NOM’s anti-gay marriage radio ads hitting Minnesota airwaves

Andy, thank you for providing the script as it made this audio clip accessible to those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Please continue to do this for all future such clips.

“impose”

I remember when smokers felt they had a right to pollute the air, and others wanted to “impose” their right to breathe clean air on the whole state.

The marriage Nazis have no right to “impose” their hetero-only religious beliefs on everyone else. Nor does the U. S. Constitution allow a simple majority of voters to revoke the natural rights of a minority group.

In the end it will not be voters or politicians who decide, it will be the courts. Gays have the same right to marry as Emmer has, it’s just a matter of recognizing and honoring that right.

Something Emmer and the rest of the marriage Nazis will never do.

They are not a minority group. They are people who choose to live a certain way. Despite what gay advocates want ignorant people to believe, it has not been proven that homosexual behavior is inborn. Again, this has NOTHING to do with civil rights. Over 30 states have decided this is not what the majority want and it needs to be respected.

Gays most certainly are a miniority group, however probley about about 3 million in this country. I think Mary above is somewhat confused, unless she can speak for the 3 million people, she has no idea what she is saying. It isn’t a choice for most of us, there may be a few people that swing both ways and yes they do have a choice, but the rest of us no. It is unnatural for us to be with someone of the opposite sex. We are your sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, parents, grandparent, nieces, nepthews, your doctors, dentists, nurses, pilots, clerks, mailpersons, fireman, policeman, and so on and so forth. We should be allowed to have all the same rights of other human beings in accordance to the constitution. Women fought for their right to be considered equal with men, and for their voting rights, people of color also had to fight for equality, including voting rights and people of differant colors had to fight for their right to marry as well. It has always been the same kind of people who fight so hard to keep people that are differant from themselves from having the same rights.

I am trying to communicate to the 3 million gays and ask that they boycott Target. I know I will not be buying anything there until they choose to support a candidate that treats all human beings as equal under our constitution. I understand they have given money to Emmer who is affilidated with a group that supports execution of gays. This is pretty crazy stuff and I am shocked and horrified that Minnesota would want to be associated with some crazy hitler types that would like to execute 3 million gays…that sounds a lot like what happened to the jews.

I also think 3 million people that boycotted Minnesota,and the products they make and sell could damage the state.

It will be interesting to see how their rhetoric changes once the votes start going the other way.

Just saying. Meanwhile, ZaraLee is, of course, correct.

Dear Mary:

Yes, those who want to have same-sex marriages are a minority group. It does not matter that whether homosexuality is inborn or not. This is about RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. As a Unitarian Universalist, my church’s freedom to marry same-sex couples is infringed on because of the majority Christian view, which is inherently rooted in religious opinions.

So, whether you like it or not, you are asking for permission to impose your religion on me. And the U.S. and Minnesota Constitutions both say you do not have that right even if 99% of the people agree with you.

If you don’t like this situation, please move to a country where they allow one religion to tell everybody what to do…any theocracy will work.

[...] he will sign the bill and does not want to put the issue to the ballot. In Minnesota, where NOM just launched new radio ads attacking the Democratic and Independent candidates for governor over their support for the freedom [...]

Can someone (ZeraLee) tell me when I can marry more than one person and when we are going to have a gay member of the supreme court?

[...] Meanwhile, as was noted last week, Target’s political donation to Tom Emmer, who is vehemently against gay marriage, warmed the [...]

@Mary: Glad you feel that way. Now let’s start by stripping protections from YOUR denomination of Christianity, since believing in the inerrant truth of whatever selected parts of a 2000 year old book of fables happen to support your personal ignorance and hate is also a chosen behavior.

@zorro: you can trot down to Texas and join the Fundamentalist LDS Church if you want to be a polygamist. The state does not recognize the extra wives, but the sect does perform the marriages. They might even assign you an underage girl to marry.

No reasonable person is talking about polygamy, just religious fanatics.

First off who cares about the word “minority.” Secondly what does any of this have to do with religion? Let me be to live my life the way I want to. None of you are God, and will never be. Who I love is my business. Who I trust is my business. The people preaching God and the religious rword need to realize that my choice to marry who I want has nothing to do with them. You will not go to “hell” if you let me pursue the life I want.