I don't usually post NOM news, but this week had a few points of interest...
First item, an exchange in Maine between Maggie Gallagher and a radio show host highlights the equality paradox we discuss quite often here at Opine...
Maggie pointed out that you cannot say both that gay marriage is about “equality” and then turn around and claim that ”it’s not going to affect anyone else.” Equality arguments don’t lead to live-and-let-live tolerance. They lead to the expansion of government power to repress “bigotry”–i.e., the traditional understanding of marriage. [...]
Ethan (a substitute host filling in for Ken) had a real hard time hearing what Maggie was saying. [...] “What you are saying sounds like bigotry to me,” he more or less told Maggie. (I’m doing this from memory; I don’t have a transcript, so forgive me!)
[...] “I’ve come to understand, reluctantly,” she told him, “that people like you do hear ideas like ‘Marriage is a union of husband and wife because kids need a mom and dad’ as bigoted. That’s why I want everyone else listening to understand very clearly: When they say ‘equality, equality, equality,’ they are telling you that gay marriage is going to have real consequences for everyone who disagrees with the government’s new definition of marriage.”
The second item "I have a question for you: What if they announced gay marriage and no one showed up? That’s the question being raised by Vermont’s tumultous passage of a gay marriage law last spring."
See the AP story “Slow Start: No Rush for Same-Sex Weddings in Vermont,”
Thirdly, they take a clear stand on involvement by the LDS church in their organization.
The LDS church is not responsible for NOM’s formation, and NOM has never received any promise of assistance from Salt Lake. We would welcome such assistance, as we would from other faith communities. But Salt Lake is not responsible for NOM’s activities and the continued press suggestions are unfair to the the LDS church leadership and to Mormons in America generally.
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