Newsweek sat down with Brian Brown following NOM’s electoral successes earlier this month, declaring NOM’s president “the nation’s fiercest crusader against gay marriage.” For a bastion of old media liberalism not known for its kindness to conservatives, Newsweek manages a mostly accurate portrayal of the facts: Brown has been a dynamic, successful leader for NOM that has racked up a series of electoral victories, frustrating opponents with his impressive string of successes.
Newsweek author Eve Conant is brutally honest in detailing the threats made against Brown and his family for their unyielding stand to defend marriage: "One riled caller threatened to hang him from a tree ‘and burn you while your children watch’; someone else sent an e-mail offering to ‘donate’ a pipe bomb to his office."
Conant continues:
The majority [of Brown’s hate mail correspondents], however, simply vent frustration at Brown, who has emerged as the nation’s fiercest crusader against gay marriage. A big reason for their frustration is that Brown is succeeding. . . . Though both sides like to claim they're winning in this fight, the jury is out. . . . But in the 31 states where gay marriage has been put to a vote, it’s lost every time."
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"Newsweek author Eve Conant is brutally honest in detailing the threats made against Brown and his family for their unyielding stand to defend marriage: "One riled caller threatened to hang him from a tree ‘and burn you while your children watch’; someone else sent an e-mail offering to ‘donate’ a pipe bomb to his office."
Golly gosh gee, what happened to "NOH8"?
what happened to "NOH8"?
NOH8 only applies to you if you agree with them and have silver duct tape on your mouth.
This was pretty much an unbiased piece and a tribute to Brian Brown. I truly believe he was sent from the heavens to do the Lords work. My part is to send in my monthly contributions, which I do like clock work on the first of each month.
ROFL! You're too funny, TC!
The Prop 8 smoke and mirror arguments to destroy the sanctity of marriage will be televised on December 6th at 10AM PST for the 9th circuit court of appeals. Everyone can see their arguments exposed and deconstructed by Charles Cooper, showing who the bigots really are.
It's amazing to me how violent these activists are. There's no excuse for violence in a free society.
They can put duct tape over their own mouths if they so choose. It's when they try to put duct tape over our mouths that there's a problem!
I only wish that Brian Brown had the mental capacity to perceive a reality in which he reaped the punishments he bestows on others. Brian Brown is the leading force of a hate group funded by those not incapable but unwilling to see their organization for what it is. As defined: A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates hate, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or other designated sector of society.
Denying rights based off of sexual orientation, advocating hostility through propaganda and bias and spreading hate of peoples not one bit different from you. I’d like to hear valid justification for crucifying (tormenting: to treat cruelly) those who are your kin.
I understand that hate blinds people, what I don’t understand is what does it take to cure good people of wrongful hate and help them see the error in their ways when they are blindly following what there are told. How can I help people like Brian Brown see how wrong they are and how they are letting the same prejudices of the past, which was used to oppress the Christian faith long ago, oppress those of today? How can I stop people like him from repeating the same acts of hatred and discrimination our own faith has faced? I’m at a lost and only wish to find a method for showing good people who went off track how to get back on.
my post continues to be deleted. Here is my multiple attempt to submit without censorship:
I only wish that Brian Brown had the mental capacity to perceive a reality in which he reaped the punishments he bestows on others. Brian Brown is the leading force of a hate group funded by those not incapable but unwilling to see their organization for what it is. As defined: A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates hate, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or other designated sector of society.
Denying rights based off of sexual orientation, advocating hostility through propaganda and bias and spreading hate of peoples not one bit different from you. I’d like to hear valid justification for crucifying (tormenting: to treat cruelly) those who are your kin.
I understand that hate blinds people, what I don’t understand is what does it take to cure good people of wrongful hate and help them see the error in their ways when they are blindly following what there are told. How can I help people like Brian Brown see how wrong they are and how they are letting the same prejudices of the past, which was used to oppress the Christian faith long ago, oppress those of today? How can I stop people like him from repeating the same acts of hatred and discrimination our own faith has faced? I’m at a lost and only wish to find a method for showing good people who went off track how to get back on.
Laura,
You offer a definition of a "hate group" but offer not one credible example in which NOM has advocated hate, hostility or violence toward anybody. Unless you expand the definition of any of those words to include the right to express disagreement based on biblical instruction and natural law, your assertion is very weak.
Even if one rejects the scriptural basis for the sanctity of marriage, one must concede marriage's traditional role as a means of providing a stable, loving, protected structure in which the fundamental structure of society - the family - goes about fulfilling its fundamental function, and that of any species (also mandated through biblical instruction): reproducing and nurturing the young to do so successfully as well.
Homosexual unions at best attempt to emulate what nature and God call humankind toward by taking advantage of the technology and moral hubris in which children are being produced less by means of a loving union, and more out of selfishness and, in certain cases, simple economic benefit.
Yes, we could get into the argument that heterosexual marriages sometimes fail in this benchmark as well, but the Catholic argument against contraception and artificial insemination will have to wait for another time. Suffice it for now to simply restate that your definition of "hate" and "violence" is way too broad and your understanding of the function of marriage appears to be way too shallow.
Gabe posted: "I truly believe he was sent from the heavens to do the Lords work. My part is to send in my monthly contributions, which I do like clock work on the first of each month."
and brian and Maggie are laughing all the way to the bank.