Re: REVEALED: The Hateful Strategy of Marriage Equality Opponents

Hey if you keep forgetting about me I m going to make you role play priest and altar boy

On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, GregfromBoston <greg.vincent@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ya know Tom, I am a Catholic (an officer of the Knights of Columbus, in fact).
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> I am a conservative.
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> I am also the biggest proponent of LEGAL gay marriage on this board, sans, perhaps, you.  Bravo!
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> I don't expect the Catholic church to recognize gay marriage.  Anyone who does is an idiot.
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> Bill Clinton campaigned on DOMA, and delivered.  He WROTE the operative section 3.
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> Until you hoity toity, "we support gay marriage", liberals get off your asses and DO something about DOMA, all this state to state crap means NOTHING!
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> Republicans, in general, say they are against gay marriage, and I disagree with everyone of them, but at least they come right out and say it!
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> I can only think of one liberal who has had the nuts to say he is against gay marriage, and he happens to be President of the United States.
> On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:48:55 PM UTC-4, Tommy News wrote:
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>> REVEALED: The Hateful Strategy of Marriage Equality Opponents
>> Mar 27, 2012 | By ThinkProgress War Room
>>
>> NOM Plots Shocking Strategy to Fan Racial Hostilities
>> Secret memos exclusively released last night by the Human Rights
>> Campaign's (HRC) outline the National Organization for Marriage's
>> (NOM) shocking and hateful strategy for fighting marriage equality in
>> states across the country. In short, they planned to "drive a wedge
>> between gays and blacks" by convincing them to fight over the language
>> of "civil rights." (They also outlined plans to drive a wedge between
>> gays and Latinos.)
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>> Check out the key passage here:
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>> Here are some of the other lowlights from the previously confidential documents:
>>
>> Bait Latino voters to oppose marriage equality as "a symbol of
>> resistance to inappropriate assimilation."
>> Interrupt the "attempt to equate…sexual orientation with race" so that
>> marriage inequality is not perceived as discrimination.
>> Draw attention to the "bigotry and intolerance" displayed by equality
>> advocates and "document the victims" through a rapid response media
>> team.
>> Emphasize the importance of "religious liberties" to limit the impact
>> of marriage equality's legislative advancements.
>> "Develop side issues to weaken pro-gay marriage political leaders"
>> like pornography, "protection of children" and religious liberty at
>> the federal level.
>> Expose Obama administration programs that "have the effect of
>> sexualizing young children" or threatening "childhood innocence."
>> "Find, train, and equip young leaders" to become a "next generation of
>> elites" capable of opposing marriage equality.
>> Foster closer relationships with Catholic bishops to "equip, energize,
>> and moralize Catholic priests on the marriage issue."
>> Focus on "the consequences of gay marriage for parental rights."
>> Progressives were quick to condemn NOM's shameful and divisive plans:
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>> "Nothing beats hearing from the horse's mouth exactly how callous and
>> extremist this group really is. Such brutal honesty is a game changer,
>> and this time NOM can't spin and twist its way out of creating an
>> imagined rift between LGBT people and African-Americans or Hispanics."
>>
>> -HRC President Joe Solomonese
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>> "NOM's underhanded attempts to divide will not succeed if Black
>> Americans remember their own history of discrimination. Pitting
>> bigotry's victims against other victims is reprehensible; the
>> defenders of justice must stand together."
>>
>> -Dr. Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus of the NAACP
>>
>> "If the success of the National Organization of Marriage's movement
>> depends on stirring up resentment between communities, it might want
>> to rethink its strategies.
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>> "African American men and women of faith are not a political football
>> to be tossed around in a cynical game of resentment and division. We,
>> like all Americans, struggle thoughtfully with issues of faith, family
>> and politics. Anti-equality activists such as NOM consistently attempt
>> to use a deeply cynical 'wedge' strategy to divide African Americans
>> and the gay community, playing up what are now old and tired cliches.
>> In the long run, this strategy will falter as African American and
>> LGBT communities continue to work together for equal justice."
>>
>> -Minister Leslie Watson Malachi, Director of People For the American
>> Way Foundation's African American Ministers Leadership Council
>>
>> "NOM isn't the first organization to use such cynical marketing ploys,
>> schemes that seem to have little do with the interests of the people
>> they claim to represent, and it certainly won't be the last. But the
>> revelation of its bald attempt to exploit black people and Latinos
>> should help end the idea that NOM is an honorable group that would
>> never engage in race-baiting. Because that is precisely what it has
>> done."
>>
>> More:
>> Progressreport.org
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>> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> Have a great day,
>> Tommy
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>> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> Have a great day,
>> Tommy
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