24 Comments

1. Zack
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

   We shall see come November 6

2. Zack
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

   The pieces are set and the game is on. 2012 is the year that his country can return to the values that we were founded on or we can delve deeper into radical secularism.

   Support him or not, Mitt Romney has provided a stark contrast to Obama and it culminate on day where the nation will decide if this country is worth saving.

   Do we go the way of the Founders and re-ignite our judeo-christian values and Constitutional principles? Or continue our tread down the path of Europe?

   Every election is important, but this one will decide our fate.

3. Stephanie
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

   I think all americans should be able to marry who they want equally. After all our foundation is freedom and although you may not agree with all lifestyles, we all should respect and protect each others right to pertain to a specific lifestyle.

4. Rick DeLano
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

   Six months ago I was obstinately certain I would never vote for Mitt Romney.

   But Obama has changed all that by declaring war on the Church and war on marriage.

   Of course, his savage and creepy advocacy of child murder (even postpartum) made him an impossibility as far as ever receiving my vote for anything, but these two new fronts in the Culture War have moved me solidly into Mitt's column.

   By comparison, Mr. Romney looks much better.

   And he's been very solid on marriage.

   I doubt he will carry the ball on this issue, but he clearly has some excellent lieutenants who are going to carry it for him, and that even more effectively

   GO MITT!

5. Ash
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

   Rick, we had similar paths to Mitt. I used to think he was a liberal, and didn’t trust him on the marriage issue. But I began to gravitate towards him, even before Obama endorsed ssm, stopped defending DOMA, etc. I learned from various pundits that Romney is a genuine conservative; and NOM’s blog posts helped me to see that he is a strong marriage defender.

   He may not push things in the first year. I know he’ll want to focus on our economic situation. But he will defend DOMA and appoint pro-marriage justices. And, at the very least, he won’t attempt to impose ssm nationwide, which is exactly what Obama would do!

6. Reformed
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

   54 to 43, is that a good thing or just didn't get edited out?

7. Rick DeLano
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

   We have learned a most reliable tactical lesson in our victories over the marriage corruption movement, Reformed.

   Pseudo-marriage wins polls, but loses elections.

   Therefore we are very familiar with the process of demonstrating which of these it is better to win

8. LEO
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 7:03 pm | Permalink

   Zach @ 1, excellent post!

9. Ash
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

   I'm sure that NOM will share the news on one of its posts, but since we are celebrating the petition gathering success in Washington, I thought I'd let everyone know that, so far, 70,000 signatures turned in by the Maryland Marriage Alliance have been confirmed as valid!

   This is over the 55,000 signatures needed to put marriage on the ballot, and the officials are still counting!

10. Pete
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 9:28 pm | Permalink

    Yay, the anti-gay crowd is digging in deeper!

11. Rick DeLano
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 11:53 pm | Permalink

    Great news, Ash!

    GO MD!

    This one will be especially important; I mean, it's OK to 35-1, or 34-2.

    That's a pretty thorough triumph in any league.

    But 35-0........

    That's.............perfect.

    Let's finish this job and then sit back and allow the hypothesis that SCOTUS is going to impose by judicial fiat what the people of the United States have just informed them we reject, by our sacred power to amend our state constitutions, to suffer its inevitable collision with reality.

12. Tom
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 10:00 am | Permalink

    @according to gay marriage supporters like Pete - supporting traditional marriage is being anti-gay (rolls eyes).

13. Pete
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

    "@according to gay marriage supporters like Pete - supporting traditional marriage is being anti-gay (rolls eyes)."

    No, reading all the anti-gay comments makes these people anti-gay. (face palm)

14. Rick DeLano
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

    Pete, since you are so weak and since it were better for this issue to be contested at a higher level please tell your deployers to send someone better.

15. Pete
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

    Furthermore, who are the NOMers ago are not anti-gay? This should be good.

16. Rick DeLano
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    "Furthermore, who are the NOMers ago are not anti-gay?"

    Note to marriage corruption movement:

    I am confident you cant read the above pseudo-sentence.

    Pete has cracked.

    Like an egg.

    Please deploy someone who is, at minimum, capable of constructing actual sentences in the English language.

    Thanks in advance.

17. Pete
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

    Re: Delano and group,

    Astrophysicists at Notre Dame didn't appreciate the group hitching its wagon to America's flagship Catholic university and resurrecting a concept that's extinct for a reason.

18. Pete
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 1:02 pm | Permalink

    "It's an idea whose time has come and gone," astrophysics professor Peter Garnavich said. "There are some people who want to move the world back to the 1950s when it seemed like a better time. These are people who want to move the world back to the 1250s."

19. Rick DeLano
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    Wrong blog, Pete.

20. scragsma
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    Stephanie (#3) - It isn't about lifestyle; it's about logic. and about what marriage is and isn't. Marriage isn't just about loving feelings beween two people. It's also about producing and raising a family. By its very nature, no same-sex relationship can ever be the same as natural marriage - not for the individuals involved, not for the children raised in such circumstances, and not for society at large. Marriage has always been recognized as having an inherently unique place in any community. To ensconce in law the concept that a same-sex relationship can be the same as natural marriage is to legislate a lie. And yes, language does matter - or why is the homosexual lobby pushing so hard for the word? Call same-sex relationships whatever you want, certainly if the government wants to give them the same rights (and don't forget the responsibilities that go along with the rights) as married couples they have the authority to do so, no matter how destructive that would be. But don't say it's the same thing as marriage, because it isn't and never can be.

21. TXKeith
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 3:30 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, Washington. And thank you pre-emptively for November, when real marriage will again be affirmed.

    I was getting nervous about this since I hadn't heard much about the petition drive progress. Glad my concerns were unfounded.

22. Ivan
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    What does it matter, even if they vote no to gay marriage they are going to do you like they did us here in CA we voted twice against gay marriage and it did nothing. There are forces here that are voting against the people, they need to be removed.

23. Kit
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    Adult homosexuals are free to pursue their sexual desires with each other; it's a free country. But demanding that society and law approve and encourage it by changing the institution of marriage and the laws as if they were the same as a normal husband and wife? Sorry, I have no dislike of gays, but that's where I draw the line. Same sex marriage is just plain freakish.

24. observer
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 5:52 pm | Permalink

    One thing above all proves that homosexuality is neither normal nor desirable. Name me a mother and father who hopes their son or daughter turns out to be gay. No parent ever wishes that, and no parent ever will. And no amount of propaganda and ZPR from the gay lobby will change that truth.