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[bluedawg12]

who use carefully selected textual references to incite people towards fearful nationalism, bigotry, witch hunts, scapegoating and often times lead to hate violence.

If you heard this comment would you know if it was about Jews in the third reich, or gays under the religious reich?

“While our troops battle...tyrants abroad, a parallel battle rages here on our soil for the family and ultimately the future of our nation.”

Wisdom is the thing to get and with all you getting get understanding...

Religious Coalitions For and Against Gay Marriage: The Culture War Rages On

David E. Campbell University of Notre Dame
Carin Larson Georgetown UniversityNote:

To be published in The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage, eds. Craig Rimmerman and Clyde Wilcox, University of Chicago Press.

“We come here today for the audience of One,” proclaimed the president of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins. He stood before a cheering crowd gathered for the Mayday for Marriage rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. “While our troops battle terrorists and tyrants abroad, a parallel battle rages here on our soil for the family and ultimately the future of our nation.”1

On October 15, 2004, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. to defend what they see to be the traditional definition of marriage between one man and one woman. The Mayday for Marriage movement was organized in response to the rise of same-sex marriage on the national political agenda—on the west coast the mayor of San Francisco had authorized the marriage of same-sex couples, on the east coast the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts had issued a ruling mandating gay marriages in the Bay State, and in between gay marriages were being performed in a handful of jurisdictions.

A number of conservative pro-family groups, such as the Family Research Council, have since mobilized to host rallies across the country, attracting defenders of traditional marriage from a variety of denominations and faiths. To foreshadow the argument of this chapter—namely, that opposition to gay marriage unites religious traditionalists across the denominational spectrum—it is interesting to note that while the Family Research Council’s constituency is predominantly white evangelicals, Mayday for Marriage was begun by an African-American pastor.2

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