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Lou Marinelli, the one-time self identified “NOM strategist” and driver of its very, very, VERY unsuccessful marriage tour is now seeking to distance his blog from the organization with a silly disclaimer:
A statement of clarity
I would like to take this opportunity to state that the opinions and statements made in this blog reflect only the opinions of myself, personally, not the National Organization for Marriage.
I am not an employee of the National Organization for Marriage. I am a third party who is directly involved as a partner with the Summer for Marriage.
Therefore, positions I take and statements I make do not reflect the positions or opinions of any other person, entity or the National Organization for Marriage as a whole.
This statement of clarity has been added due to the heavy attention our opponents give to this blog and the great lack of understanding of who or what I represent. Let this stand as a clarification to all.
This disclaimer probably is due to rude and ugly comments Marinelli has made about the lgbt community, which goes counterclockwise to NOM's talking point of unfairly being called bigots simply because it supposedly wants to defend marriage.
Comments like the claiming that the lgbt rights movement is about “pedophilia, polygamy, and prostitution.”
Or an absolutely disrespectful comment he made about a gay couple and their daughter last weekend:
There was one couple (one of those bolder couples who came into the rally itself) who were particularly disappointing. The two men decided not to just attend the rally but they brought a baby with them. Notice I said 'a baby” because it isn't “their baby”. It was clearly adopted. They were white the baby was not.This baby has been adopted and is being raised in a house of homosexuality and can't even speak yet. Who will speak for this and all the other children who are adopted and are being subjected to a house of homosexuality?
And he includes a picture of the couple he is skewering (complete with their adorable daughter), which does nothing more than push the fact about what a scuzzy thing it was for him to make such a comment – which, by the way, he is getting butchered for in the comments section of his post.
The huge irony about that is Maggie Gallagher made an appearance during NOM's tour and she had this to say:
Hate is not a family value. The 62 percent of Ohioans who came together across lines of race, creed and color to vote for marriage are not haters, and it’s wrong to portray them, or the American people that way.
Perhaps Gallagher should address those sentiments to Marinelli.
The fact that she most likely didn't but still uses him during NOM's summer tour – which does connect him to the organization no matter how much he tries to backtrack – says a lot about the organization's lack of basic integrity.
Hat tip to Box Turtle Bulletin.
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An Ohioan speaksFirst of all, as an Ohioan, I’m deeply ashamed at the bigotry of my state when the Super DOMA was passed. Ol’ Magpie can twist it into a Gordian Knot as much as she wants, but when you deny a specific portion of the population from a basic civil right, THAT is bigotry, my fine feathered fascist!
As I’ve always stated, I’d just love to send these bigots to an alternate Earth where it’s straights who have to hide their relationships, and watch as their friends and neighbors deny them the right to marry their opposite gender partner and watch helplessly as bigoted medical personnel deny them the right to decide their treatment, let alone see them!
So far, the provision of our Super DOMA which denies even heterosexual unmarried couples the rights of married couples has been excused only when it comes to domestic violence. That’s due to the fact there were a few enterprising men who were able to get out of their trials and used the Super DOMA as justification, which the LGBT community said would happen.
I’ve yet to hear whether the survivor of an unmarried straight couple has been denied the ability to raise a child from another marriage, nor have I heard about someone being denied access to a loved one in the hospital.
All I can say is that I’m so glad that Ohio’s been as welcoming to NOM’s hate campaign as every other place they’ve stopped at.
Nice try.These people continually trot out something that some gay person wrote or said somewhere, often in the 70′s under entirely different social circumstances, take it out of the social and political (and often personal) context, and then claim that it applies to all gay people, that it is a given all gay people must believe it simply because one gay person published it, and that they can therefore react to any gay person as though that’s what they said.
“All” gay people are out to destroy marriage. “All” gay people have the same agenda. No gay people can be trusted as parents because some gay person somewhere is a pedophile.
There’s no room in their world for a diversity of experience or belief on our side.
And yet we’re supposed to be willing to completely separate the NOM platform and agenda from the behavior and stated beliefs of the people they have with them on their National Tour? This guy is driving their bus and blogging!
If they’re so non-hatefulThen their followers (and leaders) sure don’t seem to know it.
They’re perfectly happy to circulate lies and defamations, and try to stoke and then play on popular bigotries: first I ask, ‘Who do you think you’re fooling,’ and second, I say, ‘Well, go ahead and start educating your own followers about that not-being a hater part.’
That is, of course, if you have any followers, to speak of, NOM. Seems to me you’re more like a small astroturf hate-group, one of the many alliases of the same national hate organizations, trying to deceive voters and justify hatred and injustice while denying you’re doing either thing, to me.
So, bring the ‘not hate’ if you got any. Start with not spreading lies and distortion and defamation and demonization of the families you want to bring tears to.
“pedophilia, polygamy, and prostitution” ARE family values…heterosexual family values. With the exceptions of the Haggard and Rekers scandals, every single news story I’ve seen about those three activities in years has involved heterosexuals. Or does Marinelli think the DC Madam, the Mayflower Madam, David Vitter, Roman Polanski and Warren Jeffs are all gay? And the Mormon church must be gay institution, huh? Even Rekers and Haggard, the two most notorious patrons of male prostitutes on record, both claim to be heterosexual. Obviously the solution to all of society’s ills is to ban heterosexual marriage.
Not that it matters anymore…Now that his “I’m just a bus driver” blog has done gone private as of this morning.
What a simp.
Now nobody can read it unless they’re invited. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a pr tour?Nobody can get anywhere near the NOM rallies unless they are invited, apparently – as evidenced by the fact that NOM has the police threaten to arrest anyone else who tries to get near them. Now they’ve got this blog private only. What’s left to access? The official NOM site? It doesn’t say much.
I’m not an expert in public relations, but I thought the purpose of pr was to encourage the public to find out more about one’s organization. NOM is blocking the public from access.
Interesting.