Thanks to Jeremy Hooper at Good As You for catching this at NOM’s blog:
“Our job is to make sure there is an unshakable 10 percent willing to stand up for the great truths of Genesis: we are made male and female and called to come together in love so children have a mother and a father.”
We should all thank Jeremy–and Alvin–for slogging through Fundies’ crap so we don’t have to. Lord knows I don’t have the stomach for it.
National Organization for Marriage tries to present itself as a secular organization.
To anyone paying attention such claims are laughable. But there is strategy behind it. NOM defector Louis J. Marinelli explained when he asked back in May, Has NOM begun to drop its secular screen?
Since NOM understands that legally our Nation is a secular nation which respects the rule of law penned in the Constitution, they have spent their time and effort using a variety of secular-based taking points to defend their work and promote their agenda is state legislatures across the country. They understand that they can’t win in the courtroom with only Bibles in their hands.
But the floor is fast collapsing on any pretense there is any legitimate secular reason to object to marriage equality. So, maybe they’ve decided to just stop pretending it isn’t all about the Bible for them. Maybe they’ve realized going all-out in the quest to gin up religious outrage is the only viable path to delay the inevitable.
Looks like the answer to Louis’ question is yes. Good luck quoting Genesis to the Nine on the Supreme Court when DOMA and Prop 8 challenges get there. That’s a excellent way to lose Justice Kennedy.






