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Video: LGBT Clergy Protest against NOM in Clayton, MO

Melanie Nathan – August 13, 2010

Protesters stood together to say that equal rights and same sex marriage does matter.

NOM has issued a statement regarding Prop 8 and Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling -

National Organization for Marriage Releases Statement Responding to Lift of Stay on Same Sex Marriages in California

(Washington, D.C.) – In light of the decision by Judge Vaughn Walker to lift the stay on same sex marriages in California following his ruling to overturn Proposition 8, Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage offered the following response:

“When a lower judge makes an unprecedented ruling, that totally overturns existing Supreme Court precedent, the normal thing for that judge to do is to stay his decision, and let the higher this issue. He doesn’t even want hcourts decide in an orderly fashion that respects the rule of law, if he’s right, or if he’s way off-base. Judge Walker’s ruling is more evidence he is not a neutral referee, he’s an activist on is ruling ignoring Supreme Court precedent and imposing gay marriage against the expressed wishes of the electorate appealed to the Ninth Circuit. Walker feels that that only the state politicians who were against Prop 8 have standing to appeal and the over 7 million California voters who supported Prop 8 shouldn’t be able to even present their position to a higher court. It’s outrageous. The People are supposed to be sovereign, not the politicians. This stay order will be appealed to the Ninth Circuit and if necessary to Justice Anthony Kennedy, and I think it is a tactical mistake on Judge Walker’s part to display his injudicious zeal–once again–before Kennedy’s eyes.”

If readers would like to interview Brian Brown – be polite… hehehe!  But Please Pass along this  message while you are at it. “The people of California are planning Proposition 8B- the one where we are sure more than 52% of Californians will Vote to have the right to bear arms struck down, OUT-  because we think automatic weapons in the streets are very dangerous.”

To schedule an interview with Brian Brown, President of NOM, please contact Mary Beth Hutchins, mhutchins@crcpublicrelations.com, (x105), or Elizabeth Ray, eray@crcpublicrelations.com, (x130) at 703-683-5004.

By Melanie Nathan
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