Reaction from the National Organization for Marriage on the Supreme Court’s refusal to shut down marriage equality in DC:
While same-sex marriages will be permitted in the District for the time being, NOM will continue to fight to get an initiative on the ballot to restore marriage to what it has always been — the union of one man and one woman.
Somebody needs to reread their Old Testament. Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon? And the Bible even offers guidance on how to treat your first wife when adding a spare:
If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
Now we know: The folks at NOM are proudly religious, but when the Bible conflicts with a talking point, we see which one they throw in the trash.
And isn’t the Catholic Archdiocese just being the paragon of moral righteousness? (not that we’d expected anything else from them…)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021604899.html
[...] up this little bit of nothingness in an attempt to distract myself from thinking too hard about closed-minded, scared little people* who are doing the best they can to make sure that only certain people get to enjoy human [...]
Yeah, NOM sucks. I saw your discussion with some of the blog commenters there and posted a comment to you but it probably won’t go through (NOM has this lovely little habit of censoring comments they don’t like). What I said there, though, was that I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to talk with these people and have finally come to the conclusion that in fact many of them do agree with Sprigg’s desire to outlaw gay behavior (if not gay people) outright. They are extremists, diehard bigots, and no amount of calm and rational discussion will persuade them. God’s wrath, perhaps, but that’s about it. The only reason to continue debating on the NOM blog is for the benefit of any lurkers who may be reading and who may be less insane. (Chairm? Good God!)
Anyway, keep up the good fight!