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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJuly 16th, 2010
The National Organization for Marriage is feeling the heat resulting from the nasty-ass hate speech that is being spewed at their One Man, One Women Facebook page. They’ve already tried to announce that this site – which they tout as their own – is not really theirs but is all separate, you see. Just ignore the logo and the slogan and that the site’s “owner” is – as I write this – driving NOM’s Big Bus of Animus around on a 23 city tour.
Well, no one bought it. So now they are trying a different approach. NOM has now changed the picture that accompanies the site administrators to this:
Because they aren’t really NOM.
Nope, they are a coalition. Yessiree, a coalition. See, it says so right there!
So, sure. Okay, they are a coalition. A coalition that goes by the name of National Organization for Marriage.
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Ray
July 16th, 2010
They don’t want the two groups to be confused so they call it a coalition. They’re not together. But they’re under a single tent called a coalition, but they’re separate. Get it? Separate.
These people are geniuses.
Steven B
July 16th, 2010
what are those, two men’s rings in the graphic?
Jim Burroway
July 16th, 2010
The fact that the facebook page’s “owner” is driving the bus appears as aptly metaphorical as it does literal.
John in the Bay Area
July 16th, 2010
I love this anti-gay challenge of trying to find just the right amount of bigotry to display that advances the cause of discrimination against gay and lesbian Americans without creating excessive backlash and negative fallout from more obvious hate speech.
The real difficulty in playing this game is the moving goal posts. Things that were easily gotten away with in the past become less and less acceptable every day.
As more and more Americans know gay people in their daily life, you just can’t go around saying offensive things. You also can’t be sure that this middle aged guy who looks like Archie Bunker doesn’t have a gay son with partner and kids that he absolutely adores.
By the way, I wonder if Maggie’s semi-secret non-white husband is going to be riding on this bus with her through the deep south to drum up support for traditional marriage among the various bigots they run accross.
Pliny
July 16th, 2010
If you’ve been lucky enough to catch a screening of 8, this dodge should look familiar. It’s straight out of the LDS Hawaiian playbook. Set up a “coalition” to break the connection between your organisation and the ditry work being done.
Terry Hardy
July 17th, 2010
“Don’t they all know it is just a matter of time and they really could be doing some good with all that bad energy.”
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