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MassResistance Asks NOM To Back Hate Speech

By Steve Ahlquist on April 5, 2013

When asked directly by Joe Siegel back in 2009 if NOM-RI is a hate group, Christopher Plante, who runs the local affiliate of the anti marriage equality group NOM (National Organization for Marriage) said, “I don’t believe that at all. Do I think that there are extreme people on both sides of the movement that [...]

Posted in Featured, LGBT | Tagged lgbtq, Marriage Equality, massresistance | 3 Responses

Fine Line Between Hate Group And ‘Faith Alliance’

Fine Line Between Hate Group And ‘Faith Alliance’

By Steve Ahlquist on March 25, 2013

Last week, while waiting at the State House in the long line that formed to give testimony at the Senate Judiciary Marriage Equality bill hearing, I decided to check out the website of MassResistance, a group instrumental in the loud, raucous anti-Marriage Equality rally held when the House took testimony on the issue back in [...]

Posted in Featured, LGBT | Tagged camenker, lgbtq, lombardi, Marriage Equality, massresistance | Leave a response

Why Won’t MassResistance Defend Itself Publicly

Why Won’t MassResistance Defend Itself Publicly

By Steve Ahlquist on February 21, 2013

I wrote a pair of articles (Reason, Bigotry on Display at Marriage Hearing and Tobin Aligns With Hate Group to Oppose Equality) that explored the sordid background of the Catholic Church’s new ally in their quixotic quest to deny consenting adults their right to marry who they choose. I called particular attention to Brian Camenker [...]

Posted in Civil Rights / Liberties, Featured, LGBT | Tagged camenker, lgbtq, Marriage Equality, massresistance | 3 Responses

Tobin Aligns With Hate Group to Oppose Equality

Tobin Aligns With Hate Group to Oppose Equality

By Steve Ahlquist on January 18, 2013

FAPSMEG (the Faith Alliance to Preserve the Sanctity of Marriage as Established by God)  is a coalition of religious and political groups, brought together by the executive director of NOM-RI, Christopher Plante, to fight against marriage equality rights. The coalition marks the first time the local Catholic church, and perhaps the first diocese anywhere, has [...]

Posted in Featured, LGBT, Religion, Rhode Island | Tagged catholic church, hate group, lgbtq, Marriage Equality, massresistance, southern poverty law center, tobin | 2 Responses

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