http://www.nomblog.com/934/ The official blog of the National Organization for Marriage Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.nomblog.com/934/comment-page-1/#comment-17278 Urabus Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:25:49 +0000 http://nomblog.com/?p=934#comment-17278 I don't know what poll NOM used to show that Steve Cooley was slipping far behind in the polls, but they might want to distrust that source in the future. Cooley just won the Republican nomination by a VERY LARGE margin. Over 47% of the vote was almost the combined total of the other two candidates. John Eastman didn't have a chance. So California Republicans still don't know which end is up, or what matters most in a candidates qualifications. The Hollywood brainwashed voters just do what the commercials tell them to do. I would say that most California Republican voters are RINOS. I voted conservative across the board and the only winner was Andy Pugno, who is out of my district although I supported him financially often. I don't know what poll NOM used to show that Steve Cooley was slipping far behind in the polls, but they might want to distrust that source in the future. Cooley just won the Republican nomination by a VERY LARGE margin. Over 47% of the vote was almost the combined total of the other two candidates. John Eastman didn't have a chance. So California Republicans still don't know which end is up, or what matters most in a candidates qualifications. The Hollywood brainwashed voters just do what the commercials tell them to do. I would say that most California Republican voters are RINOS. I voted conservative across the board and the only winner was Andy Pugno, who is out of my district although I supported him financially often.

]]> http://www.nomblog.com/934/comment-page-1/#comment-17252 Erik Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:21:55 +0000 http://nomblog.com/?p=934#comment-17252 This is the second blog post in which NOM bloggers/writers have posed the question: "Okay, Steve, does this mean you support civil unions but not gay marriage? Or does it mean you think the law should recognize gay civil unions as marriages? Or did you mean to say that government should get out of the marriage business altogether and just do civil unions for all?" So reading those 3 options---it kind of implies that one of the options is acceptable while the others are not.....so the reader might interpret these remarks/quesitons that NOM actually "supports civil unions but not gay marriage." Is that actually accurate? And, if so, I'd love for someone from NOM to officially explain what the critical difference between the two would be? I think Steve Bray, while certainly probably dodging the question, does actually raise some valid points. Does NOM support the idea of hospital visitation for same-sex couples? does NOM support the rights of inheritance for same-sex couples? (And, more importantly, does NOM believe that same sex couples should pay the same taxes on that inheritance as heterosexual married couples? Or that they should continue to pay a significantly higher inheritance/estate tax that straight married couples?) And how does NOM feel about laws, like the one recently vetoed by Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, that would provide surviving same sex partners the right to make decisions about the remains of a deceased partner? Or does NOM, like Gov. Palwenty, believe that 2 people of the same gender who build a life together should not have this very basic right afforded to straight married couples? This is the second blog post in which NOM bloggers/writers have posed the question: "Okay, Steve, does this mean you support civil unions but not gay marriage? Or does it mean you think the law should recognize gay civil unions as marriages? Or did you mean to say that government should get out of the marriage business altogether and just do civil unions for all?" So reading those 3 options---it kind of implies that one of the options is acceptable while the others are not.....so the reader might interpret these remarks/quesitons that NOM actually "supports civil unions but not gay marriage." Is that actually accurate? And, if so, I'd love for someone from NOM to officially explain what the critical difference between the two would be? I think Steve Bray, while certainly probably dodging the question, does actually raise some valid points. Does NOM support the idea of hospital visitation for same-sex couples? does NOM support the rights of inheritance for same-sex couples? (And, more importantly, does NOM believe that same sex couples should pay the same taxes on that inheritance as heterosexual married couples? Or that they should continue to pay a significantly higher inheritance/estate tax that straight married couples?) And how does NOM feel about laws, like the one recently vetoed by Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, that would provide surviving same sex partners the right to make decisions about the remains of a deceased partner? Or does NOM, like Gov. Palwenty, believe that 2 people of the same gender who build a life together should not have this very basic right afforded to straight married couples?

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