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NOM Travels Through New York To Get To Rally In Rhode Island

Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on July 18, 2010.

07/18/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
“One man, one woman” lost on the road to Providence. Yesterday, the National Organization for Marriage took the long way to get to Rhode Island pulling off what must have been something akin to Odysseus getting lost on his way across the Aegean to Ithaca. Of course, had they continued on their way past Albany, they probably would have reached Ithaca. . .New York.

Indeed, yesterday, NOM president Brian Brown was kvetching on Twitter about how, on the way to Albany, NY, his bus was cut off by a New Yorker who made a rude gesture. Today, he was in Providence, RI facing more than 175 counter protesters while he managed to garner somewhere between 100 and 150. Their “Summer of Marriage” tour, so far, has managed to get somewhere close to 250 people to show up in three states and wandered through Vermont or Massachusetts into New York, through Massachusetts or Connecticut in order to get to Rhode Island.

Of course, those traditional marriage husbands just won’t stop for directions, will they?

NOM’s protesters were drowned out by a ring of counter protesters supporting same-sex marriage and chanting “Get your hate out of our state.” So far, the “Summer of Marriage” has not gotten the same kind of reception as the “Summer of Love”.

There were no arrests as police kept both groups from mingling. Brian Brown told his supporters “I want to thank you all for coming out even in the face of this.” This, being of course, the calls of him and his people being bigots, homophobes, liars, and anything but supporting true traditional marriage which was once defined as being where a man had primacy over his wife, women had no rights, and whites and blacks were not allowed to get married. After all, being a homophobe is bad enough, being a racist, and misogynist is another kettle of fish.

They were lead off by Brian Brown chanting “One man! One woman!”

There were no reports of him getting lost on the way to the bus. Or for that matter, any of his tires being slashed mysteriously by some lesbian or gay person who does not exist and cannot be seen anywhere.

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