Thursday, August 12, 2010

Fighting Same-Sex Marriage - Mike McManus

Fighting Same-Sex Marriage

By Mike McManus
August 12, 2010

In the weeks before and after Federal Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's Proposition 8 which defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman, The National Organization for Marriage has been conducting a 23-city "Summer for Marriage" bus tour.

According to NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher, the tour to many state capitals, such as Raleigh, Charleston, W.V. and Harrisburg, PA this past week, has three purposes:

1. "Getting over the media blackout on the marriage issue by generating local media." Though only 75 supporters showed up in Raleigh and were outnumbered 2-1 by rowdy same-sex advocates, every local TV station and major newspapers covered the story, making it the top news item across North Carolina.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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