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New ad warns same-sex ‘marriage’ activists want to silence opposition
CNA ^ | May 1, 2009

Posted on 05/01/2009 8:22:16 AM PDT by NYer

Washington D.C., May 1, 2009 / 01:48 am (CNA).- The National Organization for Marriage on Thursday launched a new advertisement highlighting the efforts of some gay “marriage” advocates to characterize defenders of marriage as liars and bigots. The ad warns of the “devastating consequences” the establishment of same-sex “marriage” would have on religious liberty and claims proponents want to “silence opposition.”

The ad, titled “No Offense,” also refers to attacks on beauty pageant contestant Carrie Prejean, Miss California, after she expressed her support for marriage between a man and a woman.

Asked a question about same-sex “marriage” by Miss USA pageant judge Perez Hilton, an openly homosexual gossip blogger, Prejean replied:

“I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there, but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be.”

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) ad reproduces that reply, as well as Hilton’s YouTube video calling Prejean a “dumb b----.”

The NOM ad also says the organization was attacked as “liars and bigots” for “expressing concern about how same-sex marriage would impact religious groups.”

It then excerpts an MSNBC Hardball appearance by Joe Solmonese of the homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign.

Solmonese said “It’s no longer palatable in this country or okay to be an outright bigot. If you want to deny us these rights, you need to do it by lying and misrepresenting.”

The ad’s narrator then says:

“Gay marriage activists attack people for supporting marriage because they don’t want to debate the consequences of same-sex marriage. They want to silence opposition.”

It then adds, “some of the nation’s foremost legal scholars” warn that same-sex “marriage” can create “widespread legal conflicts” for individuals, small businesses and religious organizations.

The NOM web site presents a copy of a nine page April 20 letter to the Connecticut House of Representatives by law Profs. Thomas C. Berg, Carl H. Esbeck, Robin Fretwell Wilson and Richard W. Garnett.

The professors’ letter, referring to the book “Same-sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts,” said “legal scholars on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate agreed that codifying same-sex marriage without providing robust religious accommodations will create widespread and unnecessary legal conflict—conflict that will work a ‘sea change in American law’ and will ‘reverberate across the legal and religious landscape.’”

The “No Offense” ad is the second produced by NOM’s $1.5 million ad campaign.

“Our mission is to protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it," the group's executive director Brian Brown said Tuesday. "We want to highlight the very real effects on our liberties and especially on religious organizations, businesses, and individuals."

According to CNN, Brown said that NOM is concerned that those who oppose same-sex “marriage” are being cast as bigots like those who opposed racial integration.

The ad is viewable at the NOM web site http://www.nationformarriage.org


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
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1 posted on 05/01/2009 8:22:16 AM PDT by NYer
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2 posted on 05/01/2009 8:22:56 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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Ping!


3 posted on 05/01/2009 8:24:24 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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The homo activists insult and ridicule and try to destroy anybody who violates their agenda even if it is members of their own party or group who disagrees with them. They are the most bullying intolerant people on the face of this Earth. And they have no qualms about destroying people, destroying other’s faith beliefs and values and even trying to destroy religion and discounring God as much as possible and in any way they can,


4 posted on 05/01/2009 8:32:43 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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You just don’t get it people. THIS AD IS HATE SPEECH! Miss California committed a H8 Crime.


5 posted on 05/01/2009 8:32:52 AM PDT by LALALAW (one of the asses whose sick of our "ruling" classes)
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To: LALALAW

Carrie must not have any brothers or Micheal Musto would be flat lining.


6 posted on 05/01/2009 8:43:41 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: NYer

Lousy ad. When it talk about the potential “consequences” it doesn’t state them but merely shows a quote of tex that is hard to read and on the screen for a mere 3 seconds, muddying the message. Re-Do!


7 posted on 05/01/2009 8:58:46 AM PDT by FreepShop1 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: Ev Reeman

Repressing outrage will only increase it.
This will eventually backfire on them.


8 posted on 05/01/2009 8:58:52 AM PDT by Salamander (All our times have come. Here but now, there. Gone.)
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To: Ev Reeman

p.s...Guilt drives their tyranny.

In an effort to “justify” their aberrant behavior, they go completely overboard to “legitimize” it.

Somehow, in their warped minds, if they can make it “legal”, they think that they can convince ~themselves~ that they’re “normal”.

I have never known a gay person who didn’t secretly despise their perversion.

In short, the more they protest, the more you can judge their level of self-loathing.


9 posted on 05/01/2009 9:05:38 AM PDT by Salamander (All our times have come. Here but now, there. Gone.)
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10 posted on 05/01/2009 9:31:36 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: NYer
Religious liberty would definitely be infringed, as would the entire first amendment, and many others!
11 posted on 05/01/2009 10:10:23 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: NYer

Bump. Where can I donate?


12 posted on 05/01/2009 11:01:07 AM PDT by Antoninus (Now accepting apologies from repentant Mittens.)
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Gee and these are the people that chant the word tolerance.


13 posted on 05/01/2009 11:05:38 AM PDT by DMG2FUN
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To: FreepShop1
Lousy ad.

Coming from a noob and a website shill... yawn.
14 posted on 05/01/2009 11:13:42 AM PDT by Antoninus (Now accepting apologies from repentant Mittens.)
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Coming from a noob and a website shill... yawn.

No, coming from a conservative ad man, who did media spots for Saxby Chambliss and Prop 8. This one simply doesn't leave a strong impression. You disagree?

15 posted on 05/01/2009 1:04:03 PM PDT by FreepShop1 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: NYer
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Gay_Rights_Intimidation

It took a day, but they're trying to intimidate.
Actually, they're trying to take over a day old thread when the conservatives probably aren't coming back to it.

16 posted on 05/01/2009 4:16:25 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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...also refers to attacks on beauty pageant contestant Carrie Prejean, Miss California, after she expressed her support for marriage between a man and a woman.

17 posted on 05/01/2009 6:19:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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