As Joe points out, NOM’s anti-gay bus tour last summer was a resounding failure, with counter-protesters outnumbering supports at almost every stop. Indeed, it was such a failure that the man who organized said bus tour, Louis Marinelli, came face to face with the hatred on his own side and realized that he was fighting for an unjust cause, and recently came out as a supporter of marriage equality. Apparently seeking to compound on that success, the New Yorker’s [sic] Family Research Foundation has decided to try the bus tour thing again:
By the time you read this, our ministry team will be on the road taking the debate over same-sex marriage to legislative districts across the Empire State. We’ve packed our bags, loaded up an RV wrapped in marriage messaging and will be stopping at various press conferences, marriage rallies and visits with legislators from Buffalo to Binghamton, Syracuse to Staten Island, and Lackawanna to Long Island. The best way to stay up to date with NYFRF’s “Mayday for Marriage” activities is to receive our e-mails. You can sign up to receive these communications at NewYorkFamilies.org. You will also be able to follow our progress on Facebook at Facebook.com/AlbanyUpdate or on Twitter at Twitter.com/NYFRF.
May 22nd will be “Mayday for Marriage” Sunday. NYFRF is encouraging the 5,000 churches on our mailing list to focus on marriage during worship services on this particular day. We are asking pastors to publicly pray for marriage in New York State, preach on the biblical definition of marriage, encourage congregants to contact their elected officials on this issue, and finally to take up a special love offering to help underwrite NYFRF’s marriage defense initiative.
The “mayday” terminology is probably fairly accurate, since New York public opinion is decidedly not on the side of bigotry and exclusion. New Yorkers are indeed strong supporters of marriage — for everyone.
Really not sure what they think a bus tour is going to accomplish, though.
Why are the biggest haters always asking for ‘love offerings’? So is this guy asking for money or a teenage boy? They are after all fundos.
ps..I wonder if they’re aware that May Day is a big PAGAN holiday and the May Pole is a giant phallic/fertility symbol? … probably clueless as usual.
As clueless as they are about the “Jesus Fish” originally being a female pagan fertility symbol representing the vagina.
They are idgits, yes idgits not even idiots. They don’t even realize that “Biblical marriage” that they are so adamant about and screaming about as lived out and written into law by Moses in the Hebrew/Old Testament would look nothing like modern day “Christian” marriage. They are like the verse in THE BOXER by Paul Simon, “Still a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.” Men with many wives and concubines, etc. etc. etc. Of course many of the GOP wannabe Presidential contenders would be pure adulterers with their multiple marriages, their wives having been turned into the same. It is pure insanity trying to live by the law of the old testament/Hebrew Bible. No one is doing it, have a shrimp cocktail with your wedding cake? :)
If it’s Mayday for Marriage they should be stopping outside all of the divorce lawyers’ offices and praying for them to go out of business. Then they should hold rallies throughout the nation calling for heterosexuals to stop engaging in adultery and to take their marriages more seriously. It’s high time they stop blaming us for the problems they face in their own relationships, and take some of that *personal responsibility* they’re always preaching.
I hope that there will be pro-equality people of faith at these stops to show that radical anti-gay activists do not speak for God. We cannot allow an anti-gay hate group to spread the unchristian message that “God Hates Gay People” without challenging it so that they cannot blatently indoctrinate our children and young Americans in such immorality.