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When we're tempted to dismiss the anti-marriage equality crowd as a bunch of passe cranks who are losing their battle against civil rights and who will soon disappear to lick their wounds, we need to remind ourselves that their organizations harbor a lot of seriously deranged people. Family Institute of CT on a local level, and the National Organization for Marriage on the larger stage have the potential to be much more dangerous than they appear at first glance.
People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch has noted that the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has joined the board of NOM. PFAW shares an interesting quote from Card, which appeared last July during the Prop 8 battle, in the Mormon Times:
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn. [...] American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
NOM has put a man who advocates overthrowing the American government on their Board of Directors. One can only assume that NOM and their followers either agree that the government is their "mortal enemy" and that the Constitution is "insane" or at least have no problem with people advocating that the government of the United States be destroyed and brought down.
What concerns me is that FIC, NOM, and all the other nominally benign groups like them out there provide an organizational base, bringing together a lot of right wing radicals under the cover of faith and religion. Bringing together the Roman Catholic Church and the Mormons under one banner is actually no small feat, if you think about it. I think it's time we pay a little attention to what the agenda of groups like FIC and NOM might really be, especially in a time when Obama-hatin' homeschoolin' mommies are spending their weekends practicing their sharpshooting skills.
http://yedies.blogspot.com/200...
We need to call the media-genic face of NOM Brian Brown out on this publicly -- each and every time he appears on radio or tv -- and ask him if he and his organization advocate the overthrow of our government. |
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