Dear Marriage Supporter,
Not long ago, I sent you an email hinting that NOM was getting ready to launch some major initiatives. Well, after participating in the March for Life last Friday, I am excited to announce that NOM is putting together a March for Marriage!
It will take place in Washington DC on March 26th — the day the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case. You can go to www.MarriageMarch.org and sign up for information and alerts today!
I'll be sending you more information in the days and weeks to come… but this is a pivotal moment in the marriage movement — an opportunity to show grassroots support from throughout the nation for marriage just as Proposition 8, the potential Roe v. Wade of marriage, is being considered!
When I wrote you about some of NOM's plans, I was boarding a plane to go to France to spend a week in Paris, offering whatever support and advice I could to the organizers of their recent marriage rally. I had the privilege of being in that town and witness ONE MILLION people gather to tell their government: "Children have a Right to A Mother and Father; Don't Redefine Marriage!"
And, I have to say, it was incredible!
I want to share with you a little bit of my experience in France: please click here to watch a brief video showing highlights of the rally.
I was proud to march with pro-marriage brothers and sisters of every background — Catholics, Christians, Muslims and Jews; even some gay individuals who are against gay marriage! — all marching for a single, united purpose: to defend the commonsense truth that marriage is a unique union of a man and a woman, because children need their mother and father.
2013 is going to be a critical year for the future of marriage in America. Please stand with us today — take a moment to click the above link and watch this incredible, heartening new video; and then please consider making a generous donation to support NOM's work today.
This message has been authorized and paid for by the National Organization for Marriage, 2029 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006, Brian Brown, President. This message has not been authorized or approved by any candidate.
26 Comments
Great video.
OT, but any news on Wyoming? Ireland? When you're playing defense in those places, you're cooked.
Will's attempt to distract from the movements taking place abroad is amusing.
Brian,
You have 8 children, and the youngest is only a couple of months old. If you believe that children hae a right to a mother and a father, what are you doing ranting about this in France for a week instead of staying home and practicing what you preach. Who is being a father to your children?
Susan has made this exact comment in the past. It was dumb then and it's dumb now. Being a father doesn't mean being with your children 24/7.
Thanks, Brian, for the great video and for everything you do. My check is in the mail.
A mother and father are as important in a child's mind as they are in a child's eyes. Even more so.
Stop playing in the shallow end of the pool Susan. Please come out and join us in the deep end; where we don't try to satisfy the hearts and minds of our children with candy.
I for one BELIEVE this is a crucial year for marriage and family. It seems like right after 1963, things started going DOWNHILL FAST. Although we blacks made strides, it was like 2 steps forward and 1 1/2 steps back. I might be jumping to conclusions but i BLAME HUGH HEFNER for 5/8s of this problem staing in 1953. Ol Hef started the movement that caused no fault divorce and abortion on demand for MEN...and hes STILL ALIVE! Radical feminists tried to stop it but eventually jumped in the sewer and allowed their bodies to become a dumping ground. And now many young ladies think its wrong with their friends for being chaste...its called PRUDE SHAMING... never thot id see the day ..lastly. MANY REAL MEN are away from their families for a while. But kids know COMMITMENT and who their parents are!~KIDS NEED MALE AND FEMALE...even complex animals have both. A female eagle TESTS THE MALE to see if hes an adequate father. We should do the same
Why isn't NOM commenting on the impending flip-flop of the Boy Scouts?
Why don't you hold it on Friday, March 22, or Saturday, March 23?
It would be easier to get more people than during the week.
Friday during the day would provide time to hit the weekend news shows. Even Saturday would get a message out and give people a heads up that the SCOTUS hearings are the next week.
March 26th is during Passover. This is a real timing blunder.
Get a glimpse of Susan's mentality: "Who is being a father to your children".
Brian HAS been a father to his children. Where is the inconsistency?
He is an Executive. Why can't an Executive travel?
The answer is Susan is simply bitter. The hate bleeds through her comments.
Too bad the numbers don't equal the inflated number that Brian posts. Most police in France puts the crowd at about 340,000, not the million Brian claims.
Our March on Washington, what a fantastic idea! The nation will not be fooled by pseudo marriage, people care about what is best for children. The people care about real marriage.
Teriyaki: So, now we go to you for accurate figures? Yakking is easy.
No, Little Manhood, you don't go to me for accurate figures. You do the research on the web and find the consensus of more than just Brian B. Most of the numbers being mentioned for that march in Paris range in the 300,000 to 400,000 area. But go ahead, keep buying Brian B's inflated number.
Don't waste your time Teri, He's an idiot.
Teri, I discount everything you write because you are so very obstinate in your unreasoning approach toward those you disagree with. So I am unsurprised you'd discount everything that is said by Brian.
Anyway, even by your own "internet research" you admit that the crowd was at least 300,000.
And so, given your unreasoning obstinancy (i.e. pro-gay bigotry) I'd double that estimate -- just to make-up for your animus -- to at least 600,000.
Not bad. But first hand witnesses, augmented with the photo and video evidence, informs the experienced that the crowd was much closer to 1 million at its peak.
Teri, I am unsurprised you'd discount everything that is said by Brian. It is your habit.
Anyway, even by your own "internet research" you admit that the crowd was at least 300,000.
That is very good.
And so, given your unreasoning obstinancy (i.e. pro-gay bigotry) I'd double that estimate -- just to make-up for your animus -- to at least 600,000.
Not bad at all.
But first hand witnesses, augmented with the photo and video evidence, informs the experienced that the crowd was much closer to 1 million at its peak.
@Teri and Stefan,
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2013/01/14/marriage-sanity-in-france/
If you truly believed you were on the right side of this debate you would not care how many showed up that day.
http://www.mercatornet.com/conjugality/view/11709
A picture is worth a million words!
I know I'm on the side of the debate I want to be on, which I see to be the right side. And for what it's worth, I could care less what the actual numbers were. Doesn't matter to me. And the first link you posted is lame. Nothing but more of the same BS.
Second link's equally as lame. Although it's probably a real photo, I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out that it was manipulated like previous photos posted on this site (NOM) have proven to be.
Great blog post, Randy. Professor Muhlenberg is a joy to read because he cuts through the liberal BS in such a powerful manner.
Randy, I care about the fact that simple-minded people will read something like this blog and take it for gospel truth, rather than researching for themselves and finding out how far NOM and Brian Brown will go to make it seem like the majority feels the same way.
Teriyaki says "Do the research on the web"
So, that's her authority. But wait!.... where is her data? Who decides 'consensus'? Which policeman counted the protestors in France? 300,000 is still a huge number. Thanks for confirming that minimum estimate, Teri. Thanks for your 'research'. LOL
Which web pages on the web do we place our trust in?
actually, it is not about 'the web'. It is still about bias towards any numbers that might make their movement look queer (pun intended).
France showed some great crowds applauding for natural marriage, when we thought French people didn't have absolutes. Natural marriage is an absolute even in the land of Existentialism (a dumb excuse for doing whatever you want).
The best answer to an ad hominem hate or ridiculing message, is another ad hominem hate or ridiculing message - it's a tie which shows the reverse answer is always possible - and the only way those arguing that way are going to realize there's no logical weight to ad hominem.
The greeks already had the sophists arguing in this manner in B.C., and loose politicians today use those techniques as if they were modern. You know what? They work on some people...! Laughing at someone is a lot faster than responding logically to their argument. Laughing at someone only shows bias; but we have to show bias so others realize bias is self-defeating.
This is not about lack of civility (which doesn't get through the comment filtering process, here). Ad hominem is about attacking a person's character, a person's data, a person's trust, rather than staying on topic. If they can do it. So can we. It is the end of debate, of course. But at least they learned something.
That crowd is just the tip of the iceberg.