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Posted to NOM’s blog yesterday: When issues of consequence like this were raised during the campaign against same-sex marriage, the backers of same-sex marriage said things like this would never happen. They went so far as to claim we were lying and that religious freedom was fully protected. That so-called “protection” didn’t even last a matter of weeks. This is …

This weekend Boing Boing noticed some interesting torrent activity from IP addresses assigned to the Vatican.  The New York Post breaks down the titles. The tiny city-state within Rome that houses around 800 people doesn’t exactly have the highest downloading levels in the world, but that hasn’t stopped some of its residents from swiping files starring the likes of female …

Yesterday the Archdiocese of Philadelphia permanently discharged three priests accused in a 2011 molestation scandal. The Revs. Joseph Gallagher and Mark Gaspar were suspended following a scathing 2011 grand jury report that ultimately led to the landmark conviction of a high-ranking archdiocese official on child endangerment charges. Two other priests and a Catholic school teacher were also convicted. The February …

NOM’s website has been uncharacteristically silent since the above entry was made six days ago.  Comments have been disabled the entire time.  Brian Brown did appear on Meet The Press this Sunday but otherwise we’ve heard nothing from them since the Supreme Court expressed its skepticism regarding DOMA.  Their automated Twitter feed continues to pump out links to old stories. …

“A diverse crowd of more than 10,000 marched today to show that those who protect marriage are on the right side of history. The fact that our supporters remained peaceful, kneeling in prayer and singing songs and chants even in the face of verbal attacks and intimidation by our opponents is a testament to the respectful way pro-marriage activists carry …

The guy doing the translation for NY Sen. Ruben Diaz also translated for the preacher who declared that “gays are worthy of death” at NOM’s 2011 hate rally in the Bronx.

That’s three times the number estimated by the press and it’s STILL shitty. This after six months of daily pleas for buses and money. From watching the coverage on CSPAN, it looked to me that about half of the people there were the Hispanic evangelicals bused in by NY Sen. Ruben Diaz. They certainly spent a lot of time translating …

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“We are disappointed that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has taken the transparently political step of endorsing same-sex marriage in an attempt to influence the US Supreme Court. They have done a grave disservice to America’s children by endorsing a policy that intentionally deprives children of either a mother or a father. Their position seems to be that the …

Scotland’s Herald reports that one of the priests who brought about the downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien was once his long-term boyfriend. The man left the priesthood in the middle of the last decade but rejoined and is living on the continent in a post the cardinal helped him secure. The complainant is known to have been in regular telephone …

“Dear Joe, In a few days, on March 26th, NOM along with over 40 pro-family partners will March for Marriage in our nation’s capital. We are running out of time. We still have many, many churches that want to organize buses for their congregants to attend the March, but do not have the money to fund them. Will you give …

During Argentina’s debate on the ultimately successful battle for same-sex marriage, now-Pope Francis urged local Catholic officials to endorse civil unions as a last ditch effort to thwart full equality. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who led the public charge against the measure, spoke out in a heated meeting of bishops in 2010 and advocated a highly unorthodox solution: that the …

A fifth priest has come forward to claim that disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien put the moves on him the very day he got the little red hat. The cardinal is alleged to have assaulted a priest at the Scots College in Rome in October 2003, hours after being awarded the red mitre by Pope John Paul II. The priest, who …

“It’s time for the church to stop talking so much about sex. It’s the perfect time, in fact.  It’s on matters of sexual morality that the church has lost much of its authority. And it’s on matters of sexual morality that it largely wastes its breath. By insisting on mandatory celibacy for a priesthood winnowed and sometimes warped by that, …

“We are going to win at the Supreme Court. It will be shown to be the biggest strategic mistake the supporters of same-sex marriage ever have made [to challenge Prop 8]. And the reality is that all of them knew this. All of the major [gay] groups knew this. They knew this was the wrong time. We’re going to find …

As we learned long ago, NOM doesn’t care if their lies are broadcast across thousands and thousands of blogs and progressive websites, they just keep repeating the same discredited bullshit. Count the lies in this new ad for their DC hate march. If you miss any, Jeremy Hooper has fisked the entire clip moment-by-moment.

THAT will score them some points with the Court. Visit the pro-gay March 4 Marriage page on Facebook. UPDATE: We’ve been passing around the above graphic on the activist back channel to get it tons of visibility and Huffington Post just came through in a big way.