Thursday, January 17, 2013

NOM tells Rhode Islanders - 'Gays want your children!!'

I don't think Jeremy Hooper will mind me stealing this from his blog.

You know, no matter how nice Maggie Gallagher and company tries to dress up NOM's rhetoric, when the organization is not successful, it always goes back to basic homophobia and fear tactics such as the following "gays are coming after your children" ad it ran in Rhode Island recently:


No matter how much sweet frosting you put on manure, it is always manure. But here is the thing that I like. The group in Rhode Island pushing for marriage equality, Rhode Islanders United for Marriage, didn't sit on its ass.

Instead, it refuted NOM's junk extremely quick:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

gays do not want your kids.

Anonymous said...

RIUnited is MERI. That said, I said it over 7 years ago that NOM would use the "It's all about the children" argument. You could see it coming.

Anonymous said...

Also, Alvin, you might want to link to this as well:

http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2011/feb/10/national-organization-marriage/national-organization-marriage-says-massachusetts-/