This is pretty ugly. The National Organization for Marriage is traveling around the country. In Providence, protestors stormed the podium, threatened to kidnap children, and attempted to intimidate supporters of traditional marriage.
Watch for yourself:
July 22, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Civil War in 3…2…
July 22, 2010 at 9:53 pm
That woman holding her baby broke my heart! She's all of us! All that she has to protect, all that she stands for, is that sheer vulnerability she was cradling in her arms.
I think these people who are traveling could stand a St. Michael the Archangel Novena, I'm starting one tonight.
July 22, 2010 at 9:58 pm
The scary thing is the age of the people in that video. Youth is not on our side. I'm in my 20's – my generation has no idea what marriage is.
July 22, 2010 at 10:47 pm
I know some of those folks and that area. There are plenty of youth to back them up. Its very obvious who the hostile party is on this issue. Its amazing that rhetoric has painted the opposite picture. It concerns me that the media has helped to turn reality on its head.
July 22, 2010 at 10:55 pm
"Kidnap" is an especially inflammatory statement – because one of the (justified) concerns of defenders of marriage is that same-sex attraction is a disordered behavior that is not inherited, but transmitted.
To threaten kidnapping is to feed into the real fear about pedophiles and ephebophiles who kidnap or seduce young people and transmit the disorder.
The protesters who make such threats belie the fact that this plague has moved from the bubonic to the pneumonic phase! The video sounds like the Sodomites storming Lot's house.
July 23, 2010 at 12:30 am
A grown man yelling at another grown man is one thing. A grown man threatening to kidnap a child is something else.
If anyone needs any more proof that homosexuality is a dysfunction, look no further than that. What kind of person threatens to kidnap a child?
July 23, 2010 at 3:36 am
From the tone of voice, I believe that guy thought he was joking around, trying to be ironic, by saying he was going to kidnap a kid…However, ask the 5 y.o. if he was still unnerved by it! I'm sure it was startling.
My girlfriend who knew many of the NOM rally attendants said the Moms at the Rally turned into Mama Grizzlies. I can't say that I blame them…
July 23, 2010 at 10:33 am
Patty, I agree. But while he wasn't really going to 'kidnap' a baby, it really shows how same-sex marriage supporters fail/refuse to see public policy arguments on our side. It has nothing to do with hate or bigotry, even gay people have a mom and dad.
One can go through study after study concerning the well being of children, that includes the ability to be raised by both of parents in a mutual cooperation. I post at the Opine Editorials/Marriage blog and here are a few just this week.
Just this week regarding marriage of both mother and grandmother can be link to higher birth weights in African-American babies. The study covered women from 1967-2005.
Another story post was from National Public Radio talking about the African American community is a 'marriage desert', and the importance of keeping black men in the family.
And then another where evolutionary scientists collect data from marriage records to understand fertility patterns in women over the past two centuries.
July 23, 2010 at 3:55 pm
I'm sorry, but if somebody near me pointed and said, "You better watch out for that child, I'm gonna kidnap him", he would be waking up some time later with a face ache. (Probably in jail)
I don't care about someone trying to shout me down from an inch away, but you don't let someone get away with threatening children. That is NEVER a joke. When threats doesn't get results what do they do next?
Not to mention that that it's assault.
July 23, 2010 at 7:27 pm
"You better watch out for that child, I'm gonna kidnap him."
Why does this sound so familiar?
"They called to Lot and said to him, 'Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us ….'"
(Lot wasn't that great either. See the previous chapter. Lot was not "innocent".)
Just saying.