The SSMer will deride majority opinion expressed in direct votes of hundreds of thousands or millions, but will fall all over himself to praise popular opinion as per results of a survey of a sample of a few hundred people.

The SSM campaign is big on rhetoric and short of reason, unfortunately, and so its shifting standards of argumentation are unabashedly self-serving.

The original timeframe was for the Senate to go first, not second. That changed. You can't say that is a lie, right?

The "postponement", in basic political terms, depends on the Assembly doing what the SSMers could not do in the Senate this past attempt.

That's the truth.

I have no opinion on the matter, but they postponed the vote so the assembly could vote on it. The senate IS voting on the bill the second week of January!

This is a complete lie! SHAME, SHAME!

THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS. Even if it protects marriage. SHAME!

Or something like that. However, I think they'd have met some tough resistance in the Assembley by reps who were leary of going out on a limb on SSM if the Senate was not in the bag before the Assembly voted. Horse bargaining and arm-twisting in the Assembley would go a lot more swiftly if the Senate was onside.

But given NOM's successful mobilizaton of marriage defenders, I don't think the SSMers were going to get it through either chamber as swiftly as the SSMers had expected -- if at all. They lost tactically and strategically, anyway.

My two cents.

Lately, the SSM crowd has been claiming that it is both inappropriate and impossible to "cure" homosexuality. That seems very curious to me, as militant feminist lesbians attempt to "cure" heterosexuality in women and girls all over the nation, every day, and they succeed far too often. Then women, sometimes in their 40s or 50s, reveal that they have realized that they have been lesbians all along. Yea, that makes a lot of sense.

If one steps back and looks at the SSM movement in the US from afar, as aliens from another planet might, it looks like utter madness. How could members of a species be trying to promote same-sex relationships that will not lead to the creation of natural families and a harmonious society, but that will instead lead to more distrust, hostility, misunderstanding, division, disharmony, bitterness, and conflict between the sexes. We got to this point the way people usually get into difficult predicaments -- small step by small step. And we will have to extricate ourselves small step by small step, and the victory in New Jersey, like the recent victories in New York and Maine, is another one of those small steps.

Keep up the great work NOM!

Democrats and Republicans who would stand against marriage are more vulnerable during the primaries. But even during general elections, as NOM has shown, marriage defenders can become a decisive factor in who wins and who loses. And, after elections, the problem of re-election does ot go away as NOM has demonstrated in NY and NJ.

The strategy is clear:

"We want each of the 435 members of Congress to know that their own constituents are ready and waiting, even on a moment’s notice, to stand up and speak out for marriage — and that if they mess with marriage, they do so at their own electoral peril."

Thanks to NOM and to you, Brian, and to the marriage defenders who act with the courage of their convictions.

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The new year will be a good year for marriage.

Brian said: "I firmly believe that the dramatic victories we’ve seen in the past 6 weeks are just the beginning. Next year, I’m looking forward to taking the battle to our opponents, as we begin working to repeal the same-sex marriage regimes being forced on the people of Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere."