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LGBT Blogs Provide Critical Counter to NOM Spin
By Karen Ocamb
Thank heavens for LGBT equality activists and the bloggers who post about them! Otherwise how would we know what was really going on in the culture wars? How would we know that only 40 “protect marriage” supporters showed up for the much heralded National Organization for Marriage’s “One Man, One Woman” bus tour stop in Indianapolis? They’ve been met at every stop along the way by Freedom to Marry supporters, who turned out over 250 LGBT and allied supporters to counter NOM’s rally, according to Bil Browning’s post at Bilerico. He also provided this sign from one of NOM’s God-fearing supporters. This sign alone is critical in countering the “victim” meme NOM and Protect Marriage has been using in court and the media, as Mark Hefflinger reported here earlier this month.
The Courage Campaign is also making a strong commitment to countering NOM’s spin, bringing the expertise they developed as virtually the bloggers of record during the Prop 8 trial with their Prop8TrialTracker to the NOM campaign. Eden James announced that Adam Bink (OpenLeft) is taking over Courage’s important NOMTourTracker site – which is where you can find this extraordinary July 26 interview with a NOM supporter by Courage’s Arisha Michelle Hatch.
Some of the quotes from Larry Adams: “What you gotta do with sin is take it out.” And, “if it was punished like it was supposed to be, there wouldn’t be so much homosexuality out there.” Larry also admits that he has been attracted to another man, but “I knew it was from the devil so I avoided it.”
UPDATE: Michael Crawford from Freedom to Marry says that they have launched a petition campaign to “Tell NOM to Denounce Call to Murder Gay Couples.” The petition says, in part: “Your fear-mongering and assaults on gay families are inciting prejudice and inviting violence. We call on you to immediately denounce these tactics and the harm you are doing to gay and lesbian families and the national conversation around marriage.”
But contrast this reporting on LGBT blogs with the slick faux-news report from NOM about them being “bullied and intimidated,” a video which can be easily distributed to churches and the NOM network created during Prop 8. Additionally, consider that without LGBT press and blog reporting to counter “reports” such as this, the lazy or otherwise-engaged mainstream media could consider this video, conveniently handed to them by NOM, to be the “truth.”
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at leastthe guy in the first video was rather civil and not an all in your face evangelist with a megaphone..
NOM’s message is misdirectedGay people are not threatening their marriages, unless they’re worried that they or their spouses are gay and might leave them.
What is threatening their marriages?
1. Easy divorce. A lot of straight people take the easy way out and don’t bother to work at their marriages.
2. Abusive spouses. Some spouses are violent and abusive.
3. Patriarchal oppression. When heterosexual married people are not equal partners, the wheels come off the bus.
4. Opposition to marriage equality threatens their marriages! Living in states that have high divorce rates – states with hogh divorce rates have the most opposition to marriage equality – contrast Massachusetts, the first state to enact marriage equality, which has a very low divorce rate.
5. Paternity suits. For straight women, why bother getting married if you can get pregnant and get a court to force the man who did the deed to pay for his mistake for decades – this works best if the man in question is a sports star or is otherwise wealthy. It works even better if he wants to hush things up.
This is NOMs Face Uncovered……these people are just the tip of the iceburg of religious hate-mongering by the Catholic and Mormon cults. They are no better than MassResistance or AFA or the other organizations listed as hate groups by the SPLC.
Their allowing this man to stand with them proves that they want us dead.
This man’s sign with his address is gay baiting. They want us to do something they can put on tape so they can bring it to the courts and court of opinion to say “See. These people are violent and we need protection from them.” Making their case for keeping referenda signature gathering a secret affair without transparency in order to continue to legislate against us in secret. Make no mistake – this is their strategy.
Did RENWL’s post SLAMMING COURAGE do that much damage?DANG!
So Karen’s on the damage control crew, eh? Love it! Cause we kicked Courage AS HARD WE COULD for that jive NOM TRACKER waste of everybody’s money and time stupidity.
What a pathetic SHAM!
YAY!!!!! This is great news. This tells us that we drew blood. A lot of it:)