Katherine Kersten is the senior fellow at Center of the American Experiment. She writes in the Star Tribune:
A block thrown through a home window. Cars vandalized. Hate-filled anonymous phone calls at home and work. Swastikas scrawled on houses of worship. Physical assaults. Dismissal from employment because of political views.
Are these examples of retaliation against civil-rights activists in the South in 1954? Attempts by an authoritarian government to quash dissent?
No, this is the sort of intimidation that Americans who support marriage as the union of a man and woman can face today. Persecution of opponents is becoming a tool of the trade for some gay-marriage activists, who -- ironically -- seem to view themselves as beacons of tolerance.
Now, the groundwork for such intimidation is being laid in Minnesota.
In an early skirmish in the battle over the marriage amendment, which will be on the ballot in 2012, the state Campaign Finance Board has issued a ruling that could require a nonprofit organization to disclose the identity of supporters if that organization contributes to the marriage-amendment campaign.
The board's ruling breaks with the interpretation of the law in other recent amendment campaigns, and is an attempt to change the rules in midstream.
As a result, Minnesotans who believe that gay people have a right to live as they wish, but who oppose redefining marriage, may find their civil rights, livelihoods or safety threatened if they dare to oppose what's becoming politically correct orthodoxy.
She also mentions NOM's latest project -- the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance:
Given this reality, we need an organization to defend Americans who face reprisals merely because they exercise their fundamental civil rights.
Now we have it: the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance (MarriageADA), whose spokesperson, Maggie Gallagher, is a cofounder of the National Organization for Marriage.
...MarriageADA's larger mission is to fight back against the attempt of media, entertainment and political elites to convince the rest of society that belief in marriage as a male/female institution -- the form it has taken across the world and throughout history -- is equivalent to racial bigotry.
America's need for MarriageADA should open our eyes to the increasingly Orwellian situation we face. It's becoming an act of civic courage -- as speaking out against Jim Crow in the South once was -- to support marriage as a bedrock male/female social institution, and to state your belief that children need a mother and a father.
This raises a troubling question: If gay marriage supporters can intimidate and silence their opponents while one man/one woman marriage remains the norm, to what authoritarian extremes will they go if same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land?
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Excellent that The Tribune published this letter and that the MarriageADA is becoming better known. I have a feeling folks in MN are going to need it.
Marriage corruption vandals will continue practicing their version of "Minnesota Nice."
This raises a troubling question: If gay marriage supporters can intimidate and silence their opponents while one man/one woman marriage remains the norm, to what authoritarian extremes will they go if same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land?
How far will they go? Just read their own homosexual manifesto to see what we are up against. They demand that all churches in the future to be closed, opposition to their agenda jailed and sentenced, and the forced conversion of all straight people to the homosexual deathstyle.
This is the agenda from the ones seeking tolerance.
Something tells me it wasn't equality activists scrawling swastikas on churches...
This situation is not even close to speaking out against Jim Crowe laws in the south. First, the authorities did not enforce laws against blacks, so there was no recourse. If a supporter of straight only marriage gets harrassed, they have access to authorities to remedy a harassment type of situation. Second, by saying that you in the majority whose views currently prevail and whose views are the law of the land oppressing others makes no sense. Last, to say that you are the receiving end of bigotry is both highly offensive and highly laughable at the same time.
Nothing but a bunch of fear tactics. Why don't you all do what you want and let the rest of us alone.
John Noe,
No marriage equality supporter lobbies for any of those things. That is pure fear-mongering. Also, the queer populace does not exist to convert others, not that such a thing is possible (it very clearly isn't).
John Noe: you pathetic, hysterical moron. Talk about lies, distortions and demonization. You would have done well in the Nazi party.
And gays accuse US of hatred? Such hypocrisy.
The marriage fight in North Carolina will likely not be anywhere near as hard as the homosexuals would like us to believe.
However, I think Minnesota is going to be a big fight, although I believe we will win when all is said and down (by that I mean that I believe SSM will be banned by voter mandate). It's going to take a very focused and committed pro-traditional marriage group to keep things going the right way and not be toppled by the radicals.
Minnesotians will need to fight fire with fire..
They should setup a monitoring system, and a hotline.
Apparantly posters #6 and #7 did not bother to read the homosexual manifesto which said this. I got this from their own website on the Internet. Everything I said was simply already stated on their website.
Oh by the way poster #6, the Queer website has already stated that they want to indoctrinate our kids.
Thanks for your comments, John Noe. You are correct. Guess you struck a nerve.
John Noe, the so-called homosexual manifesto (actually published as "The Gay Manifesto" in 1987) is a piece of SATIRE. You've been pranked.
John Noe,
That you interpreted the Manifesto as fact is a troubling concept. Moreover, as I stated before, queers do not exist to (nor possess the ability to) convert anyone to homosexuality. I believe you are confused about several tenets of psychology, sexology, and just simple reasoning.
Oh really poster #13, the well documented actions on the part of homosexual advocates presented here in NOM and other outlets clearly shows what I said was correct.
Actions speak louder than words, and the actions on the part of the extremists clearly show that I was not pranked. The things that happened to the NY State Clerks, Frank Turek, and the teachers in Florida and New Jersey prove that I was not pranked.
John Noe,
That you interpreted the Manifesto as fact is a troubling concept. Moreover, as I stated before, queers do not exist to (nor possess the ability to) convert anyone to homosexuality. I believe you are confused about several tenets of psychology, sexology, and just simple reasoning.
I am not confused about anything poster #14. Because you chose your sexual behavior since you were not born that way you do have the ability to convert those who are vulnerable to homosexuality. Your own Queer website admitted that you wish to indoctrinate the most naive and vulnerable of us, our children against the wishes of the parents who love their children to homosexuality.
If you did not exist to do so and did not have the ability to do so there would be no need for you to be in the public schools recruiting.
As stated to poster #13, actions speak louder than words.
John Noe can you post the link, I would like to see that info.. I will be passing out flyers in Hartford, CT where Hartford High School Officials are trying to indoctrinate the youth at that school. I want to reference that info you post...good stuff, and good job John once again. NOM I'm sure it proud to have y ou her, you too Barb, love yea!
John Noe can you post the link, I would like to see that info.. I will be passing out flyers in Hartford, CT where Hartford High School Officials are trying to indoctrinate the youth at that school. I want to reference that info you post...good stuff, and good job John once again. NOM I'm sure it proud to have y ou her, you too Barb, love yea! I will have a camera man with me.
We already see the underhanded tactics of the same-sex civil marriage advocates. They first attack NOM, illegally. The problem is that civil disobedience is considered civil in the USA. It is supposedly a thing of heroes. But would that mean that all who involve themselves in civil disobedience do so because they have a civil right that is being denied to them? All? Should we support every person who jumps up and down as claims certain rights as given? That would be chaotic.
Wow! Here I am 64 years old, and I didn't even know that there's a single "queer" website which details exactly what we all are supposed to think!! My gay recruiter did say something about the fact that since I was his 100th recruit, he was eligible for a free trip to San Francisco. Apparently he was so excited about his prize, he forgot to complete the indoctrination.
Garrett: We are the equality activists, not you.
Julie: That's exactly what we are doing: 'Why don't you all do what you want and let the rest of us alone.'
QueerNE: How queer you are. Of course you have the ability, and you apply it: 'queers do not exist to (nor possess the ability to) convert anyone to homosexuality'. If people can be converted away from homosexual behavior, they can be converted into homosexual behavior. You are the one coining the word "homosexuality". Prove it.
Leo my man who is less than 50 miles from me, I would be delighted to help. Simply go on the Google search engine and type in Homosexual Manifest in the search parameter. The first half dozen links that come up is all that you need.
PROVE that folks who believe in heterosexual marrage are NOT being bullied!
Actions speak louder than words!
Little man, and John Noe
The only thing ExGay ministries claim to be able to do is suppress sames-sex behavior. So if the queer population would mirror this, then clearly we would have some regimen that would suppress heterosexual desire. This does not happen. There are no facilities run by queer-supporting people with the intention of doing this. Also, John Noe, I chose nothing about my SSA. To suggest that homosexuality is only a behavior means that so, too, is heterosexuality, which would mean, in essence, that there is no underlying attraction for any sex or gender, and that it ALL IS A CHOICE.