The National Organization for Marriage…matters. I choke on those words, but NOM contributed 62% of the funding to rescinding marriage equality in Maine. If you’re a gay couple in Maine, NOM is the reason you can’t marry.
Now NOM is conducting a bus tour through the eastern states. Attendance has been sad and pathetic, but they’ve been perfecting their message: We’re just a sweet, kindly group of traditional people, and those hateful, intolerant gays are attacking us. It’s canny public relations.
It’s also a lie.
Please, please share.
damn, that’s brutal. they truly are evil bastards.
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Rob, are all of your posts now going to show up at BTB?
Just wondering since if so, I’ll need to reorganize my subscriptions so posts don’t double up in my feeds.
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Hey David. I’m only going to be an occasional contributor to BTB.
Deeply moving. I’m so choked up I had to log off my phone at work. Thanks for putting that together.
What happened to Shirley?
I think you’ve got the larger theme. We just have to repeat, repeat repeat.. show more and different examples.
Good job sir!
This was awesome. Thanks
TRIPLE, TRIPLE Kudos my friend.
That is one awesome video. I emailed it to a bunch of friends and face booked it. i will be twittering it also from Jeremy Hooper’s site. ;p
Say, didn’t Maggie once says (or write) specifically that we Gay people should just suck it up and live by the laws as they are, because lots of other people want to bring over a foreign spouse, but they can’t, so…in essence, she’s saying “too bad for you!”.
Another home run.
[...] Via Pam’s House Blend, a great video by Rob Tisiani of Waking Up Now. [...]
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Maggie’s refusal to deal with specific, real-life (or even hypothetical) cases extends even to cable news shows. I wish I could find the source on this, but I was reading a transcript (think it was on towle – not sure) of a Maggie Gallagher interview where she was asked, [paraphrasing] “OK, let’s not talk about abstract couples; let’s talk about a hypothetical couple named Bill and Steve.”
“No, I don’t want to talk about individuals who would benefit from this; I want to talk about all the people who have voted to preserve their definition of marriage.”
She knows that when confronted face-to-face with people who she is harming, she has no valid argument to make. Your video is an excellent highlight of that fact.
If she’s not a citizen, doesn’t that mean her kids aren’t either?
Also, that jay person is a woman?
[...] course, some problems can’t be solved even if you have every bit of paperwork intact. Shirley Tan learned this the hard way when immigration officials shackled her in front of her kids and spouse, [...]
[...] course, some problems can’t be solved even if you have every bit of paperwork intact. Shirley Tan learned this the hard way when immigration officials shackled her in front of her kids and spouse, [...]