Traditional marriage advocates hit the air

It seemed like every commercial break in last night’s broadcast of Capital Tonight contained this ad, released yesterday by the National Organization of Marriage.

The group pledged to spend $500,000 to air it. As Liz notes, the spot is exactly the same as one NOM aired in 2009 and, with an accented narration, suggests same-sex marriage will be presented to school children.


Also yesterday, a few hundred members of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, rallied in defense of traditional marriage. Their opposition is rooted in scripture, and they see legalizing same-sex marriage as a redefinition of a basic family structure. The measure’s proponents, including Protestant and some liberal Jewish leaders, say legalizing same-sex marriage is a question of equal rights.

Today, SEIU 1199 reiterated its longstanding support for same-sex marriage, and called for its passage this session.

Here’s the ad.

  1. sammy says:

    “Traditional” marriage? which traditions?
    When marriage used to be one man married to many women – as still happens in certain parts of the world?
    When marriage meant that women were the property of men?
    Some “traditions” need to CHANGE.
    Such as the “tradition” of DISCRIMINATION.
    Equal Rights for Gays.
    It’s the MORAL thing to do!

  2. Will says:

    “Traditional Marriage Advocates.” Much better Jimmy. Thanks for being fair.

  3. Jeffrey says:

    Interesting that Mass. has the lowest divorce rate in the country so much for same sex marriage destabilizing the family structure. What are these people so afraid of? This commercial is just more of the same old scare tactics resurrected state my state by Maggie Gallagher and her happy band of homophobes…and yes, I said homophobes. If you do not support equal rights for gay people, you are homophobic. You can smile and pray all you want but denying American citizens equal treatment under the law is discrimination nothing more and nothing less.

  4. Jill Ose says:

    Marriage is between a man and a woman – period.
    The fact that our governor is Catholic and is
    going against the church values is a travesty!!

  5. logic_required says:

    @Jill Ose asserted:

    “Marriage is between a man and a woman – period.”

    I assert:

    Marriage can be between a man and a man – comma

    Do you now understand why argument by assertion is a logical fallacy?

    Oh, and government need not be concerned with the values of your church.

  6. Yes, people who believe negroes are inferior will no longer be allowed to think that way.

    Yes, people who believe women-folk belong in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, will no longer able able to think that way.

    Wow. This is the best they’ve got?

  7. Getting Fridays Off says:

    Oh geez, WHO CARES? Like we don’t have better things to get our underwear in a knot over?

    Get the government out of our private lives! They shouldn’t be sanctioning any marriage-period – that’s for religious houses.

    Where are the conservatives that believe in small government on this issue? Speak up!

  8. Bud Evans says:

    My marriage license is printed exactly in the same form and on the same paper as millions of other marriage licenses where we were married. Nowhere does it say that it is a heterosexuals-only marriage license. So no, marriage isn’t just between heterosexuals any more — and neither is love (never was), nor having a family to care for (it takes just two to make a family). Furthermore, neither should one type of loving, non-related, adult, human couple have more benefits, obligations and privileges of marriage over another pair of loving, non-related, adult, human beings — just because of the gender of the two people in love.

    Mark my words, you are on the losing side of history on this one, if you support inequality. Love has a way of triumphing over hate eventually. It always has.

  9. Kingstonian says:

    This is a secular, civil issue. The Governor’s chosen religion SHOULD have nothing to do with it.

  10. Voiceo'Reason says:

    Say No to perverse marriage.

  11. Jeffrey says:

    Sorry Jill but the catholic church has lost any moral high ground given its recent history of actively protecting pedophiles. I think the travesty would be if he did not go against such an institution when they try to insert their RELIGION into secular LAWS.

  12. Don says:

    The ‘moral’ thing to do? What does that mean? Legislating a change in the definition of marriage is a joke.

  13. sammy says:

    “Moral” thing means :
    it reflects the Essential CORE moral values of our society, including our Religions. The CORE message of religion are Respect, Love, Equality, Compassion. If you have any respect, compassion & acceptance of all people as having equal rights, then the only MORAL thing to do is to give gay people the same legal right to marry as straight people.
    The Bible that bigots who call themselves “religious” quote refers to homosexual sex in the same light as eating pork or shrimp. Are shrimp eaters moral deviates that should be discriminated against under the law?

  14. Heather says:

    -Thomas Jefferson

    Since when has the separation of church and state become an optional feature of American law? The inequalities before us must not be muffled by religious outcries.

  15. glad to be alive says:

    Same sex marrige goes against the highest law in the world..God’s Law!
    The Bible states that sex between a man and a man or sex between a woman and a woman is a sin that goes against God’s law. God is the creator of all things, and God has set the standards on the laws of marriage. God does not hate the sinner, but hates the sin. Same sex marriage is an adbomination in God’s eyes. And there are consequences for going against God’s law.

  16. logic_required says:


    Praise the lord! That’s why you and I must support polygamy and child sex slavery. I love these Bible verses:

    Exodus 21

    Numbers 31


    Deuteronomy 7:3-4

  17. iknowtruthismine says:

    glad – I was not aware that your god was in control of the country right now. I guess that means The Constitution is no longer in effect and we can move on to the inevitable blood-bath that is going to occur whenever religion takes control. Why do you think our founders established a secular state to begin with, that protects us from the imposition of religion on the country by people who think just like you do.

  18. Blackrepublican says:

    Every study says a child with its biological parents is the ideal environment to grow up in. How do children get the natural male bonding & womanhood bonding available only in a traditional marriage?Saying marriage is a civil right is an insult to Dr. King, Malcolm X & every civil rights activist. Sodomy is not a civil right. Unnatural relations are a perversion, not something to be celebrated. Finally, there is no evidence a person is born attracted to the same sex. It is a perversion. Even Dr. Robert Spitzer, who got the unnatural act off the list of mental diseases in the 1980′s remarked after further study in 2001 on sexual reorientation therapy: “I thought that homosexual behavior could be resisted, but sexual orientation could not be changed. I now believe that’s untrue–some people can and do change.”

  19. Bud Evans says:



    Mahatma Gandhi on Homosexuality



  20. Jeffrey says:

    Bud…that is a beautiful story especially when juxtaposed with the hate mongering and ignorant cooment just prior to your posting from blackrepug. Tell me balckrepug….at what age did you “choose” to be straight. Further, can you actively “repress” being straight? Do you really think that anyone would choose to be the focus of that level of hate and vitriol from ggod chrisyians like you? As far as your civil rights comments, it is just amazing to me that people who have experienced hate and vitriol can turn around and direct it towards another minority. Very sad.

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