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National Organization for Marriage Launches Newspaper Ads in New Hampshire To Hold Republicans Accountable For Their Vote on Marriage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 13, 2012 Contact: Anath Hartmann or Elizabeth Ray (703-683-5004) “It’s time for them to be held accountable for their vote.” —Brian Brown, NOM president— Washington, D.C. — The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today launched a statewide newspaper advertising campaign to hold Republicans in the state House of Representatives accountable for failing to support HB 437, compromise legislation designed to repeal same-sex marriage while restoring civil unions for gay couples. The legislation was defeated in late … Continue reading

Interested in Running for the State House?

The cause of marriage was betrayed by the Republican state representatives listed below. They led voters to believe they supported traditional marriage, but instead voted in favor of same-sex marriage. They stood with Democrats from New York who created and funded a phony “Republican” front-group. They stood with interests who want to rip traditional marriage from the GOP platform. They stood against every major Republican candidate for President. Patrick F. Abrami Christopher J. Ahlgren Mary M. Allen David L. Babson … Continue reading

NOM Disappointed in New Hampshire House Failure to Enact Compromise Legislation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2012 Contact: Anath Hartmann or Elizabeth Ray (703-683-5004) “We will hold legislators accountable for their votes today.” —Brian Brown, NOM President— Washington, DC — The following statement made be attributed to Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM): “We are very disappointed in the failure of the New Hampshire House of Representatives to pass compromise legislation restoring marriage and providing for civil unions for same-sex couples. This was the law prior to … Continue reading

Marriage Activist: New Hampshire Legislature Should Learn From History

Karen Grube, an early supporter of Prop 8, with a message to the New Hampshire legislature: In considering House Bill 437, the bill to repeal the gay marriage law passed in 2009, every member of the New Hampshire legislature needs to be reminded of why the voters elected veto-proof Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate in 2010. One obvious reason was the underhanded manner in which Democrat Senate President Sylvia Larsen violated Senate rules in order to … Continue reading

National Anti-Traditional Marriage Activists Play Politics with NH Voters…Again…

National Anti-Traditional Marriage Activists Play Politics with NH Voters…Again… Standing Up for New Hampshire Families, the front organization for the national gay marriage lobby fighting against the restoration of marriage in New Hampshire, today continued its campaign aimed at fooling Granite Staters about the facts behind the flawed gay marriage law they bought and paid for in 2009. Just this week, Standing Up for New Hampshire Families, which recently accepted a $50,000 donation from New York City’s liberal, millionaire Mayor … Continue reading

Libertarian Arguments for Traditional Marriage and Ron Paul

Why Libertarians Should Oppose Same-Sex Marriage by Maggie Gallagher Ron Paul, the de facto head of the libertarian wing of the GOP, has argued it is a state’s right to define marriage as it chooses. Here’s the case for why states should choose to support the traditional understanding of marriage and repeal same-sex marriage. Read more. The Limited Government/Libertarian Case for Man Woman Marriage by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D What does it mean to be free, with respect to marriage … Continue reading

NEW RADIO AD: “COMPROMISE”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2012 Contact: Patrick Hynes (info@nhformarriage.com) NH FOR MARRIAGE LAUNCHES STATEWIDE AD SUPPORTING TRADTIONAL MARRIAGE RESTORATION, CIVIL UNIONS Concord – New Hampshire for Marriage today released a new radio ad supporting H.B. 437, legislation that restores traditional marriage in New Hampshire, while providing for civil unions for same sex couples. The 60-second ad, called, “Compromise,” will air statewide beginning today. TRANSCRIPT: WOMAN I just read an article about compromise legislation on gay marriage. MAN A compromise … Continue reading

New Hampshire Voter: Gay-Marriage Law Doesn’t Reflect Us

A New Hampshire resident writes to the Nashua Telegraph: The Dec. 28 editorial titled “Gay-marriage law assault perplexing” left me equally perplexed – and insulted. What you characterize as an “assault” is actually a commonsense effort to finally put a much-needed check on a social activist agenda that doesn’t reflect the will of the people in New Hampshire. Your editorial also drips with contempt for voters who last year rejected politicians who supported gay marriage when they should have been … Continue reading

New Hampshire Resident: We Never Asked for Gay Marriage in the First Place

A New Hampshire resident writes the Nashua Telegraph calling them out for editorial bias: I was saddened to read your Dec. 28 editorial (“Gay-marriage law assault perplexing”). Rarely have I seen an editorial go so far out of its way to ignore the facts about New Hampshire’s gay-marriage law. The notion that efforts to restore traditional marriage exist only because “conservative Republicans were emboldened by their landslide victory in 2010” completely ignores the fact that voters never asked for gay … Continue reading

Urgent Alert: Stand for Marriage in Concord Tomorrow morning!

Dear Marriage Supporter, Lobbyists from New York and Washington, DC are camping out in New Hampshire as they work overtime to defeat HB 437, the bill to repeal same-sex marriage. Out-of-state money from Tim Gill and others is flooding into the state once again, and just yesterday we learned that a new PAC has been funded with $100,000 from unknown sources, for the express purpose of convincing Republican legislators to support same-sex marriage—or at least abandon any effort to repeal … Continue reading