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Below you’ll find a 130-photo slideshow of today’s hate rally in the Bronx, including some images of the good guys in the counter-protesting area. Full-screen versions are here and permission is granted for reproduction anywhere.

With his lies being interpreted into Spanish by a screaming pastor, NOM president Brian Brown warned the crowd that “kids as young as kindergarten are taught in Massachusetts that their parents are bigots because they believe marriage is the union of a man and a woman.” Brown then exhorted the crowd to believe that there is no actual separation of …

Thanks to the rain, attendance at NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ anti-gay hate rally was far, far below the 20,000 evangelicals who crowded the streets of midtown Manhattan in 2009. Still, this year’s event was much more of an ecumenical hate scene, with the red-caped Catholic loons leading the parade, followed closely by a contingent of Ultra-Orthodox Jews. NOM president Brian …

“Don’t confront them with yelling and screaming, that just plays into NOM’s hands.” Wise words, for those us who remember NOM’s relentless usage of photos and video of angry activists on last summer’s bus tour.

(Via – Good As You)

“Sponsored by Senator and Reverend Ruben Diaz—a true hero in the fight to protect marriage in New York—the rally will bring together marriage supporters from across the state as we join together across racial, ethnic and religious lines to affirm the truth of marriage. I am excited to be there, and to have the opportunity to share a few thoughts …

In New York state NOM has begun re-airing the same lie-filled ad that it ran in 2009, when it was debunked by the fact-finding site Politifact. Via Holy Bullies, here’s Politifact’s assessment: The National Organization for Marriage mailing says that Massachusetts public schools teach kindergartners about gay marriage. The wording, including the present tense verb, gives the impression this is …

(Via – Good As You)

Just posted to NOM’s blog: “It’s become quite clear in recent days in New York that Governor Cuomo and same-sex marriage advocates are targeting a select number of Democrat state Senators, as well as some Republicans in their desperate attempt to coerce legislators to support their agenda,” said Brian Brown, President of NOM. “We want to be sure those courageous …

I haven’t yet heard of any organized plan to counter-protest at Diaz’ hate rally this Sunday. I plan on being there. If you are attending, please consider signage with respectful messages in Spanish. There were so few of us at Diaz’ 2009 rally, most of the counter-protesters ended up in the press materials of our enemies.

NOM’s Brian Brown has informed the New York Times that he is ready to spend $1M to oppose the reelection of any GOP state senator that votes in favor of same-sex marriage. NOM has made similar threats in other states. “We spent over half a million dollars in New York” in 2009, he said, “and we’re ready to spend that …

NOM has officially aligned themselves with NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ massive anti-gay hate rally, which takes place in the Bronx on Sunday, May 15th, the day of the AIDS Walk in Central Park. On May 15, Rev Díaz called for a rally in the Bronx and I will be there! Talk about fighting for marriage in the deep blue country! …

“To anyone who has been at the forefront of the marriage fight, there is little new in the extraordinary effort to punish a whole law firm because HRC doesn’t like its client. Gay marriage advocates have again and again used class networks of power to attack individuals, livelihoods and whole business enterprises to make support for marriage so expensive that …

NOM has picked up on Sen. Ruben Diaz’ claim of receiving death threats over a comment left on a Village Voice blog post. Because an anonymous internet comment is SO much worse than 20,000 screaming evangelicals waving signs that we will all burn in an eternal lake of fire.

In a post about recent personnel changes at marriage equality groups around the nation, NOM is sarcastically “apologizing” for “driving up the unemployment rate.” It started with Geoff Kors, Executive Director of Equality California in California, who could never recover from his monumental defeat in the Proposition 8 campaign in California, of which NOM was one of the chief supporters …

“Is everyone entitled to a lawyer? Not in HRC’s eyes. HRC is openly attempting to hurt an entire law firm, because one of its lawyers took on a client HRC does not like: the House’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act. This kind of thing has been done behind the scenes many times–the use of class power behind the …

In his latest blog post, NOM defector Louis Marinelli reveals how Brian Brown told him to make sure that his photos made gay counter-protesters look “crazy.” According to Marinelli, that tactic backfired. What you don’t know is that in an e-mail I received from Brian Brown, he essentially instructed me to specifically take ‘crazy’ photos of gays and lesbians. His …

“Paul Clement is one of the ablest litigators in the country, whose seven years acting as solicitor general is the longest period of continuous service since the 19th century. The solicitor general’s job is arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and Clement has argued more than 50 such cases. As a friend of mine, himself an able litigator, put …

When Carrie “Ladyfingers” Prejean was busted for homemade porn videos in which she explored her tingly no-no parts, NOM burned rubber in distancing themselves from their former hero. However Michael Musto today reports an interesting development. Well, outside Sister Act last night, a guy approached me and said, “Hi, Michael, I’m Keith Lewis from the Miss California USA pageant.” “Oh, …

The American Foundation for Equal Rights requests your signature on an open letter demanding the release of the Prop 8 trail videotapes, something NOM has been fighting for years. What are they so afraid of? I think you know.