Don't Make Children Cry (Part 1)

Brian Brown claims that pro-equality protesters in Providence intimidated children and made them cry.  Now I’m suspicious, because I’ve seen video from NOM.  I’ve seen arguments and shouting and a mother complaining of a scary, extended encounter that somehow mysteriously was not itself taped (what could explain that?).  But I haven’t seen the crying children [...]

The Solution to Gay Marriage

Here’s Maggie Gallagher repeating her current strategy heartfelt reasons for opposing gay marriage:

Gay activists treat Americans who disagree with them about same-sex marriage like bigots.

They want to use the law to suppress and marginalize and stigmatize.

It’s just shameful and wrong for these activists to try and portray good Americans in that way.

That’s why the hatred…the [...]

Peter Barber Gallagher-Sprigg

Today’s guest Peter gives a two-minute explanation of the Prop 8 trial. Please share.

We All Look Alike to Them

DOES MAGGIE GALLAGHER WANT TO REPEAL AGE OF CONSENT LAWS??

The National Organization for Marriage has hired an active bigot, Louis Marinella, to run its Summer for Marriage Campaign (thanks to goodasyou for exposing this).

I know, NOMmers hate the b-word. They bat their eyes in sad, innocent victimhood when anyone calls them bigots. Perhaps, [...]

Google and the Federal Domestic Partner Tax

Google is now boosting the pay of its domestically-partnered gay and lesbian employees. This is to compensate them for federal income tax they have to pay on spousal benefits, a tax not levied on straight married employees. Predictably, many on the right see Google’s move as inequity rather than an attempt to wipe [...]

Quote of the Day

This is a movement driven to lawlessness and lies by a self-righteous sense that only they are right, and therefore only they have rights. We are fighting, in other words, not only for marriage but for fairness, for democracy, for the rule of law, for civility and for the ordinary civil rights of all Americans.

Can [...]

Marriage Discrimination? $3500 Pay Cut!

I investigated how much it would cost to add a domestic partner to my heath plan. If I were a straight man adding a wife, I could find the answer right in my employee handbook: $729.04 a year. And of course I wouldn’t have to pay taxes on that money, which eases [...]

Maggie Gallagher's War on Adoptive Parents

A new government study is out, and it has NOM president Maggie Gallagher singing a happy song.  In her Thursday blog post she writes:

Question: What kind of family structure best protects children from child abuse?

Answer: Married biological parents. (see page 5-25).

All the other family structures studied (which does not include same-sex parent families probably because [...]

Suspect Classes, and Why You Want to Be in One

“Suspect class.”

Sounds like an insult, doesn’t it? You are a member of a suspect class.  We’re taking your passport.  Don’t leave the state without telling the police.

Except that’s not right at all.  I researched the term because lawyers on our side of the Prop 8 trial kept asking about historical discrimination against gays.  Does [...]

So he was a homo? Really?

Opponents of marriage equality love to position themselves as defenders of morality.  Why, then, are their actions so often despicable?

This is Mecklenberg County Commissioner Bill James.  During a a debate on whether to offer domestic partner benefits to county employees Commissioner Vilma Leake spoke of her son, who died of AIDS in [...]