people is aggression. You know that, obviously. It was in the pamphlet, right? Recently I stumbled...
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A Story for Friday
I have a good-hearted friend, the sort of guy who will spend 30 minutes in your kitchen at the end of your dinner party washing your guests’ dishes just to make things easier on you the next day. He...
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Irony Alert
Noted social science expert Mark Regnerus recently warned people against the use of bad statistical data: Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas in Austin, says something called...
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Head, Heart, Gut
It’s not enough to have the better message. We also have to make sure it reaches people in their head, their heart, and their gut. This woman, in mere moments, does a brilliant job.
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Olympics Watch
My favorite part of Opening Ceremonies was at the end, when Putin declared the Games open and they lit the Eye of Sauron.
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Matt Barber’s Offensive
Uber anti-gay Matt Barber has gone on the offensive with his own website called BARBWIRE. Whether that moniker’s another sad attempt to bolster his tough masculine toughness, or just his drag name, I...
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Asked and Answered
What can you say about Jennifer Thieme, Finance Director of NOM’s former affiliate, the Ruth Institute? Well, as my southern friends would slyly declare: Bless her heart. She tries her best to be a...
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