Another counter argument: Most Catholic churches won’t marry a couple if one of the folks is divorced. Of course, they have their silly little annulment process to pretend the previous marriage never happened, but the fact remains that the church has the right to refuse to marry people that are entering into a marriage that is not sanctioned by its beliefs. So LDS, Catholic, and whatever other exclusionary religions will be free to refuse to marry same sex couples. And UU and whatever other openminded, loving religions else will be free to marry whomever they like.

It deserves incredibly wide distribution for its clarity, and most, because it flips the script at a crucial time in the rhetorical battle.

Thank you again for this and your other work. Keep it coming, and I (along with a great many others) will keep passing it on.

Thank you for this and your hate crimes video. Coming from a deeply religious upbringing, I appreciate how simply and clearly your videos show the inaccuracies and twisted “truths” put forward by certain groups.

Please don’t stop. It is quite encouraging on those days it seems equality is years away.

All the best,

Bryan

“We need to build an army of well-informed gays and lesbians who are ready to correct the religious right’s lies…”

I hope this army also welcomes well-informed straight people, bisexual people, asexual people, people who are undecided, and people who object to labelling themselves with a sexuality.

The pro-marriage-equality side easily has all the best arguments, both logically and morally. The sexual orientation of the person making the argument is irrelevant.

Indeed, I would find it rather depressing if people on the side of marriage equality were only in it because it directly affected them. Equal human rights for everyone should be important to all members of a healthy society, whether they are being discriminated against personally or not.