Comments on: NOM’s New Ad is Unimpressive

By: werdna

werdna — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:12:03 +0000

Timothy-Following you off topic, I love your question about the slippery slope argument. The sad truth is that, when it comes to marriage anyway, many of our opponents do wish to see a return to an older era where marriage is not a contract of equals, where men and women have different legal rights and responsibilities within the marriage. Forcing them to make that explicit won’t help their case though!

By: a. mcewen

a. mcewen — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:35:58 +0000

Actually it was Perez Hilton who caused the video to be removed but NOM is still in a conundrum. If NOM complains then it can be easily pointed out that the group did the same thing with the “Gathering Storm” audition videos

By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:13:26 +0000

@Timothy

FYI, the video no longer plays due to a so-called copyright violation.

How hypocritical that NOM criticizes pro-gays for supposedly “silencing opposition” but is prohibiting their own words from being examined in the wrong circles.

By: John

John — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:04:08 +0000

Pretty lame ad. Not as bad, or rather worthy of parody, as the “gathering storm” nonsense but still lame.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:25:19 +0000

it’s always been my contention that straight marriage leads easily to polygamy, incest, beastiality, necrophilia and all sorts of strangeness all on it’s own.

If you look at the proposed FMA and DOMA not a single word of it prevents any of these things from happening.

They keep writing “marriage is one man and one woman” but they seem to forget to explain what constitutes a “man” and a “woman” and forget entirely about the fact that polygamists don’t get married in groups, A man with six wives has six marriages — each marriage only has one man and one woman.

By: Flash! Church and state are supposed to be separate! at Lesbian Dad

Flash! Church and state are supposed to be separate! at Lesbian Dad — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:29:19 +0000

[...] grist for the mill” file. The National Organization for MisinformationMarriage has amplified their claim that marriage equality somehow quashes, instead of clears the path for, true religious freedom. [...]

By: RU486

RU486 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:58:17 +0000

If you ask me, opposite-sex marriage is the beginning of the slippery slope that leads to polygamy. After all, if a man can marry a woman, what’s to stop a man from marry two women?

By: Bill S

Bill S — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:24:45 +0000

Alex-
I’m still amazed that they had over a million bucks to spend, and instead of using it to, y’know, directly help families in need, they decided to spend it villifying GLBT folk.
Nice to know where their priorities lie,

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:22:42 +0000

For those weilding the slippery slope argument, I want to ask them:

Knowing that they were a slippery slope that led directly to so many rights for gays, if you could go back now and reverse civil rights for blacks, would you?

By: RU486

RU486 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:13:04 +0000

Their message has been reduced to “mean gays are picking on us.” Not very effective. If they were smart (and they’re not), they would have stuck with “we have to protect the innocent children,” which is always a winner. Meanwhile, over at the IFI, Laurie Higgins has reverted to the “slippery slope leading to polygamy” argument. An oldie, but a goodie.