{"id":8719,"date":"2009-05-01T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-01T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:02:09","slug":"we-the-people-stand-together-for-marriage-equality-and-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/01\/we-the-people-stand-together-for-marriage-equality-and-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"“We the People” stand together for marriage equality and religious freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some amazing volunteers put together this video for the Courage Campaign.  Unlike some other ads out there (NOM NOM NOM), individuals appearing in this video are real people, including a carpenter, lawyer, priest, and a soldier discharged under the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of NOM…they are out today with their latest ad<\/a>, playing the victim and trying to claim that they lose their rights when gay people want to get married.<\/p>\n

As “We the People” explains, marriage equality and religious freedom are not in conflict. The constitution provides for a separation between church and state, meaning that no religious organization can be forced to perform or acknowledge same-sex marriage if they choose not to.<\/p>\n

They are sowing fear and distorting the facts in an attempt to try and hold on to an increasingly smaller share of the American public<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NOM is putting Miss California up as their spokeswoman<\/strike> victim.  They probably correctly assume that she is a better mouthpiece than their most prominent board member, best-selling fiction writer Orson Scott Card.  PFAW<\/a>:<\/p>\n

(full disclosure: I work for the Courage Campaign)<\/i><\/p>\n

“The NOM has argued that it is not a homophobic organization, but Card’s remarks suggest otherwise. Card, who represents the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the board and received an effusive welcome last week from NOM president Maggie Gallagher, supports criminalizing sex between same-sex adults:<\/p>\n

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books…to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society’s regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Card has also advocated overthrowing the government if same-sex marriage is permitted:<\/p>\n

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.<\/p>\n

Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Puts those comments about bigotry in context, no?<\/p>\n

NOM is afraid of change. Don’t let them take away what makes this country so great.<\/p>\n

Let us all stand together for equality and freedom.<\/p>\n

Sign the pledge to repeal Prop 8<\/a>. Please pass the video along to your friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some amazing volunteers put together this video for the Courage Campaign.  Unlike some other ads out there (NOM NOM NOM), individuals appearing in this video are real people, including a carpenter, lawyer, priest, and a soldier discharged under the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of NOM…they are out today with their latest ad<\/a>, playing the victim and trying to claim that they lose their rights when gay people want to get married.<\/p>\n

As “We the People” explains, marriage equality and religious freedom are not in conflict. The constitution provides for a separation between church and state, meaning that no religious organization can be forced to perform or acknowledge same-sex marriage if they choose not to.<\/p>\n

They are sowing fear and distorting the facts in an attempt to try and hold on to an increasingly smaller share of the American public<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NOM is putting Miss California up as their spokeswoman<\/strike> victim.  They probably correctly assume that she is a better mouthpiece than their most prominent board member, best-selling fiction writer Orson Scott Card.  PFAW<\/a>:<\/p>\n

(full disclosure: I work for the Courage Campaign)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1608],"tags":[756,7210,7209,5267],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1608","tag-756","tag-7210","tag-7209","tag-5267"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2gD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}