HRC's Joe Solmonese on Hardball 04/08/09

HRC President Joe Solmonese appears on MSNBC's Hardball debunking the lies in a new National Organization of Marriage television ad http://www.EndTheLies.org

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• HRC
• Human Rights Campaign
• LGBT
• GLBT
• gay
• lesbian
• bisexual
• transgender
• Joe Solmonese
• Maggie Gallager
• NOM
• same-sex

[VioletClub]

This whole issue is ludicrous.

Allowing same sexes to marry does nothing to affect the supposed "sanctity" of opposite sex marriage. That's like saying allowing women to vote will affect the sanctity of elections.

In some states children can get married with the consent of their parents. People in the U.S. get married and divorced at the drop of a hat and something like 50% of all marriages end in divorce.

[maddiety5675]

You miss my point. I don't want to be at the bed of a near stranger. I want to hold the hand of my lover when she dies. I want to file my taxes with her. I want to have equal adoption rights. I'm not proposing that you destroy marriage, in any way shape or form. I would be perfectly in agreeance with a civil union if it included all the same rights that a marriage constitutes. I'm not asking you to change your life at all, just to add the rights that should be there in the first place.

[RImusclebear1]

Sorry Maggie, you and people like you have a one way ticket to HELL!

[RImusclebear1]

Maggie would you please pay me and my husband's income taxes this year? You want to deny us rights of American citizenship so shouldn't we either receive a tax discount or you pay our taxes? Only seems fair!

[RImusclebear]

Maggie Galleger needs to be bitch slaped!

[Grimwed]

maggie gallagher is a fat bitch whos just mad no man wants to fuck her!

[jeffmonc2]

Maggie Gallagher is great. I want a T-Shirt with her on it. It would really send the liberals in my city into a frothing loony rage. Anyone selling them?

[juanduhh]

I feel like instead of wasting her time discriminating against the LGBT community she should use that time to lose some weight and get educated on gay rights.

She has no real points in her argument, and that last part where she says kids should be loved by a man and a woman is fucking stupid! Can't two men or two women, love one child just as much as a man a woman can? People these days; smh.

[Andorian323]

What a bitch. She's a hypocrate, she keeps accusing him of calling her a liar for disagreeing with him, but then she keeps calling him a liar for disagreeing with her.

[WubwubDubstep]

Hey Maggie, here's a little tip for you. Stop glancing past the camera to look at the gay human rights activist being shown on the screen. I know it's distracting, there being a gay guy in your field of vision without you holding a set of darts or getting ready to punch a photograph sellotaped to a punching bag, but try not to make it too obvious. Just stick to the script your writers gave you, and try not to let your hatred for gay dudes boil out into actual words that you say.

[wntoply6]

@Scompty one can be a bigot & oppose same sex marriage any day of the week & with every breath they take. they can be bigoted for any reason they choose. they can be my guest & live the life of a bigot, enjoy being a bigot & make lots of money being a bigot. i really don't give a shit!

but, when one's bigotry infringes on another's rights guaranteed by the constitution of the untied states of american, it is against the law, & i & millions of americans will just not tolerate it! get it?

[ObjetTrouve24]

As a bisexual woman in a hetero marriage, if it means my friends and potentially my children and grandchildren can marry the person they love, I don't mind the "meaning" of my marriage changing. Marriage is a changing institution. We changed it so blacks and whites can marry, we changed it so a man can only have one wife, we changed it so that women can divorce.