Dear Marriage Supporter,
We're off to an incredible start, raising almost $100,000 online so far!
But we've got a long way to go before we reach our $500,000 goal.
If you haven't ever made a donation to NOM, please consider giving today... the impact of your donation will be DOUBLED by our generous matching donor, who will match your gift dollar-for-dollar!
This is a critical time for marriage as the Supreme Court will be considering two historic cases in just a few weeks.
I don't know if you heard, but the pro-gay marriage group "Freedom To Marry" recently pledged $2 million toward state efforts to impose gay marriage.
They are beginning with an initial investment of $800,000 toward states that have current efforts pushing same-sex marriage, including Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey and Rhode Island trying to perpetuate the false sense of "inevitability" they have pushed so hard to create right before the Supreme Court hears the Prop 8 and DOMA cases.
It would be disastrous if a well-funded push by the same-sex marriage activists got bills passed at exactly the time the most important legal case of our generation was under consideration by the Supreme Court!
You and I can stop them! We have before... and we can again!
Our upcoming March for Marriage in our nation's capitol on March 26th is just part of our larger efforts to ensure gay marriage advocates can no longer ignore the central, core issue: What Is Marriage?
We need to reframe the issue — for far too long we've been letting our opponents get away with shallow rhetoric reducing marriage to nothing more than issues of "equality" and "civil rights." Marriage is so much more than that! It is, for starters, the only institution we have that ties children to their biological mother and father!
We need to educate the public on the consequences of redefining marriage — same-sex marriage would disrupt virtually every sphere of American life, from business to religion to education and so much more.
We need to hold our elected officials accountable — even the AP was recently forced to admit that "GOP lawmakers who backed [same-sex marriage] faced consequences, including loss of their seats." The opportunities are there to broaden the base of public officials' support for marriage... and with your help, we can capitalize on them!
And we need to level the playing field in terms of funding — in last November's elections, we were outspent in four state ballot initiatives by over $20 million. We just can't spot the same-sex marriage lobby that kind of advantage and still expect to win, especially in deep blue states.
So will you step up right now and make an immediate donation of $35, $50, $100, or even $500 or more to save marriage and prevent a second Roe v. Wade moment for our great nation?
Remember, your contribution to defend marriage will be instantly matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $500,000! NOM will receive an additional dollar for every dollar you contribute... and this goes for every donation made before March 26th!
Thank you so much for being such a stalwart defender of marriage and for standing with NOM as it gives voice to the millions of Americans just like you and me who believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman!
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13 Comments
"Level the playing field"? That is the whole point of marriage equality.
You beat me to the punch, Bobby. Level the playing field? The whole idea of marriage equality is to level the playing field for both Straight AND Gay couples. The 14th Amendment demands it.
The 14th Amendment does not require unequal things be made equal. Nor does it require a level playing field for unequal things.
If two forms of marriage were equal, society would be equally benefited whether it had a 100% rate for one form or the other.
A society with a 100% SSM rate could not survive, however, let alone thrive.
By contrast, a civilized society with a 100% bride groom marriage rate would survive and thrive! And thrive greatly at that!
The two forms of marriage are not equal.
One is the ideal form, the other is not.
Those who support "equality" are asking law to declare the non-ideal as equal to the ideal.
Such efforts reduce to "law rigging," rather than producing genuine equality.
Those efforts would only impose a false equality on society at law in order to create "a level playing field."
The Skinner case (quoting Tigner v. Texas) states,
" ...the Constitution does not require things which are different, in fact, or opinion to be treated in law as though they were the same....."
Bman,
If SSM is legalized, do you really think that we would become a society where 100% of us were in a SSM?
"Marriage is so much more than that! It is, for starters, the only institution we have that ties children to their biological mother and father!"
Except for the millions of married couples that don't have ANY children, or the millions of married couples that have adopted children, or the millions of married couples that are step-parents to their children. That's aside from the fact that there are same-sex couples that are raising children right now, and need the social and financial benefits that only come with marriage.
No, but do you really think my post said that?
The post made a hypothetical comparison at equal rates to show the inherent inequality that exists between the two forms.
In the NJ case Lewis v. Harris, Jude Parrillo said the benefits of marriage are one thing and the right to marry another.
An argument for benefits, therefore, does not reduce to an argument for same sex marriage.
At most, it only argues for a change in benefit policy or benefit laws, especially since marriage law does not even mention these benefits.
correction: "Jud[g]e Parrillo said the benefits of marriage are one thing and the right to marry another..."
Bman, the reason your hypothetical comparison is ridiculous is that neither scenario is realistic.
It would be ridiculous if I tried to present it as an actual future scenario to occur, but I did not.
Its a hypothetical comparison of two abstract scenarios, where the only thing different is the form of marriage.
Its what scientists call a thought experiment.
The government benefits that go with marriage are not an arbitrary reward for coupling. They are to make things easier for a couple to have and raise children. And the only type of couple that are capable of having children is a man and a woman.
Read the brillant post by leehawks and he points out that SSM violates the 13th amendment and makes children into slaves.