Gay Marriage Opponents, Supporters Face Off in NJ
By Nora Muchanic, WPVI Channel 6 (ABC – Providence), July 20, 2010
TRENTON, N.J. – July 20, 2010 (WPVI) — The Princeton-based National Organization for Marriage rolled its 19-state “Summer for Marriage Tour” into Trenton on Tuesday, bringing its message that marriage should be between one man and one woman- not a same-sex couple.
“Men and women with same sex attraction have every right to live as they choose, they don’t have the right to redefine marriage for the rest of us,” said Jennifer Roback-Morse of the National Organization for Marriage.
Homosexual Activists Disrupt Pro-Marriage Rallies, Intimidate Nursing Mother (video)
Catholic News Agency, July 21, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jul 21, 2010 / 06:08 am (CNA).- Homosexual activists’ behavior at rallies by a touring pro-marriage event has ranged from “silly” to “crazy” and “disgraceful,” one event leader reports. Some activists disrupted a Rhode Island rally and mocked religion and children, while others intimidated a nursing mother at a New York rally.
The National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) Summer for Marriage Tour stopped in Albany, New York last Saturday and in Providence, Rhode Island on Sunday.
NJ Gay Marriage Supporters, Protestors Prepare for Supreme Court Battle
By Matt Friedman, Star-Ledger, July 21, 2010.
TRENTON — With same-sex marriage legislation having failed in the state Senate, Gov. Chris Christie on record opposing it and a proposal to put the question to voters going nowhere fast, hundreds of supporters and opponents of gay marriage descended on Trenton Tuesday to prepare for the next expected front in the battle: the state Supreme Court.
What was originally supposed to be a small rally by the National Organization for Marriage turned into competing protests after Garden State Equality, the state’s largest gay rights organization, brought in a larger crowd to counter it. The groups intentionally kept a distance from each other.
National Marriage Activists Roll into Trenton
By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com, July 20, 2010
TRENTON – Sadistic onlookers prayed for a conflagration between the two groups as marriage equality activists huddled with reporters inside the Statehouse and one man-one woman proponents dominated the entrance to the Capitol building.
But it didn’t happen, at least as of 12:45 p.m., as Brian S. Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, anchored his “Summer for Marriage 2010″ tour at the podium, kicking off a cavalcade of speakers that included the Bishop of Trenton.
Gay Marriage Debate Continues in New Jersey
New JerseyNewsRoom.com, July 20, 2010
The National Organization for Marriage’s “Summer for Marriage, One Man-One Woman tour made a stop at the Statehouse Tuesday and gay activists were there to meet them.
The 23-city, 19-state tour made Trenton a stop in anticipation the state Supreme Court will hear a case involving six same-sex couples currently in civil unions who want the right to marry.
