Whoops!
If you've seen my car in the last year it should be no secret that I'm a supporter of gay marriage. I'm not much of an activist, as such, but I'll talk about it when asked.
From a religious perspective, I honestly don't feel convicted one way or the other. But from a civil perspective I have yet to hear a single secular argument against gay marriage which didn't come down to either "it's always been this way" or "I don't like it." In my book neither of those are good enough reasons for the government to (continue to) limit who is entitled to the rights and responsibilities of marriage under the law.
All of which is to explain why I find the following worth writing about:
Last week, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) launched a nationwide "grassroots" initiative named "Two Million for Marriage", and abbreviated (by them) "2M4M". There are a couple of problems with that:
1) In craigslist/online-dating/classified lingo, that abbreviation would signal two men looking for a third to join them in bed. Not exactly the image NOM wants to project.
2) NOM doesn't own the obvious domain 2m4m.org. In fact, cambler(may be NSFW) does (and did before NOM's announcement). And rather than put up a simple spoof site, he solicited help to instead actively rebut NOM's talking points. So now the obvious website for NOM's two-year-long national campaign is a pro-equality site specifically challenging their arguments.
This I find highly amusing. Good work, cambler!
ETA: (tl;dr 2m4m.org doesn't go where NOM wishes it did, thanks to cambler!)
--SMQ
From a religious perspective, I honestly don't feel convicted one way or the other. But from a civil perspective I have yet to hear a single secular argument against gay marriage which didn't come down to either "it's always been this way" or "I don't like it." In my book neither of those are good enough reasons for the government to (continue to) limit who is entitled to the rights and responsibilities of marriage under the law.
All of which is to explain why I find the following worth writing about:
Last week, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) launched a nationwide "grassroots" initiative named "Two Million for Marriage", and abbreviated (by them) "2M4M". There are a couple of problems with that:
1) In craigslist/online-dating/classified lingo, that abbreviation would signal two men looking for a third to join them in bed. Not exactly the image NOM wants to project.
2) NOM doesn't own the obvious domain 2m4m.org. In fact, cambler(may be NSFW) does (and did before NOM's announcement). And rather than put up a simple spoof site, he solicited help to instead actively rebut NOM's talking points. So now the obvious website for NOM's two-year-long national campaign is a pro-equality site specifically challenging their arguments.
This I find highly amusing. Good work, cambler!
ETA: (tl;dr 2m4m.org doesn't go where NOM wishes it did, thanks to cambler!)
--SMQ